The Albany Echo. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 26, 1884 Page: 2 of 4
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ALBANY
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ROHSON, KHiUr and
SATITT!I>A Y, JTAlf! • AKY
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is not a vacant; bnsi-
s or dwelling boost* in «Beil-
Down is Ton) Given county
steal pasture gates as well
cat wire. ^
prohibitionists say thev
[soon hofd a national con
arid nominate a uatiou-
cet for 1884.
/attending physician of
MacKenzie now states that
remains of the restora-
of" the Generai'sLmental
J|§ Dallas ■
Senator Terrell's bill
erence to the few
troubles and the reinedit
ft>r, w4tb its treatment
ith ref
!c tilting
there
also of
Scientific American says
glass a frosted appear
it is only necessary to
with a con)posi tion of
of magnesia diluted in
, with a little dextrine add-
7^ f•:'a v •. ■ ... • $
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m 0 -jm —
House of RepreseL ta-
on Monday #iere was held
session at which idr.
ojfati, of Clay county,
invited to address the
onse on the fence-cutting
ibJeg. A regular ;'Katiga-
bog-killing time was had.
papers say it was bettei
thanaciicus.
e courts in a number Of
IS cities are making trouble
the gambling' fraternity,
a gaming house in VVaco
, =m. In flallas most of tli«-
nblers are under indictment.
number, Charley-
plead guilty and com
twenty-four cases
him at a cost of $1350.
-Wealthiest ones are
he tried.
iu vthis pap*i will
an editorial which up
[ in the Dallas Herald of
f. criticising the Tprrell
law aud fence cutting
jtes, We count it the best
[a) we have seen in the]
ild for some time/especially
it reflects the sentiments
the majority of 6tockmen
whom we have talked, aud
ive made' it our business
r representative stock
' this section. Lord JJuu-
r would say of the Terrell
bat damned noutjeiise."
litre-
Lmlp
Ta-
ke once had an
miles, aud depth
u steamboat that
but its area hue
iW fiiilen a d
la only 22
i« attriliu
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the subjects of free raugjd aud a
herd law, has raised a storm at
Austin. Iwth by reason of the
prominence of its author as well
as the remarkable provisions
and propositions of the bill. It
is the only nieasuie that has so
far raised a storm in the legis-
lature. and judging from the
opposition thereto and its char
acter and sources, the bill is
never likely to become a law.
If it should be enacted as It
stands it will provoke a revolu-
tion in Texas, a confusion by
comparison of which the fence
cutting troubles would sink in-
to insignificance. North and
northwest Texas are especially
antagonists to .such measures
as this bill proposes, particular
ly fhat portion relative to a
herd law. To say nothing of
the wild scheme for the appoin t-
ment of pasture commissioners
and their peripatetic constabu-
lary army, provisions subver-
sive of all law and justice and
order,the bill deserves to be
beiten in the legislature by
reason of its proposed aud
very severe sections relative
to the herding of stock.
It is interesting as it may be
profitable to review the differ-
ences and reasons therefor that
exist between noith and south
Tpxas, or more properly south-
west and northwest Texas, on
this subject of a" herd law and
free range. It may be said
here, as we have said before,
that free range is doomed in
this state. Property or lands
belonging to the stats, and
when we speak of free range we
mean the school lands and
state's property only, when
used fey private individuals Cor
personal profit, ought to be
paid for. This is a growing
sentiment, aud one about which
the stockmen themselves do
not differ. They want an op-
portunity to lease the public
lands and pay therefor, and the
state ought to allow thetji to do
so. ff these lauds are to be
held aud used for the benefit of
the children and educational
interests of the state, let those
who use them, rich and poor,
pay for them. The old fr<je
range mist go, and appears
rightly to be the prevailing
opinion. When it conies, how-
ever, to the enactment of a here
law, men and sections differ.
Southwest Texas wants suoh a
measure passed. Northwes
Texas does uot want it, and
with reason too. .
In the southern and south
western sections the cattlemen
not only own their great pas-
uiptiou of water
ftum the
fe<id it. Some
who have just! hires under fence but I hey have
a visit to the|the utuios^facfllUei for ship
ui'er absorp
degrees of wealth are compelled |
to fenoe in their tyuids and. keep r
their stock off Other people's! I
land uiwler penalty of the loss
of ihe sulefc. The owners of al-
ternate pections uiust either
'fence their sections and destroy
their pasture, or fenoe in the
railway and non-resideut lands
and incur the penalty of a felon,
or purchase these monopolist
lauds at an enormous figure, or
drive their cattle to New Mexi-
co, Mexico or Colorado and say
to Texas "a long farewell." The
poor men who now pasture
their little herds upon the lands
the railways or th£ big owners
and those small farmers, nes
tors and other poor who live off
the milk of the great herds, are
fenced out and warned to keep
their few cattle upon their own
land, something they do not
possess.
