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Show IE INDIANS ACTING NAUGHTY IN WYOMING Band of Seven Hundred From White Rock Reservation Killing 8tock and Robbing Ranchers. Bait I.ako City. A special to the Herald from Cheyenne, Wyo, saja seven hundred Uto Indians are slaughtering slaugh-tering cattlo and sheep, robbing rancheB nnd committing other depredations depre-dations In tho vicinity of Douglas, on tho Platte river, 150 miles north of Cheyenne. They aro In nn ugly mood and rofuso to roturn to their reservation reserva-tion at Whlto Bock, Utah. MchIbKo, a Ute chief, Is at tho head of tho band. Eggleston, a Sioux renegade, nnd Iledcnp, who aro said to havo driven tho barrel Btnvo through tho head of old man Meeker nt the Meeker mas-sacre, mas-sacre, and Bed Jacket Jano, the squaw who gavo tho Indians tho nlnrm whon tho soldiers came, aro also with the party. Tho threo latter aro troublemakers trouble-makers and hnto ull whites. Tho Indians havo little or no monoy or provisions. Occasionally they sell a pony nnd with tho money buy flour and ammunition. All aro well armed. Agent Hall ot tho White Hock ngency haa been following tho rods over slnco thoy entered Wyoming two weeks ago, but they havo repeatodly refusod to return to their reservation. Agent Hnll wired tho department for Instructions, Instruc-tions, nnd In all probability troops will bo hurried to Douglas from tho Crow Creek maneuver camp. Ranchmen nnd townspeople In tho vicinity of DouglnB Aro arming and a conflict appears ap-pears to bo Inovltnblo. Should an outbreak out-break occur tho IndlanB could masaa-cro masaa-cro many settlers before troops could roach tho scene, although thero aro 1,000 Infantry, 1,200 cavalry and 800 artillery In tho Crow Creek camp, 130 mllca awny. |