Oftentimes disguised as Indians, they have terrorized the Santa Fe trail for two hundred miles, killing travellers in small parties, and driving off stock.

There are few ranches as far west as this, but these have all suffered from raids.

These fellows have done more to precipitate the present Indian war than any act of the savages.

They have endeavored to make the authorities believe that Indians were guilty of their deeds of murder and robbery.

Both troops and volunteers have tried to hold the gang up, but they scatter and disappear, as though swallowed by the desert.