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TEXAS MINING AND TRADE JOURNAL.
Colonel William Hunter Dead.
News was received in Thurber Wednesday morning of the
sudden death in Fort Worth of Colonel William Hunter, brother
of Colonel R. D. Hunter. The Daily morning Register of Fort
Worth of Thursday morning gives the following account of his
death:
Wednesday morning at 3 o'clock Colonel William Hunter, one
of the ablest, best known and most popular livestock commission
men in the State of Texas, died suddenly in his room in the Del-
aware hotel. The cause of his death was a stroke of appoplexy.
Colonel Hunter had not been well for several weeks past. He
was first taken ill with what threatened to develop into appo-
plexy while on a business trip to the Indian Territory. He re-
turned home quite sick and was confined several days to his
room. When he had sufficiently recovered he went to Mineral
Wells in the hope of benefiting his health, and after remaining
there some days he returned home early this week apparently
much improved in physical condition.
On Tuesday night Mr. O. W. Case and wife, who occupied a
room at the Delaware opposite to that occupied by Colonel Hun-
ter, heard a peculiar noise as if some one was struggling and in
great pain. It was sometime before they could locate the noise,
but about midnight Mr. Case informed the night clerk, Mr. Jack
Fort, that something was wrong with the occupant of the next
room. Mr. Fort looked over the transom. He observed Colonel
Hunter's condition and broke into the room. The Colonel was
found to be in a conscious condition, but suffering greatly. He
asked that a physician be sent for. By the time a physician
could be secured he had lapsed into unconsciousness, from which
he never rallied.
When it was learned yesterday morning that Colonel Wil-
liam Hunter was dead the news caused a deep shock to all his
friends, as it was thought he was improving. The day before he
had been able to visit his office and spend several hours there
writing letters to his son and daughter, and to his brother, Da-
vid Hunter, who lives in Nebraska. He also signed about 50
business letters before leaving the office in the evening for the
hotel. He conversed with friends during the early part of the
evening, retiring to his room about 9 o'clock, where the fatal at-
tack seized him.
Colonel Hunter was born in Scotland, but was brought to this
country by his parents when about three years of age. His early
life was spent at Chillicothe, Missouri, where he was reared.
When young he went to the mining country in Colorado, where
he remained until about twenty-five years of age, coming from
there to Texas. He remained in this State thereafter, engaging
in the cattle and livestock commission business. He was con-
nected with the old commission firm of Hunter & Evans, his
brother, Colonel R. D. Hunter, being the senior partner. He
has been treasurer and Texas manager of the Strahorn-Hutton-
Evans Commission Company since its organization, five years
ago. He was veritably a veteran in the cattle business in Texas,
and shipped the first car of cattle to market that went by rail
from Fort Worth, and probably the first from Denison. He has
long been a factor in the livestock industry in Texas, and exten-
sively interested in its development. He had a wide circle of
friends among cattlemen and other citizens, and by the justness
of his dealings made himself highly regarded by all. Yesterday
there were many expressions of regret at his death and numer-
ous telegrams were received at his office by John P. Jacobs, the
company's Texas correspondent.
Colonel Hunter was nearing 60 years when he died. His wife
has been dead a number of years, and is buried in St. Louis.
Two children survive him, one, a daughter, Miss Anita, 17 years
of age, who is attending school at Forest Green, Maryland. The
other is a son, Robert D., Jr., who is in Borden County looking
after a herd of cattle given him by his father a few months ago.
He will be 20 in February. Mtssages of their father's death
have been sent both children, but as Robert is some distance
from the railroad, it will be impossible for him to reach here be-
fore Friday morning. For this reason the body of Colonel Hun-
ter will be held till that day before shipment to St. Louis, as it is
desired that his son be one of those accompanying the remains.
Miss Anita will meet the funeral party in St. Louis. Services
will be held at Robertson & Witten's Friday morning at 6:45, and
the remains will leave at 7:35.
AHER1CAN INVENTIONS WANTED.
Washington, D. C., November 14,1899.
(Special Cdube9pondkíjce).
