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WARD, Special Deputy in Charge to B. H. Bristow, March 31, 1875
[Subinclosure in No. 214.]
[Telegram.]
Mr. Ward to Mr. Bristow.
United States Custom-House, Corpus Christi, Texas, March 31, 1875.
United States post-office, Nueces town, twelve miles from here, robbed and burned, three men shot therein and in neighborhood, on 26th, by party of marauders from Mexico. Citizens and families at ranches and on public roads within four miles of and beyond there captured, robbed, and cruelly abused by same party; whole country under arms. It is felt that citizens and their helpless families are at mercy of outlaws; large armed parties reported to have crossed from Mexico at various points on Rio Grande in this and Braziers (Brazos) Santiago districts. Collector Ploto left here, 25th, on inspecting and collecting trip to Rio Grande.
J. W. WARD,
Special Deputy in Charge.
Special Deputy in Charge.
B. H. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.