Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 277, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 22, 1889 Page: 1 of 4
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Hesperian
GAINESVILLE,TEXAS. TUESDAY MO RNING, OCTOBER 22, 1889
NO 277
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THE GKBATEOT CXjE^.K,I1TC3-
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/\/\ Worth of Dry Goods of every Description, Fine Dress Goods, Linens, House Furnishing Goods,
^ ^ H I Clothing, Shoe^ Boots, Hats. Caps, Gents Furnishing Goods, Cloaks, Millinery, Carpets, etc., etc.
To be Sold at Retail at
SLATJGH1
WE have been Considering and Debating for Some Tilhe the Question Whether to Merge our Business
Into Strietly Wholesale or not, and
WE m HAVE m DECIDED
That we will, as Rapidly as Possible. This Necessitates A SACRIFICE of our Magnificent Retail Stock, Consisting Mainly
of Fine Goods, but Containing STAPLE and FANCY Dry Goods of all Kinds. OUR STOCK IS SO IMMENSE, it wiil Require
a few days to get through the Twenty-Six Departments Composing our Retail, but
The Sale will Commence Immediately!
AND PRICES WILL BE ADVERTISED IN A LATER ISSUE OF THIS PAPER.
♦♦♦♦ TO ♦ TIEUE ♦ ♦ ♦
We say, we thank you for your patronage for the past eighteen years, and we have always endeavored to give you the best
goods for less money than they could be bought for elsewhere, but we will
GIVE YOU A RARE TREAT NOW!
To TJ*e Wholesale ¥r*4* We Say:
Our Superior facilities, Abundant Capital and vast experience will make our house THE BEST WHOLESALE HOUSE
IN THE SOUTH.
Our Retail Stock consisting principally of fine goods now being closed out may contain some goods you need. Our Whole
sale stocfc is full and Complete and we solicit your orders and promise prompt attention and low prices.
CAREFUL ATTENTION GIVEN TO MAIL ORDERS.
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A DESPERADO t AU6HT.
Klaeh WMt Arretted la the Territory for
• Harder Coaiailtted la 1870—Hle-
lary of a Bala, Bad Maa.
Paris, Tex., Oot. 21.—Infor-
mation baa reached here that John
P. Cox, sheriff of Hill oounty,
Texas, has arreated Kinch Weet
on tha Canadian river between
Tahlequah and Muakogee, for the
mnrder of A. D. Martin in Hill
oounty in 1870. Martin had a ne-
gro In hia employ end had sent
him to a mill in the neighborhood.
Whila there West enticed him in-
to a game of carda and won the
wagon and team that belonged to
Martin. Martin went to see West
about it, and instated on the prop
erty being returned, bat West re-
fueed, and finally killed him in
cold blood. Weat fled the coun
try, and soon afterwards it was re
ported that he had been killed in
a gambling den in Mexioo. For
eighteen years the man had been
oonaidereddead. Recently Sheriff
Cox was told by a man who knew
him well that West was living
quietly under an assumed name
in a retired spot on the Canadian
river. Kinch West's career has
been a remarkable one. When
the war came up he was an impet-
uoua youth of eighteen, living in
Mieeouri on the borders of the
Confederacy. He joined Qaan-
trell and was one of that bold
gang. After the war he and others
of Quantrell's men came to Lamar
oounty, where they subsisted
by stealing horses, and amused
themselves by terrorizing negroes,
and other acts of lawlessness and
deviltry. They roughed through
,he Chocktaw and Chickasaw na-
,\ tinos up and down Red river from
Gainaaville to Fulton, and over
northeast Texas. In 1867 Willie
Pariah, an ex-Union soldier, was
murdered and robbed near this
City whila in tha woods at work.
It waa never known who did it,
but waa laid at the door of West
and his gang ot midnight murder-
ers. A vigilance committee was
organized, and one dark, rainy
night in the spring of 1868 the
house where West and his men
were rendeioused was surrounded
and West and two other men were
there in the fight, and one of the
outlaws was killed outright, an-
other wounded and captured, but
West got under the floor and es-
caped in the darkness. He was
again surrounded and again es-
caped, and it is said took refuge
in a tree under which his pursuers
sought shelter from the elements.
