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Show WYOMINGMEN BLAMED Official Report on the Trouble With the Indians in Con-; Con-; verse County. Washington. Nov. 25. The. report of Special Agent Charles S. McXichols ot the Indian bureau on recent troubles with Indians in Wyoming was received by the Indian office today.. Mc'ichols gives a detailed account of the battles, gained from interviews with participants partici-pants and persons in the neighborhood. He says the feeling in that part of Wyoming Wyo-ming from which the tyosse. was sent is bitter against Indian Agent Brennan, who telegraphed the particulars of tne incident to the department, and added that the Jndiaiis were, not to blame. Mc-Nichols Mc-Nichols says he has not been able lo ascertain whether an Indian or white man- fired the first shot, but the fight followed an attempt of Sheriff Miller to arrest the Indians, in which Miller an! Falkenberg and four Indians were Killed. McNichols tells of the hearing at Douglas Doug-las at which the Ind'ans were released, and in conclusion says: "1 cannot escape the conviction that a band of thirteen white's, urged 'on by local lo-cal sentiment and race hatred, was responsible re-sponsible for precipitating tho conflict. This action has stained a page of Wyoming Wyo-ming history which no amount of blust.-r can ever efface." |