The Fort Stockton Pioneer (Fort Stockton, Tex.), Vol. [9], No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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“*«S Fort Stockton Pioneer
IG NOTES
OF TIE GREAT RANGE
HAPPENINGS OF
IMPORT At
PARAGRAPHS
That Relate to
•nd Llkowita
In Typa and El
Portions of thi
* rl"H T. P. Sanderson will begin a
iiuii dui niiuii <1 ‘eneral movement of all his stock
. ... . bout May 20.
Gainesville chat
being reorganized
Dallas Mar a J Gibson *nd Ly°n8 *MPP«1.
stock, has iiitni itrom Baldridge, Thursday, to
a Texas n<ui.„J)sage, Oklm., twenty ears of big
being organized Pecos county grassers.
Professor A. \i
pe-ei«-tfs! sup. rid Wai^r Good sold, last week, to
.diiuiWof AllmnL n){ Murchigoni „f E|dorado.
.1. i loo head of mixed cattle and his
dropped dead . . _
field. nearMcKifwe on 200 sections of Pecos
Proposition ufounty grazing land.
School tux of Tel I*I
60 cents uit> d. f»j Joe Cameror., of El Paso.closed
Frank p. lioiii deal last week, with the City
the annual National Bank of that city, for
Associut.-d 1 :,,"b 500 head of stock cattle, which
have been on pasture during the
eountv, diet! at . '
sustained when,winter on the Pecos county
While plow inJ^nch of Walter Good.
fid go of Canatftf l-l X
w T To Stock Ranch Wlth Buffaloes
richly And Sacred Cowe
Col. John Slaughter, one of
the wealthiest and best knowrn
ranchmen of Wrest Texas, is
stocking his large ranch, located
in the Post City country, with
buffaloes. He has requested J.
W. Lovelady, formerly a atock-
|Wil" ‘ man of San Angelo, now visiting
here, to keep a good lookout for
owners of the almost extinct
tril>e of animals that formerly
I ' ' were so common uf>on the prai-
ries of West Texas.
FORT STOCKTON. PECOS COUNTY. TEXAS. APRIL 7. 1916
NUMBER I
THE OLD COWMAN'S APPEAL
Bf CHARLES BADCKR CLARK. JK
I rode across a valley range
I had not seen in years;
The trail was all so spoiled and strange
It nearly fetched the tears.
I had to let the fences down,
The fussy lanes ran wrong.
And each new line would make me swear
And hum this little song:
’Twas good to live when all the sod,
Without no fence or fuss.
Belonged in partnership to God,
The Government and us.
With sky-line bounds from east to west,
And room to go and come;
I loved my fellow the best
When he was scattered some.
W’hen my old soul hunts range and rest,
Beyond the Great Divide,
Just plant me in some stretch out west,
That’s sunny, lone and wide.
Let cattle rub my tombstone round,
And coyotes mourn their kin;
I^et horses come and paw my mound,
But don’t you fence it in.
FORT STOCKTON OIL AND ! INTERESTING ORIENT AND
SULPHUR DEVELOPMENT ROUND HOUSE NOTES
W. C. Lanmon, of Rankin, was
a guest at the home of W. R.
Duncan this week.
Fireman I. W. Bates was off
duty severals days this week vis-
iting the home folks.
Section Foreman S. H. Bean
FORT STOCKTON’S LASSO AND
STRING CELEBRATION A SUCCESS
,
c • anwyi,<.'d
chocAjjt,. a
T°%o had
*ny *®Tained
Only a very small herd of buf-ldays goat roping contest this
to Mr. Lovelady, are to Becure as pronounced a success by the
many head as possible. i many visitors from our neighbor-
A number of sacred cattle,Col. ! ing 'owns and states.
Slaughter’s latest hobby, have The occassion afforded an op-
been purchased by the man who portunity for many reunions of
formerly owned thousands of the old boys who trailed over
sections of land in West Texas. | west Texas in the “Good Old
^r:im comprising several counties bor-J Days” before the advent of
t,v dering on the Texas & Pacific barbed wire fences, automobiles
from rajjr<)ad it is his intention to and telephones.
herons
rno-rs,
,<•" in-
utting
ng up
cross the buffalo and sacred cow,
Mr. Ixivelady says. - San An-
gelo Standard.
Bulls For Sale
The decision of the Judges in
the contests were accepted as
fair and just, in every instance,
and the excitement of the sports
were as thoroughly enjoyed by
195 purebred and registered . of spectators
Hereford hulls coming ones. ,u,t . 77 , A. i
as by the knights of the lasso
who indulged in them.
The weather man was gener-
ous with sunshine during the
twos and threes. Bred pure for
30 years by Thomas Trammell,of
>ear Sweetwater. No better in the
allion. South. On feed at Big Springs,
Will j Tex., one mile out.
