The Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 193, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 17, 1935 Page: 4 of 4
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million. The old shaft *u not ex- which broke Buchanan’s leg. Bowie | ready for action and wall fortified, i Minister - J|imr
plored because some of the dis- returned their aalutation with the We, after that,( remained in our
coverers “did not have much fait!' contents of a double-barreled gun j little fort for eight days recruiting
in the yarns about loat treasures,' j and a pistol. . M our wounded men and horses, at
Lee said. j The battle raged for 13 hours, 1 the expiration of which time, being
Bowie's previous exploit with the the little band of 11 Texans having all pretty much in good order, we
Indians, had no support from his- to fight Indians and a grass fire set out on our return to San An-
tory, but his Calf Creek fight is on that nearly proved fatal. Their tonlur de Bexar. W» left our fort a Bible combined Friday to allow
record. His brother, Resin P. Bowie, spirit was never dimmed, though, at dark, and traveled alt night and '“embers of a grand jury to see » *
was a member of the little party and this in a large measure, caused .until afternoon the next day, when m°tton picture and to keep clearAa*
that set out from San Antonio in, the Indians to withdraw at a dis- j we picked out an advantageous spot the conscience of one of ita mam-
Attends Movie ^
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search of the Bowie Mine, and his- 1 tance of “8«0 yards to encamp for ! and fortified ourselves expecting the b*rs- the ®ev- Arthur O. Garner, whr
torians say that probably he was the night with their dead and wound
the leading spirit, as it had been ed,’’ Bowie wrote.
claimed that he had made previous «0ur party now commenced to
, trips of exploration in the country work jn r,igin|f 0Ur fortification
through which the San Sabs and ] higher, and succeeded in getting it ! mortified
Indians would, when recruited, fol- does not believe In such entertaii,
low our trail. But, however, we meat.
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saw no more of them. ( Qeven Juror» w‘nt<sd
“David Buchanan's wounded leg' movie but Garner »as not easily
surgical' moved from his convictions and ths
to see tha
and having no
a„y law provides that the
llano rivers treverse. Both of the breast high by 10 p. in. We then ] instruments, or medicine of any — *---------—-
Bowies were remarkable men, and filled all our vessels and skins with kind, not sven a dosj of salts, we j th* iury must remain together.
l *' * — ■ - -mi ' - - - 1 After argument pro and con,
both
left accounts of the expedi-1 water, expecting another attack the boiled some liveoak bark very strung
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tion. James' to the Mexican Govern next morning. At 8 the next mom- »nd charcoal and Indian i^-ai. made h»PPy ,olution presented Meetf-Gar-
party went out » medicine of it, and tied it around , attended the movie ««
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ment in San "Antonio upon his re- I jn(r two our
turn to that city, and Resin P.’s to j fn m thf. fortification to the en- his leg, over which we sewed a
a newspaper in Philadelphia a year ! can,pment where the Indians had buffalo skin and traveled along W*-
yr so later. The remain of Bowie’s I Iajn the nlrht prcv|ou„t and COUnt- five days without looking at It.
fort on Calf Creek are fcd 4# bloody spots on th«* grans When if .rJfcd 1t was In a
where the Indians had been lying, fair way for healing, which it fin-
As near ait we could judge, their ally did; the mortified parts all
loss must have been 40 killed and i dropped off, and his leg now is as
2 30 wounded. We afterwards learned ; well •* it ever was. There was
follows: from tke Comanche Indians that the none of the party but' had his skin
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iWe, though “the hand of the iin-
' pious treasure seekers’’ long since
has scattered the stones.
A part of Resin P.’s story is as
“On the second of
November, |ogll wag g killed and wounded.
1831, we left the town of San An- . ,
tinio de Bexar for toe silver mines ' ' ’‘P'
_ „ , _ having one man killed (Thomas
on the San Sab. Rtapr. the party McCaglinl ,nd thre<, woumW _
consisting of the following named fjye kj|lad ,nd thrce wounde(,
persons: Reim P. Bowie. James ... _ .....iBexsr”
„ „ . 1 —we recommenced strengthening ”ex*r-
Bowie, Devin Buchanan, Robert ,__ . . ,
our fort, and continued our la-
cut in several places, and numer-
ous shot holes through his clothes.
“On the 12th day we arrived
in good order, with our wounded
men and horses, at San Antonio de
the screen and a blindfold over Ma
In return for thia oompr
mise he was allowad to give a Bible
reading and a thirty-minute aar-
mon to the other Jurora.
Help Kidneys
Dent Taka DraeMe
Armstrong, Jesse Wallace,
thew Doyle, Cephus D. N.mm, ' ‘r'
Today's
CLUE GAME
James Gonzales and Charles, servant
boys. Nothing particularly occurred
until the l»th of November when
we were overhauled by two Com-
manche Indians and a Mexican cap-
tive, who had struck our trail and
followed it. They told us they be-
| longed to Isaonie’s party, a chief of
11 the Coipanehe tribe. After smok-
I ing and talking with them about
Ian hour, they returned to their
: party on the Llano River.
