The McKinney Gazette. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1886 Page: 1 of 4
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BAKING POiVDEK.
Manufactured By
BABCOCK, FOOT & BROWN, j
DALLAS, TEXAS.
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VOLUME 1. NO. 14.
McKINNEY, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1886-
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In the Robbers' Cave.
COUNTY DRY
Description of the Cavern Where the
Outlaws of the San Antonio licgion
Have Congregated.
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New Goods are Now Being Received
DAILY I
THIS IS YOUR WEEK FOR A BARGAIN AND DON'T FORGET.
Respectfully,
suoseouentlv married Pitts, the
leader of the gang, iliere was
-MLB corn DRY CMS CO:-
Life and Love.
J.ife is a jrarden fair and free,
But 'tis love that holds the golden key;
For hand and heart
Once held apart.
Life's flowers are dashed with storm of sorrow,
And bloom to-day may he blight to-morrow;
'1 hen heedless ever of'wind and weather,
Let life and love be linked together.
Life is e. diamond rich and rare,
But love is the lustre that dances there;
For hand and heart
Once held apart.
Life's jewels growdim in the breath of sorrow,
And diamond to-day may lie dust to-morrow;
Then heedless ever of wind and weather,
Let life and love be linked together.
Life hath a fair and sunshine face.
15tit love is the beauty that gives it grace;
For hand and heart
Once held ipavt.
The sweetest cheeks areiialed with sorrow,
And blu-ili to-d •}' may be blanched to-morrow :
Then heedless ever of wind and weather.
Let life and love be linked togetli r.
I.ife is a struggle from cradle to grave,
But love makes that life worthy to save;
For hand and heart
Once held apart.
The sweetest joys are saddened by sorrow.
And triumph to-day may be despair to-mor-
row.
Then heedless ever of wind and weather,
Let life and love be linked together.
Anticipation.
BTl. E KIKK.
Promise is sweeter than the full fruition,
The lirst soft breath that whispers in the ear
Of budding c rocuses and pussy willows
is deaier than the ripeness of the year.
The first fair glinting of the sail approaching
That brings the loved ones from a sunnier
land,
Js d.-arer than the close and tender clasping
Of eager heart to heart and hand to hand.
The tirst <|iiiek glance of love, half unexpected
Halt' hoped for quiekens in the trembling
breast,
Swoetei and purer throbs than ali the later
And fuiicr passions openly expressed.
ijwevter by f:ir to watch the beating pulses,
I he slow unfolding of the lirst success,
Than to reap harvest from the later triumphs
That brings at best a dash of bitterness.
Ah, fair Anticipation! might we never
Mrnv from thy borderland o eest«j v,
Nor seek to set our all too eager lootsteps
In the worn jjaihs of dull reality.
A Public Enemy.
Any man who attempts for pur-
poses political or otherwise, to
stir up strife beU- -)ti the country
and his county town, should be
frowned down as an enemy to
public peace.—[Sulphur Springs
Gazette.
Moving a Big Tree.
Col. Walter C. Lamed, the fa-
mous art connoisseur, has been in
San Francisco for several weeks
on a curious mission. He wished
to transplant to the handsome
lawn of his magnificent summer
residence, at Lake Forest, one of
the big California trees, and he
has just closed a contract with the
Wells & Fargo Express Co. to
this effect. Special cars are to
be constructed to transport the
tree across the plains, and the um-
brageous leviathan will have to be
drawn by horse power after the
Missouri liver has been reached,
because the obstacles in the way
of railroad curves and bridges east
of that point cannot be overcome.
The tree which Col. Lamed has
selected is somewhat over 300 feet
in height, is 90 feet in circumfer-
ence near the base, and weighs
about 40,000 tons. The cost of
transplanting this monarch of the
forest will exceed $18,000.
An Erroneous Idea.
Beware of Evil-Minded Agitators.
The most dangerous person at
this time is he who goes among
the people and is constantly
inflaming the minds of one class
against another class of the people.
