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as’ wealthiest cattle kings married a This week in
blueblood from Philadelphia on Jun.
17, 1902 in the family mansion at
Decatur.
Starting with a small herd of
Longhorns in the 1850’s, Dan and
son Tom Waggoner turned parts of
six North Texas counties into a 750
square-mile cattle empire. At the
end of the nineteenth century, the
colossal Three D Ranch covered
more than a million acres.
Electra Waggoner was born in 1882 on the family
property east of Decatur and named after her maternal
grandfather Electius. She and younger brothers Paul
and Guy were the three surviving children of Tom and
his wife Ella.
The girl grew up spoiled rotten in El Castile, the for-
tress-like mansion her doting dad and equally adoring
paternal grandfather built in the Wise County seat so
the clan could live in town. Gigantic carved doors, two-
foot thick walls, ceilings 18 feet high and other impres-
sive architectural touches gave the dwelling the look of
a medieval castle.
Ranch hands called Electra the “Princess of the Pan-
handle,” but her strong-willed mother had other plans
for the tomboy. She talked her husband into sending
the rough-around-the-edges teen to an exclusive finish-
ing school in Nashville in 1897.
Electra came home three years later a refined young
lady, but within a matter of months the Waggoners sent
her on a trip around the world to cool a hot romance
with a local beau. She returned in November 1901 with
a butterfly tattoo and a new fiance, Albert B. Wharton,
a Philadelphia socialite she had met in the mountains
of Nepal. This choice evidently met with her parents’
approval because the two were wed the following June.
While Electra was finding true love in the Himala-
yas, the residents of Beaver tried to change the name of
their Wichita County hamlet to “Waggoner.” Tom said
nothing doing but did consent to “Electra” as a birthday
present for his pride-and-joy.
To keep his little girl close to home, Tom Waggon-
er built Thistle Hill, a cozy 18-room mansion in Fort
Worth, for the newlyweds. He soon had a place of his
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owantern, A as in Awpple,” etc.
I couldn’t understand him and I
wasn’t interested in logging onto
the worldwide web under the tute-
lage of a guy who several times at-
tempted to call me Mr. Chris Wat-
lington but instead pronounced it
Mistew Kwiss Waddleford.
That’s when Kathy walked in
and demanded to know what I
was doing. I told her that the foreigners from Micro-
soft or something were explaining to me how to fix our
computer errors. And in that moment I realized how
idiotic it was that I had even been on the phone with
them that long. She shrieked at me to hang up then
spent 10 minutes tracing my steps to make sure I hadn’t
handed over our credit card numbers or our children’s
birth certificates or anything.
Then she googled “Event Scam” and voila! There
it was: people with thick accents pretending to be tech
support and tricking you into allowing them into your
computer where they can find all of your information.
It’s been going on since 2012, which was when the
world was supposed to end, so I guess the scammers
didn’t think they’d have long to get caught.
So don’t fall for that scam, OK?
Here’s another thing I think I think: it’s hard to get
into shape when you’re too feeble to sweat. For the last
three evenings, I’ve gone to the track to run or climb
bleachers or something to work up a sweat. Each of
those days, something on me hurt too badly to run.
The first day, it was my left knee. The second day it
was my right foot. The third day it was my pride. All
three days, I limped back to the car with dry clothes
and went home to take a nap, something I am still plen-
ty fit enough to do well.
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Three things I think I think
As I’ve been thinking on some mat-
ters that I like to think about over the
last few days, here are some things I
think I think.
People who are involved in scams are
evil.
Wednesday around lunch, a lovely
girl with a name featuring no vowels and
who almost spoke English explaining to
me that my computer had contacted her
office several times over the last month
with error messages and the company
was responding to those messages so that it might fix
the problem.
I explained to her that I didn’t remember any error
messages and she assured me that they existed. At
least I think that’s what she was saying. Come to think
of it, she could have been explaining the best method
for cheating at spades because I only understood every
third word. But her unintelligible English was soothing
in a confusing sort of way.
And even though the computer had not been acting
funny, our Smart TV which is hooked to our computer
somehow had spent the last two weeks interrupting
programs to explain we did not have enough bandwidth
to actually watch our programs...which is sort of like
turning on the water faucet and instead of producing
water getting a recorded message from the plumbing
that explains that you have requested too much water
for the pipes and perhaps you should use a different
pipe or simply use less water.
So I thought I might stick with the call as the foreign
girl connected me to a technical supervisor who fluent-
ly spoke the same broken English as his partner. He
asked me to go to my computer and explained how to
call up the “event viewer,” something I didn’t know my
computer had. He then asked me to click on something
that keeps up with all the error messages my computer
sends and sure enough, there were bunches of them.
He then told me in order to fix all these errors,
Texas Princess lived high on the hog
own on the same block, and brother
Guy took up residence right next
door.
To say that Electra lived high on
the hog is an understatement. She
was the first customer to run up a
$20,000 tab in a single day at Neiman
Marcus in Dallas. Fresh flowers were
delivered to her home daily, as were
samples of the latest fashions from
Paris and New York. She insisted on
being the first to try on any garment
and never wore anything twice.
Friends claimed that despite her self-indulgence
Electra had a kind and generous side. For instance,
when told a favorite salesgirl was out sick, Electra got
her address “and had her chauffeur drive her there.
The girl lived alone and had not eaten properly for
days. Electra put on an apron, cleaned the room and
prepared a good meal for her.”
That was nice, but money would have done the poor
woman a lot more good. Instead of sharing a tiny frac-
tion of her wealth, Electra bought her a bouquet of
flowers.
Dec. 25, 1909 was a Christmas to remember in the
Waggoner household. Tom gave each of his three
grown children a 100,000-acre ranch - Electra traded
Paul for the Zacaweista - fully stocked with livestock
and worth $6,000,000.
Electra built a new home on her present south of
Vernon and sold Thistle Hill in 1911, the same year
black gold was discovered at - where else? -- Electra.
Oil wells were soon pumping millions into the Wag-
goner fortune.
Eight years later, Electra and Albert bought Shadow
Lawn, a seven-acre estate in Dallas. The purchase price
was $200,000, and the lady of the house spent $90,000
more remodeling the showplace to suit her expensive
tastes.
Electra furnished Shadow Lawn with a half million
dollars in European art. She paid $42,000 for a Persian
rug, $18,000 for an inlaid Venetian cabinet and $37,000
for an imported marble chest. The drapery bill alone
exceeded $55,000.
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Dolan, Leah. The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 138, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 2015, newspaper, June 19, 2015; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1279012/m1/4/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.