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from thds resssvxtion, druva everybody ont OF
r. " FisA @ crssh Valley: hllsa boy n.a,sd
man in evils Bend Of Red Riyer, no1th Tset
| Of this town. In tho might Of November 81
they murdered md scAlpod a nan name3
Ezan1 coona, IN Chiahoims house. On Donton
Gfesk. and then came r. 70 Dentonsown and
In ambush, on \ road On Whites treet. snd
| this party caught man named A. H. Fortan.
burg, and killed him. They chopped bis faco
| up, beyond recognition, With their butcher
I and J. Reeves. The 1atter had wonderful
escape An In1isn was after him with lsnco.
| and Just as the Indian thrust, Reeves stubl,4I
hss too and fell Ths Indiln waA fired oo at
| tha moment by Mccormick, and vheeled his
| horte: This gave Rce!es chance to jump
| into the bed Of the crock and crawl OF through
the brush and woods He received cut along
his right side and back, md but for his fall tho
lance wunld have bean sent through hi. body.
After Genesal Sheridan arrived It Fort Cobb
After destroying Black Kettles band OF
thieves, ahs ladisns did not raid into our
country. Up to this time IN 1868 they hsd
stolen from Wise, Parker, nenton, Cook, Mon-
tague, JACK, md PMo Pinto Counties over
5000 head Of horses, and had burned some
forty housaa- They also killed larKe numbers
they passed through on their raids Of devasta-
ton. In those seven countless have mem
toned, over 500 people, men, vomen, and
children were hr1ta11y murdered, the individ-
nals bare mentioned being but a few which
came under my persona1 observation
When General Sheridan with his troops
reached Fort Cobb, the counties xneuioned
we're faat being depopulatet1- Everybody uas
moving back into the thicker settlements.
General sheridan' i Emy ovezaved a.e Indians,
md }kor- %At frnr tf7air 40 -
commenced returning to their homes.
After General 6hctidans forces left the
Wnehit6 Mountains in March. General Hazen
Was left IN charge Of 1ndian AFFAIR.". He gave
the Indians to understand that be would nse
the troops against them whenever ttsy raitIsd
into Texas. In April or May. 1869. thsan wcro
two raids Of ten or twelve Indians each into
Montague County, but General Hazen haard
Of them, and took the horses they had stolen
from them, and our people got them again.
Of at!airs Of the Camanches and KoWas, on tie
peace plan. and the Indians 1t oncc CON-
menced raiding again.
In July a party went into Westpmt, Wise
County, and stole about eighty head OF horses,
Killing man named Abe Smith. and wouusling
In August they raided into near Fort Bel
knap and killed several families. The
Ionkwa. Indians, rencoablo, serni-civ-
ilized tribe. are settled near that pcnt, and
attempted To surprise And murder the Tonk-
wAa. One Of the latter, who had Just mount
| ed Ills horse, fired on them and gavo tho
alarm, aud the Camanches and kiosvas got
between him and the camp, and gave pursuit
to him After shooting ai1 Arrows into him,
ho fell OH his horse, not. howeyar, before hav-
ing killed one and wounded three Of hn, enc
mics. When he fell, young Camancho gal
loped up and jumped his horse over him,
thinking he was dead but az tho horse passed
oser him the Tonkwa rose and hrctihis last re
yolser shot into the camancle's back, killing
| him instantly. The other ConAkches and
KinHas than killed tho Tonkwa cut his nose,
carr, and fingers OF, stripped him, ripped him
open and left him.
In September, 1869. they raaled to Rod
agency, and stole thirty mules betonging to
III. Shirley, who was using them hauling gov
eminent supplea. In September they also
| rahied to Weatherford, killed ono man namod
1nlly, and wounded = boy named Bob Ames,
and near Ft. Worth killed man named Ston-
akcE, and cAIried OF young woman named
Gillnand. This young woman, like the unfor-
tunate aIyra Scott 10 st the Czmanche camps,
west Of the Ca1nanche Agency, and cannot be
recovered. Her hzother and party Of friends
Ic1sImong them Young man to whom A.ss
Gililand WIS engaged to be mar1iea-went to
Fort Sill to try and get the young woman
back; and offered q reward Of s50O in silver
to any Indian or Indians who would bring her
IN. They hare not obtained her yet, although
the lndi.ns know that the money ia in tie
paid on delivery Of the young woman.
