Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-20
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
REPORT OK RECENT INDIAN TROUBLES.


The Spokesman Review Of Spokane
Wash, reports the arrival there of Col.
w. l.. Peyton, late OF ogden, who has
gone to that city to practice law.
William Broad, 60 years old. and
native of Holland, cut his throat In the
alms-house, San Francisco, late Satur-
day night, and died Of the wounds
Sunday. He had previously attempted
suicide by stabbing himself with a
pocket-knife thirty-five or forty times
In the region OF the heart. These
wounds are supposed to have been in
ilicted while Broad was an inmate of
the city prison, where he was detained
ON Friday. before being sent to the
alms-house. He was out of work and
had no friends in that city.
News from Oakland says that the
United States geodetic survey ship
Macarthur has been ordered into Alas
kan waters and with the opening Of
spring will head for the Yukon river,
there to remain until series of i'm
portant surveys have been accom-
pished and thorough study of the
country made. The Macarthur lies Ir the
ways Mt the Hay and Wright ship
yards receiving repairs, but VIII soon
be In readiness for active service.
Captain j. w. Helms, In charge of the
ship under instructions from the navy
department at Washington, has Sc
wheel steamer to the mouth of the Yu-
kon to aid in the surveying work and
to serve for the navigation of rivers
too shallow for the Macarthur, The
Macarthur will work up the Alaskan
const taking observations until the
mouth of the Yukon is reached Then
the stern wheeler will be brought into
use and the crew and officers will go
up the Yukon MS far as possible. care
fully surveying the country and maxi
ing charts for a new government map
of the district.
A dispatch from Denver Saturday
says: Messrs. II. c. Benman, Josiah
Walbridge and Charles r. Noble. the
commission appointed by Governor
Adams to investigate the recent In
dian troubles in the vicinity of Lily
park, filed their report with the gov
ernor this afternoon. The report is an
almost complete vindication of the
game wardena and shows that the In
dams We're alone responsible for the
bloody conflict in Routt county last
month in which several Of their num-
Der were killed. The finding of the
commission is that the Indians We're
| the aggressors. The Indians. who had
been Strengthening game promiscuously,
| according to the testimony, for several
weeks. heard that the wardens We're
| looking for them, and then dropped
their game and started after the war
dens. They told the settlers that they
| wanted to fight the "buckskln police"
| The report says in substance that had
not Warden Wilcox and his deputies
| assembled at Thompson's ranch during
the night previous to the fight and
dropped down in the camp the next
day before the Indians We're aware of
their presence. the wardcns would
| have met with disaster at the hands of
| the Utes, and the story of the conflict
| would have been that whites, instead
| of Indians. had been killed. Warden
| Wilcox and the men under him are
commended in the report for their
| bravery and the manner In which they
| protected the rights of the settlers
| and upheld the laws and dignity of
| the state.