New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-25
TROOPS TO THE RESCUE.
THE INDIAN DISTURBANCES IN WYOMING
SERIOUS.
BATTLE REPORTED IN PROGRESS IN JACKsONS
HoTE-GENERAL CoPrNGER ORDERED TO
PROCEED TO THE SCENE OF TROUBLE
AND EETl RN TIE BANNOCKS TO
THEIR RESERVATION.

THEIR RESERVATION.
Cheyenne. Wyo.. July 24-Adv!ces from Ad-
jutant-General sitter TO Governor Richards
indicate that battle is in progress between
Indians and white men In Jackson's Hole "A
telegram from General Sitter says:
Net Indian capaH Of police hurryng h, out win TN
says he cannot control Indians. who will fight set
tiers at noon to-day.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds. Of the Interior
Department, telegraphed to Governor Richards
this evening that General Coppinger had been
ordered To go to the scene Of the lndian
trouble with Federal troops for protection OF
the settlers. The Governor was also Informed
by General Copplngcr :hat four troops OF cav.
airy had been ordered from Fort Robinson
Neb. to the Jackson Hole country. Colonel
Van Horn. commindant at Fort Russell this
city. has been ordered 70 have his command
in readiness and has seven companies OF In
fantry prepared to move. Colonel Thomas
Moore. chief tranmaster Of the Department OF
the Platte. stationed at Camp Carlin. near
this city. has two pack trains ana fleid wagon
equipagc ready to move
Governor Richards thinks that fight between
the settlers and Indians will occur before troops
can arrive on the ground. but as the settlers
have plenty Of ammunition. he thinks they VIII
hold their own until aid comes. There are sixty
five able bodied men in the Jackson Hole settle
ment all skilled in the OF arms and ac-
customed - the frontier. These. with thirty-hve
women and forty children. are all at Marysvale.
Wyo. the only town IN the region. To reach
This settlement troops will have to be taken from
Market Lake. Idaho, a distance of over 100
miles part Of the way through an extremely
rough country
Washington. July 24-Commissloner Brown
ing Of the Indian Bureau. this morning r"-
ceived telegram from Captain Tetcr, at the
Fort Hail. Idaho. Reservation. indicating the
urgent necessity for the Immediate presence OF
troops AT the scene of the Indian trouble III
Wyoming The telegram is as follows
Have investigated the trouble between the indians
and the settlers in Wyoming and would atv's" mat
troops he sent there Immediately TO protec' "a"
settlers being determined to come INTO con!S' ".en
the Indians Settlers have Killed from four TO seven
ratbnreI 80 m. number ~ between Two hundred
AMI three hundred near salt River. In Iinia
opg ,f,, '' me RanHocT rndnns have killed game
lawfully according 10 tie laws OF wyoming thoitIn
Wsnnock inians and the r'ni,cd states. and the
usurpiug % NJ prerogaves of ne settlers IN ,.a'
yerton - soldiers viii settle the diculty and save
lives % Innocent persons and prevent 'es"nc"o"
u property
Thl- dispatch was forwarded to the Secretary
terror Department. accompanied by copy Of the
following telegram from Governor Richards. of
wyoming which was also received today
p.ratches from Adiutanr- General sitter, who is
on ne ground at Jacks)ns Hole. repeated 20 voi
,o-lay WIN the Federal Goyernmcni take tne mat
,.- ir hand OF returning the Bnnn )cks 10 their res
Ir.1y, n,as'' ~tre rrpiy
A letter was then sent from the Interior Depart
men, by Acting Secretary Reynolds to the Secre-
ta~y ~ War. requesting that troops be sent 10 the
scene u the Disturbances
Immediately after Commissioner browning
renchcd his Dficc this morning and had been ad-
v.., II the contents - the letters ana kilograms
o, MS desk hr went 10 the War Department and
was I'm conference with Secretary Lamont FOR an
hour or more I'm regard - the outbreak OF The
Rannocks He applied - Secretary Lamont ior
force y troops with which t. compel their return
I, their reservation After conference with
General Ruger, Secretary Lamont this afternoon
son, directions 10 Rrcadicr-General Coppinger.
commanding the Department - the Pate au-
,horlzing him 10 issue the necessary orders Tor the
movement of such troops as hc shall deem neces-
sarv for carving out the request Of the Depart
ment ~ the Interior and II prevent conflict pe-
tween the Indians and settlers and return the
Indians I, their reservation He Is also directed
to proceed in person 70 the scene oi the disturb
,nce ard dircr, the operations ~ the troops.
should he desire the usc OF troops from depart
nents other thnn his own. ne Is instructed to ad-
wise the War Department as To the special force
he desires.