Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-20
THE RICHEST WOMAN IN TEXAS.
s, FFetty, a Widow, and Her
'soh First i'm the Market
for Three Years.

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PdrVure Tor Europe in a few DAYS. Sh
mas been styled ''the Texas Cattl
queen" but this is a misnomer. She
q texas planter. She is from near Hon,
Ton, petite and pretty, young, and she !
SAID to be one of the prettiest women !
the Southwest. Dark, lustrous ewes on
plquant countenance and manner ind
cate her creole, French and Snanisl
parentage. She dresses FASHIONABLE an,
IN good taste, and, so far as appearance
60, she might have been born and bred !,
New York. Her education BEGAN at tb
Moravian school in Bethlehem. Pa He
story, as reluctantly told by her in an
swer to questioning, runs in an Interest
ing fashion. ''0'0 ''
Il was left an orphan at II. and had +,
look after my fathers plantation. wa,
married at l3, and at II I was q widow
since then I've looked after myself Suc
cessi9liy? Oh, yes; l suppose SO. have
TWO large plantations and raise cotton
corn ana sugar cane. Then 1 own some
properly IN Houston-one of the opera
houses, some stores, and hotel. / had
hght over the hotel. They wanted 10
make out that there was mortgage on if
ahead OF mine. Acknowledgement
brewster was lawyer, and he's Just won
the case. Ill make about $40 900 on if
thought at one time I'd move North. I
bought property in Philadelphia with
the idea OF going there, but 1 found
could only get per cent. on money I'D
here, so didn't come I've got a beau
tful little home down there, if | do live in
it all alone.
a." Experience? Well, 1 suppose I've
had some. 1t isn't worth speaking of
down there, but people here might think
1t Interesting. I've travelled all over
Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and the In
dian Territory, mostly on horseback.
Everybody knows me in the Southwest,
This will be my third trip to Europe. I've
never had anything that you might call
adventures, that know Of but you peo-
pie here look at things so differently.
Now, there's the cowboys. People think
they're something dreadful Why, I've
found more true gentlemen among them
than anywhere else. OF course once in
a while they get lively and ride through
towns shouting and firing off their pistols
at signs and chimneys; but we don't be-
grudge them little fun now and then.
Their work is hard enough. Do they
ever kill anybody? Oh, sometimes, of
course, people get hit by stray shots
when the boys are on their rackets; but
that's only accidental, you know. 1t
doesn't amount to anything in Texas.
People North have such funny ideasl
Now, which would you rather do, steal
horse in Arkansas or kill man in Texas?
Neither? Well, I'll tell you, it's six of
one and half dozen of the other. Horses
don't amount to much in Arkansas, and
men don't in Texas. They look after the
horse thieves sharp in Texas, however.
They never get further than the nearest
tree after they're caught
Last night | was going out with
gentleman, and took out my revolver
and said guessed it wasn't worth while |
to carry it. You ought to have seen him |
jump! I've got a beautiful revolver. |
One day | was standing in front of one of |
my buildings in Houston, when a fight |
began in the street A friend of mine |
and Wooliffe-you've heard of Woolife-
were fighting. Woolife got his revolver |
out first and hit my friend. Then my |
friend fired and missed. Wooliffe had |
the next shot, and would have killed him
sure. There was a big crowd around, |
but nobody moved, and l jumped in front |
Of Wooliffe and called out:
" For Gods sake, isn't there a man
here?
"Wooliffe showed his revolver up
little and the ball went over my head.
He said afterward that seeing a girl jump
in so quick he couldn't help raising his
pistol little. Then the crowd came in
and separated the men. Ny friend gave
me the revolver l always carry. He said
l saved his life
81 don't know how the newspapers hear
about me. know good many people
here, though. The jewellers all know
me. l have a passion for jewels, and
5hey say my collection is a fine one. I've
ust come from Philadelphia. l bought
he Muir diamond there this visit, and
beautiful cameo for 81 .000 You see this
ing. That big stone there looks like
diamond, doesn't it? Now
lold it to the light Wouldn't you think
was ruby? They call it the hidden
ight' They are found only in North
Carolina, and l believe there are only a
ew, three or four, good ones in the
country. Their being so rare, l suppose,
S what makes them worth more than
my other gem of the same size.
"Neglecting business? Oh, no. You
see down there we buy everything early
n the season, and then there's no more
paying to be done, nor any money coming
n until the crop is gathered. | keep one
yet of books myself, and nobody could
ret the best OF me if he wanted to. L
lave good superintendent, too. pay
lin $500 a month. | might get him for
$50, but I'd rather pay 5000; then he
Won't have to steal from me. | don't
NOW whether it's because I'm such
rood planter or because all the people
lelp me every way they can, but for the
asst three wears I've taken the $500 prize
or having the first bale of cotton of the
season in at Richmond, Texas.
al stopped at New Orleans on my up.
The Mexican band and the Government
exhibit are fine, but there's too much
Dom for the rest of the show. The art
gallery looks as if they had hung it up
md forgotten to take it down. OF course
t won't pay. People want to stay at
nome in the winter, and to 90 some
where besides New Orleans in the sum-
ner. { have some paintings in the art
rallerv myself. Oh, yes, paint little.
you see. I want to have something to
all back on if 1 should ever lose my
money. and l like art, and so L study
,aintino all the time. | have a sort OF
rt gallery in Houston. 1t was
tore to that didn't pay me very well, so I
urned it into an art gallery for the pub;
ic. Young people studying art and
rtists can 90 there and paint, copy the
,ictures, and get all the help they can.
Then. too, they can bring their pictures
here for sale, if they want to. A good
many do. l buy pictures wherever can
1" Public benefactor? Oh, no; some
ines people say that, you know, but 1t