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GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION. 1938.
AMARTLIjO KtTNDAT NEWS ANTVGTjOBtf, AMAPn.LO, TEXAS
Jess Jenkins, Ragtown Owner
By JOHN McCARTY
"Jess Jenkins is the one man
who ran tell you as much about
the history of this country as any
other man living," said Professor H.
B. Carroll.
"If you can get an interview with
him it will be one of the highlights
of your edition because HE
KNOWS."
Dr. Carroll was right. Jess Jenk-
ins knows about this country. He
knows far more than he thinks best
to tell. He is the only man living
who knows the true story of the big
fight over at Tascos-a. He deplores
the incorrect versions that would-be
heroes and amateur writers have
concocted. He knows most or all of
the answers to the controversy be-
tween the cattle kingdom Interests
and the little cattlemen of this
country. He came to Mobeetie in
1881, finding his brother, Lon, who
had been a buffalo hunter and had
built the government corrals at Fort
Elliott, already there. In that same
year the brothers Lon and Jess went
to Tascosa for the gala occasion of
court and there Jess stayed for
awhile.
A lot of water had gone over the
dam by the spring of 1887 when
Jess Jenkins owned the section of
land where the tent city known as
Ragtown was located and became
the first site of the present city of
Amarillo. Ragtown lasted seven or As told to an old scout by the Indians many years ago when there
right months and the reason for its | *ere millions of buffalo.
being located on Mr. Jenkins' section
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TASCOSA SCHOOL. Trof. Lane was the teacher. John Snider, the Panhandle's
famous barbecue chef, is standing against the door facing with hat in hand. Two
of the Russell boys are on either side of him. The third girl from the left on the
front row is Martha Snider, now Mrs. J. W. Whitfield of Amarillo.
THE LEGEND OF THE KIOWAS
was that it was the "next water"
from Clarendon for the railroad con-
struction crews.
The Port Worth and Denver Rail-
way company was building west
from Quanah and the site which be-
came "Ragtown." now the Cliffside
section below the Jack Hall ranch,
had plenty of water. It was liter-
filly the first water west. Mr. Jen-
kins remembers that a Mr. Ward,
recently of Texline, had the first
big restaurant in Ragtown. Ward
left Ragtown and followed the con-
struction progress to Dalhart and
Texline. A Mrs. Brown who was
associated with him operated the
railroad hotel at Texline for a time
aM later became the wife of Judge
Inman, first county judge of Dal-
lam County.
Mr. Jenkins recalls there were
some four or five stores, several sa-
loons and restaurants at Ragtown.
He said that most of the firms mov-
ed to Tascosa as construction moved
westward. Jack Ryan, Tascosa sa
The first day the Great Spirit planted by the side of
the waters the Great Way Tree whose boughs extended
into the Heavens, by way of which all creatures were
sent down upon the Earth. And lastly a Kiowa man and
woman who walked about the creation. But in the eve-
ning they returned to the Great Way Tree, and there
they met the buffalo, and the Great Spirit descended
and said: "Here are the buffalo. They shall be your
food and raiment, but in the day you shall see them perish
from off the face of Earth, then know that the end of
the Kiowa is near—and the sun set."
THE FIRST RANGER POST
By MRS. C. MAY COHEA
Camp Roberts had the distinction
of being the first Texas Ranger
post in the Panhandle—and the
last.
The ranger fort was established
as the result of Indian forays from
the reservations in Indian Territory
and in New Mexico to the Panhan-
dle region. During the winter of
wesiwiiiu. •«"-* npp""niTt ~jn! 1878-79, they roamed their former
onTof the first saloons at Ragtown hunting grounds on the high plains
and thus may have been the first I committing .numerous^ depredations
raise a fighting force of 75 men
unless he received some protection l,ie street
from governmental agencies.
After further investigation of the
his lungs and reviving him. When
he came out of it he said: "The
damn Mississippi wouldn't make a
ramrod for the Canadian."
• • •
Jenkins moved from Taseosa to
Hartley. He had a ranch on the
Rita Blanca Creek which he had
obtained when he traded his sa-
loon to Berry Nation, old XIT hand.
Jenkins used to own the Marshall
ranch below Tascosa. When he lived
in Hartley he ran the livery stable
and operated his ranch. He was
on hand when the XITs literally
moved the courthouse from Hartley
to Channing.
He told of an Incident involving
Capt. A. G. Boyce, XIT manager, a
lifelong enemy, in which they were
talking after some of Boyce's friends
at Channing had sort of deserted
him. "You took those fellows from
nd made them what
they are ar, they've quit you," said
Jenkins to Boyce. "Ail of my friends
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Stayed Away
Harry Meyers stepped from the
train, took one look at Amarillo
and decided he would cut his pro-
posed 30-day visit to ons day—If he
could stand it.
