Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-15
the RICHEST woMAy IN TEXAS.
Young, Pretty, a widow, and Her Cotton Fir
In the Market for Three Years.

Young, Pretty, a Widow, and Her Cotton First
I'm the Market for Three Years.
From the New York sun.
a notable little woman is staying mt one of
the hotels in this city, prior to her departure
for Europe in a few days. She has been
styled '.tho Texas Cattle Queen" but this is
"A misnomer. She is a Texas planter. She
is from near Houston, petite end pretty,
young and she Is said to be one of the veal
thiest women in the Southwest. Dark, lus-
trous eyes, and a piquant c|ountenance and
manner indicate her creole, French and
Spanish parentagc. She dresses fashionably,
and in good taste, and, SO lar as appearances
go, she might have been born and bred IN
New York. Her education began at the
Moravian school at Bethlehem, Pa Her
story, as reluctantly told by her in answer
to questioning, runs in an interesting fashion.
:" was left an orphan at II, and had to
look after my fathers plantation. | was
married at IL, and mt II | was "a widow. Since
then I've looked after myself. Successfully?
Oh, yes, / suppose SO. have two large
plantations and raise cotton, corn, and sugar
cane. Then j " some property in Houston
one of the opera houses, some stores, and a
hotel. ! had u fight over the hotel. They
wanted to make out that there was a mort
gage on it ahead of mine. Acknowledgement
Brewster was my lawyer, and he's Just won
the case. I'll make about $4,000 on il. /
thought at one time I'd move North. |
DpuSnt Il property III iHllduelpila WIFI the
idea of going there, but ] found l could only
get 4 per cent on money up here, so didn't
come. I've got "a beautiful little home down
there, if | do live in it all alone.
"ENperience? Well, ! suppose I've had
some. 1t isn't worth speaking ofdown there,
but people here might think it interesting.
I've travelled all over Texas, Arkansas,
Missouri, and the Indian territory, mostly
on horseback. Everybody knows me in the
Southwest. This will DO my third trip to
Europe. I've never had anything that you'd
call adventures, that | know of but you peo-
pie here look at things so differently. Now,
there's tho cowb BOY People think they're
something dreadful. Why, I've found more
true gentlemen among them than anywhere
else. or course, once in a while they get
lively and ride through town shouting and
firing oil their pistols at signs and chimneys;
but we don't ~begrudge them a little fun nov
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 ideas Now, which had you rather
do, steal a horse in Arkansas or Kill a man in
Texas? Neither Wen, I'll tell you, it's
six of one and half a 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.
Lust nlpht 4 WAS SOinS our WIFI u SeHllt-
man, and took out my revolver and said ]
guessed it wasn't worth while to carry 1t.
You ought to have seen him jump +! I've got
IA beautiful revolver. One day l was stand
ing in front of one of my buildings in Hous-
ton when a fight began in the street. A friend
ofmine and w ooliife-you'ye heardofW ooliile
were fighting. Wooliffe got out his revolver
first and hit my friend. Then my friend fired
and missed. Wooliile had the next shot and
- would have killed him sure. There was a
big crowd around, but nobody moved, and
y jumped in front of Woolitfe and called out
"'For Gods sake, isn't there a man
here p
g Woolife showed his revolver up a little
and the ball went over my head. He said
aIterward that seeing a girl jump in so quick
he couldn't help raising his pistol a little.
Then the crowd came in ana separated the
men. My friend gave me the revolver l al
ways carry. lie said L saved his life.
Al dol't know how the newspapers heai
about me. know a good many people here,
though. The jewellers all know me. l have
a passior for jewels, and they say my coliec
ton is a line one. I've just come from Phil
adelphia | bought the Muir diamond there
this visit, and a beautiful cameo for $1,000
You see this ring. That big stone there look
like a lemon-colored diamond, doesn't 1t
think it was a ruby They call it the hid
den light They are found only in Nortl
Carolina, and ! believe there are only a few
three or tour, good ones in the country
Their beng so rare, l suppose, is what makes
them worth more than any other gem of thu
same size.
"Neglecting business? oh, no. You 81,
down there we buy everything early in tn
season, and then there's no more paying L
be done, nor any money coming in until tn
crop is gathered. i keep one set of book
myself, aud nobody could get the best of m
if he wanted To. l have "A good superintend
emit too ! pay him 500 a month. l nigh
get him tor Sl50, but I'd rather pay 500
then he won't have 10 steal from me. 4 don
know whether its because I'm such "A goo
planter or because all the people help m
every way they can, but for the last thre
years Nv taken the 5000 prize for having tn
iirst bale OF cotton OF the season in ut Ricl
mond, Texas.
~ stopped at New Orleans on my a VI