The Watchman (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1871 Page: 1 of 4
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AV. K. FOSTER,
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"VOL. IV. G-EORG-ETOWIST,
JANUARY 14, 1871. HOC • 37.
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of Morgan's letter that abused the He- j
publican party generally, and Gov. i >av:s j
in particular, the Senator pronounced i;
$2 .50 i good egg, that portion thattflisalH
r. For the "Watchman."
More Whiskey ?
Yes, ani with it more sorrow, anguish and
deflation.
1 50 i frontier pri
1 00 j time nop.' §
ion the
kugth to reitff
fact, he pronoulieed that portion a
Murder in Fort Bend County.
Richmond, December, 29th, 1870.
Editors. Union :
You have, I suppose, learned before
Come with me and view yonder premises. Do j this tiaae.pt the murder committed in our
_ . , you see tint gate oil its hinges, those bars gone,' n*- I wdl gi\e\ousome particulars
Eilfeip j ionjer fe.cc, rail by rail, disappearing? Behold I"! to }he ™atta-- °tt Monday
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Frontier Correspondence.
Sax Saba, Dec. 24tli, 1870.
W. K. Foster, Editor, Watchman :
In my former communications I gave
you a homely, imperfect, but truthful ac-
count of the Indian raids in this delight-
J'u}, beautiful, romantic and prolific part
of Texas. The wonderful and endless
variety of romantic scenery exhibited to
the view of the traveler, passing over the
counties of Jjlano, Mason and San Saba
— x ----- r- - — j-r-r - — ' M those tre®, useful and ornamental, how they are
egg. So that Morgan Hamilton s let tea?
as an electioneering document, in Llano
county, was not a success. , „ ,■ .
From Llano our next destination was M*rrwaied, all round, there is a.desolation that
Fort Mason, a distance of 40 miles.— [saddens—a waste that sickens.
Our journey was as pleasant as could W L 03 £° m- ^ glance evinces that tribulation
expected, facing a Norther, accompanied' reign*. Are we welcome? No sweet smile, no
with rain, and watching out for the hi— invitingsalutation. That home (?) needs comfort,
ding places of the Indians. ^ight found j it yearns for sympathy, but mistrust now broods
us about fifteen miles from Fort Mason',., over it. All this shame, this anguish, this deso-
on Willow Creek, at the residence o t A j 'ationhas been brought about through the instru-
well to do and hospitable gentleman by the j mentality of—very probably those standing fair(?)
son and San Saba name ol Hester, one ol Fisher and Mil-j HOciety, possibly professed followers of Jesus,
ahnost compels one t^ exclaiui thisis tru- Jer's Colonists, and an acquaintance of a ; ^ who g0 oflen d thig ^ th for
ly God s country. The imagination of j gentleman ot the green bag, who was j . .
the poet, nor the skillful brush of the j my traveling companion. We were 1
painter never presented to the imagination kindly invited to alight and come in. by
or sight of man such .beautiful mountains, 'Mrs. Hester, who informed- us that her I w^ea^ mbther is broken. Long and iaithlully
hills, valleys and rivulets. u The lowing j husband was not at home, but would be I s^e battled. Often she hoped she would win
herd" feed fat upon the- rich and nutri- j soon, , We enquired of Mrs. Hester how | the fay by her tears, her entreaties, her prayers,
cious verdpe.that grofcrs upon these beau- she had fared from Indian raids. She { But she could not meet her enemies face to face.
told us that herself and family had not j Tioy saw not her tears, tiiey heard not her
•fared as badly as some of her neighbors:! ginans. It was not a fair fight—Man against
that the Indians had captured but one of j a Woman. Her hopes are blighted. The aspi-
night last a party of young niei) from ,this
place visited the residence of Mrs. 'Gaul, '
'*L; rations of that once young mother and fond wife
their children, and alter three yec,,£
captivity her husband gave five hum!; , .1 i ,,,, Hcr fut0M y dsrk „,ld tll.
