Amarillo Sunday News-Globe (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1938 Page: 80 of 264
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Hurtado Led Expedition
Against Plains Apaches
By CHARLES RENPROE
The Fareone Apache had Ions be-
deviled the Spanish settlements to
the west of them. The years be-
tween 1702 and 1719 are filled with
accounts of terrific assaults made
ajrainst Pueblo Indians and Spanish
settlers in Northern New Mexico by
this tribe which swept out of the
Panhandle to rob and burn.
During the first part of the period
several punitive expeditions were
sent on their trail and chased them
back to the plains eastward. These
efforts had little cffect however, be-
cause in 1715 the Panhandle Apache
were back and made another au-
dacious attack on the Pueblo of
Taos. This raid brought on the
punitive expedition here considered
—that of Juan Paez Hurtado who
folic ived the trail of the Apache to
within a few miles of the present
city of Amarillo.
The Spanish, black as their In-
dian policy has been painted, never
adopted the doubtful expedient of
their Anglo-Saxon successors — ex-
termination. As a means of pro-
tection the New Mexicans sent pu-
nitive expeditions into the domain
of recalcitrant tribes, and welcomed
alliances with the Cuartelejo and
Jicarillo Apache against their more
bloodthirsty brothers on the Esta-
cado plain.
Against the Apache in the Pan-
handle the first punitive expedition
of which a detailed record is avail-
able is that, of Don Juan Paez
Hurtado in 1715.
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It was decided that the Indians
would be raided in August when
they were reaping and drying the
scanty bit of corn they grew. The
Apache rancherias were said to be
ten days' march from New Mexico
to the east, where t'.ere were sup-
posed to be 30 wooden houses cov-
ered with clay on a river bank . . .
to that point water was plentiful . . .
beyond, only sandy stretches of dry
river bed.
Numerous delays caused the post-
ponement of the expedition several
days. It was not until the 30th of
August that Hurtado crossed into
the valley of the Mora River with a
force of 3fl soldiers, 52 settlers, and
149 Pueblo Indians. On the Mora
<a branch of the Canadian in New
Mexicol he incorporated a band
of 30 Jicarilla and one Cuertelejo,
the latter to act as guide.
After 20 leagues down the river
the expedition turned to the south-
east and reached the Canadian, The
river was called the Rio Colorado at
that time by the Spanish t cause of
large beds of red shale exposed
along its bands. This was on the
5t,h of September, and was thought
to have been in the vicinity of the
present town of Cuevas, New Mexico.
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Prom the fifth to the fourteenth
of September the expedition con-
tinued along the Canadian for 10
days. On the eighth day Captain
Naran.jo found several Apache trails
but they yielded nothing. Therefore
they crossed and recrossed the river.
At times they were troubled with
rain and thunder storms and then
days of heat and endless plodding
over the alluvial sand dunes along
the river.
A new guide was selected from the
ranks of the Pueblo Indians and
took the command somewhat north
of the stream on the tenth day out.
There Hurtado found pasture, water,
and tracks of many Apache horses.
This rancheria was some distance
north of the present city of Ama-
rillo.
The guide of the expedition now
confessed he did not know wher*
the Apache were. Hurtado con-
demned him to be given fifty lashea
with a whip ... the arroya where,
this occured was named the Arroya
of the Whipping in honor of thi
event.
Somewhere to the north of Ama-
rillo one of Hurtado's men disap-
peared. His horse was found sad-
dled and bridled with arquebus and
saddle bags. Pour soldiers were sent
in search of this man whose name
was Juan Gallego. but Hurtado does
not mention that he was found.
Among the men who accompanied
Hurtado on his expedition was Jean
de l'Archeveque. who was with La
Salle's ill-fated expeditions to Tex-
as. He was found there in 1689 by
the Leon expedition and taken to
Mexico. He later found his way to
New Mexico and established himself
among the Spanish as a respected
citizen and trader. Generally, cred-
ited with having a nana m the slay-
ing of La Salle, he died in the mas-
sacre of the Villasur expedition at
the mouth of the Platte River some
five years after Hurtado's expedi-
tion into the Texas Panhandle.
Archeveque accompanied the expe-
dition in regal style with six horses,
five mules, and an armed personal
servant.
Hurtado gave up the expedition
after viewing the Apache signs north
of the river and concluded that the
Fareones had heard of the expedi-
tion, planned against them while
trading at Pecos, and had absented
themselves from their customary
I haunts along the Canadian.
