Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-01
TEXAS INDIAN CLAIMS.
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own horses, and will not receive pay for
services under this order.
Detachment rolls will be kept ct the
respective posts, and duplicates will be
sent to this headquarters.
BY order of Brevet ajor- General j. J.
Reynolds. CHAs. L MORSE,
Acting Assistant Adjutsnt-General.
Official: G. S. MORSE, Acting Assistant
Aojutant- General.
HDQRs. 9TH MIL. DIST STATE OF TEXAS,
AUSTIN, TEX, March 2, 1870.
Acknowledgement, U. s. A., Washing ton, D. O.:
GENERAL: have the honor TO invite
the attention of the general in chief to
General Orders Nos. 70 and 136, series OF
1869, copies inclosed, and to remark In
this connection that it seems impossible,
without the hearty cooperation OF the
citizens, to operate e1ectually against
small bands of Indians that of late have
been committing depredations more fire.
quently than usual within the frontier
lines of Texas. These mnraudiBg bands
are called Indians, but in fact consists
sometimes exclusively OF Indians, some
times of whites and Indians, and some
times OF Mexicans and Indians, all equally
outlaws and savages. From its peculiar
geographical position Texas becomes the
receptacle of larger proportion of dee-
peradoes than any other portion Of our
country, and the sparseness of the popu-
Iation facilitates their Neutrality-suspicious. of
stealing and killing.
AS stated in my report Of September
SO, 1869 (eXtract inclosed), the organize
tons AutnoriZed in the above named or
ders had not met with very prompt re-
hn nfk aIGlu
are turning out more freely. The orders
were of course somewhat experimental.
The frequency OF Indian raids curing the
last few months has afforded me the OPP
!. porsunity of many interviews with the
citizens from various portions of the
frontier. Their testimony is almost
universal that the raidiDg bands are
much better armed than the citizens gen.
orally. The citizens positively assert
that the Indians are from the reservations,
but on this point it is difficult to procure
satisfactory evidence. The fact Of their
being well armed is, however, fully e.
tablished.
/ have thus far loaned the organization
about one hundred arms, and feel II my
duty to continue to loan where the or
carnations give, evidence of being in
earnest No pay has been promised to
the members of these organizations, out
/ am salts fed that most OF them cannot
afford to spare the time necessary for
effective Indian fighting without any
compensation. The Inhabitants OF the
exposed counties are generally the p9or-
est people.
From ell the information which have
thus far been able to procure be-
lieve that an effective organization Ia
each frontier county could be formed OF
from twenty-five to fifty men, which
would be sufficient to Cooperate " ith
the troops, by paying the men the same
amount that is now paid the soldiers OF the
army, one or two of each organization re-
ceiviDg the pay of sergeants; the pay to
run only for the time actually ont, to be
properly attested by commissioned Cti
GERS of the army. We have on hand large
amounts of clothing, left over from the
rebellion, and much of it Of inferior quail
ity. 1t could not be put to better use
than 70 issue 9 suit to volunteers for
eyery ninety dsys' service, which would
be quite an incentive to frontier5men to
enroll themselves.
have the honor to request authority,
IL the above views are approved, TO offer
the members of frontier organizations
pay, as above specified. Also that the
loan OF arms already made be approved
and its continuance sanctioned.
The citizens OF Texas declare that their
animals, identified by the brands, are
found in the possession of Indians on the
reservation north of Red river. Whether
these animals are stolen by by the ,e-
serve Indians or by wild Indians
and traded to the former is question.
lam the more urgent in my request to
nav civilian organic stions because l be-
lieve 1t Impossible to act effectively
sgains. small bands Of Indians with reg
Qlar troops alone.
So far SIS l can learn the troops on
the Texas frontier have killed more In
dams the last year then in any previous
wear. but this has been accomplished by
long marches in the Indian country Gin
one instance, when forty Indians were
killed, by O march of 600 miles from Fort
McKavett into the Iudian country on che
head waters of the Brazos river, in Octo-
Der LAST, and has not had The effect
Of checking the raids OF small bands
within the line OF posts.
l have the honor to be, very respect
fully, your obedIent servant.
j. j. REYNOLDS,
-Breyst Msior-General United States
Army.
These two papers, together with the
extract taken from the report of the com
mspdirg general Of the department CT
Texas for the yesr 1876, and which ap-
pears in the report Of the board of srmy
officers, am quite sure will satisfy every
candid mind that there wss 8 necessity,
an urgent necessity, demanding the pro-
ton Of the Texas frontier.
MIR, Lanham-Let me ask my colleague
n il would not be well enough to have
the concluding portions OF that read
now?
Mr.. Randall-It would be better to
have all Of the papers printed.
Mr.. Ssyers-I will do SO.
Mr.. Randall want to say that
.he remark of the gentleman was
perhsps little too sweeping
in this. that it might be implied
that the committee had all voted in favor
of putting this amendment in this bill. l
voted in committee against attaching the
amendment to tine bill, not but tina
thought the claim Just one, but because
II ran SO far back, beginning soon after
i October 20, 1865, and continuing up to
1882. when the law was passed, and there