“The__next__morning the Mexican^
us into the
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Answer to Tuesday’s mysterv:
The body was hung on the front BOWIE'S-
of the door, which was standing __
opened almost, back to the wall. (Continued from front page.)
The overturned chair that blotked —
the entrance to the bedroom was on ... . _ .
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the opposite side of the door.
j captive returned to our camp and
\ reported that we were followed by [
124 Tawackanie and Waco Indians,
and 40 Caddos had joined them,
who were determined to have our
scalps at all risks.
“Throughout the day we encoun-
j tered had roads, being covered with
! rocks, and the horses’ feet being
worn out, we were disappointed in
not reaching the fort in the even-
ing we had some difficulty in plck-
ations of ...... ----- .
of buried treasures on the San Sab. '»* °ut ,n ‘dv.nt.geou. sp.* where
a "l i 'III iril iivuauii s tin uir .'tail tigt/a
The man could not have hanged ^ UaA,i rivcrs are just legends. I to enca,“P fo[ |he ni(fht- ho^"
ever, made choice of tlie best of-
in front of the opened door.
Winner*: William E. Bell and Ij*e
Stephenson.
The old detective chuckled as he.
told his friend some of the hftrtowinit
and .*»• metime^ amusing cxprriifflcM
ivory word Bowie an
wrote of the silver mines in this
section, and that some day they
will l>e found by one of a hundred,
Bowie’s McCulloch County In- .
. . . a* rs , mission, mentioned above,
Imr. fierh occurn-d on Calf Creek, t ’Mi , ,, „ ,
12 miles south of Brady, when he
of the past. “A detective’s train- and band of H men left San
in>r sometimes proves valuable *n \ntoni<» for his “silver mine* a
other \\ays;” he reniarkM. [ few miles frbtn the old mission on
“I remember an incident that hap- the San Sal* river,
pened years a^o i*1 Japan,*’ he con- | ^d back without n achiny the mines
nnued.
oak trees, some 30 or 40 in number,
I about the size of man's body. To
! the west of us ran a stream of
w'ater.
“We %were not far from the old
which
was built by I hr Spaniards in 1752,
for th" jnrpose of protectinp them
while work in" silver mintv,
which are a mile distant. A few
Bowie' turn- y**”™ afterward it wa- attackt-d by
the Comanche iniiiaTH? anti evt'r‘Vr
“I and Inspector Burke *':,,.r~'hV batUe ih.V iarieil ' mveral ' “u‘ ,,at *° d?th’ Si.^e that time ,
San Fsrndieo had R4W over itay.\ and as % mutt, many small 1 as never Mtn °(,l,l"
a. ease. We dr-pped into an da- fortunes have been lost in th"
horate restaurant for dinner. Tlie search for Bowie’s lost tr-asure,
meal wa- splemiid hut after the and acres and acres of soil have
waiter left our eh-mi-tasse the ifi- been upturned in Menard County
spector was perturbed to find a fly near the ruins of the old mission,
in his. | hut no trace of the lost mine has
"Knowing that the frugal J‘P‘t f ever "been found. That is none of
wasW nothing, especially food or thousands of silver bars. True,
drink, he called the whltor khd re- searchers new and then have hecn , , no
in the fort is a church, which, had 1
We , reached before night, it was t
our intention to have occupied to !
defend ourselves against the In- ;
dians. The fort surrounds about j
one acre of land under a 12-foot
stone wall.
“Nothing occurred during the
quested him to bring him another encouraged by the finding of cop- lllo,ri'nir *n making preparations
ami not merely remove the fly from „.r metat* and such. bnt for «ur journey to the I
and not merely
metates and such, bnt
| pur pegs,
the fly from the one he had brought. treasure is yet to be found.
mission, and when in the act of
The waiter soon returned with an-1 Guy SalUe own. the ranch on *'*r,in*’ w« <*^°vered the Indun.
other cup of different shape and which ,h). hisW)ri<. „id hettle ground °n ”ur tr“l 10 ^e east, about 200
color, but the Inspector insisted that | ^ ^.ted. although H. B I^e lives ^“rd’' d,"Unt’ *n<l * f°otm‘n
50 yardn ahead of the main body
contained the *ame coffee.
on the place. I>eo has heard many
“In heated language the Inspec- UIe„ of the battle ground, and of
with hi* face to the ground, track-
t”r demanded a cup of fresh coffee. ^ mine, and said he had seen
The waiter tried to persuade him ru„ted purge rjms taken from an 1
* it he had been served with one. apparent old mine shaft on the E.
However, with a puzzled look he re- „ahy p]aee, a few . miles southwest
•d the cup and thie'lime did as of Cmif c^ek stnrf and in a direct
‘All hands to arras.’ Wa
dismounted and both saddle and
pack horses were made fast to
the trees.
"Resin P. Bowie was designated
roc tad. It was amusing to watch JjB# f the Uttiefield to the old to U'k"ith their he “d
eat waiter. He regarded Inspector . David Buchanan walked up to with-
BuKe as if he had some sort ol -———----- in 40 yards of where they hajl h“]t-
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