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No. 254 LETTER FROM J. B. JONES TO 0. M. ROBERTS Adjutant General's Office, State of Texas,
Austin, February 15th 1879.
His Excellency.
Gov. 0. M. Roberts. Austin. Texas. Sir:
For the information of your Excellency, I have the honor to transmit herewith official copies of papers now on file in this office, showing the presence in Texas of a large num- ber of Indians from the Fort Sill Reservation. From the number reported by Lieut Arrington on the waters of the Wichita and Pease Rivers, and the number reported by citizens of Donley County, there must be at least two thousand of these Indians now in Texas. There are no Buffalo, and very little game of any Kind in the section of country occupied by them. As shown by the reports herewith forwarded they are now subsisting upon cattle, taken by force from citizens, and they have stolen some horses and mules. The Citizens of that sparsely populated region are in great fear of a violent outbreak on the part of these Indians, and, therefore, petition the state for protection. The small force now in the service of the state, distributed, as it necessarily is on more than one thousand miles of our frontier, cannot possibly give the protection that is asked for by the settlers in the sec- tion of country where these Indians now are. Very respectfully JNO. B. JONES Adjt. Gen'l-State of Texas
No. 255 TELEGRAM FROM DAVIDSON AND E. R. PLATT TOT. M. VINCENT Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, February 17, 1879.
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