San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1882 Page: 2 of 8
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SAN MARCOS FREE PRESS.
X H. JULIAN Publisher.
BAN MARCOS
TEXAS
TEXAS TOIiCS.
Dallas Las discovered a millionaire
who in connection with relatives is to
inherit fcW.OOO.OOO.
Tho Times Printing Company San
Antonio filed a charter on tho lOtu.
Capital stock $15000.
Tho total number of deaths caunod
by tho cyclone at McAllister in the
Indian Territory last week is fourteen.
Tho Missouri Tress Association
numbering seventy-five gentlemen and
twenty-flvo ludics visited Texas this
week.
A dispatch from Abilenostates that
about 00000 pounds of wool are btored
away in that city awaiting orders for
shipment.
Tho Continental Cattlo Company
filed a charter at Austin on tne JOtu.
Capital stock $100000. Their princi-
pal office is at Dallas. '
Oov. Roberts has appointed Judge
Wilson of Rusk to fill tho vacancy in
. the Court of Appeals causod by tho
death of Judge Winkler.
A few months ogo Goy. Hunt in-
vested $20006 in coal lands on tho Rio
Grando near Laredo and recently sold
a portion of his interest to the Rio
Grando and Pecos Railroad Company
for $2000000 a very handsome profit
on tho investment.'
Driskil and Day tho Austin Texas
stockmen purchased from the Mexican
Government a territory of land in old
Mexico a million and a half acres in
extent. They paid 7J cents an acre for
tho land thus securing a territory of
2344 square miles for $11250. They
will establish an immense cattle ranch
upon it. Capt. Hillard formerly of St.
Louis has bought 55000 acres of laud
Bixty miles west of San Antonio at 55
cents an acre for a cattlo ranch. Those
facta will show tho extent of tho cattle
trade in Texas and tho impetus which
has recently been imparted to it.
An Act to Extend tho Timo within
which All Persons whose Lands have
been Sold for Taxes and Bought in
by the State may Redeem tho same
Section 1. Be it enacted by tho Leg
islature of tho Stato of Texas That aJ
lands which have been sold for taxes
and boueht in by tho Stato shall bo
restored to the owners of tho same if
within twelve months from the passago
of this act said owners or their agonts
shall pay to the State tho original taxes
due thereon and taxes due for each
year since said sale with eight per
cent interest theieon per annum from
the date of the accrual of each year's
taxes and all costs which have accrued
thoreoH and 5 per cent commissions
to the collector under such rules and
regulations as shall bo prescribed by
tho comptroller of the State. Takes
-effect from passage.
On the dividing ridge between
Cherokee creek and San Saba river
valley there is covering a space of 10-
000 acres or more evidence of the
whole of this .tract having been occu-
pied by the dwellings of an ancient peo-
ple. Tkous mds of circular elevations
exist of a size almost uniform being 25
feet in diameter across from the other
line of circumference at tho base of the
mounds the elevations at the highest
point do not average more than 2 J foot
above the surrounding plains. Instead
of being mound shape round on
the tap they have in the center a de-
pression six feet in diameter. This de-
pression never exceeds in depth one-
third tho height of the mound. The
material of which the circular ridge is
composed is generally small broken
stones or gravel taken from the sur-
rounding deposits entermixed with
earth. The material of which the con-
tral part is composed is of soniowhut
different nature being earth and allies
intermixed with small fragments of
stones which show unmistakable evi-
dence of having been submitted to fre-
quent heatings the earth shows to have
been baked. Fragments of the shells
of mnllusks principally mussles of a
species differing littlo from those found
in the neighboring creeks at the pres-
ent time are common.
ery comnifrcial traveller drummer
alAumuri nr noHoitor of trade fchall ou
demand of tho Ux collector of any
county ol the state or any peaco officer
of said county exhibit to such officer
the comptroller' receipt above men
tioucd and every commercial travel-
ler drummer salesman cr solicitor of
trade who kholl full or refuso to exhibit
said receipt to sncn oincer on ueuiauu
by him shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and fined in a sum not
less thau $25 nor more than f lOO. A
merchant in th nieaniui? of this act is
any person firm or association of per-
sons eugoged in buying und selling
roods wuros and merchandise of any
kind whatever.
