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Strnge Traditions of Oblitv Town Tells Story of Early nity Days on Neutral Ground a Romance of Borderland Waifs'’1'!'
By W. E. PAYNE.	|
In 1714, the Cantina Real, or the Old San A tvas opened by San Denis, an enterprising young who was sent into the region by a French tradin
Early Morning Observations
By George M. Bailey.
Flo Zicglcld and the Shuberts, producers of rival "Follies” are bombarding one another in their New York ads, each claiming ro be the best. We saw both when we were in New York not so long ago, and both shows were good, but, honestly, we could hardly decide which bunch was the prettiest or the nakcdcst.
Work is the surest method of raising money, but not the most popular.
Dallas and Houston each have above 30,-000 school children enrolled in their public schools, and Houston has a larger number in parochial schools than Dallas has. The truth o£ the matter is, Houston either has 0 greater population than Dallas, or tile Houston married people are fonder of children.
establish trade relations through Texas, with	T‘h7a
highway begins at Nachitoches, La., on the west ,t one pint or eight drinks per capita Red river, and enters Texas at a little village now ca; country’s population. It wouldn’t ta dleton. Thence it traverses the State of Texas to Naco hoys long to aridity old Kalmuck Crockett, San Antonio, and reaches the Rio GrandeIc Sam "'ou,d ^ust turn thcm loosc old military encampment of the Spaniards called l-for a da> °r s°~
Long years -before Anglo-Americans came to Texas, thistar as Gaston Means’ testimony is con was the only thoroughfare into the terra incognita now K. our idea is that if it isn’t a lie Gas-as Texas.	U	not	tell	it.
At Pendleton, on the west bank offt-the Sabine river, a tract of red land begins and extends to the Trinity.
Its width is from 15 to 30 miles, covering a large part of .Sabine. San Augustine, Nacogdoches, Cherokee and Houston counties. When white men first came to Texas, they found the red land region densely settled by prosperous Mexicans who had cleared farms, planted orchards, built comfortable houses throughout the red land region. In addition to the Mexicans the Clierokees had planted a large colony in Cherokee county, from which that county takes its name.
Ferries Encouraged.
When the Spanish took possession of Texas it was their custom to grant large tracts of land to anyone opening and maintaining ferries across rivers which could not otherwise be crossed.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century t.wo Spaniards obtained from the Spanish government a tract of •land lying on both banks of the Sabine river, embracing six leagues, in con sideration for opening a ferry across that stream. These men were M.
Miciicli and Pedro Croc. A good boat was built and maintained and travel from the French settlements on the east side of the river and the Mexican colonies on the west was greatly facilitated.
About. 20 miles above the point where Croc and Micheli had established their ferry, on the east or Lou-la side of the Sabine river,
or San Patrice. From that colony into Texas there was no ferry: and a ferry and a road for that settlement into the Mexican colony ou the Cn-minal Heal were needed. So a few -years after the ferry was opened by Micheli and Croc, Juan Croc, the brother of Pedro, with his half-Spanish, half-French wife. Polly, settled at a point on the Sabine river and established a ferry, and opened a road intercepting the old CaminO road about 10 miles east of San Augustine.
Early Romance.
The turbulent times in Mexico, prior to the insurrection of Hidalgo, had driven Juan Croc an exile into th United States. Being an educated gentleman, lie associated with the refined French of New Orleans, where he met and married Polly, an elegant, lady with all the charms of beauty, education and refinement. Hearing that It is brother Pedro had settled oil the Sabine, lsc determined to cast his lot in that region. There in the shadows of cypress and Spanish moss he passed the last years of his life.
Tradition has it that when Juan Croe came to the Sabine, his wife Polly was a lady of unusual beauty and many personal charms. She was thoroughly educated both in French and Spanish and spoke and read English well. In later years she became a fortune teller, and gracefully wove the events of her own life into the future of others. No doubt this description of the “senoru” is true, but as I recall her to memory she had sadly changed. In 1870 I met her for the first lime, and from that time till early in 1800 I met her often. While she retained her intellectual graces, even till her death, her personal beau ly Imil passed uwiiy. Time had written many wrinkles on her brow.
Built Cabin.
