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THE FORT WORTH PRESS
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TUESDAY, MARCH 10,1936
TUESDAY
exas Centennial
Folk Lore
History
Romance
Scrapbook Page
Heroes — Legends — Fine Arts
Texas Revolt Defenders of Alamo Are Described as ‘Bull-Headed By
Launched On Grandson of Davy Crockett, Texas Newspaper Editor
$96.30 Cash Hmn......____
By C. L. DOUGLAS ■ 1 -
— Days of Republic -
By WAURINE HI NTER
(First of Two Articles on the Fiscal
Affairs of the Republic)
THEN the fathers of Texas be
W gan their struggle for free-
THE only surviving grandson of
1 Col. Davy Crockett.'' believes
that all the heroes of the Alamo
might have been saved to see the
■“I birth of the
dom with a few thousand men to
defy Mexico, they showed high
courage.
When these same men actually
launched a revolution on the
meager sum Of $96.30 cash, they
exhibited something more call It
madness, audacity, anything it
was a quality which perhaps more
than anything else assured the
success of thfat struggle.
Today the wealthiest govern-
ment in the entire United States
in potential resources, Texas i
1835 was unable to scrape up
more than pocket change with 1
Texas Republic
"If Col. W. B.
Travis
been so
headed.’
That s
hadn't
bull-
th e
way Ashley W.
Crockett, 78-
year old editor-
printer of Cran-
bury, T e xas,
has always
looked at the
massacre at the
Alamo, which
occurred 1 II 0
_________years ago last
which to launch her fight against C. L. Douglas week.
the Mexicans "Outnumbered as the men of
I the garrison were, they didn’t
AT that first Consultation at have, a chance." says' the editor
A San Felipe de Austin Nov. 1, of the Hood County Tablet, a
1835, a Republic of Texas was de | weekly paper printed in a small
glared and the revolution en- frame building. ‘They 'might
dorsed. By such action the en-have all gotten away if Travis
and some of the others hadn't
dorsers made it necessary to pro
vide some means of defense. Food,
clothing, weapons, equipment all
were necessary to the mainten-
ance of an army and navy.
Governing officials must go in-
to the make-up of an organized
government. Also ambassadors
are necessary to uphold the dig-
been so bull-headed."
Travis had an opportunity to j
withdraw, hut didn't. Instead he |
preferred "victory or death.”
The grandson of the famous
fighting Davy has lived in the vi-
cinity of Granbury all his life, the
old Crockett homestead being on
Rucker’s Creek a few miles east
of the town. -
*—0 a e
nity of a nation with other na-
tions. r A 11 these things cost
money. ‘
B. T. Archer, a member of the COLONEL DAVY
Consultation suggested that a pro
visional government be establish-
cd for the duration of the war
with Mexico. He also suggested
himself was
U never in the county, but the
land was given to his wife by the
state of Texas after the fall of
that since it would be necessary -
to procure funds, agents should
be elected for that purpose,
the Alamo. The wife, Elizabeth
Crockett, lies buried even now
In the old cemetery near Acton,
A FTER the government was
A duly organized and Henry
Smith was chosen as its head, at
■ tention was turned to finances.
about 35 miles southwest of Fort
Worth:
it the top of the tall shaft
over her grave stands a woman
earved in stone, a woman who
Gall Borden revealed that he still
held $58.30 due the Government
. of Mexico in land fees. He im-
mediately turned this over to the
new government. A donation by
R. R. Royall, president of the
general council which was to as-
sist Smith, swelled the treasury
to $96.30. With this amount the
provisional government began to
function.
First, a committee was named
to provide for the needs of the
army. It was given full authority.
looks toward the west and with
her left hand shades her eyes
against the sun depicting the
wife vainly waiting and watching
in Tennessee for the return of her
husband from Texas.
"My grandmother did not know
for six weeks after the Alamo’s
fall what had occurred." ‘ Mr.
