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2TTE: FORT WORTIT, TEXAS, THURSIIAT. APRIL 3ANDREW JACKSON POTTERThe Fiffhtinar Parson of the West After Years of Frontier Ministerial LifeIs Now Confined at his Homo sick, and Worn Oat at San Angelo, Tx-—The People of His Own City Remember Him-Sax Angelo, Tex., March IS, 1£»0. To the Gazette.Most every old settler in West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona is familiar with the name of •‘Andrew Jackson Potter,* * the lighting parson of the West. The daring deeds, bair-breadth escapes and personal encounters with savage Indians and desperadoes on the frontier while bearing the glad tidings of the gospel, is often discussed around the camp fires, on street corners and in barrooms in this western country. The old parson was remembered in a substantial way by the various congregations of this city last Thanksgiving day by presenting him with a purse of $40.00 and a load of wood. Mr. Potter’s extraordinarily eventful and romantic life is now more than ever before exciting interest among the peoplelength, reaching almost to tha western border of New Mexico. To-day Mr. Potter is lying at his humble home in this city, a physical wreck, honored and loved bV all who know him.H. H. Parks.REFRIGERATOR COMMITTEE-Arrangements Perfected to ''eke the Columbus and Victoria Plants-Special to the Gazette.Galveston. March 2?.—Tho International cattlemen’s convention, which recently met at Fort Worth, appointed a committee to investigate the subject of the location of slaughter houses at central localities to convert raw material into the marketable product and thereby create a better market for Texas beef. The convention said there was no reasonwhy plants similar to Armour’s andof Texas. Indeed the state is iustivothers should not be located and profitably conducted here in Texas, the very source of a limitless supply. The committee appointed by the convention at Fort Worth, embracing Charles Goodnight of the Panhandle, It. E. Maddox of Fort Worth and I T. Pryor of Austin, after having visited Victoria*. Columbus and the mouth of the Brazos, arrived here today. They were met here by Oen. II. B. Stoddard of Bryan, president of the Texas association. and Messrs. H. M Ehren-worth and Saudmoyer. prominent cattlemen. wldle other members of the committee are P H. Maddox of Fort Worth, T. M. O’Connor of Victoria, J. L. Brush of Denver and A. L, Matlock of the Capital syndicate a; Texlme. The gentlemen have consummated an arrangement by which they become, in connection with the present owners, the proprietors of the extensive •laughter house and refrigerator plants now operated. one at Columbus, the other at Victoria. For the consolidated operation of these two plants a company will be organized with a capital of $1,'000,000,(MMJ of which has already been subscribed. A charter for the new companyv
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Fort Worth Weekly Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 03, 1890
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