Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — INDIAN WAR ON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIAN WAR ON.

- / Wyoming Settlers Arm Themselves and Prepare to Fight. The Indian war has broken out in earnest. The vague rumor that a white man and his wife and child had been killed in the Wyoming Salt River Valley, andt&at settlers in retaliation had killed six of the redskins is confirmed. The excitement among the settlers, in Northwestern Wyoming over the threatened uprising of the Bannock and Shoshone Indians is growing more intense every day. They are leaving their ranches in large numbers and gathering at favored points for mutual protection in case the irate Indians return to seek- vengeance for the death of their brother braves. The story of the killing of the three whites and six Indians is spreading alarm at rapid rate. The settlers are becoming thoroughly aroused, and if they are not soon protected by government troops they will take the field in protection of their own homes and lives, and they are well

qualified by long experience in thia country to do even more effective fighting than the regulars. The Indiana realize that the cowboys are more dangerous than the troops. The reds know they can surrender to the soldiers and they will be in no further danger, but when the frontier volunteers go out to.hunt Indians they fight as the Indians do themselves. They shoot to kill and kill all In sight. The trouble originated when thirty men set out from Jackson's Hole to arrest a band of Indians for violating the State game laws. In Hoback canyon they discovered an Indian camp and at daylight surprised the Indians and captured them all without a shot being fired. In this camp they found 135 green elk skins. Each Indian was started back for the Hole with a white man at his back with his rifle across his arm ready for any emergency. The squaws were in the rear with the packs, and William Crawford in the rear of the aquawe with the constables in charge. When'nearly through an Indian set out a war whoop and every Indian, squaw and all, broke from the trail and attempted to escape. The posse immediately opened fire, and in the laconic language of the report, “all the Indians were( killed except one 1 papoose,” The posse immediately covered up all trace of tltetr deadly work, shot the Indian horses and hastened back to Marysville, Jackson’s Hole. The settlers there immediately began to prepare for the worst Prof. F. D. Robinson, for twenty-one years dean of'Latln language and literature at Kansas university, is dead.

SEAT OF THE INDIAN TROUBLES.