Crockett says, “because Tennes-
see was far away in those days
and it took time for news to trav-
el.''
to borrow money, to
loans, and to create whatever
debts were necessary for jaccom-
negotiate THE hero’s family first came to
I Texas to settle in Ellis Coun-
plishing its purpose.
ty and then, in 1856, went to
Hood County to establish them-
selves on Rucker's Creek
Dr. Ruter
Was Church
Pioneer
-—; Missions and Churches —
TN one year of strenuous life a
1 man from Ohio in 1837 start ]
ed in Texas an organization that
today numbers-more than 400,000
members. •
Dr. Martin Ruter, first Meth-
odist missionary to Texas, sent by
the General Conference from Cin-
cinnati, is today the outstanding!
religious hero of Texas' great
Methodist Church.
The Battle of San Jacinto, de-
cisive light that gave Texas her
independence from Mexico, was
fought April 21, 1836. At that
time the general conference of the |
1 Methodist Church was meeting in I
Cincinnati and when they heard |
of the battle, the church at once
decided to enter Texas:
Volunteers were called for, men
who would risk their lives in the
wild-frontier country.
Honor Lives
With Secret
Of Governor
-— Texas- Legends-----
THERE is a story handed down
Freedom’s Shaft
Taller than the Washington
monument will be this imprest
John Sutton
Fought Long
For Texas
1 ’——Herdes of lexds------
TOHN s. SUTTON of Newcastle
U County, Delaware, has already
been memorialized as a Texas
| hero by having a county named-
tor him. because his name stands
'but in bold relief in the yellow-
ling records of military services
performed at San Jacinto.
During the struggle to affirm
] independence, John Sutton served
Texas with distinction.
In September, 1 84 2, a Mexican
J army under General Adrian Woll .
Imade a surprise attack on San
.Antonio, captured it, and took 67 €
prisoners', including the entire i
I personnel of the district court. I
His army was pursued by a volun- 1
teer contingent of 1000 Texans un- :
j der Gen. Alexander Somervell, 1
I who ordered his troops lo turn €
‘around and go back home after
they reached the Mexican border
she shaft erected on the San
Jacinto battle field near Hous-
ton. The memorial to Texas •
■ them,
freedom is being erected at A |
PWRST to volunteer was Martin
” Ruter, the first .Methodist
minister ever to receive the de
1 gree of D tctor of Divinity, a man
| who in his 54 years of life, had
been head of some of the largest .
churches in the country and who |
resigned as president of Alle-
gheny College, Meadville, Pa., to
take up the harrowing life as an
itinerant missionary,
• Dr. Ruter was a man of wide |
culture. He could read in six
cost of' nearly $1,000,000.
Five Soldiers
of Fortune Aid
*
THREE hundred of them re
fused, and rallied to the;
command of Capt. William S
I Fisher. John Sutton was among
languages, and one of his am# T (
lions for Texas was a college. He | exas Cause
was responsible for the founding
of the first university in Texas, ~---Heroes of Texas
although It was not until after | .
his death WIVE professional soldiers who
He was given wide powers helped make world history be- | finally
when the general conference sent | fore they helped Texas win her in- 1
him to Texas as superintendent, dependence from Mexico at San
He was to plan circuits, organize
districts, build churches, and, if Jacinto, lie in unknown graves
, | possible, found a college, | somewhere in Texas.
from early times in Texas con- | . . . •, Four, Felix Wardzinski, Napo-
cerning one of the 13 governors TN a letter written as a report of leon Dembrisky and Francis and
whose headquarters was in San
Antonio during the half century
between 1731 and 1780.
The palace of these governors,
an unpretentious mansion, still
Line F(
Joble
S
Local Taxi
In Show
OnF
A STRING
A as a Re
Rose when tl
morrow or T
Worth’s Front
Gordon
We’re no
It’s our
, . . I Dionne and
Capt. Fisher attacked the towns.: _
of Mier on Christmas Eve, losing nation-wide p
I fewer than a score of men bull, warms up.
killing several hundred Mexicans / look for a hun
His foe was re - inforced, how-1) In our opinion
ever, and when his ammunition number of year
I ran out Fisher surrendered with all kinds of ar
the understanding that his menictier Centennial
were to be treated as prisoners” wisely in peggin
of war. o show on a color
The promise was broken. They b Nothing mea
were chained and marched intoV show business t
a the Interior. At Salado, they re-r Billy Rose is
| belled, overpowered their guards." Fort, Worth sh
j and 170 escaped. Many died off will sign up ol
| starvation and thirst and the restk like Burns and
were rounded up and Phil Baker, Shi
thrown into dungeons in PeroteA As a box-off
prison near Mexico City, Alwouldn’t swap I
• • • , I pad as It is, for 1
AS a penalty for insubordina A Anna himself, c
A lion, they were compelled too *
draw a lottery of black and whit
1 his work to, the general con- Adolph Petrussewucz, brothers,
| ference shortly before he died,
: Dr. Ruter wrote that he had now
established 20 societies with 325
; members, 12 local preachers.
