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THURSDAY, ....• MAI 89, 1873Indian Tkoubi.es Brewing.—The Walla Walla Aitonui says that a party rf Indianf recently visited the residence of Mr. Jeptbe Arrisoa, oa Mill creek, some eight ailea from town, andasked for matches and tobaeeo. Mr. Arrisoa gave them some mate he*, bat told them he had no tobacco. The Indiana insisted that he bad, and that be should divide. Arri eon ordered thea to leave hie house, which they redhead to do, and a straggle ensued between thea, in which Arrises was being -wonted, when his daughter, a young lady of eighteen, came to his assistance and attacked the Indians with a hatchet, dealing one of .them several severe Mown that eame near killing him. The Iodiaas fed Aack, and at thie juncture some ed the neigh hers came up and, arresting three of the Iodiaas, took them to town and put them in jail. The red scoundrels are said to be Nex Perces, and belong to a band that had been in the habit, annually, of camping at the head of Dry creek. On the following day the settlers organired and, numbering seventy men, well armed, they marched to the head of Dry creek and ordered the Indians to forthwith remove. The Chief asked three days grace, hot the settlers would not grant the Indians a day; and, accepting the inevitable, the Nez Perce baud, numbering thirty warriors, with a Urge number of squaws, children and old men, struck their tents and left. The Indians give signs of becoming trouble* some in that section. The Stateamau says that a party of surveyors, bound for the Palouse country, were met and ordered back by the Indians, a bint which they acted on at once, and returned and went into camp on the Touchet. The reservation policy of dealing with savages amounts to a farce. The Indians gladly go on the reservations to be fed at Government expense in the Winter, but as soon as Spring comes they pack their horses and scatter in every direction, prepared to murder and rob travelers and settlers. If reservatious are set apart for them they should be compelled to remain on them; and when caught away from their reservation they should he shot. When they once understand that such a penalty will be rigorously inflicted, we Mill bear no more of straggling bauds of red eut-tbroa^ committing depredations and murders iu the frontier settlements and then returning far their Winter’s grub to a reservation io charge of some philanthropist devoted to the Peace policy. General Crook’s theory io regard to tbe treatment of Indians has been fully demonstrated to be tbe only correct poliey. Whip them iuto subtuU-aion first, then mske s treaty with them, and compel them to observe their treaty stipulations. He believes in keeping them on their reservations, and killing them when they are foundoff of them.
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The Idaho World
Idaho City, Idaho, US
Thu, May 29, 1873
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