Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-06
FRONTIER TOWNS.
A Trip Over the Prairie by Railway
side Notes by the Fair Sex
Cowboys, Prairie Dogs aud 'Awfully Good
Looking Young Men
spociai Correspondence Of The Gazette,

"I'm going to take whiz up towards
Wichita Falls and its ilk; will you
Gomez"
But what is whiz?' asks Snug
giles, with wide eyes.
"a whiz! Why to be sure, whiz is
IA whiz,n answer comprehensive
/ ly. "a trip, don't you know-ths
Journey ofan apostle of sonthen liteia'
! ture In strange country"
what will you give me?"asks Snug
! giles, mercenarily.
"a prairie-dog Comanche-a cow
! boy-a-"
"Pn gO.n
Breakfastless, but happy, we boarded
! the train and were whirled away
/ Wichita Falls-ward.
"This isn't half a bad road, ob.
served Struggles, ,approvingly.
This? ! should say not. It's the
! finest piece of railroad in Texas; and
7 look at the travel. The Sunset can't
[ touch it.n
Bowie was cur first town; we got OIL
and floundered mournfully hotelward
/ through the sand drifts, looking
| sharply about us. We have often
read of the frontier town, and down
| i'm our inmOst souls were afraid of
/ them. Bowie is a town Of cOnsidera-
( BILE size, nearly 1000 people, and only
! two years old, this baby wonder.
1t has sprung up magically,
as it were, and stands, not unlike q
small street gsmin, hands in pockets
aud with shrewd devil-may. calish
expression OF saucy aggressiveness.
Its possible fate, though, makes one
tremble. Just let one building catch
fire and there will not be a man left to
tell the tale The buildings are all
combustibe frame, and fire would
make quick work of the whole town.
There is nothing handsome or at
tractive about the town Excepting
always the gentlemen, but it is a good
town for Investment and money
making.
what do you think of it," / asked
Struggles as we boarded the train for
Henrietta.
~ think it is like singed cat-not
so bad as it looks, Struggles answered
indignantly.
mo new town is pretty ! observe
rebukingly. 1.-The existence of Rowie
rs ii is is marvel enough. Do you
want the moOn?n
l had the pleasure of meeting one of
the coming great men of TeXas-the
son of one of her greatest. He was
dressed something like cowboy, but
the minute he speaks, in his way, that
Is nobody else's way, YOU see
your mistake. A figure above me-
dunn height, IA face rather hoyish and
TpnQh hltt aVnA Tntt g,T ~,
often aUstracted; white teeth, and
eyes that can flash blue lightning.
! think never heard as fascinating a
talker. 1t was Temple Houston,
Everybody knows him, as much Tor
himself AS Tor the fact of his being
sam HoustOn's son. The people are
very proud of him up this way. He
lives much to himself when home, way
out on the plains at Mobeetie.
Henrietta is very handsome town,
building up i'll sand stone, which has
aquaint look. There is ASS, 900 court
mousse IN course of erection which Will
add immensely to the attraciiveness of
the town. An elegant school-house
has Just been tinished. Even the news.
paper men ON this road are prosperous.
| take decided stand when | say il.
Most people Will believe it small
story
What do you think of HenrieLta?n
l asked of Struggles. She Is pretty
shrewd girl and j value her opinion.
well, there is good hotel. There
is general air of prosperity in spite
oil the dull times, and if there
We're little more shade it
would be rather pretty.u iSmuggles
comes from Alabama and hates prai-
rle'J Then there are some good look
ing young men, two of them are in the
banks; ana there's an awfully sharp
Judge who hates free grass. What is
iree grass: don't see the use in maxi
ing TINS great kick about erase, any
way, When that part of it which Is not
Durht up IS dried up. IL seems to me
"a postpone future controversy until
the grass grew OUT
There was Western scene with a
vengeance ON the square at Henrietta.
a cowboy, with an overdose of tangle-
loot, got ON bucking pony. The
more the pony bucked and whirled i'm
circle the more the cowboy STAYED
on, untll despairing of unseating ilim
the morse Tell heavily to the ground on
Iopol tne rider trying 10 roll him oil.
l lhought he was killed, but after lift.
ing the horse Off his body he again rot
on, and waving his hat in derision AT
the crowd Of open-mOuthed spectators
was out Of sight in less time than il
takes 10 tell it.
Vow for the prairie dogs, COW bows
ana Comanches, | said as we pullsd
out from Henrietta.
IN bet the first prairie dog Won
see you'll squeal," observed Smupgles
Sqneal, humph % replied dis.
gustedly. ''N' VIC
But all the same when we flashed
past the first dear little yellow-brown
cunning rascals, sitting straight nm
ana looking after us with n mir Of
shrewd little chinquapin eyes. i did
's,queal anybody would.
The brakeman yelled Wichita Falls
ana out we tumbled, bag and baggaga
all eyes and eagerness ut the knoWl,
edge that We were Indeed in a genuine
frontier town. The sand. simeon
fashion, blinded us to any beauties or
novelties around us, and ploughing
through sand ankle deem. ratbaT
takes the enthusiasm ont of one.
Look out for your scalp.u calIad
70 omuggles as the wind whirled me
round corner, they first throw sand
IN your eyes 10 blind YOU
But no "bTaYen molested our scaI,,,
we Were not a.-a,, ''if1'