stands today and has been bought |
and restored from its state of ।
i partial decay by the City of San
HIs letter read in part:
“My health was uniformly good
were natives of Poland and fol-
lowers of Napoleon. They fled to
this country when, their chieftain
was captured and consigned to
exile at St. Helena.
The fifth was an adventursome
beans from an earthen jar forhe
their lives. One of 10 was t<
The monument erected at Acton’ for Elizabeth Crockett, wife
of of Davy (rockett. Is shown at the left above, it the right is
the plant of the Hood County Tablet, weekly newspaper conducted
ip Ashley ( rockett, only surviving grandson of the Alamo hero.
He is shown in the inset. .
Mrs. Crockett, the Colonel's her death in
the county until
CAST workers, these committee- ......
F men! In less than four hours wife, lived in
announcement was made that the
committee had already expended T G
$238, had received $500 from Town Criers
Thomas F. McKinney, and had €xi • r
obtained credit to the amount of Spread News OT
$262. Though headed in the । re
wrong direction, the financial af Rova Decrees
fairs of the Republic were well 79
General Texana —
1860 at the age of
82, and the monument In Acton
cemetery is inscribed with the in-
| formation that she was born in
under way.
Attempts being made to nego-
tiate loans in the United States
North Carolina In 1 788 and that
she married Davy in Lawrence
County, Tenn., in 1815.
At the time of Ashley Crockett’s
birth Hood County had not yet
| been formed, the area being In
Johnson County until 1886. He
were meeting with little success.
All this time more and more
claims were being presented. The
debts had already been contracted
i and the general council had to
recognize their validity. Any
I twinges of conscience they may’Spanish settlements
i have suffered did not prevent Spain, or Mexico, was ruled by
t their issuing drafts-on the empty royal decree from the court
treasury to cover the claims.
CENTURIES ago citizens of
U -what is now Texas received 1876 became associated with th
grew up in the vicinity and in
their news from
a bell ringing weekly newspaper known as
Town Crier who stood at street Granbury Vidette
corners and churches and told the
populace of world events.
This was during the period of
when
New
at
Madrid Up until the time Mexi-
About this time a windfall in co established her independence
the form of a contribution total-from Spain in 1821 these settle-
ing about $7000 came from New ments had their town criers.
Orleans. Many patriotic citizens In those days the most impor-
offered small loans and securities, tant news were the royal decrees,
* * * | always rigidly enforced.
OTEPHEN F. AUSTIN offered The receipt of such decrees was
D his estate for mortgage; J. W. always considered an extraordi-
Fannin presented many of his nary occasion. Immediately after
slaves for sale; and Ben Fort high mass it was the custom of
Smith proffered eleven leagues of the town crier to take up his
land to the government. These station at the ecclesiastical cen-
contributions hardly made a dent ter of the settlement and read
in the enormous debt accruing them aloud
but they did land encouragement.
By Nov. 26, 1535, little more
The new laws would also be
posted on the church doors
than three weeks after the organ- | (Fort Worth Press March 10. 1030)
ization of the provisional govern-]-
ment, the number of outstanding: * MILLIONS IN OIL
claims were so numerous that the
council had to appoint a commit-
tee to approve and sign them
without a formal council vote.
Soon afterward a treasurer was
named, the offices of comptroller
and auditor created, and an elab-
orate financial system set up. This
system was probably one of the
most unique in history a final
cial system in a gov ernment which
had no finances or at least no
money.
(Fort Worth Press, Mirth 10. 1936)
he
The Motion
aw arding its al
ored Vic M. De
actor, for his ■
former," but <
the Bounty" s
1 Hollywood
"They evident
thing but the
forfeit his life. Seventeen drew 1
black beans and were shot in the
back. Sutton drew a white bean
He and the rest who drew white,
beans were imprisoned. h
Finally released, Sutton return
ed to Texas and served with dis £
tinction,in the Mexican War.
until the first of the present Ite___n nm
month. Since that time I have Kentuckian, John M Allen.
