Show VIEWING THE HOAX ST ANTHONY idaho idabo august 5 1895 the indian situation each day pro pro ente bents something now new in the way of a hoax 10 the people or of this vicinity who have all along afong had great fears of a raid being made in this direction are now resting easy anthe a the indiana are reported to be moot moet everywhere but near here lt it kenw seeing that toa to tb most fogt reliable information la Is often erroneous st anthony if situated actuated only a few miles below the me old loehl indian trail over which so ao many ot of too red radio have been report d as goina into the hole and of course too me people would naturally in ID for that if any serious trouble occurs they ibey would be in peril out but different parties irom from this the place DISCO who havo have made trips to the trail have failed to discover the passage of but few indiana some home very alarming reports have been meat out of Jackso jacksoniv nid hole as ae to the abe actions of the indiana for what reason la in not obvious but nearly all of which have had bad their ehlt whether we the people up there were relly afraid or not ja As not known but they bey were well enough acquainted with the thena na 1131 ure to of the I 1 indiana to know that the w bites would not be raID Josted as aa icing loa as aa they did not bother the indiana in their yearly hudt bunt had they first informed the agent it would have been different it is ia to be regretted that the constables const ablee deliberately libera tely shot down the indians under arrest and it Is ia thought the light that it if the indiana ever find out wn woo 0 did it they will kill them but it is hardly probable that others will be molested of course coarse there may be instances where some one will get hurt by the bad element among the reds red to show the foundation for a great many reports I 1 will say that FE white the he jacksons jackson hole man who lately came down to get volunteers volunteer to go in and got get the women and children whom be reported as an being surrounded is now in the city and says there are no indians near the place where we the people are forted why le he should make floh eboh a statement as be did is beyond my comprehension he is ie considered as being reliable but there Is most surely a screw loose looe somewhere white gets the largest part of his revenue from guiding tourist parties through the upper country and this way may have so to do with it it Is thought by some that the sett settlers settle lere rc up there wanted to precipitate a conflict with the indians so as to got get the troops to come in and drive out the indians for all time lime to come and abacut the be safest way to do so would to be to get a company of outsiders to do the fighting had the company went from here they would naturally expect a fight anu and would probably have fired upon the first indians indiana they seen and that would very likely have started the ball rolling rollin 1 the thing the settlers seemed to desire david breckinridge Breckinrid ne an ex lioner aloner of bingham county who abo lives ives between teton basin ald aid jacksons Jcck son note hole is down and says the indians are not cot troublesome but it if they go oo on the war path it will be when the whites have their crops gathered and hay bay stacked and that the reds will do more burning than killing which Is in very likely correct our people have got over their scare and do not look for any trouble down thia way but frum from the excitement anything new creates create I 1 rather incline tu to believe that we mention of a band of indians coming this way would be the be means aus of calling a town meeting all things considered it would not be a bad idea to agitate tee me pro prop tion of the government pla placing a fort to ia this country at some convenient con veu lent point while troops may never be needed nevertheless if they should be they will be needed bably as the present trouble has shown that none of the settlers are prepared for fora a conflict and all of them could have been killed before the be arrival of the sola lew I 1 am rather inclined to look upon the trouble as a huge advertising scheme on the part of the abe settlers but of course do not know one of my correspondents in the Basin who went into the hole with a company of volunteers on account of this man whites statement has written me several evera Jet letter tere others who have written me make about the same date ment as behave have sent you one going so far as to say that only one indian baa been killed but I 1 think there have ben four SCRIBE |