That was I^abor Day, 1916. Today
Harry Meyers Is still here, operat-
ing the B. and M. Clearuers at 201
West Sixteenth Avenue.
He says he originally came here
to visit a sister for possibly a month.
Two weeks after his arrival he was
in business with his brother-in-law,
Martin Jarett. They operated a
ladies' ready-to-wear store at 60S
PoIk Street.
What made Harry Meyers decide
to stay in Amarillo?
"The vigor and youth and clean-
liness of a growing community," he
tells you.
He was born in Pittsburgh, P?.,
and was taken by his pa.ents to
the city of New York at the age of
5 years.
His father had been horn and
reared in German.', where he
studied law. He emigrated to Okj
Mexico, and from there came to
the United States.
Mr. Meyers says the depression
caught up with him and his broth-
er-in-law in 1936 and Harry bought
the B. and M. Cleaners from Jeff
Bartlett, who had opened the estab-
lishment in 1926. Jarett now is in
the wholesale business in San Fran-
cisco.
Next to his business, Harry Mey-
ers' greatest interest is sports. Ama-
rilloans will remember him as the
manager of the Amarillo Grays who
bowled over all opposition in these
parts 18 years ago. Up to seven
or eight years ago he was kept bu .
refereeing boxing and
matches throughout the Panhandle
He has always enjoyed
tinction of being a better
erage sports predictor, and is c pe-
cially proud of the fact he picked ,
Tunnty to win over Dempsey in the j Thompson, long time wagon b
1926 battle at Philadelphia. the LX, was one of the most cour-
Harry is past commander of the j ageous men in the old West. Short-
John B. Golding Post of the. Vet- ly before his death, which occurrcd
erans of Foreign Wars (1923) and is : in Amarillo in 1937, he described
a member of the American Legion one of his darine exploits. though
which he joined in 1919. with a modesty which makes it ap-
His home is at 1110 We.-t Fr'- pear a commonplace event.
nwmnN n paok twenty .ev.
mI Man
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SCENE IN OLD TASCOSA. From the left, Harry
McGee, Scotty Wilson and his wife, and Cowboy Lon
Chambers. The name of the iourth man was not
known. Scotty was one of the most colorful char-
acters of Tascosa. Note what a fine specimen he
was even at the age when this photo was taken. He
died at the turn of the century and was buried on
the banks of the Canadian. In the first section of
this edition there is account of his burial, attended
oniy by a small group of cowboys. "Scotty," a griz-
zled cowpuncher eulogist said, when the body had
been lowered into its sandy grave, "you old
_____ f you had a tough time of it in this
world, better luck in the next."
Twenty-two years in the grocery
business 17 of which have been la
the retail trade is the Amarillo
record of J. D Barton owner of
Barton's Grocery, 522 West Six-
teenth Avenue.
Coming here from Bonham, Mr.
Barton first opened a grocery store
here in 1916. Three years later 'ie
be<ame connected with a local
wholesale grocery firm, with which
he remained for five years.
He re-entered the retail grocery
business in 1924 when he opened a
store in a small frame building at
413 West Fourteenth Avenue.
Five years ago Barton's Grocery
moved Into its present commodious
quarters, which has a floor space of
3,750 square feet. There are three
complete departments — meat
groceries and fruits and vegetable:
—and hourly delivery service is
featured.
There are five employees of the
store, of which two, E. E. Baker and
M. A. Parrish each have more than
10 years service to their credit
Other employees are Earl Irwin
G. W. Brown and J. I. Pope.
The late J. D. Thompson, well-
known Amarillo pioneer, sat on
the jury in the first criminal case
Judge J. W. Crudgmgton, also of
Amarillo, ever tried. The case war,
tried in Stephens County, Texas,
in 1893.
(ept OUSv' ^ __ t
Darine River Exploit
than av- CJ '
The original city water supply was
obtained from wells. They used one
steam pump and several wind mills.
H. H. Tudor was pumper, superin-
tendent, engineer, plumber and book-
keeper. In spite of tfriese positions,
the cushion in his chair beside the
door needed frequent re-covering.
