Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-05
VOL. Z. NO ao5

should be meted ont for ferce-cut.
ting.n
DO YOU think so severe a penalty
expedientgr
"rhat Is for the legislature to Judge.
My opinion now Is that Ii Is doubtful
If II could he enforced. Perhaps IL
would be better TO inilict q fine, vary
ing nom Sl00 to 81 600, with imprlson-
ment In the county iail.r
Are the stockmen greatly attached
to big pasturos"r
'"Some want them and some do not
The opinion Is entertained by observ-
ant men in Coleman county that all
the fence-cutting done there was by
transient parties In the employ of large
stock-owners, who have but little ifany
land, and that not n citizen of the
county engaged In the destruction OF
the fences, l think, however, that
they are mistaken in this aud that
there were accomplices in the work,
who were citizens in the sense of re-
siding there. THO pasturemen will
very probably reduce gradually the
size of their pastures Of their own at
cord. IL will become necessity. |
travelled with some Kentucky stock
men who remarked, these men want
far as that Is concerned they had lust
as well be scattered about ON the prai-
rc.' 10 improve the quality of thelr
cattle they must hc kept In small
lunches, and where they are elsilyac-
cessihle. The pastures will have TO he
divided up into small enclosures so the
cattle can be shifted about; otherwise,
to improve their grade will require "a
long time ~ It took Methuselah TO
shuttle through life.N
The reporter referred To the policy of
the state in permitting persons TO oh
tain possession of such vast tracts OF
land and asked IL the general did not
deem 10 mistake.
81 know that some politicians say IL
should only have been sold In tracts of
100 acres, but II this policy had been
carried out the country would never
have been settled up. While the state
has always been very liberal to settlers
selling them lands on such terms ~
only required the payment of olllce
fecs, the records OF the land Office will
show that scarcely one per cent, OF
the purchasers We're pre-eurtom, and
of these ninety-iive out OF every hum
dred abandoned their settlements
within three years"
The conversation then turned ON the
outrngcs committed on the sh, opnlen
in various sections, when the general
remarked;
"Thc great trouble In stopping these
is that the injured themselves are SO
cowardly, Men who would fight in an
instant at personal Insult, when
their property Il concerned become ns
weplIling rs n babe, IL they would
defy the midnight mnrandcrs and
hunt them down, the outrnges would
soon cease. There IL Lee Hall, who
owns the largest pasture la LuSnlle
county--no one has dared To cut 1t,
and his sheep are never molested.
Alone he stood up against the villaln-
GUS element of the county, and though
he opposed set of the most desperate
men IN the state, who cont ualiy
threatened his life and prep
erty, vet h9 finally conquered. When
e.er they molested him he took the
lead IN hunting them down, and the
result was that luwl ssness was
quelled, The people have no sympu-
thy with man who Will not hel-
himself desplsc n coward y
The general uttered this last sentence
with an emphasis that implied he
meant Il, aud no doubt he did, because
there Is not cowardly, In decisive, pu-
Grille particle inthe nature of Adjutanl-
General King.