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IDAHO WO^LDTIIURSDAV, .... .X.-.MAT *9, l«3Indian Tkoubi.es Brewing.—The Walla Walla 8t*tenmi eays that a part? W Indian* recently visited the reaideoce of Mr. Jeptha Arrisoa, oa Mill creek, aome eight miles from town, and aiked for matehes and tobaeeo. Mr. Arriaoa gave them some matches, bat told them he had no tobacco. The Indiana insisted that he bad, and that he should divide. Arri son ordered them to leave his house, which they reftsed to do, and a straggle ensued between them, in which Arrises was being worsted, when his daughter, a young ltdy of eighteen, came to his assistance and attacked the Iadians with a hatchet, dealiig one of .them several severe hiowe that came near killing him. The Indiana fek .hack, and at this juncture some of the arighhers came up aud, arresting three of the Indians, took them to town and put them in jail. The red scoundrels are said to be Nea Perce*, and belong to a band that had been iu the habit, annually, of camping at the head of Dry creek. On the following day the settlers organired and, numbering seventy men, wed 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 band, numbering thirty warriors, with s 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 Statesman says that a party of surveyors, bound for the Palouse country, were met and ordered back by the Indians, a hint which they acted on at once, and returned and went into camp on the Touchet. The reservation poliey 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 conies they pack their horses and scatter in every direction, prepared to murder aud rob travelers and settlers. If reservations are set apart for them they shoald be compelled to remain on them; and when caught away from their reservation they should be shot. When they once understand that such a penalty willbe rigorously inflicted, we Mill hear no more of•straggling bauds of red eut-tbroa^ committing depredations and murders iu the frontier settlements and then returning for their Winter’s grab to a reservation io charge of some philanthropist devoted to the Peaee poliey. General Crook’s theory io regard to the treatment of Indians has beea fully demonstrated to be the only correct poliey. Whip them into submission first, then mske s tresty with them, aud compel them to observe their treaty stipulations. He believes in keeping them oo 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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