Image 7 of Santa Fe new Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.), May 15, 1909

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SATURDAY MAY 15 1909 THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SANTA FE N M PACE SEVEN WHY INDIAN FIGHTERS HAVE EARNED PENSIONS Account of Thrilling Battle Apaches In the Tonto Basin Arizona With In To the Editor Your article in a recent issue of The New Mexican urging the pen sioning of soldiers who served In the Indian wars of the Territory deserves immediate attention and our vigilant Delegate Mr Andrews should lose no time in bringing the question be fore Congress We often read of men receiving compensation for property destroyed during Indian troubles and while this is Just it certainly is more jut to give some compensation to the brave men who participated in those wars The present generation can form but a very inadequate idea of the suffer ings of the people of the southwest at such times when not only the men but the women and children were exposed to the outrages of the red fiends of the mountains but many of us remember the raids of the fiend Geronimo when 73 ettlers were massacred by him and his broth er savages To give the readers of The New Mexican some Idea of the character of those