The true patriot instead of abusing
one class and exciting the passions
of the people uses all his influences
to allay and calm the feelings and
passions of the people during these
times of excitement. The late
civil war with all its attendant evils
and calamities should be a perpetu-
al example of the rui?) and devasta-
tion brought upon a country by
inflammatory speeches and acts of
demagogues and blind partisan
leaders. The people should shun
the agitator as they would the
worst evil kno>r Jo ip n-—[Tyler
Courier.
Paddle Your Own Canoe.
OWDER
llutely Pure.
never varies. A marvel of pnf-
and wholeaomeness. More eco-
tbe ordinary kinds, and cannot
In competition with the multitude of
ahort weight alum or phosphate sow-
LB ONLY IMC ASS. liOTAL BA*J*«P0W-
"" Wall Jt., If. Y.
There is an impression in .some
sections that nearly all foreigners
are tinctured will communistic
ideas This is very erroneous.
Very many of the best and the
most loyai ^ifi^ens cf vounuy
are foreigners, and, within our
personal acquaintance, the most
outspoken and positive opponents
of anarchy a.nd communism that
we can now call to fwir*ds are for-
eign born. The anarchists who
infest certain parts of America are
from the vilest scum of the great
European cities a;id are, in no
sense, representative foreigners.
Aeronaut Wells, of Indianapo-
lis, says that he once made an as-
cent from Buenos Ayres, and
while far above the La Plata river
saw the sqn $e£. Soon after the
wind ceased and the balloon went
down to the water. He threw out
all the ballast, and then, sitting in
the hoop, cut away the car. At
this the balloon shot up to such a
height that the sun, which had set
hours before to the persons below
him, again appeared. The effect
was r.s if the sun was rising in the
west.
He who by the plow would
thrive, must himself either hold or
drive. So it is with all business.
If a man expects in this world to
thrive, he must be up early and
late and wide awake all the time.
Every individual must look to his
own interest and leave other peo-
ple to do the same. The man
who expects the commit n it v nr
his neighbors to look after his in-
dividual intefe?|:, generally comes
out disappointed. He i§ lively fq
be skinned by the man from whom
he was expecting a favor. Weed
your own row through the world,
dear reader, ff you want to know
it has been done well.—f Mineola
Monitor.
Me.ii.who habitually use intoxi-
cating spirits are more difficult to
cure, if bitten by a mad dog, than
temperate men. So says the fa-
mous Pasteur,
Pistol Carrying.
Especially would we impress
upon young men that it is not
evidence of courage to carry a
pistol. It is, if anything, a want
of courage. There have been
many men killed in this country
because thg tyjen who shot them did
not have tfye courage to refrain
from shooting. They were scared,
and therefor# fired, ft i$ not only
a practice that proves nothing as
regards courage, but it is not a
gentlemanly practice.
Most of the factories in St.
Louis announce their intention to
resume the ten hour system at an
early date.. If their present em-
ployes will not work their places
will be filled. 4ff
At San Antonio another chap-
ter 111 the Robbers' Cave romance
has appeared. It has been the
intention to officially explore the
cave ever since the discovery of
portions of a skeleton, which was
identified as Frank Harris. Harris
was a young man living in the
helotes neighborhood, who was
hand in glove with the Pitts-
Brannon gang of outlaws. He was
in love with Melissa Scott, who
ubjseouentlv
f tl
much existent jealousy between
Harris and Pitts, and the former's
suit was disapproved by the Scotts
—father and son.
On the 15th of September, 1884,
Harris was seen in the company
of the two Scotts and Pitts. He
was never seen again. On the
discovery of his bones in the cave
the Scotts, who were charged with
his murder, saw a chain of circum-
stantial evidence rivited to them,
which, it is stated, they will have
hard work in breaking.
While officers have been pre-
paring to explore Harris' tomb,
Justice Boerner, of the Helotes
precinct, has been carrying on a
private investigation on his own
account. He has kept his own
counsel and gone ahead steadily
with his work. Recently he showed
up at the court house looking
mysteriously important, and carry-
ing under his arm a bulky package
done up in wrapping paper. The
officers gathered around him, and,
like a peddler with his pack, he
spread out his ghastly wares.
