Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-02-17
AN IMPOSITION" INDEED.
Sensational Indian News from Albu.
querque and a Weak Effort to
Lay it on Santa Fe Cor
respondents.

The following is an extract from s
spitefnl article appearing in the Albuquer
que Citizen of yesterday:
} "Word was received from the east thai
the Santa Fe correspondents were flood
ing the eastern press with rot about the
NavaJoes and cowboys again at war, and
locating the trouble only few miles from
Albuquerque. If there occurs any trouble
OF any character between the Nava 10 Iu-
dians and cowboys Albuquerque will know
1t as soon as Santa Fe, and the eastern
press can then expect reliable, not sensa.
tlonsl, news from reliable special cores
pondents here"
The charge tn 1t Santa Fe correspond.
ents have sent exeraggerated reports
touching this Indian trouble is absolutely
false.
After the first dispatch was sent out
from Albuquerque the New York World,
Denver News, Denver Sun, New York
Herald, Chicago Tribune and other
papers talegraphed here for the facts and
recei' 4 Them in short dispatch which
stated:
There is no Indian war nor any Indian
| uprising to be feared; were the Navaioes
; kept on The reservation and fed ly the
government and were hisBy kept away
from them these troubles would not oc-
Cur "
Now for the other side. How easy it is
to convict the Albuquerque correspon
dents "Out OF their own mouth" Here
is the rot sent out BY them--note the
date, four days after tbs slight disturbance
with the Navajoes had subsidized
"INDIAN WAR"
DESPERATE NAvAJoEs ATTACK TIE cow
BOYS NEAR COOLIDGE, N. NJ"
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Feb. 15.-A
hot fight is now raging between cowboys
and Indians near Coolidge station, on
the Atlantic & Pacific railroad, and dis
patches from there say that the Indians
have been noticed carrying three of their
dead from the field of battle.
"The fight is said to be most desperate
one. and the cowboys, who are greatly
outnumbered, are contesting every inch
of the ground.
According to kilograms received here
the fight is in progress near Coddington's :
ranch, which is not great distance from ,
Coolidge.
Each side is in the timber and shoot
ing at each other from behind trees.
sc. M. Dennis, the saw-mller at
Coolidge, who is here, received last
night dispatch from his manager, A. L. '
BatcheIder, that the Navajo Indians were
in squads of from twenty !
five to fifty, at the small towns on the !!
Atlantic & Pacific, with the intention OF l
cleaning out the cowboys along the v
'Oad. z
"At Chavez station seventy-ive Indians l
he holding pow WOW, and they have on L
heir war paint and are heavily armed Z
The people are in great excitement. L
Women have their trunks packed,
'eady to leave, while the cowboys, are t.
aking all the arms they can get and pro- {
,ose to stand their ground. C
"Mrs. g. Il. Collins, wife of the man n
Iger of an eating house at Coolidge, with S
Ter two children, were the first to reach
he city, and she says that the Indians {
md cowboys are massng their forces for d
n engagement and that the whole popu- t
alton of Coolidge and vicinity are up in a
rms and ready for the conflict"
The above patch-false in every par 8
ocular, and of positive damaging character
0 the welfare of New Mexico-was print
d in the Denver News of the 10Th, the
Denver Times and several eastern papers.
In the light of the above, the Albu-
uerque correspondents must stand con-
icted of a double faisehood and two.
aced, petty meaness, the like of which is
imply astounding.