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No. 200 LETTER FROM E. S. PARKER TO J. P. NEWCOMB Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs. Washington, D. C. May 17th 1870
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ultimo with the enclosures mentioned, relative to children cair tured by the Indians and supposed to be prisoners in their hands, and urging this Department to use all means at command to recover these captives. In reply I would state that the attention of this office was called to the subject by Bvt Brig. Gen'l. R. S. McKenzie in a letter dated April 24th last, especially in reference to the boy Herbert Weinand. At that time Laurie Tatum, agent of the Kiowa and Comanche, the Indians supposed to be referred to, was instructed to endeavor to obtain the captives, and has now again been furnished with such information as has been received at this office, and directed to use every means at his command to find, and obtain the release of all captives held by those In- dians. He is also directed to impress upon them the dissatis- faction of the Government with such conduct, and to insist upon its being stopped.
Very Respectfully Your obdt. Servant
E. S. PARKER Commissioner
Hon. Jas. P. Newcomb Secretary of State Austin Texas f Endorsed] Washington D.C. May 17, 1870
E. S. Parker. Com1-. Indian Affairs - Rel. to recovery of Indian Captives
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