The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME LXXVIIL_NO. 60. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1895. PRICE FIVE CENT RUMORS OF A BATTLE WITH REDS. Settlers and Clashed at J Indians Thought to Have acksons Hole. SIGNAL FIRES BURNIN Grave Fears for the Safety of the Women and Children. TROOPS HASTENING FORWARD. | Indlans Are Guarding Passes to Prevent the Escape of the Whites. SALT LAKE CITY, Uran, July 29. — oon from 8t. An- ompanies of cav- s Hole yesterday, and the Indians and set- as all prepara- been made to do so. Signal fires d smoke were seen all the evening near the Ce 1t trail, and fears are entertained for the safety of the women and children. ndians are watching all passes going he St. Anthony side. t 200 Indians, claiming to be ave crossed the river, seven miles within the last were with the last y are them. The 1ing alarmed and are making prep- 10ns to organize companies. A num- of men are going in via Teton Basin to the whites, who are making rifle- pits at different points. Indians passing zive no further information than that re going “way up,”’ which indicates v have seen the signalsand are d for trouble. News comes this One f: Hole late Friday evening, and said no others will be able to get out without as- sistance, and unless soldiers arrived soon a great ny will not get out at all. The people in Teton Basin were re-enforcing the settlers of the Hole and may hold off | the Indians until the arrival of troops. WITH THE MARCHING REGULARS. Movement of the “ The Call”’ Correspondent. CANYON CREEK CAMP, Ipauo (via courier to Market Lake), July 29.—The im- | possibility of settling the present Indian trouble in a day grows more apparent each y. If the Indians are inclined to be ile they are located in a position from 2ieh 21l the troops in this department could not dislodge them before next win- ter. They cannot be starved out by being surrounded, for with them would be penned up enough elk and small game to support them for years. If, on the other hand, the Indians are indnced to return peaceably to their reservations, those. versed in Indian sing nature, say it would only be for a short time, and when the soldiers left the Jacksons Hole country the Indians would return to take their revenge upon settlers who killed their braves. second camp of the march was left behind this morning at 7 o’clock. The march for the day was short because of vy of water beyond and the ne- cessity of awaiting the arrival of the Indian taking many | settlers were | ¢ of settlers came out of the | Troops Describea by | rategy and familiar with the red man’sun- | | The Bannock and Shoshone Indians at- tached to General Coppinger's command as scouts have just given notice that they | will demand from the Government fulfill- | ment of the treaty of 1868, giving Indians | { th_c r_igl?t to hunt on public domain, and | will insist upon protection in the exercise of that right. | demand a just one, and will speak in their | behalf. | Agent Teters considers their | notice to bury all #heir household goods and get out of the country as fast as pos- sible. TROOPS AT MARKET LAKE. Five Companies of the Eighth Ordered to the Front. MARKET LAKE, Ivano, July 29.—The ‘ five companies of the Eighth Infantry which arrived from Fort Russell last night did not leave their cars until this morning, when camp was pitched. Their stay here is not to be long, as was at first expected. Orders were received to-day from General Coppinger, instructing Major Bisbee to | bring his men to the front at once. The | journey to Jacksons Hole will be begun by A BANNOCE WARRIOR IN TYPICAL COSTUME AND WAR BONNET. [Reproduced from a recent photograph.] The five companies of infantry that ar- rived at Market Lake last night have been ordered to the front at once, and the start for Jacksons Hole will be made to-morrow morning. The camp at Moody Creek was in the midst of a thickly settled Mormon dis- trict. The stop there was made at noon, and all the afternoon thrones of visitors came to see the soldiers. The colored troopers entertained them with songs, and | the foot Zsoldiers at 6 o’clack to-morrow | morning. It will take them from eight to ten | days to make the trip, and there will not be much difference between the time made | by infantry and cavalry. | Another special train arrived this morn- | ing bringing from Fort Robinson, Nebr., | twenty pack mules, ten wagons and driv- ers. This force will furnish the transpor- tation for the infantry. The following officers under Major Bisbee of the Beven- o \\\2\*\3@»\\ £A N TYPICAL HUN [From a photograph supplied by “ The Call’s” special correspondent.] 