THE JAMES UAMJ.
An Editor on Deadheads.
Tho following just remarks on the
subject iudicated ubovo aro taken from
Fomeu'x J'rooresa: With what aro
called "deadheads" in general over tLi J whilo
railroads and at tho tlieutre l iiave
nothing to do tho present purposo bo-
in? to prove if possible and I think
it is posbiblo tho truth of two propo
sitions:
1st. That no other business is so
preyed upon by "deadheads us that of
inuruulisni. and
2d. That tho most accomplished and
successful of tho deadheads which af
ilict tho newspaper ofliccs are first
the railroads and then tho theatres.
In proportion to tho exponso in-
volved in its preparation no article is so
cheaply supplied as the newspaper. Its
cost to its readers is as near nothing as
it could well be and to mako a living
profit to its owuera it must look else-
whero for u revenue than to its snb-
scrptiou list. That in many establish-
ments is a positivo loss regarded by
itself but the circulation attracts the
advertiser and tho advertiser furnishes
tho sinews of war. To .get the adver-
tiser you must first get the circulation
and to 'get tho circulation you must
givo the people a paper that will inter-
est and please them. Every line which
newspaper publishes for any other
reason than that its editor thinks it con-
tains something the people wish to
know is more or less an injury to him
because it occupies space which other-
wise would be filled with matter which
would aid in building up or retaining
tho popularity of his journal. To this
must bo added the cost of putting the
"puff" in typo and the other outlays it
requires The wise newspaper proprie
tor limits the number of columns to
which he will admit advertisements or
increase his columns to accommodate i
rush knowing that to crowd the read
ing matter though it may temporarily
make happy the heart of his cashier
means speedy and permanent ruin. Yet
there is not a newspaper in the country
which does not give away in the course
of a year many columns of its valuable
space a trite but true expression
and more than that places these gratis
notices in positions which the money of
the legitimate advertiser paid down
over the counter could not buy. The
people who ask these notices and who
aro offended if they do not get them
are legion but no class approaches any-
where near the rapacity of the railroads
and theatres. If other newspaper ad
vertisers received free notico in the
same proportion as do railroads ana
theatres there would be room for noth
ing else. And not only are the rail
roads and theatres granted these free
notices but in many cases their paid
advertisements are inserted for much
ess than the regular rates. I do not
Texas Tux on Drummers.
The legislature of Texas has enacted
tho following law on commercial travel-
ers in that stato. and repealing existing
laws on the subject. It goes into effect
July 1 1882 and provides that :
There nhall bo levied and collected
from every commercial travtlcr drum
rner EuU'KiiMu or solicitor of trade by
sanii'Iir or otherwise an occupation tax
of ?."5 payable in udvauce; provided.
that the tux herein required to be paid
refer to the so-called criticism of plays
and tho "attention called" to the change
of time-tables on the railroads which
may go under the head of matters of
interest to the public though they are
of advantage in every instance to the
road or house of which they speak but
to the preliminary puffs of plays notices
of tho improvements along the line etc.
which are never paid for which are a
source of expense to tho newspapers
and which oftentimes necessitate the
omission of news. Why you may ask
do the newspapers submit to this im-
position ? Clearly the affair is in their
own hands. Ah gentle reader you do
not know the ways of the railroad aud
the theatre men ? They must be petted
and coddled more than any other adver
tiser ever dreams of. If one newspaper
denies what they ask another one will
grant it and away may go the advertise-
ments from tho sheet of the bold jour
nalist. There are a certain order of
advertisements which some newspapers
cannot afford to be without and among
these are the cards of railroads and the-
atres and this not because of the
money they bring in but because they
aro supposed to establish in the minds
of other advertisers from whom fair
prices eau bo had that tho circulation
is of some account. Those who control
these advertisements ure of course
a R are of this and presume upou it to
compel acijuiescenco in their demands
m... f d.t r Their Former lltuatf 1
Tnn.
