The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 18, 1911, Page 3, Image 3
WAS LAW WEST OF THE PECOS.
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Unique Character Everything from
Saloon Keeper to Judge.
If old Judge Roy Bean should
come back to Langtry in the flesh he
"would not know the clean, modren
little city as the same town in which
he gave vent to the eccentricities
that won him wide renown and
placed Langtry on the map.
Much that was pure fiction has i
been written of Judge Roy Bean,.;
but when all this has been sifted i
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out enougn remains to stamp tne
judge as one of the most picturesque
characters the great southwest has
ever produced.
Roy Bean was a Kentuckian.
When he was about 15 years of age
he embarked on a Mississippi river
steamboat for New Orleans, but becoming
involved in a fight on the
boat he decided to go to Texas, at
that time a wild, free land. So he
went to San Antonio and conducted
a dairy for some time. When the
gold rush of 1849 and 1850 was attracting
the venturesome to Oalifor
ma Bean went with a party from
Texas.
N While in California Bean fell in
with a Mexican who was preparing
to elope with a girl. Bean decided
that this elopement was not of the
girl's wish, so he stole her himself.
After keeping her several days Bean
returned her to her family, but for
his trouble became involved in a
quarrel with a Mexican army officer
and finally challenged him to
fight a duel. The officer accepted
the challenge, and, as the challenged
party named lances as the weapons,
Bean, who knew nothing of lances,
refused to fight, whereupon they decided
on pistols. This was Bean's
weapon, as he showed by killing his
man.
The Mexican authorities seized
Bean for killing the man and sentenced
him to be hanged, and to this
day insist that they hanged him.
Friends are said to have cut him
down and revived him, hiding him
until he was able to travel, when he
returned to Texas.
The truth as to this hanging cannot
be vouched for, as the judge
would never talk about it. Certain
it is that thprp was a livid soar
around his neck and he carried his
head in a peculiar manner as a result
of a permanently stiff neck.
During the civil war he was a
Confederate blockade ruimer. At
the close of the war he began carrying
freight by wagon from San Antonio
to Ft. Stockton. With the beginning
pf construction of the G. H.
and S. A. railway west from San Antonio,
Bean fitted up a tent saloon
and moved with- the construction
camps. When the Pecos river was
reached a permanent camp was es4m
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utuiiaiicu ao buc rnvuiu ui uic i cuvo,
?' where it empties into the Rio
. Grande. This town became the
Vinaegaron of border history. Vinaegaron
is the Mexican name of a
venomous insect. /
It was at Vinaegaron that Bean
acquired the title of judge, he being
appointed justice of the peace.
Here it was that he handed down his
? famous
decision affecting the Chinese.
An American had shot and killed
a Chinaman. He was hailed beIfore
the judge for trial and the
courtroom was crowded with his
friends, for he was popular. The
judge after attending to the preliminaries
announced: "Gents, I
have looked carefully through my
Blackstone, and through the statutes
of the State of Texas, and I find no
law against killing a Chinaman. The
defendant is therefore acquitted."
Another case that brought the
judge a great deal of notoriety was
this: "A man with too much liquor
aboard fell from a bridge and was
killed. The judge, as coroner, viewed
and searched the body and found
a 'six-shooter' and about $40 in
money. As coroner he found that
jL ' the man came to his death by falling
from the bridge. As judge he announced:
'I find this man is carrying
a concealed weapon against the
/ statutes in such cases provided and
against the peace and dignity of the
State of Texas, and I therefore fine
him $25 and costs.' Needless to say
!the fine and costs 'killed' that $40."
"Uncle" Dick Freeman, now a merchant
at Juno, Texas, was the deputy
and received the six-shooter as his
fee.
He next moved his saloon and
court to what is now Langtry, Texas.
Here he established his "Jersey Lily"
saloon and constituted himself "Law
West of the Pecos," and at that time
his was the only law between the
Pecos and El Paso.
An amusing case, showing Judge
Bean's willingness to do what's right,
as well as reap what he considered
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HIS JllSt (iut/b) ^ ci in c Qiuv/uu iu
wise: Two Mexican couples came to
him to he married. The following is
B|p the judge's ceremony for the first
couple:
"Gregorio, you want to marry this
Kg woman?"
