| Show THE CLAIMS SHOULD BE BOUGHT OFF The battle in Wyoming with n band or Sioux who had entered the State for their annual hunt is amout deplorable deplor-able circumstance Jt brings forcibly to the front an old conflict the claim of the Indians < that they have reserved tho right to hunt In their old haunts There acorns to be no reason to doubt that the Indians believe they have reserved re-served this right and the Federal authorities au-thorities have been Inclined to concede thh claim But right here the States step In and with their game laws and hunters licenses make the Indian claim a nullity There are two practical phases of the operation or these conflicts in the one case and thlis is Wyomings there Is n disposition honestly and fairly to enforce en-force the las of thd State In the other and this fleeing to be Colo rados there Is no honest effort at all but tile alleged Indian raids for huntIng hunt-Ing purposes i are made the cover and excuse under which the game wardens kill deer and other game at will marketing mar-keting the flesh and the hide of game found and alleged to have been killed by Indiana in the hills but which no doubt the wardens themselves have killed in order to sell the mel t and hides In i m either l case however It is I a profitable business for the warden Or they would by no means he so zealous zeal-ous in enforcing the game lawfc So far as Colorado Is concerned the wardens have never been able to catch any of the Indians and the agents at While Rooks have always denied thai allY Indians crosSed the line The presumption pre-sumption in I therefore dead against the Colorado game wardens In Wyoming the presumption Is the other way for the Indians were undoubtedly caught trespassing But In either case there certainly ought to be a settlement of I those Indian hunting claims The U S Government practically recognl7es their validity but Is unable to give the claims effect It ought therefore by straightforward negotiations to buy them up and extinguish them It Is too liorrlblc to allow claims of this sort to lie I undetermined KO thai I they may load to tragedies such as this ono on Horseshoe Horse-shoe Creek |
