TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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horses and be ready for the morning, one band however failed to get my orders and started in pursuit that evening which re- sulted as E had anticipated in alarming the Indians without any good result. This caused us a long chase of about 30 or 40 miles yesterday the result is we have taken six scalps, (one got away) our loss is the Ioni Chief- Tow-e-ash wounded and his fine war horse killed. This is ten scalps in the last month, please keep these facts before the people; So long as I am agent I s[t]ill vouch for the good faith of these people with my head if the frontier that I have served so long will accept nothing else. Only let your troops be as active as these Indians and it will not be three months until the Indians of the frontier will recoil and return howling to their dens.
Your friend S. A. BLAIN
P.S. I had like to have forgotten to state that we took from these Indians a new gun, a new blue broad cloth coat, and that they all had good blankets, so you will perceive that it is not the reserve Indians alone who possess these several items which are relied on to prove that they are the disturbers of your peace.
S. A. BLAIN
[Endorsed] S. A. Blain
Wichita Agency May 10 1860 Respecting Indians.
No. 26 LETTER FROM J. W. C. DECHMAN TO SAM HOUSTON [May 16, 1860]
To his Excellancy Genl Sam Houston) Govenor of the State of Texas ) Sir,
J wish to state to you my opinion on the im- portance of having a minute company of mounted men formed on the following order. The company to consist of eighty or one hundred men, mounted on the very best of horses, and the
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