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nn.ntr-o-n-istercetiesP-colyntnoen*1-heun►fain*helaliUltoib--?nt?ntlthlathemeies.\1-St,in-redHard-Boiled RangersBLCidLoveTilts,TooOld-Time Peace Officers Meet; VeteranPatTells Of Romance With ‘Texas Rose’AL■Maui| ,...SANTA ANA. Tex. lt;-r♦The hard-booted Texas Ran-of oilger of trontier days, in sa^a and sonjr. cold-eyed, straightshooting officer who inspired terror in the hearts of miscreants, had his moments of moon-eyed love, too.R. G. Kimbell, 8^-vear-old former Ranger attending theannual reunion here of the fabled guardians of the peace.recited this week how hehad served a threeyearstretch with the forceexterminationinbattleswith Indians, cattle thieves.train robbers and murderers—all because of a pinkcheeked girlas “Texas Rosehe refers toMeeting here with ten others of the fast-fading group of old-timers. Kimbell. a corporal in Company Dof the frontier battalion, told hisstory.Wanderlust and the prospects ofadventures in the new Texas carried him from his native Tennessee to the Lone Star state in 1870.He drifted to Fort Parker in Limestone county, famous in history' of the west for the capture by the Indians of Cynthia Ann Parker.honorable cheharge and married tho girl from Fort Parker who had waited.Scorns OklahomaThey settled in Texas. Kimbell said Oklahoma had tried for several years to induce ex-Rangers to live in that state. He said he refused because he had sworn allegiance to Texas.“One morning I discovered the state line had been moved and I was a resident of Oklahoma, he said.Kimbell said that when he dies he wants to be taken to Grose beck. Tex , the scene of some early romantic adventures. within two miles of Fort Parker, which to him is * My Texas Home.wereMagrson,SatuiThlt;ed orthe (out gunfoiis ea Alin Pasawnthe iwere nipp enou wart of c valvAmgthepipeKffoiby tl Thof 6.Mffte Texas RoseAsks Police GuardtwowenHe met a girl—one who brought to mind the popular song he -had heard back in Tennessee—“The yellow^ rose of Texas beats the belleof Tennessee—and told his love to her.She loved him but the romance of the Rangers stirred her. Would hejoin the law enforcing brigade? Then she w ould accept his suit.September 10. 1878, he was sworn into the service at Austin. His firstmild-For Neighbor ScrapingtheTULSA (U.W — An unidentified woman called police headquarters and asked Capt. Goerge Reif to “send some policemen out hereright a wavingwhctrapor-ettduty was mild—guarding the treasury vault at the capitol.Ere long, however, he was transferred to Kimble county, alive withoutlaws.In service later at Fort McKavitt, Kimbell and several others wereof I Indiansmiles“What for'*'’ Reif inquired.Well, the woman said. “Mrs So-and-So next door has been talking about me. and tl neighbors and I are going over and break her window's out. We want the police there so if she should attempt to hurt us they can stipp her.Reif explained the police would be glad to stop her instead. He demanded her address.Ass.istsursSatobe I *ddispatched m pursuit who had stolen horses. Many froru their base, an open gun battle ensued. Casualties were numerous on each side until cow punchers came to the rescue of the officers.At the end of his three year term of service. Kimbell received hisMINISTER RETURNSEDINBURG — The Rev. Dallas Lee of the Edinburg Baptist church has returned from Yoakum where he conducted an extended revival.wertioninumlt;merRissufrorRev. Lee will leave again soonappbileAhis former home in Scottsboro. Alabama, to conduct a ten day revival . in the BaDtist church in that city. !ire.tog;sen
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Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Sun, Aug 08, 1937
Page 8
Full Page
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Randy F.
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