Gallatin Tena"Ma
During the last few days great inter
est has been taken by our ciuzeua
rLttinir flirt oiivo on the farm of C
der. the well-known bank
er of this place. His farm adjoins the
THt.il farm nf T.nffan County. Ky.. and
; i..o vnr tin Ktntrt line on tho Ten
l nml tho cave spoken . of
above has for years past been tho rcn
iiAKvniifi nf the James brothers gang o;
nntliiirfl anil Will n. safe depository for
valuables of all kinds that they secured
on their numerous raids in mis cuvu
flirt PC Iff I .rated bandits havo rested aud
feasted alter many a hot pursuit by
the ollicors of tho law and it is said
that not a few too inquisitive persons
havo lost their livos while endeavoring
to explore tho wonders of tho caverns
the bandits wero in jjo&su&eiuu
of tho same. The cave is located in an
il Knot nDon tho farm and is sur
rou nded bv a dense undergrowth and
tiio f.ntranco to it is a mero 6ink
hole into which tho water -from tho
earth's surface flows forming in the
lmantifnl stream of water as
clear as crystal. Tho entrance ' how
over is larire euoneh to admit the . pas-
Hiirrn nf ft man ou horseback and tho
banditi'horses were frequently corralled
thuro for davs and niehts togetnor
whila their masters rolled themselves
up iu their blankets and enjoyed such
sweet and refreshing sleep as only a
senso of perfect security could givo
them.
The farm upon which the cave .is
located has for the last live years been
rented by a party giving his name as
F. J. Howard. Tho rent was always
paid in advance promptly and no
questions were asked him by Col. Alex-
ander who paid only an occasional visit
to tho place as it was located quite a
distance from Gallatin. There was a
log house on the placo containing four
rooms which were neatly but plainly
furnished. Howard was absent the
greater part of the time but where no
one in the vicinity seemed to know
and the only person seen about the
house generally was an old colored
woman and her husband who appeared
to have charge of the things generally
keeDiner the fence in repair and attend
ing the tow nead ot catue mat grazea
upon the farm. There was ever an air
of mystery and cold unsociability about
the place and as it was at least a
mile off the main road from here to
Adairville there were but few visitors
to it and their visits were of but a few
moments' duration. A better place
could not have been selected by the
bandit3 for the particular purpose to
which they applied it.
The discovery of his rendezous of
the bandits was made last November
by Detective Bligh of Louisville Ky.
who with a number of Logan and
Warren County officials tracked tho
noted robbers to the cave. Col. Alex
ander was duly notified of the state of
affairs and with the gang gave Howard
notice to leave the premises January 1
at which time his year was up. This
was a very imprudent step upon the
Dart of Col. Alexander as it served to
notify the bandits that their rendezvous
was discovered and foiled tne detec-
tives in their efforts to capture them
and an attack was never made upon the
cave for reasons best known to the
detective. And now come the strangest
part of the whole thing. Col. Alex-
ander subsequently believing he was
mistaken about his tenant's connection
with the gang wrote to him request-
ing him to keep the farm on the terms
as usual. The request was readily com-
yjlied with and the farm was occupied
until the day of the killing of Jesse James
was reported when Howard suddenly
disappeared as did also the old colored
couple heretofore spoken of also' the
old household goods.
On Saturday last Col. Alexander
received a letter from Sedalia Mo.
which read as follows :
Sedalia Mo. April 12 1882. Col.
