| Show FROM THE TETON BASIN VALI iBY OF THE idaho idabo aug 6 1895 in the columns of your jour valuable paper we noticed today an item COD con corning a party of young men woo who let their home at pleasant grove same dome time mines for the yellowstone national park via jacksons jacksina Jack sona hole the seat eat of the present indian way war happening to be one ol of the ine mentioned parties and having pawed passed through the now much talked of country during the excitement it may be interesting to your jour readers to know something of the hole and the In juns doubtless many are acquainted with the location of the country but few know what kind of a place it IS Is ie it is in a wildly romantic region bounded on the east by the continental divide ill vide and on the west by the almost impenetrable the 1 be north and south boundaries are mountains and hilla hill very heavily timbered making it one of the hardek hardeis t valleys valley B to reach that can be imagined anis inaccessibility coupled with the severe winters has baa kept ever pry ing from within its borders borden and rendered it possible for nature to bold her away so today we find it Is the next thing to the happy bunting ground gromad 1 1 of the red mane dreams naturally enough therefore do we find him there for years it has been the place where the ban nocks the lemble end the Sho shoshones Shosho oes have found their winters win texa meat and widle the red men knew not of the ways of the he paleface pale booe he be could take what he be needed for food and clothing and be satisfied but since he has hag learned th the value of a dollar and that buckskin will obtain that dollar his bia greed seems Inea le e thousands of decaying carcasses car cassea and bleaching bones today mark the trail of the savage the advent of buzzards in im menee numbers tell of the many noble elk deer and antelope that have been bain by his bis hand band few whites have made their homes there and those are men accustomed to a rough life such mch as L rappers ra nahem miners sta etc most of them are bachelors bachelor or as but few women care to spend pond their lives in such ouch an isolated way the country to ia indeed a good one in which to carry ou on an indian war for the and a very bard and long fight could the red men make were they so inclined regarding the he trouble on hand it has been from the first a very one sided aided affair though the probabilities are not to be laughed at it was started by the whites who wished to put a stop atop to the wanton slaughter of ame by the reds the feeling of the indians was quite thoroughly expressed the other day by old loehl jim an indian of seventy snows when he akkad did the white man bring the game her and it will take much persuasion to convince the indians indiana that they should not do as they please about it the opi opinion rilon of those who should know to is that the danger now lies liea in the indians indiana taking revenge epou cupoo defene defens elef eleto persons persona who happen to come their way they are certain ly incensed at the joes of their heir braves and people way may well keep their eyes peeled HOWARD R Dwi clos |
