The Frazer-Miller Feud
El Paso Morning Times, July
17, 1910.
When Jim B. Miller was hanged
by a mob of citizens at Ada,
Okla., in 1910 there ended the
career of one of the worst and
most dangerous of all the bad
men who in the old days made a
practice of man killing, and
when the wires flashed the news
throughout the length and
breadth of Texas there was
rejoicing in many places where
Miller had formerly lived.
Especially was this the case in
Reeves County, the scene of the
notorious Frazer-Miller Feud.
Here is the story.
Mentions: Bud Frazer was
sheriff of Reeves county * Manen
Clements * Judge Walthall *
Senator Turney * Con Gibson *
Eddy, N. M., * John Denson *
John Wesley Hardin, a cousin of
Miller's wife * E. J. Davis *
John SeDaian * George
Scarborough * the old Acme
saloon on San Antonio street *
the T. & P. company * Eastland *
Barney Riggs * Frank Simmons,
Joe Escajeda * Tom Bendy * John
Denson and Bill Earheart * Jack
Edwards of El Paso * Judge
Hefner of Pecos * Buck Chadhorn
* Fort Stockton * Pat Garrett *
Frazer, Hardin, Denson,
Earheart, Gibson and Clements *
Texas Journalism In The Old
Days
Castroville Era, Feb. 26,
1878.
Account details when The San
Antonio Express and Evening
Courier reported the fact that
an officer of the law went to
see Blind Tom, on the first
night of his entertainment, with
his pistol on. The officer was
Ferdinand Niggli, the sheriff of
Medina county, who on that day
conveyed from Castroville to Sao
Antonio a prisoner (King Fisher)
who was confined in the county
jail of Medina county. Mentions:
Bradin's stable * the Tremble
murders * the Cordovas * Mr. Joe
Benton of Nocella, Texas * C. N.
Jones, and Mr. J. W. Wiseman *
Girls Didn't Bother This
Cowboy
By Effie Alexander.
Account of Rufus McCormick
Alexander and of his first and
only trip up the old Chisholm
Trail.
Mentions: The Sand Bar ranch
* Julia Garrett from Rough Acres
* Mr. Fields * Lee Gordon *
Scepter Goode * Jesse Chisholm *
The Sand Bar gang * Fayette
county, Round Top, Texas * John
Rufus Alexander * Mary Jane
Jones Alexander * Meyer Fisher
Jones * John Rice Jones * Julia
C. Garrett * Weimar * Marble
Falls *
A Dream Saved Josiah
Wilbarger
From Wilbarger's "Indian
Depredations in Texas."
Account describes events that
occurred in the region of what
is now Travis County, TX in
August, 1833. Josiah Wilbarger
and Reuben Hornsby were of the
earliest settlers in the region
and were some of the first white
blood shed by Indians in this
part of Texas. Wilbarger would
have been killed in the brutal
attack were it not for the
strange dream he had, as well as
a dream that happened upon
Hornsby's wife the very night of
the attack. Here is the bloody
and brutal story.
Mentions: Stephen F. Austin *
the upper Colorado * Webber,
Duty * the Jesse Tannehill
league * the crossing of the San
Antonio and Nacogdoches road *
Two young men, Standifer and
Haynie * Walnut creek * James
Rogers * Margaret Clifton *
Florisant * Joseph Rogers * John
Walters * William Hornsby *
Billy Hornsby and Leman Barker *
Talbert Chambers * John Chambers
* Georgetown * Matthias
Wilbarger * Sallie Wilbarger *
Mrs. W. C. Dalrymple * Mrs.
Lewis Jones * Edward Burleson *
M. M. Hornsby * Mrs. Sarah
Hornsby * Mrs. Sarah Hilbins *
Texas Politics Now And Then
By Marcelle Lively Hamer.
Mentions: Branch T. Archer *
Captain George Erath * Henry
Smith, Provisional Governor of
Texas in 1358 * Thomas Jefferson
Rusk * Judge Campbell and W. S.
Oldham * Mr. Bullock * Count de
Saligny * Urrutia * Cabeza de
Vaca * Captain Jose Urrutia *
The Passing Of James E.