Old timers say
the late Allen
teenth Avenue.
situation, Arrington recommended | are w>th me. '
to the state Ranger headquarters i Judge Boyce, shaking with er.io-
that a post be established. As a tion said: "I guess you are right,
result of his recommendations, a Your friends are better men than
camp was established on Catfish mine." Many of Jenkins friends
Creek in Crosby County, about eight were former foreman or cowboys for
miles from Bianco Canyon. The Colonel Boyce,
past was named Camp Roberts. Jenkins told also of being accepted
It was used as a base of opera- on a jury once when they wanted to
erator in the Pan- on the settlers of the region. I tions for the Rangers until the try Boyce for buying a $2 raffle
cliain stole op ■ Garrett Capt. G. W. Arrington was dis- early 80s and then discontinued. ; ticket on a piano and show him up
handle. < im , Raetown patched from Fort Griffin to in- The Indians ceased their roaming elsewhere Jenkins stood against
Johnson har a . • VMti_ate the disturbances, and went with the appearance of the Rangers 11 of them for acquittal, saying he
Brcording to Jenkins He also be • port E1Uott and then on ,0 and with ' " '
lieves that Woods and Dickson big Goodnight ranch I
mercantile firm from Harioia, rex.,
near Vernon, might have
of the big stores at Ragtown in its
short existence.
Ragtown was one of three town- , mother for two years. cattlemen in that region.
sites submitted for the Potter Coun-j Tiring of a monotonous life he He remembers W. H. Woodman
tv seat. Mr. Jenkins declares his came to Mobeetie in 1881 and stayed as one of the best natural lawyers 12 thousand head of cattle and at
entrv was maneuvered out of the there two months. There he hauled in the world. He was a man of
race by a group of capitalists head- ! wood and ice. He had a team and j small stature.
crl by Colonel Berry of Abilene,I hack. His brother, Lon, was there | He remembers Captain Jenks as
2,000 Ponies
By R. C. CRANF,
Gen. John W. Davidson, one ol ,
the army's historic Indian fighters, !
first let himself in for redskin
trouble when he took charge of
regiments at Fort Gibson and Fort
Sill in Indian Territory in the early
70s.
When the Indian warfare broke
out he was sent, ro Western Indian
"I was rounding up on the south
side of the Canadian and brought
up about 5.000 steers, cows and
calves. It had been raining for
several days and the river was v.p.
Old Bates and some prospective
cattle buyers were on the north side
of the river waiting for my herd.
"I had a bunch of Mexicans hhed
out of the saloons in Tascosa, mC a
sleepier, ornerier bunch of men nev-
er lived. I planned to move the steers
in the river first and follow tuem
with the cows and calves.
'Thev moved in. But just as they
Territory and the Panhandle, and were getting over, a bis: bank raved
ne advance of the new was not going to let his men pick
Goodnight | civilization that was coming to the him to hurt somebody just because
he didn't like the other fellow.
Jenkins went to Dalhart about
1905. He had two big outfits, the
101 Ranch and the Hip-O, and own-
ed and leased as much as 100.000
acres of land. He had from 10 to
had one' reported to the party that he would I Panhandle,
his stepfather and stayed with his j an LIT boss and one of the first
for two months in 1374 r,e com-
manded an expedition against the
uprisings. On one of these expedi-
tions he captured about 2,000 In-
dian ponies and raptured or re-
ceived the surrender of several hun-
dred warring Indians.
in and they started swimming back.
Soon there were 1,000 head milling
around in the center. I rode in
and headed them back south. The
Mexicans kept pushing them in
from the south. I yelled to the Mex-
icans, but it had no effect. They
He was in command at Fort Grif- kept pushing them in.
"I finally got them started south
bald, slobbering, about 55. He ran
an LIT wagon in addition to being
in the saloon business.
He remembers the Catfish Kid as
whom Jenkins describes as the at the time.
'■money man" of the outfit. | Jenkins soon left, Mobeetie to
He recalled an incident in this come to Tascosa, his brother coming
connection. A cowboy friend of. over for the term of court in 1881.
Jenkins. "Blue" Graves, came to District court was a gala time for
boi rcw $95 from Jenkins and said he ! everyone in the Panhandle and
would eive him a half interest in everyone who could always attended.
the section of land on which Colonel ...
Berry had filed if he won his pro- j„ a !Tf.rrit, interview. Jenkins Few knew his real name
test. Jess loaned him the $95 but, was enough to give his evalua- Jenkins knew Mickey McCormick politics," said Jenkins.
when he had won the contest re- tion and description of many pioneer ; and his wife at, Mobeetie in 1881. be mean."
He said_ that Mickey always had Jenkins declared that Valley, King
monte player who lost his money
at faro. He was a fairly small, well
built man about. 22 years of age.
fith from April to August in 1875
and later was in command at Fort and out of the river, Insinc ah ut
Richardson and in the District of ioo calves in the mix-up. 1 chanced
the Upper Brazos River. The re- horses and drove the 5,000 head
mainder of his active military life across the river."
was spent principally at Fort Sill i
and Fort Elliott, where he was in j Ear]y Amarlno; n,,
weekly news-
command. . i paper was callcd "The Champion.'
