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8l Pioneer History of Bandera County
ed out, and after hunting all night we found him next
morning in Middle Verde Creek. He was lying in
shallow water, face downward, stripped of his clothing,
and had an arrow sticking in his back. We put
a blanket around the body, tied it on a horse behind
0. B. Miles, who took the dead boy home. Another
time, Polly Rodriguez sent a runner to town saying
the Indians lad chased a man named Gonzales to his
place. As w'e were ready to go on a scout we went
over to Privilege, six miles from town, in about an
hour, but the Indians were gone. We followed them
for some distance. About a mile above where the San
Antonio road crosses Pipe Creek they killed a man
who had been digging post holes. I think his name
was Reeves, but I am not certain. These and other
experiences like them are sad remembrances of those
frontier days.
In 1870 we had a big rise in the Medina river, the
water reaching a depth of nine feet in my store, and
ruined all of my goods to such an extent that I decided
to quit the mercantile business and follow the
carpenter's trade. In that same year I was appointed
to a position on the state police force, an organization
created for the protection of frontier counties against
outlaws. There were many bad men on the frontier
in those days, generally in sparsely settled regions
where they thought they could do as they pleased.
To arrest and bring to trial these criminals was the
purpose of the organization of the state police. From
one to three men in each county were appointed on
the force. I was the only one in Bandera county, and
I served two years, resigning at the end of the second
year. The pay was $60 per month, and we had to
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Hunter, J. Marvin. Pioneer history of Bandera County : seventy-five years of intrepid history, book, 1922; Bandera, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27720/m1/86/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .