The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 19, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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FREK II HARTS, FHKK MINDS, FKEK PEOPLE, ARK THK MATERIAL, AND THE ONLY MATERIAL, OUT OF WHICH FREE GOVERNMENTS ARE CONSTRUCTED.—JEFFERSON.
VOLUME 48.
BASTROP, BASTROP CCUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1!>, 1901.
NUMBER 3.
EMBROIDERIES, INSERTIN6S, LACES and LADIES' MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.
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We will place on sale a beautiful line of the above nameu goods at price3 that can't be duplica-
ted. These goods are all new and were bought for the coming spring trade, and we advise our
lady friends to come early so as to get choice selections. To make this sale more interesting,
we will offer all our Linens, Towels, Napkins and White Quilts at Greatly Reduced Prices, and
it will be to yoar interest to buy your yearly supply now. We know this sale will interest the
ladies and we invite you to call and see the good things we ha ve to offer whether or not you buy.
YOURS FOR " SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK RETURNS,"
STEVENSON & HOLT
ONE PRICE.
BASTROP, TEXAS.
CASH ONLY.
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4USTROP,
TEXAS. ..
DRUGGISTS
Prescription** carefully com
pounded hi all hours.... Fat-
knt Mkdicinks of all kinds
At Crowell, Texas, on the 10th,
Mrs. M. Steachan celebrated tier
100th birthday. Hormaiden name
was Mariah Matilda Young, and
she wan born in Philadelphia,
January 10th, 1801,. She has a
daughter 80 years old.
No prosecutor should be allow-
ed place on jury, hence it was
very right and proper that Mr.
McKaul should be left off the
committee to investigate Mr.
Bailey's connection with the
Waters Pierce Oil Company cases.
The press of Texas is quite
generally disposed to virtually
eschew politics for a season and
■whoop up diversified farming and
industrial progress. The really
useful newspaper has a good deal
more to do with the encourage-
ment of helpful enterprise than
with political discussions when
there is no political campaign in
progress.—Han Antonio Express.
This may be true and alright
enough if the other follow ac-
knowledged the truth. 1 lowever,
the wish is father to the thought,
but the Express will not find the
press sleeping sound enough to
wake up and find someone in the
basement.—Gonzales Inquirer,
The building up of town, coun-
ty and every public interest
should ever be foremost, in the
purpose of every paper.
JOURNEY OF DEATH. nights were cold and the ground Griffin sank down exhausted, lie
their bed. The only food fur-
Goo. Wilkins Kendall, old edi- nished them was a little bread
tor of the N. O. Picayune, was a and occasionally an ear of hard
member of the ill-fated Santa Fc corn. After passing through Al-
expedition. He and others give buqureque, one of the men died
graphic accounts of the suffering through exposure and want.
and death on the march. The Salezar cut off his ears to account
Texans were all captured and un- for a man mis®ing, threw the body
der close guard were marched to into a ditch and ordered the! the men, having devoured the
San Miguel, and thence on the march to re-commence. John flesh, fell upon the gronnd and
was ordered to rise, but was un-
able to do so. A Mexican knock-
ed out his brains with the butt of
a musket, cut off his ears and left
the body to the wolves. This
marcn lasted ten days and nights.
After a while a halt was called, a
lean and worn out ox killed, and
road to Santa Fe. In the course McAlester, one of the prisoners,
of the day the prisoners met a declared his inability to proceed
thousand Mexican troops on their further. Salezar shot him with
way to capture the Texans still his own hand, his ears were cut
wore soon asleep. In the after-
noon they were forced to continue
the march some miles further,
and the next day a long march
behind. Armijo, the Mexican off and his body stripped and left was made. Many of the prisoners
governor, was also met, whtr for wolves. So the march kept
directed the return of the prisoners on, a pint of meal per day being
to San Miguel. On reaching that the amount of food and forty
place they were confined in miles a day the distance some-
a small room, and a young priest times walked until the borders of
entered the room and told them the ninety miles of arid waste,
that one of their number was to known as "DeadMan's .Journey"
be shot immediately. He pointed j was reached. The night before
through a window and they saw starting the men were covered
a man with his hands tied behind
him and his eyes bandaged, for-
ced to kneel, when he was shot
with snow as they slept in their
blankets. Upon resuming the
onward movement the brutal coin-
in the back at a distance of three mander of the guard notified the
paces by six Mexicans. He was' prisoners they were to be driven
shot for attempting to escape.
Next Samuel Howland was taken
out and shot for attempting to
escape in order to acquaint the
through the ninety miles of de-
sert without sleep or food, and
with only so much water as they
could carry in their canteens.
remainder of the Texans of the! Many of the men were without
were unable to keep up with the
rest, and although they were bea-
ten and otherwise maltreated,
none were killed. Soon after the
custody of the prisoners was re-
linquished by Salezar, and a
marked improvement in their
treatment was observed, The
military commandant, Gonzales,
to whom they were delivered, ex-
pressed great indignation at the
conduct of Salezar, and placed
him under arrest. He also allow-
ed the prisoners three days to
rest -and refresh themselves.
