San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-06
OUTRAGE. IN NEW MEXICO.
A. w. Clifford Roughly Handled BY
White Caps.

White Caps.
In the Galveston News Of last Sun
day an Associated dispatch briefly sta
ted that "whitecaps had visited the
camp of A. w. Clifford, in the noun
tains near Las Crucis, New Mexico. and
had treated him to fiogging, but gave
no other particulars.
The following account is also since
tgiven in the Ell Paso Herald:
"On July "a, at midnight, a party of
eight armed masked men took Mr.. A.
w. Clifford (familiarly known by the
press fraternity as "Giff'O from his
tent while camped in the Sacramento
mountains, Dono Ana county, n. NJ,
prospecting for the Gold Extracting
and Supply company of Colorado, bad
ly beating, tarring and threatening him
with hanging if he did not leave and
stay out of that section.
1.-THE good people of New Mexico will
find in Mr.. Clifford valuable aid in
the cause of immigration and the
building UP of their undeveloped re-
sources If they handle him right and
once get him interested. But such
proceedings as this case of white cap
Mexico a reputation that will take
years of work to overcome. Good
Texans know Mr.. Clifford well as one
of the most active workers in the cause
of immigration in the seventies and
eighties, when through his labors in
the publication of the old Texas Sun,
he brought thousands of good people
and millions of capital into our state.
He was the founder of the San Antonio
Daily Light and afterward embarked
in mining in old Mexico.
The Texas Press will regret to learn
of this painful and devilish treatment
of Cliff at the hands of our New Mex
lean neighbors and will send forth a
howl that should cause immediate and
positive action of both government
and state officials in New Mexico that
will land these demons where they be-
long, in the pen, at hard labor.
IF Gov. Otero would offer a liberal
reward for the capture of these human
hyenas he would have brave Texans,
who know these people of old when they
left Texas for Texas good, who would
go after them and render valuable SER
vice to the territory"
"Mr. A. w. Clifford, commonly
known to the newspaper fraternity of
West Texas as Gift" is in the city
and reports having been attacked by a
gang of white cappers in the Sacra-
mento mountains, then tarred and or
dered to leave the country. This was
all done because he saw fit to prospect
| in that country in the interest of a
company he represented. Mr.. Clifford
was the founder of the Texas Sun and
the San Antonio Daily Light, and as a
newspaper man was progressive and
was instrumental In Kidding southwest
Texas of a band of cut threats and
thieves that then infested the south
west country. All of the thieves that
ESCAPED the pen, the gallows or the I'M
erring aim of the Texas ranger left
the country and took up new abodes in
New Mexico and Arizona, and Gift
thinks it was a crowd of these cut
Threats who made their late attack on
him at midnight. 1t is time that New
Mexico was Kidding heself of this law
less class that infest the Sacrament
to mountains and all that neighbor-
hood northeast of Ell Paso. Gov. Otero
should organize band of rangers and
go after that class the same as the
State of Texas did, and it won't be
long before there are many new graves
in that section and many of the ring
leaders who have retarded the growth
of the section will be behind the bars.
In the whitecapping of A. w. Clifford
the nesters and cutthroats have work.
/ ed to their undoing. Clifford is not
mighty with the sword but he carries
pen dipped in the essence of sting of
the bee and his friends are legion and
from now on there will be no let up on
the gang that infest that region until
all have received their Just dues"