The Texas legislature passed a bill on January 26, 1858 authorizing Governor Hardin Runnels to send Ranger Captain John “Rip” Ford an additional one hundred Rangers to block the Northern Comanches from leaving their reservation and raiding south of the Red River. Growing bored with watching the reservations, Ford decided to exceed his orders his orders and search for Comanche camps above the Red River. Ford was able to convince Robert Neighbors to convince Jose Maria (now spokesman for the agricultural reservation Indians in Texas) to recruit 109 of the sedentary Natives to serve as auxiliaries and prove their loyalty to the people of Texas (they would be kicked out of the state in a year).  The combined Ranger-Native forces crossed the Red River and attacked a Comanche camp on May 12, 1858, killing seventy-six people and capturing eighteen women and children. Among the Comanches killed was Chief Pohebits Quasho, Iron Jacket, who had led devasting raids across the Texas frontier.