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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1930
Page
2
The narrative recounts an 1840s trek along the Leon River and Armstrong's Creek with buffalo sightings, rattlesnake bites, and camp life. The party camps near Palo Pinto, builds a defended camp, and encounters Indians in a mountainous pass as the pursuit begins.
In 1867 ex Confederates drive to Presidio del Norte and learn of Maximilian’s vast treasure aboard a wagon train. At Castle Gap they ambush the convoy killing all, bury the gold, and scatter the fortune across the Texas desert as they flee toward Missouri. One survivor later seeks help from the James boys, ending with a Denton jail and a vanished fortune.
Davis Fay Lowery six and Don William Lowery four, children of Mr and Mrs Al Lowery, were struck and killed crossing a Sherman street during a heavy rain. The boy died instantly, the girl died shortly after. The father, Al Lowery, is city marshal at Gunter and a road overseer there.
Big Springs Texas May 4 C C Chambers a contractor today faced murder charges for the fatal shooting of Ray Jones a farmer yesterday. The quarrel arose over dogs and Jones told the district attorney before dying that the dispute had lasted months. The grand jury was to meet tomorrow to consider the charge Chambers who moved here from Colorado Texas several months ago.
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