F. E. Abney,
43-3m Morris, Texas.
cows,
place
E. Cash paid for oid automobile
y. Hitf tires and tubes. Brown Garage.
u
STATE BANK
tutu STOCKTON, TEXAS
uro
AND SURPLUS
150,000.00
YOUR BUSINESS
supreme from start to finish.
While the contests were open
San. Holms
No time
J. 1 Orrott
No time
Job” Young
14 seconds
Jin Barron
___20 seconds
Dot S-.ith
17J ssconds
J. A. Wilson
No time
P ir-es: 1st $2*>. 2nd $15. 3rd $30.
Tl ! DAY’S ROPING S 'ORE
AND PURSES
NAM*
TIME
Jo! Young
No time
P» • Kennedy -----
No time
Ft Montgomery
24ft seconds
Cl i*. eir
15 aeconds
P; chai (Mum
.. 2S second*
L» e Harrington ----
20 seconds
I) 'c*k Smith
25 seconds
A 'en Holder
13 ft seconds
Jerry Monroe
No time
lien Pruitt .....
No time
V, W’ Weatherford
20 second*
J't.-. Wilson
19 seconds
Leo. Weir .
No time
(luiries Weir .........
14 seconds
W. C. Cotton ... ... ..
No time
Will Nix
N'o time
Sam Holmes ----- ....
17 seconds
’’om Smith _____ _____
No time
..Jilt Tippitt_____ _____
. ... No time
-ielf Stewart........
.....No time
T. C. Taylor ... ........
.18 seconds
Emmitt Rix ........
No time
' ieo. Burton .....
No time
Rov Stilwell .......
20 seconds
Drilling at the sulphur site
was resumed Wednesday at noon,
the repairs for the drill having
been received the first of the
week.
E. R. Liner, the drilling con-
tractor, reports that everything
is again running smooth and |
that he is in hopes that he will |
not experience another break- j
down that will delay the op-jand wife of Hovey- *ere trading
erations. *n F°rt Stockton Tuesday.
A letter from P. L. Cummings. I
who is well known here, to one ' Mrs. W. L. Powell was called
of our citizen, says: ”1 see from to Big Lake Sunday by the se-
the Pioneer the C. & A. people rious illness of her brother’s wife,
have struck big bodies of sulphur;
at Fort Stockton. I hope they Engineer Wright and Fireman
will go after oil. as they are a Lee were an extra crew in from
very strong company.” i San Angelo the first of the week.
A number of prominent oil.
promoters were in Fort Stockton j G. B. Wright, traveling auditor
this week, looking after business! for the K. C. M. & O., was in
matters in connection with the'our city the first of the week
oil development. checking up the offices.
The Fort Stockton Oil and De-
velopment Association report! Chas. Kirkland was off duty a
nice sales of shares to a number; few’ days this week, practicing
of visitors in attendance on the up for that match ball game be-
roping attraction this week. tween Alpine and Stockton.
So far as we are able to learn,
the oil development interest for Engineer E. C. Farris and
Fort Stockton is surely and satis- Fireman Henry Ory, of the San
factorily reaching a point w’here; Angelo extra board, made a trip
we can soon expect very active to Fort Stockton the first of the
drilling operations. week.
to have between one and two Mr. and Mrs. Sid Cavitt, who
hundred dismounted riders to his ranch near San Angelo wrere
credit. During his career but guests this week of Mrs. Cav-
him to a finish.
At the performance Wednes-
day afternoon Oscar McConnell,
better known as “Shorty,” of
the Kennedy ranch undertook to
Kirkland.
W. F. Averett, of the Railway,
Mail Service, who sustained se-
large crowd of
tors, with the result that he
gracefully dismounted at the
animal’s first scientific jump,
and now the unconquered steed Angelo,
numbers one more dismounted j
anxious specta-; moving train last w’eek was suf-
ficiently recovered to leave the
sanitarium, Wednesday, for San
and disconsolate broncho buster
Chief Clerk Swift, of the Rail-
his list. __ way mail service, out of Fort
We are requested by Charles. Wor,th- «^ here the first of the
jorge and Gaines Weir, who wee^ 10 see \\. K Averett, the
n imv rimii citi lust r nun) , iw
say thai'tht“ found^hTSami |five miles *«»tofBig Uke-
biggest hearted bunch of people
in Fort Stockton that it has ever
been their pleasure to meet, and
CITY ELECTION
The city election held Tuesday,
that they have received a square for the purpose of electing tw’o
deal in every way. aldermen resulted in H. C. Petty
Curves: 1st $200, 2nd $100, 3rd $.V)
W. C. Scott, of Anson, owner. . , . ,
of the famous outlaw horse. Blue mous,y elected.
to the whole wide world it will „ki,n,:so*»;sh<.pino some and reRsas Jay who has been ;attending large
be seen from the official score be- naxk
low that only the following y.t,unK
contestants availed themselves
of the opportunity to create for
Fred Montgomery
Lee Harrington
Sam Holme*......
themselves a reputation as ex- Gaines Weir ....
perts with rope and string.