-v'liuskey teller—whether you sell
tiful hills and dales, even now, at; this
time, in the dead of winter. As a count-
ry for the production of fine Mavericks it
'fe an entire1 succe&s. ' /. ' \
On our wa^rfr^ Buiiiet.to fjlano the
first noticeable object presented to our; dollars v.o Mr. to the poor Indians i
vicfw-was Nlggerliead Mountain, point-1 child's *msom; that a short time
at -a di^nce^-by ji: ih^l;^ians,( jilyrt ^ok tan - hekV *
^ffsnn^tisn^« t^uifor'^no j best hptses and mules from
tae ].' i-:
was in company. He observed that we i when there was 110 person dfithe plan-
might h ave some difficulty in passing* j tation e7.e< ipt h erself and Children, and
that mountain, but the nearer we got to wt're kinl enough not to take their scalps.
it the less were the obstacles presented^ j We replied they were, no doubt, some of breaking down that fence—in destroying those
and we passed ft without any trouble.— j Uncle Sam's best, religiously inclined In- trees and in making this desolation. You have
The next more in the great panorama of j dians. We asked Mrs. II. why she did
nature brought to our view the noted Po- ! not make these outrages known. We
uroken ctown. j for the pur|K>se of attending a party, (and
€ome nearer. Blinds off, lights broken, shrub- to which place they were not invited ) ;
whilest they were there horses of a portion
of the company got loose and strayed off.
W hen they were missed the parties tc
whom they belonged started to find'-theft,
and the poor murdered man, hnv'wig seen
a man with two horses, and not being ohie
to tell where they were, was set it j son and
received a severe beating* from the hands
of the mob. and then; not content,' they
followed up the punishment by shooting
him. He was shot three times, and then
dragged off some distance and leit. Then-
are now two persons beiore Justice Wil-
liams undergoing an examiantion, viz:
John J. Glasscock and Samuel Pen-
tecost. The remainder of the party, some
four or five, made their "escape beloiedj.y-
light, and up to this time had succeeded in
eluding thUgParties sent to arrest them.
Tiie name^T'of the parties that are out
are Stephen Wheat, J. W. Harper, Pem-
broke Dyer, and Samuel Kemp. These
parties are all quite young—none ov:
t\vonty-.fr > years of age.
the distressed and
wonder she starts as we enter.
unfortunate. No
The heart of that
;{, fju&rt or barrel ; wheihrr > >11 s>
. ^Saloons, Hoteis or Dry Q
^-vhellier yoa sell undir the rumr •
Brandy, Wiue, or Schnapps or Bitten it *s all the
same: it is vou that iian bren instrumental in
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lll-
tat'o Hill Mountain, ^vhich was very
tcresting to the sight of your humble ser-
vant. At the Imse of these picturesque
mountains and hills are fhe rich and fer-
tile valleys uixm which y<fh find the en-
closed premises of the farmer and stock-
raiser; and up these steep and difficult
mountains and hills to climb the poor
Indian is obliged to ascend so that he
can take a deliberate and undisturbed
view of all the possessions of the de-
fenseless settler, and determine when and
where to rob and mfird^r*
One day's travel too^tis from Burpet
to Llano, the county seat of LlanQ coun-
tyj which is a nice place for a Itadjfciful
town, and a good place to build vKurt
House and jail. I have already informed
yon that His Honor, Judgfe Jones, ad-
at a distance have no idea • of the extent
of these Indian raids. " Oh," she re-
plied, " we have found out, by experi-
ence, that it does us more injury than
good. Wheu we 6ay any thing to the
United States Officers they only accuse
us of beftng liars, and such reports keep
the country from settling up. We have
concluded to let the Indians take what
snatched away the smiles from that once happy
face, you have clouded the luster of those once
sparkling eyes, you have taken the tone of that
once musical voice, you have stolen from that
leart its aspirations, its hopes, its joys, you have
lushed the childish glee, and those little ones—the
sweet prattle of those children. Their long be-
holding their mother's sadness and sorrow, has
photographed upon their own countenances, the
dejection of their mother's. Yes, you have been
horses they wish without any resistance,) iastrumenttl in doing all this and more. And for
it won t do to shoot at them and make a For cold! Yom have transmitted their
fuss when they come for our horses, ifj blossi ,j intogoU. 0„1, think of it; a
we do they will kdl us all on the "ext an(J hn and j s_ail(, tll0se of
moon. 1 he cause of the murder 01 the . ,A , *, ,. . ,,
^ v *i„ i. c t her children too, quite likely exchanged into gold,
\Y hitlock iamily is on account of an In- 1 J 0 0 '
dian being killed near, a short time be- an<* l^at ° ln ^our P°c^ct-
fore. Husband keeps his riding horse A Friend op Society.
locked in the stable when not in use, and j 11
we "have concluded to do our work with ! Injury from Exposure.—We learn
journed the Court before the conclusion oxen. We asked her why she did not! by a letter from Jacksboro, that L't
Texz* 3tock Raid's Convention.