. cent , , n , Wardzinski and Allen fought
been afflicted with a fever, which under Gen. Sam Houston at San
I hope is now nearly subdued. Jacinto. Dembrisky and the Pet-
My travels on horseback have ex- • , nr - urn
A . 1 . russewucz * brot hers, crack artil-
ceeded 2200 miles and may have lerymen, fought with the Texans
„ her Texin somerinstanee too great in the six-day battle that drove
i the tar * 1 the Mexicans out of San Antonio
even to the tar mis-" - . in the early part of 1836.
ONLY a year did Dr. Ruter live * * *
U in Texas, his zeal for theTHEY were massacred a few
work being more than his strength J months later with Dr. James
could hear. That “fever" de- Grant’s expedition en route to in-
scribed as an inflammation of the ‘vade Mexico. Approximately 80
lungs was no doubt pneumonia, others were put to death in a like
Antonio.
The keystone of tire archway,
showing the blended coat-of-arms
of Spain and Austria, is an ex-
ample of the endeavor to bring
the fight at the Alamo, Mr.
' Crockett often wonders if his
"grandfather," as he' calls him.
lingered awhile In North Texas
before going to San Augustine and
later joining the Travis force at
the Alamo. It is known that
Davy was somewhere in Texas for
! six weeks before the fight.
There is one story that the
Colonel was once at Honey Grove
near Clarksville in Fannin Coun-
Later it be-
ty. Some say that he named
Honey Grove because he found a
came the Graphic and then the
Hood County Tablet.
THE TABLET is still doing busi-
1 ness in the building where it
started, and Mr Crockett has
been its editor since the 80‘s.
Although he likes to talk about
swarm of bees in a tree where
the town now stands, but the ac-
curacy of the report has not been
determined The grandson be:
lieves it possible that the hero of
the Alamo might have hunted
along Red River during that pe-
riod
• Fort Worth Press March 10 1936)
Famous David Crockett Tree and
Spring Are Interest Spots For Tourists
Gent tar Texana —
THE
spring that cooled the
A parched throat of the famous
Davy Crockett and the tree that
gave him a shady rest as he trek-
ked the dusty Camino Real or
Kings Highway to his death
the pomp and glory of Spain to
New Spain
sion post of
Bexar.
San Antonio de
PTHIS governor-general of
the
1 province of Texas sends his
brother as envoy, according to
custom, toTetch a Spanish maiden
for his bride. The long and try-
ing sea voyage of that day is ac-
complished and in the tropic port
of Vera Cruz the governor claims
his bride.
and so died, May 16, 1838 the manner when the expedition was
lather of Texas Methodism. Dr. captured by the Mexicans near
. Ruter had started work on the San Patricio.
building of a university for Tex-
Alien quit the U. S. navy when
as, and shortly after his death he was 18 years old to join the
the University of Rutersville was Grecian army in the war against
There is a great ceremony with opened in the town that was or-I the Turk,
colorful days of fiesta until the opened town that was or the Turks.
time arrives when the bride-
groom must return to frontier du-
ties. The bridal cavalcade makes
He wan with Lord
ganized at the same time as the Byron, the noted poet, when the
University and named for the latter died at Mesolonghi, while
missionary. This little college did in a Grecian uniform.
.h hath a not last many years, but It was Upon returning to the states,
its way with all possible splendor the first in a series of Methodist Allen joined Gen. Jose. Antonio
to Parras..
Leaving his bride and attend-
ants here the general and his
staff push on to San Antonio.
Through beautiful valleys and
barren wastes the rich earth rises
in clouds of dust after the long
drouth, and w hen the drouth Is
broken tenacious mud retards the
march of these soldiers of Spain.
within its shadows and relieved
his burning thirst in the crystal
waters of the spring bubbling at ,
its roots.
Today it is a towering specimen
with luxuriant foliage of massive
design. 1
colleges.
