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THE DAILY HERALD.
OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY JOURNAL.
Jesse O. Wheeler. Proprietor.
Entered at the Posuoffice. BiovrasviHe. Texas
as jseconti-class .matter.
Consolidated in i893 with the Daily Cos
mopolitan which was published m
Brownsville, for sixteen years.
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1905.
Rayrnondville Items.
Regular Herald Correspondent.
April 12. A great many cattle
and horses are being shipped from
this place now. Range is good and
cattle are fat. .
Mrs. Alex de la Garza, of Tor
dilla ranch, is recovering from a
very severe spell of sickness.
j. C. Cur?y and family have
moved" into their new residence
People around Raympndville are
feasting on new Irish potatoes.
A number of families are moving
to Raymondville.
NEWS ITEMS.
Gussie Seuger, aged S; hid in a
buggv at Houston while playing
hide-and-seek, the horse ran away
mid she was killed.
The Senate concurred in the res
olution to adjourn Saturday at
noon. A special session will be
called to consider the appropriation
bill. The House is railroading
bills.
State Odd Fellows are to vote on
plans for rebuilding the Corsicana
home, destroyed by fire.
Mexican War veterans have
apace a movement for a monument
to commemorate the heroes of that
war.
Three small boys have leen
arrested at Marlin charged with
with stealing shirts from a train.
The building for the wood pulp
factory at Orange has been com
pleted and the machinery- is being
installed.
Wright Terry pleaded guilty at
Huntsville to two charges of mur
der at Groveton and was given a
life term in each case.
D. R. Wingate and J. B- Staf
for, lumbermen at Uvalde, whose
yard was partly burned Friday,
have been arrested.
A Little Brief Authority.
When old Mose applied for work
ht was grren a job shovelling
sand at a -dollar a day.
A few days later the foreman
passed near the sand-bank and, to
his surprise, saw Mose comfortably
seated on a pile of sand, directing
the movements of another dusky
laborer.
"Why, Mose!" he exclaimed,
"I did not hire that mau. What's
he doing here?1 '
"I got him'er-doing my wuk,
sah," replied Mose.
"Who pays him?" was the ques
tion "I does, sah; I pays him a dollah
a day, sah' was the response.
"Why, that's all you receive,
Mose. How do you profit b; the
transaction?" asked the amazed
foreman.
"Well," replied Mose, scratch
ing his woolly head, "I gets to
boss de job, dean' I?" Lippiu
cott's Magazine.
What He Had Refa)d.
A story is going the round in
the court house of an Irishman
who recently went before Judge
Stephens to le naturalized.
"Have you read the Declaration
ot Independence?" the court ask
ei. ' I hov not . ' ' said Pat
"Have you read the Constitu
tion of the United State?"
"I hov not. yer honor."
Judge" Stephens looked sternly
at the applicant, and asked:
"Well what have you read?"
Patrick hesitated but the fraction
of a second before replying:
"I hov red hairs on me neck, yer
honor. ' y Rochester Times.
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Original.!
There was hanging about our region
In the far west one of' those despera
does to whom human life is of no val
ue and horses, especially stolen ones,
the most desirable prize on earth. I
never knew the man's real name, but
he was alwaya referred to as Slippery
Sum for the reason that no one had
ever been able to catch him. He had
for some time been the terror of the
community.
When Slippery Sam became un
bearable it was the unanimous wish of
the settlement that I should make an
attempt to get hold of him either alive
or dead. One day a boy rode in among
us and said that Sam was hanging
about a house in the next county,
where he was courting a widow, and
I was persuaded to go over and see
what I could do, with a view of check
ing his lawless career.
A traveling parson had been among
usand left a lot of Bibles and tracts.
I was not overscrupulous as to the
means I employed with desperadoes,
so I put a white handkerchief around
my neck, stuck a pair of revolvers un
der my breeches, slung to my waist by
a cord, and made for the widow's
house, reaching it about supper time.