Whenever the Texan prisoners
passed throcgh a place in which
people from the United States
happened to be, every effort was
hostile reception awaiting them.
On the 0th of October, the main
body of Texans, under (Jen. Mc-
Leod, surrendered in the vicinity
of Red Lake, anu in a few days
any such vessel. The march was i made to supply their wants and
commenced, and a steady tramp i lessen the hardships of the march,
all day was succeeded by a hitter though this brought suspicion
cold night. The prisoners were and danger on the Americans.
At Chihuahua a Mr. Dryden was
kept steadily moving on, many
all were brought into San Miguel' of them in a half sleeping state [ tried for supposed complicity in
worn down by hunger and fatigue, | and anxious to drop down on the the objects of the expedition, but
pale and haggard, and with way. To have done so would fortunately acquitted and released
scarcely enough clothihg to hide have been to perish with cold. All after a year's imprisonment. At
their nakedness. They werede- of the second day the weary cap-! the same .place the wife of Col.
tained until the 17th, when they tives toiled on. About sundown 1 Magoffin, a brother of a governor
were placed in chargeof Mexicans the report of two guns at the of Kentucky, furnished the pn-
under Salezar, a most unfeeling front was heard, and it was soon soners with their meals, coffee,
tyrant, and started for a march learned that a man named Golpin,' wines and other luxuries. She
of 10,000 miles (?) to the City <>f who had been unable to keep up, was a native of San Antonio and
Mexico. But a single blanket had been shot. About daybreak an old acquaintance of Col. Na-
was allowed each man. The next morning a prisoner named varro, of tl. 1 prisoners. While
near the village of El Gaily ('apt.
Robaido, a humane officer, as-
sumed charge of the prisoners.
Finding them worn out and una-
ble to continue the march on foot,
he sent for the alcade of a village
and informed him that he must
provide 100 burros for the use of
the prisoners. The alcalde re-
plied that he had not the power-
to fill tho requisition, whereupon
the captain said : "lam a man
of few words. 1 want 100 jack-
asses. If they are not here by
7 o'clock in the morning I will
make a jackass of you; pack you
with the heaviest man in the
crowd and make you carry him
to San Sebastian." The donkeys
came and the march was resum-
ed. On the 2nd of February,
1812, the main body of the pri-
soners reached the City of Mexico
and were quartered in the old
and ruinous palace of San Chris-
tobal, once tho summer residence
of the Spanish vicrtoy. After a
a few days those of the prisoners
who were pronounced fit to travel
were divided anu confined in the
prisons of Puebla, Perote and
Santiago.—Gaudalaupe Gazette.
The track of the M. K. AT.,
has passed Hunter, between San
Marcos and New Braunfels and
will reach the Alamo City in time
for trains to run over it San
Jacinto Day.
William Newfeld, was electro-
cuted at Sir.j Sing on the 14th,
for the murder of his mother's
cousin. Newfeld's was the thirty-
third electrocution in Sing Sing.
The remarkable oil mill at Beau-
mont continues the sensation of
the hour. It is said to flow 15,-
000 barrels of oil every twenty-
four hours.
Throughout this section the
'early plow is creeping on the
v heels uf the pickers.
W. J. MILEY,. .
DRUGGIST.
Hasthop,
Tkias. . .
Special and carc.ul attention
given to the Prescription I)e-
partment. and patrons waited
on either day or ul^lit.. A full
line of I'atknt Mkdicinks,
Pkkks mkhv. Toilet Aktic-
lks, Stationkkv, Ktc., Etc.
As an oil producer California
stands fifth among the states.
The National Treasury of
Mexico is reported short $300,000.
The Texas Live Stock Conven-
tion will be held at Fort Worth,
Feb. 12th and 11th.
At Waco, Duncan McLellan,
tried for murder, was acquitted
on the grounds of insanity.
A reported big oil strike at
Beaumont, is bringing that city
into notice all over the state.
The free public school system,
similar to that in this country, is
gradually being introduced into
all parts of the Philippines.
Mrs. Hortensa E. Waller, at
San Antonio, was awarded $20,-
000 against the Aransas Pass, for
the death of her husband.
Paris, Texas, is to have a cot-
ton mill to cost $100,000, and $85,-
000 has already been raised in
| two days. Let old Bastrop follow
| suit.
Over a quarter of a million
cases of Lagrippe reported in
New York, and seventy-five
/thousand cases in Indianapolis,
11 id. It is serious among old peo-
ple,. killing many.
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 19, 1901, newspaper, January 19, 1901; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205528/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.