Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. IV

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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916

[Endorsed] E. M. B.-117. post 1867

Hd. Qrs. Post of San Antonio San Antonio, Texas June 10th 1867

Respectfully returned to J. W. Throckmorton Governor of Texas with the information that Judge Noonan has been in- formed that Gen. Hatchs' Command would leave for Fort Stockton about the 12th instant, and that by applyiyng to him Judge Noonan could have escort to that Post. Thence to Fort Davis, whose Comdg. Officer will send him safely to El Paso

J no. L. Mason Maj. 35th Infty Bvt Brig Gen U. S. A. Comdg

No. 146 LETTER FROM H. G. WEAVER TO J . W. THROCKMORTON Gainesville, Texas

June 8th 1867.

To his Excy J. W. Throckmorton, Governor of Texas- Dear Sir:

Your official Communication of April 9th came to hand by last mail (having been delayed by interruption in mail between this place and Dallas. In reply permit me to say that on my first circuit as provisional Judge I went to Jack County organized and charged a Grand Jury and held court the Grand Jury were charged fully upon the subject of mobs and the crime of murder and instructed to indict all those who had participated in the various outrages private and mobocratic committed during the war. I found public sentiment variant there as elsewhere and the county almost disorganized. I rode home alone through the Indian Country all the stations on the old overland road having been evacuated. At the next term, the County was full of Indians. They pursued a party of men to Sandy near Decatur on the last day of Decatur Court and drove off several horse All the country was in a state of Alarm-I had no esco~The Indians came down and returned by the Jacksboro Road in open day- It was deemed impracticable to hold a court, then- At this spring term the county was and is unorganized officially at least there being no county court -

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