Show = AlINUAL IDAHO INDIAN SCARE Camas Prairie Settlers Very Badly Frightened PETITIONS ARE SIMPLY POURING IN Governor Asking That Redskins I Be at Once Removed J S Irwin Acting Agent Says the Indians Indi-ans Arc Engaged in the Peaceful Occupation of Gathering Camas Root Are Peaceable and Could Hardly Give Trouble Under Any CircumstancesIrwins Statement Confirmed in im Interview With I Matt Ryan Jr Boise Ida June OPeti I ions from Camas Prairie the section infested > > y the Bannock and other Indians who I are said to oe engaging in the wa presaging ghost dance continue to pour I in upon the governor all urging him to I have the Indians removed at once and I stating that serious trouble will inevitably j inevit-ably follow if they remain in that section sec-tion Governor Stcunenberg received ame j sage from Lieutenant F G Train af J ing agent at Fort Hail today The i agent says From the best information lean obtain the Indians refejreJ to in your telegram are those living in the vicinity cf Bliss and a fenr from Lemhi engaged en-gaged in gathering Camas root for fod They are peaceable Indians and could I hardly give trouble under any circumstances circum-stances I have sent an agent to cause the return of any who may be from this reservation f The governor can hardly reconcile Agent Irwins statement with the petitions pe-titions and personal letters and telegrams tele-grams he has received from Camas Prairie all of the most alarming nat na-t Senator Heitfeld wired the governor as follows Have again seen the proper authorities authori-ties regarding the Indian uprising Prompt and vigorous action is assured as-sured TROOPS IN READINESS I Colonel Coates at 15 p m received I an order from Adjutant General Barry at Vancouver to hold troop F Fourth cavalry I at Boise barracks Captain Hatfield commanding inreadiness to move to Camas prairie at a moments notice A petition received by Governor StEU henberg after the latter half ecehed Irwins message says Various Indians Indi-ans have met here Camas prairie and are now and have been dancing in war I paint The Indians are very insolent and numbers are acting in a semihos ri f tile manner If BLISS IS ACTIVE ft He Calls Upon All Agents For Information In-formation I Washington June SO Senator Helt feld of Idaho received another dispatch today from Governor Steunenberg i dated at Boise last night as follows N Complaints continue today Fences are being burned and cattle killed Indians l In-dians come from Lemhi Umatilla Fort t I Hall and Duck Valley reservations They must disperse or trouble will soon i follow This was communicated to the interior > in-terior department and Secretary Bliss immediately wired Agen Irwin at Fort Hall to expedite his telegraphic report I cf lie situation and caHed upon the agents at Lemhi Umatilla and the Western Shoshone Duck Valley agencies > agen-cies for reports 1 = Game Warden Manning of Marysvaie r Wyo near the scene of the Jackson Hole affair part of the old Bannock I I hunting grounds has urged a proposition proposi-tion to disarm the Indians on Fort Hall reservation and the latter has been forwarded for consideration through Governor Richards and Senator Warren War-ren of Wyoming Agent Irwin has taken a decidedstand against it and in a report to the Washington authorities j authori-ties dated a day or taro before the present trouble says The proposition to disarm the T gis ond I Indians of this reservation is not practicable prac-ticable and if it were would be of no r f particular benefit since if it were possible pos-sible to collect every gun on the reservation reser-vation the supply could be renewed f within a few hours from the various I towns in adjoining reservations These J Indians are not armed In the ordinary serse of the term but like all hunting people some of them possess shot guns and rifles for hunting purposes only As such arms are freely sold them everywhere ev-erywhere it would be worse than useless use-less to deprive the Indians of these The law relating to hunting in Wyoming I Wyom-ing has been fully and persistently explained is f ex-plained to and is understood by everyone every-one of them These who hunt in violation viola-tion of the law will do so wilfully and with the expectation of being punished If caught exactly as in the case of the white man The agent adds thathe does not believe be-lieve many of them will venture into the hunting regions this season but it can hardly be expected that custom enjoyed for generations and which they believe unjustly taken away can be broken up in one or two years The Indians as a whole however acquiesce in the decision of the supreme court growing out of the Jacksons Hole trouble in which the hunting rights oC the Indians were negatively decided Some Indians however he predicts would slip away unnoticed In another letter the game warden > was advised by the agent as the most effective way of preventing their departure de-parture on these expeditions to arrest and jail the first Indians who appeared ap-peared in the vicinity An Officer Will Investigate Washington June 30The war department de-partment has received a telegram from f BrigadierGeneral Coppinger commanding com-manding the department of the Platta at Omaha stating that in accordance with the instructions sent to him yesterday yes-terday he had dispatched an officer experienced in dealing with he Indians in the vicinity of Halley Ida to ascertain ascer-tain the situation The officer is Colonel George Mondella of the Seventeenth infantry stationed at Fort Russell and it is expected that he will get into the Indian country today or tomorrow The department has no further news than that received yesterday through d the Idaho officials respecting the details de-tails of the Indian movements but pie N = = = c still of opinion that they xre not hostil in their nature |