Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-31
CLARA
INDIANS BECOMING
TROUBLESOME

For several days past stories have
been sent out from Santa Fe OF grave
disturbances In and around Me Santa
Clara Indian reservation In the Espa'
nola valley north az Santa Fe, The
trouble Is the result OF an executive
order forbidding the cutting OF tim
Der Or any other infringement by 9th,
ers than the lndisns on the reserva-
lion, and the efforts Of the settlers To
get wood and water from tina reserya.
ton territory as they have been doing
for some years. The ssttlers of the
Espapolal valley have been getting
wood from The mesas hiong Santa
Clara cyeek for many years, Recent
~, HOWEVER, an order was given OK,
tending the limits Of this reservation
In order,to give the Indians a fuel sup
ply, The limits were extended to
take In the forests OF both sides OF
the creek, The result has been
trouble, vafiously represented as very
serious and very trivial.
The most recent disturbance Is re-
ported as follows IN a dispatch from
|Santa Fee: X Il
Several clashes have taken place
between the Santa Clara Indians and
settlers In. tina Espanola valley lately.
and only yesterday a team with pOta-
toes. driven by Miguel Sandoval. Of
Espanola, was seized and confiscated
by the Indians because Sandoval was
driving yer Q rod on the ,,stAta Clara
reservation. created d fsw wesks asp.
This road has been q po6Iie thorough.
fare for overss2oo years, and Il, the only
road from the BIO Grsnde to the Je-
mex mountain ranges, az well as the
only outlet from several ranches
which are Included within the Sboun.
daries Of the reservation. For a.
most 300 years the 5000 to 5000 PEG.
pie In the Espanola valley have
brought their winter wood over this
road from timber TRACTS nov. Included
in the reserve. and they feei,that the
arbitrary closing Of this ,rsad ard the
|creation Of a reserve when The 1n-
dians do not use more than a small
fraction of the land grant they already
possess, is utterly unca,ied for. The
settlers are very bitter and held, an
Indignation meeting iast night, At
which q committee was appointed 10
have Delegate to Congress- w, H. An
dyews take up this marter. ON thie
new reservation are also the famous
Puye cliff dwellings,, and tourists can
60 to them only after securing ! per-
NIT from Superintendent q. ]. Gran.
dali at Santa Fe. This tends 10 cut
down tourist travel. which gives the
settlers another cause for grievances.
According 10 Superintendent Cran.
dali Of the Santa ri Indian school,
who has supervision over the Santa
E0laraNpdiaus there have beeh AoAseMs
GUS disturbances in the Espanola val,
ley and no assaults on settlers. The
SUPERINTENDENT says that the, {asmeF
on the reservation Is simply obeyihg
orders in ldediinilgl To- aAow wood to
|ts cut md hahledI away hid that there
has been no effort at oppression or
frightening the settlers, 81 The valley.
IL, says that Essaan4daoysal, represented As
the latest victim in the Santa Fe dis
pstlh; WAS hotiiA sdeAger ofi Violence.
but that he vas toid lie ppla hot
carry wood which he had on his wag-
|oH BIT the reservattons andl that he
gao fslghtshed and rap awAy leaving
MS team on the road, for Oh entire
|daEI a'Hersays the road through, the
preservation has not beensricseds