Hitler's Europe Is Crumbling
By J. Marvin Hunter.
It is not the rule of Frontier
Times to publish news of current
events, except wherein such news
in time may become matters of historical
record, and of interest to future
generations. The daily and weekly
newspapers of the country cover
the field of current events so well
that we have been content to devote
our space to "frontier history,
border tragedy and pioneer achievement."
Now and then we may depart from
this rule to publish something that
is of interest to the geologist,
the archaeologist, the botanist,
the ornithologist, or the scientist,
and sometimes we mention the demise
of a pioneer who has had a part
in the making of Texas history.
The favorable turn of the war
in Europe, brought about by the
American troops' invasion of Normandy
less than three months ago, and
the rapid liberation of France and
Belgium as a result of our American
farces superior strategy and fighting
ability, and the victories they
have thus far achieved, despite
the vaunted impregnability of "fortified
Europe" and Nazi "secret weapons,"
impels us to give our readers our
view of the situation as it exists
today, September 12, 1944:
Execution Of Nine Horse Thieves
By J. Marvin Hunter
Bell county had a short way with
horse thieves in the 1870's; in
fact, the good folk of that county
felt strong and severe disapproval
for wrongdoers of all kinds, particularly
horse thieves. Some time during
the early 1870's there was a flare-up
of honest indignation which gave
Bell county the name of being unhealthy
for desperadoes. This is the story
of when sheriff Sneed Blanton arrested
nine men for horse thievery and
how they dealt with it.
Presidential Campaign Of 1884
Election of Grover Cleveland.
Mentions Theodore Roosevelt, Lily
Langtry, Mary Anderson and a boy
named Calvin Coolidge on his father's
tiny farm at Plymouth VT
Further mentions: James G. Blaine,
the "plumed knight" in the presidential
race * Henry Cabot Lodge * Thomas
E. Dewey * James A. Garfield * Winfield
S. Hancock * Jay Gould * Frances
Willard *
An Early Day Murder Indictment
Temple Telegram.
Account of Bell county's first
murder -- The case of the slaying
of Donald Smith -- the victim in
a bloody axe murder that occurred
on Apr. 18, 1852 in the town of
Nolanville now Belton, TX.
Mentions: W D Eastland, Asa H.
Miller, Judge Baylor * James M.
Cross * John Franks * Donald Smith
*
The Savage Jibaro Head Hunters
By J. Marvin Hunter
The story and histories of the
people who inhabit the virgin forests
and the great rivers Pastaza, Morona,
Upano, Santiago, etc. They represent
the most warlike of all Indian tribes
in South America. Includes photo
of Shrunken Human Head in the Frontier
Times Museum.
Mentions: Mr. Charles L. Fagan
* Rafael Karsten * Sevilla de Oro,
Logrono, and Mendoza * the tsantsa
* Mr. C. Stanley Banks of San Antonio
* Lawrence Griswold * Shuara * Maikoa
* the Oriente Shuara *
Belle Starr, "Queen Of Bandits"
Vivian Richardson
This is the story of Belle Starr,
one of the most daring female desperadoes
in history. This woman possessed
a feminine appeal that rivaled that
of Cleopatra, and a power of leadership
comparable to the genius of Napoleon,
she was one of the most agreeable,
yet craftiest, persons of her sex.
Her deeds of outlawry seemed to
be more for the pleasure of excitement
and chase than for the desire to
take human life and, according to
old timers who knew her personally,
she never killed a man. This is
her story.
Mentions: Myra Belle Shirley
* Major Enos, a Federal commander
* Quantrell's band of guerillas
* Carthage, Mo * Jim Reed * Tom
Starr, prominent Cherokee * Watt
Grayson * John Morris * McKinney,
in Collin county * Jack Spaniard,
Jim French and Blue Duck * Gatlin
* Henry Starr, the famous bank robber
* Belle's daughter, Pearl * Saratoga
* Fort Smith, Arkansas * Judge Isaac
Parker * Attorney Clayton * Bentonville
Ark *
Studemeier, El Paso City Marshal
By W. W. Mills
With the coming of the first
railroad to El Paso, there came
also many bad men, and that city's
mayor and city fathers concluded
in their wisdom that they
must have a city marshal who would
be "badder'n anybody," and they
succeeded beyond their expectations
when they imported one Dallas
Studemeier, and installed him in
that office. Here is his story.
Mentions: "Doc" Cummings * Jim
Manning * the four Manning brothers
* Canutilla, 16 miles above El Paso
* a young German named Kramkauer
* one Campbell * Johnnie Hale *
Dr. Manning * Colonel Purdue * Uncle
Ben Dowell's saloon *
The School House Massacre
From Wilbarger's "Indian Depredations
in Texas."
Detailed account of the brutal
Indian attack upon a brave teacher
and her log schoolhouse in 1867,
on the south bank of the Leon river
in Hamilton county.
Mentions: Worlene Valley * John
Haggett * The Massengill, Dane,
Strangeline, Cole Kuykendall and
James Kuykendall * The Howard family
* J. B. Hendrix and sons * Crockett
and Abe * Judge D. C. Snow * Nel
Livingston * The town of Hamilton
* Ezekiel Manning * Miss Ann Whitney
* Olivia Barbee * John Barbee *
Alexander Powers * Miss Whitney
* James M. Kuykendall * Little Mary
Jane Manning * John Kuykendall *
Josiah Massengill * Miss Amanda
Howard * Volney Howard * John Baggett
* Miss Amanda * Mrs. Sarah Howard
* Mr. Strangeline * Mr. Hendrix
* the Pierson ranch * Judge D. C.
Snow * J. O. W Pierson * Abe Hendrix
* the Leon river * Volney Howard
* the Cow House *
German Immigration To Texas
By J. Marvin Hunter.
Account offers detailed history
concerning the German colonists
who came early to Texas and became
an integral part of the citizenship
of the Republic, and later the State
of Texas.
Mentions: Joseph Vehlein * Robert
Leftwich * the original Leftvich
grant * Sterling C. Robertson *
J. V. Hecke * Joseph Dirksen, Eduard
Hanstein, Wilhelm Miller, Erpst
von Rosenberg, Carl Calms * Caspar
Porten * Ernst von Rosenberg * the
County of Elmenhorst, Grandduchy
of Oldenburg * W. Sandusky * Montopolis
* General Sidney Johnston, Colonel
Edward Burleson and Judge Waller
* two families, Becker and Harrel
* John Edwin Waller * Prince Metteruich
* Bromine, Gerke, Arends and linden
* Gottfried Duden * St. Gallen,
Switzerland * Baden, Wuerttemberg
* Rhenish Prussia * 'Europamude'
* Ernest Bnmeken * G. G. Benjamin
* the Emigration Society of Giessen
* Carl Pollen * Friedrich Ernst
and Charles Fordtran * Charles Fordtran
* Minden, Westphalia * S. M. Williams
* Mr. Stoehr * Mr. J. J. Astor *
German named Wertzner * the families
of Bartels, Zimmerschreit and Juergens
* Amsler, Wolters, Kleberg, von
Roeder, Frels, Siebel, Grassmeyer,
Riegel * Mr. J. Robinson * Warrentown
* Mr. Juergens * Father Muldoon
* Post Oak Point * L. F. Lafrentz
in Texnische Monatshefte * C. S.
Rafinesque * Dr. E. D. Merrill *
Dr. F. W. Pennell * G. E. Stechert
& Co * General Thomas Cruse * Eugene
Cunningham *
