Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. IV

TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916

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1 Freedman killed 75 horses stolen valued at $4940.00

G. W. MONTGOMERY County Judge Comanche County

[Endorsed] G. W. Montgomery Comanche County

May 6, 1861

County Judge Report of Indian Depre- dations in Comanche County during 18 months next p1·eceding 1st Jan 1867 No. 26--

No. 140 LETTER FROM M. WALKER TO C. MCKEEVER Headquarters, Post of Arbuckle, C.N. May 14th 1867

Sir.

I have the honor to State that I have had an interview with To-ho-ye-qua-ih or Horse Back, of the Noconi band of Comanche (by meanes of the Interpreter.) He has in his possession a Captive White boy by the name of "Babb," thirteen years of age, Captured Septr. 1866, in Texas. The child was Stolen by the young men of Horse Backs tribe, and it has cost him con- siderable to get the child from its captors. He proposes to give up the child, but is anxious to be re- munerated for this trouble and expenses in obtaining it. Horse Backs professions of friendship are loud, and I believe him to be Sincere. I explained to him, that the Government expected that he would live up to the treaty, and that it was a part of his duty to return the child, also to restrain his tribe from dep- redations and violence on the whites; that I would write for instructions in the case, when he promised that he would take good care of the child, until he should here from me. The father of the child is a very poor man and very Anxious that something Should be done to restore it to him, as he is fear-

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