They were bones, and human
bones, comprising portions of a
badly fractured skull, broken ribs,
etc., being most of the missing
links in the dead Harris' person-
ality. Near the skeleton was found
a heavy quirt or liding whip, with
a lead weighted handle. It may
have been the property of* the
dead man or may have been used
in hammering out his brains. The
ribs were doubtless broken in
forcing the body down the very
narrow chute, which, from an un-
suspicious hole at the top, bends
twenty feet downward into a sub-
terranean cavity, which, in addi-
tion to the ghastly interest which
the Harris death fastens upon it,
and the fact that it was for years
the refuge of one of the most
desperate bands of criminals Texas
has ever known, is a marvel of
natural beauty. There was no
light from above, and all tlie ex-
ploration was done by torches.
Justice Boerner says that he did
not see it all, does not know how
far it extends, or what other en-
trances it may have. He, how-
ever, went carefully through three
chambers, lost in the beauties
overhead and around him, and
splashing in the pools of icy
water at his feet. It is one of the
grandest formations of nature ever
discovered by man. The cham-
bers are connected by chiseled
arches, as though a legion of
workmen had fashioned them. The
ceilings are of great height from
the floor, and the spaces ape tre-
mendous in extent,
"In one chamber," says Judge
llllglll SlctllU an
army of 10,000 men. The most
renrjarkable fact connected with it
is its utter seclusion. The un-
promising exterior gives no indi-
cation of the marvelous beauty
hidden within. A hole in the
y/aJJ, it would be called, by any
pne glancing at it. Une expan-
sion of the passage is filled with a
score or more of stalagmites from
two to ten or twelve feet in height,
grouped as so many monuments
of the dead, the sides and ceilings
are of exquisite workmanship, a
fit setting to the solemn and beau-
tiful scene within, which leads one
to speak in low tones and tread
goftly as if on sacred ground.
Upon the wajl$ is sijspended Spnie
drapery in stone that would be
the admiration and despair of a
sculptor. Double and trgble folds
of stalactite, a quarter of an inch
in thickness and a yard wide, hang
thirty feet, with no support except
from above. Beyond this is per-
haps the most beautiful grotto of
all. Ceiling, walls, and even floor,
are covered with a fretwork of
darling brightness, which reminds
one of the finest work of the
silversmith or the window-work of
the frost-king at its best. Here
and there ceiling and floor are
united by columns as clear and
transparent as crystal. A candle
placed as far within one of these
groups as the arm could reach
illuminated a wonderful fairy
bower. Shining through all the
rich di apery of stone are tubular
pillers of immense height and
thickness. They are perfectly
transparent—others are a cloudy
white, and, under the shifting
torches, lighted up with a thousand
fires.
In this vicinity also appears
mation; great sheet formations,
standing like leaves of a book-
partly open, upright. Many stalag-
mites, stalactites, pillars, pedestals
and pinnacles of all lengths and
thicknesses, and becoming more
transparent the deeper you get
down. Here, also, are seen on
several sides arrays of tubular
stalactite and stalagmite forma-
tions, resembling an immense
church organ. I found at the dis-
tance of many yards the pinnacles,
pedestals, columns, stalagmites and
stalactites more numerous and
very brilliant as our lights were
thrown upon them. In this vicinity
the scene was beyond description,
as stalagmites of the most delicate
and transparent texture were in
great abundance and of every
conceivable shape. Even deli-
cate tubes, the thickness of lead
pencils, and three and four feet in
length, when broken off were full
of alkaline water, and cutting off
pieces of stalagmites with a hatch-
et the sparks would fairly fly, and
011 which every tune and sound
could be heard- Many of the
larger spaces there seen by me
would reach from sixty to eighty
feet in height and as much across.
The caverns of Luray, in Virginia,
or the Mammoth Cave, in Ken-
tucky, are not a ciicumstance in
beauty compared to the Helotes
Cave."
