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GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION, 1938,
Europe Working
Up Nice Fever
Europe yesterday worked itself
Into R firnt-class "psycholoeical"
war fever.
LONDON—The British war office
warned all Britons holding military
rank that they must pet special cer-
tificates in order to avoid "trouble"
If and when they travel in Ger-
many.
BERLIN — The attention given
abroad to Germany's autumn
army maneuvers was branded as a
"new attempt by interested foreign
circles to stir up uneasiness in the
European general public."
PARIS—The French-Italian fron-
tier was virtually closed to all nor-
mal crossings by citizens of the two
countries as long-smouoldering ani-
mosity came into the open.
HENF) A Y E—Spa 11 ish Nationalists
asserted that two Loyalist divisions
which crossed the Segre River In
northeastern Spain into Insurgent-
held territory had been driven back
with tremendous losses.
MOSCOW — Newspaper reports
Mid two male teachers in an orphan-
age had been sentenced to death in
the town of Kazakh for organizing
drinking parties and promoting im-
morality among children.
SHANGHAI -United Stales ma- !
rines arrested end subdued three
.Japanese army special service opera- I
fives whom they found threatening i
Chinese civilians with pistols in the j
American marine sector of the in-
ternational settlement.
Widespread disorders swept Shane- 1
hai 011 the first anniversary or the '
outbreak of fighting in the metrop-
olis
At least, three Chinese were killed j
and 17 injured in terrorist bombings
end other disorders.
f'H ANfiK IJFENG HILL — .Japa-
nese and Soviet officers stood all
Friday afternoon on the crest of a
war-scarred htimock negotiating ,
the military details of the settlement \
of the Changkufeng incident.
AMARILLO SUNDAY NEWS AND GLOBE AMARILLO. TEXAS
PAGE THIRTY-ONE
AS THIS GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION of the
Amarillo Sunday News-Globe turns hack the ppcres of
history so too will "Old Southwest Days," Iho spectacle
to he presented next, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
nijrhts at Rutler Field. Costumes, like these pictured,
will be worn in 'Gay Ninety" scenes. Warren Cole is the,
volunteer fireman and Edith Strickland is the "bicycle
jjirl."
Beg Your Pardon
The reader is a.sked lo note these
corrections of errors that appear in
this edition;
On Page in of Section C. "Cir-
cuit Rider's Wife," the picture of
Rev. E J. Morris and Mrs. Morris
does not belong with this story.
Rev. E. ,1. Morris was an early min-
ister of the Christian Church the
father of A1 Morris of Tascosa, Sam
Morris of Amarillo. and Jess Morris,
famous cowboy fiddler in this same
story, the picture of the Morris fam-
ily group should have been desig-
nated as the Rev. R. M. Morris fam-
ily. which it is.
On Page 12 of Section R. in the
story ' East, Texas Boy Didn't Want
Cattle That Talked," the writer's
name. Alma McGowen Thompson,
should have been included.
On Pope B of Section G-3, in the
siorv of Col. Will Miller, captioned
"Raised Regiment of Cavalry in 11
Days,' in the first, paragraph the
dale should re;id "But; in 1917 . .
instead of "1337."
On Page 10 of Section R. "First
Ranches Hired Hunters With Packs
of Stag Hounds," concerning W. H,
Ingerton. the picture is of Mrs Mar- ;
tha. H. Ingerton. the mother of Mr.
Ingerton of Amarillo, whose own
story is related elsewhere in this
issue.
On page 29 of Section F. in the
"key" of the map showing organ-
ization of th- Panhandle counties,
No. 7, the date should be 1876 in-
stead of 1870. Also. Martin County
was organized in 1R84 instead of
1888, as shown on the map.
On Page 24 of Section D. Map of
Old Tascosa. the surveyor's name
should be spoiled "W. D. Twichell."
There are errors, of course, for
despite the extreme care that, has
been exercised in checking, correct-
ing, proof-reading and revising
every item that, has gone into this
paper, a few are bound to creep
into a work so monumental Rut
we believe that here, as in every-
thing else pertaining to this edition,
we can point with pardonable pride
to the careful preparation.
