San Saba

But the lease that I hunted at was in the middle of Central Texas.

It was in San Saba-

Yeah

... on a f- we had 5,000 acres.

I was beginning to get a taste of the frontier life early in the game.

For years, cattle had drifted south into Maynard and Kimball counties, and Joe Franks was one of the first of the Coleman County outfits to go south into the San Saba and Llano country.

He worked the big and little saline creeks and Llano and San Saba rivers and found many of his cattle down there.

By the last of November, he had about finished work for the year, and gathering 300 fat cows to drive to Calvert, Texas, he left John Bannister down on the big saline to winter the horses.

I passed through Lampasas with these cows and saw my mother and sisters for the first time in nine months.

Mr. Franks settled with me, and I started for home the next day.

Upon reaching Lampasas, I began to work with Barrett and Nichols outfit.

They were the biggest cattle owners in that county and ran three large outfits, one in Llano County, one in San Saba County, and another in Lampasas.

Uh, really happy with how that went.

And, uh, now shifting focus to the sale at Jordan Cattle Auction in San Saba, Texas on October 29th, and getting geared up for November 13th at Arcadia Livestock.

Um, Arcadia has been a longstanding sale, uh, always excited to go back to Florida with a, with a good set of smart bulls.

Uh, so today, uh, wanted to jump in and visit with a guy that, uh, you guys have met before.

The corporal, who was a nephew of Governor Coke and a well-educated man, helped General Jones as a clerk in his office, but was in charge of the squad on the Capitol grounds, slept in camp, and had his meals with them.

when general jones received murphy's letter he was astonished at bass's audacity in approaching within fifteen to twenty miles of the state capital the very headquarters of the frontier battalion to rob a bank the letter was written at belton texas and received at the adjutant general's office on the last mail in the afternoon the company of rangers nearest round rock was lieutenant reynolds company e stationed at san saba one hundred and fifteen miles distant there was no telegraph to san saba then general jones reflected a few minutes after receipt of the letter and then arranged his plan rapidly He turned to Corporal Wilson and told him that Sam Bass and his gang were, or soon would be, at Round Rock to rob the bank there.

I want you to leave at once to carry an order to Lieutenant Reynolds.

It is 65 miles to Lampasas, and you can make that place early enough in the morning to catch the Lampasas and san saba stage you must make that stage at all hazards save neither yourself nor your horse but get these orders to lieutenant reynolds as quickly as possible he ordered corporal wilson hurried to the livery stable saddled his horse and got away from austin on his wild ride just at nightfall his horse was fresh and fat and in no condition to make such a run however wilson reached land passes at daylight next morning and made the outgoing stage to san saba but killed his gallant little gray horse in doing it from land passes to san saba was fifty miles and it took the stage which was a small two horse outfit all day to make the trip as soon as he landed in town wilson hired a horse and galloped three miles down to lieutenant reynolds camp and delivered his orders after dispatching corporal wilson to lieutenant reynolds general jones hurried over to the ranger camp on the capital grounds and ordered the three rangers ware connor and harold to proceed to round rock put their horses in high smith's livery stable and keep themselves concealed until he himself could reach them by train next morning The following morning, General Jones went to Round Rock, accompanied by Morris Moore, an ex-ranger, now serving as deputy sheriff of Travis County.

On reaching his destination, the general called on deputy sheriff Grimes of Williamson County and told him Bass was expected in town to rob the bank and that a scout of rangers would be in town as soon as possible.

Jones advised Grimes to keep to keep a sharp lookout for the strangers, but on no account attempt to arrest until the rangers could arrive.

Remorse, no doubt, caused him to end his life.

Of the four men who fought the Round Rock battle with Sam Bass and his gang, all are dead.

And we'll show you guys some fun stuff to go with that sale here later.

And then October 29th at Jordan Cattle Auction in San Saba, Texas.

And then Arcadia, Florida at Arcadia Stockyards on November 13th.

Those are all the Big events coming up for Jorgensen Land and Cattle.

The First Baptist Church of Cherokee, Texas.

You say, where in the world is Cherokee church? Well, it's right between Llano, Texas and San Saba, Texas.

You know where that is? Look it up.

But see, I was a college student.

I had a lot of vision, but but I'm sure those people probably rolled their eyes at times, but I wasn't mature enough to see it happen.

But they were gracious to me, and they loved us, and we served them faithfully.

You know, just over a year ago, I was invited to come to San Saba First Baptist Church in Texas to preach.

And I did a prayer conference there with their young pastor, Alan Arthur.

They were in such a pitiful plight that I was thankful that I was able to aid them, and that $1.25 that I gave for their dinner did me more good and furnished me more happiness than any other sum of money I ever spent.

Chapter 13 The Murder of Hartman I was ordered by the governor in 1890 to go to San Saba, as district court was to convene there and the presence of Texas Rangers in that town was greatly needed, for the people of that district were divided into two opposing factions, and the bitterness that existed between them had become intense.

Since 1880, San Saba had been the center of a disturbance caused by the organization of a mob whose operations extended into several other counties in that district.

In other words, a number of people had banded together to protect themselves against the depredations of cattle thieves and other criminals who were numerous in that part of the state.

A number of people lived in that district who had no regard for law and order and stole so many cattle, horses, and hogs that the people became harassed and decided to take the law into their own hands and punish the guilty parties as they saw fit, and for this reason the club, afterward referred to as the mob, was organized.

Many good people also lined up against it, as they did not believe in mob spirit and thought the law should be allowed to take its course.

Thus a strong organization called the anti-mob grew into activity and bitterly opposed the other faction.

The mob faction, however, was the stronger of the two sides in numbers and influence, and in San Saba County, their greatest stronghold, they elected one of their men sheriff.