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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