Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-01
LIABLE TO BE NEEDED TO QUIET
THE BANNOCK IyDIANs.
ORDERED TO BE IN READINESS.
INDIANS ARE BURNING FENCES AND
KILLING CATTLE.
Game Warden Manning Wants Them
All Disarmcd, hut Agent Irwin
Holds That This Would BE
of No Avail in Prevent
ing Trouble.

| Fort Robinson, Ncb.. June 5O.-FOuI
| troops of the garrison here are under
| OF ders to be in readiness 10 move at once
for the Fort Hall Indian reservation coun-
| try, in case of trouble with the Indians OF
that vicinity. The troops designated, un-
der command of Lieutenant Colonel Ham
! iiton. are as follows: Troop X. Captain
| Hughes, Lieutenant StOdter, and forty
/ sever men; Troop G, Captain Taylor Lieu
| tenant Walker and fifty men; Troop 4,
! Captain Garrard, Lieutenants Ryan and
| Ortcn and forty-eight men; Troop G. Cap
| tain Powell, Lieutenants BatesOn and Pier
| son and forty-nine men. Transportation will
| be furnished from Port ID. \. Russell. Nyo.
| Washington. June Ex-senator Heitfeid,
| OF Idaho. received another dispatch from
Governor StunenbeTg, dated at Boise, last
| night. as follows:
Complaints continue to-day, Fences are
| being burned. and cattle killed. Indians
come from Lemhi UmatiIIa Fort Hail and
Duck Valley reservations. They must dis
perse, or trouble will soon follow"
This was soon communicated to the inter
ior department and Secretary Bliss imms-
diately wired Agent Irwin. at Fort Han.
to expedite his telegraphic report Of the sit
uaticn, and called upon the agents al Lem
HI Umatilla and the Western Shoshone
| duck Valley agencies for reports.
Game Warden Manning: Of Marysyale.
WyO., near the scene OF the Jackson Hole
affair part of the old BannOck hunting
grounds, has urged a proposition TO dis
III.
and the matter has been forwarded for
consideration. through Governor Richards
and Senator Warren. of Wyoming. Agent
Irwin has taken a decided stand against
II. and in a report to the Washington au-
thorities dated q day or two before the
present trouble. says.
The proposition to diSarm the Indians
of this reservation Is not practicable, and.
II II We're. would be OF no particular ben
eft, since, If II We're possible to collect
every gun on the reservation. the supply
could be renewed within few hours from
the various towns in adjoining reserva-
lions. These Indians are not armed i'm the
ordinary sense Of the term, but, like all
hunting people. some of them possess shot
guns and rifles for hunting purposes only.
As such arms are freely sold them every
where. il would be worse than useless TO
relating to hunting in Wyoming has been
fully and perSiStently explained to. and is
understood by. every one of them. Those
who hunt in violation of the law will do
SO wlfully. and with the expectation of
being punished If caught. exactly as in the
case of the white men
The agent adds that he does not believe
many of them VIII venture into the hunt
ing regions this season. but il can hardly
be expected that custom enjoyed for gen
erations, and which they believe unjustly
taken away, can be broken up in one or
two years. The Indians as a whole. how
ever. acquieSce in the decision of the United
States supreme court. growing out of the
JaCkSonS Hole trouble. i'm which the hunt
ing rights of the Indians were negatively
decided. some Indians, however. he pre-
diets, would slip away unnOtiCCd.
In another letter the game warden was
advised by the agent. as tho most effective
way of preventing their departure on these
expeditions, to arrest and Jail the first In
dians who appeared in the vicinity.