I told her I was a traveling parson;
that I would Jike a square meal and
was willing to pay for it -She agreed
to give me the supper, and while we
were eating a man came in and sat
down opposite me. I had never seen
Slippery Sam, but I knew in a mo- j
ment that he .and the stranger were
one and the same -person.
After supper, when the widow had
washed the dishes, I asked them if
they would listen to some things I
would like to read to them. Slippery
Sflm. who seemed to be especially
pleased about sometliing, lighted a pipe
and toid me to "fire away." I read
some of the tracts to tlem, when Sam
stopped me and said:
"We've listened to you, parson. Now
I want you to listen to me for awhile.
rLiz, bring out that demijohn."
The sight of a gallon of whisky didn't
trouble me much, for I could drink
better than I could preach and was
willing to back my powers against Sam
at any time. I admitted that I drank
occasionally, and the widow filled our
glasses. I knew I couldn't shirk my
liquor and that it was merely a ques
tion as to whether Sam or I had the
stronger head. If I could put him un
der the table, I'd get him; if not well,
there was no telling about what would
become of me in that case.
Of course I demurred every time my
glass was filled, but every time drain
ed it After awhile it began to dawn
upon me that Sam and I were about an
even match at the business and the,,
battle would bo drawn, so I changed
my tactics and gave way to an appear
ance of being very drunk, sank down
under the table and was put to bed in
the -adjoining room by Sam and the
widow. Then, while snoring lustily, I
heard the two conversing.
"Them people over there'll find out
they can't ketch me nappin'. I got the
feller they sent snorin'."
"What'll we do with him?" asked the
widow.
"Im a-goin' to put a bullet into him,"
whispered Sam.
"No, you're not goin' to do any such
thing. I have enough to stand harbor-
in' you without bavin' murder done
in my house."
This was the last I heard, for they
shut the door and consulted in a very
low tone in the other room. I lay shiv
ering under the coders. Presently the
door opened, and I, pretending to sleep,
knew by the altered light that Sam
was holding a candle before my face.
I didn't know whether he had come to
kill me, but snored for dear life. He
Avent out and shut the door, and it was
to me like coming to life again.
1 was lying with my face to the win
dow, wondering what to do, when I
saw a rope with a noose on the end de
scending from the ceiling.
Then I heard the door open and a
catlike tread in the room. A figure
seized the noose, glided to my bed and
with a soft touch I knew to be a wom
an's placed it around ray neck. This
done, she stole away.
She had no sooner gone than I took
off the noose and held it in my hand. I
waited half an hour, when I began to
feel a pull on the rope. Clinging to it
with both hands. I was swung from
the bed and drawn upward. I wiggled
and made a sound as if choking and
when hanging straight down over the
center of the room gave a few spas
modic kicks, after which I remained
perfectly still. y
Though I had both hands on the
noose I feared 1 would vot be able to
hang long enough to convince my
would be murderers that I was dead. I
could hear nothing, but was convinced
that Sam and the widow wore at the
other end of the rope and would make
it fast Presently I heard too is tens in
other rooms above and surmised the
job was complete.
When the first faint light of day
shone In at the window 1 saw a piece
of paper on a chair beside me. On it
was written in lead pencil:
Tired of life. Got the liquor Habit oa
me and can't get rid of It. It 7on't do for
one of my calling.
Sam had carried out his murder
scheme, and the widow was screened
from the consequences.
Now I began to gut mad. Taking a
revolver in each hand, in my stocking
feet I went softly upstairs. Coming to
an open door, I saw the widow sslcep
in bed. The door between her room
and an adjoining, one being ajar, I
saw Sam asleep on a lounge with his j
clothes on and a revolver in his right
hand. The widow awakened and on
seeing me gave a shriek. Tbe man
started up, I fixed, and that was the
last of Slippery Sam. ,
JAMES CARTER SCOTT.
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