A telegram received yesterday by Col…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

A telegram received yesterday by Col. A. E. Head, at Deming, states that Indians ran off five horses from the herd on the Animas, near the Gray ranch. The men, employed by the company, were holding 1,600 head of beef steers for shipment, the horse herd was a short distance away; the Indians fired on the horse herder cutting his saddle and trappings with bullets and driving him off. The men on the beef herd were too busy with the steers to inter- fere with the Indians. They took what horses they wanted and hunted new pastures.