3 N €0 N\m\\\\wm\,\\\\(\\y\ TERS’ CAMP IN THE JACKSONS HOLE COUNTRY. guides and interpreters. The scouts shought it dangerous to proceed further without them. Their arrival was finally despaired of, and Ravenel McBeth, Agent Teters’ chief clerk, was dispatched to Fort Hall agency to bring them. He met the band a few miles away and returned with them. These Indian scouts told General Cop- pinger and Agent Teters that all the In- dians belonging to the Fort Hall agency are now on the reservation. This, how- ever, is known at Market Lake to be false, and Colonel Randall says that no cred- ence can be placed in the reports of Indian scouts as to absentees. The settlers will not be allowed to make any aggressive movement as now threatened, if the troops can prevent it. The plan of action, as outlined by General Coppinger and Agent Teters, is to ascertain the exact location of the Indians, who are assembled in large numbers in the Jack- sons Hole country, about thirty miles south of Marysvale. Friends will then be sent in and endeavor to get the Indians to return to iheir reservation peaceably. If force must be used, it will not be exerted until a large body of troops has been as- sembled. {also found great sport in catching the jackrabbits that ran through the camp. The settlers on Moody Creek say that the prospectors and hunters are responsible for all the trouble in Jacksons Hole, and that the legitimate settlers and land-own- ers consider the elk a nuisance and would like to see every one driven out of Jacksons Hole. The citizens of Rexburg, who have all along been in very close communication with the Hole settlers, have received in- formation that as soon as the troops are near enough to offer hasty re-enforcements the settlers are going to attack the Indians. Adjutant-General Stitzer and Colonel Foote of the Wyoming National Guards passed throngh Camp Moody yesterday on their way to Jacksons Hole. They repre- sent Governor Richards and will endeavor to control the settlers and prevent them from attacking the Indians. Neither will the settlers be allowed to make any aggres- sive movement if the troops can prevent it. The nearer the troops get to Jacksons Hole the more excited and alarmed the settlers are found. In this vicinity many men have actually dug great holes in the teenth Infantry are all of the Eighth In- fantry: Lieutenant Lafitte, Adjutant L. | T. Gose, acting quartermaster; Captains Corliss, Wells, Bavage, Whitney, and Ray; Lieutenants Miller, Bell and Welsh. There are 230 men in addition to the offi- cers named. This detachment is composed entirely of white men, except the wagon- drivers. THE KILLING JUSTIFIABLE. Mheriff Ward Defends Constable Man- ning’s Course. CHEYENNE, Wvo., July 29.—THE CALL correspondent interviewed Sheriff Ward of Uintah County in regard to the attack Manning, who had charge of the posse, is an honorable and efficient officer, and would not have fired upon the Indians un- less he deemed it necessary. The state- ment that the settlers.of the Hole were hide-hunters is false. They are farmers and stock-raisers, and a thrifty class of pioneers. “Had Hoke Smith acted unon Governor Richards’ suggestion, the present Indian uprising would not have occurred. Agent Teter has taught his Indians to set the State game laws at defiance. He has told them that they have a right on the unoc- tupied lands of Wyoming at any and all seasons, State legislation to the contrary notwithstanding. These Bannocks are a thieving vazabond set, and do not hesitate to kill a white man to further their own ends.” AN APPEAL FOR AID. | Troops Wanted to Protect the Mary Mere Ranch. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 29.—Lawyer John O’Connor, 62 Wall street, attorney of the executors of the late Robert Ray Ham- ilton, received the following telegram early this morning: MARKET LAKE, IDAHO, July 29.—Can you get a detachment of troops ordered to protect the Mary Mere ranch. As planned by Cop- pinger no troops are within forty miles. J. D. SARGENT. Mary Mere ranch is sixty miles nozth of Jacksons Hole, on the northeast coast of Jacksons Lake and close to the southern boundary of the Yellowstone Park. Mr. Sargent had a part interest in the ranch with Ray Hamilton, whose body was for a time buried close by. Mr. Sargent still re- taine his interest and lives at Mary Mere. On receipt of the telegram Mr. O'Conunor placed himself in communication with the military authorities at the army building in Whitehall street in order that steps might be taken for the protection of Sar- gent. PICTURESQUE SEAT OF WAR. The Bannocks and Their “ Happy Hunt. ing Ground on Earth.”! POCATELLO, Inaro, July 29.—The seat of the present Indian trouble in North- western Wyoming is located in probably the wildest, most beautiful and most in- accessible spot in all the United States. Jacksons Hole and the valley watered by the tributaries of the Snake River lie im- mediately south of the Yellowstone Na- tional Park, and partake of the same rug- ged grandeur that has made the park world-famous. The valley is a hunter’s paradise if any place ever justified thename. Within this basin, extending from torty to fifty miles south of the park and varing in width from fifteen to twenty miles, itis estimated by the old trappers that there are at least 20,000 elk. Antelope abound, and itissaid to be the only remaining spot this side of the Canadian line where the moose can still be found. Bears and mountain lions are not rare in the mountain fastnesses, and game birds are too plentiful to attract any attention from the hunter. Is it any wonder then that this veritable “happy hunting ground” on ecrth should be a constant source of attracii.u