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they generally succeed in carrying off their dead & wounded only one Indian has been scalped in this Co. since the War It is generally supposed that it is the reserve Indians that visit our County for the reason that a large amount of the stolen stock above enumerated can now be found identified and proved in PoSsesion of the Indians at the Wichita Agency
W METCALF Clerk Dist Court Palo Pinto Co
[Endorsed] Palo Pinto Texas July 6, 1870 Wm Metcalf D. Cl. Report of Indian depredations- No 54
No. 211 LETl'ER FROM W. E. JONES TO E. J. DAVIS
Hodges Mills Kendall Co 20 July 1870
Gov Davis
Dear Sir,
I write to give you some information in relation the latest Indian raid, during the period of the last full moon. We have certain information that they have visited nearly every settlement in this whole region of Country- They were not very successful in this quarter so far as we know-at least in the matter of riding horses-One Indian was shot & wounded here at my place-from the blood we think, badly-it was done in the night-one of my younger sons & a Mexican in my employ were watching & both fired at them-The people of Blanco chased them with hounds and got the horses they had stolen on the Guadalupe & all their provisions, but they escaped in the Mountain ravines and thickets.-After both these occur- rences twenty or more were seen in a body in the mountains on foot, except one horse- As soon as notice could be given a com- petent force pursued & found the trail very plain-in the pur- suit, a body of men were seen crossing a mountain 2112 or 3
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