Jas. Alexander Gallatin Tenn.:
Dear Sib I have vacated your prem-
mises forever. I thank you for the
many courtesies extended to your mys-
terious tenant known as Howard. Visit
the cave on your farm and you will find
something to interest you. I shall
avenge the death of my brother or die
in the attempt. I am sir yours with
respect. Frank James
Alias F. J. Howard.
and many other artbles too numerous
to mention; all of which is now locked
up in the vault or tue oumuer "F"-"
Rank in Gallatin for identification.
A photograph of a young lady which
among the effects. Several of the
watches have initials which may lead to
I- Mflntifleation! one . of thenius
pmrravod as follows: "From Hughes
tn TnllAV.
It is thought that more valuables may
bo stored away in tho cave and visitors
. ii i
are closely watcned aiioweu omj iu
visit tho place twico daily accompanied
hv cmdes. let muiiuuuei ui uui
nfrt. throutrh tho courtesy of Col. Alex
ander have had tho pleasure of seeing
it for themselves.
Au Egyptian Ostrich Farm.
Cairo March 20. I visited tho only
ostrich farm in Egypt yesterday it
Jies in the desert within Jive mile&Tof
Hiiiro. between the spot where riato
taught school and the tree under which
tho Virgin Mary and rthi infant Jesus
rested some' 1800 years agft. I had un-
derstood that it was very hard to gain
admittance to the fatm. "as--Alio stock
was very timid and f easily frightened
ond I knew of many travelers . vno nau
... - .in. . i ' i
been1 turned ' away irom iu kukjb.
Armed.' however with a letter. of intro
duction to the proprietor Mr. Vcdder
took a carriage and aftor a pleasant
irive throuerh several miles of acacia'
med avenues and past several ol tue
ihodive's lath-and-plaster. .palaces
was set down before the iron bars of the
entrance gate. My letter procured me
instant admission. The ostrich farmer
a sun-browned well-built intelligent
Swede dressed in a sack coat skull
traveling cap and top boots now ap-
peared and together wo went over tho
iarm. '
Tho ostriches are kept in fields of
desert sand about as large as a town
ot. These fields are surrounded by
mud walls about seven ' feet high and
are entered by wooden gates. ..The
first field we came to contained about a
dozen large females 21 years old
They were of a cray color well feath
ered and they appeared quite tame as
they stuck their long flat duck-like
bills over the 7-fobt wall and attempted
to pick at our hats blinking . all the
while knowingly at us with their pink
eyes. With their loner legs their
naked featherless necks and their two
clawed feet one kick of which will cut
a man s head from his shoulders they
formed a queer sight and when as I
raised my hand and said "Shoo 1" they
spread their wings and ran away at a
two-minute pace seeming to almost
skim over the ground.
Sheep.
Southern Jadtutrlei
No animal among the many 8rt
utilized by man is more general!?
tivated than sheep. From thoTronU i
to the Arctio regions they thrive j
furnish their breeders ithcapiuifi
and a universal material for clothi1
They oro tho most economical anim f
to raiso living and thriving best wtt
scarcely any other could subsist n
amount of caro ueooasary to be u!
stowed upon them is small yet the rt
turns from a well conditioned flock u
very large. Iu newly settled
thoy form tho most available nucleiu to
other brauchos of stock breeding anX
farming particularly is tho fact noti
ceablo in Australia New Zealand and
California. Those countries are 'bleat
with a mild climate rolling and moun-
tainous lands producing spontaneous
grasses and other vegetable growth.
THOUSAND-DOLLAR OSTRICHES.
"Each of these birds" said Mr. Ved-
der "is worth from $1000 to $1500.
Their feathers alone bring each season
over $150 and we estimate each bird as
representing an income of 50 or $250
a year .between tneir leatners and
their eggs they ought to produce that."
Then ostrich farming is I suppose
a profitable business? I here asked.
