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War On The Navajos

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
February
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

ueüíver, Feb. ir,.- A dispatch from Albuquerque, N. M., says that the Navajo Indians opeied fire upon Uve stock in slght of the cowboys near Coolidge staLion on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad Saturday aftevnoon. The cowboys deterniined to stand the outraees no anrl. mti, ing in as larg-e u band as possible, attacked the redskins yesterday raorning-. The Navajos greatly outnumbered the cowboys, but the latter were betterarmed. The fight is still on and four of the Inaiaus are said to have been killed and many of the cowboys and ranehmen wounded.. The redskins have been stealing cattle by wholesale. One commissary has lufcu io.uuu animáis. The Indians wander all over Western New Mexico in squads oi' twenty-five to fifty, killing cattle wherever they find thera ar.d the c-arcasses on the plain., The Ciittle men are determined uot lo stand this without resistance av .1 i %ve taken aggresaive measares.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier