Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-29
BANNOCKS AND SETTLERS.
Reported Massacre of Whites in Jack
son Hole Country Denied by
Agent Teter.
Conflict Between Uncle Sam and Wyo.
ming as to Enforcement of Game
Laws-Views of Gen. Scho-
field on the Situation.

Market Lake, Idaho, July 29.-Gov.
Richards, of Wyoming, insists that the
Indians be taught that, when they are in
Wyoming, they must obey the stat laws.
Indian Agent Teter, on the other hand,
asserts that the Indians have authority to
hunt IN Wyoming under the treaty of
1867. 1t is stated that indictments will be
sworn out against the settlers connected
with the killing of the Indians who tried
to escape while under arrest.
SETTLERS PREPARED TO RESIST sAvAaEs.
DR.. Wonborn, of Rexburg, has just
come from that place with the news that
James Simmons aud Fred Cunningham,
scouts, arrived in Rexburg last evening
straight from Jackson Hole. They report
that no conflict had taken place between
the whites and the Indians. Five hun
dred Indians are in Hoback basin, fifty
miles from Marysvale, where the settlers
are fortified and prepared to resist the
savages should an attack be made.
REPORTED MASSACRE DENIED.
report of a massacre at jackson Hole
reached the interior department to-day,
in dispatch from Indian Agent Teter.
The dispatch is dated Rexburg, Idaho,
near Market Lake, July 28, and says:
"On the 9th Sheriff Hawley, near Rex
burg, in returning from jackson Hole,
where he had been sent to ascertain if
any settlers had been killed by the In
dians, states that the settlers have
not been molested by the Indians,
who are supposed to be encamped about
forty miles from the settlement, in prac-
tically an impregnable position. There
is no doubt of the fact that a large body
of Lemhi Indians recently Joined the
other Indians in Hoback's canon"
GEN. soHoFIELp's VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
Misunderstanding of the Indian
disturbance in northern Wyoming, Gen.
Schofield to-day expresses the opinion
dians will soon surrender and return to
the reservation. The only way they can
cause trouble is by scattering and taking
to the mountains. But he thinks it un-
likely that they will precipitate hostili
ties, now that the soldiers are coming.
Speaking of the dispatch from Market
Lake, stating that Jackson Hole settlers
will be arrested and tried for killing sew
eral Indians accused of violating the
Wyoming game laws, Commissioner
Browning said that he knew of no steps
being taken in this direction. The In
dian Office would welcome legal test of
the right of the Indians to kill game in
defiance of the state laws. "If the courts
decide that the law is superior to the
treaty of the government with the In
dians, the matter would be settled and We
would be very glad of it," he said.
NEW YORKER CALLS FOR TROOPS.
New York.-John O'Connor, attorney
for the executors of the late Robert Ray
Hamilton, has received the following
telegram: "Market Lake.-Can you get
a detachment of troops ordered to pro-
tect the Mary Mere ranch, as planned by
the commissioner. No troops are within
forty miles of the post. J. D. Sargent"
The Mary Mere ranch, of which Robert
Ray Hamilton was part owner, is about
forty miles north of Jackson Hole, close
to the southern boundary of Yellowstone
park.