Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-15
DISORDERS IN NEW MEXICO.
HiSh-handed OutraSes by the Employees
of an English Cattle Company.

hlSn.nanOeO OutraSes Dy the employees
of an English Cattle Company.
CHICAGO, Feb. ia special dispatch pub
lished here this morning says great excitement
exists among the people on the cattle range Of
the Kansas and New Mexico Cattle company in
northwestern New Mexico and southwestern
Colorado, because of the killing and wounding
of Mexican sheep herders by cowboys in the
employ OF the cattle company. Gov. Ross, ii is
said, has received reports, backed by aIfidavits,
detailing the outrages committed by the cow
boys, and has offered rewards Tor the perpetrat-
ors ranging from 500 to $500. A prominent
Mexican makes affidavit that he was one OF a
posse summoned by Constable Martinez to aid
in the execution of "A writ issued by justice of
the peace for the arrest of several cowboys who
had wounded two sheep herders on the public
domain in Gallego canon. The posse went to
the tanks to arrest the four men supposed TO
have done the shooting, and upon
irving there the cowboys opened fire upon
one Allejandroa The posse fled without max
ing any arrests. The men who did the shoot
ing were employees of the company commonly
known as the English Cattle Co., and managed
by the Carlisle Bros When Gov. Ross offered
the reward of $500 tor the murderer OF Jaquez
and 500 for each OF the men concerned in the
shooting, +. Carlisle, president of the cattle
company, wired the governor from Durango
that the shooting was In seli-defense and justi-
fable, and that the men who did il had been
acquitted in a Justices court. The governor
replied to Mr.. Carlisle on Saturday stating that
ings i'm the Justices court, and after summing
up the case said that the testimony OF Carlisles
own employees showed conciusiveiy that they
were the aggressors. He adds: Your men took
into the courtroom their arms and eq upments;
q cooked Winchester was held upon one of the
Mexican witnesses while testifying; the Next
cans actually gave their testimony under
dureSs and in danger of their lives, and that
the court itself was under duress, and yet you
call this an honorable acquittal of men who
virtually confessed themselves guilty OF an un-
provoked breach OF law.
Allow me TO say, in conclusion, believe this
whole transaction is an outrageous affair.
Crimes bearing a strong resemblance to high
way robbery and murder have been committed
by men in your employ, and for your beLefit
and in your name. You sent these men with
your cattle herds upon quarter of the public
domain that has been occupied exclusively by
these Mexican sheep-herders for generation
or more, to which you had no shadow OF prior
ity of right or title, not even, il am correctly
informed, the common right OF American citi-
zenship. Through the action OF your employees
you are an invader, by force Of arms, of the soil
OF New Mexico and a violator OF its laws. This
character OF assault upon the sheep-herders OF
the territory in the interest of the cattle indus
try, or, at least, by persons engaged in that in
dustry, has become altogether too frequent. Our
laws are rigid and ample for the protection of
both these great industries. 1t Is my sworn
duty to see that those laws are faithfully exc
cuted. That duty shall seek to perform by
every fundamentally that the law itself places
in my hands for that purpose. T. q. Ross"
1t is said that the Carlisle Bros. are unnatural
lied Englfshmen, and that it is not unlikely
that they will place the matter before the Brit
iSh minister.