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Show o. cd on the third day out. On November gOth wo commenced taking the ststcments of the game-wardens, who were connected with the trouble., which we completed on the Oth of December, having secured tiie statements of all wardens who were connected with it except AI Shaw who had left the State, with the testimony of three or four other parties, all cf which is filed herewith. and also made a part of this report. A digest of these statements establishes about this state of affairs. V.r.H. Wilcox, who had been appointed game-warden for Routt County last April, had been notified by the Chief game-warden of the State, that tho Indians from Utah were in the country and went, probably killin game in violation of the law, and for him to give hir: pcrsonalX attention to the matter even to the exclusion of his other husX.ess, and that, if the Indians were violating the game-laws, to have them: arrested, unless they left the state: that acting upon this information and instruction™, he, In company with Mr IlcCormack, started for .Hear and Snake River valleys, where the Indian.-, were, and v-here it r.as said they were killing game: that, at Llaybell post-office,, he learned that tho In-dim.." were present in tiie section named, probably to the number of one hundred: that believing that .nth only one ,X_XAA A,, could not accomplish much, he sent a message to Craig asking for r.dd.1 tie.ial force: that he xent on to Vaug?ian's ranch, on Dear river: there 'eft si." wagons and continued or: horseback~.tc Lily hark to consult the people there about X.nt they thought the Indian:.; uould do: remained there until the next day noon,t acting upon information he had received that as to tho |