"Si, senor."
"Juanita, you want to marry Gre'?
GAVE HUSBAND ROUGH ON RATS?
Reported Confession of Negro Woman
Charged with Murder.
Bennettsville. May 10. ? Sudie
John, the negro woman who has been
in jail for several weeks, charged
with the murder of her husband by
poisoning him. is said to have made a
confession in which she admits having
given her. husband a dose of
'rough on rats." It will be remembered
that her husband, Eph John,
was taken ill after eating his dinner,
which she had prepared, and
which he had taken with him to work
that day.
Dr. Crosland, at the time suspect
ed "rough on rats" in the food. Eph's
stomach was sent to a chemist and
the result of the examination was
made known a few days ago. Finding
that poison had been so discovered,
the woman, it is alleged, made a
confession. The coroner's jury,
which had adjourned pending a report
of the chemist, reconvened to- j
day and returned a verdict in accord
ance with the foregoing.
Lieutenant Killed by Aeroplane.
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San Antonio, May 10.?A bolt hole, I
an eighth of an inch in diameter, j
bored where it should not have been
in the prong of the "seat fork" of
the army's Curtis aeroplane, caused
the death of Lieut. George E. M.
Kelley, Thirtieth infantry, at 7:30
this morning upon the aviation field
at the manoeuvre camp. Such is the
verdict of a board of officers of the
aero company which investigated the
accident.
The board finds the accident was i
unavoidable, due probably to structural
weakness of the aeroplane.
Lieut. Kelley had made a perfect
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shock of the contact with the ground
broke the "finger" at the misplaced
bolt hole and twisted the machine.
One of the supporting wires caught
on the engine and threw it wide open
at a speed of 75 miles an hour. The
aeroplane shot forward and headed I
directly for the tents of the Eleventh
infantry. Lieut. Kelley saw the
danger to the occupants of the tents,
and sought to turn the machine. One
of the planes struck an embankment
and toppled the aeroplane over.
Lieut. Kelley was thrown 20 feet
from the wreck and landed on his
head. His neck was broken and his
skull fractured.
gorio?"
"Si, senor."
" ? " ? I?l-A !- i - i.1
"Ail rigm,, acwrumg lu luc pu?ci
in me vested by the State of Texas,
I pronounce you man and wife. Five
dollars apiece, please."
So they were married. But a few
days later the same two couples came
back and anounced that they were
convinced they had made a mistake
as each man desired the other's wife,
and they wanted the judge to fix
them up. He could for $10. This
they were able to produce. So after
asking the women if the exchange
was agreeable to them, he said:
"Very well, you are divorced."
Then followed a repetition of the
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the judge's usual fee in such cases.
Some of the signs the judge had
posted on his buildings were unique.
These were so posted as to catch the
eye of passengers on the trains. As
all trains stopped at Langtry for water,
it allowed time for a brief visit
to Bean's, and many a thirsty pilgrim
has quenched his thirst in the old
"Jersey Lily." For even though
court was in session in the barroom
it would always postpone action until
a customer was waited on.
One sign read: "Judge Roy Bean
Notary Public," another "Justice of
the Peace, Law West of the Pecos;"
another "The Jersey Lily Saloon, Billiard
Hall, Ice Cold Beer." The judge,
when a customer complained that
the beer had evidently not been on
the ice, remarked, "Whoever heard
tell of ice in the summer time." On
another building was this: "Roy
Bean's Opera House, Town Hall and
Seat of Justice," and below it, "Judge
Roy Bean, Justice of the Peace, No
tary Public, Marries Couples, etc.
The judge died in bed, attended by
one or two friends and several pets
?an eagle, mountain lion and bear
?March, 1902 aged 71 years.
A few years after Judge Bean's
death Lillian Langtry passed through
the town on one of her farewell
tours. The train was held to allow
her to visit the judge's place. She
evinced much interest, and took a
few poker chips and cards as mementos,
as well as an old six-shooter
that had belonged to Judge Bean.
