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PEACE OR PAINT.
The Pros and Cons of the Navajo Question.
The Sale of Whiskey Appears as the Prime Cause of the Late Deviltry.
Rumors concerning the Navajos, their threats and actions have of late died out almost entirely, while the efforts of the military and civil authorities to get to the bottom of the matter have resulted in bringing together a great deal of reliable and very satisfactory evidence on the subject. Governor Wallace has received reports from the Navajo country which set forth the opinions of many persons in positions to know concerning the chances for war or peace with this tribe. Those opinions, however, differ some persons opining that there will be no war, and others that a conflict is inevitable. The old men are by all represented as being in favor of peace and as using all their influence to prevent trouble, while the young warriors, who having no property to lose are reckless of consequences, declare in favor of a fight with the whites. Which will prevail is now the all important question, as it is generally conceded that if the young men go on the war-path or even if some of them join Victoria the old men will become involved in the hostilities and war with the Navajos as a tribe will ensue. A gentleman from San Mateo stated yesterday that Manuelito, the head chief of the Navajos, had been there, and had warned both Don Roman A. Baca and Jesus Perea that there would be trouble in that vicinity with the tribe, the safest plan being that they should leave the place, while Jesus Perea, himself, while in conversation yesterday with a friend, whom he met upon the eastern train, said that he anticipated no trouble at all from those Indians and thought it quite improbable that any war would be undertaken by the Navajos. He gave as the reason for the widely noticed fact that the Navajos were now carrying arms, that a large number of their cattle had been lately run off by the Apaches, and the Navajos wished only to defend themselves and their property from the
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| Transcription | PEACE OR PAINT. The Pros and Cons of the Navajo Question. The Sale of Whiskey Appears as the Prime Cause of the Late Deviltry. Rumors concerning the Navajos, their threats and actions have of late died out almost entirely, while the efforts of the military and civil authorities to get to the bottom of the matter have resulted in bringing together a great deal of reliable and very satisfactory evidence on the subject. Governor Wallace has received reports from the Navajo country which set forth the opinions of many persons in positions to know concerning the chances for war or peace with this tribe. Those opinions, however, differ some persons opining that there will be no war, and others that a conflict is inevitable. The old men are by all represented as being in favor of peace and as using all their influence to prevent trouble, while the young warriors, who having no property to lose are reckless of consequences, declare in favor of a fight with the whites. Which will prevail is now the all important question, as it is generally conceded that if the young men go on the war-path or even if some of them join Victoria the old men will become involved in the hostilities and war with the Navajos as a tribe will ensue. A gentleman from San Mateo stated yesterday that Manuelito, the head chief of the Navajos, had been there, and had warned both Don Roman A. Baca and Jesus Perea that there would be trouble in that vicinity with the tribe, the safest plan being that they should leave the place, while Jesus Perea, himself, while in conversation yesterday with a friend, whom he met upon the eastern train, said that he anticipated no trouble at all from those Indians and thought it quite improbable that any war would be undertaken by the Navajos. He gave as the reason for the widely noticed fact that the Navajos were now carrying arms, that a large number of their cattle had been lately run off by the Apaches, and the Navajos wished only to defend themselves and their property from the |
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