at a time since 1883…

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may be looked for in the future. In fact the season is propitious for Indian troubles, and it is well for people who have much mountain work to do to be on their guard. The southwestern part of this county has not been free of Indian raids for only a few months ( 27 ) 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. How long, oh Lord, are the people of Ari- zona and New Mexico, and especially of Grant county, going to be set up as targets for these fiends to shoot at? How long will the philan- thropists of the seat be allowed to dictate the policy of the government of these curses of civilization, these cowardly murderers of hard working citizens and tortures of innocent women and children? Echo answers, and the people grow weary waiting.