Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-01-09

UNDER lne caption heduN LOT w ar Tie
st. Louis Gobe-Democrat publishes a
sensational dispatch from Albuquerque,
describing the manner in which the Pueblo
Indians of the village of Cochti stopped
the engineers of the Rio Grange Irriga-
ton q Colonization company from cross
ing their-the Indians lands with q
ditch. This is the horrible, blood curd-
ling and awful tale told by the CORE
spondent:
The Indians of five villages held war
council at C0rhlt Friday and agreed to
drive the engineer and grading outfit from
their neighborhood by force of arms.
Saturday afternoon sixty warriors from
the villages ctngregated at Cochitl, each
having on war paint and on horse back
Receiving command from one of the
governors, they rode abreast to Engineer
Virgins camp and told him to imme-
dately suspend work, or suffer the con-
sequences. The engineer informed them
that the land being graded did not belong
to them but to Amado G. de Baca. They
said in reply that they had papers to show
that the land was theirs, and that the
white IL en- had better cease work Mr.
Virgins told them that if they continued
N their war-like demonstrations the in
reference of Uncle Sam" might be
asked. At this they became more de-
monstrative, and said they didn't care
for "Unce Sam" or any one else.
One Indian, in broken English, said !:
Il give you now warning of mouth ;
you yet out of here pretty quick or there
will be trouble. We are in earnest"
Mr.. Virgins thought prudence the bet
ter part OF valor and suspended opera
tons. He then went over the country to
Wallace station, telegraphing particulars
to Gov. Prince, and coming to Albu-
querque to-day. The Indians are deaf to
all propositions, and will not listen to
reason. Apart from the band of sixty
who approached the camp, there were
numerous squaws stationed all around
the hills. The grading outfit is still on
the ground, and fears are entertained
that conflict between them and the In
dams will take place.
1t must have been grand and superb
sight to see the Cochiti warriors in war
paint and nothing else, mounted on the
fiery anduntamed horses they have on such
occasions No wonder Mr.. Virgins wa~
scared and telegrapheI Gov. Prince; and
just imagine the squaws on the hills
what soul narrowing sight that must
have been And when the cory young buck
said he did not care d. for the United
States and told Mr.. Virgins to get off the
Indians lands, no wonder the latter
thought discretion the better part of valor,
and got" He WAS right sensible in SO
doing. Not that the Indians are very
blood thirsty or not law abiding, but hav-
ing no business on the lands OF the In
dams he got"
1t seems, however, concluding from the
prospectus OF the Rio Grande Colonial.
ton & Irrigation company, which by the
way is most readable and rosy sort of a
document, that the company claims to
own only about 100000 acres of land in
the Rio Grande valley, from Pena Blanca
south, and probably the grant to the In
dams of Cochiti is among the many
thousand acres claimed as owned by the
company.
Work on the ditch has stopped, and
that is bad we should like to see it go on.
But this talk about warriors, war paint,
armed conflicts, ETC., will do to
tell the old grandmothers up in
New England, but it will take no.
where else. However, we doubt not that
the squaws were there, and they were
enough to scare anybody.