The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10
AN INDIAN CAPTIVE.
THE ROMA nc HISTORY OF A MAN WI
IS NOW CASHIER OF A BANK
AT CORPTS CHRISTI.

THE ROMA nc HISTORY OF A MAN WH
IS NOW CASHIER OF BANK
AT CORPUS CHRISTI.
Gen. John r. Baylor furnishes the
San Antonio Express with the follow
ing incident, connected with his late
visit to Corpus Christi, where be met
Spaniard by the name of Tito Riv
ga, whom he rescued from the Com
anches a quarter of a century ago:
'In 1856 1 was United States Indian
Agent at the Comanche reservation,
on the Clear fork Of the Brazos, then
ThrockmOrton county. One day L
found a note on my table from a boy,
who asked that he be taken from the
Indians. Soon afterward 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 was the boy who left the note
| on my table. I ashed him where he
came from, and he said his father was
! a Spaniard and lived in the mining
town of Tapio, in the State of Dur
ango, Mexico. He spoke Spanish and
/ also COmanche. l didn't believe that
! nc had written ths note, and, to try
/ him, asked him to sit down at my
! desk and show me how he could write.
/ He wrote a beautiful hand for boy.
! Questioning him as to how he hap
pened to fall into the hands Of the In
| dams, he said that his father owned a
pack train, and one day he went out
with the mules, and the men in charge
OF the mules, and camped. The In
| dams come on them and took him in
to captivity. After hearing his story
l sent for the Indian who claimed to
own the boy, and when he came l told
him l must have Tito. He replied
that l could not, and l told him
would or we would fight. He said
that fight it would be, then. The boy
could not 20. I went to see General
| Robert E. Lee, the hero Of the Con.
federate war, who was then Lieuten-
ant-COlOnel of the Second United
States cavalry at Camp Cooper, anC
who had been stationed there to pro
tect 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 hC
wanted no trouble between mysel
and the Indians, and that if I would
give up 800 worth of goods cOulC
get the boy. ] gave him an order OF
the sutler and he was given the goods
and the boy was turned over to me.
sent the little fellow to my house anC
he lived with my children for abou
| two years, being treated as one of The
family. AfterWard I met Major
Neighbors, who then lived near 3aI
! Antonio, on the Salado. MAJOR Neigh
bors said he wanted him, and il
would give him to him he would SEND
him back to his mother. turned hin
over to the Major, but he didn't senC
him back to his mother and the Con
federate war came OIL and he wen
| into the Confederate army. The boy
was twelve years old when 1 tool
him, and the Indians had captured
him when nine, having had him three
years. He spoke the Comanche Ian
guage perfectly, and l used him as al
interpreter. Major NeighbOrs left TIN
boy on his ranch on the Salado, nea
San Antonio. and the boy entered tn
Confederate army " hen about sixteen
Upon returning from the war he stop
ped with Capt. Albert Wallace, Oh
the Cibole, fifteen miles north of Sal
Antonio, and from there went to Gal
weston, and thence to Corpus Christi
While with Capt. Wallace he earned
his living as cowboy. Tito Rivers
now cashier of the bank of Davis s
Dodridge, in Corpus Christi, and on
of the most respectable gentlemen il
Corpus. He married a Miss Molli
Woodward, and now has one boy anC
two little girls, and the best of m
visit was that the little children cam
about me, threw their arms about IN,
neck and called me grandpa. River
is man now about thirty-six year
OF age, and is a magnificent looking
| man,