Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-19
COW BOY oUTRAeEs.

Officers Shot and Killed by Cow
Boys, in Employ of Cattlemen--
AStinglng Rebuke from Gov. Ross.
CHICAGO, Ills, Feb. ia special
published this morning says: Great ex-
citement exists among the peop.c on
and about the cattle range OF the
Kansas aud New Mexican Cattle Com
pany. in northwestern New Mexico
and southwestern Colorado because of
the killing Of Mexican sheep herders
by cowboys in the employ OF the cat
tie company.
Governor Ross has received reports,
backed by afidavits, detailing outrages
committed by COW boys and has offered
rewards for the perpetrators. Juan
Augustin Jaquez, ii prominent Next
can, makes affidavit that he was
one of the posse summoned
by Constable Martinez to aid in
the execution of a writ issued
by a justice Of the peace for the arrest
of several COW boys on the public do
main in Callego canon, six miles from
the cattle company's water tanks.
Jaqutz states that the constable and
posse went to the tanks to arrest four
men, supposed TO have done the shoot
ing. Upon arriving there the consta-
BILE opened fire on them, killing Rear
do Jaquez and wounding one ALE JAN
dro. The posse fled without making
arrests. The men who did the shoot
ing were employees of the company
known as the English Cattle Company
and managed by the Carlisle Bros.
When Gov. Ross offered a reward of
$500 for the murderer of Ricardo
Jaques, 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 self-defense and iusti-
fable, and the men who did it had
been acquitted in a Justices court.
The governor replied to Carlisle's
telegram Saturday, that he had before
him a transcript of the proceedings in
the Justices court. and after summing
up the case, said the testimony Of Car
isles own employees showed conclu-
sively that they were the aggressors
He added: "Other facts in this matter
have come to my knowledge by hear
say, but from what l deem reliable
sources of a most extraordinary charac-
ter, that your men took into the court
room their arms and equipments that
a cooked Winchester was held upon
one Of the Mexican witnesses while
t%estifying ; that the Mexicans actually
gave their testimony under duress ;
that the constable was under duress,
and yet you call this an honorable
acquittal Of the men, who virtually
confess they were guilty of an unpro
voked act of lawlesSness. Allow me
to say in conclusion that as | know
and believe, from most reliable infor-
nation, this whole transaction is an
outrageous affair. Crimes bearing
strong resemblances to highway
robbery and murder have been
committed by men in your en-
ploy, and for your benefit and 10 your
name. You sent these men with your
cattle herds upon a quarter of public
domain that has been occupied ex-
clnsiyely by these Mexican sheep
herders for a generation or more, to
which you had no shadow of priority
of right title. Not even, if l am cor
rectly informed, the common right of
an American citizenship. 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 and other herders OF
the territory in the interest OF
the cattle industry, or at least by
persons engaged in that industry, has
become altogether too frequent; our
laws are rigid and ample for the pro.
lection of both of these great indus
tries.
1t is my sworn duty to see these
laws faithfully executed. This duty |
shall seek to perform by every instru'
ment that the law in it elf placed in
tAmy hands for that purpose.
TSignedl L. G. ROSS.
1t IS said the Carlisle Bros. are I'M
naturalized Englishmen, and that it is
probable they will place the matter be-
fore the British ministry.