Before leaving she presented the
Langtry school with $50, to be used
to repair the building.
Langtry now boasts a modern
school building, good homes with
flower gardens, a tennis club and a
mothers' club, and above all lawr and
order, so that the judge would not
recognize his old town were he to
return, except for his old building,
which still stands and still bears
some of the old signs.?Langtry,
Texas, special to New York Sun.
EHRHARDT FORGING AHEAD.
1 Improvement on Every Hand Attest
Progress of Town.
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Ehrhardt. May 11.?In the year
i of 1S97 the Green Pond and Ehrhardt
Railroad was completed, giving
to Ehrhardt the first and only railj
way service ever inaugurated in this
territory, the village then being composed
of one store and five dwellings.
Being at the end of the line, the
railroad facilities extended to Ehrhardt
were by no means all that
could be desired, but in spite of this,
and notwithstanding the fact that the
place was "bottled up," great strides
have been made along all lines.
The town presents to-day a far different
appearance to what it did in
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years past. At present, ue&iu^o ?
great number of stores, there are two
banks, both doing a good business,
,and other signs of prosperity. The
greater portion of the sidewalks on
the main street is covered with cement
pavement, and the streets are
in good condition. Besides the
dwellings there are three churches,
Methodist, Baptist and Lutheran.
There are a number of dwellings
nowr under construction, all of which
will be modern and substantial structures.
Dr. J. H. Roberts, one of the oldest
inhabitants of Ehrhardt, has
about completed his ten-room house,
Mr. H. A. Hughes has recently moved
into his new residence, Mrs. P. P.
Pate will soon have finished an attractive
dwelling and the Lutheran
parsonage is fast nearing completion.
This parsonage will be as commodious
and attractive as many found
| in cities. Artesian water is used almost
'exclusively, many of the stores
and dwellings are fitted up with acetylene
gas, and a few of the houses
have sewerage connections.
Ehrhardt is in a healthy locality
and is backed by a set of live and
thrifty farmers, whose lands are fertile
and rich, and whose abundant
crops are the result of intelligent
farming. . A very large amount of
cotton is marketed here, and the
prices are invariably the top of the
market.
A tolonVinno pnmnanv has re
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cently been organized and the material
is now on hand for the construction
of the exchange and the
placing of the wires in the town and
country. This company will have
connection with the Bell Telephone
system. . *
Mr. Charley Ehrhardt has about
completed a fine automobile and gen
eral repair shop.
Regardless of apparent handicaps,
and with only the thought of making
the village a town and the town a
city, the people of Ehrhardt have
pulled, and pulled together and have
labored incessantly and have succeeded
tar beyond the expectations of
the most hopeful, and with the prospects
of having a railroad built to
Denmark, thereby giving Ehrhardt
the benefit of excellent railway connections,
everything looks bright, indeed.
This line is very badly heeded, as
there is but one outlet by rail and
the people of Ehrhardt can be depended
upon to assist in any movement
that is for the advancement of
this rapidly growing town.
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for any case of .catarrh that cannot
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We, the undersigned, have known
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and believe him perfectly honorable
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made by his firm.
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Take Hall's Family Pills for con-j
stipation.
May Cut Rates.
Washington, May 10.?The inter- j
state commerce commission to-day
made an important order in the case
of the Atlantic Coast Line and its
connections, in which they asked to
be permitted to maintain lower class
I rates from New York city to Charles!
ton than are maintained to intermediate
points. The petition was granted.
Hearings on the application were
had here on April 11 and 14. The
commission in making its ruling today,
says: "Class rates were made
in competition with water carriers,
who are at the point securing a very
large percentage of the traffic between
two points named."
The commission does not at this
time express any opinion in relation
to intermediate points.
"It is ordered that the applications
in so far as they relate to the class
rates between New York or points
taking New York rates to Charleston
and the maintaining of higher class
rates at intermediate points be granted.
The commission does not approve
any rate that may be established
under authority of the order, all
such rates being subject to complaint
and modification."
PRISONERS SENT TO COLUMBIA.
Florence Sheriff Obeys Orders of
Coverijor Blease.
