The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-01-31


punish tho ienos.cniief iof ooVelinf hla
nelehbofs ara ~ long ne she enooufasss
r mmunism by refusing 10 punish Ompr
fsiiona aud individuals Tor / q tusssing IN
tho pastnfage owned by the children N
this sias The authority Oi lev Ia neVef
Ielt In that Panhsndle country, which With
ooubtie, stuthse-i ~ H.
one oorpnfation snoloses 100000 acres, GOV.
efing nearly three counties, aud rs i've
hundred stookholders are scattered In
every CITY from IN. LonIs 10 Paris.
cosbirIos ~ ruE rASu,SnLs CoUSTRY.
Gn aim m. into that Panhandle country
and exnIore iis m ysterl,s. There You will
md a wire fenc. said 10 be one hundred
and twenty miles long. running east AMI
west. crossing school lands and The land nj
n,iys,. n.r,is,, IL h A straight ienee 10
c,ich d,if, c.ttl. and conn.cIs with no
o'her. North of Il, men who own grass
and ,ho,e who own none have divided oil
ior their use the territory OF Texas; and
wn. no the nnlucky stranger who drives his
nerd IN SHARE win them the grass. Streams
and dividing ridges from ihs arbitrary
honndarie, OF their Asurped domain.
lines of side.rider, PASS every day from
nnyth "a south and fence ana Keep the
s'oct y, each lord on the territory claimed
Inv him. Vas, pastures without regard to
oInar.nin nj land now enclose counties.
Passing from Mobe,ee 10 Tascosa,
one hundred aud thirty miles, you
are only out OF a pasture for twenty
tnrss miles OF the distance. The Kerr
Land and Cattle com pany Is said to have
20 600 head of cattle in a pasture across
sh,cn is a days Journey. The Franklin
Land and Cattle company Is reputed to
nave over M, 900 head In GRAY asd Hutch.
insop counties, while the Mastidors Cattle
company donates with stock men and cat
tle the territory OF Crosby, Dickens and
, oerhaps Motley counties, One firm alone,
which purchased over twenty thousand
head from the Millett Bros, and which Is
said to own two millions OF dollars worth
of cattle, has hardly enough land in Texas
for their vas, hesrds to be penned on. Free
range men, who neither own or lease land,
occupy most OF the sand hills TO the north,
and from the Red River to the Rio Grasde,
along the border. EXCEPT that fenced In
those immense pastures. Roaming over
unorgapized counties ard along the border,
from one water hole to suother, they
| trample under their hoo,s the grass around
| thr humble home of the pioneer hester;
and inns. away from law, where power
measures right, there is no redress.
When il This m adness to cease? and does
mt this wholesale l,ase of school land, by
as.ocisted can;,,I and ita purchase by
! indiract ,rencies call AZ loudly for an
exscntiye Recommendation to correct 1t, as
The evil of the At lute not giving a lien on
an animal that goes into another man 8
nasinre which Ria exoellepcy thinks we
snonIa rorrac,p
IA na,ient senators. I am doing a sum
far the tsr-,ars nj this s,ate. and il that
stenorrapb ar will report nv words, will
o,nd I, ,hrnnah Tho land am showing
,ho avis ,hst IN rsa,en social order before
an.wsr vonr obiections TO INV remedy.
In nna conntv tSree months ago. there
80 ~ rss,n,c nj on mn srres bnilt on 4
cnrdor ot sect;ons ovned nv pasture men
| Tha toncs NO. Iii IN ,heir land hut
sn noH sc,eS nj land that belonged &c
nr,us,a n.,t;ss and IN the school fund
No, an acre of which vas rented tC
,ham Ma, that n.sture rms a stream
NJ I;u;no ws,sr nm rnich the hardy ami
cr.nts Rave nnshed their way. and bull
IN ;r nastsS Ernnn that pss,nre berus O
csttio nnn,ed ont dnring the summer &c
Snr,ss and tread n mortar the prairi,
uhera vsrdnre grew only 10 return to fin,
"m.ao on ,ha n,rs;Ss dgrins winter Pm
rnn,..JS in Tho nestsr's nlsce-nnable II
yaisa q r,;ih cav or a beef IN ycnr owI
ismd Wnn Ioot over inc ~, pasture O.
wnmr neie hhor and y,flect that he hes an
nronria,e cd m MS own use the school lane
dedicated 10 yonr child az well as his, ant
wonld Won not rcurse in bitterness of hear
tho Malta, laws that gave Won no remedy
Nv friend. senator Henderson. who lost a,
a m in the service of his country. is said /,
"vn a section of land inside of that pasture
wh,ch he could neither rant nor sell to tn
nsnrners
ROAMING STOCK MEN.
Along the border counliss now organized
skirtine The panhandle. aud in those beloc
the sand hills. the same wrong and oppres
sion ia found. andering, mona tic nerds
men range across dividing lodges from on,
stream to another, over their kingdom C
s S ea grass consuming the range and stsry
inc the home stock of the small farmer
men who own nothing but their stock
their herd horses, and sidearms. To som,
of these gentry the wire tencs, whetheI
aronnd the f.rmer's pasture or a schoo
sec,ion. ia especially irconyeniepi: nnr
among them are found warm disciples o
Mr.. q .orre-men who believe that laLl
ought to be tree, and who whisper into tn,
ear of the hester that thess pastures alone
tbi, gentry is controlled by law
unless Ihev are made 10 cease theil
wanderir wsvs and INV or lease the grasf
m which thew feed. there is no pace TO,
| Twas The fenced in water hola ia in thei,
wsv and with the haIp of the deluded sat
,Iay thev made il the 50, c al object of thei,
devilment. Is,e mspIoyii the lobby
vino will tell YOU that the corporstlons
Witch own fat herds and NJ LAID, are moi
the only uepredators, for that within one
bundled miles of where now stand, ,here
arn scores Of man who own 400 70 OOt
c.tt,s VIM hardly own or lease enonoh
Land m which to round up their herds
rhoss aantrv are the same in ali aves
S;nno ,be days when The hardsman of &c.