Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. IV

TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916

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No. 68 STATEMENT BY MIX-WITH-WATER AND JESSE CHISHOLM [May 10, 1866] This day personally appeared before me, M. Goakins, Indian Agent.-The undersigned Mix-with-water, a Shawnee Indian and says, that about the 11th day of Feb. 1865,-that he went to the camp of the Caddo Indians, in the Indian Territory, where he found, a horse which he knew to belong to James Gileon.- That a Caddo man, gave up the horse, and had brought it 8 miles away, to another camp, when a Caddo Indian named Pig, came to the last camp and after considerable quarreling with those who were willing to give up the horse, jumped onto him and run him off and the said Gileon has not been able since to find any trace of his horse. Jesse Chisholm, being sworn says he saw, and was well advised, of all the cercumstances as detailed in the testimony given above, by Mix-with-Water, and has no doubt~ but the horse in question belonged to the said James Gileon, and that it was taken by the above named Caddo Indian called Pig, and has never been returned or paid for. Witness. David Ballan his X mark MIX-WITH-WATER X his mark JESSE CHISHOLM Interpreters, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of May 1866. Melo Goakins U.S. Indian Agent [Endor~edl Gift of Judge C. Ross Hume, Anadarko, Okla.

No. 69 PETITION FROM T. H. ADAMS TO J. W. THROCKMORTON [July 7, 1866] Lampasas Co Texas

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