TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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cutting down wagons killing work cattle and stock of every kind and runing men for their lives all over the prairie, the portion of country lying on Clare Creek and Mountain Creek has hardly been cleare of the them for the last 10 or 15 days; no one knows what the frontier people have suffered this season but those who have lived on it. and no one can feel for them and cypathise [sympathize] with there properly but those who have a just knowledge of their sufferings, Of late they come in such large bands that having no organised force, it is imposable to gather up enough citizens to handle them till they have done their mischief and gone Yo [you] have no idea Gen. of the offul state of excitement now exesting in our county, nearly every settlement west and N west of us is broken up, and the citizens who have not gone entirely off are now in-camp round our town, not knowing what to do our county is almost ruined It will not recover from this shock. I greatly fear in years, and what a pity that such a county as Cook should be so ne- cesitated to retrigrade instead of advance in civailization and improvement, The very oldest of frontier setlers men who have stood the shock of Indian exskirsions for 25 years have left their extreem frontier homes and are now incamped a round our town, not being able to withstand the tromendeous rades that are now being made against us, The raders are as well armed as we are, each man bareing from one to two sixshooters besids guns and they fight eaqual to any whites troops Of late our scouts have had several engagements with them, the raid- ers invariably getting the best of it. The generally outnumber our men 2 or 3 to one, and they cannot handle them that way for it takes man to man, Amongue these last raiders white men were seen distincly a monkst them as they pursued horses, and they were herd to speak plain English. We learned here ye-sterday that the fronteer bill had passed, after much debate and delay over it, in the Senate, we are in- formed that senator Bumpuss from Collin County done his ut- most againts it, this would be somewhat excuseable in a senator from the deepest interior of the state, but for a man from a cister county to our own and now almost a frontier itself he is in no wise excuseable I almost deem him an enemy to the white race. It is no time now to estimate indebtedness that might accrue, when the safety of our homes and our property are at stake, our livs dael in jeopordy our women and our childrin be- ing carried off into captivity worse than death We know Gen.
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