TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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No. 232 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS IN SAN SABA COUNTY San Saba Texas Feby 4th 1875
Dear Sir
Yrs of 6th Deer last recd last mail, too late I fear to answer the object you had in view which is most commendable-The very efficient service rendered by the frontier Battalion during the year 1874 very naturally decreased the amount of depreda- tions done by the indians over preceding years about 30 head of horses were stolen during the year 1874 mostly by indians in this County No one has been killed or carried off captive.
Very Respectfully GB COOKE Presiding Justice S S Co
[Endorsed] G. B. Cooke
J. P. San Saba Co Feby 4th 1875 Indian depredations
No. 233 ACCOUNT OF ENGAGEMENT WITH COMANCHE INDIANS Uvalde Feby 16th 1875 San Antonio Herald Upon a recent visit to Frio Canon, situated in the North- ern portion of this County, where Messrs Patterson: Watkins: and Smith, have some six hundred acres of well irrigated land under cultivation, and many more susceptible of like improve- ments, (surrounded by beautiful Mountains,) we had the pleas- ure of meeting Messrs Humphry: Green: Avant: Patterson: Sawyer: Blackburn: Goodman: and Wells, who had just re- turned from an ""Indian Scout" of fifteen days duration- The Indians, came to Frio Canon on the 25th of January 1875, stealing five horses from Sawyer & Shores; proceeded down the Blanco to its confluence with the Sabinal, where they
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