Ferguson
James Edward Ferguson, a
native Texan, was born near
Salado, Bell county, August 31,
1871. He was raised on a Bell
county farm as an orphan but
educated himself in law and was
admitted to practice as an
attorney in Belton, and later to
become governor of the state of
Texas. His life and long career
in politics is described in this
account.
First German Societies In
Texas
By Moritz Tiling
The Germans are pre eminently
a sociable people. They
cultivate with reverence the
strongest family life and family
ties, and are bound together in
friendship by innumerable
social, benevolent and literary
societies and secret orders. In
all of these societies the
"Gemutlichkeit," a term beat
translated by "good fellowship,"
predominates, diffusing good
cheer among their members. In
every city or town in Germany
there exist several singing
societies, athletic and gun
clubs, social, literary,
political and secret
organizations, all established
for the purpose of promoting
good comradeship and rendering
assistance to the needy. This
commendable trait made itself
felt with undiminished force
among the Germans in Texas.
After the first few strenuous
years had passed and the German
settlements had been firmly
established the German's love
for sociability, intellectual
entertainment, mutual protection
and pleasure asserted itself in
their early Texas experience.
Here is the story.
Mentions: A. C. Allen * J. K.
Allen * George Fischer * Henry
F. Fischer * Charles Gerlach *
Conrad Franke * Franke & Lemsky
* Theodor Miller * Gene Fischer
* Robert H. Levenhagen * Henry
Levenhagen * Gottlieb Gasche *
Jacob Schroeder * Martin Rumpff
* T. Herman * William Schroeder
* Gustav Erichson * Jacob
Buchmann * I. T. Knoll * A. Jung
* Emil Slimier * Friedr. Otto *
Ch. Ricnitz * Charles Baumann *
Henry A. Kykendall * Wendelin
Bock * Ylrich Fischer * Carl
Fischer * John H. Mueller *
Friedr. Schiermann * John Koop *
Daniel Super * Joseph Ehlinger *
Theodor Miller * Anton Denegemmm
* William Ewald * Cosner Gerlach
* Friedr. Barthold * Dr. K.
Hermann Jaeger * Abraham
Brodbeek * Joseph Sandman *
Christian A. Kasting * Peter
Dickmann * William Weigand *
Ant. E. Spellenberg * Peter Rohl
* William Schrimpf * Dr. I.
Anton Fischer * Dr. De Witt * A.
Schanten * Johann Schweikert *
George W. Lively * Moreau Forest
* William Bronaugh * Harry
Levenlragen * John Koap *
Deutsche Gesellschaft * Fritz
Ernst * Gustav Koerner *
Teutonic Order * Giessener
Auswanderungs Gesellsehaft * L.
C. Ervendberg * F. Ernst * J. G.
Kleper * F. W. Huesmann * G.
Stoehr * H. Amthor * H. Ernst *
Jacob Rien * E. H. Yordt * Dr.
E. Becker * William Trich *
Charles Yordt * Hermann Frets
and Ed Ruhmann * Frelsburg *
Son Of A Gun In A Sack
By Fred Gipson.
Events that occured in Tom
Green county (Coke county) in
1875. Numerous characters and
places are described including:
Uncle John Durham * Yellow Wolf
Creek * Charlie Capps * Richland
Springs and W. S. Castle of San
Angelo * the Pierce Ranch in
Wharton Co * Boerne * Bill Voss,
of San Angelo * Dick Nasworthy
of San Angelo * Leo Huff of
Merkel * W. S. Castle of San
Angelo * the famous old Pierce
Ranch down in Wharton county *
R. L. Henderson * the old J. B.
Slaughter outfit * Ed Duncan *
Judge T. W. Hunter of Hugo,
Oklahoma * J. Tom Mercer of San
Angelo * the Mill Creek ranch in
Mason county * George
Littlefield of Austin * Henry
Brockmann * Geistweidt family *
the Brandenberger family * the
Martins, the Lemburg family *
Loeffler family * Leifeste
family * Mertzon * L. S. Brown,
an old Texas Ranger of
Rocksprings * Buck Jackson of
Pecos * Ranger E. J. Wood * Mrs.
Emery H. Hughes * John Reynolds
Hughes * Captain Ira Aten *
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