SEÑOR RAMON ESTACIA, who is a visitor to this country
from Peru, can talk very interestingly about his home
under the Equator, the land of the Incas, and associated
with Pizarro and his Spanish Conquistadores. "I am in the
United States," says Senor Estacia, "to study the results of your
plunging civilization, and to note those American inventions
which would help us in my country. The discovery of America
destroyed Peru as it did Mexico. The Peru of to-day is a small
part of the ancient Empire. At the time of the Conquest the
Spaniards found the land in a high state of cultivation. While
naturally in large part a desert, owing to very scant or no rain-
fall between the mountains and the coast, the natives, by the
superior wisdom and foresight of their Incas, had brought water
immense distances and rendered arable vast stretches of coun-
try. The ancient irrigation of Peru was very wonderful.
"Water was conducted by means of canals and subterraneous
acqueducts executed on a grand scale. They were built of large
slabs of freestone, nicely fitted together without cement. The
water supply came from an elevated lake or natural reservoir in
the heart of the mountains and was fed at intervals by other ba-
sins which lay on the route along the slope of the Sierra. Pas-
sages were cut through rock—and the Peruvians had no iron
tools—almost impassable mountains were turned; rivers and
morasses were crossed, and apparently impossible feats of en-
gineering were accomplished, simply to secure water for the ir-
rigation of I',elds and gardens. Some of these canals were very
long. That of Condesuyu was between 400 and 500 miles in
length.
"By latent ducts or sluices, the life-giving fluid was led to the
tillable lands through the line of cannals. In some instances the
land was flooded, while in others the water was made to run in
furrows between the rows of growing maize, tobacco and other
crops. Each occupant of land was allowed a certain quantity of
water by the law of the Empire. Overseers for the Government
had charge of each district and saw that every man received his
proper amount, and that canals were kept in repair.
"That the Government understood the danger of floods and
took steps to prevent them is shown by some of the works still
extant. Notable is the still visible tunnel near Casamasca.
While the waters of this lake were used for irrigation, the heavy
rains and melting snows of the mountains would cause an over-
flow. To protect the irrigation works and the settlements along
the route a tunnel was excavated in the mountains to give an
outlet, in another direction, to the waters of the lake when they
rose to a height threatening inundation.
"At the coming of the Spaniard the land everywhere teemed
with evidences of agricultural wealth. To-day the greater part
of this paradise has reverted to its original arid condition. Here
and there some old dirt filled and long-forgotten tunnel leaks a
little moisture and the rank vegetation of our tropics in contrast
with the surrounding arid waste, shows the power of irrigation."
This gives rise to the reflection that the Spaniards, wherever
their star of chivalry or rapacity for wealth led them, have de-
stroyed and never created. Their coming has always been a
curse to the people they conquered. Chivalric and recklessly
brave, they yet considered the civilization and population of the
New World as but barbaric and pagan and fit only for destruc-
tion.
But these native tribes, people, Governments—benighted and
heathen—had battled with Nature, learned the secret of success,
and conquered under the most adverse circumstances. They
use of mountain lakes and nataral reservoirs, wherein were
stored the waters of the rainy season and the melting snows to
be used during the dry season.
We have to-day in California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mex-
ico, Utah and the Northwestern States millions of acres of land,
the productive capacity of which is beyond compute, which can
and will be reclaimed eventually. Great mountain gorges, form-
ing natural reservoirs, can be used for storage purposes, and the
land, useless to-day, will become an empire of great agricultural
wealth, worth far more fabulous sums than the rich mines ad-
jacent to them.
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Lucas County. j 1
Frank J. Cheeny makes oath that he is the senior partner of
the firm of F. J. Cheeny & Co., doing business in the City of
Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case
of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh
Cure. Frank J. Cheeny.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th
day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. Gleason,
[seal] Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts di-
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Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
A State Senator and a deputy Sheriff have been arrested in
Montana for sheep stealing by the wholesale.
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McAdams, Walter B. Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 18, Saturday, November 18, 1899, newspaper, November 18, 1899; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200532/m1/2/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.