Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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JACKSBORO GAZETTE
fcEVEN STATES GO DRY
3,000 SALOONS HIT
Iowa, Colorado, South Carolina,
i Arkansas, and Washington
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Enter the Pro Column.
Thursday, January 6, 1916.
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came as wild as deer and multi-
plied like rabbits.- Peace came
to Texas in 1848 and the cattle-
raising industry then went on the
boom, the wild herds were round-
ed up by their owners, or by
those who claimed them and could
round them up, branded and la-
ter trailed to the nearest railroad,
or to the cattle ships along the j weps greet the eye on
coast, and shipped to market. The }iand.
just like they were offering up
thanks for their drink.
Today, where once stretched
these lonesome trails, farms and
ranches, stocked with the best
breed of short horns and white
faces, and with windmills, which
pump for them anabundance of
j clear, cool water from artesian
DETROIT CAMPANY TO
COLONIZE EAST TEXAS
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Laud. Paper Shell Pecans Graft-
ed to Growing Hickory Trees
Thriving Well.
every
Statewide prohibition of the sale
and manufacture of intoxicating
liquors became effective at mid-
night Friday before new year in
several states, putting out of bus-
iness more than 3,000 saloons, a
large number of breweries, whole-
sale liquor houses and distilleries.
The states which are to enter
the dry column are Iowa, Colora-
do, Oregon, Washington, Idaho
Arkansas and South Carolina.
In Colorado, district attorneys
at a meeting agreed that, technic-
ally, Colorado 's constitutional pro
hibition amendment and the en-
forcing statute do not become ef-
fective until midnight Jan. 1, but
it also was decided that the expi-
ration of all liquor licenses at mid
night Friday liquor sales on New
Sear’s Day would be rendered
unlawful./ According to one au-
thority between $2,000,000 and $3.
000,000 have been expended for
liquor within the last week.
Arkansas will have its first
experience with prohibition when
the statewide law passed by the
last legislature goes into effect
with the coming of the New
Year. The Arkansas department
of tiie Anti-Saloon League has
announced that the league will
have workers in the field to see
that the law is enforced. Anti-
prohibition leaders have announc-
ed that no fight will be made for
the repeal of the law, at least un-
til prohibition has been given
thorough test.
In Iowa “bargain day sales” in
the 502 saloons of the state run
the day before closing. Under tht
mulct act passed by the last leg-
islature, statutory prohibition is
restored pending the action of
great civil war did not injure the
Texas cattle indusry, in fact it
put it on the boom by raising the
price of Texas beef.
It took a real cowboy to han-
dle those early day Texas steers,
whose horns were the most prom-
inent thing about them'. These
steers were as quick on their feet
as a cat, could run like deer and
their wind never seemed to give
out.
But however wild, active, and
full of general meanness, these
steers found the little Spanish
ponies and their riders more than
a match for them, and the Texas
steer has yet to be bom that the
early day cowboy could not con-
trol. '
There were many men, and
boys, too, who went to Texas in
the early days to become cowboys
and leam the cattle business who
had never seen a Texas steer.
They got back to their eastern
homes, some of them, sometimes,
with a whole skin left, which was
about all, for what the Texas
ponies did not do to them in the
way of throwing in a big scare,
the shrewd traders and cattlemen
did in short order.
But there are many who went
to Texas in the early days, and,
with a branding iron, nerve, and
brass faces, became “cattle
kings” in short order. Among
these were: “Shang” Pierce, the
owner of “Rancho Grande,” on
NOTICE
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The herds were always more or
less affected by the long drive to
the shipping points, and it was
necessary to graze them for some
time afterward if they were ex-
pected to reach the markets in
first class condition. Stock cars,
in the early days, were not what
they are now, and hence the long
ride and general strangeness of
everything always affecting the
wild plains cattle much more than
the same trip would now with im-
proved stock cars and methods of
handling.
An early day Texas steer
weighed about 950 pounds when
ready for market. From 1867 to
1870 259,000 cattle were shipped
from Abilene, Kansas, alone, and
most all were Texas cattle. Prices
for Texas cattle in 1870 were as
follows: Beef cattle, $11 per
head; milk cows, $6; three-year-
olds, $7; two-year-olds, $4; year-
lings, $2.50.