The most interesting feature
is the result, north Texas cattle,
surrounded by such restraints
and with the imposition of
such burdens, fall fiour $7 to
$10 per head or are driven out
of the Btate altogether. The
big southwest Texas stockmen
fake advantage of the fall iu
prices and proceed to buy up
stock f&r their great pastures iu
the south'and over in Mexico.
Ttiere is lfiethod therefore in the
southwest Texas advocacy of a
herd law. Agaiu, the big stock
men must buy up the railway
and non-resident lpnds in
he Panhandle: aud northwest
Texas at an enormous price,
anything the monopolists want
ilrerefor, or leave the state. A
grand scheme, truly, for south
west Texas . and the railways!
No wonder the sentiment of this
entire section of the state is bit-
terly and universally opposed
to the scheme. It will prove
the political deaih of those men
who depend upon north and
northwest Texas for support to
assist in foisting such a disas-
trous and revolutionary tneas
ure ppon this people.
Let free range go. If men are
willing aud anxious to pay the
state for what they now use free
It would be a strange financial
policy not to take the preferred
returns, but it will never do to
fasten a heed law now upon
this State. Those who advo
cate it are striking a fatal blow
at the most populous and pros*
perous section of Texas. Not
to run these railway, and non-
resident lands up to a fabulous
priee and oompel men to buy
them or forfeit all stock ranging
on them, or leave the state with
their herds, is to compel their
owners to lease or sell tbem at
a reasonable figure Permit
them to collect a reasonable
price for grasf and nothing
more, lease ttye public lands and
stop short ojt anv such extreme
propositions as lien and herd
laws.
The Terrell bill means the
9 ll>* fifrf.i Brown Sup;ir, $1.
10 Ihs RW*. - $1.
10 lb* Lard. - : $1.26
S lbs Granulated White Sugar, $1.
SI llw Dried Apple*, * - _-$L
5 lbs linking Powder, - $1.15
12 iba Buck wheat Flour. • $1.
200 lbs Salt. - - - $1-75
Continues to Sell
THK
CHEAPEST GOODS IS
« Clans 3 lb TfMii.uoes,
13 It* Oat Meal,
5 Gallons Kupion Coal Oil.
1 In Smoking Tobacco,
1 lb Climax,
I lb Chewing Tobacco,
3 Bottles Snuff. - v
3 Cam California Fruit*.'
CASH.
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The BOSS STOCK In Northwest Texss and "DON'T YOU FORGET IT.
Have just received a Splendid line of
California Blanket**.
Underwear,
Clothing,
Fall and Winter Dress Goods,
Stetson HaU,
;1W£ Notions, ■ . ' •
fete.
Remember I Sell
CASS
AND SELL
Look at thk dmacacik*!
Boneless Codfish,
No. 1 Mackerel,
French Musliroons, (Imported.)
French Truffles,
Worcestershire Sauce,
Walnut* Catsup,
Ham Sausage.
E. R. MANNING,
Albany, Texas.
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CITATION. )
THE STATE OF TKXAS,
To the Hheriff or any Constable of
Shackelford county. Greeting :
You are hereby commanded to summon |
W. M. Woody, whose residence i** un-
known, by making publication of thli ci- !•
tatlon once in eac| week for four consec-
utive weeks prior to the return day here-
of, in soine newspaper published iu
Shackelford county, 'l ex as, to be ami ap
|>ear before the Horiorable District <"ourl
of Shaekdford county, Texas, at the reg-
ular term there<>f, to l>e holden at the
court house, in the town of Albany, Tex-
as. on the third Monday in February. A
D. 1884, then and there to answer the
plaiuti#'8 peUtion, tiled in a suit in said
court on the 10th day of January, A. D.