AUSTIN, Aug, 13 (U.P1—Sons and
DaughterS'Of the Republic will gath-
er in Richmond. Texas. Aug. 16 to
celebrate, the birthday of Mirabeau
H. Lamar, fairtour ae of Texas.
LONELINESS ON RANGE
When Mrs. Marv Prances Elmore
I,ee moved to Amarillo in 1891, she
was already a seasoned pioneer. Un-
like most Potter County early set-
tlers. she came not from the east
but from the west. It is a saying
of the Lee family that they pio-
neered four stajes, Missouri, Colo-
rado, New Mexico and Texas.
Mrs. L-oc is 90 years old, the old-
est woman member of the Old
Settler's Union. Most of the old
settlers were very young when Pot-
ter County was born. Mrs. - lye,
1 hough she did not come to the
Panhandle until four years later, at
th* time Poller County was or-
ganized was middle aged, the moth-
er of grown children.
The Lees came originally from
Virginia, and claim descent from
Virginia's distinguished family of
the same name. From Virginia they
moved to Kentucky and from that
slate to Missouri. The Elmores
were also from Virginia via Ken-
tucky. and the two families were
friends for generations.
• ♦ •
Mary Frances Elmore was born
I11 1848, in La Fayette County, Mis-
souri. The pioneering phase of
lite in Missouri had not passed when
interrupted by the Civil War. The
war hegan when Mary Frances was
13.
In 1889, Mary Frances Elmore
was married to Garnet Lee. The
young couple settled down in their
home community and lived there
several years. But many establish-
ed Missouriftns were moving west-
ward to escape the depressing af-
termath of the war, and in 1875
Mr. and Mrs. I/1?, with the two
small daughters who had been born
to them, emigrated to Colorado.
They settled on the Apishapa River,
where Garnet Lee became a ranch-
man.
They remained in Colorado nine
years. In 1884, looking for free and
better range, the Lees moved to
New Mexico. They established first
In the vicinity of Eaglestail Moun-
tain. Leaving there, they lived for
a time in Raton, and then moved
to the Verm/;Jo Country.
Mrs, Lee does not remember Just
how her husband learned about the
Panhandle, or what decided him to
move eastward. She thinks some of
the men of her family discovered
the Plains while searching for lost
sheep—for the Iv>es had not en-
tirely abandoned stock raising.
In 1891, the I.ee family, with sev-
eral wagons and driving a herd of
sheep, passed through Potter Coun-
: ty. They went on as far as Mem-
| phis, but turned back there and re-
traced their route to Washburn,
where they spent the winter. In the
[ spring they moved to Amarillo. Ever
since, except for a brief return to
New Mexico, they have been resi-
dents of Potter County.
There were four children. The
| youngest and the only son, Jim, was
: 11 years old when the family moved
to Texas. When he was 15 years
; old, he became horse-wrangler for
i the I,X outfit. The father also
! worked for the LX, and a daughter,
' Alice, who was a member of Ama-
, rillo's first high school graduating
class, became bookkeeper for the
! same ranch.
• • •
In 1898, the family, having filed
upon land 011 the river 20 miles
north of Amarillo, moved there and
established their home at the river
| crossing. In the early years of this
century the Lee Ranch and the
! family of lye became known far
and wide on the North Plains.
Their home being at the river
crossing, and a day's ride fr^ni any-
where, all who traveled that way in
the old days were indebted to the
hospitality of the I/>es. Everybody
stopped at the river crossing, and
the I,ee home was always open.
In 1913, the elder I^es bought a
home in Amarillo and retired from
their long rareer of ranching. Gar-
net I,oe died in January, 1917, Of
the four children, the oldest, Mrs.
Bob Shelton, is deceased. The three
surviving are Mrs. C. L. Klllgore,
Mrs. John S. McKnight and Jim
Lee. all of Amarillo
The Lee family brought to the
Panhandle the same inimitable
thrift and industry they had always
displayed, and their social and ethi-
cal inheritance from their Virginia
forebears. All oldtimers remember
the outstanding elegance of the
Lees—a notable thing in the old
days. Their unmistakable breeding,
the gentility manifest in their bear-
ing. His fine carriage horses were
the special pride of Garnet Lee.
When the Lees drove into town from
their ranch, their coming was some-
thing of an event In the little town
that Amarillo used to be.
