Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1861-01-19

unhoyaHce iroui tle reu sklnS as arc our own
people.
,' WEArHERFoRD, PARKER County,
Wednesday morning, Nov. 2S
EDlToR GAZETTE:
drop you o limo this morning, that the dis.
tressed condition Of this frontier may be known,
On Thursday last, n party Of Indians came on
Rock Creek, in Jack county, andswent 10 tho
house Of settler at the place known as Diiling-
hams Ranch. - White saw them and started to
the house Of Kauts for help. The Indians cut
hlm oa-surrounded him in the open prairie.
White had asix.shooter and doube-barrel shot
gum His shot gun was heard to Gre twice, no
report was heard from the pistol. White was
found naked and dead, and most brutally man
gIed with arrows and spears. Some of his cloth.
lng was found on the trail, The Indians had
gathered q considerable drove of horses.
Tn Monday last, the same or another party was
seen near Jacksborough, and courier was dis.
patched to this place for horses, menArms and am.
mrnltion, as the county Of Jack was about, at
the time destitute, Before our citizens, had time
to act, another messenger came, bearing the most
startling dispatch from the entrepid Capt, Ham.
mer which was Immediately sent to press in the
white Man" g copy of which is here enclosed.
ms dispatch arrived here at one o'clock Monday
nlght. On yesterday morning, Tuesday the
town ol heatherlord was in the utmost confusion
ana excitement Amidst an intoerably cold nor
ther wind, and rain, company Of or 10 gather
Gu up suen arms Us could be found about town
ana started out 10y Jacksborough. Scarcely had
they gJt out OF sight when another courier came
down inc Belknap road under full speed crying
iof neIP'men and arms lie reported the Indians
IN FarkcF county, within lBmiles Of Wcatherfordi
haa come TO his fathers house; saw them and
counted them; was in the house at the time, with
u % yaTds oil them were IS in nnmber; deber-
ately came TO the horse lot threw down the fence
qua drove Oh the horses He saw another party
!ooS'nS around which he thought about the same
IN numbers rom the bulk.
oHe nouf after ths' second messenger came
down the belknap road, shouting for help The
Indians were IN large bodies, and within l6 miles
OF Wealherlord, and sweeping up every horse in
nortod bot tba inS;ona @ s"S 'i'.u Iais uuu ~,
within Il miles of Weathcrlord; had gone to the
oncr ram bs bor,o ",n' way "as a0pIs p us
snq hi, ,ojG, and ona cI5g ~ ,ritt tSa., ans
another nmor sso c.mo IN los, wirh, , lron paana &
Creek and stated that tba Indians wore o% in t tSnro
and murI~rinr ard rlmrdorinn %" oi,is,ns '"S,v
Killed ionr 6%iIiSs s '''s '' ''''-''''-N''
Durhg the entjro dsv and nm "a ,v,o,vo o,,,oo,,
lat psbi onr town ond yicin,v W ,ro ,Vv nJn S'VS T.
tpnse eyctemont ond tbo rtnos, .onGeion mJ SNy' m
pones nf from & IN % os ' tbcy ] coulJ "nt ho.'o,
and cnns wore s,ortrc ont ro0, % nv 1"o ~U''to ~
meet the Indians All wand III H. NIX, ,bay v,oro va
COLLECTING and s,arti1r '' N ~ ''' ' "'''
can civn Won No doo or .ho u,;,ohi.eAot h,.
boan done u nv nos hoe rsnohdJ v h"" % .""Y 1So L
courer, rorrad IN Tbo InSion, U Lo,o o"v .n.b ''o
srgo droye of borsos ,bot ,bov canrn, % ,rorI c,.
10 think tha cbancse oro tks+ or ho,s siI' & ,""" '"
IN with tbsm '''''''' NV '''''' V'' wv "'' D''''
Iha women and ch,ldr,n IN ,ho ro;chhor,ood
or tbo dsnrsJoton, bnra ,aa-n S"O nJluJoS toS
ot tho boeo oc Ricb"rd No. ond Nv" o SO''s..u
under opord and IN "roaf % Jstr"sS S "'' '"''0 Nv"
w :" So, ,,r1 N'-''0''
WEDNESDAY EVENING
since writing the above David Kelly has come
in from the neighborhOOd of Rock creek in Par.
ser county There are two Rock creeks after buy
ing apparel for John Branen, who was killed on
yesterday by the Indians, near his residence when
on his return from the house Of neighbor, lie was
shot with two rifle balls, his nose cut of, his
body cut opeces, and scalped.
| lle wife of SvVnstpr Sherman hns hpan fund