1884. wherein J. Blach A Sons ore plain-
tills and W. M. Woody aud J. W. Throck-
morton are defendant's, tile number ot
it who set-
r a new vnnril for
ut forty
Miut
I 'lake.
tb
t temp-ra
iv smoking.
every vane,
; io Umi oondi'
I, tl*ern was
of the pult e
elevation of
Uf the av«rn^e
Miivokeis wit*
by l.tSHI. that vl
rt Would bti
ib« liesii In
wan n kluK I,-,
Iu the lutlsr it
times It I*
i thin
ping their cattle everywhere. wor*t and most undemocratic
Tli«y are Independent of alter- m(.thods of settling thii dlftor
said suit being No. 106.
the «i«ni«nii
u>-wli:
_ The nature of
ilalntlffl(p demand is M follow.,
„ .Suit to remove cloud from the
title to lot three (8) In block one (l)f. In
the town of Albany. Shuclcolford county,
Texas ; that the plaintiff* are In possess-
ion of said lot by purchase from one J.
0. Lynch. *ho bought said lot fro"> dt-
fi ndant Woody an<l paid the i un.<hase
prlc4i and took possesion, but there was
no dead of conveyause from Wtrndyj, that
wmmmwKKm ■
Woody bought of defendant Thro, ■
ton by bond for title whleh hu bean sa^
kmoi
nate section# of land owned by
railroad* snd nou-renldentt, and
they are likewise ludepetldent
of a cattle trail and long drives.
They can raise their cat tie
within their vast enclosure* aud
ship the.n to market without
trespasdlfig upon or passing
over other lands than their own.
How is it lit north aud north
went Texan f Most of the lands
have been sold or leased in al-
ternate tactions, ihpse aectious
uot in the hands of stookmen
Inting owned by railways and
nott leildentN. The cattle tak«n
to market from these northwnst
ranches must be driven nw a
ffval extent of cerrltory ami
neri>Si 'he lauds of hundred
different owneri. Ifiven tlioae
who own large pasters under
Hml are otherwise Inde
of a lM rd Is* are yet
uff from Ihe markei lf 4km
m is cut off. The efWrta up
, ,,m be eaally Men of islj
ence of opiuiofi. ia directly in
tlie hands of the enemies of
proftess In nortli Texas apd
the severest blow th&t has ever
been struck at the great caitle
industry of Texai.
Islhnir IMalntlfls ask to have the cloud
removed from their title, uuluted Iu their
possession and general reliat. I
Herein fall n«< but have you then and
there this writ, Vlth your endorsement |
thcraort, showing Iww you liav# executctff
llmsaina. ' ^ , ,vi i
Witness, He nil Spears, (lerk of tlie Dla-
trlet Court of Hlwtckelford county. Texss. i
Given under my hand ami seal of said
court, at office in Allsuly. Texas, this Uie
10th day of .lanusry, A. D. 1884.
HA ML Ni'KAKS.
Clerk District C^urt, J
Shackelford ( ounty, Texss.
BvTlios. Hall, I)
BRUCKNER'S
PHARMACY
11.. s.l
Deputy.
U H A 11 is E Y ' 8
DRE8 8 MAKING.
JtU8. HOPE & H U8BKLL,
Fashionable Dress Maters,
l.adles Good* Selected, <' ♦ aud rttt#d In
llw l.stest Styles.
Hlinp corner Walnut stMMt aud railroad
crossing, Allmny, Texas. "W
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HalU ( eantv
A iiM-eUng of tl e lUHs <]ounty Cattle
Go., will lieheW In Albany Mon<l«y l^sb.
ruary 4tli. All memliers of Uie «om| any
sn- notified to tHislwese of
liti|N>rt«itee will eome Is'ttiw the uumllng.
|ti K< IIC'Alfl/lil f t
|| Fmnmmt
far Waif. 4
About four snd • lislf miles erest i f Al-
aeres of land sda| ted to farm
inte-eM In IIM aerea of
i m head of eattle. some on
rmnif, ami Interest In a Hook of sheep for
"• . , . oMKKK.
fmt.. *> us. lit,
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Apply to
A Hmn)
RESTAURANT,
AND BAKiiltY,
L. W. (1ANPHKIX,
t. II. Hll'1''
Albany,
Tkxas.
Ilotrd N il«« 'ky or wimk, with
Ol
OA M I'liELL & HILL,
Land and Live Stock Commission Agents.
without I'mIkIiis-
Vegetables, frulte, «)>st..i ,
, flam*. III sessoit.
hi i r.
A ITI.K Slid MIIKKI' Koit S Vf.K IN QDANTII IKS ro
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Robson, G. W. The Albany Echo. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 26, 1884, newspaper, January 26, 1884; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth393369/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.