Wednesday last people coming to town from down the river points reported that there had been an Indian uprising in the Pelly river country. This rumor was freely circulated around the town and as is natural, has been added to until there is at present foundation enough for Henty to write an Indian story.

According to dispatches received from police detachments below by Major Snyder it appears that two Indians, named Bergundy and Long Shorty have been telling these tales.

Bergundy, a Little Salmon Indian, met a woodchopper named Mack about 29 miles south of Tantalus and told him that he and his band had just returned from the Pelly river. He said he had met a party of Selkirk Indians who had made their escape from a band of Mackenzie Indians (probably Stikines) and this band was camped around the head of the Pelly and had shot two traders.

This is the story told by Bergundy to Mack but when interviewed by the police he says that the story was told him by Long Shorty.

Thus there is a discrepancy noticeable. The Indians at Selkirk know nothing of any trouble with whites or any other persons. This, together with the statement made by Mr. Macaulay, who has just returned from Ross river with the ballot boxes, that the Indians in that locality know nothing of the affair, stamps the whole thing as being simply a creation of Bergundy's brain and as being a false rumor.

Major Snyder, on being interviewed by a STAR representative said that the police were in close touch with the principals in this story and that, as a result, he would characterize the whole thing as being a fake.

The Weekly Star, Saturday, December 20, 1902