News About Indians Analysis

In the Las Vegas Gazette in New Mexico on March 1, 1873 an article was written in the newspaper discussing views of handing the Indians over the the War Department. The views of respecting the Indians and there matters was a sensitive topic when the discussion happened but obviously the issue is still controversial in 1873 as most of the page is covered with this story.


A very horrible event of a store blowing up happened yesterday in a small town outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico. This could have been prevented but the man to blame for this act was too stupid to think what he was doing and where he was. The  story goes that a man was loading a gun over a canister of gun powder in his shop while smoking a pipe, several people were injured due to this ridiculous man. How are people so stupid these days and lack so much common sense? At home news doesn't become much brighter. Two meat shops are going out of business and the ads in the newspaper don't say a whole lot so money must be limited for them. This week has been quite terrifying for most people, a soldier was court-martialed because he was scared of ghosts at his command post where he was supposed to stand. His punishment was to give up $10 of his monthly pay for three months. I know that this town can be quite frightening and have a lot of scary acts but I have gotten used to them, except for one. A young colored servant girl tried to cut off the nose and fingers of the mistress's daughter. I can see why the finger might be one to cut off but a nose? Why would you cut off a nose? Luckily the daughter didn't lose and fingers and still has her nose thanks to the timely arrival of the mother. Though the daughter was saved the mother might have just lost her sense of safety and security of her home. The servant girl attacked the mother brutally and furiously when she came to save her daughter. This town is so crazy that there are usually more stories than this in the paper, but since today's paper was mostly covered by that stupid discussion of respecting Indians there were not many stories to be told. It's tragic to hear all of these stories but they are so wild and fun to read that I look forward to reading them in the Las Vegas Gazette.