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Show my opinion, renders same decisive action imperatively necessary before the troops leave Jacksons Hole. The Indisns, considering their treaty rights give to them the privilege of hunting in oertain sections of Wyoming, will go hunting sfter hmvest with or without my consent. No report has yet been received from the authorities of the State of Wyoming as to this matter, but for the purposes of history I deem it proper to quote at length an article in New York Evening Post of Angust 2, which purports to give a, true account of the killing, as follows : It turns oat ss we had anticipated. At sll events a war correspondent of the World, who has penetrated to the seat of hostilities, 80 reports. He has inter-viewed a nomher of people at Jaoksans Hole, inolnding the man who did the shooting or ordered it to be done. &om these sources of information it is learned that on the 7th of June e report came in that oertain Bannocks were shooting elk in viola-tion of the game laws of Wyoming. A warrant was issued for their arrest end placed in the hmda of Con~tableW illiam Manning, who selected twelve deputies and started out to find the trsspasser~. They found one Indian, named George, with several green bides in his possession. He was brought in, put on tnal, convicted, and fined $15. The fine was paid, and the hides were canfiseated. On the 24th of June news came of further hunting by Indiana. Another expedi-tion was fitted out for their arrest, but they were found to be in such large numbers that it was deemed imprudent to attempt to bring them in. The oonstahle and his mon, however, moved freely smong them and ordered them to desist, but aooording to tho report which they brought back the trespassers were sauoy and said they would hunt as much es they pleased. Another attempt, to arrest them was made on the 10th of July, when Manning started out with twsntv-five deouties. Thev" 8urD> rised an Indianoamo a t Fall K~iver baain and arrested the male mumhers, ten in number. All the parties, constables and Indians. and also the squaws, weremounted. TheIndiansweredisarmed~ndol~ced in such swaythat eeohone was preceded andfollowedbyeu &rmedwhiteman, while armed white men rode alongside at certain intervals. Manning 08y8 that he had reason to think that the prisoners would t ry to eeoape, and that he g a v ~or ders if they did so to shoot their horses. Being asked if he gave orders to shoot the horses but not t,he Indians, he said "No; I said nothing about the Indians themselves; I aimnlr said to shoot the horses first. The men uuderatood that they had a right to I . . shoot 11," l~bdiaoiji Illere was no other nlenos uf proconriug a11 e*v3p~." 'l'hen tho f o l l o u i n ~c ullolug wok pleer, which lints the ionalter in u pnrfecr1.v clear 11gh1: 1 ,<Do ~vnde r s t andth a t these Indiana were arrested. oharced with an offense the maximum penalty for vhich is e fine of $10 and three months' imprisoment; that the men had not been tried, rand that you consider that, in the event of their attempting to esoape from your custody, you had the right to kill them¶" " I would consider that my right, psrticulnrly vith Indime, they being savages and likely to do harm themselve~a nd to resist with arms. I believe I would have the right, conaidwing this, to order the men to ahoot them." "But I anderstand you to aay you had satisfied yourself that they had no arms upon them 9" "That is correct as near rn we could determine as to their having wms." The serlnel is already known. An attempt we% made to oscape. The Indians were shot, same killed, same wounded, but no horse was hurt; that would have been s 1 wanton waste of property. Thia is the white man's side of the oaae. The Indians haye not been heard yet, ' except that one of them who was wounded tried to conceal the fact lest he should be put to death also. If the facts are oorreotly reported this was s, owe of masarscre |