The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-08-14
A CATTLE BARON'S DOMAIN.
SCENES ON THE FAMOUS GOODNIGHT
RANCH IN TEXAS.

a Day with Herds OF Buffalo. Moose, Eik.
Deer. and AuteIopes-New Habits OF
These Animals In Captiviiy-Tho Bus'-
ness Side or nunaIo Breedine-Twoive
Miles Across n Panhandle Dooryard.
From 0e ST. Loui, Globe Democrat
GoopSraHT. Tex. July % Cars run twelve
miles In crossing one mans dooryard In the
Panhandle. They stop midway The brake
man shouts Goodnight" with tho emphasis
on the first syllable. As the train slows one
can see on avenue Of shade trees leading south
from the neat station for half mile. The
avenue ends at tho broad veranda OF lastly
painted mansion. The house Is the striking
centre OF u group OF shops. stables. and sheds.
To all points of the compass stretch the ains
as lar as vision can follow The contrast OF
the well-painted building. the green avenue.
and tho brown plains with their wire-fcnce
divisions Is sharp. The scene is fascinat-
ing. But something more marvellous
claims the eye. Buffalo nrc grazing
on the short grass 80 industriously
that they do not even raise their great shaggy
frontals when the whistle sounds. Moose are
looking over the high fence and stumbling
about. Elk and deer and antelope are seat
tered over the face OF the plain. some lying
down. some grazing. some looking with lam
guild interest upon tho cars. 1t is II sight to be
seen nowhere else upon the American conti-
nent. The younger iawns OF the elk and deer
and antelope huddlc close to the does as II
born wild and not yet fully rcconciled to this
invasion OF the IRON horse. Tut there Is no
older animals, They have grown accustomed
to this long: black changing. pulling monster
passing sn GoIen ines every tT"n.Ey,"Hr
stolidly Ono little D days calf. very. sha.y
and wohbly on its zig legs. walks directly
heal and great eyes.
These are the pets Of Mr. Chares GGGd
500 miles Of the panhanie there Is no need to
answer that question. A thousand milesaway
there may h be an interest in the Personality Of
thousand. ships his cattle by the train loul.
and keeps whole mcnageric for his amuse-
Gen IN the COW t ,hs M
speech. More years ago than the clear eyes
whiskers; Just beginning to show, gray. would
ind Mr.. Goodnight came TO Texas from Il
ssd he nsn s s Es S Su he
keen ' tho Indians BACK SSi;eF He u" bes %yS
Eoss. 'Hs wa. i in and thr sn that
long. hard camnaiga Of years ia:ainst the
h% hei fnn%e eoany ssanss All
corners. They, had driven back the Apach-s
q. on tho west Ihey had kent n tue utes on
tried again and again to subdue the Comanches
and tailed. Mexico was the country on watch
t thsv Sonanrme ptoyen rnn VIII their Piandet
the pioneer line of Texas approached nearer
aud nearer Then came the Ilght to tn" death.
was Kill and kill And when at last tho band
was driven from its Panhandle home to Il res
ervation in the indian Territory it had been
drcimated 50 many times that tho record is al
most incredible. Dat Ufthc 10000 Comanchrs
and theiralies. the hiowas. there remained
not onc-third OF that numuer.
1t is queer thing. this relationship Of the
comanchss ana ki9whs hey have !!.cen
they can't talk 70 each other Tnry have never
learned each others language. When Il hlowa
wants t. tax 10 tonanrne he does it by
came from the Moth long ago. They seem to
be branch Of the LsluimauX. Boih in
stature and GJ % ;hsre is diaerfnce Ihs
than the Comunches They ditn know any
thing about the horse until they J"inei the
who seem to have been in this region from
the beginning. The Monteluma In'ians con
auered nearly all Of the ether Indians they
For years III" Comancnes captured women
from the M-Nicans on their raids ana they
now havea good deal Of spanish and mixed
blood in the tIiLe. This WAS the home OF the
Comanrhes, They had strip through here
the Arkansas vsr tn the . Eo ' t.ran an and az
far West a. the tnrSy Mountains. They Kept
everything out of it,
home OF the buffalo. here tho buffalo bred
From here the herds Went forth in >uarcn OF
new astuies. Back here the remnants drilted
before the storms Of winter AID found refuge
til spring. When The plains Of Colorado and
further north had ncen swept 10y tho hunter
buffalo in the Panhandle country. And when
the cittlcmen came IN as the tumanch-, went
out 81 tbs favored region. 'nst" wee -'ill
plains. a !urao ra!f ortwu ~trayrh into the
herds % rhit!r ana grew a., in Civilized c.m-
business with NJ. GoualI.ht. lie gave tho
stray calf. the last ii II noU!o race. u welcome
to his rounduu. He fpuri Company "i his
from various sources. When fenced PASTURES
took the place Of the Wild! ire, rang, Mr..
honor near ranch hcaririuu.lrrs. linus fos-
tered, IL" nerd has grown on its native heath
n ~ tS host "Rt H in "Niftn.s
something IN climate which encourages tho
highest desreo OF health in The cow brute on
".lou may kill 100000 COWS raised here"
said Mr. Goodnight, and you Will not fnu
sing" aver with a .nen:s 81 on It. Tho liver is
suppose thai i what ii i irr. me liver ought
MT to be eaten. 1 SUPPOSE. but sometimes
thefe is any disease at all. Take the cattle
brought into this country. If you Kill them
soon after they come YOU VIII find in many that
and then you will See that thor Tiers h,ve lee
come sound. You SEQ by tho difference in color
ne SpotS Wnl't nave uetn Affected ana Wlcn
become ali RI -ht again. They arc Ike sears
But In ~. cattle raised here yu see "A diitcr-
ent condition The liver Is without r!om III.
!: ha~ never been discussed. rhat is what
~ health cattle
There ware thousands OF antelope in tho
Panhandle when Mr.. Goodnight !lrst astab-
|ished himself here But antelope steak is
good. And as the buffalo disappear rod the an
I"lone became scarce. Mr. Goodnight camo
ny MS COLLECTION ~ antelUpes in tho most nat
hral manner When ho ran TIE wirHs around
ms gre It pastures he actually fence in little
bunches Ot Wild antelope wltn his cnttlo. The
VIII MOI attempt To 60 oNetof through
\ wire ience. Thry rcmu!nri in the pastures.
growing tanner until now tnose near the house
, mo Running at the sight ~ Il bucket, and
hang around after their feed OF meal o. DO pet
n lit!on readily.
, III" elk are Inclined to Jump 1t takes moro
han the ordinary fence Of three or tour wires
% rOntroI their movements. About tho elk
pasture Ar. Goodnight has drawn thirteen
wires. But this III ies IL irncc that will keep
wolves ana dogs out as well as elk In. Elk
They will try most anything low. They
NO trouble to raise elk; Inc; calve every year
when old enough The only trouble about
keeping them here is that they ought to he