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on.ir)WANTS THEMLET ALONEe G1 or*k Com-lay in ilv andCaptain George H. Pettis, of Provi dence, Rhode Island, Stands For Ancient Indian Customs.THs. lea v-and re*he Ter**\v lie lie SanCaptain George II. Pell is, who was an officer in I heNew Mexico volunteers V'1*1*' Civil, War and served with°sas' a creditable record and afterwards a hotel keeper at Algodones, where he was proprietor of the railroad housej from I860 to 1868, is of the opinionthat Superintendent Clinton .1. Cran-oinniit- dall has no right or power to inter-in the!|‘ei.e wjLj, ^|,0 •*siif*re«d council of theIndians at. tllie Santo Domingo pueblo, and binks they ought to be left alone. Capt. Pettis is a reader of tin' New Mexican and has been a subscriber for many years, tie is State Sealer id' Weights and Measures of the staleof Rhode island, with office at Provi dence. He writes the New Mexican as follows:Providence, Rhode Island Dditor New Mexican: —In your issue of the 2oth hint., I read with a great deal of interest, your letter entitled “The Pioneers. It certainly was pleasant for an old pioneer oi the early (in’s to read of the great improvements made in the Pecos Valley; of tthe many new towns 'n u‘:;nid villages, that have sprung tip; of he casO|,|lB immense sums of money spent inirrigation, and of the many changes made in that part of Cnclo Sum's do main. In those old days there were only two classes of people in thatof San-at noon ty seat. Homey ve that lie mat in tiled t court ig theera ofas the ‘cogniz-r legis-by («ov-Ueneral4 IAmonj that th among i party ticto any :it is assmg was alleged several lt;ic circle for the dates wl l he Dei there is it will jthis I ini era tic ncautious take ad\ in the \the Ret county c mile'll In the cam and it h is aboutibott att Judgey next, mperin-Vniieu- i region: Hue soldiers ami the Indian,tripThoseera tic are can sft iialioi const ruechancenominalcity. C9the Boa does no as a ca Board (ahe in*he hasIand usually one of those parties was j do so. chasing after the other. It certainly 1 not. II the I js a great improvement to have Hi esc t lint ho cts on counties inhabited by a happy and I as lie h I he Hot prosperous people, enjoying till tllie ■ found comforts of modern hie instead of all is sat- hands, both soldiers and Indians try-no signportedP. Pa siirogress ing to shoot off .the head's of each otlu : office o• report I er. As I said before, it is pleasant he pur- reading to he informed of a Roswell, H* of a ! a Carlsbad. ;t Portales, and the score vict has of other towns down in the Pecos it since | Valley, and as you express it “such ,'rylhingia comiuest. is worth far more Hhan thatoi mi Alexander or a Caesar.” 1 onlyhope that the good people may go onin their improvements, so that in the ,-nr anvfed and hear future there will In* a. grand state didatesi tedill leavev morn%Mondaywill be B. Cattico, mr an in-ot ;i tree and happy people.In the two last numbers of your valuable paper I have read of ail attempt made by a federal office holder, Superintendent Clinton .1 Crandall, and a Dr. S. C. Clark, of Bermrlillo, Comniis. | to enter the sacred precincts of theMarcos Indians of Santo Domingo, (how much ,1. Hag- better it would be to call this village by its right name “Kiwomi,” tilian by the hideous name of Santo Domingo), nts from looking after some supposed sicks of the children. These officials have no more recent 1 ! right to enter the secret ceremonies, in thejinau they have to enter a lodge of■I eroat Free Masons or odd Fellows, and I lie Conn- Dope tfliat there is no court in your it. It is Territory that will vouchsafe themidge can I that right.the Dei ell I oil; John I) for t heof the Mart im succeed B. Ren lion foi the dis of Sant intent i( will coi is thou receive dates tRepaidinsuree.Tlii.*
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Thu, Oct 04, 1906
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