The Galveston Daily News, (Houston, TX) Tuesday, September 17, 1878; Issue 152; col C      San Antonio Letter Perils of the Frontier—A Maimed Man Tells How United States Soldiers Mistook Him for an Indian  "My name is  S. B. Childers. and I am from west Virginia, Pocohontas county. I live near Fort Ewell  La Salle county, Texas. On the 9th of last June me and a man named I. C. Barstow were about seven miles below Ewell with a herd of cattle. We were cutting some calves out of the herd to doctor them. We were afraid of Indians, knowing they had been raiding through and about there, and we were looking for them in all directions. We were talking about Indians, when I happened to look over my shoulder and saw 'em about 300 yards off. We got as fast as we could and they after us. After a while my horse broke down and the other man (he is in town here, now) went off and left me.  I took to the bush and got to  a clump of thicket, and then the fight began. I don't know who fired first, We must have kept it up for more than an hour, until all my cartridges were gone and I had only two Ioads in my pistol, There were about fifteen men. I could hear some talking English and Mexican, but I thought they were Indians or desperadoes. I got shot In the hip, from which I'm tame yet, Ono ball went through my hand, (here he showed your correspondent his hand, mutilated, unshapen and Useless.) One bullet before that struck the band of my gun, and knocked it against my other hand, breaking this forefinger." Opening his shirt, the maimed man showed a recently healed wound about the size of a half dollar in his left breast Still another bullet had passed through his right arm near the  shoulder—making five wounds in all.  Did they stop firing after that?" asked your correspondent "I was lying there suffering, when a white man rode up. and I saw he was an officer. He went back to his men for them to come up on me, and then I fainted away, When I came to they were all standing around me; and Lieut. Wyman, so I heard his name was, asked me what I shot at his men for. I told him I took them to be Indians, and asked him what his men fired at me for. He said he believed we was robbers, or desperadoes because we run, He kept on talking as if I was a desperado. I told him to take me to camp, which was about a mile off They took me to within a few hundred yards of the camp and left me In charge of a sergeant and three men, while he and the rest went to the camp giving the sergeant orders that if his party was fired into by the people at the camp I was to be shot. They found out what I  said was so. and I was brought to the camp, "While I was there a Mexican came in who know me. After, I was taken to Hargu's rancho, where there was a doctor, and I've been laid up ever since."  The object of Mr. Childers's visit to headquarters was to seek Gen, Ord, and ascertain if nothing could be done for his relief. He was received with great kindness by Gen Ord, who examined the documents, and promised to use his efforts to assist Mr. Childers in obtaining  relief through congress, at the same time offering such medical assistance as the sufferer might require. La Salle's Isonomy Is the name of a new paper at Cotulla, Smith & Cotulla, publishers and proprietors: J. Q. Smith, editor and business manager. The Galveston Daily News, (Houston, TX) Friday, January 10, 1896; _______________________ Another Mexican Did The Work According to the Inquest Verdict. Cotulla, La Salle Co.. Tex.. Jan. 15.—A Mexican mescal peddler by the name of Juan Jose Guerra was killed in the T. W. House pasture, about twenty-two miles from Cotulla. on the night of the 13th instant by another Mexican by the name of Pedro Gonzales. It seems that Pedro Gonzales had two horses stolen from him and he found the trail and followed' it to were two Mexicans were camped. He recognized ills horses and told the Mexicans to consider 'themselves under arrest. In reply they picked up their guns and opened fire on Pedro Gonzales, who returned the  fire, killing the above named Mexican. The other Mexican made, his escape. Pedro recovered his horses and twenty gallons of mescal. Justice of the Peace M. T. Dunham held an Inquest over the body and returned a verdict an accordance with the above statement. Pedro Gonzales is now in Jail in Cotulla and his examining trial will be held tomorrow. January 16, 1897 Dallas Morning News Mexican's Dead Body Found, Cotulla. Tex., Dec. 8.—The dead body of a Mexican named Pablo Plato was found this morning .about a half mile from the railroad station. He met his death by a stab In the breast. There has been no evidence In the case as yet. Officers are Investigating. December 11, 1899 Dallas Morning News _______________________ A Strange and Terrible Tragedy. Cotulla, Tex., Jan. 30.—(Special.)—Deputy Sheriff Geo W. Von Reeder, of this place, Informed your correspondent that he has just now received a telegram signed James Breeding, assessor of Lasalle county, dated at Encinal at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, stating that Joseph Tomlinson, while sitting with his wife on the railroad track a short distance from the town, shot her through her head, killing her instantly, and than killed himself in like manner. No explanation as to the cause of the terrible tragedy. Sir. Tomlinson was the present sheriff of Lasalle county', and was a well known, brave, highly efficient, impartial and popular officer. The Daily Picayune, (New Orleans, LA) Tuesday, January 31, 1893; pg. 12; Issue 7;