The return trip was likewise
eventless, the command reaching
Santa Fe on the 30th of September,
I 1715.
Material derived from Alfred Bar-
; nabv Thomas's translationof Autos
i y Juntasde Guerra sobre ia cam-
pana de los Apaches Chipaynes y
j fareones o lemitas y ordenes que se
riieron para ella y diario y derrotero
| que el Gral. Juan Paes Hurtado
! hizo. ano de 1715. (Original MS,
Brancroft Library, University of
California.'*
Used with permission of the au-
I thor.
Rapid Rise
Ted Loke.v is the owner and man-
ager of the tire company that
bro>'"ht him here from Farmers-
v::ip lo become an employe in 1927.
And within less than three years
after his arrival in Amarillo he was
a member of the firm.
R. L. Allison and J. T. Webb
opened a tire business at, Second
Avenue and Fillmore Street on June
1, 1927. under the name of Allison
& Webb.
Lokey came here in September of
that year to accept a position with
the firm.
He had been here only 13 days
when Mr. Webb passed away, and
about two years later, on December
31, 1929, Mr. Allison was killed in an
airplane accident in which Lieut.
Robert H. Gray and his wife. Clif-
ford Dillon and Socks Moore also
lost their lives.
These tragedies left the business
in the ownership of the widows of
Allison and Webb, from whom it was
purchased early in 1930 by Lokey
and S. G. Cockrell and operated as
Cockrell-Lokey, Inc.
The next six years saw the busl-
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WHATEVER AMARILLO AND THE PANHANDLE
DO, usually is done with thoroughness and dispatch.
This is especially characteristic of Panhandle weath-
er, snapped here in three widely varying moods. In
the absence of a composite photograph—for not in-
frequently has the weather gathered all its moods
and showered them as one upon the High Plains—
( these three contrasting scenes are presented. TOP:
Snow on Polk Street in 1898; left foreground, Currie
Grain Store: left distance, with flagpole, Bivins
Building. CENTER: Sandstorm at Medley, taken
! about 1911, showing that the Republicans are not
wholly to blame for some things. BOTTOM: Polk
Street after a heavy rain, 1908, old Amarillo Hotel
in middle background; old First National Bank Build-
ing in foreground, corner of Fourth Street.
Cowpuncher to Postmaster
Gabriel Over the Plains
By LAURA V. HAMNER
Tn early days, several times a year, a thin old man,
driving a little gaunt mare hitched to a weathered and
worn buggy, came into the town of Claude, went down the
main street and around the square, usually stopping on
the southwest corner. His deliberate entry and slow prog-
ress, always drew a curious audience. Stopping, he would
then blow a long horn.
Gabriel had come to town!
Today the length of that horn is variously estimated.
Two old men say that it was four feet long, hut several
younger persons declare that it could not be less than
six, and maybe as much as eight, for it extended over the
back of the horse nearly to its head. Regardless, that
horn was long and its blast was loud, and when the old
man took his stand on that corner of the square he was
sure of a group of listeners. | —
Gabriel had a mission. He had ;thP Rai.-P„ v„m, u
to tell Claude that the day of reck- „ , , ' h h°m'
oning was at hand and that he was was ^ after dinnertime but we
warning the citizens. out a meal for him and the
His stepson, E. H. Case, today i ^smned fool said a preat long:
lives in Claude and has little faith blessin' by himself"
i%rsns owSrS;!"; m- T~-
was M F, Elliston, that he lived | 1 came t0 Amarillo for many
with his wife, two sons, two daugh- I years. always stopping close to the
tors and three stepsons in Murray Bivins Building. He drove 8n old
County, Tennessee, where the old: him™ u„ , ,i
xl" ™re'which he did not have'in
hitch, for it was always tired enough
'o stop and stay put. Gabriel usually
had two-and-a-half buttons off his
However, this was not known in trousers, his suspenders wer banc-
Claude, and the coming of Gabriel j ing and his pants needing to be
was an event, of amusing interest, hitched up frequently
especially to the small boys who fol- ' ,, , . ,
lowed the sound of his horn and ^dlJ^ ""iff/ r°" 0f d ' f5'
hung around not to hear what he l '
would say but to see what freakish ! HWn wJTh £2 £ ..l
stunts he would perform. ™^ *hlc,h OP8"*, llke
Soon after Paul Hood, now a lead- with^om^hL h m fbulRin?'
