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I.WANTS THEMLET ALONElor-oili-illandCaptain George H. Pettis, of Provi dence, Rhode Island, Stands For Ancient Indian Customs.Tli lor,SI V-re-rer-h( *unCaptain (iturge II. Pelt is, who wasan otileer in t.lie New Mexico volunteers daring the Civil. War and served with ^as* I a creditable record and afterwards a hotel keeper at Algodones, where he was proprietor of the railroad house from ISG(*» to 1868, is of the opinion that Superintendent Clinton J. Cran-mil” dall has no right or power to inter-,*11' I'ere with the sacred council of the Indians at. tllu* Santo Domingo pueblo, and liiuks they ought to be left alone.Capt. Pettis is a reader of the New Mexican and has been a subscriber for many years, no is State Sealer of Weights and Measures of the stall' of Rhode Island, wilt 11 ofliee at I'rovi denee. He writes the New Mexican us follows:Providence. Rhode IslandHditor New Mexican: -In your issue of the 20th inst., I read with a great deal of interest, your letter entitled “The Pioneers. ' era tic It certainly was pleasant for an old I are i pioneer 01 the early tin's to read of the great improvements made in the Pecos Valley; of tihe many new towns and villages, that have sprung up; of the immense sums of money spent in irrigation, and of the many changes made in that part of Pncle Sam’s do main. In those old days there were only two classes of people in thatsail*(K)lleat.u ey that nat iledMU’!tiltoilin';nlz-\gis-lov-eraltin1A meHi atamongpartyto a 11 \ it is a ing w allegei severa ie cli’i for tlrdatesI he L there it wilthis iti era tic cautio take a in tin the 11count)much the et and itis a beA ITho•ase. lt;t. a t idgeicxt.•rin-*ten- region: the soldiers ami the Indian.tripin-I liesii uatconst ielianc uomiit cit v. the R does l as a Hoardlie IlMand usually one of those parties was j do so chasing after the other. It certainly j not. is a great improvement to have these iil:n | 0,1 counties inhabited by a happy and 1 as lie prosperous people, enjoying all tJlre I no sii comforts of modern lue instead of all ; portei hands, both soldiers and Indians try- j p. ftn ress ino- j() shoot off ,tlie heads of each oth- j office port I or. As 1 said before, it is pleasant i jjIU) a pur- reading to lie informed of a Roswell, of a a Carlsbad, a Portales, ami the score has of other towns down in the Pecos mice j Valley, and as you express it “suchHotmmlsalamiinternwardson,liing a conquest is worth far more Minn that | pythe n no weav* 111 111very oi an Alexander or a Caesar. 1 onlyman hope that the good people may go on now , In their improvements, so that in the f(„. ,(| near future there will be a. grand state (|j(|.,| of n free and happy people.In the two last niimhers of your valuable paper I have read of an at-nda\ tempt made by a federal ofliee bolder,II be Superintendent Clinton .1 Crandall.Cat and a Dr. S. C. Clark, of Rermilillo. mi is- | to enter the sacred precincts of theireos Indians of Santo Domingo, (how muchHag- hotter it would be to call this village , in bv its right name “Kiwomi. tlhan by n in-1 the hideous name of Santo Domingo), from looking after some supposed sick f the children. I’liese oflieials have no more enll right to enter the secret ceremonies initn they have to enter a lodge of Free Masons or Odd Fellows, and I hope tbat there is no court in your It is! Territory that will vouchsafe them can I that right.t in*Teat'oun-t he ICllt I.lull 11for tof MiMarti succe R. R lion the (I of Sa inten will iis threeeidatesRepuInsurThis)bott.
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Thu, Oct 04, 1906
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