Established 1910
H. V. ROBERTSON & Co.
Accountants & Auditors
INCOME TAX, INHERITANCE TAX and
ESTATE TAX MATTERS
Oliver-Eakle Bldg. Amarillo
V
0 Daniel Slicks
Neck Way Out
Compiled from T.atr Wire \" v
One of the most conspicious
things in politics yesterday was the
neck of W. Lee O'Daniel. It was
; sticking out.
President, Roosevelt, who preceded
| the Texas governor-elect in the
] practice of showering blessings on
picked candidates, announced he
would make a nation-wide radio
talk Monday night, the third anni-
| versarv of the birth of the Social
! Security Act. But the President's
1 talks have become common occur-
rences. W. Lee O'Daniel is just
I starting.
A quickening interest in a sec-
ond primary campaign that two
| days ago seemed destined to reach
I its lowest ebb in years sent 11 can-
i didates for Texas office "shelling
J the woods" with renewed vigor.
The other office aspirant, Pierce
j Brooks, candidate for lieutenant
1 governor, was in a Quanah hospital
j suffering from automobile accident
i injuries.
All the pick-up interest was
brought about, by the surprising ac-
tion of O'Daniel in announcing his
endorsement of six candidates: Wal-
ter Woodul for attorney general,
Coke Stevenson for lieutenant gov-
ernor, C. V. Terrell for railroad com-
j missioner, Bascom Giles for land
commissioner, Richard Critz for the
! .Supreme Court and Harry N.
j Graves for the court of criminal
, appeals.
Comments pro and con over
S O'Daniel s action came from every
section of the state.
John W. Philp, director of organ-
ization of the Republican State
i Committee, said O'Daniel'* endorse-
i ment of run-off candidates "proved
| that he is bitten by the autocratic
| power bug that seems to be afflict-
| ing men in high executive office in
i our democracy."
The voters will decide Aug. 27
whether O'Daniel made a mistake
whether he has the state by the tail
with a down-hill pull.
President Roosevelt's address on
| Social Security, his secretary said.
| will be "very general."
Governor George H. Earie of
Pennsylvania, leaving Harrisburg for
| Centra! and South America, ex-
pressed confidence he and other
| Democratic .state leaders would be
| "vindicated" of charges made in the
spring primary. Rep. W. J, Driver, a
i veteran member of the House of
' Representatives from Arkansas, who
was opposed by the CIO, was de-
feated for renomination ov E. C
Gathings, complete returns showed
Driver had served 10 terms in the
lower House. He refused to com-
ment on his defeat.
At Boise, Idaho, an overture by
National Democratic Chairman
James A Farley to conservative D
Worth Clark appeared to have
closed a threatened rift between
Idaho Democrats.
Pioneer Armstrong
Resident Is Dead
C. F Nickell. pioneer wheat, and
stock farmer of Armstrong Cotinl.v.
died at his home at, Claude yester-
day afternoon at. 12:15 o'clock.
Mr. Nickell, who was 73 years old.
moved to Armstrong County in 190fi.
and had been a landowner and resi-
dent there since.
Besides his wife, Miss Laura Nick-
ell. he is survived by three sons and
four daughters. The sons are:
Norman F. Nickell, Edward Nickell
and Ralph R. Nickell, all of Claude.
The daughters are: Mrs. Virginia
Daniels, Big Sandy, Texas; Mrs.
Kathlene O'Bailey. Norwalk. Calif.;
Mrs. Helen E. Smith, Norwalk, Cal.
and Mrs. Sarah I„ Alexander, of
Claude. He leaves a sister, Mrs.
W. C. Walkup, of Inng Beach, Calif.
The grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held Mon-
day afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the
Methodist Church at Claude, the
Rev. Leslie Moore officiating. Ar-
rangements will be in charge of Box-
well Brothers.
The northern portion of Chile Is
believed to be the driest area on
earth.
STUDENT MISSING.
Police lid was souglu Saturday
in a search for Garland Walser,
Wavland College ministerial stu-
dent, who disappeared from his
home in Plainview Wednesday.
College authorities and members
of Walser's family eipressed fear
the student was a victim of am-
nesia.
Three Planes
Deal Death
(By United Pies*)
Poor flying weather was believed
responsible today for airplane
crashes on two continents. Two oc-
curred in Europe and a third in
Mexico.
In Germany a Czechoslovak com-
mercial airplane carrying 18 per-
sons crashed into the Black Forest
Visibility was extremely poor over
the area.
