TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859
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No. 149 LETTER FROM W. E. JONES TOE. M. PEASE
Austin Monday night 24 Sept. '55
Govr. Pease,
Mr James A. McKee, of Lavaca, arrived here tonight on the San Antonio Stage and brings information that a party of Indians on Friday night last drove off from the Cibolo near the crossing of the stage road to San Antonio sixty horses, of which 49 belonged to Mr. Davenport- It seems that the Indians were known to have been in the neighborhood and a party had been searching for them- On Friday night there horses were driven out into the prairie with the intention of watching them and detecting the Indians in the act of taking them- Some mistake occurred about the meeting of the party and the Indians carried off the horses. The stage driver says that tr.e horses were driven off while the men were at supper- y ours in haste W. E. JONES [Endorsed] His Excy, Govr Pease Present No. 150 LETTER FROM E. M. PEASE TO F. FAUNTLEROY, A. H. BISCOE AND J. M. CRANE Austin September 25. 1855. Messrs F. Faunt Le Roy, A. H. Bi3coe & Jno. M. Crane. Gent. I have the honor to acknowledge the re- ceipt of your letter of the 17' inst inclosing the proceeding of a Public Meeting, and a petition of Citizens of Goliad County, giving a detail of depredations recently committed in your vi-
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