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XA VA'l OES Ri’rOR TEl) TO RE OX THE WARPATH.rnnildtmhl* A I nr tn Pr«r»lli.Denver, Feb, 10. dispatch received this afternoon from New Mexico stated that the Navajo Indians hid ({mi a on the warpath, and that a battle was in progress near Aibuqurque, created great excitement. Later advices show the first reports were exaggerated. A dispatch from Coolidge, N. M,, to-night, says the trouble in between the Nava joes and the cattlemen and wns caused by renegade Indians killing cattle. Chief Mariano wus requested ten days ago to remove the Indians. This was granted, but Tuesday three Indians were found coming down the trail toward Chavez and the cowboys ordered them back. They started back and on the bluff built a signal tire. Noon forty renegade Indians came to their assistance, in defiance of the cowboys and their promise not to trespass. There were no cowboys at ( have/, at the time, but the Indians claimed that their deserted camp hud been burned by cowboys and that they were going to get even.The Indians threatened to burn San Antonio ranch, occupied by a cattleman named Coddington. and they left Chavez, going in that direction. Harry Cody, his mother ami two men were at the ranch. Fifteen armed cowboys immediately left for the ranch, which is sixteen miles distant, arriving at 0 p. m., but all was quiet. The cowboys remained at the ranch until noon to day, bur could discover no Indians. Lieutenant Wallace Necond cavalry, and twenty men from Ft. Wingate, with pack mules, passed Coolidgo this evening on the way to Ban Antonio ranch, with orders to remain there several days and lie ready to quell any hostilities on the part of the Indians. This evening everything was quiet at and in the vicinity of Chavez,QUITE A DIFFERENT STORY.A special to the Republican from Albuquerque, N. M., says: J. M. Dennis, the saw mill owner at Coolidge, who is here, received to-night a dispatch from bis manager, A. E. Batcheldor, that the j Navajo Indians were congregating in j squads of from twenty-five to fifty at the small towns on the Atlantic , Pacific between Laguna and Coolidge with the intention of cleaning out the cowboys on the cattle ranges along the road. At Chavessa station seventy-lhve Indians are holding powwows, have on their war paint and are heavily armed. The people are in great excitement. The women havo their trunks packed, ready to leave, w hile the cowboys are rustling all the arms they can get and propose to stand their ground.Mrs. C. J. Jenkins, wife of the manager of the eating bouse at Coolidge, with her two children, was the tirst to reach this city, and she tells your correspondent that the Indians and cowboys are mussing their forces for an engagement and the whole white male population of Coolidge aud vicinity were up in arms and ready for the conflict. Yesterday a number of cowboys from several of the ranges assembled at Coolidge aud defied the Indians then in the town to commence carrying their threats into execution. The Indians left on horses and went in the direction of Coddingtou's ranch. An hour later a runner came into Coolidge and repotted that an en gagement was in progress at the ranch between the Indians aud cowboys there, and if the latter were not soon reinforced the Indians would annihilate them. Those in Coolidge then left to join their associates, but the actual result of the fight lias not yet been reported. There is a rumor in circulation here that the fight at Codding-tou is still going on and that each side is in the timber and shooting from behind trees. The Indians were noticed carrying three of their dead off. The dining room girls at the Coolidge eating house and the women from other towns and ranches are expected in the city to-night.During the present winter the cattle-meu, whose ranges border the Navajo reservation, have lost a number of cattle, stolen and killed, and the cowbovs have traced the depredations to the Navajo Indians. The owners of the stock have called on the chiefs for some kind of a settlement, but their demands were met with refusal. Both sides since then have been bantering each other for a fight and the cowboys fiually destroyed one of the Indiau houses. The Indians retaliated by burning the outhouses on a ranch a few’ miles from Coolidge and the present affair is the outcome of the bad feeling which lias existed all winter.
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Lincoln Semi Weekly Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Fri, Feb 12, 1892
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