at a time since 1883…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

at a time since 1883. Not a season has passed but horses have been stolen and cattle killed by them, and on several occasions they have been seen by as reputable men as reside in this county. At one time Oscar Roberts with a band of followers overtook and exchanged shots with them just as night was coming on, and yet in the very face of all this the war department deems it necessary to inform the citizens that there is but one lone, solitary Indian off the reservation, and he in Mexico.