Alpine Avalanche. (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1902 Page: 3 of 12
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The 8tat* of Tcsm.
County of jjrewster.
To Unknown Owner Greeting:___..._____
Whereas, The State of Texas,
through Its County Attorney, did, on
the 18th day of January, 1902, file In
the District Court of Brewster County,
in the State of Texas, its petition in
suit No. 1276 on the Civil Docket of
said Court, being suit brought by the
said Thtf State of Texas, as plaintiff,
against Unknown Owner, as defend-
ant, and the nature of the plaintiff’s
demand as stated in the said petition
being an action to recover of the de-
fendant as the owner of the lands
therein returned delinquent for the
taxes due thereon for the year 1900;
and, whereas, the name of said owner
is unknown, and upon the affidavit of
L. N. Halbert. County Attorney, hav-
ing been made, setting forth that said
owner is unknown to the affiant, as
the attorney for the State of Texas,
and after inquiry not ascertained.
These are, therefore, to cite all In-
terested parties and to make parties
defendant by notice, in the name of
the State of Texas, and the County of
Brewster, directed to all persons own-
ing or being in any way Interested in
the lands delinquent to the State and
County for taxes, to be published in
a newspaper in said County, one time,
a week for three consecutive weeks, In1
the manner and style following:
The State of Texas and County, of
Brewster.
To Unknown Owner and to all per-
sons owning or having or claiming
any interest in the following described
land delinquent to the State of Texas
and County of Brewster for taxes, to-
wlt: Abstract No. 2274, Certificate No.
4228, Survey No. 108, Original Grantee
G. C. & S. F. R’y. Co.; containing 640
acres of land, situated in Brewster
County, Texas, which said land is de-
linquent for taxes for the following
amounts: f9.61 for State taxes and
County taxes;
And you are hereby notified that
suit has been brought for the collec-
tion of said taxes, and yod are com-
manded to appear and defend such!
suit at the September term of the Dla-|
Brewster County, and
EmWem of the War
iUR worhl Is not so vast, after
all, but that our personal ex-
periences may bound it,’’ said
_|Robert Louis Stevenson on
sands of the Apian port, Samoa, as
he met the unexpected clasp c<if Amer-
ican hands and bade friend# welcome
to Imalia. his mountain home.
Aa an evidence of this fact witness
the following story," strange as true,
that wlil find pathetic echo In the
breasts of many old comrades who
wore the gray in the years of the civil
war:
Col. Theodore Allen of Cincinnati1
was a member of the gallant Seventh
Ohio cavalry, and is the only Federal
soldier, with the exception of Col. Wil-
liam Knauss, of Columbus, who has
been made a member of the Confeder-
ate Veterans’ Association of Ken-
tucky. One of (iol. Allen's comrades.
Capt. Martin Schuyler, of the same
regiment, who. though more than 60
years of age. was a commissioned offi-
cer in the Spanlsh-Ameriran war, re-
lated to him the following:
He said that when his term of eMv
Ice expired in the Philippines he drift-
ed about the world bent merely upon
seeing new Beenes and strange faces.
"Won by stories told by Stevenson
of the Navigator islands, now called
Samoa, 'Land of the Lotus,' In the
as hiB commanding officer' and Capt.
Bart Jenkins the captain of his com-
pany. Ar.u he refers to Adjutant Gen-
eral E. O. Guerrant and Lieut. Free-
than. He also records incidents con-
cerning Bralnard 1). Bay less of Cov-
ington, Ky„ and George Musgrove ot
Carrollton: He tells in vivid language’
of agonizing marches made by the hun-
gry, balf-naxed remnant of the regi-
ment through the Carolines and Geor-
gia. He said that the brigade was
then commanded by Gen. Duke and
that it was the last organized body of
men who nad the honor of escorting
President Davis through the South. He
said that when Gen. Duke at last made
known the fact that the hour had come
to surrender to the foe that lie, the
writer, took the flag from its Btaff and
concealed It under his Coat, intending
to burn it before allowed it to be cap
tured. ‘But.’ he added. ‘1 kept It with
me instead when left America, in
tending never to return.’ The Iasi
line reads: 'This is my last hour in
the service of the Oontederrcy.'
