Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-04
An Indian Captive.
The Romantic History of Man Who is
 Now Cashier of a Bank.

| The Romantic History of a Man Who is Now Cashier of a Bank.
 ! General John R. Baylor furnishes the San ! Antonio Express with the following incident ! connected with his late visit to Corpus Chris \ ti where he met Spaniard by the name of | Tito Rivera, whom he rescued from the ! Comanches quarter of century ago:
 ''In 1856 was United States Indian Agent 1 at the Comanche Reservation on the Clear Fork of the Brazos then Throckmorton county. One day I found note on my table from a boy, who asked that he be taken from the Indians. Soon afterwards the boy walked into my office with a bunch of turkey feathers fastened to the top of his head, and his face painted, and dressed in the Indian costume. and said he the boy who left the note on my table. asked him where he came from, and he said that his father was a Spaniard, and lived in the mining town of Tapio, in the State of Durango, Mexico. He spoke Spanish and also Comanche. I didn't believe that he had written the note, and to try him asked him to sit down at my desk and show me how he could write. He wrote beautiful hand for boy. Questioning him as to how he came to fall into the hands of the Indians, he said that his father owned pack train, and one day he went out with the
 mules and the men in charge of the mules and camped. The Indians came on them and took him into captivity. After hearing his story sent for the Indian who claimed
 to own the boy, and when he came I told him
 I must have Tito. He replied that I could not, and told him would or we would fight.
 He said that fight it would be then the boy could not go. I went to see General Robert
 K. Lee, who was then Lieutenant Colonel of the Second United States Cavalry, at Camp Cooper, and who had been stationed there to protect the Comanche camp. While there,
 Chief Catemase, of the Comanches, who had
 heard of the object of my visit, came to see
 me and said that we wanted no trouble be-
 tween myself and the Indians, and that if
 would give up $10O worth of goods I could
 get the boy. gave him an order on the
 sutler and he was given the goods, and the
 boy was turned over to me. I sent the little
 fellow to my house and he lived with my
 children for about two years, being treated
 as one of the family. Afterwards l met
 Major Neighbors, who then lived near San
 Antonio, on the Salado. Major Neighbors
 said he wanted him, and if would give him
 to him he would send him back to his moth
 CT. turned him over to the Major, but he
 didn't send him back to his mother, and the
 Confederate war came on and he went into
 the Confederate army. The boy was twelve
 years old when took him, and the Indians
 had captured him when nine, having had
 him three years. He spoke the Comanche
 language perfectly and I used him inter
 preter. Major Neighbors left the boy on his
 ranch on the Salado, near San Antonio, and
 the boy entered the Confederate army when about sixteen. Upon returning from the war he stopped with Captain Albert Wallace on the Cibolo, fifteen miles north of San Anto- nio, and from there went to Galveston and thence to Corpus Christi. While with Cap tain Wallace he earned his living cow boy. I went to Corpus Christi to see the boy, Tito Rivera. now cashier of the bank of Davis & Dodridge in Corpus Christi, and one of the most respectable gentlemen of Corpus He married a Miss Mollie Wood ward, and now has one boy and two little girls, and the best of my visit was that the little children came about me- threw their arms around my neck and called me grandpa. Rivera is a man now about thirty-six years of age and is a magnificent looking man.