Two months was about the time
required to make a drive from
tlie various places where the herds
were rounded up and sorted for
the long drive, to complete it, and
the cost was about $2 per head,
besides what was always lost by
stampedes, theft, etc.
Most all these big ranches have
now been cut up into farms, or
smaller ranches, and sold; the
coming of the railroads has forev-
er ended the long drives; intelli-
gent breeding has almost wholly
Palestine, Texas, Dec. 31.—F. C.
O’Meara of Detroit left for his
home last night after several
days spent here and at Keechi,
just west of the city, where a De-
troit company he represents owns
thousands of acres of land which
are to be used for colonization
purposes. He says the plans are
to go forward without interrup-
tion, and the work is in the hands
of men who are capable, finan-
cially and otherwise, of doing all
the have planned to do.
One of the things connected
with the project O’Meara ; was
especially enthusiastic over is the
3,500 acres of second bottom
Trinity river land which was set
to pecans about a year ago. He
says fully 90 per cent of the trees
are thriving. Paper shell pecans
of finp variety were grafted to
growing hickory' trees. These,
he says, will come into ■ bearing
within about four years. *
which more than 25,000 calves j the old time longhorn,
calves were branded in a single 1 and the wire fences now guard
season. Then there was Richard |the tame herds of white faces and
King, the owner of Santa Ger-!muleyg> and the old business has
trudis ranch, which comprised | gQne £op good_Farm and Ranch
over 840,000 acres, and on which j
grazed more than 65,000 cattle,j “ 1 " *
. , . , , |10,000 horses, 7,000 sheep, and CALIFORNIA TO DIRECT
the next legislature and the p«o- J s (MX, goats. Three hundred Me*-
p e on the proposed eon.trtut.on- cQW and 1>000 saddle'
&1 amendment for prohibition, . ....
horses were in constant use. .
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JACKSBORO GAZETTE
FAIRBANKS INDORSED
FOR PRESIDENT IN I9l6
Former Vice President Suggests
Republican Pllatform at In-
diana Love Feast.
FRUIT SHIPPING
which is to be disposed of within
the next two years.
In Oregon the sale of any kind
of intoxicating liquor is absolute-
ly prohibited by constitutional
amendment. Drug stores are not!
emitted to sell liquor for any pui j
pose with or without a doctor’s!
prescription. Each family may
import for personal use a maxi-
mum of either two quarts of spir-
ituous or vinous liquors or twen-
ty-four quarts of malt liquors in
any period of four successive
weeks. No person other than a
common carrier may make deliv-
eries of liquor and the purchaser
of liquor illegally is made equal-
ly culpable with the seller.
In the sta te of Washington the
initiative prohibition law ratified
in November, 1913, permits resi-
dents to purchase from dealers
Plans Monopoly of Routing and
Directing of Crops to Eastern
Markets. i I
In a year King branded 12,000
calves and sold 10,000 fat cattle.
Then there was the O’Connor
ranch, below Goliad, with more
than 40,000 cattle in 1862, $80,000
was cleared on this ranch in a sin-
gle season. The O’Connor ranch
was started in 1852 with about -
1,500 head. These three big Washington, Dec. 31.—Plans
ranches were along the coast, but!for monopolizing by the Califor-
North Texas had its big ranches n*a State go\ ernment of routing
also; one man went to North Tex- and directing to Eastern mar-
as with but 60 head of cows and 1 kets the State s enormous perisli-
about 10 brood mares and in 181 able fruit crops were announced
years he had 50,060 cattle andplei her? today b*' Harris Weinstock,
ty of grazing ground for them all ! California State Market Dircetor,
Then there was John' Chisholm, a ^er extended conferences with
with 30,000 head, G. W. Slaugh- Federal officials. He said there
ter, 20,000 and many others. i was no indication that the De-
To reach the railroad the herds Payment of Justice would look
were driven to Abilene and Dodgeiwith disfavor upon the plan while
City, Kansas, some 700 miles. many high officials in other gov-
Some of these trails from the ! ernmental departments had heart-
outside the state two quarts of! , , » fr, . , • i]v annroved it
. .. r H coast country of Texas led across approveu
spirituous liquor or twelve quarts
of beer each twenty days.
Idaho goe3 dry by virtue of].
