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Show 64 REPORT OF THE COMMISStONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. I The same day the Shoshone agent also telegraphed : l'olire sr~ord ays ago tobliug :xbat,ar lndinnr bark to re6,.rration. Only ooelndisn reported rhsaut ilon.. Rollorts indirsrv tlmr i,c,nb 01' rwy indiuur were runceruad in hlnrpvaln rrooble. \Yill ng t for Kurt IIall ngnnr wllenerer pousihle.. Then followed the sensational and alarming newspaper reports of a2 Indian outbreak in the Jacksolls Hole country; the Bannocks on the marpath; the killing of many settlers by the savages; homes burned to the ground; whites fleeing for their lives; and the appeal to the Government that United States troops be hurried to the seat of war to stop the fiendish work of devastation and murder of whites by the redskins. July 23 the Fort Hall agent telegraphed this office as follows: Have investigated trouble between Indians and ~e t t l e r sin Wyoming, and will a d ~ i s etr oops be sent there immediately to protect law-xbidiling settlers; lawless eleluent amon-g settlers being determined to come into conflict with Indians. Set-tiers have killed from four to seven Iudiluns, which has incensod Indians, who have gathered to number of 200 to 300 near Fall liver in Uints, Connty and refuae to return to reservation. I find Bannock Indians haye killed n-a me i~nlswfullyac cordin-g tolaws of Wyoming, though not ~~nlawfulalcyc ording to treatyof Bannock Indians with United Stdes, ueurping prerogative of settlers in that respect, which caused the trouble, and nothing bnt intervention of soldiers will settle diffionlty and save lives of innocent persons and prevent destrnotiou of property. This office replied as follows: Send word to absent Indians as ooming direct from me that I want them to retnrn peaceably to their reservation before the soldiers arrive. Sey that I send this mes-sage to them as their friend and nrge prompt compliance, knowing it is for their best interest and welfare. Agent Teter carried out the above inst,ructions, and July 28 tele- , graphed the following : On 21thinstant I met Sheriff Hswleynear Rexburg, returning from Jacksous Holo, where he had heensent to ascertainifsettlers have been killed by Indians. Hawley states settlers have not been molested by Indians. Indians are supposed to be in camp 40 miles from settlements in praatioally impregneble poaition. The Secretary of War on July 24, 1895, upon Department reqxest for military aid, ordered Brigadier-Qeneral Ooppinger, cornmanning Department of theplatte, to proceed at once to the sceneof disturbance iu Wyoming and to order such movement of troops as might be neces-aary to prevent a conflict between the Indians and settlers and to remove the Indians to their proper reservations. C-overnor Richards, on July 31, telegraphed the following: Reliable informstion that 200 Indiana snpposed to be Utes were seen jesterday near South Pass. Fremont Count"y:. a lso 41 S i o u on Bed Water Creek, same oonnt.r:. all were mounted, armed, and without women or children. The people of Fremont County are under arms and wire me for assistance. Can not these and all other lndiais in Wyoming he recalled to their reservations3 This office at once telegraphed the agents of Pine Ridge (S. Dak.), Shoshone (Wyoming), Lemhi (Idaho), and Uintah and Onray (Utah) |
