Show SCO DTI G PARTIES They Report to General COIl lcr Fifll lug Ao Indians Special to The Herald I MARKET LAKE Idaho Aug 2 Indian Agent Teters of the Fort Hall I reservation arrived in Market Lake late this afternoon on his way to the agency To your correspondent he said The scouting parties sent out by the troops reported to General Cop pinger yesterday that they couldnt locate any Indians in the Hoback I canyon count and that they did not believe there were any Indians within I fifty or sixty miles of Marysville I is evident to me that the Indians I who have been scaring the settlers in i the Sevan Creek and Salt River valleys val-leys are those who were camped in j Hoback canyon when I made the first i investigation there two weeks ago j They are returning to their reservations reserva-tions through the southern entrance to the Jacksons Hole country and the alarm the settlers feel I believe is entirely groundless I I had the cooperation co-operation of General Stitzer and other state authorities who were in Jacksons Hole when 1 was there the first time I believe this whole trouble might have been avoided The settlers said to me that they had the assurance of Governor I Gover-nor Richards that they would be backed by him in their efforts to drive the Indians out and to take such steps as were necessary to drive them out i I the government will take steps to I prosecute tie settlers implicated in the I murder of these Indians and the Indians In-dians are shown that their treaty rights will be respected and assured to them further trouble from the red men may be avoided On the other hand Major Teters will not these lawless settlers make I trouble if some of them are prosecuted prose-cuted Yes they undoubtedly will They have sworn among themselves never I to let the Indians hunt in Jacksons Hole again When asked today by your correspondent corres-pondent what he could say of the situation as he had found i General I Coppinger said he could say nothing further than that sofar not one tet I tel has been molested by the Indians but that the settlers lad massacred I several Indians Indian Agent Teters and his clerk Mr McBeth went to the settlers fort yesterday and demanded of Justice Rhodes the names of the men who were implicated in the killing of the Indians with a view of bringing criminal proceedings against them as predicted by your correspondent exclusively ex-clusively last Monday |