Htatutory prohibition. Most
the great Llano Estacado, or
Mr. Weinstock left for Califor-
“Staked Plains,” and the outfits nia late the day t0 Pro^nt the
were often for day. at a time Pla“ t0 lhe frult producers and
....... . . I without water. No animal is mor, shiPPcrs whose assent would be
of the state has been dry under than a thirgty steer_ and necessary under State laws. He
local opt,on and only about 150 ^ a 1(mg day,g ^ througll said he anticipated little difficul-
■aloons will be forced out of bus-|the hot gun both man &nd ani ‘ty in securing their co-operation
“Ti s Prohibition law »nced(,d r(.st_ yet got none, as the whole plan was aimed at
jaid to be the most drastic in the foj. eyery man had t0 be kepto„!givi»8 “every market the full-
JJnion It not only closes the sa- d morE or legg> a„ ^ght> to;cst quota of supplies and yet
loons, but makes possession of any.j. tl)e resllegs herdg uader con- avoiding needless feints.” Losses
kind of malt or spirituous liquor ;trol Th(j tMrsty would because of congestion and bad
A crime excepting wine for sacra-1, , , , n . , , routing had been particularly
routing had been particularly
! heavy in the long hauls of the
. . , , , J trot about all night,
mental purposes and pure afcohol ^ breakfa.t neat mom , ,
for medicinal, scientfnc and me- . whj(jh nQ one harJ,y had ,i]n< State s perishable products, he
(domical uses, which is procurable to ,wa„ wbm the crni;v herd said> dcsPito tbe best system of
only on an order in probate court wou,d fae permiMed t0 stri’ng out marketing that private interests
--- I on the trail again, their tongues |had bf“ able‘° dc™c-
I Early-Day Cattlle Business. hanging out almost a foot. When! I nder the law, Attorney Gen-
,, , . eral Gregory can not express an
In thinking of the early day water was finally reached thc,^.^ ^ ^ ^ ,cgality of ^
<mttle business one’s thoughts nat- way those steers would act was as 8C>heme jn advance of its inaugura
•rnlly turn to Texas. No one re-! good as a circus; some of them tion, but it is* understood tliat
such a monopoly formed by a
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 30.—At
a love feast here today Indiana
Republicans indorsed Charles W.
Fairbanks, former vice president,
for the Republican nomination
for President of the United States
At the same meeting Edwin P.
Morrow pledged to Mr. Fair-
banks the delegation from Ken-
tucky at the National Republican
Convention at Chicago in June.
Mr. Fairbanks was given a
noisy ovation when he rose to
speak. j j
. “The people have tried Dem-
ocracy,” said Mr. Fairbanks, “ anc
Democracy has tried them. The
result has been a reunited, rebap-
tized party of opposition. There
is no divided Republicanism—we
are reunited as of old.”
Suggesting a republican plat-
form for 1916, the speaker advo-
cated a foreign policy “just and
firm,” adequate preparation for
national defense, a protective tar
iff, a merchant marine and “high
living standards for American
workers. ’ ’
SURGEON GENERAL OF
UNITED STATES ARMY
Says Better Wag03 Mean Better-
Health. Greatest Cause of 111
Health Located.
Washington, Dee. 30.—Better
wages means better health and
until a way can be found to elim-
inate extreme poverty phsicians
are battering against a brick wall
in their endeavors to improve the
general health standard, Major
General Gorgas, Surgeon Gener-
al of the United States Army, to-
day told the American Civic As-
sociation.
“Physicians have located the
greatest general cause of ill
health and poverty,” he said.
“The best work that civic and
social organizations can do now is
to co-operate for better wages,
which will be followed immedi-
a.cly by better living conditions
aad better health.”
General Gorgas said one of the
chief reasons why the health
•.embers the day when cattb would drink nnt.il they fell down
were not in Texas. Duving til." and could not m0Te> whilc 0ther8! State government would he look-
^in *herK^dtT“ShcJ^Ttl^ l.w,]proM((m has been solved In the
ex-
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Villa Rather Be a Ranchman
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Than Country’s Ruler.
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After Villa what? asks B.'O.
Utecht, former correspondent
with the Villa ariny'. With the .
northern chieftain eliminated,
will Zapata, Felfx Diaz, Angelas
or Obregon organize a new revo-
lution? Will Viha'return to Mex
ico later and take the field agains
Carranza?.
