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The Dallas Morning News - May 24 1895
Sent by Bunny Freeman CC of Henderson County, Texas THREE HUNDRED HEAD DEAD Big Springs, Howard Co., Texas, April 29 --
Mr. W. B. Miller, in charge of a herd of cattle of the W. U. B. company,
was driving them from Kimble county to White Lake ranch, in Baylor county,
and being hot and thirsty, they rushed into a lake of salt water a few miles
west of here to drink. About 300 head have died today and further loss
is feared.
The Dallas Morning News - Oct 12 1895
OLD SUBSCRIBERS OF THE NEWS
Mr. Jasper N. Mabray Has Read The News Ever Since It Started.
Brady, Tex., Aug 28. -- To the News: I see a request in the Simi-Weekly News to the old patrons of the The Galveston News. I was in Galveston when the first copy of The Galveston News was published. I became a subscriber then and continued a subscriber until October. 1892, when I changed my subscription from the Galveston to The Dallas News. I had no fault to find with the old News, but the locals about Dallas interested me more and both are run by the same company and brains. 
MR. JASPER N. MABRAY I was born in Alabama in 1800, came to Texas
in 1839 from Mississippi; served as a Texas ranger
during the republic, the last year under Captain S. P. Ross (ex-Governor
Suys father); went through the Mexican war; was at the storning of Monterey
in 1846; went to California in 1849; was badly wounded on the trip in Arizona
in a fight with Apache Indians; returned to Texas; was married and settled
in the territory of Bosque county in 1851. There was only one family
living in the county when we moved there. Eweil Everett. The
first white child born in Bosque was mine. She married T. J. Randal;
is now a widow with a large family and lives in Meridian, Bosque county.
I was personally acquainted with all the presidents of the republic
of Texas. I was well acquainted with and have voted for all the governors
of Texas except E. J. Davis, Hogg and the present incumbent. I am drawing
a pension of $12 a month as a crippled survivor of the Mexican war.
I am 73 years old; live in McCulloch county, Tex. Brady postoffice.
J. N. MABRAY
OLD SUBCRIBERS OF THE NEWS MR. F. L. Bannowsky a Reader of The News More Than Forty Years. London, Kimble Co., Tex., Sept. 17.
To The News: In answer to the request of The News for all who have
been readers or subscribers for forty years or longer, I am one who claims
this honor.
I had a number of copies of the The News in the early, 50s, printed on brown wraper paper. In 1853 I moved first to Georgetown, Williamson county, from there to Burnet county, then on the extreme frontier. I engaged there chiefly in the raising of cattle and horses, the horses I had frequently to divide with poor Lo and he was not always an honest divider, taking often all or nearly all. In 1882 I left Burnet county for Kimble county to get elbow room, you know; and so I am here hale and hearty in my 75 year eager for the next copy of the News a full wool dyed democrat without a collar.
F. L. BANNOWSKY
F. L. Bannowsky was born in upper Silesla February
8, 1821 and by education was intended for the army, but preferred to learn
the trade of cabinet maker, which business he followed from April 1835 to
October 1842, when he was drafted in the Prussian army. After serving
two years he was discharged a corporal and in 1845 was made lieutenant in
the landwehr. Having acted during the carze year 1849
F. L. BANNOWSKY on the wrong side, he sought the climate
of Texas, the more healthy. Mr. Bannowky writes as follows: "I left
German in the fall of 1849, leaving my present wife, whom I had married in
April 1846, and two children, one a babe in arms. My wife arrived
in Texas in December 1850. I found work as a house joiner under Jacob
Shannon, a then old settler and planter of Montgomery county. He was
also postmaster at Sannon's postoffice and there I learned to speak English
and also learned to read. My spelling book and reader was The Galveston
News, which paper I have been reading with few short interruptions until
the present. In 1851 I moved to Matagorda and after a short residence
there moved to Wharton, where I became a regular subscriber to The News.
After nearly a year's residence I removed on the East Bernard and later
on on the Brazos river, below San Felipe. My health failing I moved
in the late fall, 1853, first to Georgetown, Williamson county, and in the
spring of 1854 into Burnet county, then the extreme frontier, engaging in
the raising of cattle and fine horses which business I am engaged yet. In
1891 getting crowded for range in Burnet county I took one more move to grass
and settled at my present home. I have raised a family of two daughters
and three boys of my own and one orphan boy, who at the age of 25 years is
still living with me. My own children are all married and have sixteen
grandchildren and one great granddaughter 3 years old. My boys are
all like myself pure democrats, but none of us wear a collar. Never
bosted office, but in Burnet county was made justice of peace and served
eight years, two terms before the war and three years during the war and
was one of Jack Hamilton's appointees. I am now in my 75th year, still
hale and love Texas and The News.
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