Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-28


all night listening to them spinning yarns" about Indian
fights buffalo hunts, &c. g. they sat around the fire
until midnight dropped asleep upon buffalo robes
and reused up about daylight in order to visit the
Pueblo Of Jees twelve miles west the Jemes river
The alcalde of Santa Anna kindly consented TO accom-
pany US, and to pilot us over the road.
We crossed the Jemes River which nearly half mile
WIDE but with not sufficient water In II TO cover It's Ded
Sand-his buttes and mounds of every description are
piled up every direction and passed over the road
where the sand lay in ridges like the waves OF the sea-
The country is very rough and barren producing nothing
but stunted cedar and pinon trees
About halfway the end Of our journey our attention
attracted by the Indian guide exclaimng NayaJoes
Looking up the side Of high mountain we discovered
two mounted Indians evidently watching US As we
In the Navajo country, felt uneasy lest there
might be number Of them on the opposite side OF the
mountain and there only three Of us in company
began to entertain fears that the Indian department
was about suffer rreparable loss As we approached
the two Indians down the mountain, and we dis
covered they well armed with rifles and bows ana
arrows
We felt much relieved, however, as they advanced
and extended their hands, and informed that they
were delegation sent out by the Pueblo OF Jemes TO
welcome AS we had only crossed the Rio Grande the
day before ut loss to know how they knew any
thing of contemplated VISIT had not given them
notice Of any such intention We here learned that 1t Is
the custom with every Pueblo when any thing occurs Of
Importance them people, to send out their young
men mounted upon their eetest horses to the next Pue
bio with the intelligence which Pueblo sends of to the
next in the manner; thus establishing COM
ncaton is kept up with all the Pueblos in the Territory
Soon after these two Indians joined the acade with
his cane to inform us that his people
awaiting arrival We quickened our pace ana
soon came within sight Of the Pueblo All the warriors,
dressed in their mounted upon their best
horses full tilt charging up TO us at
full speed posing their spears firing their guns sn0a.
ing and whoopng with every demonstration OF an Indian
battle Onward we rode at full speed the women ana
children having all gathered outside the village TO well
come arrival Proud OF such demonstration, ana
II a,&aIat fhp
riding forgetting she nothing but mule attempted
to put touch by way SNORING OF, and striking
her foot against rock down she tumbled TO the groun
and over head the rider to the admiration ana
establishment of every behoder Never since Jemes has
been Pueblo has there been such feat OF
exhibited and the performance was received with SHOUTS
of applause.
ton of rejoicing and went into council We told
them that we had come to pay them Visit tnat we
wished make their acquaintance that we came 10 look
after their interests that whatever intelligence they saw
fit to communicate we should be happy to receives and
we could be Of any service to Them they might command
us to the best of our ability.
Hosta very fne-lookng and intelligent man. said,
q That his people had much trouble with their Mexican
who had unjusty deprived them OF their lands
| and they wished to get them back They had BEEN I'M
posed upon for long time About ninety years ago. one
Of their influential chiefs sent to Santa Fe to re-
their grievances to the Governor The Governor
imprisoned him and sent him down to I'll Paso; and he
| has never been heard of since.
Il
who was living upon the north part of their land The
land ordered be measured and declared to belong
to the Pueblo Garcia said the not legal,
refused to give up the land and is still living upon It,
On the south part of their land of their people sold
large piece of land to Mexican for yoke of cattle
while another piece of land sold for pair OF panta-
looms the people of the Pueblo having no knowledge OF
such fraudulent sales for long time after The people
Of Jemes contend that all the lands the Jemes river
given by the king of Spain to the ancestors OF the
present Pueblos of Jemes, Sa, and Santa Anna, and
The ruins of the old Pueblo of Jemes be seen seven
miles north of the present but of their old peo-
pie recoect when it occupied The depredatons
of the Navajoes compelled them to abandon the lands
around the old Pueblo. The hot springs are in this
neighborhood and the Indians valued the land highly
il produced fine pasturage for their stock
The lands upon which they live given them SO
form settlement from the Via to the Sla lands
Their documents deposited with those OF Santa Anna
About league and half from the Pueblo they own
small valley upon which they used to Craze their animals
The Mexicans are now running acequas through il,
have broken up the ground that they Craze he
stock there longer The Mexicans also rcspass upor
their other lands and refuse to pay them damages.
There present few Of the people of the old Pue
bio Of Pecos living in Jemes which Pueblo was de
serted four years ago. Some of the people OF the two
Pueblos have ntermarried, and all Of them speak thu
language The people Of Pecos forced 70 aban
don their Pueblo account of the depredatons Of the
Mexicans.
The streets in Jemes are kept very clean the houses
well built and all the people appear to live very
fortaby They own about 200 head of horses 225 cows
and oxen and 300 goats They have also fine orchards
Of apples plums and peaches, and large quantities
melons and pumpkins. The population is about 700
We found rather difficult to get away from this Pueblo
nearly every house had provided something for
and all anxious for TO enter, If but for few
minutes.
As we had sent word to the Pueblo of Sala that W,
would meet them in the afternoon, left the kindhearcc
people Of Jemes and proceeded way. This Pueblo
is located halfway between Jemes and Santa Anna
the banks Of the Jemes river half way from either place
About twenty Of the principal men out to NEE
us, and to escort into their village, well mounted
finely dressed in red cloth striped with black and
all large, wel-formed, fne-ooking All the bells in
the Pueblo rung at entrance and IL appeared e
be general hoyday among the people. The council
room crowded and all appeared to be deeply int
rested in the proceedings
The alcalde said that Mexican by the name Of San
doya had taken possession Of the northwest part Of
land 1.-THE best part claiming that he had bought II forty
years ago.
II appeared that the Indian who sold him the land was
employed herder by Sandova that some Of the
stock missng that Sandoval held the Indian respon
sbe for the loss and the Pueblo land taken by San
dova in PREPARATION for the loss Of his stock without the
consent Of the Pueblo.
The Mexicans them much trouble, by letting
their cattle Craze upon the Pueblo lands they gather
the crops belonging to them, and build houses upon
the Pueblo property. They claim that all the lands on
and Santa Anna, and that their documents win prove it,
and that not foot Of land has been sold with the
consent Of the Pueblo.
Owing to the drought last the Jemes river be.
came entirely dry and nearly all their crops were lost for
want Of irrigation Only small patch has produced any
corn The Pueblo Is SMALL containing about 800 nhabt-
ants, and Is located in a very barren spot.
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