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The Zapata brothers may cause
trouble for a long tiine jn Mexico
ruary, 19f5, when Villa was at
the zenith of his power and had
he so ehosen could have wiped
9Ut the Carranza forces, he de-
clared to me that he much pre-
ferred- the life on his Chihuahua
ranch tov the life of .president of
Mexico. It was at Irapuato that
lie made this statement. He then
showed- he was ill at ease with
the continual • traveling around
with troops and seemingly win-
ning without effort His advances
advances were monotonous at
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Villa is a wild, free man of the
mountains. He has spent most of
his life in the mountains as cow-
boy and bandit, a successful ban-
dit being much respected in Mex-
ico, and Villa certainly was a
success along that line and made
no bones about being a bandit
when he held Mexico in the palm
of his hand, for he confiscated
property and hank rolls right and
Ifet. But the others also did it;
Carranza, Gonzales and Obregon
are no exceptions. Villa, howev-
er, operated on a larger scale.
So the chances are, Carranza
permitting, Villa will be drawn
back to his old haunts in Chichua-
hua, where he can live as an
overlord and not have the vexa-
tions and worries that will be
Carranza’s as president.
Villa, while he never could
have been president himself,
would have made an ideal War-
wick if he had a strong man to
put in as ruler. Buthe had none,
so that meant his own final de-
feat. For after winning against
Huerta there was nothing else to
fight for unless Villa fought just
for the sake of fighting, and Vil-
la knew better than any one else
that he could not continue long
in that game.
laws, but they are too much of
the Villa stamp to elevate them-
selves as the power in Mexico.
The Zapatas just want to fight
and rob at leisure, now a trade in
Mexico. Diaz has too small, a
following to become a. serious
menace, although that he may at-
tempt an uprising is indicated by
reports now and then regarding
his activities. lie is not nearly
as strong a man as many of Car-
ranza’s or former Villa followers.
Angeles, although a trained
strategist and man of education,
has never been a leader or organ-
izer. Moreover he has announc-
ed that he is through with revo-
lutions in Mexico.
As to Obregon there is much
uncertainty, but there has been
no positive proof that he is dis-
loyal to Carranza, that he plans
to upset his chief or tliat he has
any higher ambition than to act
as Carranza’s chief military offi-
cer. Should Carranza see to it
that the only man who ever de-
feated Villa is rewarded. Obre-
gon will have no cause for plot-
ting against his “jefe.”
And returning to Villa, the vir-
tual dictator of Mexico for sev-
eral years, who commanded the
wealth of the country, who was
worshipped b 50,000 soldiers, wh<
defied and all but overthrew
Carranza, wdiat of him? What of
him, who but five years ago was
a peon who could neither read
nor write, but soon made his n&mi
world famous as a leader of men
and winner of battles?
Villa probably will never re-
enter Mexico for the purpose of
starting a revolution. Men who
start revolutions in Mexico do so
for sake of personal ambition and
usually because they want to be-
come president, and the only way, Palestine, Texas, Dec. 30.—For-
to become president is to start a mer Governor Thomas Mitchell
war and win it. This held true of
Diaz, Madero, Huerta and of the
dummies elevated by Villa and
Carranza. But Villa having ab-
solutely no desire to beeome
Campbell set at rest all doubts as
to his plans politically by an-
nouncing here today that he
would be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the
head of the Mexican republci and j office of L nited States Senator,
quitting with a good sized for-
tune, would have no reason for
renewing the revolution.
He is young, wealthy and re-
tains his old time ability and
there are many opportunities
ahead of him whether he stays
in the United States or returns
to Mexico as a peaceful citizen.
Villa has a ranch of 200,000
acres in Chihuahua. If he is al-
lowed to retain it in all probabil-
ity he will return hme after
TOM M. CAMPBELL TO
RUN FOR U. S. SENATE
Will Announce Platform at Earllj
Date aad Go Before People
For Nomination.
to be determined by the prima-
ries of 1916.
Mr. Campbell stated that he
would make formal announce-
mentat an early date and that
while his position on general gov-
ernmental questions is fairly well
known to the Texas Democracy,
he would in due time go to the
people directly with his platform
and upon the issues of command-
ing importance. He expects to
make a thorough canvass of the
State in the old-fashioned Demo-
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