ing grocer of Claude, had been In- ™hin* "in-
troduced to Ichabod Crane bv his Gabnel was emphatic in say-
teacher, Miss Bertie Weeks, today 'n(? rhat hs haC tlf<d to Irave his
Mrs. R. L. Bagwell of Claude. Ga- 'n™lly ,t0 this wicked world,
briel made his annual visit, and in *° town he began to
him Paul saw the living embodi- battered old horn. After
ment of Ichabod. Tnll. slender, with j "". e°' nne °r ,wo listeners he would
a sack coat that came nearly to 'hem to sing, saying, 'I'll blow
knees encased in tight trousers, I on trumpet and we'll sing it
nothing could so nearly represent 0 the Lord'
the famous Ichabod as did Gabriel. Gabriel no longer comes to the
Paul goes the limit in giving the j Panhandle. He has blown his horn
length of that horn borne by Ga- i for the last time.
briel. and Paul ought to know for — .
he haunted the man whenever he HOW HE MET HIS WIFE
"m-ee Sowder recalls that Gabriel wen'the^'irst tfrne'l saw'mTwito"
kl sr. r-w rar
ing. When he came, school routine c'n/o" i L Z i n ^
was impossible,_C.ieday_M.ss Doak ^rled,
ness giow and expand, and in June,
1937, Mr. Cockrell, one of the two
principal stockholders, passed away,
resulting in the sale of his interest
in the business to Ted Lokey.
On January 1 of this year, the
firm became known as Ted Lokey
Tire Company.
The company, with a personnel
of 15 persons, has an annual pay-
roll of approximately $28,000 Giv-
ing complete drive-in service, the
house is open 24 hours daily.
Ted Lokey Tire Company Is dis-
tributor for Seiberiing tires and
Prest-O-Lite batteries, which ac-
counts they have held for the last
11 years, and for Shamrock petro-
leum products. A complete depart-
ment is devoted to automotive elec-
| trical work, including starter and
cenerator repairs, while another de-
; partment specializes in car wash-
ing and lubrication.
A complete line of automotive ac-
cessories is also handled.
E. V. Graham, Odessa: "Election
I time was the. best time to have
dances, for the voters would flock
| in, and the candidates would pay for
I the barbecue."
Home Builder
Fine public, schools and opening
i of the Amarillo Junior College,
brought H. H. Lowenstern, real
estate operator, to this city back
in 1929.
Mr. Loewenstern says he had been
| coming to Amarillo off and on
| since 1904 from Clayton, N. M.,
| where he engaged in the mercan-
! tile business and rachlng.
Arriving in Amarillo, Mr. Loe-
wenstern went into the real estate
I business with H. N Wheeler. A year
later he started his own real estate
| business, with an office in the
i Oliver-Eakle Building. Two years
there and he moved to 402 Polk
i Street for the following two years.
He has been at his present site, 315
Polk Street, for three years.
Mr. Loewenstern specializes in
property management and new
home construction. He handles city
real estate mostly, but also deals
in ranches and farms.
He has a ranch near Nara Visa,
hts stepsons with equal fervor. Lat-
er, Gabriel's wife divorced him and
the family was broken up.
saw him approaching and locked
the door to keep him out. Another
time Foree remembers thit ' Broth-
er" Hall, former pastor of the
Claude church and later the presid-
ing elder of the district, was holding
a protracted service In Washburn.
Gabriel came and sat In the front
pew By his vociferous "amens" .nd
the hlizzard struck, but I came
up out of the canyon still !n my
shirt sleeves an'' about to freeze
I saw a tent, borrowed a coat from
a man there, my future father-in-
law, and went on to the ranch.
(Matador).
"The next time we camped near
frequent blasts of his horn, he al- C: on, they had a little candy
most broke up the meeting. 1 pullin' I rode a horse to take her
J. T. Baker told Jim Christian j to that party and I kep' on goirr1
that one day Old Gabriel came to I echance I had to her."
Over 3^ Century
Experience in Setting
of Diamonds
WHEN you brlnq your di amends
here to have them reset the work
is done personally by Mr. J. E.
Adelmann, a diamond setter with over
a third of a century experience. Your
diamonds never pass out of our hands
. . . out to another shop or another city.
Our manufacturing department is pre-
pared to execute in gold or platinum
or silver or combinations of these metals
any special individual design that you
may desire to enhance the beauty of
your precious stones.
