Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-02
KOUND-UPS.
Hsrse Stealing and Illicit Calf Brand
ing Rampant In tho Terrific
ries Of the Northwest.


The Remsdy-B!g Sale In Bee County-A
shor.age-fhe COWBOYS Reputation
I1pectors 1t Chicago.
q DEPORTS from
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<SM~.N N IL many portions
EIdiAgN Ct Wyoming and the
nm (MsHt 4 countries west Of the
SHH @SM II, Rockies in Colorado,
EfAExEgMsS Utah, Idaho and Ne.
Mi ts8HnnH vsds were to the
ZH1j sNVgIf effect that both horse
CA ynlhKkIEi stealing and Illicit
I>AXNJl1/II calf branding is be-
~N[L NJ coming the general
~ order of the day. To
such an extent Is this crOokedness going
on that .he feeling is daily gaining ground
that the old time rope remedy Will have
to be resorted TO ID order to stop he
| triumphicsl march OF the freebooter OF
| the plains ssSlrce the decline in value OF
beef sseefsefhd the CONSEQUENT failure OF
| the csAashen to spend money freely
i38h of the small towns in the
SS6hge country, It seems to hsve be-
come slmos. an impossi1ility to convict
cattle or horse thief. Encouraged by the
cry from high places that the ranchman
must give wsy to the farmer, and the ides
somehow getting abroad thss the poor
msn had right to Kill and eat the cattle
Of the ersz.r, Juries have laughed ST the
prosecutors and turned loose upon the
community dozens of men who sre known
to have lived tor years by stealing the
fruits of others lsbors.
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! which have been done By tinhorns and
desperadoes IN the guise OF cowboys have
been unfairly commented upon By news
papers until the word "cowooy" in many
communities has become another name
for murderer. The following dispatch,
lob, from Reading, Pa, gives the essi-
mate OF the hero OF the plains that has
beed instilled into tie mind OF child:
At the house CT William Morgan, in
Donaldson, Schuylkill county, last night
Mrs. Morgan WAS sitting in rocking
chair nursing 3 si1-months- sold baby.
Her six Syear-old son, named
Willie, took and old shot gun from tnS
closet and the little fellow then climbn
up en- chair and secured cap froms&
shelf. He cooked the gun, aimed 1t q
his mother, and when about fifteen feet
sway cried out: "Look out, mamma,
Pm 4 cowboy, and I'm going to shoot
you" With these words he fred, the
charge entering the face, head ard chest
of the mother, and back and head CT the
infant. The mother and child are rot
expected to live.
John Tod, Of Ssn Antonio, president Iof
large live stock company in Southern
Texas, YVES recently interviewed in ca:
csgo, and ssidsS> "There will be s
shortage in cattle this year In the
, scuthwestegt6 Country. because SO many
COWS andMtmmature beeves were sold
during Nspripg, when ,od prices pre-.
failedggThere will be shortage anyway
treAfher Causes. The big packers in
!. l31go know this, and thought 1t had
B6me last July. All Of them hsc their
fbu7ers in the southWes. bidding for cattle
q ut prices with which local buyers could
o., mo-. compete. They were mistaken then,
( tut the shortage is bound to come. 1t Is
:, not only the range cattle, but smong the
j feeders in the state. The Calf crop,
which is the real source Of all our profits,
d yot know, is very short this season,
owing to the dry weather Of last year.
n Brsdstreets' says: Well-sustsined sc
: tivity and great strength are reported in
j. all the wool markets. The situation has
a improved, If anything, during the past
t week. Holders are in full control, the
: manufacturers buying freely on theil
terms. Many Of the larger concerns arf
= taking supplies for future as well 8:
preeent re quirements. There are no &C
cuIanlaticns in the sesooard markets, ant
from present Indications business is like II
| aIstI hrfc
MNmn. The autumn clip in Csliforri
lsFof small proportions. Most cf the fal
f Texas wool has been marketed.
A. Chicago correspondent repo rts thi
SD additional inspector has been detailed
abst Chicago to condemn diseased cattle
sE5.tnd that duyiagSthe past week twenty two
81 animsls 1gt2ed with lumpy jsw were
~ headed qEYs6m the packing houses. Blu
9t1or thiN9Gecau.ion, by this time the ten
j. -ysn 8G OF these animals would have beer
J oHfGle from ice boxes throughout the
|eountry, and the rest OF the csrcesse:
J. done up In gorgeously labeled cans, to b.
1t sold by provision dealers IS "Cooked
Corned Beef"
Captain R. Patterson, one OF the lead
ing csttlemen Of the southwest part G.
5 the state, was in Fort Worth yesterday
S He hSd q good report Of the condition Of
r stoEk matters in the part OF the state
1 fFsa which he hsils;
"A sale of Go00 young steers was recently
Ehde in Bee county to territory parties
HIT sc so for ones and $40 so for tWos.
I'll CANTON.