Show peaceable Prace alle Nava cavajos jos FLAG STArr AT july 15 1891 1801 EDITOR THE STANDARD dear bir sir there having been considerable excitement cit ement here for or the past few days and numerous nume roua reports sent out which aou would d unnecessarily al alarm arm people having friends in this neighborhood bo I 1 drop a few lines in a statement of the case william roden and eona sons have taken up a spring and settled OB on land thirty milea miles northeast of here which although off the reservation was formerly occupied and farmed by the navajos cavajos Nava jos it is said that there a are e also two indian traders in this vicinity who are anxious to have the indians come out and trade with them and dispose of their wool through the traders it appears that the latter have told the indians that they bad justas much right to the spring and grazing as mr koden roden accordingly the indians herded their cheep sheep in close proximity to the It ranch and when the latter set dogs on the sheep sheep and scattered scatter ad thorn them it so irritated the indians indiana that they threw his h is fence f enc e down and drove their sheep in and watered at bis ble spring then a warrant wag was sworn out for brenda one of the indians indiana and the sheriff and a party of started on monday the to arrest him which t they he did yesterday and lodged him in J jail it at this place last evening this together with the numerous untrue reports caused great excitement especially on the part of the whites the whole town turning out to escort the prisoner from the spot to the lockup tho the sheriff with about thirty armed and mounted men returned to the place of the trouble last evening eve nine but have again returned to town this afternoon reporting everything quiet and the trouble all over it was merely a quarrel no fighting or any one harmed at any time A subscriber |