I Mexia in 1836 in the expedition
When the Methodists celebrat- to arouse Mexican Liberals to re-
ed the Centennial of the establish- volt while others were doing the
ment of their church in Texas last same thing in Texas. The expedi-
year, the medallion that repre- tion came to grief at Tampico
Rented their 100th birthday had where many of the members were
on one side the first Methodist captured and executed.
Church built in this state and on
Allen escaped with Mexia. After
the other the face of Martin Ru- the San Jacinto battle
He joined Sibley’s Brigade ft ( Candy Cal
the army of the Confederacy when s . ,
the Civil War broke out in 186
and rose to the rank of lieutenan e
colonel.
His brigade was cited for gal
lantry. •
(Fort Worth Press.March 10. 1936)
--------------------------j
Greatest Drouth
In Texas’
In 13th Century
----General Texana———
THE GREATEST drouth in th
THE Johnny
1 day stood
: door now is out
ling for the mi
'geboff work.
’ understand whe
3 der at the thre
1 who shove out
! Fort Worth Th
"I Meet the girl
DILLIE
Worth, is 19, a
. ate, and lives
E Mr. and Mrs.
ti 3425 Avenue I
1 Southwest's history occurre ,
between 1276 and 1299 A. D., a <
Since the discovery of oil at
Nacogdoches in 1866 to the early
part of 1936, Texas royalty hold
era have been paid $545,275,000
on the basis of one-eighth .of the
| total oil produced. During the
same period, the total value nt the
production has been set at $4,-
464 197.000.
chamber at the Alamo continues
to be a mecca for tourists in Tex- |
as. HOUR months alter Crockett |
The spring and tree fringe a I camped there he heard the |
smooth surfaced highway in the Mexicans sound the blood “de-
town of Crockett; which assumed' guello," no prisoners, as the pre-
Its name in memory of the for- lude to-their final'assault on the |
mer Tennessee Congressman Who
retired from public life to come
to the aid of Texas In her strug-
gle for freedom from Mexico.
Alamo at San Intonio. - ‘
Near Crockett is the’site, too.
of the first of the many famed
mi sions built in Texas at the
THE splendor and aggression of
1 the Old World meet the seem-
ing simplicity and submission of
the native Indians. Yet cunning
and treachery lurk everywhere.
Doubtless the .stern chieftain
rides free from haunting premon-
itions; Used to the treacheries his
military duties often disclosed, yet
dare he give ci • dence to hi " n
suspicions of his brother and a
young wife so beautiful?
While in Parras broods the
Spanish bride, so lonely but for
the charmin'; youth who had led
her escort from Spain. Days less
lonely yet more secret follow, un-
til the* sweet renunciation of an
innocent maiden is forgotten.
Conscious’only of a gift for her
lover, she has never thought of
being betrayed nor of betraying
a noble name:
ter, the first missionary.
(Fort Worth Press. March 10. 1936)
Books on Texas
he was
cording to an article in the Fror
tier Times of Bandera.
Thanks to tree ring calenda
scientists, who claim to kno
dates as accurately as though th
weather, man had written ther
the period has been pretty we
determined, says the article.
The story written by Mothe
Nature in the tree trunks revea
that major,' drouths 'have hit th
Southwest about every 300 yea
as far back as the record has bee
deciphered.
she has a winn
brown eyes. .
In long engag
• dance and pre
s burger to a st
• Has a movie 1
1 Taylor—but no
- bition: To play
J Duchin.
1
elected the first mayor of Halves-] The 17-year period mentione
above Is the first major drout
recorded in this manner. Anoth
occurred in 1573-1593, and sti
another shows in the tree ring
between 1870 and 1904.
ton, an office he held for .several
years. His grave is somewhere
on the island, but its location has
been lost.
(Fort Worth Press. March 10 1936)
THE FOLLOWING books about
L Texas may be obtained at the
Fort Worth Carnegie Public Li-
brary:
"Mexico and Texas, 1821-1835,'
by Eugene Barker,
“Texas Matchmaker," by Andy
Adams,
“Six Years With Texas Ran-
gers," by James li. Gillett,
“American Ballads and
Songs," by Joint A. Lomax.
Arrested as Pirates, New Yorkers
Make Way to Texas; Join In Revolutio
-----Heroes of
NEW YORK citizens who once j route to Texas. There th
I were hailed before a British committed numerous depredatio
Admiralty and tried as pirates, according to complaining citize
became leading citizens of Texas who had them arrested and jail
out of the revolution that won at Nassau, New Providence.