A graduate of West Pom , je - I ^ was printed nearly every week
era! Davidson saw service in, .n whpn ^ prP5S wou|d work H H
honored for "his meritoriou^ervlce | Brooks the editor, must be civen
War. He taught! credit for great, foresight, for even
president for five years. He has I for a time at. the State Agricultural at that, early date, he named Ama-
never held public office hut. has j College of Kansas. | rillo Queen City of the r sir.
taken an active interest in political
affairs.
one time was offered $1,200,000 for
his ranch and cattle in New Mexico.
He shipped the first trainload of
cattle from Dalhart to Kansas City
over the Rock Island.
He established the Dalhart Na-
a fellow who had fits when" he tional Bank about 1906 and was its j during the civil War
drank too much whiskey, a good
"I had too much sense to cef into
"Politics can
fused to take an interest in the land. ; figures.
Jenkins, himself, was a powerful j j Rinehart was sheriff of Col-
factor in the Panhandle although ne fax County before coming to Tas-
would deny this statement. He was j cosa jje was Geiman, heavy set and
known far and wide as the was suffering some from paralysis
of the "little man" and operated jn one leg>
several business establishments in i
sr\ciai . . ... | "Scotty" Wilson was a big Scotch-
man weighing about 225 pounds, a
in cattle and liorses. His love for
horses was inherited and accentuat-
ed by association with the owners of
some of the fastest race horses in
the state.
Jenkins' parents, Mr. ar.d Mrs.
Jonathan Jenkins, came to Dallas
R7 years ago from Alabama, Jona-
than Jenkins was a colonel in the
Confederate Army and was assigned
fine cook who ran the hotel for
awhile. Jenkins tells of an inci-
dent in which the county commis-
sioners' court actually went into the
business of gathering in mavericks,
stealing cattle and otherwise mak-
ing it hard on the small cattleman.
They drove 500 head to Springer to
sell and left 75 head close to Tas-
cosa. Wilson was running the butcher
shop at the time and so used many
j of the cattle for his shop. When the
as a guard against the Indians. In ^ ^ ^
a campaign against them in _ the 1 commissioners court demanded pay-
Southwest lie died of pneumonia. | merit he refused laughing at them
Mrs. Jenkins married J. M Spill- j-, (his taunt: "You steal 'em;
from $1,000 to $2,000 in his pocket and Chilton were Pat Garrett's hired
and was one of the best little men and were laying for him <Jen-
Trishmen in the world. He said Mrs. kins) and his partner when the
McCormick was as straight as a famous Tascosa fight took place,
string, a beautiful woman and one They were over at Chalk Hollow on
who watched over Mickey like a. j the other side of Amarillo having
baby. He said she was a powerful come up from South Texas where
woman .or her size and never failed they had been. He said that John
to hrow any women out of a room Lang ran, that Jim East ran, that
where her husband might be Louis Bousman had nothing to do
gambling. She was very supersti- wlt,h the killing but that his gun
tious. He_ said that Mick ^y killed was most certainly used. He savs
Granger Dyer at Mobeetie. Dyer was he is the only living man who knows
a brother-in-law of Charles Good- the history of the fight, and that all
of the stories have been incorrect.
night.
« HlrTnmbmuE11SWOrth Torry fls Hp lhinks !t brst' to let the story stop
, , j^!J° wore a leather where it is and not trv to correct
? 11 e a P,loneer scout' it. Jenkins deplores the many errors
7n Pol^r P'ayer, fi5 or j jn reporting the early day events,
nlav nok-er t h® would He declares the background for
He rememt!ou,s *t a stretch. practically all the trouble in the
bachelor tali u ^ , " . Tascosa region was the big cattle
CIS, a large farmer and operator. nV butcher 'em." They were" never i low who was county ^udge °at ule to and rob
who lived on Duck Creek in Dallas :lWe ^ d„ anything about the mat- Uwe when there was onlv one voter thev had a 'right to live tn peace
County. Jess was then 11 years old. ter. out-side the county officials. and happiness in the vicinity P
the life wfthn°his steofaPtheRr so he Tom Har,is' w,1° lcri thp cowbn>' . Tom Em.orj"s rMl was Bill Jenkins and his brother now have
ran iia v r ni no, othe home of his ;;trike' was a Partner of Jess Jenk- Arnum and he came from Schulen- the Hip-O Ranch ten miles south-
hmt^r leV renifin. n,orn! | berg, Tex. His brother was Ed Ar- west of Corona of about 100.000
inent v'oune l'uvver of Dallas Henry Kimball, first blacksmith "um of F'atonia and a partner of acres, run about 4.000 cattle and 500
"I gues^ the cottoniateh run me * remembered as being a tall, slight Spnator. Emory changed his fine horses on it.