At Felixstowe, England, six mem-
bets of the Royal Air Force were
killed when their seaplane crashed
into the sea.
Airplanes from Mexico City and
Vera Cruz searched the Mexican
coastal area for a plane which dis-
appeared with eight passengers and
its crew of thiee
Meanwhile, the German land mon-
oplane Bi adenburg was heading out,
over the Atlantic on a non-stop
flight, from New York to Berlin over
the Great Circle route.
New Mexico Gets
Soil Service
Soil conservation officials yester-
; day announced New Mexico has be-
| come the tenth state in which local j
' soil conservation districts will be
| aided by the Soil Conservation j
| Service of the Department of Agri- !
i culture.
The announcement was made bv i
H. H. Finnell of Amarillo, regional
conservator of the soil conservation
service in the wind erosion region j
upon notification from Washington (
that the department of agriculture !
has entered into an agreement with I
I the Mesa Soil Conservation District I
ill Harding Coountv, New Mexico.
The Mesa district, comprising ap-
proximately 150.000 acres near the
| center of Harding County, is the j
: first such area with which the soii
i conservation service has been au-
thorized to'cooperate in region six,
which includes parts of New Mexico,!
j Texas, Oklahoma. Kansas and Col-'
orado. Under terms of the agree-
; ment, the service will furnish tech-
nical aid and assist in planning the
I work program on individual farms
within the district.
Charted Koad Marshal Cot His Men
Llano Presents
Concert Today
Llano Cemetery will hold a con-
tinuation of its summer concerts
Sunday evening, it was announced
Saturday.
The concert will be for one hour,
! from 5.30 until 6:30 o'clock, com-
ing from the Singing Tower, which
j is equipped with loud speaker sys- j
'tern connected with Ihe electrical!
! apparatus in the cemetery office.
The concerts consist principally of
1 sacred music.
The Mausoleum will be open to
j visitors after 4 o'clock. The Ad-
ministration Building also will he
i open and there will be someone.
I present to help the visitors in locat-
! ing the graves of the many pioneers i
buried in Llano.
Hundreds of early day residents
were buried here in the 'DO's and
J she early 1900'.s.
Amarilloans arc invited to lake
; their friends and visitors to the con-
, cert, which will consist of old hymns i
| in chimes arrangements and negro |
| spirituals.
Mrs. J. W. Stevens Dies
Funeral servces for Mrs. J w ;
"Blue" Stevens. 70 years old, pio- ;
neer resident of Hale County, will |
he held Sunday afternoon at the
: Hale Center Methodist Church. Mrs,
Stevens died Friday.
Active in pioneer organizations.
| Mrs. Stevens and her husband had j
| not missed an XIT or Hank Smith
reunion until this year. She is sur-
vived by her husband and two
daughters.
Notables of Movieland
(Continued from Page 1, Col. 8)
other members of Ihe Rogers fam-
ily.
Leo Carrillo. screen star, who will i
! be grand marshal of the pioneer)
parade; Monte Blue. Vince Barnett.
Rrian Dunlev.v, Dave Butler famous j
1 Fox studio director, who produced all |
j of the pictures in which Will Rogers !
appeared and other Hollywood head-
; liners have reservations aboard the
' plane.
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First feature on the program to-
morrow will be the pioneer parade,
scheduled for 11:30 o'rlock.
"Soapsuds" will appear in Ihe
parade with x guard of honor.
The parade, which will be staged
again Tuesday morning, will he
"somrlhing different" for (he
Southwest.
* * *
Polo games and row pony rares
will he held each afternoon at 3
j o'clock on the Tri-State Fair;
grounds.
Governors and movie stars may j
compete in the races.
Among the governors will be
The WEATHER
AMON G. CARTER, owner
anrl publisher of the Fort
Worth Star-T e 1 e a r a m,
who will arrive in Ama-
rillo tonight to take part
in the festivities of the
"Old Southwest Days" arul
witness the Will Rogers
Memorial Pageant.
James V. Allred of Texas and Clyde
Tingley of New Mexico,
"Old Southwest Days," portray-
ing some of Die historical high-
lights (hal appear in this golden
anniversary edition of the Ama-
rillo Sunday-News filobe, is the
entertainment on the largest scale
ever attempted in the Southwest
with home talent under profes-
sional direction.