Folkindependence from Mexico in. Thirty days expired before
Largest State Has Long
List of 'Largest' Things
The largest helium gas plant
in the world is located at Ama-
rillo, Texas; the largest salt dome
at Grand Saline; the largest
blocks of marble at Marble Falls;
the largest spinach I farm at Car-
rizo Springs; the largest sulphur
field in Brazoria and Matagorda
Counties; the largest carbon
black plant near Amarillo; the
largest natural gas field at Pam-
pa; the largest oil and refining
industry at Beaumont and Port
Arthur; the largest air military
training center at San Antonio;
the largest and finest privately
owned race track at Arlington;
the largest wood fence manufac-
turing plant at Lufkin' and the
greatest natural bird sanctuary.
• Matagorda Bay to the mouth of
he Blo Grande,
254 TEXAS COUNTIES
, Texas has. 254 counties, the
largest of which is five times big-
ger than the area of the state of
Rhode Island.
Treasured as the town's dear- time the imperial flag of Madrid
ear landmarks, tree and spring floated its authority north and
have been remarkably preserved 1 south of the Rio Grande......I1 was I
by’civic pride of Crockett resi- built by De Leon in 1690 at San
dents. Pedro Springs, 24 years before
The Crockett tree was an urch the barefooted monks built the
NEWS flies as straight as the
Wcroy and quite as fast
the governor in San Antonio sits
at a game of cards a secret com-
| munication is . brought to him.
** Narrative of the Santa Fe Ex-
pedition,” volumes one and two,
by Kendall.
(Additional lists, will be published from
day” to day.)
1836.
admirality tried them on pira
The New Yorkers, 174 in num- charges. Their release Is said
her, recruited by Cant. Edward have been largely due to pr
loorehouse of New York City, sure brought to bear by’th
landed‘on the British Island of friends on United States gove
Elcuthera.in the
In, oak when the patriotic new-
come! halted his weary steps
missions at San Antonio.
(Fort Worth Press March 10. 19361
Pallor nor an unsteady hand Is |
to betray his emotion, and ex-
cusing himself he rises and call-
CHAPTER T
%
Bahama en uoNM-Y
—id.
| army crush
Captain
------------I member of
1 8'
hem fought at
—acinte April
[ the revolution:
Mexico,
loorehouse was
e first senate of
Houston's Second Wife, Whom He Met In New Orleans,
Becomes His 'Guiding Star and Angel' In Happy Union
- - Heroes of Texas——
FOLK FESTIY AL
Customs of long ago will be
I leaded before modern audiences
at Bowie April 21 in the presenta-
tion of the Centennial Folk Fes-
tival. .
* 1
CAN HOUSTON'S second mar-
D riage was a happy union.
Houston met his second wife In
New Orleans where he had gone
there for surgical treatment
shortly after the hattie of San
Jacinto.
An article by R C. Burleson
In The Guardian of October,
1891, gives a glowing account
of this trip and the Texan's In-
troduction to the future Mrs.
Houston.
The hero of San Jacinto was
given a stupendous reception
by some 10,000 people crowds d
around the landing as the ship
from Texas docked at New Or-
leans. Though almost fainting
from the loss of Sood. Houston
supported by two companions.
Mood on the wharf, and made a
short and thrilling speech,
punctuated occasionally with
the roar of cannon and shouts
from the multitude.
Not realizing the prophetic
portent which his words might
have on his own future, he
closed with this sentence:
“Texas must conquer herself
— her passions and her sins;
and for this second greater bat-
tle we want to recruit a heroic
army of ladies and ministers of
- the gospel.”
Those last words fell upon
the listening ears of Miss Mag-
gie Lea, a brilliant and beau-
tiful belle of Marion, Ala., on
a visit to New Orleans, ’They
tiously makes haste from the
roomtu
On his death bed years later a
confession comes haltingly from
the lips of this stern old war-
. rior, broken in heart and soul A
‘ tale of wild and desperate riding.
| A change of mounts and outriders |
at posts along the way-on ]
through wastes and mountain |
son, “the hero of San Jacinto
and the reigning belle of Ala-
bama ‘met by chance' at the
Sath—Charles Hotel , and passes to Parras.
again were introduced “by
chance in the usual way.’ %.
