The Russellville Democrat., 1881-12-01
AN INDIAN CAPTIVE
History of nr~n who Is Cashier of ~ Bank.

History of HT&n who Is Cashier of
 Bank.
 General John R. Baylor furnishes the San Ailtoni Erpfess with the following incident..H Hhnected with his late visit to G0rpu1 Hristi, wberehe met Spaniard by sfIS9 name of Tito Rivera, whom he rescued from the Cornanches quarter of q century ago:
 'In 1858 I was United States Indian agent at the Comanche reservation on the Clear ffrk of the Brazos, then Throckmortou county. One day Hound E note on my table from boy, who asked thathe 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. asked him where he came from, and he said bis father was Spaniard and lived in the mining town or aa:.oio, 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. Cues tionlng him as to how he came to fall into the hands of the Indians, he said that bis father owned pack-train, and one day he went out with the mules, and the man in charge of the mules, and camped. The Indians came on them and took him into captivity. After hearing his storysI sent for the Indian who claimed to own the boy, and when he came told him I must have Tito. He replied that could not, and I.told him would or we would fight. He said that fight it would be, then. Tie boy could not go. 1 weht to see General IsRobert E. Lee, the. hero ofkhe confed- crate war, who was then lieutenant colonel of Second United States cavalry at | Camp Cooper, and who had been sta 1 toned there to protect the Comanche camp. While there Chief Catemase, of the Comanehes,. who had heard of the 1 object of my visit, came to see me and said that he wanted no trouble between myself and the Indians, and that if | would give up $l00 worth of goods Il ! could get the boy. I gave him an order on the sutler and he was given the goods, and thc boy was turned over to me. sent the little fellow to my house and he lived with my children for aborrt two years, being treated as one of the | family. Atterward met Major NeiyhboTs
 who then lived near San Antonio, on the Salado Major Neighbors said he wanted l him, and if l would give him to him he would send him back to bis mother. l 1 turned him over to the maJor, but he | didn't send him back to his mother, and 1 the confederate war came on and he l went into the confederate army, The
 boy was l2 years old when took him | and the Indians had captured him when | 9, having had him three years. He l spoke the Camlnche language perfectly 1 and l used him as interpreter. Major
 Neighbors left the boy on his ranch or 1 the Salado, near San Antonio, and the l boy entered the confederate army when
 about Is. Upon returning from the wal | he stopped with Captain Albert Wallace | on the Cibole, fifteen miles north of San
 Antonio, and from there went to Calves
 ton, and thence to Corpus Christi. While | with Captain Wallace be earned his lv'
 nig as a COW boy. went to Corpus Christ
 to see the boy, Tito Rivera, now cashiei
 of the bank of Davis x Dodridge, ir
 Corpus Christi, and one of the mosI
 respectable gentlemen of Corpus. He married a Miss MollIe Woodward, anC
 nov has one boy and two little girls
 and the best of my yisIt was that tht l little children came about me, threw
 their arms around my neck, and called l me grandpa. Rivera is a man now abou
 36 years of age, and is magnifsoen looking man."