The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-01
DOWN IN BOsQUE COUNTY
Innocence Abroad Again Takes
a Hand in Politics.

a II THE last moment Uncle
~ Snort got sick and was un-
able to 90 with me 10 Bosque
county. but / was not lonesome.
Several Of Mr.. Beall's friends did
go with me and on the Santa Fe
road after leaving Midlothian the
gentlemen who were accompanying
me had a hearty laugh at my ex-
pense. After purchasing my ticket
at Midlothian / showed 1t down into
my vest pocket and when the con-
duetor came along, / dived. into the
pocket and handed out what i
thought was my ticket. The con-
ductor read 1t and said no Waxaha-
chic Cotton Oil Mill receipt passed
big fellow like me over this road.
Upon close examination ! found
that my cotton mill receipt was the
same color and about the same size
of my ticket, and instanter ! dived
down into that same pocket again
and produced the right document,
hut the boys persisted in not forget
ting the incident. The fact Is they
kinder like a joke at my expense
anyhow l do fully believe. AT Gle
burne we changed cars again and
after twelve O'Clock at night We
stepped off at Morgan. That town
was conceded To be red hot Woo
ten box and when we arrived there
Nooten and several of his speakers
had already consumed all the fore
part of the night speaking, Wooten
would not divide time with Beall
and at that late hour he was making
his speech and after ii was over
there was IA warm time In that town.
The friends OF Reali and Wooten on
the streets after the speaking had it
hot and heavy nntil after one o'clock.
About that time in the morning
Judge Lancaster and myself plunged
into big feather ked belonging to
MFR. " Watson, proprietor Of the hotel
and all other beds were filled with
Beall and Wooteu men.
Mr.. BurIeson Of Mt. Peak had
been at Morgan several days and
told those people that his farm
joined Jack BealI's and he had
known him all his life. This was
the truth, for Mr.. BurIeson's farm
does join the Beail farm out there
where Jack was raised. In sann-
tering down the street next morning
some one asked me If my farm
Joined Heall rs too and my reply was
"yes, and / sopped pot licker cat of
the same skillet with him" This
joke was passed all over the county
and every fellow over there working
for Beall was asked the question
''does your iand Join his2" and OF
course the answer would be in the
affirmative. When Wash Ryburn,
who was working In the north end
of the county, heard it he under
stood the joke as every citizen of
Bosque did. Wash said IL was one
OF my lies for he had rented land To
Jack for several years.
Ny brother-in-law, j X. Sim
mons, has been ranehing in Bosque
county for mere than year and
when | got To his house the first day
found that he had nearly all his
neighbors in line for my man. There
are several hundred goats on my
brothers. ranch and fellow needs
to eat goat meat over there to help
him climb the mountains. He
hitched one of his mustangs to a
buggy and piloted me across the
mountain to Steele's creek and
turned me loose down thelstream. |
met enough Wooten men to keep
me on my mettle, and by the way,
struck some fine land and good
farmers ON this creek. Down at
Fowler, store and postoffice, near
where the creek runs into the Brazos
river, are some large bodies of very
fine land s.nd some good friends
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