MONDAY’S ROPING SCORE AND PURSER
NAME TIME
Milton Tippett _____ 30 seconds
John Young...... No tin.e
Pete Kennedy............. 15 seconds
Chas. Weir . ........ No tin e
Jim Wilson ------ ---------No time
I. ee Harrington........ No time
Geo. Weir ............ 13 2-6 seconds
Gaines Weir ........ .17 4*6 seconds
Allen Holder................15 secot ds
Dock Smith .............No time
Jeff Stewart ........ No time
Obie Harrell........... 17 2-6 aecoi ds
W. L. Monroe............. .23 seconds
Jerry Monroe.................No time
Oscar McConnell___________17ft seconds
Sam Holmes..................No time
Emmitt Rix............. . 28 aeconds
W. W. Weatherford.....282-6 seconds
Roy Conner................18 aeconds
Everett Girvin................No time
Tom Smith....................No time
Puree*: lat 8100, 2nd $60, 3rd |25.
On Monday, after the regular contest,
the following enjoyed a Match Roping
Contest:
MAKS SIMS
Allen Holder................16 seconds
Geo. Woir.......... 17 seconds
Gaines Weir...............18 seconds
Chas. Weir............ ... 18 seconds
Will Nix.................. 16ft aeconds
J. P, Kennedy.............SO seconds
Lae Harrington............14| seconds
Emmitt Rix.................28 seconds
Jeir Stewart......
Jim Horron
Auiry Harrell......
Pete Kennedy ...
Milton Tippett
Chas. Weir
Jim Wilson .....
Paschal Odom.....
Allen Holder
Dock Smith
Geo. Weir.........
and J. F. Victory being unani-
ously elected.
The Pioneer extends congratu-
gatherings with his animal for a lations to our newly elected city
number of years, also desires to 1 “dads” and feels sure they will
state that the Spring City and wear their new honors graceful-
Pecos county has the biggest , , e ... f ,, .__
.......... hearted set of citizens that he and »‘n faithfully and con-
16 seconds has ever run up against in his scientously perform their official
No time! years of travel. duties.
TIME
22J seconds
20 seconds
_____IS seconds
19ft seconds
____15 seconds
_____No time
.. . No time
N* titne
No time
/ No time
...j. No time
-. .144 seconds
. j No time
I. No time
Purses: 1st $100, 2n<J$60. 3rd $25.
THURSDAY’S ROPING SlORE AND PURSES
NAME
Allen Holder
Jim W ilson
Geo. Weir
/
TIME
...16ft seconds
____j[....... .. 19 seconds
Urv. „v„ .15 seconds
Gaines Weir (. .............No time
Jno. Young.................18ft seconds
Obe Harrell............. No time
Pete Kennedy...........12ft seconds
Chas. Weir.................17 seconds
Dock Smith ...... No time
Jeff Stewart..............21 seconds
Milton Tippitt....... .........No time
Jim Borron...................No time
Purses: 1st $100, 2nd $60, 3rd $26.
Mm Jay Tht Outlaw
One of the interesting features
on the program Wedneaday af-
ternoon was the riding—or at-
tempted riding—of Blue Jay, an
enormous six-year old outlaw
hone, from Anaon, Texas, be-
longing to W. C. Scott
Blue Jay has been making his
appearance at gathering! in the
Jerry Monroe...............i» seconds1 west for three years, and it said
First
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National
Bank
or
Fort Stockton, Texas
Hombor Fadurml Rooarvu Association and
Doaifnatud Depository for United States Pastel
Seringa Funds. Efficient Service
Your Account Solicited
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f the best
mr feed on
otherwise
det Court of
plaintiff, and
i hereinafter
udgments at
tive amount*
. 1916. and to
1 the FIRST
door of said
roceed to sell
interest and
to the here-
f the owners
sale, the re-
espective de-
le respective
and the pro-
uhject to the
♦ale, by pay-
•ty.
V
1915
Tax.*
Total
to Date
of Sale
» 2 96
» 25 75
2 »-r« !
26 97
9 so
27 53
2 M I
29 50
/ 9 I
25 82
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27 72
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25 97
3 so
2 t*f>
29 35
2 Hf>
25 *8
3 ft'-
27 70
24 i*2
,3ft.
32 39
1ft 81
3 00
3*; 27
3 oo
34 27
3 00
:*ft 72
7 25
53 89
K 75 |
37 13
« 85
87 17
•, n 40
3s 97
1 6 56
30 59
15 so
66 52
1ft 10
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50 :)4
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51 60
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51 47
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7 90
45 23
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28 50
lftft 59
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lfi 10
83 82
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158 70
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8 45
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115 76
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32 20
123 22
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272 96
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31 02
3 15
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3 15
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3 20
28 4s
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33 07
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33 06
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B 25
36 22
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3 65
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Rose, G. W. The Fort Stockton Pioneer (Fort Stockton, Tex.), Vol. [9], No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1916, newspaper, April 7, 1916; Fort Stockton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth833753/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .