Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-08
ENOUGH OF CALIFORNIA.
People Leaving by Carloads Like Rats
from S1nkir Ship.
81 Paso Herald.

81 Paso Herald.
DR.. Harrison, the well known physician
and surgeon OF this city, has just return
ed from trip down the Texas and Psci-
fic Road. A Herald reporter corraied
him st once to find out something. The
doctor said he had but little lime to
spare, but thought he could tell some
thing thst would be OF interest to Ell
| Pssoans.
he SAID: "The train l went down on
three or four days ago carried two coaches
OF people from California, most of them
| from the country round about Los An
| geles and San Diego. OF sll the talking
agg.nst country ever heard, these peo-
| pie beat the record, against California.
| Just wished for en- FL Paso newspaper
man TO hear them. 1t would have done
his heart good TO hear, but he would hags
| pitisd some, at least, of the crowd. They
had been lured there, ike thousands Of
! OF eTs, by misrepresentation, false colors
and lying pictures. The country had beeu
| pictured TO them as a veritable GsrdeHDt
Eden, where the officers, it is said saGVe
! made it q mis6emesnor fer person tossing
| There's land that is fsirer than this
| They went there, and when the stern re-
allty and realty, also) stared them in the
face, With it's hard, cold and CLASSY gaze,
they saw then what dupes they had been
made and kicked themselves inWaTdly,
fguratively speaking. They were soon
| possessed Of sufflciency OF Californis,
and left. In regard to the boosted climate
| Of Les Angeles, they said that mud and
Water reigned (r-a-i-n-e-o) supreme there,
and people were dying almost like hogs
infected with the cholera; that the pspers
there would never publish death, but
kept 1t quiet. Carloads of collins arrive
every few days, and that is the principal
article Of merchandise. Persons
contract coughs there who can't
get any other kind of coz
tract, and were never known to have q
cough previous to going to California.
There Is q deplorable state Of Affairs
existing. 1t is very common occurrence
to have fairly well dressed man step Up
to You and ask for % cents with which to
buy = meal or nights lodging"
The doctor said he saw on the train one
CT the most pitiful objects he ever wit
messed in his life. A young man WAS on
the emigrant car, with child eighteen
months old and baby fourteen Gays old.
! He had gone to Celifornia-:o Los
i Angeles few months ago, and his wife
had died in child birth. He was on his
way back to his old home in East Texas,
to put the children in the care Of
their grandparents, and said he
would then De ready to die. BE had
been guaranteed by the Southern Pacific
Company thEt no smoking would be
allowed on the car he was on, but the car
wSs full Of smoke all the time. II was
enough to kill his little fourteen daY-old
baby. he had no one to attend to the
little one and hsd to see to it himself,
Dursing it frCm bottle Of condensed
milk. The poor young fellow had the
warmest sympathy OF everyone on the
train. He was consumptiye, and had
had so much care on mis- mind and hands
for the last month that he had not slept
ten hours in the entire time, and WAS
completely broken down.
There is no use in Cslifornia's trying to
disguise or hide the facts. They are
known. Their boom mas played out
wilted-dead. Texas is coming TO the
front. The Rio Grande valley land is
equal to the best Californians can show.
The climate here is better. Our water
facilities are good. What more can 8
person want? People from plsyed-Cut
California will Settle here in the richest
valley in the United States. Others viii
come from the east es we'll. We will have
the boom next, and it will differ from the
one California had in that it will bea real,
live and substantial boom; one that wiz
be heard and felt throughout the length
and breadth OF this broad and glorious
Union. Let her come. Texas will give
8 greeting, warm and cordial. Thousande
and thousands of acres OF fine, rich laAd
are lying idle, cheap, and waiting to be
settled on. In ten years Texas will be
the first state OF the Union; grander and
more glorious in everything that goes to
make free people happy and contented.