The man who waB captured was
hanged and West left the country
and never returned. The news
came back that he had been kill-
ed by cowboys in Western Texas,
where he had resumed the voca-
tion he followed here. This was
not the case, as shown by subse-
quent developmepts. He was de
scribed as a man of wonderful
coolness and courage, who had the
agility and ferocity of a panther,
and a score of murders in Missou-
ri, Texas, and the Indian Territo-
ry have been ascribed to him and
his followers. There is no doubt
of his arrest, and many will re.
joice that after long years the ma-
jesty of the law is about to be vin-
dicated.
HE HAD MRS.SURRATT HANGED.
In
His Offease.
PltUburg Poet.
"Consider youself under arrest
sail a man to a workman who
was boring holes for fence posts.
"What for?" asked the aston-
ished laborer/
"Fj>r running a poet-office with-
out without permission from the
postmaster-general 1"
Camp Meeting fixhorter—Young
lady, you should give your heart
to the Lord before it is everlast-
ingly too late.
Young Lady—It's too late now.
I promised it to Charley Brown
down In a hammock not over fif-
teen minutes ago.
The Wreck ef a Oaca Brllllaat Lawyer
aPolloe Court.
As Qen. Qeorge Foster stood in
the line of prisoners in the Har-
lem police court yesterday there
was little in bis appearance to dis-
tinguish him from the other
"drunks." His lanky, iron-gray
hair was worn a little longer than
common. A gray moustache
drooped about the corners of his
mouth and his large, gray eyes
were blood-shot. His clothing
and his person alike were lacking
in cleanliness. It was not the
first time that Gen. Foster had
stood in line in a police court.
Magistrates and clerks knew him
well. Policeman Ryan said that
Foster had raised a disturbance at
Harry Hill's in One Hundred an<
Thirtieth street and been put out.
He was very drank when arrested
but a night in a oell had sobered
him. No one was inclined to
press a charge against the old man
and Justice Welde let him go. He
went then to a laundry on Fourth
avenue kept by a kind-heartec
woman, who sometimes lets him
sleep there.
When he was arrested Genera
Foster gave No. 2316 Third ave-
nue as his address. Thornton
hotel is at that number, and the
clerk said that Foster had no
lodged there for severaTweeks,
but often came there to see friends.
"I never saw a man become
such a wreck before," taid an old
time friend of the unfortunate.
"His father, Dr. George Foster,
had a large prac'ice as a physi-
cian and an assured position in so-
ciety. The young fellow had just
been graduated as a lawyer when
the war broke out, and he went to
the front. He roae rapidly and
commanded a brigade in the Nine-
teenth Army Corps under Gen.
Banks. He led the assault oil
Port Hudson with distinguished
gallantry and took part in the bat-
tle at Baton Rouge. Near the end
of the war he went to Washington
and served in the Department of
ustice. In many important mat-
ters he communicated chiefly with
President Lincoln and Secretary
Stanton. After the murder of the
president Gen. Foster assisted in
the prosecution of the conspirators
and the conviction of Mrs. Surratt
was largely due to his talent and
energy.
Leaving official life, Gen. Foster
came to New York and dropped
into a law practice of $15,000 or
$20,000 a year and was courted on
all sides. He collected a fine law
library, became a Mason of high
rank and was prominent in the
Grand Army. Less than a year
ago the general began on the down
grade, after some domestic trou-
bles. Mrs. Foster and her two
daughters now live downtown
somewhere. From being unusu-
ally neat in his dress, the general
has grown to look like a tramp,
and he has no money, except what
he begs from those who may have
known him in better days."
THEY WERE MARRIED.
fro i
A Doctor's Trials.
Decatur, Tex., Oct. 19—The
celebrated Dr. J. C. Brownfielt
has been in attendance upon the
county court this week to etan<
his trials in the cases against him
for practicing medicine without
paying occupation tax or filing for
reoord the proper certificate. He
was tried in three cases, being
twice convicted, and acquitted
once. Fines and costs amount to
$195.91, and four cases remain for
trial at next term of court.
Young Man's Narrow Esoape
Death by a Mab.
