The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-14
THE SALT LAKE HERALDy MONDAY OCTOBER "a, 1885.

an end to the raids of Mexican cattle
thieves in Texas.
In the latter part of the same year the
Rangers, under Sergeant John b. Arm
strong, of NcNelly'S company, raided the
stronghold of King Fisher ana MS great
band of horse and cattle thieves IN AeAds'
near Eagle pass, arrested members OIL the
band wherever found, killed a number OF
them in fights and made the country
what it had never before oeen-sdIe Ior
peaceable settlers. The following yer
Captain Jesse Lee Hall, who succeeded 10
the command of the company upon me
death of McNelly, stopped the terrlpIe
Taylor-Sutton feud in Dew rt county d
feud which had ragged for twenty YEAR,,
and which had resulted in hundfedS OF
murders-and Hall had but eighteen men
for this work, as Armstrong had had out
twenty-five for his.
The Rangers have fought against ooos
for years. They fought against oxerpoNM-
eriDg odds when, Immediately after the
war. as state police under TeaYis, thcy
brought order to the Lone star state IN
The most turbulent times OF me reS ssel,
struction days. The two, hundred men
who fought and died at the Alamo, VINO
checked the advance of Santa Afl I,, >
army of ten thousand men, so that zen
eral Sam Houston could gather his forces
together were made UP, in part, Oh texas
Rangers.
There is. will venture to say. not a
member of the Texas Rangers TO-DAY WHO
would not go merrily ito certain oealh W W
uphold the ancient glory OF the MAINE
that he bears.
How They Are Paid.
The Rangers are paid $40 a mouth J ~
their rations, and arms ana AMIN =
are furnished by the state Ihey prov f fuT
their lown horses the state paying Iol
them IL thew are killed. they are uneh-
numbered with baggage. They WIN tdh he
The saddle at a minutes notice to go ON
a scout of a months duration. Ihey nay 6
M uniform. They have no military qls-
ninline as discipline is generally UNDER
stood. but they obey their o]HcSro dlN
win go with them to certain death Will
out a murmur. - , -
All of these things are wen known ~
Texans to the cowboys better pelhd p
than to the inhabitants of the cities, ana
it is extremely unlikely that any consid-
cradle number of Texans Will care; uHCeI
any circumstances, to try concluslohs
with the Texas Rangers When jhe I dttSl
are out for business. Much as the people
of Dallas wanted the big fight to come
off in that city, they would not nave
tried to bring it off if the governor had
sent the Rangers there to prevent It,
even if there had been no legislative dc-
ton prohibiting the fight.
Dallas wanted the fight and the money
would have brought more than the peo-
pie of the north vino have never been
here can possibly understand. Dallas
had a boom a number of years ago,
and at that time two-thirds Of the real
estate in the city was mortgaged to half
it's Chen) value. The bottom dropped out
of the boom and the value of real estate
fell. Then the citizens awoke to the fact
that the city was practically mortgaged
almost to its full value The mortgages
were held in the east or in England, and
they bore interest at the rate of 10 per
cent. a year. Only in the fall is money
at all plentiful here During all the rest
of the year it is very scarce.
When the Rangers start in to have law
and order, they will get it if they have
to kill every man within range to main
tain it. and there is one rule which has
ever obtained in all Ranger companies,
namely: Don't wait for the other man
to shoot first"
". A. JENNINGS