for the Indians? Every summer the red hunters for hundreds of miles on every side of this Jocality have made trips there to hunt elk and trade among themselves. Of late years, however, the settlers have made more and more decided objections to the annual visits of the Indians, who are no respectors of game laws, and slaughter the young and female elk without regard to season. The Indians, under the treaty of 1868, claim the right to hunt on all unoc- cupied Government lands without restric- tions. The settlers insist that the State game laws must be respected. This year the settlers in the Jacksons Hole country determined to break up the practice of the Indians hunting in the vi- cinity of their ranches. Bo when two weeks ago an Indian hunting party was aiscovered a party of deputy constables surprised its camp at daylight one morn- ing and arrested all the bucks and started with them for Jacksons Hole to be tried for violating the game laws. When the camp was raided two ponies to which were strapped pappooses were frightened away and have never since been heard from. While {he sixteen Indian bucks were being taken to court they made a break for liberty while going through some heavy timber. The constables fired into the party and killed from four to seven of them—it will never be known just how many. 2 This act precipitated the present trouble. The Indians cannot be made to believe that the killing of their companions was anything short of downright murder and they are determined to avenge their deaths. Their superstitions belief, too, that the soul of an Indian grows lonesome on its long journey to the “happy hunting grounds” unless it is accompanied by the soul of a white man, will make them all the more determined to at least provide each dead warrior with a white soul for a traveling companion. The Indians, and those directly con- nected with the Indian agency, claim that the settlers and the cowboys kill more elk and violate more game laws than the Indians; and worse than either class, all agree, are the fashionable tourist hunters who slaughter game indiscriminately only to secure a fine pair of horns. There are seventy-five heads of families and possibly 250 white settlers in the Jack- sons Hole country. The men are well pre- pared to withstand an attack from the In- dians, having 100 rifles among them and 1000 rounds of ammunition apiece. There are at present 250 Indians located thirty- five miles south of Jacksons Hole, and still farther south are as many more, all of HORR AND HARVEY END THEIR TALK. country alone. Skulking Indians shoot from ambush at every settler or white man who shows himself alone, and the whites have no scruples in shooting every Indian on sight. The women and children are re- ported to be almost distracted with fear, and many of them are being sent north into Yellowstone Park for protection. The Indians who were killed near Jack- sons Hole were Bannocks, and they are the aggressive ones in the present bush- whacking campaign that is being carried on. Pocatello is a small town located near the center of the Bannock Reservation, an immense tract of land comprising nearly a million and a half acres, that will some day, when it is opened for settlement, be noted for the fine farmsin its valleys and the rich mines in its mountains. This reservation is occupied by the Bannocks and some of the Shoshones jointly, there Close of the Great Debate on Financial Issues. “There is,” continued the Senator, “‘a good deal of sentiment wasted on any question that comes up regarding the Indians. The people in the East seem to believe that in all difficulties between the white settlers in the West and Indians, the latter is the abused party because that they know in the end the white man must pre- vail.” Senator Dubois went on to say that the present trouble had its beginning some years ago, when string ent laws were passed | by the States for the protection of game. | The laws were enforced against the set- tlers, but were not heeded by the Indians, TWO BANNOCK CHIEFTAINS WHO HAVE LED THI1R TRIBES TO| ' THE JACKESONS HOLE COUNTRY. [Reproduced from a recent photograph supplied by ‘The Call’s” special correspondent.] being about 1500 altogether, although there are probably not 500 of'the reservation at this time. The Bannoeks are a very low grade of Indians, being only a little above the Diggers, but when aroused, as they are now, they have the reputation of being fierce and cruel warriors. They are indo- lent in times of peace, and refuse to do more than poorly cultivate a small patch of ground and hunt. They make no blankets and none of the fine bead work for which the Utes or Arapahoes, farther south, are noted. The Shoshones are a grade Figher than the Bannocks, and in times of peace look down upon them and call them dogs to their faces. The thing most feared now is that the big gathering of Utes from Colo- rado and Utah and Shoshones from the Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, will, after their friendly meeting, trading and horse-racingis over, go north to join the Bannocks in their crusade for venge- ance against the whites. The Lemhi Indians, who are a mixture