"From what the fisherman told me 1
BEACH OF 8AMOA.
South Pacific ocean, I concluded to
visit these, and did so, spending seven
of the moat delightful months of my
life. I was loitering one evening at
sunset on the sands of Savali when 1
saw approaching the shore, guided by
a native fisherman, a strange little
craft, at the helm of which was flying
State ol^Texas, tolugThe ne« regular! * that brought back to me those
term thereof, to be held at the Court stirring days of the sixties when the
House thereof, at Alpine, on the 8th
day of September, 1902, and show
cause why Judgment shall not be ren-
dered coudemuing said land, and or-
dering sale and foreclosure thereof for
said taxes and cost of suit.
Attest: M. A. Boyd, clerk of the Dis-
trict Court in and for Brewster Coun-
ty, State of Texas.
Given under my hand and seal of
said court, at office, in Alpine, Texas,
this 24th day of July, 1902.
M. A. BOYD. Clerk.
District Court Brewster County, Texas.
(SEAL)
The State of Texas.
County of Brewster.
To Unknown Owner. Greeting:
Whereas, The State of Texas,
through its County Attorney, did. on
the 18th day of January, 1902, file in
the District Court of Brewster County,
in the State of Texas, its petition In
suit No. 1277 on the Civil Docket of
said Court, being suit brought by the
said The State of Texas, as plaintiff,
against Unknown Owner, as defend-
ant, and the nature of the plaintiff's
demand as stated In the said petition
being an action to recover of the de-
fendant as the owner of the lands
therein returned delinquent for the
taxes due thereon for the year 1900;
and, whereas, the name of said owner
is unknown, and upon the affidavit of
L. N. Halbert, County Attorney, hav-
ing been made, setting forth that said
owner is unknown to the affiant, an
the attorney for the State of Texas,
and after inquiry not ascertained.
These are, therefore, to cite all in-
terested parties and to make parties
defendant by notice, in the name of
the State of Texas, and the County of
Brewster, directed to all persons own-
ing or being in any way interested in
the lands delinquent to the State and
■L*IB ill Ml.1!! 'I i *\ jr flip
a newspaper In said County, one time
a week for three consecutive weeks, in
the manner and style following:
grand old Seventh Ohio was having
periodic jouBts with Morgan’s, Duke’s
and Pegram’s merry men.
‘The'boatman allowed me-to exam-
ine the colors, which he said an Am-
erican rriend had given him and which
1 found to be conventional regimental
of fine bunting, the hues of which
were miraculously preserved, although
for more than a quarter of a century
the flag has been almost constantly
exposed to the weather. I doubt not If
those bronzed old war dogs of the
Fourth Kentucky could behold their
historic colors on its embellished staff
that they would at least find uo cause
to despise its method of uplifting. I
was surprised and pleased the fol-
lowing morning to be invited to enter
hla boat for the four-mile trip, which,
he said. It would require to reach hla
island home. Strange, 1 thought, that
the time haa come when I would fol-
low the rebel flag Instead of the union
standard.
About midafternoon my host pointed
out a little speck In the waters as our
destination. Passing splendid reefs of
coral, shady bays and crystal shallows
we made our way to the shore through
pictureque groves of cocoanuts. tama-
rands and limes, to his small hut,
which, like all those of that section,
was open on all aides, covered by a
thatched roof. He removed the flag
from the staff clutch In the boat and
earrled It with him to the hut.
“The day after my arrival my host
laid in my hand a little diary, saying:
The State of Texas and County of
Brewster.
To Unknown Owner and to all per-
sons owning or having or claiming
any Interest In the following described
land delinquent to the State of Texas
and County of Brewster for taxes, to-
wtt: Abstract No. 2656, Certificate No.
