TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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Assistant Adjutant General. Department of Texas. San Antonio, Texas.
Following received from Fort Sill, is repeated for your in- formation. "Telegram received. I have closely watched the hunt from the reservation from the beginning. The reports of Wilcox and Nolan, supervising- officers, show that all the bands have either come into the agency, or are east of Otter Creek, on their reservation. There is no cause for apprehension of danger from these Indians no won the part of the people of Texas ; and you know I would know if there was. I can report, confidently, now without further inquiry. (signed) DAVIDSON." (signed) E. R. PLATT, A.A.G. Official copy respectfully furnished for the information of His Excellency, the Governor of Texas, Austin, Texas. Thomas M. Vincent Assistant Adjutant ~neral. Headquarters Department of Texas. February 17th 1879.
No. 256 LETTER FROM R. COKE TO 0. M. ROBERTS
United States Senate Chamber,
Washington, Feb. 18th, 1879.
Hon. 0. M. Roberts Govr. of Texas
Govr. I infer from a dispatch recently received from Adjt. Genl. Jno. B. Jones that some claim of rights is being set up for Fort Sill and other Indians to hunt in Texas on an alleged grant from myself while Govr. of Texas- I desire to state that so far from approving or authorizing there hunting permits, they were being granted when I came into office and had been for five years, and that I uniformly protested against them and refer to my message in the 2nd session 14th Legislature to be found in House Journal 1875, especiaJly to pages 45-46 and 47 for my views on this subject, and wiJI add that while Govr. on aH occassions when proper I reiterated these views and used
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