Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-18
GlUTY OUT WEST.
over the Texas g. Pacific
r,tes by the Wayside.
en-, on the Frontier Their
Growth and Prospects.
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s,RfNGs, TEX, Sept. l5.-Abi-
oueer looking town, a town of
Isoent distances, about 1000
and not over three years old.
isnot a bad hotel,n Struggles
a. we entered the Railroad
N always thought that In
las border-towns therooms were
4 only by an occasional plank. %
~ dollars q day is not a bad
n border hotel, either,n /
"Suppose we hand them
ssst we We got and tell them to
.as long as it Lasts
,Scles.n said rs we arranged
.a No. in the front west room
II have heard-mind you, /
,.lieye it--but I've heard there
daily papers published here"
Illness exclaimed Struggles.
.ithev are about TO have a tele-
exchange, water works, gas
street cars and electric lights. -
.mph,n Struggles replied, and /
hal | had imposed too far. The
4 lights would not go. l over
ne mark.
I town looks kind of ragged, y
lea said critically. "Why did
~ build it along one side OF the
A and more together? 1t has
Clearance of having gone a fish
Hooks at the locality of the
Aoise), "a pretty nice court
which they say cost S6l, 600.
not show up for near that
money. A siXty-one thousand
,milding back in the old states
be a great deal Shower than
Il Is not half as pretty as the
he thousand-dollar one at Hen
Why Is il set OF in that out-of-
a place? II looks lost.n
Sanake me tired, Struggles; you
rays some fault TO find. You
,fcustomed to the ante-bellum
Of building the town around
art-house that any deviation
your feelings. Anybody could
lib half an eye, that y9u are 8
Il be 70. de-wah' girl. l say lei
sople build the towns any fashion
y build them. When you come
twenty years from now ----'
,gles' eyes we're like saucers.
b you think I'll be on the road
lty years from now, a regular old
cotton umbrellaed, bespectacled
sssive looking female, with my
and chin meeting"
10 fear Of that,n 1 say tartly,
ur nose has a great affection FOL
hop Of your head"
silence ensues.
lhen we took the train for
ndo City, there were few aboard
handful Of COW boys in
Der leggings, pistols and
bleros, and healthy sunburnt
a rather tipsy native
halloed out at every stopping
much 10 his own delight and the
cement of the person addressed ,
FINER, don't forget to prayw Evil
. by be had been to camp'meeting.
sstly there was n very fat man
boxed so well pleased with him
that | put him down as a candi-
hat is a very fat drummer"
gles observed.
BIT II Is not "A drummer, IL Is a gen.
3D,n | corrected, and Struggles
Ia. / wonder wherein lay the
ndo City is a handsome town.
lilt up in a manner that would
III to u city.
colorado Clipper office is a dan
be most unique and cunning lit
sIness office, editorial room aud
lice. 1t is wonderful, the strides
paper has made in one year, from
sntinside country sheet TO a six
an daily. Verify, the fairies have
lented 1t with a pair of seven-leagu'
gentleman said that Colorado wa
'bdom-and-Gomorrah town. Al
er towns are wicked more or less
ecidentally, Struggles and | STUN
! upon a town that surprised us. /
taoy yet, about eight hundred pDp
lon, and three years old. The,
IL Sweetwater.
hder the chaperonage of one Of he
\ prominent citizens Maj. Hilliard
lOok in this town. II has som
IN business houses that carry
which would surprise you. 1t
Ped grandly, and is breezy an,
Thy, set in the finest stock countr
Pc state. 1t is here the STOCKINGS
do congregate, and is an eXcellen
Y Tor trade. She has a school
PED last week, a hundred aud thirt
lg, a courthouse which cost $3l
and is a gem; q weekly papel
pages, and the town is made u
people 1t is pleasure to meet, III
Ply intelligent and cultured.
long the pleasant gentlemen "
We're the lord mayor, q gentlema
a face as genial as June morr
Aessrs. Prince, Simpson, DeI.'
and Dantieth.
ere are fine prospects ahead fd
ute enterprising town of 5wee
which will soon make Abilen
colorado City look to their laI
FANNIE MAY WITT.