Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-01-03
LOCAL NOTES.
Another Indignant Letter From .
 Rancher.


 December 3I, 1885. ]
 EDITOR EPITAPH.-Here they gt again. On the night of the 18th bano of Indians passed through. the Sulphur Spring valley. They stole four horses from company of surveyors encamped in tine valley at the ranch of Whitley and Burton. They also took two horse; from Duvall that were tied to hay stack about fifty yards from the house The trail of those renegades came from the direction of the Swisshelms and headed towards the Jones canyon Tn the Mule mountains. This may be the same band that took Robert Crouch's horses and Montgomery's team on the goth. They appear to be coming thicker and faster as time rolls around. l am afraid General Crook has got to many men in the field. The first thing we know some ofthem will get in the way ana get hurt. We have sent long telegrams to the president praying for assistance; we have petitioned the war department; we have at a large expense sen. committee to Washington to present our applications we have petitioned the governor of the territory to call an extra session of legis- lature to authorise him to enlist few companies of rangers and to appropriate money to arm, equip and pay them.
 Our prayers are unheeded; our peti- tions have gone to the waste basket; our committee spurned with contempt and told to go home and die like men and not be kicking up stink in Washington about small matters when the sllverques- ton was absorbing the minds of the administration. noticed, however, by an eastern paper that the president had entertained committee of lantern jawed humanitarian fools of the east, that know about as much about the Indian charac- ter as horse knows about his grand father, and the president informed them that he would give their suggestions on he Indian qu, stion due consideration.
 The whole troub, about this question is this, men who never came in contact with savage ibes do not know that the nearer man approaches the savage state, the more sure he is to attribute all kind acts to fear
 Hence it is that he nation who treats with savage instead of dictating to him fails in its object, and thousands of the honest hard working settlers of the from tier are slain, tortured and their property destroyed, and finally the savage yields with ten times the depletion in his ranks that would have been necessary if the proper cause had been pursued.
 But there IS no use of arguing ques- ton that frontiersmen all under stand, and life is to short to educate the masses of our people who reside east of the Mississippi on this question.
 There is no nation on the globe who are far enough advanced m civilization to keep a record of past events that pre- sen,s parallel case to the Indian policy of the United States.
 No man who understands the sH, ;eet can find language that will give uttersspce to his sentiments. The instincts Of the mind and soul consign all adjecttto contempt. Language was besttWed upon man for the expression of his i<css is dumb for want of sound that ~il, paint on the minds of his fellowmen ak thoughts and.emotions that curdlec-....-c ~ blood of the frontiersman when fks& called upon to witness scenes fossSsi to describe. Ie"
 If the present policy is to be pur. d and the government is going to allow a to be driven from our homes and make us hunters of men, the sooner we start in the better.
 RANCHFR