Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-24

Sehvulst persuasion. a yonno
pLeacher by the name of Rogers cant
aiong, under whose minislrations shs
siew III grace, and the result was .
na'rlhpnial one, although the odds In
aEe We're IN favor of the parson nv
s9hething like twenty.,hfee years
sue had no children and he had seven
sut she took the motherless BARNS mn
uer her wings, and the alliance has
,,urheu out III every way successfully
rogers had not long been. married IN
'he widow and her cattle, when he no.
CURED bad case of bronchitis. and
was compelled TO give up preaching
ouch eases are frequent. But ibe
Wloow gave him notice that She was
competent to run the ranch, and has
Kept the cattle in her own name. Rog.
ers Knowing no more about them than
any OF The neighbors. He took to mol.
tics when he found his services were
not needed at the ranch, aud is now
tue democratic member OF The lepisla.
lure from Nueces county.
AIRS. Rogers, although worth round
million, lives in quite humble home.
ana appears TO have no ambition furth.
or IMAM to carry on the business her
husband left her and accumulate
money aud cattle. She goes TO Corpus
Christi every week or so to sell stock or
purchase supplies, but has no taste for
aress or society. She is 50 years old,
put rides Il horse like COW boy, and
does not even own u carriage, She
never entertains any one except the
lew people who visit her place on bust
ness, and lives in the plainest possible
manner.
There are q number OF wealthy
rnnchnen III the southeastern corner
OF the state, and they have built up
Their fortunes from nothing in few
years. Among others IL n. q. Collins,
state senator from Duval county,
whose ranch adjoiDs that OF Col. King
on the west. He came 90 Texas after
the war with $500, and commence
business by trading ponies. Then he
bought few sheep, and his iiocks ac-
until he now has 10000,
with 10000 head of cattle, and 2O0, 900
acres of land to pasture them on.
liX'Scn ator Lane of San Antonio is
IA conspicuous figure at all the cattle
and is famous as well
MS successful ranchman. He is six
feet tall, slim as rail, as dark and
AZ an Indian, restless and
nervous. BE commenced life as n
cowboy and is now worth a million.
tie has ranch of l25 900 acres, 20 900 |
cattle, and employs sixty cowboys !
One o! the rules Of the ranch, and il il |
perhaps exceptional in this particular, |
Is that any cowboy caught playing !
cards, drinking whisky or carrying a
pistol shall be discharged without no.
tlce. The ex-senator says thas once
year, on Christmas day, he. mikes n
bowl of egg-nog for the boys, and they
can do all the drinking for the year.
One of the noted characters of the |
country is Tom O'Conner, whose his
tory reads like a romance. He came
over from Ireland la 1885 and com
his trade Of saddler at Refugio,
a little town down on the coast near
Corpus Christi. While there he in
vented saddle-tree, and used to 20
around the country with q string Of
horses loaded with them, which he
'old for six bits IS cents). The saddle.
rec became so popular il was imme.
iiately adopted, and none other has
,een us I'd in Texas TO this day. But
'ery few people who own them are
ware that Thomas O'Conner, the
banker of San Antonio and the mil
ionaire ranchman of Refugio county,
vas the first to make and sell them.
Whenever Tom got enough money
head he bought COW, and as the
anges We're free then, IL cost him
othing to keep them. His herd has
rown until it now amounts to - 600,
I'D he has coo horses and lot of
hGep beside'. O'C1nner's wealth Is
nj above 81, 000, 00o. He Is the
eniOr partner in the clearinghouse of
)'Conner & Sullivan, of San Antonio,
nd owns M immense amount Of city
cal estate as well ms pasture land. lie
YES in the plainest sort ola way, and
oesn't spend over 81 GOO a year.
Shanghai Pierce Is another famous
haracter, but an entirely different
IAN. He is n Yankee from Nashua,
\. H., and came down here after the
var on saiing-vessel from Boston,
citing n job as a cowboy ut wages of
l5 a month. After working few {
ears at that rate he quit his employer
nd il was developed that his Yankee
lEft had already accumulated
Duple OF hundred head of cattle. He
ept ut it, and now has 100000 acres |
land in two ranches in Jackson c
nd Wharton counties, 10000 head OF l.
title, ana u big income. lie goes u
down East every year to see The Il
'lks and tell them what u great man 81
e is in Texas. Shanghai gets his il
anne from his height, which is sew q
al inches above six feet, aud he is r.
nown TO every man, woman and o
lid in the state. G
Ike Cox Of Kinney county, is we'll N
nown to army officers, who will be 5
ad TO know that the old scout is in a
ir way TO become q millionaire. His u
cord is n romance. When child k
is father lived on the frontier and Ike o
as stolen by Wichita Indians, who fl
ept him captive until he became a u
an, and then he escaped from them. b
I'd joined the army rs n scout and ts
hide. He was with General Mac 81
enzie during the latter's career in rt
nxas, and in 1875 invested the savings ST
his soldier life in cattle. Heis now W
e owner of a fine ranch and herd on n
e Brazos. which he could sell any lo
" for s250,00O. n
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