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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
This Evening, an Express came into Bastrop from the Settlements above, bringing the intelligence that last night, at the hour of mid- night, a party of Indians supposed to be about twelve in number, attacked the house of Mr Chandler, 18 miles above Bastrop. l\Ir Chandler exchanged shots with them several times, but being alone, he could not leave his house either to call in the assistance or to flee to his neighbor's houses for protection without exposing his family to certain destruction. Fortuntely no lives were lost. The Indians killed several of Mr. C.s cattle and endeavored to get his horses out of the stable but failed in so doing- To. morrow morning a company from Bastrop will start with me, to join a Com- · pany raised above town and we intend to 'follow them as long as prudence and a determination to chastise them will allow us to do- I intend forth- with to remove back to their old range, the Tonkewas and Lipans, who have been for some weeks encamped on the Colorado, above & below Bastrop, as the pepole generally are not satisfied to have them in too close proximity-.
Very Respectfully
Your most Ob 't &
humble sert. &c- · v R Palmer J. A.
Hon. M. B. Lamar [Addressed] To/
[Endorsed]
V. R Palmer Bastrop
/ The Hon. l\L B. Lamar / Houston Texas-
20 Nov
No. 894
1888 Nov. 27, W. K. SHINN AND OTHERS, fCLARKSBURG, VIRGINIA], TO THE TEXAN CONGRESS 11
To the Honourable the Senate, and House of ·Representatives of the Republ [i] ck of Texas in Congress assembled.- Gentlemen; we Wil- 1,on Kirk Shinn of the town of Clarksburg and State of Virginia, Hugh Crolley of the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland and North Evans of the city of ·washington in the district of Columbia respectfully petition y011r honourable bodies for a charter incorporat- ing ourselves our heirs &c (and such others as wr. may think advi~able to takP- into the incorporation) into a company (for the purpose of clearing out the raft, or drift in the Colorado river so as to make 1t navegable for steam boats) to go by the name and stile of "Shinn'$ Colorado Navigation Company" with the exclusive privilege to use, occupy, or navigate the said river for the full imace of thirty years from and after the date of the completion of said ,v,ork; the work to be commenced within eighteen months after the act of incorporation "In no. 895.
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