Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — INDIANS AVENGE THEIR DEAD. [ARTICLE]

INDIANS AVENGE THEIR DEAD.

Bannocks Kill Three Men Who Have Caused Them Trouble. J. W. Wilson, a scout und courier for the United States troops stationed iu Granite Canon, came into Idaho Kalis, Idaho, and reported the killing of Capt. Smith and two companions by Indiuns, in the lower end of Jackson’s Hole, on Thursday morning. Capt. Smith will be remembered as the man who precipitated the Indian fight last July in tho Jackson’s Hole country. At that time he killed one or two Indians, and was himself shot in the breast, but recovered. The Indians swore vengeance against Smith, and ns he was, with his two companions, prospecting along the south fork of the Snake River, at the outlet of Jackson’s Hole, he was ambushed and all three were shot and their bodies left on the river bank. Wilson was scouting in the vicinity at the time, and, with Constable Manning, saw the bodies, and immediately rode to Capt. Collins’ command, in Swan Valley, and reported the facts, leaving Manning in Camp Granite to Return to Jackson's Hole with the military, who immediately left for the scene of the killing. Wilson rode into Idaho Falls with dispatches. Wilson says there are about sixty Indiana in Hole. He believes that this will settle the matte?f and that the Indians, having avenged the death of their braves by killing the man they were after, will return to the reservation. The Indiana are Bannocks .from the Fort Hall reservation. Troops C and 11, Capt. Collins commanding, immediately started into the Hole, and will undoubtedly drive out the Indians, if found. At Yankton, S. D., the London and Yankton Development Company, representing $750,000 invested in fraudulent school bonds and tax certificates, issued by J. T. M. Pierce, of Yankton and London, has taken possession of Pierce's property, including an unfinished railroad to Norfolk, N’eb. Charles Stewart, ex-member of Congress from Houston district of Texas, died at San Antonio, Texas, after a lingering illness. He was 59 years of age and served five years in Congress, where he was prominent as a member of the River and Harbor Committee.