People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — FLY FROM INDIANS. [ARTICLE]

FLY FROM INDIANS.

Settler* Parking Their Good* and Seeking Places of Safety. Pocatello, Idaho, Aug. I.—There seems to be some foundation for a revival of the Indian scare in Star Valley. The 900 Indians who are near Cariboo are all painted and appear to be on the warpath. All settlers in Star Valley have fled to the upper part of the valley and are fortifying themselves at Afton, Wyo., which is quite a town. This leaves all property at the mercy of the redskins. Mr. White of Salt Lake reports all the people of Gray’s Lake and Star Valley leaving their homes and coming to Soda Springs as hurriedly as possible in wagons and on horses. The excitement was caused by two messengers coming to the Upper Star Valley yesterday and reporting 900 Indians camped near Cariboo. Mr. White says these messengers report fifty families killed by Indians in Jackson’s Hole, but he could not learn when they left there. As soon as the news was received the people all picked up and left. Star Valley and Cariboo are forty miles from Soda Springs, but Cariboo is thirty miles west of Star Valley. It seems to be the impression these Indians are coming away from the United States troops and have begun looting and murdering on their road.