of Bannock and Shoshone blood, and whose reservation is also in this State, have already joined forces with the hostile band east of the Teton Mountains. “Poor Lo” gets very little sympathy in t sountry outside of those who are con- r ed with the Government agencies. The expression that is almost universal from white people when trouble is antici- pated is: “I hope the redskins will be wiped off the earth.” It is rather a sur- prising fact that the Indians are much more afraid of an opposing force composed of frontier settlers and cowboys than they are of Government troops. The frontier ranchmen are more familiar with Indian methods of warfare, and they know the country thoroughly, but above all—and no one knows it so well as the Indians—every time a mountaineer throws a rifle to his shoulder either an Indian or a Eony falls. It is generally believed here that no bet- ter selection could have been made amon, the troops than the Ninth Cavalry of Fos Robinson in Northwestern Nebraska. Itis a colored regiment, and has had consider- able experience in fightiu& Indians. The 383 men who will be stationed for some time at the southern entrance to Jacksons Hole will be under the command of Briga- dier-General Covpinger, department com- mander, United States Army. AGENT TETER DENOUNCED. Termed an Incompetent by Senator Du- bois of Idaho. WASHINGTON, D.C., July 29.—Senator Dubois of Idaho is not surprised at the made by Indian Agent Teter on the State officials and the settlers of Jacksons Hole. ‘Ward has been Sheriff for ten years and is personally acquainted with the settlers of that valley. He is very much incensed over the statement made by Teter that the killing of Indians by the Constable’s posse was & wanton butchery. “The killing of these Indians was justi- fiable under the circumstances,” he de- clared. “They had been arrested for viola- tion of the State law and attempted by ‘mth and are prepared at a moment's | force of numbers to escape. Constable ROUTE OF TROOPS FROM MAR! EET LAEKE TO JACKSONS HOLE. [From a sketch by ““ The Call’ 8" special correspondent. whom are off their reservations, and may any day decide to join issues against the whites. In Jacksons Hole the settlers are thoroughly alarmed and have assembled at various points for mutual protection. It is not safe for any one to appearin the trouble with the Bannocks now existing in that State. He claims that the whites are entirely in the right. They contend that if they are not allowed to kill game out of season, the same law should be enforce against the Indiangk - who killed game annually by the thousand He characterized the Bapnocks as “blanket’” Indians, and among the laziest and most worthless redskins to be found on a Government reservation. They have, he said, a wholesome dread of the settlers. They know that no matter how many depredations they have committed, they can surrender to the solaiers and save their lives. But a fight with the settlers means death. Senator Dubois explained that the coun- try where the Bannocks live is full of big game, such as elk, moose and deer. These are of inestimable value to the country at large, as well as to the settlers of that re- gion, but the Bannocks are rapidly exter- minating them. He asserted that the troubles with the Indians would not have occurred had not the President selected as Indian agent a man of the name of Teter, from West Virginia, who was recom- mended by Postmaster-General Wilson. The Senator said he did not believe there was any war between the Indians and the whites, or that there would be. In his opinion the braves would return to their reservation when the troops arrived, and a little later go off slaughtering game again. “It cannot,”” he concluded, ‘‘be other- wise as long as inexperienced men, such as Teter, are appointed as Indian agents. The extermination of the whole lazy, shiftless, non-supporting tribe of Ban- nocks would not be any great loss.” Commissioner Browning, referring to the dispatch from Market Lake that the Jack- sons Hole settlers wonld be arrested and tried for killing several Indians accused of violating the Wyoming game laws, said to-day that no steps had been taken by him in the matter. “We should like to stop their hunting,” he said, *‘but have no power to do so. The treaty is plain and is binding to us. If the courts decide that the State law is superior to the treaty of the United States Govern- ment with the Indians the matter will be settled, and we shall be very glad of it.” Depew’s Mother-in-Law Dead. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 29.— Mrs. Eliza Jane Hegeman, mother-in-law of Chauncey Depew, died yesterday at the Depew residence at Dobbs Ferry. For Pacific Coast. Telegrams see Pages 3 and 4. - 3 INGIANS HERE ‘f‘ 3 i 3 ORATORY VERSUS FACTS. The Silverite Quotes Figures While His Opponent Theorizes. BULLING THE MONEY MARKET, How the Standard Metal Is Made to Serve the Capltalist’s Pur- poses. (Copyright, 1895, by Azel F. Hatch.) CHICAGO, Irv., July 29.