Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. II

TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845

72

To Benj. Sloat-Agent

Council Ground Tehuacana Ck. Sir Herewith you will find duplicate of my official note of 6th. inst. to which I again call your attention. For your government I now State to you that Col. L. H. Williams and Jesse Chisholm have been Commissioned by the President to visit the Comanche and bring in their Chiefs to the Council in September next, John Conner (Delaware) is also under orders for the same purpose, you will of course afford them every facility in your power the occasion may require. I trust the Waco and Tawakoni will redeem their pledges and return the horses they stole, you will bear in mind that they are to have no powder or lead arms or other warlike stores until they have fulfilled their engagements and delivered to you all the stolen animals and even then only a very limited portion until further orders; depredations it seems have very recently 1 een committed by a party of 25 Indians in the neighborhood of lorpus Christi, in the conflict 3 citizens were killed and several ~ounded, the greater part of the Indians shared a similar fate report says they were supposed to be Lipan or Comanche, it is more probable they were neither, gain what information you can on this Subject and communicate it to this Bureau. Yr. Mo. obt. st.

THOMAS G WESTERN Supt. Indian Affairs

[Endorsed] Copy of a letter to Benj Sloat-Agent 15 June 1844 pr mail

No. 43 LETTER FROM THOMAS G. WESTERN TO SAM HOUSTON Washington June 16/1844

Dear General The Western mail arrived here last evening and brings the intelligence that Maj. Hays has had a pretty smart brush with some 60 Indians supposed to be Comanche, on the river Guada- lupe, above the San Antonio Road and near the "Pinto trail"

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