0I)e"'m.K t’oad and the iA1!11 tt, commodious log i! 4s - ",l“ hull* mid verandu in front, which was used as a caravansary for ‘'omers. In a short time a Jew 8imon opened a store of gon-nrehntiriiun suited to the needs
1 time the bosses are finding Ithing to lead a voter to the \ another to make him swal-\c candidate.
reasury prediction that the United and wants of a primitive peoploovcrnment will be out of debt in caravans crossing the river at ,c years is probably, accurate to?";	Spr‘ir?t	V*rUcu„r.	via, that .he dob,
Lorcna established a church in ?!y bc twiCC as 8rcat
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of logs, well built and strong. n\hing school finishes a girl for altogether comfortable—cool in sunrhardly equips her for a good be mcr and warm in winter. The settlc-.ai i:rc
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river with hills several hundred feet	.	,	, , .
high bordering the low land of thGfmso prefers her dead hus-vallev. Since the village was in a do-,to that of her living husband, pression it was given the name En-bart. And we reckon he was cinal. that is, basin, or depression, ini iate Mr. Caruso's many vir-8panish. In a short time it was given the name of “Eneinal del Perdido.” or .‘‘the basin of the lost,” whicli is a figure of speech in Spanish implying hell. Thus was the hamlet named, but all in all, it was an orderly town with no officers to enforce the mandates of government. Eternal peace reigned and solitude kept vigil from the hills on the west side of the river.
Boundary Disputed.
In 1S03, Louisinnn was purchased from France. Trouble arose at once over the boundary between the United Slates and Mexico. (The trouble grew apace. In 1S0(>, General Wilkinson with an tinny of observation was ordered to take position at or near the old Spanish mission of Adens in what is now Natchitoches parish. In a short time a Mexican army appeared upon the scene and a battle seemed impending. During the night, however, negotiations were opened between the two generals, and an agreement, reached, by the terms of which a strip of land lying between the Sabine and Arroyo Hondo was to be subject, to the control of neither nation till the line between the two countries should bc established b.v international agreement between Spain and the United States. Thus was the neutral ground established and so remained for 13 years. To say it at once afforded a harbor for outlaws and desperadoes from both nations, as well ns an army of political exiles from Mexico, re peats an old story too well knowi by everyone.
Soon bands of the most hardened and obdurate outlaws of the border-
J)lis News calls him the jj.” That doesn’t express it, tell the country just what fi-aston Means is. You can sii
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St. Louis P. D. Seems to Be Je Houston P. D.
Probably the first case of the kii history of legal procedure has b< tuted by the St. Louis (Mo.) Post against The Houston (Texas) patch, the former filing a suit in a (Harris county), Texas, court s< prevent the latter newspaper from name “Post-Dispatch.” The IIousv says that it was only after three of prominent firms of attorneys h asked to handle' the case for the paper, that one finally accepted it.
We have not seen a copy of th; filed by the St. Louis paper, and, arc not familiar with the allegatii by it in reference to the Houstt The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a prlpcr. The Houston Posl-Dispatcl following to say editorially concc action taken by the St. Louis pap lioning, among others, the Enquin The Houston Post-Dispatch name exactly in the same mam the St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtr. own title, viz., by the merging newspapers having the names of 1 Dispatch. The name of each nc had been legitimately and hone quired, and when the two publica] came the property of one cor; both names were retained, as 1 pened in numerous instances. Th; Dispatch of Richmond, the Cour nal of Louisville, the Timcs-Pica New Orleans, the Globc-Dcmc St. Louis, the Star-Telegram • Worth, the Timcs-Hcralds of Da Waco, the Tiincs-Star of Cincin-News-Scimitar of Memphis, the cial-Appcal of Memphis, the V Pilot of Norfolk, the Enquirer Columbus, the Times-Union of ville, the Age-Herald of Birmingl many other newspapers of the have obtained their names throug mate consolidations, preserving t of their constituent units. Tlj Houston Post-Dispatch, publishc than 8oo miles distant from the publication of the St. Louis 1 patch, could realize an illegitimat< through mistaken identity is to< to elicit a moment’s thought. T1 ton Post-Dispatch has merely fo custom that has prevailed from memorial in retaining the name of stitiicnt units, names that arc as in journalism as John and Jame persons.
It would appear, after reading right law of the United States, th Louis Post-Dispatch has no case, standing the fact that one of Housl ing law firms has been engaged to one. Article i, section 8, of the tion of the United States empowers “to promote the progress of science ful arts by securing for limited tin thors and inventors the exclusive their respective writings and dis The term “writings” lias been cor include maps, charts, music, print! ings, drawings, 'pantings and pin as well as books, written and print* etc. The fjyst statute was passed the act now? in force went into ctTc 1909. The Term of a copyright is ty-ciglU years, with the privilege • ing it for an'additional term of tw years upon its expiration. The rests entirely upon statutory provi