There are, also, large caverns in
the vicinity, whose range and
depth are unknown. There is no
doubt that they were long used by
members of the desperado's scat-
tered band. They will all be ex-
plored, but there is enough ma-
terial in "Robber's Cave" proper
to keep officers busy for some time
to come. If there are other vic-
tims of the pistol and knife, as
there seems no reason to doubt,
lying in its cavernous recesses,
they will be brought to daylight.
The interest of this whole section
now centers in "Robbers' Cave,"
and the development which may
arise from a careful survey of its
mysteries. Thorough and careful
search will be made. Judge Boer-
ner states that he was deterred
from further exploration partly
from a nervous dread which he
could not shake off, caused by the
knowledge that he was walking
among the haunts of dead men of
crime, and of whose desperate
tempers he had evidence in the
whitened bones before him.
Preparing for War,
Citizens Intensely Excited—A Company of
Minute Men to be Organized
Cutting Despondent.
El Paso, Aug. 8—2:15 a. m.
At 9 p. m the Evening Tribune
issued an extra edition. The ex-
citement in the city is becoming
intense. A company of minute
men will be organized as soon as
possible. They will be thorough-
ly organized and be prepared to
defend the city from an attack
from the other side. The Mexi
cans also seem to appreciate the
gravity of the situation and have
the whole riwer f- «■ -r n
Norte picketed with armed men
in anticipation of an invasion from
this side. The feeling among the
Mexicans is also growing very bit-
ter and defiant. Americans also
who have just crossed the bridge
to this side state that they heard
on all sides insulting language used
toward the United States. The
natives feel satisfied that, should
war be declared, they will have
the best of the fight at first, for
they have a good force of troops
and will be able to destroy El Paso
before American troops could ar-
rive. The force at Fort Bliss is
too small to make a successful de-
fense, and besides is not properly
provided with arms.
Those who last saw Cutting de-
clare he was greatly discouraged.
He promised Consul Brigham to
rely on tlie government and will
make no appeal, but he has little
hope that anything will be done to
give him his liberty. He remark-
ed to a friend a moment before
being carried away by the guards
that confinement had already des-
troyed his nervous system, and
that he knew he could not endure
the year's hard labor that was in
store for him. lie is now 52 years
old
A Pitiful Case.
Annie Williams, once no (loubt
the joy of a happy household, but
now a degraded, forlorn and pitia-
ble obiect, is now near the end nf
life's nttul dream, and, without
some mighty change, will go down
to the grave in eternal nirht. Annie
has been a well-known character in
this city for years. At one time
she was good looking and attrac-
tive, and it is said possessed many
of the attributes which adorn tr.ne
womanhood, She, however trav-
eled in the broad road, and for sev-
eral years has fallen lower and
lower, until now she is forsaken in
a life of shame for years. Of late
she has been addicted to the opium
habit, and using enormous quanti-
ties of the drug it dethroned her
reason and yesterday she was con-
fined in jail a raving maniac.—
[Austin Optic,
What Learning Does.
Learning, if rightly applied,
makes d young man thinking, at-
tentive, industrious confident and
wary, and an old man cheerful and
useful. It is an ornament in pros-
perity, a refuge in adversity, an
entertainment at all times; it
cheers ► in solitude, and gives i^od?
eratiop and wisdom in all circum-
stam
Lead for Libertines.
Not long since a poor man—a
day laborer—of Arkansas, killed a
merchant who had seduced his
sister. Met him on the streets
and shot him down like a dog.
The merchant was a man of means
wore fine clothes and drove fast
horses, and no doubt deemed the
victim of his unholy passion the
pleasure of an idle moment—a
poor girl, to be cast aside as a
flower withered and stripped of
fragrance. But the avenger came
in the shape of a brother with a
Winchester rifle, and the seducer
was shot dead. A few days ago
a jury of twelve good and lawful
men declared his slayer guilty of
no crime, and they are right. Call
it lawlessness if you will, but the
best and most effectual way to
guard the tender ones of the
home-circle from the heartless lib-
ertines who prowl like ravenous
wolves on the outskirts of society
is to let it be understood that pub-
lic opinion justifies the application
of cold lead to them whenever and
wherever found.—[Vernon Guard.