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off." said Mr. Jenkins. fellow weighing about 140 pounds
At his brother's home he spent w,'"1 'iE^t complexion. He and Billy
most of his time around the race the Kid used to shoot for from $1
tracks where he was known as a 10 a Rhot'
fearless rider. He would take his' He remembers G. J. Howard as
lunch in the morning and leave his 1 being a big dark fine looking fellow,
brother's home supposedly to go to i He remembers John Cone as be-
BChool. Instead he went out 'o the 'ng a good man, dark, 175 pounds,
race tracks where he was much in looking like he was partly Jewish,
demand, as he weighed only 65 James E. McMasters was a big
pounds. 250 pound all-around good fellow,
He rode horses for several race j says Jenkins.
hoise men. He remembers that some j Hr remembers Pat Dolan as being
ol these men who raced horses then at; good a man as ever lived. H"
were Jim Brown. Luke Cayton Sher- W(ls a railroad man and was mighty
ift Barkeley, Frank Lily and others, well liked by everyone. He tells of a
Rome of the famous horses of that typical incident. A car of wheat was
day were Gray Alice, the fastest, derailed and wrecked down near
and Fanny Bailey, quarter horses; Quanah. Dolan was talking to some
Jack Hardy, Sam Harper and Ella of the farmers who were gathered
harper. around and said: "You know, if I
The pride of the Jenkins stable were a farmer here I'd clean this
how is Jesse J, a quarter hoise who wheat up and nlant it."
did the quarter in .2^.2 on a Call- "You mean that, and you a rail-
lornia track some time ago. road man?" asked one of the
Jenkins went to Coleman County farmers.
When he was about 12 or 13 years "I'd sweep this ground clean," said
old. Camp Colorado Post was at Dolan.
that, time nothing much more than Bv the next morning this was
a good store. Coleman City was just done and the next year a great
being founded and had a picket
saloon. A "picket" saloon Is one
made by sticking the ends of posts
down into the ground and covering
them over much like an adobe house.
At Camp Colorado Po.-,t Jenkins
saw his first murder victim when
'he rangers brought in Bone Wilson
In a wagon—"loaded in like a hog."
Jess went, there with his brother,
Charles H. Jenkins, who was an
attorney in the trial of John Wesley
Hardm, noted frontier character.
Charles .tpnifim wa.s one of the most
rioted criminal lawyers in Texas and
for 13 years was a justice of the
Texas Couri, of Civil Appeals.
In Coleman County Jess broke
nnd rode horses but. shortly rame
back to Dallas upon the death of |
wheat crop was made.
"You never saw so much fine
wheat in your life, and right there
wheat got a good start in the Pan-
handle," said Jenkins.
C. E. McCarty, Oldham County
rommissloner, was a man between
40 and 50 years of age when Jenk-
ins knew him, a good fellow, good
mixer, hard drinker. He left fairly
early in Tasrosa's history. He was
name because, when he wa-s 14 —
years old working in a wood camp, i The Sanborn "Talley Ho," slick
he was accused of taking a yoke of and shining, with the gay equip-
oxen. He was a real cowpuncher i ment, was the pride of the town,
when he hit Tascosa and a real j Sanborn kept also, a couple of pet
gambler. In fact he was called | docr which chased small boys who
' Poker Tom." Brother Charley crossed the lawn.
Emory ran a saloon, was shot in i
the big fight. Tom was small, red-
faced, had red hair and weighed
about 130 pounds.
Jenkins considers Charley Si-
ringo a four-flusher but a fair foot-
racer. The real footracer, however,
was Clabe Flores. He said he really
could run, making 100 yards in 11
seconds on the grass.
He said that both he and his
brother, Lon, remember George W.
Poe as a goodfellow.
The Mongolian Monster was a
wrestler, rook and a horse breaker.
He said they won a lot of money
on his wrestling.
• • •
Temple Houston was Jenkins'
lawyer. He was a good one, and
Mr. Jenkins said that when Houston
spoke in Amarillo almost every
woman in town would be on hand
to hear him. He had very small feet
and hands but was a big man.
Jenkins says he had all kinds ol
guts, sympathy and brains.
He told of the time that Houston
swam the Canadian to get to court
and rame near drowning. When
he was under the third time the
rnwboys tossed him a rope whirh he
grabbed. They were some .30 min-
utes getting the water out of
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