WHITE SCALP HUNTERS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4576, 4 September 1883, Page 2

WHITE SCALP HUNTERS.

An incident that recently ocejafcfecf ins.:': new and tlmring city of- Qiffi»Kua, . Mexico, it is,to be hoped, says" the -New ' loric lnbune,' cannot be exactly fraraL lelud anywhere ia this country. Thirtr mounted menleftth^ritftoh»nt,lndians. They scalped,eijjW^^fiop-Itbey caught unarmed, and eaplared^a number of squaws and ponieg.; they, then turned homeward and re&cbTe^, Chihuahua on Sunday, and were publicly received on the plaza of the city by the- mayor, as though they were'heroes , returning • from a glorious war. The whole city turned out to greet them, aod amid the. clanging of the cathedral bells and the vivas of the populace, they rode throueb the streets decked with bnnting, with eight bloody scalps dangling from a pole carried by eight men. Many of the poor squaws carried infants on their backs • and men who called themselves brava showed their manhood by striking thesewretched barbarian mothers and theirinfants as they trod their weary way i* the procession. The squaws thus eaptuYe* are imprisoned for life, and the GoTernment pays for every Indian «e«fo presented tojtr f