Good Advice,
The following is an extract of
Maj. Jno. M. Richardson's address
before the students of the South-
western University:
Whatever may be your special-?
ty in life there is one profession
4-„ -11 -1-- t. . -~0-
During your educational coqrse,
from the primary school through
the university, your great object
was to make yourselves men—
Christian men. So now in the
higher university of practical life
into which you are about to en-
ter, your common profession
should be that of citizenship—
Christian citizenship. In this you
ought to be identified in orcjer to
continue your development as
men and to reach your state of
highest usefulness; (1) with some
branch of the Christian church; (2)
with the advancement of the vari-
ous moral questions of the day; (3)
y/jth the progress of the industrial
enterprises of the age; (4) with
one or
parties of the country. And in
all these relations I woqld have
you bold, earnest, true, full of in-
telligent zeal and diligence, yet
gentle, charitable and forbearing
toward those who may differ from
you. In your church relations
avoid dogmatism and self-right-
eousness, planting yourselves firm-
ly on the Rock of Truth.
Whilst advocating questions of
moral reform in law and life and
manners, guard against that heat
which would proscribe all who do
not see exactly as you do, or em-
ploy the same means. Industrial
enterprises are truly beneficial on-
ly as they increase the sum of
general happiness. In politics
eschew personalities and adhere
to principles founded on truth.
Be no man's henchmen, but God's
yeomen. Never despair of your
country, but love and honor
its laws, pay its taxes promptly
and cheerfully—making scrupu-
lously honest returns of all taxa-
bles. In the days of slavery many
of our servants seemed to think
rney am nu wrong in pilfering
from their masters. In these
times not a few citizens seem to
think it all right to defraud the
government as much as possible
in the matter of tax returns. Take
an interest in elections, attend the
primaries and conventions, and do
all you can to select only the best
men for office.
Humanity to Animals.
A farmer living near Vicksburg
Miss., noticed that most of the ox
teams that hauled cotton from the
country to Vicksburg were roughly
treated. The long whips of the
drivers were often severly applied
to poorly fed animals. The
drivers seemed to take a savage
delight in their skill in cracking
and displaying their whips, and in
the severity with which they could
apply them to their persecuted
teams.
An old negro had an excellent
team and he usually hauled two
bales more at a load than the
other teams. His oxen were fat
and always looked comfortable and
contented. On being asked why
his oxen looked so much better
than the others, and at the same
time hauled larger loads, the negro
replied that he had never whipped
or scolded his oxen, always water-
ed and fed them well, never let
them suffer for want of anything
that he loved his oxen, and .they
love him ; and that's all the reason
he knew why his oxen looked so
well satisfied, were so fat, and
hauled larger loads than the other
oxen. The greatest sin of even
Christian nations is their cruelty
to their domestic animals, and yet
cruelty is an element that leads to
poverty, and humanity leads to
thrift, as proved by the example of
the negro and his fine ox team.
Slain by His Young Wife.
Domestic Tragedy in Chicago—Capt,.
Hall, Lute of the United States
Secret Service tlie Yictiiu.
Indians Killed by Cowboys.
Durango, Aug. 6.-Eight hundred
Indians at the Southern Ute
Agency are again in a state of
excitement over the killing by cow-
boys of two of their number who
were off the reservation on a
roustabout trip through the
Disappointment Creek region.
The Utes have been discontented
for a week. A month ago a party
numbering in the vicinity of 100
left the agency for the country to
the west and south, which country
is occupied by cattle men, and a
collision between them and the
cowboys is expected daily. In
anticipation of such trouble two
companies of soldiers have been
stationed on Disappointment
Creek.
Pious Fanatics Arrested.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 5.—
Fourteen members of the Salvation
Army and seven members of the
State Holiness Society were
arrested to-night by order of the
Mayor for violating the ordinance
relative to disorderly persons in
persisting in parading the streets
with hideous music and singing.
They were released on bail. The
Mayo* and police are determined
to break up the nuisance.