"Yes it f-hould be" was the reply;
"iL. costs very little to keep the birds
They live on beans and barley and
sand. About $2 a month will pay for
our birds food and the sand of which
they eat from fourteen to sixteen
pounds daily costs nothing. I have 100
acres of land here most of which is as
you see desert and I now have seventy
ostriches of various ages from 2i years
to 12 days old. Besides this I have
over 100 eggs hatching and in the
spring I will have about 120 more fine
birds." Cleveland Leader.
prices
commodities ore
for tho free insertion
the other.
of this that and
Picte John of Empire Nevada was
recently bereaved by tne loss ol ms
by buch commercial traveller drummer ;.Jf. ua -. w uW nr. r li
salesman or solicitor fcha.ll be paid to i bIlouijer aaj m?nt to the foothills
me comptroller oi iuuiic accounts
whose receipts uudiT seal fchall beevi-
dence of the payment of fcuoh tax; and
provided .further that no county city . tHracJ to the 1xlgeaai joyously fcc lect-
or town thall It vy or collect any occu-: ta A sh Vf to whoE1 he was
last raid as they still emit an unpleas-
'ant odor. Blankets and mattresses
were strewn about promiscoasly to-
! gether with cooking utensils and a few
; pieces of furniture luis portion oi
the cavo is perfectly dry and afforded a
.where Le buried tho remains in a ; comfortable abode for tho bandits. In
j hole about two feet deep covering the ! a niche in one of tho chambera was
grave with a pile of bowlders. He re-1 found a half bushel meisare such as is
n.ed by farmers and in it was found a
The recept of this letter greatly as-
tonished Col. Alexander who called
about him a select number of his
friends to whom'he read the document
and who were as equally astonished.
Keeping the matter a secret they left
the same evening for a visit to the cave
and entered the same with torches a
strange weird-sight met their view
rirst. th skeleton of four horses evi
dently left there by the robbers on their tncts. Then it is feared that as good
The Crop Prospects.
Those who wish to see high
for all consumable
very anxious for great crops of grain
this fall. With the great immigration
and the business activity all that is
needed is a surplus of grain and cotton
to export to see a revival of the pros-
perous times of '79 '80 and the spring
of '81. But timid and conservative
people are not bo sure about the future.
It is argued that in prosperous times
people do not go farming. They throng
to the cities to the manufacturing dis
tricts and become consumers of food.
During the hard tiaaes from '73 to '78
an average of 8000000 acres per annum
of new land was put into grain. But
since y tne increased acreage nas been
but littie over 2000000 acres per an-
num. So far the present year it is
settled there will be less land put into
wheat in Minnesota Illinois Ohio and
other States than was the case last year.
It is true there is a much greater acre-
age in Texas Missouri Dakotah Oregon
and California; but it is doubtful if on
the whose there will be as large an
acreage in '82 as there was in 'SI whilo
the home consumption would be much
greater due to the increase of con
sumers in cities and manufacturing dis
II t m ...
oyununjr ftunwu w iumi growtu and
increase. Tho fleece commands readr
sale at remunerative pricos. which
augmentod in duo proportion to the
CAro given tho ' handling of it. Xh8
couutrios where shoop husbandry ig
not a paying industry.aro in lo w.swam.
districts whero they are subjected to
many foot diseases suffer from au
abundance of insects and are the nro
ui miu uuuoiio. uicijrwuocu B186 U0W-
ever they do well. No better locality
than the mountains and table-lands of
Tennessee could be found for sheep
husbandry and it will not bo many
years before immense flocks of them
will be found roaming over tho thou-
sands upon thousands of acres of land
in those regions at preseat unoccupied
and unproductive.
There being many varieties of sheep
those intending to embark in their
breeding should select the variety best
suited to the character of country they
are to be bred in and whether for wool
or food. The Cotswolds and Merinos
are by far the best fleece producers
while the Southdowns and black faoed
sheep of Scotland make the preferable
meat. . In Belgium and other moun-
tainous regions of Europe there in
a breed of smalt sheep similar in ap-
pearance to the Welch . .which are
valued highly for table uso and their
flesh sells for more money than any
other variety; they could bo raised as
well in this country as Europe and
might prove a profitable investment to
farmers living near large cities or
where transportation is at hand.
