The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-05-04
"SILK STOCKING,
Writes an interesting and Cos
sippy Letter From the Lone
Star State.
Giving an Account of His Tripp
From the Queen City to-
The Southwest.

Fort Worth, Tex, April IL
Correspondence. In accordance
with promise made when I left Sc
dalia, will endeavor to send you a
short communication from the "Lone
Star" state.
/ left Sedalia by the way of the NJ,
K. q I. railway and on my arrival
at Clinton a grievance committee"
headed by chairman John Oechsli,
of that place, met me at the depot,
with request that stop over one
day. Having been a law-abiding
citizen all my life, [ concluded to go
to the Heckler house, when the mat
ter was arbitrator successfully. The
next evening, / proceeded to Lamar,
a live town. where / have brother
and sister living, and which | have
an extreme partiality for, perhaps
from the fact that the same brother
and sister mentioned always provide
me with
MOST EXCELLENT RATIONS
while / am their guest.
Returning to Nevada, EN-
barked on the south-bound train
and was soon speeding toward
the beautiful Indian Territory /;
but as this has been so often written
up l will say n thing of its scenery,
merely giving as an instance that L
only saw two Indians IN the whole
territory. Without stopping at Dem
ison, the well known "gate city," /
proceeded directly TO Sherman, where
I put up at the 'tBeiler house" one of
the best equipped and provided for
hotels in Texas. This latter state
ment is easily accounted for, however,
from the fact that "mine hosts" are
Mr. and Mrs. John Beiler. formerly
of Sedalia. As is well known most
hotels charge transient guests nomi-
nal price, just to keep up current ex-
penses, but / was invited to stay a
week and was not charged one cent.
Being billed at Fort Worth Saturday
evening, the same time Milton No
bles was to play Glove and Law" L
was forced to make my stay at Sher-
man short. Will state, however, that
SHERMAN Is FINE CITY,
with ten thousand inhabitants, con-
tains many beautiful residences, ele-
CANT stores, wide and well-improved
streets, street cars, etc. met sever
al old Sedalians there, among them
Mr.. Henry Armbrecht, who recently
has had the misfortune to lose
his oldest son. l also had
the pl asure of meeting Mr..
r. Y. Hall, a prominent mer-
chant, and brother of our own John
L. Hall, of the ''litlle list" fame. /
arrived at Fort Worth an hour late,
supper being over at the "Pickwlck."
Mr.. George Diehl, leading capital
list, real estate agent and money lend
er of this city, was found and was
guided to the "White Elephant
which is the Tony Faust place of
Fort Worth, and where they set up
an elegant lunch and sell milk and
beer at FIVE cents per glass, the same
as at Kobrock Il PehPs. 1t is need
less to say that took milk "in mine >"
I was afraid of the water in the beer.
/ retired early in order to be able to
get good start in seeing the sights of
the city. / was most agreeably sur
prised to find so
LARGE AND PROSPEROUS CITY,
especially after had learned the fact
that in 1875 there were only 600
inhabitants here. Now they claim
over $4,000 and no one will
dispute the claim after going the
rounds as I did. There are four lines
of street railways with over sixty cars
running every day. The city boasts
of over twelve miles of gravel and
macadamized streets. There are
seven railroads already running into
the city, with several more in pros
pect. This is destined to be the great
railroad center of the state. There
are wholesale houses here In nearly
every branch of trade, that would be
a credit even 10 Kansas City, and a
more hospitable people. do not live
anywhere. / expect to make this my
home ere long and / was not long in
finding the hampton boys, Rube and
Mort. They are the proprietors Of
one of the finest shoe stores in the city
and doing an excellent business. To
hear Rube talk of Fort Worth and
Texas, generally, is enough to make
one wish they were born here. The
country from Sherman here
Is SIMPLY GRAND,
and all under high state OF cultiva-
ton and far advanced as compared
with Missouri, corn foot in height