Show BLOODY BATTLE WITH INDIANS IN I i NS i I t I I Wyoming g Sheriff and OAe One of His Deputies Kilda Kill 4 WHOLE COUNTRY AROUSED 1 I IB ut Wa VIOLA VIOLATION VIOLATION TION OF OJ SAKE LAWS 4 1 i Colo Nor o 1 2 Five hun hundred hundred D dred mete men me including sheriffs II augment a 1 by b Y volunteers rl florn ft m the ranches a nt are art scour Ing in the country ct in the vicinity of Light Lightning ning 11 ing ng creek In eastern Wyoming WOID ug U in inz z arch of the band or If Indians Indiana which b saturday afternoon fought a battle with C sheriff h dillies posse Dose OeM k ling the sheriff h ail al one deputy named The Thea latest a adi ad ies es are to the th effect err ct that and a SN nd bit tie t Ie has beer ber fought and ten tn i killed k and eleven others cap ap hut bit this has hall not as a yet been d News ewa from the th scene cene of the trouble rouble I which is III miles mile from telegraphic te communication is I IT t T ry meat r a Pie Indians Indian e five In number numbe I Hil aall t i to lo be I under the l leadership of or hll Curries Elk are arc supposed to be Sioux front from th the Pine Pin Ridge and Rosebud in South Dakota They have bae l een 11 hunting hunti in the Converse Conver e country Wyoming W min in violation of the game came laws law lawf ft of f the state t Sheriff Miller with a I po went to the scene of or their depre depredation dation last Saturday for tor the purpose rt t r arresting the Indians Indiana The Indians i hall had received r ed I warning of or the the coming coma of i itIle tIle the whites and prepared p parE d an ambuscade f or r them Ih m The posse posac would have been entirely wiped out but for the th fact tact tint they thy wr were ere proceeding cautiously ant R n were in a measure melUN prepared prepa for forame some ame trick on the part of the Indians Whites White Sought Cover CoYer At A t the first volley Tolle from the t Indiana Sheriff Miller and his hi deputies d hastily ran r ln to cover and anet then ensued a genuine i Indian fight The whites w found refuge 8 l I lt t I hind ind trees and boulders bo boulders ld rs I M IT i t is II thought tha h t least six alx ax Indians a n ere re killed and vera veral others wound I 1 l amont the la I er being le Feath a r i The bat ba lasted about an hour when tile India began to make their escape hy ty or ONS es n l twos wn In horseback They Th y heir ei r dead and wounded with find j and nd are now believed to be well pir ir way WHY to the Bad Lands in Ne Xe Neka Neka 1 I ka The officers did not attempt I r ff follow illow but sent a courier courter to Lunk Lusk t I nearest telegraph graph office with a aase aIa aI I Ia age ase t to Governor Chatterton ap apI I 1 ini ng g him or of what had occurred Thi news new Tle of f the th battle spread pread rapidly I nl I every pv ry ranchman for miles mUes around M need d himself and an joined ore Ole of the ses hastily y organised to tou fish u h the Sioux The governor wired 1 th i H interior d at Washington i i 1 h tt 11 the Indians Indian must Immediately I be bej c j 1 TP Violated KT I or r the i ast two weeks weeD the band of f has haM been tx en in northeastern Wyn slaughtering game frame In violation of laws Lt la is s in III I n addition the settlers have haven I n 1 r m mi bitterly that the In IndIUM lia ha hat tx been en killing and aDd stealing t 1 rattle att Settlers warned the leade leades a s st r he t hand to leave lean the country but buti i redskins i only laughed at thorn thorny th m y claimed lIa that the government had hadr induced r duce i the th amount of the tM It t they arc ere forced to kilt kill game ame to lo toi i I front front starring lIt Charlie Charles Carries I declared that if he be and W hi hiJi his Ji I r rv were t Ire ere driven too tM far fat they t in tight ft ht 11 hen n Sheriff Miller of Weston Wellton roun coun count t v A as a notified of or the refusal renaI of or the th thel Pans l ns to tol t Kt get out of the state Mate and th the ur I 5 made m de by them he organised a agull nail gull 1 posse pO e t including luding R ft D Hackney I Johnson J Fred Howell Lieutenant IV I Jam James Davis and aDd started r 1 leaver Ih aver creek along which the wl tt lt l lu u is ver I encamped d Fri Fi li y the Indian camp was teas a c tl It r was deserted by b all except qua luat children hUdren and a few fete old II i 1 uh wh ho were er tre busy skinning wild i finials and Ill preparing the meat for fort t i r a U The entire camp was wasl w woJ s sil il oJ l uglier arrest arr t and sent to New NewIn tl I I In harge of Lieutenant Hilton T If pos pm poke e started on a search arch for brave bra h They were wl re located Satur and lIld d luring the afternoon Sheriff i anti and hi his deputies started to close closen cl ell e en i iIII III n n tin m When hen the tM whites got Kot Kott thin t II i 11 nil rl ft range ra of the Indian camp v wt ere vere rf suddenly fired upon and tie lie lieh It ii h followed |