The Silver State

THE PYRAMID LAKE WAR.
Cavalry and a U. S. Marshal Gone to the Front.
Last Thursday a detachment of twenty-five Cavalrymen from Camp Halleck passed here going west. The Reno Journal has the following relative to their destination:
The Cavalry detailed from Camp Halleck, twenty-five in number, under command of Second Lieutenant O. G. Brown of the First Cavalry, U. S., arrived in Wadsworth on the evening of the 16th inst. and camped over night in Gladding's Hall. They had their horses, tents and other equipments, as if expecting a general border warfare. The next morning they took up the line of march for the Reservation, under the direction of Deputy U. S. Marshal B. F. McLain. The avowed intention was to drive off the twenty five or thirty fishermen-most of whom are Renoites-from the Reservation limits, and establish the boundary line at the point of the bayonet. Those accused of selling whisky and debauching young squaws will also come in for a proper share of military attention. It is thought that a majority of the fisherman will quietly submit to the forces, but will take immediate steps to ascertain just where the Reservation ought to be and to have these limits properly designed. The Reservation agents, they assert, claim several hundred thousand acres, while the Act of Congress creating this reservation, only allows 5,000 acres. They claim further that the original location was near Glendale, but that the agents have gradually worked it down until now it is located on the shores of Pyramid Lake, 35 miles away. They also assert that there never has been a survey of the Reservation made, and that the only attempt ever made to define the limits was by one agent, who had a board painted and sent to a gentleman in Pyramid with a request to "set it up somewhere." The fishermen claim that the lake being 30 miles long, it certainly must nearly all be outside of the 5,000 acres allowed by Congress, and that therefore they are not infringing upon the rights of the two or three dozen Indians who draw rations from Uncle Sam. The charge of selling whisky does not affect the fishermen, but other parties. This is briefly the fishermen's defence. We have not heard the other side of the story.