1130. Survey No. 15, Original Grantee
T. C. R’y. Co.; containing 64u acres of
land, situated In Brewster Oouftty,
Texas, which said land la delinquent
for taxes for the following amounts:
99.61 for State taxes and County
taxes;
And yon are hereby notified that
suit has been brought for the collec-
tion of said taxes, and you are com-
manded to appear and defend such
suit at the September term of the Dis-
trict Court of Brewster County, and
State of Texas, being the next regular
term thereof, to be held at the Court
House thereof, at Alpine, on the dth
day ef September, IMS. and si
cause why Judgment shall not he
dared condemning said land, and or-
dering sale and foreclosure thereof for
said taxes and coat of salt.
Attest: M. A. Boyd, clerk of .the Dis-
trict Court Is and for Brawstar Coun-
ty state of Texas.
Given under aty hand and seal of
said court, at odea, in Alplao. Texas,
this 24th ddy of July, 1M.
M. A. BOYD. Clerk. ..
District Court Brewster County, Texas.
(SBAL)
judged that the soldier ca..ie to th<
island about the year 1875. So please*
he said, was the stranger by the gra
clousnens of Its climate and wild fre«
mountain life that be had no desire
to seek further for a congenial home
" ’When dying.’ the old boatmai*
said, ‘he made me promise never te
part with the flag, the diary or th#
picture.’ I told the boatman that <
had some knowledge of the peopW
mentioned in the book and that 1 knew
that it would give great pleaseur If hr
would present the same to the Con
federate Association of Kentucky. 8t
great was my anxiety to be the meant
of returning the flag to the survivort
of the gallant Fourth that I offered s
substantial sum of money for it. Bui
he seemed bo grieved at the sugges
tion that U was not repeated. At sun
set he led me down the slope tc
where beneath a great cocoanut tree
his friend wks laid to rest. On a rude
hoard at his head was cut In letter!
the Inscription: ‘A Confederate Sol
dler; a Kentuckian.’ He said that the
soldier had ehosen this for his epl
taph.”
Lsla Giltner.
tng: ‘Besides this my friend, who
here, left nothing but a picture,’ show-
ing an age-dimmed ambrotype of a
little girl, probably 5 years of age. On
the reverse aide was written ‘Lein
(llltner. Daughter of the Regiment,
Carrollton, Ky.’ It was difficult to de-
cipher the handwriting of the book,
us R had evidently been water-soaked,
hut by means of a magnifying glass 1
was able to read disconnected parts,
which served to Increase my desire
to lean the whole story it had to tell.
The diary was owned and kept by
Henry Clay Renfrew of Midway, Ky.,
probably n member of the Fourth Ken-
tucky cavalry. The writer. Indeed,
Meets te have been a member of Sev-
ern! regiments as be refer* to ’My
Optimal. Basil Duke, and Capt. J. B.
He mentions Cel. OUtner
On Reading Newspapers.
Every man should read one good
newspaper each day. 1 do not mean
of course, that he should read every
thing in It; but he should go ovci
the entire contents, carefully making
his selections and reading attentively
the articles which give promise of
being helpful or instructive. The
weekly, and. more particularly, the
monthly reviews, are also of grea*.
value, from the fact that they famil
iarlze their readers with current his
tory—which, after all. is the most
important history—while at the same
time possessing some advantages
over the dailv newspapers, because
the editors are not compelled to ao
cept first reports, and also have op
portunlty to correct any Inaccuracies
which ir^y creep into hurriedly pre-
pared discussions of subjects. Nev-
ertheless. those reviews must over
but supplement the dally newspaper,
for we are not content, tn this age.
to wait until the end of the month
for onr new.i —8ecretary Moody, jp
Success.
How Two Minks Caught a Big Baas.
