Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-30
VANILLA JONES
Writes From Atokes, ChoCtaw Ma
ton, Indian Territory.
He Packs His Hosiery and hanoSef
chiefs and Leaves the "Ameri-
can Soudan."
ArokEE, CHocrAw NATION, l. 7.

lett the great openings LoI MVi'
and stronger constitutional people, people
who have no fear of the hereafter and nc
regsrd tor their happiness or future pros
pscts Texas has many natural features
in fact a superiority, yet we believe tns'
every coautry has few natural features
they are not scarce. II q country as large
as Texas could not have dozen
or so Of natural features, she
would certainly be behind the
times Among her features are cattle,
COW boys, an abundance of climate, q
scarcity of coal and water, and land uulim-
tied. This land is of variable composition,
a great portion OF it looking much better
on q map, and more fertile on q railroad
advertisement than Providence made it.
Ont along the Texas & Pacific road leading
10 Ell Psso, new towns are constantly
spsipging up Maps are circulated show
ing an elegant location Gin the heart OF all
paradise; rich land, we'll wstered; the town
20 be endowed with magnificent library,
a dozen car shops to be erected, new rail-
road TO iutersect the town, an elegant
opera house under Roadway. Town lots
for sale at almost nothing (more than Trey
are WORTHY with yearly payments of two to
Eve dollars. Bay town lot and 60 cut
and see the blooming paradise! The fer.
tile land ia covered with unlimited stone
quarries, aud the luxurisut vegetation con.
sists of some consumptive cactuses, and
water in many places is transported miles
BY railway, and during rsin fall water is
caught and put in barrels aud pots tor
drinking. This would be an elegant fel6
10. man hunting microbe and like stuf
in liuuid analysis. Ia the larger places
nearly al! water is furnished from artesiau
wells, which is very good wster
when little ice is added, each
city having two or three ice factories
which average about twelve tons per day
which they retail at one cent per pound
The chief occupation, you might say, OF
Texans Is cattle raising, which ID shout the
most profitable business that man can
engage in if he has enough capital Serious
drawbacks however, occrr in connection
with this. Quarantines against Texas cat
tle are made BY Western cities which
greatly affscE the trade at times, and
droygths AID winter weather cause thous
ands OF cattle to perish. Ga these cattle
ranches is found the festive cowboy-a life
which nllures many young men to Western
fields. They want to try 1t because It ls
easy and funny. The life is not one of
ease and princ,ly luxurisnce, and there is
little humor connected with It, unless
faIloz takes bias view OF the state OF at
fairs. II is not calculated for man OF in.
tellectual tendency, although | learn that
many college graduates are in that
bushes. How loSrithms and Greak affect
cattle ranch ora Texas steer, We don't
know The life is briefly thus: The young
man with dreams ahead, wherein he sees
himself cattle king, gets bis job-with
curtsil5d salary. He buys sonbrero. q
pair OF spurs that would bring dollar for
old iron in the North, pair Of leather
trousers, q slicker," which is waterproof
blanket, then going to the ranch he gets q
broncho, a saddle, larist, cofse.pot, revolt
vera, aud al allowance Of fitch and ham"
and he is ready to commence his upward
career. He goes ont on the plains, eats and
lives in the open air, ia rain, sunshine and
storm. Sometimes he sleeps in a mud
puddle. If tho weather Is rainy; he is not
ss particular as a prince Of the blood royal
in matters of this kind, be muet likewise be-
come accustomed to having suaer holes
bored thrpugh his system BY blood
thiraty mnsqpitoes-emigrsnts no
doubt from 6eW Jerse7, except mere i'm
proved. After pay day they come in
groups to the town and saturste their ply
steal system with whisky to prevent
malaria-some in the smaller towns
amuse themselves by shooting of theic re
volyers in decidedly psouiscious way,
but this is rare. TIE cowboy Is SANDER.
ed and injured citizen; although rough in
exterior and manner they are as rule
we'll phssed, genial and really good fell
Iowa When Texas becomes thoroughly
settled which will be at the same period
that the Sahara will be settled, the world
will have a gres tecquisition. We enGuired
of numbers Of people Why they catae 10
Texas. and the almost invariable answer
wss, for their health. We heard q
story, which, though old might throw
light on this question Of health end hyge'ic
migration. A colonel, judge and an
attorney were on fshlrg excursion 10.
gether. and they 8sseed TO tell each other
! What disease caused their immigration to
Texas. The Colonel had signed another
mans name to u check, the lawyer unin-
tentionslly appropriated some bank funds
TO his own private use, and the Judge, who
was formerly deacon IN Tennessee, came
because he would not Guild church
What! for not building church How
did tina. Gomez We'll, you see, said the
Judge, IL was treasurer and vas given
&c am --:.L -L:-I -. 10 -, -, u
! didn't do it: see" Texas has very re-.
forming influence an mans character.
You will meet mum bers of good people vino
possibly went 10 Texas for their health and
recovered. They seem TO be splendid pso-
pie yet you know nothing of their parents.
uncles or autecedents We don't wish to
terrify the world but we feel it our duty TO
inform the world that Billy the Kid and
Jesse James are now both in Texas,
uulesa they left quite re-
Gently. | WAS talking one
evening with mau who had trsversed the
entire Union. had been in sieges, and bat
ties aud hair-breSdth escapes, We grew
quite intimate. Your life would make an
interesting hook" | meekly said, gazing
uuon him in hero wonder. "Ab," he added
sadly. Il dare not write my life; you know
not who | am; were | to tell you. you
would start back in horror" A delicate
chill slid gently down my spinal column
and | thought perhaps he was q hank
cashie, in disguise. Il will tell you, be
said, confdsrtislly, if you never breathe
it to living man" agreed. Il ain't IN
the breathing habit anyway well.
said he, with tragic sir, 81 will trust yol.
He lifted his hand toward the pale moor
and whispered in guttersl tones; Il an
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