Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-30

children don't &c to school becaus
they haven't shoes OF stockings. an<
YOU can sea HON lock n'yeelf'
"'rm no worse thnn my uciGhhoft.
he continued; hut tho honest truth II
we're all mighty near starvation
They're all good, Industrious men, Ant
have worked night and day, some o.
them, 20 try aud get CROP. Sine,
June u Hast not drop OF vain fen 81
my place. except little shower lee
late IN tho fall. II atood loo and los ~
tho shadc, I'm told. sevvfpi days ~
Aucccsaion IN June. and then the hni
winds did the rest Wr had ga iina
prospects for corn UP 10 that tinie a.
] ever saw. hut IL was all over hy July
l. tel you. There 10 going 20 be star
Walton all over the country In lew
weeks. The farmers nre on their last
row. and unless help comes IN Few
days ! don't know whatN happen.
goed many have loft our precinct. but
tho ivst of Ms stayed, There wnAnN
any ohoice, ! borrowed n ncighh1f,s
team aad came In this iaorning, but
whother IN not help or not I cannot
tcil' 1. Is not to- much TO say thnt
hia case Is wcll nigh typical OF tho
| farmers throughout the county.
on sunday visit TO tile house of ona
OF the aettlcra revealed The farmer
drrsslnE jacl, rabbit he had killed.
a. aliltA NHtN ANAQN WAt W Af'fNN
tonight" he raid. "and IN live hlgh
| for u day or two"
I ''Won, you manage 10 keep the wolt
| from tho dnurT' ! asked.
no WOLF ever comes TO my door" Aaih
the sand hllls philosopher, I'D car
him if he dld"
drive OF thirty miles M any dlrotlon
from Grant ten tons OF fodder could
not be found,
The sltuation In Hayes and iiitcll-
cock counties " but little better than N
Perkins. County Commissioner Rhodes,
OF Hayes county, gives the following de-
tails IL doatItutlon and suiterins In his
dietrlct;
II tell You inn situation 10 about an
bad ~ 4 can he. We have raised 10
crops no, sir, none. I sponk from Bit
ter experience, for you ran see Tor your
SELF that there wasn't an ear ~ corn
on one Of those stalks Even the stalks
are not amy too good fodder And am
no worRo Than my nelghhorH. The stock
has been dirvNn out OF the country and
puid FOR whatever Il would bring. Cows
brought as low 49, ss or s., although TO-
day they are worth SIG 80 we have no
atoci, oh, you'ii SEQ from one 20 fifteen
head at - farm, hut oftencr the former
than tho iatt0l number There was
little hay, aud up on tho Red WILLOW
creog q FEW were abs TO irrighto =
vegetable patch, but there IL miRhty
li.tle 10 ncll There are very TOW Who
ale comfortably wen on through for
tame or one Kind or another. but YOU
can nearly count them ON tho hnKefr
Of one hand Some relief cnmc Ia "A
Lutheran mlnrtor Ia the northeaAtcru
pnrt of the county, but I do not knpw
hNw much thorc was, for ! was MOI
there when II chmc and the reports
were mostly contradictory, AZ last 40
much wan said about the Luthefans
getting IL all that tho minister, Mr..
Thomson raid that although u was rol-
leoted by eastern lIutherans Tor their
brethren nround hlA nciehbofhoou. ~
would eive the county what was leis.
SO he turned over seven WAGON lohuh.
combating OF $500 pounds OF iirurt nfiy
buahola II potatoes and Soma clothing
orr funda are about exhnuntcd. Thern
"a very little money IN the treasury,
but tho merchants cash our warrant.
AT par. We nre onorlng limited W
only 20 tho most urgent cases. cutllnk
ans rnouleitiona down To The lowest
+ nviue nuantity Of all tho uecenHarles.
, M aunnr tnffee OF tea ~ given pni
0xcopt TO the old or inilrm persons
. There u the KrcAteHt need Tor insl ~
-four at present. In the spring "vtis,
one except a few VIII nced seed OF "'
Z poatmaster Nlcbcraon, of Marengo
} tells tho foiluwlng tale of helpless star.
! Walton ~ he hna seen and experiences
Z II IN his neiFhhorhood
I II am keeping three famiifn nn
{ pension N az per month l.nchly.
4 hnye a iittS credit here and there. Th'
y othnr day called IN some near neish
4 bnra ~ mine, mol nuHprctng hRt inc,
were Ia want. The woman met me A
< a door In an old and torn enucn dreHl
Z and Il pair OF rotten nhocs. ! asked hrl
b II that was the best clothing She had
q Hhe naid n was, but that she ncrde'
0 ,DmothinR moro than clothing, and tina
o was food 1 gave her an order Tor ~
Z worth OF groceries at Hayes Center ans
q nino one ON tho county, good mAnl
X or my noighbors havs loft Thor team
y were mort gnRcd md they couldn't W
y away. I have ffty or more head
II horsfa. nnd told nyo men to pick gu
4 teams ana 70 They ala this, ieAvin
\ thelr nortgngch teams 10 run ~ lafks
+ THO stock II tho county IL mostly rons
n People either took 4 away win ther
y Or thr moftgasc men hAva got Y Som
% irfinatinY was done near our plnre o
ned Willow. Ono man, on a pare
n about 20 by 80 feet. raised cnhhAke
y which sold Tor 25 cents head and %
a tntoen viii a while ago brought
u per buRhol." 49, :.
"a Stories like fncse are coming from n
4, directions Ia the afflicted district.