...
For the last week the ticket de-
mand has been very heavy and rec-
ord crowds are expected each night
Carl Hinton, national president of
the highway association, announced
any profits from the celebration
would be given to a charitaole cause
As a courtesy to pioneers he Ama-
rillo Chamber of Commerce next
Tuesday evening—fi o'clock at. the
Tri-State Fair grounds vv.il give s
barbecue to those holding tit ob-
tainable on invitation or bv member-
ship rard in the Old Settlors' A ;o-
ciation.
*
Next Tuesday morning, too,
Iherc will hp a frief. hut impres-
sive (Pifmonv lo dedicate formal-
ly the highway hearing the name
of the plainsman-philosopher.
Governor Allred will rut the rib-
bon.
* • •
Some of the motorcades arc due
late tonight, but, most of them, in-
cluding the Oklahoma. City section
with the famous Kiltie band, are due
Monday morning.
Schedules announced in telegrams
to national headquarters call for
other arrivals during Mond:iy after-
noon.
Junior Welfare Girls
(Continued from Page 1, Col. 8)
malnutrition among the children of
pre-school age, and has corrected
the physical faults of more than 900
children.
The league has obtained the
money for this necessary charity
through work—at the Rose Bowl
tea room, where the members work
as often as three full days each
week, at charity balls, and other
events which they sponsor.
The clinic costs at least $300 each
montn. and sometimes much more.
Besides the expenditure of monies ,
which they raise, the league mem-
bers give liberally of their time at
the clinic, and in personally help-
ing the families of the children who
are brought to the clinic.
They average caring for children
from 75 families each year. Approxi-
mately 175 children of pre-school
age are given every needed treat-
ment in the clinic. In the nine years
more than 110.000 quarts of milk
have been bought and given to the
children.
The league's latest gift to the com-
munity—the two respirators—was
the, result of careful study.
"We asked the doctors of Amarillo
to select the necessary equipment,"
said Mrs. M. T Johnson, president
of the league. "Amarillo hospitals
were without adequate equipment
for saving lives of premature in-
fants. These machines will not only
save the lives of many babies, but
will be used for treatment of young
children with impaired respiration."
One of the respirators will be
placed in Northwest Texas hospital;
the oiher in St. Anthony's. On each
will be an inscription:
• Dedicated to the use of the mem-
bers of the medical profesison in
token of appreciation for their gen-
erous contributions to our work.
.Junior Welfare League. 1938."
Mrs. Johnson expressed her appre-
ciation for the co-operation which
the community has given to the
charity.
"The Junior Welfare League is
very grateful to all contributing
friends in making possible their
charity activities. We are expressing
our appreciation to the medical pro-
fession with the gift of the respira-
tors," she said.
"Judge" A. K McKinnon. 7fl, has
seen the Texas Panhandle grow from
lusty youth into a still lu.vier man-
liood—for he came here m Febru-
ary of '87, one of the men who
drove through the tate, bringing
the railroad from Fort Worth
through the Panhandle to Denver.
Judge McKinnon has seen the
antelope, the deer, the wolt and wild
turkey almost erased from the Pan-
handle—to be replaced with sud-
denly-brought-to-iife towns and
spreading ranches with thousands
of cattle grazing where once only
the lone rider broke the unending
monotony of the prairie.
A native of Russell County. Ala- !
bama. Judge McKinnon is the son
of a doctor—a doctor who worked
in Pensacola, Florida during the
dark days when yellow fever and
cholera were sweeping through the
southeastern states.
In 1887 Mr McKinnon came to the
Panhandle, working as a surveyor
for the railroad that later became
known as the Colorado and South- '■
cm. The road came northwest out ]
of Fort Worth, through Wichita .
Falls, and on to the spot on Ama- j
lillo Creek now encompassed by the i
Jack Hall Ranch
The crew made camp there, and j
Judge McKinnon was perhaps the
first man to catch fish from the !
stream at that spot. Three-quarters !
of an hour after he dropped his line
in a hole he had 54 crappie.
When the two crews building rail-
road met near Texline, Judge Mc-
Kinnon was out, of a job. So he went
to Tascosa, took the only job avail-
able for a man who admittedly was
no cowpuncher, bartender in Jack
Ryan's Cattle Exchange Saloon. He
isn't proud of the fart, he once
tended bar. Judge McKinnon says
but it was honest work,
A short time later he opened a
saloon in partnership with Barrie.
