Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-14
A TEXAS HERO.
now "BIG JOE MINIS MET HIS
DEATH
a Noble Life Given Up for Worth
less obicot-Judgc Lynch
Beaten.

On Christmas day many q man in Mon
tague and Clay counties, this state, was
reminded OF the Christmas and Christ-
mas eve of 1881. That was tho time
when big Joe Minis mot his death and
thereby completed one Of the most re-
markable chapters Of self-sacrihcing
hcroism TO be found IN all the annals Of
this Western country. The history Of the
Panhandle In those days was largely a
HISTORY of turmoil and boodshed' IN
which such episodes as that OF Big joe
are only too rare.
Some thirty miles west OF here, ON
stream known as dhc Little Wichita,
there used to be tuNn called Liverpool
II was un one branch of the ola SplH-
holm cattle trail aud was formerly
good towns but edll one cannot help
feeling that tho man who named a. must
have had a keen sense Of the ridiculous
one OF tie most popular cowboys ihat
used to come here to trile or 10 Loaf was
doe MINIS, Otherwise aud more com,
monty known ne big doe. lie is said
TO have boon six feet three inches h,gh
and otherwise large IN proportion. ne
throw as good a rope aud matte as s2 ,Sl
wages as any Cow puncher IN tue
country. Accordingly, everybody WAS
surprised, not 90 say shocked, when u
was suddenly announced that Big noe
had decided 20 quit the COW husinoss ana
80 TO farming.
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chased w morn A. t9e land cost mm
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mn,u'hH A,riln incurred ~ VT operllo.
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