While standing on the iron bridge
that spans Salmon River below I^es-
vllle dam, Charles P. Murkett wit-
nessed a novel sight Sunday after-
noon. Two large minks suddenly
dived down and soon regained the
surface with a good-sized bass they
had caught. One had It by the head,
the other by the tall, and together
they hauled It ashore, where they eu-
Joyed a full meal. It la a well-known
fact that mink are deadly enemies of
trout, but It Is seldom they are
caught in the act of fishing.—Hart-
ford Courant.
P ref assay Resigns His Chair,
The resignation of Prof. Charles
W. Horswelf of the chair of Hebrew
language and literature at the Oarrett
Biblical Institute, Chicago, has been
accepted. It was tendered becaue-*
of hla extreme conclusions in higher
criticism. He had held the place for
thirteen years, and the trustees give
Professor Horswel! the highest praise
as a "ripe scholar and Inspiring
teacher.”
Hunting in Burmah
(Special Letter.)
tw w IUNTINQ for either the rhl-
I H I noeeroa or elephant la sup-
Lm«jJ posed to be the moat exciting;
form of sport known. But
to combine the two and hunt at the
same time for both an elephant and
a rhinoceros, and to bag both of the
big creatures after being seriously
wounded by one of them Is the kind
of a hunt that ought to give thn ordi-
nary sportsman enough thrills to last
Mm for a time at least.
Lieut. D. J. Munro of the British
ship Skipjack started out early In the
morning one day in last February for
a rhinoceros hunt In upper Burmah.
K© was accompanied by a native
hunter. Pee Mee, a tall, gaunt, deter-
mined-looking Siamese, and a corps
of native servants. Pee Mee made a
business of hunting the "rhino.” He
sold the horns of the animals to the
Chinese for a hundred rupees each,
and the skin and other parts of the
body bring a large price from tlie Chi-
nese who use them for medicine. For,
as Pee Mee quaintly said: “Anything
that Is hard to get is the Chinaman’s
medicine.”
Lieut. Munro and Pee Mee camped
for three days at the foot of a long
range of hills which here torm the
boundary between Burmah and Siam.
The country Is covered by an Im-
mense forest of trees bo dense that at
no time of the day Is a hat or head
Bom# people have to die before peo
pie dlmjpver amj good in them.
Lieutenant Munro.
covering necessary. In these dense
forest the sun Is never seen except
where some great giant tree has been
leveled by the lightning.
After following a small stream
high up Into the hills, where It had a
source In a wide marsh, the tracka of
a big rhino were found. Following
tracks the hunters soon came upon
the rhino, taking his noonday sleep
In a thick piece of jungle In the cen-
ter of the marsh.
As the hunters crept towards him
the rhlao gave a low grunt. Indicat-
ing that he was aware of the pres-
ence of enemies. The lieutenant
rushed forward until he was within
ten yards of the animal. The rhino
lurched toward him. and the hunter,
clapping his gun to hla shoulder, sent
a bullet Into the rhino’s left Bhoulder.
The animal turned and( lumbered
away with the hunter following.
Suddenly tho rhino turned and at a
distance of about twenty yards lower-
ed his great, hideous head and pre-
pared to charge. The lieutenant Im-
mediately fired again and put a bullet
into the rhino’s chest well down.
The animal turned with a shriek of
pain and made off through the Jungle,
clearing a road by sheer force of
weight through the dense underbrush.
The hunters followed, expecting by
the blood and foam which the rhino
left in his trail soon to overtake him.
At last the trail led Into a thick
lungle, and, as by this time It was
4 o’clock in the afternoon, the hunt-
ers decided to return to camp and
;ake up the pursuit again in the morn-
.ng.
As the hunters were going back
'Jirongh a range of hills densely cov-
»red by bamboos. Pee Mee suddenly
•topped, and, pointing forward, whis-
pered, "Chan, chan.”
The lieutenant looked and, sure
when opposite the elephant and about
twenty yards away drew a bead on
the projection at the base of the ele-
phant's trunk, Uguring that the bullet
would strike somewhere near the
brain. He fired, but when the smoke
of hla gun had cleared away he saw
the elephant still stood where be had
been before and was looking wickedly
for the hunter.
