The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-10-11

OF season. and are never held hmeneDie
TO the law. a party OF ninsteen Nova,
joes was hunting in the hOgollop
mountains during August and Septem'
Der, About two weeks ago they start
cd on their return to the reservation
having with them the dried meat and
hides Of R7b deer. Last year these
same Indians killed 800 deer in the
same manner, and in 1898 they killed
600 deer, There is no effort made by
the government TO prevent this whole
sale slaughter Of game by its wards.
They I allowed to travel hundreds CT
miles away from the reservation and
poach upon the game preserved by law
from destruction at the hands Of civil
lized hunters, who would not wantonly
kill, as these Indians do, even if not re-
strained by law, The idea of denying
white settlers to kill an occasional deer
for their necessary use, while the gov
eminent pets wantonly slaughter game
by the hundreds; is repugnant to any
one who has the slightest conception
Of right and wrong. If the U. s. GOV
eminent protects this dastonly horde
Of Indians against the civil law of the
territory. to which the civilized citizens
are amenable, let us abFogats the law
and all hands take part in the extinc-
ton Of the game in the territory, 1t is
a hard view for sportsmen to look for
ward to, but If they want a little of the
sport they must throw off legal re-
straint and take even chances with the
government pets. If this were the
first season in which this slaughter &C.
CURED, it might be hoped that a stop
would be put to it. But year after
year 1t continues and Uncle Sans
agents take no steps to prevent it or
punish the perpetratOrs,"-Silver City
Enterprise.
Half has not been told by the
Enterprise. From the above article,
one not acquainted with the cir
cumstances, would take it that the
Indians .%confine their unlawful prac-
tices to the slaughter Of game. We
learn from almost every day report
that there are several hundreds of
Navajoes on the plains killing deer
in fabulous numbers; this work has
been going on for several years; not
only do they kill the deer and the
antelope, but they slaughter cattle.
steal horses and terrorize settlers and
shoot a white man occasionally just
for luck; it is plain that they have
murdered three white men during
the past five years. The killing Of
Cornell has been reported to the in
terror department by the governor
with a request that the Indians be
kept on the reservation and the MUIR
derer of Cornell be made to expite
his crime. But the chances are that
the settlers will continue to be ter
rorized and robbed, the deer and
the antelope exterminated, and a
few more white men and tax-pay-
ers Murdered by these Indians before
the end of the red-tape policy of the
government is reached. We do not
exactly agree with the extermina-
tion proposition of the Enterprise.
Protect wild game from Wholesale
slaughter; protect the settlers from
the numbering thieving Indians, if the
government won't do it, let the tax
paying white people take the mat.
ter in hand and exterminate-the In
dians-not the deer and the Ante
lope, but rescue them from the
wholesale slaughter at the hand OF
the "Noble Red Man" and thus pro.
tect and preserve the life and pro.
petty of settlers that are now endan.
gered by the presence of hundreds
of lawless Indians.