In October party OF some 400 HowAs and
Camanehes attacked camp OF about 1SO men
OF the Ninth Cavalry, on the Brazos River,
and werc duren od aftor = severe fight. In
the Same mouth party attacked Captain
Hoyl with q pat1ul party of tho Ninth Cav
AlrF, on the 1lano River, and were driven OF
with loss: Heyl, gallant fellow, vas wound
ed, but killed his Indian.
IN Noyemher, 1868. = party Of about Co
Saba and Concho settlements, and Killed about
thirty people and stole large number Of
horses. They committed one terrible act at
Martin's in Asrlum Creek Valley. They took
two small chiiaren. whom they captured, cut
Their ears, noses, fingers, and toes Oh, and left
them thus suffering and mutilated
In December, leGs, party of fifteen railed
INTO Montague County. siItF-dye miles from
their agency, and etolu number of horses,
also shooting two Persons. Tho citizens OF
lted AlscF station a1sd vicinity. to the number
OF fifteen. followed them. and soon gained an
accession Of tleir numbers to Twenty-Five.
They then surrounded the Indians in ca1np at
night, and, After a brisk ekir1nish, the Indians
broke through the citizens and escaped On foot
INTO their reservation. two Of them being
wounded.
In the beginning Of December, 1862, party
Of slx Canancie braves and a squaw, who had
murdered several persons on the Trinity, wezo
oseHaken on the Double Mountain Fork, with
thru stolen @ hosses and scaips, and
dams was . sou OF tho Camanche
Gcisf, Horseback, heretofore mentioned. and
| persons from this country, who were at tho
agency, say the Ca manches had their hair cut
of, in mourning for them, and we're At the
agency Towing vengeance on tue Texans:
In January, 1870. party Of Indians killed 4
Mexican. named Joso Meier, near uubl,arJ's
| l0use, OH iiut,harli's Creek, and took of a
large number Of horses from that section. In
the same month. another party came into
Texas through the Cross 1iml,crs 10 near
Gainesville. stole come horees, and went out
| through the Chickasaw Nation, stealing some
horses from the Clickasaws on their route
| In February. 1870, party Of fifteen Indians
came down from nuIton Creek and etole =
number OF horrcs. LII akirmish with some
Of our settlers, they lost ono killed and an
| other wounded.
| In March, 1870, party OF Kiowaa murdered
ti1 persons on the Trinity, and several other
| persona, whose na1nes have not yet learned,
near Wcatheriord. They wers followed By
some soldiers and Tonkua 1ndiane from Fcrt
| Griffin, aud we're overtaken on the Dr1zos and
ai1 Of them killed
In Anril man, named Gilbert, Of Montague,
| was looking for some stray cattle on tho Big
Wichita, aud had ridden into the timber Just
at nightfall to look for place to camp, when
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distance from him. and fred on him. He
saw. at tho samo time, eo,ne mounted Indians
riding through the timber torarl him. He
! jumped of his horse, and run away through
| The bT1lsll. The Indians rode up and down the
timber. and entered it several times. At one
time two Indians were 30 close to him. on their
hlood-thirsty saarrh, that he could have
toncl,esl them with bis gun. They did not seo
him and he escaped, and lad TO walk fo1ty-6ve
miles to the tlsst settlement tFalentine's) On
foot
| The foregoing arc but few caaes. Tho
sasages are on our Western border robbing,
ravishing. and numbering al the time. 4
thousand incidents, like the foregoing. could
be collected in our border counties. No have
no railroad lines or teaegrsphs to carry the
news Of savage nassacres to tho world, is our
more fortunate friends OF Kansas have, and
We have to suffer while the Quzkers expert
ment upon the moral suasion principle.
The council on the North Fork Of the Caua-
dian, called by the Indian Superintendent,
Friend uoag. and from which great results
were expected, was failure, tho Indians not
thinking it worth the trouble to attend No
Cheyenhes, ArrapAhoes, or Eowas, OF any OF
the savage Camanches we're present 4 few
members Of tho PinebAker baud OF Camsn-
ches, who have been peaceable for the past
fifteen yeArs, and few Caddocs and Wiichi-
| t1A. NefD Ill that Hers tbAra 1,esideA the