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claims — eitner oy purcnase or | muw v* v.vVtin til a cowboy could file on it, other post. The Odom family,------------ .JUNIOR BAND CHAJlive it out, and prove up on it who ranched in the area sur-lTon, poR FIRST SIX WiEEKSand then sell it to him.” (Many rounding old Fort Chadboume,trades were made in the West had fences cut. Band director Russellwherebv the rancher agreed to In November, 1883, L. B. Har- Tuesday announced the top btwages while he ris, who owned land on both sides chairs for his junior high btfor the first six weeks periodunderstanding that the cowboy paring to fence several sections school. They are as follows:transfer title to the ranch- of land. He had 10,000 cedar clarinet Section — 1. Daiwn«r. it is said that many large posts and two railroad carloads cumbie 2. Jean Ann °*barb wire on the ground ready _ ______nar.) to begin work on the fence, when Drum section — 1- Alan BarCattlemen began to see the a mob destroyed the poets and ^ 2. Cris Wardadvantages to be derived by hav- wire. They piled the wire on topposts and burned the posts. Trombone — 1- Clois Versyp.would prevent cattle from stray-1 The wire melted and ruined. cornet — 1. Tony MackeyThis burning occurred threeAis I Alii Mrs pla; gar JCliJI porgoctacDiana Arrott, 3. Andy Eubanks,waLO!mixedRobert LeeSaxaphone1. Debbie Luc-re ■ the cattle fenced In and the rustlers fenced out.Barb wire fences would help todiscourage the brand runners— plain cattle thieves. Barb wire would discourage the over-zealous •‘maverick’* hunters.Not all ranchers saw eye to eye. Some ranchers were greatly disturbed. They saw barb wire as a threat to the free open range. Some cattlemen who own-ad little or no land had sizeablehards on the open range. They saw barb wire as a threat tc their domain. 1in the basin of CRMWD’s Robert Lee Lake. Mrs. John McCabe and Mrs. C. D. Stewart, the first two j white women to come to this area told the writer about this. Mrs. McCabe said, ‘The pile of posta looked as big as a two storyLow brassLouis MartinezOWENS RiEfTUlBSGranvill Welbum Owens of Fort Chadboume retired from Lone Star Gas Company recently after 21 years of service in thStewart saw the smoke and fire as they were going to their homestead west of here in early November 1833. She said, People told us that men who opposed fencing the range had burned10,000 posts awriter found some chunksftutility's Gasoline Department.Since Owens joined Lone Star in 146, he has worked at plants in Grapeland. Carthage, Cisco, Crane, Ranger, Bronte and Fortahad bourne.A native of Grapeland, his favorite pastimes are fishing, hunt-orewr, neaiera dominoesbeginning to file of the burned wire in 1953, some *He and histhissometimes cut off a rancher's cattle from a watering place.Wire and posts bout half-way bopen range” I and Sanco and at a few otner argued that if men were allowed places. Wire fences in manyotherssoonCattlemen called for a law to _____three daughtersand three sons. They have 18grandchildren.Mr. Owens' plans for retirement Include farming and selling fruits and vegetables.protect fences as well as otherthisRETURNS FROM VEGASMrs. F. S. Higginbotham returned to Bronte last Friday after an extended trip to the West Coast and back to Dallas. She visited her daughter, Mrs. Frank Syner, and family in Las Vegas,property. Governor Ireland sent hated fences. They I Rangers into the Runnels-Coke sometimes had to ride extra miles area to quell the wire cutters, to get around a “drift fence. They were guarding fence in the Cowboys began carrying wire J area lying between Ballinger and cutters. One old-time cowboy Tennyson, or so I have been told,lt;now deceased) told this writer when a fence-cutting mob sur- Nev. and a that fenoee never bothered him. prised them, disarmed them and Blankenship in Fresno. Calif. He aaid, I carried a pair of wire forced the Rangers at gun point Mrs. Higginbotham flew by jet Sritoin my hip plt;£*t. and ! L cut wire all night. Sunday Wore W^Ve-sarar rode mile# to get around The Cattlemen's Association gas to Dallas, and visited imtila^SaiCa I decided to employ a detective. Friday with another daughter,To fence or not to fence be-j They hired Ben Warren of Hyl- Mrs. Jack Hamilton, and family.name the burning question of the I ton. eent him to Austin for train tim*' The controvery raged. The ling end put him on the Job to | Weekend gueataJ •crisis came in 1883, when there catch the wire cutters. Warren I of Mrs. Helen Kirkland were Mr.wasa real boom In the cattle 1 and one of the Odom men were in I and Mrs. Leslie Dean Caperton ievine business. £ I Sweetwater to testify against I and family of Big Spring and Mr.cattlemen who were losing eet- wire cutters when someone, sup- and Mre. Glen McKnlght of Santheir eyes. I poeedly on. of the wire cutter I Angelo. Having Sunday dinner•They had organised cattlemen's ahot through a window of the with them were Mr. and Mre. J.lomeet and discuss hotel end killed Warren. This in-lW. Labenake, Mr. and Mre. Car-and mMtts to cm* with the I formation came to this writer I roll Robbins and Mrs, Vera *n»-222tkT the Mte R. G. Crane «f|mes.
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