El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-18
LURID AND SENSATIONAL RUBBISH.
Sent out From Santa .Fe for Eastern
Newspaper Consumption.

For example, q vast and almost hys-
terical ado has been made over the
fact that four troops of United States
cavalry have been ordered from Fort
Wingate and some post in Arizona to
the Zuni Indian pueblo, about 1914
miles southwest of Santa Fe and about
Is miles west of Fort Wingate, in Va
lencia county. In connection with this
announcement lurid and blood curd-
ling statements were wired to the
eager and yawning eastern papers that
the Zuni Indians were rOas ing and eat
ing old squawS, seasoned with pagan
jsh religious lamentations, for dinner,
supper and breakfast, the famous yell
ow legged chicken, so much cultivated
and sought after by the travelling
Methodist divine, being entirely left
of from the Zuni menu.
The cold facts are that, in 1886, an
cd squaw was minced up by Zuni med
iciLe men because she was charged
with having bewitched and cOunteract-
d the medicines prescribed by the
Bow priesthood. Uncle Sam sent three
troops of cavalry and two pieces of art
illery to the Zuni pueblo with impera-
tive orders to apprehend and bring to
trial the malefactors. After this dis
play of force, cOu pied with an exhibit
ton of the destructive force of artil-
WDSu W DedT VI duOOS
buildings, the Indian charged with
chopptpg up the venerable squaw was
surrendered, taken to Albuquerque.
tried for murder and acquitted because
it was not clearly proved that the squaw
was dead.
Again, about six months ago, an old
squaw was brutally tortured by this
same Bow priesthood at Zuni because
it was alleged that she had interrupted
u. :; hi hait
subjected to the most cruel treatment
the pueblo to die, was rescued by Miss
De Settle, teacher of the Presbyterian
mission school at Zuni, and at last &C
counts she was still living in spite of
the fact that she is supposed to be 7S
years old aud wears the name of "Mau-
rOrita -
The facts concerning this alleged
outrage at the Zuni pueblo were sue
cipctly stated in these columns last
February, and the authorities at
Washington were earnestly urged to
make an investigation and adequately
punish the culprits. Captain j. L.
Bulls at that time Pueblo Indian
agent, with headquarters at Santa Fe,
pressed the matter before the Indian
bureau so long as he was in Office, and
Captain c. E. Nordstrom Immediately
took the matter up as soon he assumed
the duties of agent as the successor of
Captain Bulls.
Finally the case has been reached by
the authorities in Washin gton, troops
have been ordered to Zuni pueblo to
assist the officers of Valencia county in
making arrests of the torturers of old
"Maurorita," and the rubbish is re-
vamped as news. Rats.
These happenings all relate to the
wild and woody west. While the vir-
tuous people of the effete east are
wondering, as they sip their Mocha
and Java, with an admiXture of burnt
brandy floating on the surface, how it
is possible that an aged Zuni squaw
could have been thus cruelty tortured
in New Mexico, permit us quietly to
attract attention to the fact that five
men were brutally lynched in Indiana
yesterday, merely because they were
presumed to have committed the crime
of burglary. If such dreadful thing
as this had happened in New Mexico,
the ANITA Fee correspondent of eastern
would have torn his hair
out by the roots with Joy and burnt up
the wires with weird and writhipg
words touching the awfullness of the
event. But the five men were lynched
in virtuous Indiana and hence even the
late and not much lamented Grover
Cleveland will probably not mention
he affair in his next annual address
before the Presbyterians Eat Five
Points, Greater New York.-New
Mexican