The hunter aimed a little higher
up next time and fired again. .And the
elephant turned and made off up the
valley, screaming and trumpeting
with pain.
The lieutenant crossed the stream
and followed in hot pursuit of hla
elephant, but suddenly came to a halt
as he heard a crashing in the Jungle
The Rhino Prepared to Charge,
ahead of him, and. looking up saw
that the elephant was bunting him.
The elephant was within twenty feet
of him. and there was no chance for
him to raise his gun; so the lieuten-
ant attempted to dodge to one aide,
but the elephant struck him a blow
that threw him thirty or forty feet
down the hill.
The lieutenant fell Into aome bush-
es which concealed him from the ele-
phant. whom he could hear charging
back and forth, hunting him. A ahot)
from Pee Mee’s rifle Bent the ele-
phant tn full retreat again, and tho
lieutenant, picking up hts own gun.
which was uninjured, again followed
after his quarry. He came up with
him once more, and this time put In
two more bullets. Just behind the ele-
phant’s left fore leg. The beast
turned agalu and continued hla fight,
and the lieutenant, being exhausted
from the effects of his collision with
the elephant, had to give up pursuit
and be carried back to camp.
The next day the trails of both tho
elephant and the rhinoceros were
again taken up and followed, and both
animals were found dead. „___
___7
Herat Many Times Besieged. J
Herat has been besieged more time*
than any place In the world. If the
sieges are accurately counted, the re-
sult Is fifty-two. It was the capital
of Timur, it was fought for by tl|£
Mohammedans, by the Persians, by
the ameers of Kabul, and there, was
always an ameer of Herat anxious to
regain his patrimony. The years wheo
Herat has not been fighting have been
rare, and Herat is a very old town.
During the last century it had been
unsuccessfully besieged In 1837 and
1838 by the Persians and taken by
them In 1856, regained by Dost Mo-
hammed, ameer of Kabul, in 1863f
lost by him to an ameer of Herat,
and regained by him In 1881, under
the last ameer. Abdurrahman Khan.
Why He Smiled.
The piano drummer from Wllkea-
barre came Into the smoking oar
smiling broadly.
"What Is It, old man?” asked the
white goods man from Fall River.
“Had an addition to your family or
got your salary raised?”
“Nope.” said the piano drummer,
affecting Indifference, "nothing apo-
dal; only Plymouth has been quar-
antinod on account of smallpox.*'-
"Anything humorous fn that?" In-
quired the white goods man, '
"My mother-in-law lives there,” re-
plied the piano drummer aa he took
a flask cflit of hla grip and “treated.”
—Llpplncott’s.
Threw Him Thirty Feet,
enough, through the bamboos he aaw
standing on the other aide of the
etreaai they had followed la the
Morning e large bull elephant, hla
glistening In the last rays of
the ana. The lieutenant stalked ap
the right beak of the stream, and
Gen. Sherman’s Sharp Retort.
Gen. Sherman could say the moat
pleasing and tactful things and yet no
one could be more sarcastic. He was
attending a large receptloa at Fort
Leavenworth once when a youth ap-
proached him and aald, familiarly;
"What a great bore these things must
be to you. general!" “What's that?V
asked Gen. Sherman quickly. “I say,”
repeated the other. "It must be such a
bore to you. meeting a lot of people
you don’t know and making them fool
that you do remember them.” "Yea,
yeo,” replied the general; ‘now, for
Instance. 1 don't know who tho devil
you are.”—Leslie’s Weekly.
Getting Pointers In America.
Albert Boyer, a French builder, I*
In this country getting ‘‘pointers'’ re
gardlag the American skyscraper
building. He represents capitalists
who Intend to erect a twenty*tory
apartment bouse In Parle at a o6at at
about 91,300,000. it will cover an acre
and a half.
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