Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-16
TROUBLE IS BREWING
Indians On the Belknap Reser.
walton in Montana Threaten
Serious Outbreak.
Presence Of Troops May Be Nee.
essarry to Preserve the
Peace.
Killing OF One Alien the Cause
Of the Trouble-.other
News.

Butte, Mont, April 16.-Trouble is
and the presence of troops may be nee
essary. If the Indians. on one side, and
the breeds and the squaw men. on
the other, get together there will be
fighting. and plenty of it.
James Harding, of Havre, now here,
has explained the situation.
There are 200 Indians camped on Big
Warm Springs creek, near the Coburn
ranch, to protect Charlie Perry, who
killed Allen last week. he said. and
they are liable to strike fire at any time.
Il lived for number of years close
to the Belknap reservation and / know
all the parties in that affair well. 1t is
an old feud.
ITO begin with, the killing of Allen
by Perry was justifiable beyond any
doubt-but l must go back and tell
you a little of the early history of the
affair.
Allen used to be head farmer on the
the sub-agency at Lodge Pole Creek
and he and Charlie Perry married sis
tiers, both daughters of an old-time
squaw man, Will Ball. and Perry be-
came in a small way rather successful.
This melted the envy of the halfbreeds
and squaw men around the reservation
and resulted In an attack on Perry
about a year ago in which he was pref
ty badly hurt. His father in-law and
several other halfbreeds were mixed up
in this affair.
Some nine years ago Allen, his ia
Their, and a squaw man named 'Nosey'
Clark We're tarred and feathered by a
party of indignant ranchers in the dis
trict, among whom Allen suspected the
Coburn boys, who have quite "a num-
er of cattle in that country and large
ranch on Big Warm Springs creek near
the eastern end of the Little Rockies.
j ALLEN proposed to Perry at this time
that he should help him stir up the In
dams to make a raid on the Coburn
ranch, massacre the boys and the men
employed around the ranch and prac-
tically wipe out the whole settlement.
while Perry refused to become a
party to the scheme, he kept his own
counsel and beyond advising the In
clans, who have a great deal of conf
dence in his Judgment, to keep away
from the place, he said no more about 1t
until last month, when, having some
further trouble with Allen and that
gang, he confided the old plot to Wal
lace and Will Coburn.
1.-THE Coburns arranged for meeting
at their ranch between the Allen gang
and Perry intending to have Allen ar
rested for his part in the terrible con-
spiracy. On Sunday, week ago, was
the day arranged for the conference
affair met at the ranch anticipating
trouble.
Perry, Will Coburn and another
young fellow We're sitting in a room at
the ranch which had been fixed for the
when Allen, Wallace Coburn
and an Indian came in. AS soon as AL
len set his eyes on Perry he reached
for his gun with an oath, but before he
could get the drop on him Perry drew
His gun and shot him twice. The first
shot passed thru his breast just above
the heart, and the second thru the
throat, breaking his neck.
The news soon spread thru the
agency, and that's where we We're
afraid the trouble would start. The In
dams in general took sides with Perry,
and the breeds and squaw men with the
Allen gang. If the Allen outfit ever
starts anything down there you will see
the worst cleanup that has taken
place in Montana for many year.
Charlie Perry has won the good will
Of those eros Ventres and Assiniboines
BY being a good, square young fellow.
and the man who lays his hand on him
Or on one of his people will lose more
han his scalp before the day will be-
much older.
Perry is at Fort Benton Just now,
charged with murder in the second de-
gree, but his bond has been fixed at
5000 and his friends will soon have
lim back there again. There is no
'oubt in my mind but that he will ulti-
nately be acquitted, for if he hadn't
killed Allen the latter would have got
him."
BOYCOTT RAISED FROM YARDS.