Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-11-03
AN INDIAN CAPTIVE,
The Romantic History Of Man Who
is Now Cashier of Bank at Corpus
Christi.

The Romantic History OF a Man Who
is Now Cashier of a Bank at Corpus
Christi
Gen. John Il. Baylor furnishes the
San Antonio Express with the follow
ing incident, connected with his late
visit to Corpus Christi, where he met a
Spaniard by the name of Tito Rivera,
whom he rescued from the Comanches
quarter Of a century ago:
"In 1856 | was United States Indian
agent at the Comanche reservation, on
the Clear fork of the Brazos, then
ThrockmOrton county. One day |
found a note on my table from boy,
who asked that he be taken from the
Indians. Soon afterward the boy
walked into my Office with bunch Of
turkey feathers fastened on the top of
his head, and his face painted, and
dressed in the Indian costume, and said
he was the boy who had left the note
on my table asked him where he
came from, and he said his father was
u Spaniald and lived in the mining
town Of Tapio, in the state of Durango,
Mexico, He spoke Spanish, and also
COmanche. | didn't believe that he
had written the note, and, to try him,
asked him to sit down ut my desk
ana show me how he could write. lie
wrote beautiful hand for a boy.
Questioning him as to how he came to
fall into the hands of the Indians, he
said that his father owned Il pack-train,
and one day he went out with the
mules, and the men in charge Of the
mules, and canped. The Indians
came on them and took him into cap
tiyity. After hearing his story, | sent |
for the Indian who claimed to own
the boy and when he came | told him /.
| must have Tito. He replied that |
could not, and | told him | would or
we would fight. lie said that fight it .
would be- then. The boy couldnot 60 /
| went to see Cen Robert T. Lee, the /
hero Of the confederate war, who was
then lieutenant colonel of 81 United I
states cavalry at Camp Cooper. anI .
who Ind been stationed there to pro .
tcct the ComUchc camp. While .
there Chief CatemaSc, Of the Conan .
chcsc, who bad heard Of the object .
of my VISIT came to see me and said .
that he wanted no trouble between my .
self and the Indians, and that if | .
would give up 800 worth Of goods .
could get the boy. | give him an or.
der on the Sutlcr and he was given the /
goods and the boy was turned over to .
me- ! sent the little fellow to my
house, aud he lived with my children .
for about two years, being treated as .
one Of the family. Afterward met |
Maj Neighbors, who then lived near
san \ntJnio. @n the SaladO. Mai. |
Neighborj said he wanted him, and if .
would give him 60 him he would send .
him oack to his mother turned him |
over to the major, but he didn't send .
him back TO ha mother, and the con- |
federate. war came Oh and he went into .
the confederate army. The boy was
twelve years old when / took him, and |
the Indians had captured Lin when 9, .
having had him three years. lie spoke |
the Commche language perfectly, and |
used him as interpreter Major |
Noirhbors left the boy on his ranCh on
the Salado, near the san Antonio, and I.
the boy entered the confederate army
when about IL. Upon returning from
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