Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-09-07
THE REDS WERE MURDERED
United States District Attorney and
Deputy Marshal Ocnounce
Settlers as ASsaSSnS.

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ment of justice has received from the
United States district attorney and
marshal of Wyoming the official re
ports of their investigation into the
Rannock Indian troubles, made by the
direction of the attorney general. IN
reports are dated August %. The dis
trict attorney of Wyoming reports as
follows:
Il have no doubt whatever that the
Killing Of Indian Tanega on or about
the 18th of July was an atrocious, out
rageous and cold bloOded murder, and
it was a murder perpetrated on the
part of Constable Manning and his
deputies in pursuance of scheme ana
conspiracy on their part to prevent the
Indians from exercising a right ana
privilege which is. in my opinion, very
clearly guaranteed to them by the
treaty before mentioned. Should pros
ecution on the part of the United States
be determined on, It would be useless
to commence it before a commissioner
AS the law now is we are bound to
bring the prisoners before the United
States commissioner nearest to the
place of arrest, and in this case 1t
would be before Mr.. Pettigrew, the
formed that he is thoroughly in sym
patty with the so-called settlers in that
region, and that he advised Constable
Manning and his posse that the pro
visions of the treaty under which the
Jndians claimed the right to hunt or
the unoccupied lands of the United
States had for some reason ceased tC
be operative Hence / think that tC
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them before this commissioner would
simply result in their discharge. 1t
seems to me to be a great pity that
there is no national law which can be
certainly invoked for the protection OF
these, our domestic subjects, weak and
defenseless as they are, in their right
to enjoy these privileges guaranteed
to them by a solemn treaty, to the en-
forcement of which the honor of the
country is pledged, and that their only
protection against fOrcible resistance
to their enjoyment of these rights must
be found in the courts in the state
wherein the juries will unquestion-
ably look upon them as possessing no
rights which a white man is bound to
respect"
The district attorney has been ad-
vised that the department concurs with
him in the opinion that there is no fed
eral statute under which the offenders
can be punished.
INDIANS MURDERED.
Accompanying the report of the dis
triCt attorney is a scathing arraign-
ment of the Jackson Hole settlers,
made in a report of the United States
deputy marshal who investigated the
trouble The deputy marshalS report
says that after a careful investigation
the whole affair shows that the reports
made by settlers, charging the Indians
with wholesale slaughter of game for
wantonneSS or to secure the hides OF
animals killed, have been very much
exaggerated.
During my stay in Jackson Hole, y
he SAYS II visited many portions OF
the district and saw no evidence Of
such slaughter. Lieutenants Gardner
Parker and Jackson of the Ninth Uni
ted States cavalry, who conducted
scouting parties of troops through al
DOrtiOns of Jackson Hole, also fOunC
4his to be the case. In connection with
the troubles between the Indians anC
the whites, | spent some time lnqulrlns
into the causes for the unconcealec
hostility of the Jackson Hole people
against the Indians. There was little
or no complaint among the settlers o.
offensive conduct on the part OF the
Indians In no instance has there ever
been a we'll authenticated case .Where
settler has been mOleSted by an lndlan
The killing of game by the lndlah
and by the increasing number or tour
lat hunters threatens to so deplete TN