Our stocks of fine Diamonds, Watches,
Rings, Jewelry and Platinum and Gold
Ring Mountings are complete, and are
priced to save you real money.
We are always glad to have responsiblo
people take advantage of our conveni-
ent 90-day credit plan.
Adelrnann & Blakernore
JEWELERS
JULIUS E. ADELMANN, Prop.
Amarillo's Oldest, Manufacturing Jeweler... Since 1909
313 Polk Street Phone 8510
By ALMA McGOWEN THOMPSON
In 1S91 Wiley Fox, Limestone
County Texan, heeded the call
"Westward Ho" and landed first
in Floyd County, where he re-
mained until 1894. During the fol-
lowing four years he "Just sort o'
drifted around," winding up at
Groesbeck from where he rode an
immigrant car to Quanah In 1898
Upon arriving In that city he
learned that Gus Gober, another
Moore County old-timer, wanted a
man to come with his immigrant
car to Channing. So Wiley climbed
aboard and headed for the Panhan-
dle.
After helping Mr. Gober get his
outfit settled In Moore County,
Wiley decided to punch cattle for
Gus, but the rambling blues over-
took the red-haired cowpuncher
again after about a year.
Wiley was a sociable fellow and
he thought the LIT Ranch would
be a jolly good place to be, so there
he pitched his bed, and the next
morning Ed Payne, the foreman,
put him to work with the rest of
the boys. Payne shot and killed
himself a year later and Joe Fra-
zier succeeded him as foreman.
It wasn't long until the LIT's
needed a cook. Wiley got the job.
The fact was, he really preferred
the freedom of the range, but, as
he said. "Winter had already set
in, and the warmth of the kitchen
had its compensations."
Mr. Fox says that Tascosa wasn't
so wild then—that "Boot Hill was
done filled before my time."
Wiley remained as cook except
for brief respites when he Joined
the other boys with his remuda of
some eight head of horses.
"I was shore proud of my string,"
said Mr. Fox, "and there was plenty
of excitement of a cold morning
when the boys started out. Half the
outfit would get thrown before their
horses warmed up." Then as an af-
ter-thought, he added, "The night
horse was generally the favorite
in cach man's string, for he was
gentlest and mast dependable.
• *
Pete Frederick who lives at Dal-
hart now. Mel Armstrong now out
in New Mexico, Al Ferguson, his
brother Bud, and Rich Crump,
sheriff of Moore County many
years, now a rancher, were among
the cowpunchers on the old LIT
whom Mr. Fox recalls.
In 1900 Mr. Fox returned to Moore
County, where he ran for and was
N. M„ on which he raises registered
Herefords, and has been doing so
since 1915. At present he has 300
head of breeding cows on the
ranch.
A native of Cassel, in the Ger-
man province of Hessia, Mr. Loew-
enstern came to America at the
age of 14. He headed directly for
New Mexico after landing, for he
had relatives there. In fact, he has
had relatives in New Mexico since
1888.
One of Mr. Lowenstern's sons
M. H., is associated with his father
in the real estate business. Daisy
Bruce is the office manager, and
G. W. Croom and W. B. Patterson
arc associates.
elected to the office of tax assessor,
which he held two years. At the
end of that time he went into the
stock business with John Geary,
late rancher of Moore County They
had ample pasturage for the 400
horses they bought from old man
Trujillo down on rhe Rlto Blanco.
They had offered—and their of-
fer had been accepted—to pay him
$400 for his entire herd of horses
which were scattered all over the
range. They were to round up the
horses. They got four or five men
to help them, but the horses were
so wild that 400 were all they ever
did succeed In getting.
"But at that, we got value re-
ceived. One dollar per nead wasn't
such a big price even In those days,"
declared Mr. Fox. "They increased
rapidly enough, too, but after about
three years of running horses John
and I decided to get shed ol them
and replace them with cattle. We
bought mostly white-face cattle, but
they weren't the white faces of to-
day. However, they were a far cry
from the Texas longhorns.
"We did fairly well with our cow
business—in fact too well, for John
now decidcd he could afford a wife.
That ended John's and my good
old batching days. We had spent
several years batching in our little
dugout, but that, was no place for
a woman; so we got busy and built
a little two-room frame house for
the newlyweds Then I was by
my lonesome until 1907, when I
went to Mississippi to marry Annie
Marlar. John and I had sold our
land—eight sections—and bought
land, and leased more, north of
Dumas, where we continued to run
cattle. People often remarked about
two red-heads maintaining a part-
nership.
