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Show they have kept away from the houses of the mttlera and have not been in the habit of begging. In no instance has there ever been a well-authenticated case where a settler has been molested by an Indian. About twenty-five of the'Jacksons Hole settlers are professional guides for tonr-ista and hunting parties risiting the region from other States and from abroad. The bnsiness is very profitable, guides sometimes making sufficient money in the short hunting asasou to keep them through the remainder of the year. These guides, while most of them have small ranches, make stock raising, or the cultivation of their places, aseoondary consideration, end make the business of guiding tourists, or "dudes" as they are called in the region, their principal occupation. The killing of game by the Indians and by the increasing number of "dude" hunters threatens to so deplete the region of big game, deer, elk, moose, etc., as to jeopardize the oooupe-tion of the guides. It wss decided nt the close of last seaaon to keep the Indians out of the region t,his vear. and the events of this summer are the results of carefullvorensred ala~ls. I " , " A - Mr. Pettigrew, United States commissioner at Maryavale, said: "At our last election the queation of keepinn out the Indians was the mast important one we had to deal 1 with, aud the township officers eleeted, oonsteble and justice of the peace, were selected beoause we knew they would take decided steps to help us keep the Indians out." Constable Manning said: "We knew very well when we started in on this thing that we would bring matters to a head. We knew some one was going to he killed, perhapa some on both sides, and we decided the sooner it was done the bet-ter, so that we could get the matter before the aourts." Third. If a full investigation of the Jlsoksons Hole affair should he hsd the fact will be established tbat when Constable Manning and his posse of 26 aettlera arrested a party of Indians on July 13 end started with them for Marysvsle, he and his men did a11 they coold to tempt the Indians to try to esoape in order that there might be s, basis of justification for killing some of them. On July 4 a pmty Of ' eight Bannocks was arrested on Rock Creek near the head of Graen River and taken to Marysvale, vhere six of the party were fined $75 eaoh and costs, the total amount of fines and costs being about $1,400. This the Indmns vere unable to pay, and they were placed under guard to await instructions as to their disposal. The county authorities from whom the information was asked failed to reply to the inquiries of the Jsoksona Hole oBoers, who at once relaxed guard duty over the Indians who e a c a~edfr om cnatodv. ~ i neext a rrest oflndiana was made July 13. Constable Manning and 26 deputies surrounded a camp of 10 bucks and 13 sqnsws a t night, and early in the morning with guns leveledat the Indians made the arrest, theIndians offering no resiatenoe. The arrest was made on Fall River, 55 milea from Marysvale. The warrsnt waa for Bannook and Shoshone Indians, the names and number of the Indians to be arrested not bein-e s tated After tho arrest was made. the arms, meat, and other articles in the ponsorsion of tho Inrliaua were t;tken frum tllcm. Constable hl'anuing also took their pas$"$, r.ttiuu chaekr, ere. Tbuse papersgsre the name3 and rea~de~teeaomio st of the lndikns. From an interview with NemGs. an Indian boy.., w ho was one of the party of Indians arrested and shot, and from interviews with several of Mr. Man-ning's posse, I learned that the constable and his men told the Indiana same of them would be hung and some would be sent to jail and that this was believed by the Indians. The constable also said in the hearing of the Indians, some of whom imder-stoodEnglish, that if the Indians ettempted to escape the men should shoot their horses. If the truth of the matter can hereached it will he found that the captors did not care partioularly aborrt getting their prisoners safely to Marysvale, where the same formslity of fining them and then having to let them esoape would result, as in the previous oase, but on the contrary tempted the Indians to try to 08Cap0, first, by making them believe if they tried to escape their horses only, and not they, would be shot. The Indians m in many respects like children, and are very oredulons. |