—The Horr- Harvey silver debate came to an end to- day. Every seat in the art gallery of the Illinois Club was occupied when time was called for the closing session of the great war of words and the walls were lined with listeners eager to catch the closing remarks of the contestants. Twenty-four hours in all have been con- sumed 1n the debate, which ran through | eight days, and 145,000 words in all were spoken. According to the original agree- ment the two gentlemen have still 2500 words each in which to close. This is tobe submitted, however, in manusecript any time within seven days. During the entire debate Mr. Harvey read from manuscript, while Mr. Horr spoke extemporaneously. The audience was on every occasion composed mainly of free silver men, and did not seem to weary of Mr. Harvey’s reading, but cheered him at every opportunity. Mr. Harvey this afternoon denied that he had been fur- nished with money by the silver miners to aid in the debate, and the tone in which he said, “I was not hired to talk here,” seemed to indicate that he thought his op- ponent was. Resolutions were passed thanking the members of the club for the use of their house, and expressing appreciation of all that had been done by various ladies and gentlemen to assist in the carrying on | of the debate. A resolution was aiso passed thanking both Messrs. Horr and Harvey for the mass of information with which they have presented the public since the debate began. Mr. Horr led off the closing argument with the sweeping assertion that in the few cases in which the figures cited by Harvey were correct, they had tended to weaken his own arguments. He then re- ferred to Mr. Harvey’s statement which the latter had said was based upon the authority of Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, to the effect that there were between two and four million unemployed men in the coun- try. Inrefutation of these figures he pro- duced a telegram from Mr. Wright ex- pressly disclaiming them. The effect of this shot was spoiled, how- ever, by Mr. Harvey’s explanation that these were the only figures that he had used in his book that had not been verified, and that immediately after the appear- ance of the first edition he had written to Mr. Wright and upon receint of his reply had erased the incorrect data from the stereotype plates of the book. After this temporary digression the silver champion expressed his obligations to every one who had assisted him in the debate. He then said: “In all history in the struggle between liberty and oppression, as they have alternately risen and fallen, it had been truthfully said that a free press is the greatest bulwark of liberty, and tyranny has assailed it as the greatest influence ar- rayed against it. As oppression rises the press is muzzled. It is brought up and made to speak deceit and mislead the people.” Mr. Harvey then complimented the news- papers for their extended reports of the debate. Mr. Horr, in replying to Mr. Har- vey’s criticism of the press, said he had nothing to say against the papers men- tioned, nor any other paper in the city. “Some of them,”” he said, ‘‘have treated me as they saw fit. I had one paper thrust in my face at the door of this building with a column of belittling remarks about me that were very cutting, but when I found, upon further perusal, that the fellow favored free coinage of silver, and favored it only because it was a step to break down all the laws of the country, I found out that it was the worst kind of an anarchistic creed, and I threw it to one side. “But when you come to the great Ameri- can press as a whole I have no fault to find with it. As a rule theinsinuation that the leading press of this country can be bought up for the purpose of producing legislation in the interests of any particular people against the interests of the citizens of the United States, I do not believe it.” Mr. Harvey resumed the argument by producing a printed table, showing the amounts of silver coined annually from 1792 to 1873, for the purpose of demonstrat- ing the falsity of the statement made by the monometallists that for the first fifty years of the present century the United States was on a silver basis, and on a gold basis from 1853 to 1873, The statement, he said, that gold did not seek the mints for the last thirty years prior to 1873, was un- true. He quoted from the United States coinage laws appendix 0f 1894. The stock of gold was there given as §3,901,900,000, the stock of silver $3,931,000,000. On ac- count of the great use of gold in the arts he maintained that there was not enough of the yellow metal to answer the needs of money. Mr. Horr maintained his previous state- ments that no.nation alone could establish the old ratio of 16 to 1, and he did not be- lieve that Mr. Harvey thought that any one nation could do it. Nations by their laws did not fix the value of things. They could not do it if they tried. The actual value of the two metals at the present time was wide apart. The ratio of 16 to 1 was to-day a thing of the past. Always, from the earliest foundation of society, the rela- tive value between gold and silver had been fixed by the people of the world, and not by legislation. *Mr. Harvey and I agree that the free coinage of silver will decréase the measure of value used here in this, country,” said