Florence, May 10.?Alex Weldon
and William Burroughs, the two negroes
who have been in jail here for
several weeks awaiting the action of
the supreme court, they having
through their attorney, W. F. Clayton
ntnrln on cinnoal woro orrlfiru
of Gov. Blease, carried to Columbia,
and are now safely within the wa'.ls
of the State penitentiary. Sheriff
Burch sent the men over by his deputy,
E. C. Harrell, who,"by the way,
is a brother-in-law of the late Elihu
Move, the man whom Weldon and
Burroughs were convicted of murdering.
That alone would seem to show
to Gov. Blease that he was in error
as to threats of violence to the prisoners,
when the sheriff could afford
to trust them in the hands of one
who might be the only one who would
desire to seek vengeance on these
men, and he certainly did not have
any such desire.
Starts Much Trouble.
If all people knew that neglect of
constipation would result in severe
indigestion, yellow jaundice or virulent
liver trouble they would soon
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W. L. Mock, of Mock, Ark., believes
he has saved max^y lives in his
25 years of experience in the drug
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CIGAR MAKERS' STRIKE ENDS.
Tampa Unionists Return to Benches
, at the Factories.
Tampa, May 12.?The strike of
cigar makers, called on Wednesday
as a protest against upholding of the
jail sentences of union leaders convicted
of conspiring to prevent men
working, ended this morning. About
5,000 workers returned to their
benches. >
A movement was started to petition
the State pardon board to free
Jose De La Campa, Britt Russell and
J. F. Bartlum, the convicted men.
The strikers were assured that the
leaders would not be sent to jail
within 30 days, thus giving them an
opportunity of further appealing
their case.
DEMOCRATS IsTAND FIRM.
And Pass the Bill fop tfie Farmers
Free List by Solid Majority. .
Washington, May 8.?Nine hours
of continuous hounding at the hands
of the Republican minority of the
house of representatives failed to
make a single change in the first
Democratic tariff bill, that placing on
the free list agricultural implements,
meats and many other articles. The
bill passed the house to-night by a
vote of 236 to 109, the Democrats
voting solidly and mustering 24 Republicans
with them. This came after
the Democrats had voted down
or ruled out of order more than 100
amendments and had demonstrated
again that the Democratic majority
was a compact and smoothly working
machine for the enactment of legislation.
James R. Mann, minority
leader, threw amendment after
amendment into the debate, ranging
all the way from free rice to free
onil ninr IrATl Kllf fTinoO thflt
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were not ruled out of order were
cheerfully voted down by an almost
solid Democratic vote.
An attempt by Mr. Mann to recommit
the bill to the committee on ways
and means was tabled by the house.
HIS TWENTY-FIFTH CHILD.
One Wife Gave Him Sixteen and His
Second Wife Nine.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 9.?Mrs.
! Nathan Valone, of Pittston, to-day
presented to her husband his twentyfifth
child, a fine girl weighing 15
pounds. Of the twenty-five twentytwo
are alive and well and several of
them are married. Valone is going
to let Col. Roosevelt, of whom he is
a great admirer, know about his
great good fortune. I
"I think he will be proud of me," ;
commented Valone.
Valone was naturalized in 1884, ;
and the same year was married. His
first wife presented him with sixteen
children, twelve boys and four
girls, and all but two of them grew ]
up. Ten years ago he married again, ;
and his second wife has given him i
nine children.
Valone has prospered notwith- (
standing his large family, for he now 1
owns a grocery store, shoe store, 1
fruit store, his own home and several J
other houses.
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Bamberg People Must Recognize and
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Kidney ills come quietly?mysteriously,
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Notice the kidney secretions.
See if the color is unhealthy?
If there are settlings and sediment,
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College Scholarship and'
Entrance Examination.
The examination for the award of
vacant scholarships in Winthrop College
and for the admission of new
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uourt House on rriaay, <, a
a. m. Applicants must be not less
than fifteen years of age. When
scholarships are vacant after July 7t
they will be awarded to those making
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provided they meet the conditions
governing the award. Applicants
for scholarships should write
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blanks.
Scholarships are worth $100 and
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information and catalogue, address
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