"We continued that partnership
until 1915 or lfi when we quit, the
cow business—or rather I did; John
continued until nis dcat' He was
sheriff of Moore County me years,
but he kept his ranch business.
"I had served as postmaster in-
termittenly for several years, part
of the time for old man J. H. Lamb,
j In 1904 I was appointed postmaster,
J resigned after four years, then came
1 back again in 1916 All together
I've held the office 30 years. When
I resigned the first of October
(1937) it ended my sixteenth
straight year,"
When I first came to Moore
County there were only nine fami-
lies in the whole county and only j
one in Dumas, the postoffice. The i
county was organized in 1892. It
had been created in 1876 from ;
Bexar district and named for E
W. Moore. R. A. McNab was county j
clerk and postmaster.
"There were only two mails a
week and they were brought out j
from Channing on Tuesday and ,
Friday. L. T. Trumble, the county |
judge, lived down on Blue Creek j
at the present Coon Ranch head-
quarters; S A. Bell was sheriff, R.
A. Spurlock was assessor, H. E.
English treasurer. The other fami-
lies were Bob Henry's, G. W. Lever-
ton's, W. F. Bennett's, and C. H.
Record's. Some of the Bennetts i
and the Records still live on the !
old home places." Mr. Fox chuckled j
as he added, "five of the nine head.-
of families living in Moore County ]
at that time were county officials." j
Branching Out
Established in 1908, Nunn Elec-
tric Company is in Its original loca-
tion, 425 Polk Street, but the man
who bcRan work for the company as
a salesman now is its president—
Carl Hare.
Radios, for which the company
now is one of the largest distributors
in this last commercial frontier, an
area of some 400 square miles, still
were in the future when Nunn Elec-
tric was founded.
Nunn Electric in the beginning
stocked sporting goods as well as
electrical equipment and phono-
graphs.
Carl Hare began working for the
company in 1925 at Wichita Falls
as a salesman, but on February 6.
1926 he came to Amarillo as part
owner and manager.
In 1926 Nunn Electric was doing
a retail contracting business, which
Mr. Hare discontinued immediately
to go into merchandising and to
make the company a distributor. He
also discontinued the sporting goods
line.
At that time Nunn Electric had
only half the front footage the com-
pany now has and there was a force
of eight persons, including one trav-
eling salesman. There now is a
force of 28. enlarged quarters and
a branch at Lubbock to serve the
South Plains.
Nunn Electric was incorporated
in 1932 with Lindsay Nunn as presi-
dent, the late Dr. Nunn as vice-
president and Carl Hare as general
manager. •
Besides Mr. Hare, the president,
officers of the company now are
M Y. Galloway, secretary; James
M. Reed and C. B. Lawrence, vice
presidents.
Ochiltree Headlights
In the war for Texas independ-
ence a number of people were given
headlights which permitted them to
select land anywhere they pleased,
A number chose Ochiltree lands, all
being for some unknown reason In
the west or southwest part of the
county. Following are the names of
some of those holding headrlghts:
Wilmuth, McGee, Edwards. Sparks.
Xlmines, W. B. D. Smith, Jesse
White, J. J. Ballentine and Anton
Vandahoya. Because the notation
(Washington County) appeared be-
fore the name Vandahoya, it is
believed that all this group came
originally from Washington County.
HE STATED FIRED
John Rumans: "I was workln' on
the F's. Goodnight's nephew, Pa il
Smith, spurred a horse In the shoul-
der. Goodnight had told me to fire
any bov that did it, so I fired Paul.
He went to Goodnight, Goodnight
told him that when Rumans fired
anybody, he was fired. I had told
Goodnight that if ever I fired any-
body and he sent the boy back, why,
to send my money with him."
HIGHEST QUALITY FOODS
AT LOW PRICES
Our Policy for More Than Ten Years
Ever since the Palace Market was established, more than
ten years ago, it has been our policy to sell the best foods
at the lowest possible prices. We found this plan proved
very successful and today we have hundreds of satisfied
customers who have traded with us for many years.
We wish to take this opportunity to thank our many friends
and customers who have made possible our success . • .
and may we have the pleasure of serving you in the future.
PALACE MARKET
MRS. W. G. BAKER, Owner
200 Florida St.
Phone 6397
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