Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. IV

TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916

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thousands, now scarcely a hundred can be mustered, and still the work goes on, each moon, deminishes the number of stock and f:ettlers and unless a remedy is applied, and that imme- dULteiu, the Frontier will and must be abandoned. Many settlers have left the county, others are preparing to do so. Stock and improvements are offered at nominal prices. A general feeling of insecurity prevails, Every incentive to in- dustry is paralized, where there is no security, the results of a life of hard and perilous labor being lost. Can the Government be ignorant of our situation? We think not, will it continue to be deaf to the call of justice and human- ity? We trust not. Then why delay, when the lives and prop- erty of its citizens are in danger? Is there any interest of more vital importance, or that requires more immediate action? Mr Isaac Mullins, whose family have been identified with the frontier for many years, and have lost heavily, is just from Brown County, and fully corroberates the above, giving a truly deplorable condition of that county.

Very Respfy T. C. JACKSON N. W. MCCALEB W. B. PACE Chief Jus of L Co R. TOWNSEND I. MULLINS

[Endorsed] Indian Depredations Lampasas County 1866 Reports

30 horses & 500 cattle driven off by Indians 2nd Aug. Also 11 head horses taken by another party sometime beforP.-- Embraced in Report of County Judge

No. 76 LE'ITER FROM W. N. STARM TO J. W. THROCKMORTON Lampasas Texas August the 17th A.D. 1866

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