Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-29
THE NEEDS OF TEXAS
Settle the Great Country North Of -.
Red River in the Nation.
If Cranks Have Succeeded in Peoplio, -.
Waste Places in the state, Then TsT,. -
Wants More CrankS.
WICHITA FANS, Tex, Julvg- ,.-

THE GAZETTE of yesterday camas-.
TO hand as usual, and among oths---.,
/ reading, news, etc, I find an arr
entitled Oklahoma, - and SION.
"BucksEin Joe. - After readfa, -,
same over carefully I must coufe>s.1.,
I highly appreciate it and herewith 80
ond "Joe's'' motion, providing thar
doing so we do not violate the laws :,
joe has the "'papers'' which \,
/ claims to have, the sooner that ra-,..
of the Territory is opened ND for sa-...
ment the better it will be for Tays.
large and especially the nortbwts,r,-
of the state, and of course anvshfng.t..
| in any way benefits this
| ton of Texas directly cort--rr.-
| TO Fort Worth and Dallas. Hen
| if "Joe' is right, and / ain ncIfrrf.'
( think he IS, the press OF Teyas sH,,.f
| agItate the matter and bring it before .-,
| people.
The opening up and settlement NJ p,
| territory named would be for Fort r,r..
| and Dallas what the setuemer. ~
"Oklahoma' has for Wichita Ia,
/ and Kansas City, viz: give those c5aa,.-
/ increased trade OF millions Of dollar,
The press Of the cities named s-
cOuraCed and insisted on the oaanfror,
and settlement of Oklahoma, ana v.su..
was accomplished the merchants rps-sf
! the benefit.
The opening up of Oklahoma we VIII all
admit was q grand thing f.,
Texas, ft partly removed o..
stone wall, so to speak. thar f.,
separated Texas from the outside v.r,f
By the settlement of the country b.
| tween the Red river and the W5aFs,,
mountains the Rush for that cou----
would come in from the Texas siier.
stead of via Kansas, and Texas womb
get the benefit. This would b-.ud rH--.
sands of people through our state. aara
large per cent. of them would IU.r-5
| with us, and those who locate Iu the Tr-
ritOry would be supplied by the merchants.
of Fort Worth and other cities lrr-
lumber men would come in for he-e..
and the railroads of Texas would hare1
| large increase in business TIA
effect of such m1vews-.
as "Joe' suggests and advises w.uIigt-
tract the attention Of the people OF ts
iaA OTth and East to the Southwest. and f1
1 this way we would offset the m0reur.
now on foot TO keep the tide of emiErs-
ton going to the Northwest. / refer -l
the opening up Tor settlement the Iaals
formerly owned by the Indians In ua-
SOta, Montana, etc; also tine creating
of four new states in the NovtLvss-
which viii have Il tendency TO keep ia
tide going in that direction. Unless o5
of the Southwest 90 something 20 attract
the people this way we will remain q
the tail end of the procession.
There is more truth than poetry in
what "JOe' says about ''cTauks,' ,
FhUmbugs, - ''f-auds - etc. 10 isa
Iamentable fact that any man, not @ pol
itician or 'OId time settler, is brand
ed' ''cTank' or worse if me happens
to have spirit enough 10 lead of in d-7
movement that necessarily brings bin
before the public. The "m0ssbacs'
element (Which they have in all states
seems 20 have a dread of being 'sls
tracked, - and they begin TO C-7
"crank - fraud - etc the mirGs
any one not of their set makes q move Co
do anything. This, to say the least, 9
not encouraging, and it has the effect c.,
keeping many good man from making
an effort. That ''JOe'' WORKS
/, done noble and good work for N0C,hwa.
Texas by settling Greer county G1-s
without saying. The work is there 10
speak for itself, and speaks louder than
columns OF space could i'm THE GIEiIl
or any other paper. 1t is not necessary
to go 30 Greer county TO see the e1tc. q
'JOe 50 work. one can see it 80 }ez-
non, in Wilbarger county, the trading
point for Greer. Not only did the ehoii
Of joe settle Greer c0uutv, but Il
was the means of settling hundreds o-
good, industrious people in NIuaTge'
and HardemGn counties While this IS
all true, there is a certain class VINO al
ways refer to joe as q ''CrauA,
etc. knowing what Mr. Works has dJl9
tor Northwest Texas and Fort "oIiA,
leads me to say that ''crank' Located
in and working for each county II o-'
state is about what is wanted.
Speaking of EJce' Works and BIS
work reminds me OF the experience oiJ,
S. Daugherty, : d Blake Of Dallas aui
others. Daugherty's experience e'ps-
ciuiiy, should and probably VIII, oe
warning TO others who may have @ spaIA
of public spirit running through iLr-
veins. There are thousands Of citZ-ls
of Texas who know DaUEheTtv IdToIals
and highly appreciate the man an1 DE-
push and enterprise, and know that -
has done much good work for texas
for years past. At the same il-'
we know that he has OF late 9.s-
Fbranded' by certain parties Us
6 crank and Gland sharE5 etc. u
the humble opinion of tire writer, VIZ.
'. u most need n Texas to-day j. 4l .ras.
one hundred thousand such ''crdaA-
and ''Iand sharks as Daa-IeI-'
Blake, Capt. George A. KNIGHT o. l'.-'
las, 3. K. Brant Of PecOs, Gen. H. Il;
Cameron OF Colorado, y. c. B.aurAs.l
of Salisbury, Hail county, Tex L5'
Linn OF Fort Worth, d. {. k0-D o. Iowa
Park, ChiIsan < Burnham of UruIi5,--'
Clay county, DR.. Mcconnell of ,a-s--'
Montague county, Maj. John 4. f'-54
man of Wichita Falls, Joe WORKS 10
Cklauninn. Wilbarger count, C.'
Logan of Vernon, Mr. SanboFn OF an
orilla, Potter county, and many o--
we might name, who are referred y-
some of our people as ''crauhs. "a.
few ''cranl-s'' cen accomplish W.
those I have named have, we surely w.
more ''cranks - and the sooner We
them the better for Texas. There u ---
thing 1 especially notice, ii is tai'. w
the ''cTank, - so-called, does tHs W..
and spends his money freely the man . ~
stands back AMI throws "COld water
the ''crauk' and says cit don paw
- and ''the people VIII l'.--