Merino sheep' produce the finest
quality of wool though to grow them
successfully much more care is required
and better accommodations necessary
for their keeping than many other full
fleeced sheep.
The advantage of sheep culture how
ever lies in its cheapness certainty of
crop and a ready market for the
produce wool and palatable food; of
course the common breed is improved
by crossing 'it with thorough-breds;
even this is not essential to make them
pay; but as Southern Industries is
an advocate of the thoroughbred
strains as it is of advancement in every
branch of industry it must for consis
tency's sake claim superior advantages
for superior articles.
The Game of Texas.
Let the hunter come to Ysleta and
procure a good saddle animal and one
for packing his traps on and start for
the Guadalupe or Waco Mountains.
The large cinnamon or brown bear
second in ferocity and size to the
dreaded grizzly of California; the well-
known black bear deer panther Mex-
ican lion fox turkey and species of elk
with which these mountains are filled
while on the plains the antelope is found
in endless quantities going in .herds of
from 50 to 200; and the mountain
streams of which the Black Eiver and
the Blue River are the most noted are
filled with mountain trout and the
lakes are covered at all seasons of the
year with ducks including the millard
grayback and all the varieties of teal.
In the low country and along the river
are found the noted California quail
and sage hen. The quail aro of a spe-
cies that are very easily netted and
their abundance can best be illustrated
by the fact that last year two of our
citizens netted over 2500. El raso
Times.
crops are coutinous year after year bad
crops may also succeed one another for
several seasons. The country wa
phenomenally prosperous for three
years preceding the death of President
Garfield. Perhaps tho pendulum is
about to6wing in the other direction.
DemoresCs Monthly for June
ration tax upon
cller drummer fc-iloiaa cr solicitor;
provided that nothing hert-iii coLtained
bhall apply to any oae soliciting ub-
scriptiousfor r.ligKus literary or his-
torical bocks or maps or to persons so
liciting for Lursencs. newspait-rs or
"Wb.Lt part" asked a Sunday-se!iool
teacher "of the 'Burial of Sir John
Moore do yoa like best!" The boy w;s
Was there ever a better example of
miceLaneous assortment of valnables ; the witty and concise from an expres-
evidcntly placed there and forgotten by tion common to the real western Amen-
the robbers.
Amonc the
The Hog (iucssers.
"Hog guessing" has been regarded as
an amusment or tne ooraers oi civilisa-
tion or of those rude and primitive
times when greased pole chmbing sacs
racing ana even ruaer Bpons
numbered among tho most favorite oi
popular pleasures. But that busy and
bewildered person "the future histo-
rian." as ho turns the musty files of
the New York papers of the last quarter
of the nineteenth century will learn
with curiosity that among the incidents
of the celebration of Christmas was
"guessing" at tho weight of a notable
pig in a suburban town; that the affair
was not contributed for the entertain-
ment of the"peaKantry" but that among
the "guessers" were men of wealth
wearers of diamond drivers of fast
Inrn.ia liinl-r.l-a OT11 limlcPrS. and Si
least one man conspicuous in the man-
agement of public education; and that
so many persons who were no "guess-
ers" and did not even see the pig. were
interested in the sport that a report oi
it was thought to be worthy of as muctt
tpace as is often given to an importani
can than the answer of the Sierras measure of Etatemanship. "?d2
assortments were fomr i who when aited about the character i know what the future lastonaa
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th.in-l.tfnl f.-.r Moment an J thea re- i nine diimond pi.es (uprosea 10 oe au- . "
nnndj . thirty cold waicnes uxieen i -t 'i
gravestones ; provide J further that e - j crs he said."
plied: "Few and short were the rray
j plain gold rings twelve i-Uver watches J e first-clAs stranger.'
very much about 1 what relative importance Le will g""e.l?
that Le d ; this and other contemporaneous
is
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