Th« te meeting of stock misers
of Western Texas, held in Victoria,
was largely attended by delegats
from Goliad, Victoria, DeWitt, La-
vaca, Jackson, Eefugio and Calbouu
counties. Mr. Pearson, presided over
the meeting, and Thos. Sterne acted
as Sec. The following report for the
proceedings of the convention was fur-
nished the Lavaca Commercial by Mr.
Travis Hensley:
The meeting was addressed by Mr.
c *
George P. Finlay and Hon. A. JI.
Phillips.
Among the resolutions adopted
were the following:
To prevent cattle owners from ap-
pointing agents to sell, or in any
manner to dispose of their cattle, ex-
cept the authority be given in writ-
ing duly attested.
To prevent branding parties front
promiscuously killing calves for food,
as has been done heretofore, and to
prohibit any person from killing any
of all the bnainess on the docket, in con-1 mow away, she replied that if she and U g jfcllen was recently detailed as
sequence of Indian depredations in this husband moved away they would have to ! , L. . •- a A n i.
county. But I did not tell you that Sen- j leave everything they possessed, to move ! ?' of a court maitial at t Ol t;
therefore.wasimpossiblex "We informed |Htchardson, at the time he was with'
Mrs. Hester that wo were in hopes that | his company at Camp Wichita, which
there was better times coming, as the place he left for Fort Ikichardson in
pious Morgan was engaged in teaching {obedience to the detail. Alone on! accomPanie(l by the mother cow to the
the Indians to read the Bible and <ro to Tuesday, - the 20th ult., when in the I P^ace of delivery; and then the bill of
sit or Bowers proposed to make the good
people of Llano a speech: your humble
servant had the pleasure to listen. TherC
was more in Senator Bower's speech try
commend than is found in most Demo-
cratic speeches. He told the good ' peo-
ple one fact, which I can certainly say'is
tine, I actually of my ownself know it to
be correct: He told his audience that
Oov. Davis had appoipt/fcd one honest
man to office, a man that the people of
Texas might well be proud of. I sup-
pose that every one of the appointees of
Governor Davis have a right to pre-
sume that the Senator must have intend-
ed the remark for their individual selves.
But from the general tenor of the Sena-
tor's remarks I surmise that lie alluded to
Judge Wm. E. Jones.. Tho Senator
slightly hinted that the persons compo-
sing the Republie-iu party, in Tex is, \v rc
not any bett**f "than 1 hey should be. For
fear his he trers would not believe what
To prevent the sale of calves, either
branded or unbranded, unless they are
church, in" consequence of which they
could not and would not, come down to - - -- - , r V° i whioh won th#> mntli^r «««•
Texas to steal and murder, violating the he lost hisj wa}", and missing the i •
West Fork bottom, and night coming j must state the brand and mark
Sabbath, and the Pious Morgan would
never stand that. Lo the poor Indians.
Yours,
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bridge plunged into the West Fork! To continue the inspectors of this
tnd swam. The night was so cold, j association at all the principal ship-
that as soon as lie landed his clothes I P|n? aiK^ slaughtering points in the
„ .. - „ ^.i . froze on him, and he was unable to I .
0 cc 0 f 11 j proceed further. He was found Thurs-! To require each member of this asso-
All persons indebted to tlie estate of the late | ^ mopn;ntr \n n flviiio- condition I ciation to protect the Cattle of all
" At present lie is in the hospital more! other members from depredation, so
dead than alive, with little hope of j ^ar as ^^ come to his knowledge,
lis recovery, and that only with a loss j committee was appointed to
of both feet memorialize the Legislature, at its
next session apd ask the passage of
such laws at* will more' thwouwhlv
protect the stock interest ol the State,
J. Allen Clark, will settle with J. L. Brittain.
He is the only person authorized to attend to any
business connected with said estate.
nancy g. Clark.
Georgetown, January 14th, 1871.
Call a man a tliicf and you license hiln
to stfal.
Job work of all descriptions executed
with neatness and dispatch.
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Foster, W. K. The Watchman (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1871, newspaper, January 14, 1871; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235853/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.