A man was recently sentenced
to six months hard labor in
England for supplying false
information to news papers, A
dose of the same soft of medicine
administered frequently on this
lu" lu 7**1 °t lhe water would be a eod-
the other qf the political w . ,, 5
send to the conscientious reporter.
Some people think it is smart to
mislead a newspaper.
The candidate who will try to
array one class or one section
against another is unworthy of the
confidence of the people and
would not make a good officer if
elected. A man who will adopt
false and fraudulent means to
obtain an office wUl act fraudulent-
ly when he gets it.—[Bonham
News
Chicago, August 7.—Captain
Wallace W. Hall, until recently a
high officer in the secret service of
the United States, was shot and
instantly killed in his house, at No.
476 Wabash Avenue, at 1:15 this
morning, the fatal bullet being
fired from his own revolver while
engaged in a struggle for its pos-
session with his wife, Mrs. Annie
Hall, who is locked up at the
Armory. The woman claims that
the shooting was accidental. Capt.
Hall married in Chicago three
months ago. His friends were
aware that he was not enjoying
domestic peace, but did not anti-
cipate such a terrible ending. Hall
met his wife while he was engaged
in the secret service, while living
in the same house. An intimacy
sprung up between them which
culminated in the woman accom-
panying him to St. Louis, when
he was transferred to that station,
early in the present year. He was
dissatisfied with the station and
protested with such effect against
his position that he was recalled
to Chicago, but a few weeks ago
he quit the government service,
his resignation being called for.
Prior to that time Capt. Hall's
habits had been irregular. It is
said when he found himself out of
employment he began drinking
heavily. Mrs. Hall's father, Jas.
M. McCox, was a member of the
household. There was little hap-
piness, Mr. and Mrs. Hall quarrel-
ing frequently, especially when he
was in his cups. The woman
claims he frequently threatened
her life. Yesterday the couple
quarreled several times about busi-
ness matters. This morning neigh-
bors heard loud words and crash-
ing of furniture, followed by a
pistol shot. When the police, who
werp summoned, arrived, they
found Mrs. Hall in the front room,
attired in her night robes, walking
excitedly about. In a back room
they discovered the body of Capt.
Hall, lying face upward on the
floor, blood slowly trickling from
a wound in the middle of his
breast above the heart. A few
feet away lay a revolver with one
empty chamber. In the room the
furniture and bed clothes gave
clear evidence of a hard struggle.
Capt. Hall was attired in his night
shirt. His fee\ lay partly under
the bed with his head toward the
centre of the room and the blood
which ran from the wound over
the carpet showed that he had
died without changing the position
in which he fell. His body was
taken to the morgue and Mrs. Hall
taken to the Armory Station. Her
father corroborated her story of
the affair, which was that Hall at-
tacked her and after beating her
took the revolver to kill her. In
the struggle which ensued the
weapon was discharged, the bullet
entering Hall's breast.
Disgraceful Treatment of Texas
Convicts.
The costum worn by the Texas
convicts is a disgrace to civiliza-
tion. Convicts are dressed in a
coarse plaid cloth with their names
printed on their backs in large
letters. Every few days we see
them on the railroad cars, chained
around their necks with heavy
irons, going out to some farm or
wood camp, and very often we see
them coming into the walls from
these outside camps pale and sick,
but invariably they are adorned
with heavy chains locked securely
around their necks. In many
instances they are required to sleep
with chains around their legs for
weeks, and even months. The
convicts within the walls are
treated kindly enough, and stand
a chance to return to their families
as good men as when convicted, if
not better.—[Rusk Standard.
Brother vs. Brotherv
Two men by the name of Tay-
lor are candidates for governor of
Tennessee. They are brothers;
one is the nominee of the Demo-
cratic party and the other of the
Republican. There can be n<>'
doubt of Taylor beihg elected
governor, but whether he will be
Republican or Democrat is diffi-
cult to tell.—[Bonham News.
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Thompson, Clinton. The McKinney Gazette. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1886, newspaper, August 12, 1886; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192217/m1/1/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.