A ' mission' ful-
made a deep impression upon
her.
In the words of II. C. Burle-
“She pitied him for what he
had suffered and he loved her
because she pitied him. The
grand hero surrendered to the
irresistible charms of Ala-
bama. A few months later she
M became his guiding star and an-
| gel. Under her gentle sway he
| quit all profanity and dissipa-
tion and became a great temper-
ance lecturer, a devoted Chris-
tian, and 1 baptized him at In-
] dependence Oct. 1854. He es-
tablished a family altar, and
died in the triumphs of Chris-
tian faith as a grand Christian
| statesman,”
filled and a hasty return. This
had been accomplished in five
days' time. Yet no one was to
understand until this day the
tragic death of wife and brother |
of a governor of Texas On that
fateful night long ago . . . when
a man's honor and the name of a
royal house stood vindicated.
(Fort Worth Press, niren 10,1936)
RELICS ARE EXHIBITED
Fifteen thousand articles com-
1
(Fort Worth Press. March 10, 1936)
THE United States did not know what she bought when she paid
I France $15,000,000 for the Louisiana territory. Ignorance of
its boundaries led to trouble with Spain. The United States felt
that if her southwest border did not extend to the Rio Grande it
at least reached the east banks of the Sabine. Spain did not agree.
This dispute led to the forming of the neutral ground, a hide-
out for outlaws who operated in both Texas and Louisiana. It was
founded by agreement between the Spanish general, Simon D.
Herrera, and General James Wilkinson, commander of American
troops in Louisiana.
The two generals set up a no-man's land in 1806 between the
Sabine River and Arroyo Hondo, a tributary of the Red River.
Neither nation was to rule this strip of land until a real treaty, was
made. In consequence where there was no government, outlaws
controlled.
This neutral ground had scarcely been set aside before Spain
got a rea 1 scare from the scheme of a dreamer In the United
States, Aaron Burr, one-time vice president, who killed Alexander
Hamilton/ upset two nations when he planned to carve an empire
1 Republic of Texas that was
throws
Justice
ing th
liwy
the c
for himself in the Southwest.
It was said that he intended to seize his kingdom from terri-
tory belonging to both Spain and the United States. His plan mis-
carried. He was arrested for treason. Although his trial ended his
dream of empire, Spain regarded his acquittal with suspicion.
She did not at any time trust the United States, but in 1810 |
her attention was turned to the interior of Mexico. There Father
.Miguel Hidalgo had raised the cry of revolt. "Death to the Span-
hibited this year by the oldestlards." He was captured and killed. The leadership of the revo-
| prise the collection cl relies ex-
town In Texas. The collection is
owned at Penitas, a Rio Grande
| Valley village that was establish-
cd in 1523 when Spain claimed |
'what is now the State of Texas.
lutionary movement passed to the hands of Father Jose Maria
Morelos He, too. was executed in 1815. But Spanish dominion in
North America was drswing to s close.
NEXT: Magee’s Inv asion of Texas.
(Fort Worth Press, March 10. 1936)
lowing the San
Algernon P. Thor
ramp’d 100 mi
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army, became ch
irris Corn ty folle
le Morse, youth
hember of the gro
la newspaper.
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Id in the Congress
1, was a colonel
lite Army during
1 the States, and
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of 1876 that g
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Press. March to. 1936)
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covers 26 2,8 98 sqt
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puntry with a la
Bras Texas meas
Brom the extreme
of its border.
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daughter of M
the Hollywood,
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and likes chor
there is no se
her life. . .
much") and f
flower if she di
four dances 1'1
vorite readin :
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Favorite diver:
;he pater Is li.
dresser.
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Blond and 18,
sister at 1315
. . . Was gr
Birdville High
made straight
ment. ... Sti
boy friends s:
drink or keep
Denies any se
tai lement a
there’s a Ilins
her life. . ..
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a dance at th
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King will me
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Tail Money
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on Friday 1
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them
will take n‘tr
ly after the
ance.
At Austin,
highest price
in Texas: $ 4
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eted by Guy
Lake Mans
will rush repr
for the event
King remai
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Chicago. His
ments sooth
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