Nation, later selling out to Jim East
After selling out.. Judge McKin-
non went to work, in 1887, in the of-
fice of J. M. iTobei Robinson, Tas-
cosa sheriff He here began study-
ing law from books loaned him by
Judge H. H. Wallace, then county
judge, and later district judge
In 1890 McKinnon went to Chan
nine, then known es Rivers. He re-
calls that the town was named
Channing because the application
for a postoffice was rejected in
Washington. There was another
town downstate that had a postof-
fice under the name Rives
Some of the boys of Rivers were
sitting around worrying about the
lack of a postoffice one dav. Sud-
denly McKinnon thought of Chan-
ninc F. Meek, superintendent of
the Fort Worth and Denver Rail-
road which went through the town.
A quick scrutiny of the postal
guide showed no other Channing
in the state, so the application was
re-submitted and granted as Chan-
ning.
Judge Wallace, meanwhile, had
opened a law office in Channing.
where McKinnon continued to
study. In 1892 he was admitted to
the bar, with Judge Wallace his
most severe inquisitor. Only a few
davs ago the last man of that quiz-
zing board. O T Toombs, died in
Clayton, New Mexico.
McKinnon was the postmaster of
Channing from 1891 until 1898
Resigning as postmaster in Chan-
ning McKinnon returned to Tasco-
sa in 1898. He continued to work
around the courthouse, and in 1900
ran for Oldham County judge, be-
ing elected for that term and the
succeeding four terms.
In 1902 he married Miss Annie
Smith, whom he had met eight
years earlier in Channing.
In 1911 the couple came to Ama-
rillo, now a thriving town Intermit-
tently during the years from May.
1919 to August 1928, Judge McKin-
non was city judge. j
Judge McKinnon is retired now.
living quietly with his wife at 807
Adams Street.
Water Softener
(Continued from Page 1 Col. 5>
from the City Lake area is
of supplying 10 and a half million
gallons of water every 24 hours, with
the plant here, located at Eigh h
and Parker Street capable o' han-
dling 12 and a half million gallons
in a similar period.
The nine employees of the i lty
water supply department are still
licensed by the state board of
health. Five of these men received
their licenses Saturday They are
W. A. Brand, William Corbell. N V.
Moss, John Por ar.d Robert Salmon
Editor'! Note—Thi la a con- I
drnsrd article written from a
longer treatment bv George Har-
per which space did not permit
using. The complete article will
he puhliahed at a later date.
When Benjamin F. Haiper, 3304
Van Buren Street, sit - do*Tn to do
some recollecting about the ptogres
of Texas, he can start from 'way
back yonder to the days when there
was only a trail from Houston to
Dallas and the Panhandle was still
a country to be conquered.
Benjamin Harper was born near
Kosse, Limestone County in 1858.
In his 80 years as a Texan Harper
has been a cowboy, trail rider, cat-
tle trader, deputy sheriff, sheriff,
cattle inspector and a United States
marshal!.
After leaving home with a brother
at the age of 18, Harper milled
around West Texas and New Mex-
ico until 1894, when he went to .
Matador, in Motley County. It was
in that rough West Texas territory
where he first served as an officer,
being named a deputy under his ;
brother-in-law. George Cook Cook
was Motley County's second sheriff
H was killed bv the man who had
been the county's first sheriff. Joe
Beckham. Harper recalls that Beck-
ham shot Cook at Seymour, where
the former sheriff was to s'and trial |
on an embezzlement charge
Following the apprehen ion of
Beckham, Harper served two year:
as deputy sheriff at Matador and
then was elected high sheriff
"It was hard for the law to re-
main neutral in those trying days."
recalls Harper. "The large cattle
outfits did not relish their herd be-
ing driven off in carload lots and
they had no intention of encourag-
ing unscrupulous cowboys to start
herds of their own with wide loops
and the branding of company "slick-
ears."
Harper says the longest trip he
ever marie to trail outlaws was
"when four men (I'll no', mention
their names' had stolen some horses
from the Matador I trailed them to
Big Spring where they had picked
up some more horses Dav Allison,
sheriff at Midland, joined me and
we trailed them for three weeks
finallv catching up with them at
Del Rin, on the border. They were
ready to ship the horses, had the
car already spotted. One of the men
escaped, but we caught him three
or four months later when he came
to rourt his gal."