Kansas City, Oct. 15.—Harper
Grafton was arrested yesterday for
seduction on a warrant sworn out
by Carrie Ida Cass, at Kansas
City. The sheriff ifound Grafton
in a suburb of the oity and brought
him back on the train. At the
station Miss Cass, her father and
brother were awaiting the faithless
lover's return. The girl was arm-
ed with a revolver and the men
with shotguns. The sheriff anti-
cipated trouble, and running his
prisoner through the train the two
alighted from the car and started
on a run for the jail. The Cass
party followed, shooting as they
ran, but inflicted no injuries on
the fugitive. At the jail the sher
iff had trouble in opening the gate
and Miss Cass, who led her father
and brother in the race, had ap
proached within a few feet of
Grafton when she opened fire
with her revolver, wounding her
lover in the arm. Finally the
Bheriff succeeded in opening the
gate and placed the prisoner be
hind the bars. The injured gir
and her father and her brother
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had an interview with the sheriff,
i and it was agreed that a marriaga
between Miss Cass and Grafton
should take place. A minister
was sent for and the ceremony
was performed in short order.
Mis. Grafton then withdrew her
complaint and the newly wedded
pair left the jail apparently satis,
fled.
to talk over the trouble, A few
minutes afterwarda two shots were
heard. An investigation discov-
ered the lifeless body of Barnett
with two wounds in the region of
the heart. The murdered man was
unarmed. Peters is still at large.
Carrie Black, upon being informed
of the murder, swallowed lauda-
num, from the effects of which
she died yesterday morning. A
posse has gone in searoh of Pe-
ters.
Bob Ingersoll says: "Here is
a shoe shop. One man is always
busy through the d*y, always in-
dustrious. In the evening he
goes courting some nice girl.
There are five other men In the
shop that don't do any such tMng.
They spend half their working
evenings in dissipation. The first
young man by and by cuts out
these others and gets a boot and
shoe shop of his own. Then he
marries the girl. Soon he is able
to take his wife out riding of an
evening. he five laborers, his
former cor anions, who see him
indulging this luxury, retire to
the neighb ng saloon and pass
resolution at there is an eter-
nal struggle etween capital and
labor."
BORDER HOODLUMS.
The PresMeat aad Hia Office-Seeker.
Chicago New*.
"I graso the situation" said
President Harrison, after listen-
ing for half an hour to the man
who wanted an office.
"That's just what's the trouble,"
complained the suppliant.* "What
I want is for you to let go of the
situation so I caff grasp it."
Levea the Same Lass.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 15.—Al.
fred Barnett and Allen Peters,
young white farmers,^had a diffi-
culty about a young woman nam-
ed Carrie Black' The rivals met
at a church Wednesday night,
when Peters asked Barnett to go
off with him a pieoe in the woods
Supt. Jasper says that the
manual training course in our
public schools is proving a great
success. It is now in operation
in twenty-seven states and is grad-
ually extending. The system is
not intended to teach trades, but
simply the rudiments of manual
industry, just as the higher grades
teach the rudiments of mental in.
dustry. Ten boys will need to
know in after life how to use a
tool or a machine to one who will
need to know how to use books or
a pen. It is therefore right and
rational to make the training of the
eye, hand and judgment and in
struction in tne use oi tools and
materials a component part of the
public school system.
They Steal Cattle la Texas snd Rib a
Distillery la ths Netaral Strip.
Wichita Falls, Tex., Oct.
20.—Deputy United States Mar.
shal W. J. McDonald arrived here
yesterday having under arrest,
charged with larceny, Tom Pe-
gram, William Cox, Nolan Stan*
ley and Art Howe. These men
are part of a large gang of men
who have been running an illicit
distillery and stealing cattle in the
Panhandle and running them into
the neutral strip. It has been
well known for some time that
such a gang existed in the strip
and McDonald has made several
trips into that dangerous country
working up evidence against them,
knowing that he ran a good chance
of losing his life every trip he
made. Hearing that the gang
were about to scatter, he procured
warrants for tour of them, and
with his posse rode all night in
the rain Thursday night, arriving
at their headquarters at daybreak,
taking them by surprise. No re*
sistance was made. Three of the
men had been there all night and
the fonrth arrived twenty minutes
before the marshal made the cap-
ture . Two of the party were ready
to start back into the Panhandle
for another bunch of cattle. These
are imporiant arrests and much
credit is due McDonald for the
skillful manner in which he work-
ed up the evidence to convict the
balance of the gang and will make
it warm for them until he has
them all under arrest or driven
out of the country. The prisoners
will have their examination before
the United States commissioner
Monday.
An able statistician computes
that the consumption of salt in
this country annually averages fif-
ty pounds to every adult person.
He does not state how much su-
gar is used in the coffee, tea and
things. The tooth of the average
American is rather sweet.
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