Harper moved to Childress in
1899. where he built a livery stable
and with Judge Fires engaged in
the business of buying and selling
horses and cattle.
It was in May. 1899. at Childress.
Harper relates that he saw "the
worst hailstorm I have ever seen."
He and John Fleming and Cal
Dykes were branding some calves
when a sudden storm came up.
"We run and jumped iri a box-
car." Harper says, "but the hail-
stones were coming down so big and
hard that every once in a while
one would come through the roof
i Not hankerin' to get knocked on
the noggin . we ducked under the
car. Now. I don't expect \ou to be-
lieve this, but it is so—out on
.Shores Creek, south of Childress
: where the banks are crooked and
steep, the hail had backed up and
frozen over, and we crossed our
cattle on that ice two davs after
the storm."
In 1900 Harper was appointed cat-
tle inspector for the Texas Cattle
Raisers' Association.
' The duties of this job were to
inspect the brands of all rattle be-
ing shipped, of herds being moved
in from any distance, to attend all
roundups, to keep track of strays,
watch out for rustling and to keep
the association members posted as
to just what was going on, '
By 1.908 virtually all of the ranges
had been fenced and cattle steal-
ing was at a low ebb, so, says Har-
per. "mv job played out."
"I would not attempt to sa. how
many miles I us#ri to ride on horse- ,
back or drive a buggy in the da\s
when 50 or 60 miles was considered
a whole day's work."
In 1912. Harper started trariintr
again, this time in Kansas, but a
drouth and the plowing up of bu?
pastures put an end to that ven-
ture.
"I remember once buying soma
steers from Old Man Neal of Bea-
ver, Oklahoma, for Jim Campbell,
brother of Barbecue Campbell, one-
time manager of the XIT. Neal
wanted $500 down and the balance
on delivery at Englewood, Kans , the
end of the railroad I offered him
a check for the $500, but he said,
Wouldn't take nobody's check ' So,
I had to drive back the 80 miles to
Beaver, get the cash and take it
back to him to hold the deal. It
was hard on the horses, but I marie
it in two days."
« • •
Harper was in the real estate
business for a while in Lamar, Colo.
"But," he says, "I was not satisfied
until I got back to Texas. In 1917
I moved my family to Lubbock just
as a drouth moved in on the South
Plains. The Santa Fe cutoff to
Clovis had just been completed and
Lubbock was booming, but the
drouth and the war stopped the
boom. We had no moisture to speak
of until the blizzards of 1918-19,
when thousands of rattle froze to
death. I becam" ill in 1919 and the
doctors told me that I couldn't live
but three or four months. But we
moved to Amarillo and mv doctor
changed my mind about that, and it
wasn't long until I was desk sar-
geant. on the local police force
By that time Amarillo had
changed a lot since I first saw it
in 1888 I had trailed cattle up
from the 7Z7 Ranch in Lincoln
County and while waiting for rail-
road cars had grazed our herd at
just about where I now live on
j South Van Buren,"
Harper was appointed United
States marshal for the Northern
District of Texas in June 1922 He
held that position until July, 1931
He made an enviable record as
marshal. In the hectic davs of the
I oil boom, he was a very busy man,
as Federal Judge Wilson several
times tried and sentenced as many
as 30 persons a day
One incident shows the kind of
stuff which makes up the character
of this hardy pioneer. Though he
was up in years by that time, in 1930
Harper was handed warrants for lfi
persons in Borger. all embroiled in
an aftermath of the boom days.
Harper rook the 15 warrants, char-
tered a bus and went to Borger. He
brought back all 16 by himself For
this he was severely criticized by
some of the other marshals and De-
partment of Justice men, but Har-
per had his men—and he still likes
to chuckle over that experience.
John Hutson, manager of the t-
Anchor Ranch, wanten to locate
Canyon City on the land now own-
ed by the City of Amarillo and used
as a wearer reservoir. Hutson later
bought the land himself, selling to
C. T. Word, who. in turn, sold to
the city of Amarillo.
"Sure the dust blows here " .said
the old cowman to the visiting
newspaperman, "and if any of i"
ever settles on yore heart, vou can't
never rub It off."
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