What happened today in Texas history? December 3 Submitted by Stephanie Frazier, KLTV Community Web Producer Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 Topics: Arts & Culture, News PHOTO #1: Joseph Graves Olney On this day in 1884, an outlaw cattleman finally met his match...but it wasnt death by bullet. Joseph Graves Olney was born in Burleson County in 1849. He married Agnes Jane Arnold in 1870; they eventually had five children. Olney first became embroiled in a cattle dispute and shot a Llano County man in 1874. The next year he killed a man named Moses Baird and became part of the Central Texas Hill Countrys notorious Mason County War. After killing a deputy in a gunfight, Olney fled to New Mexico. He started a ranch there and used the alias of Joe Hill. He had to flee to Arizona in 1879 to avoid arrest for the shooting of the deputy, as authorities were catching up with him. Then, accused of being involved in cattle rustling and stage robberies in the early 1880s, he put himself on Wyatt Earps(PHOTO #2) radar, who unsuccessfully tried to pin those crimes on him. There was not enough evidence to indicate Olney was truly guilty. After all of that, Olney didnt die from being shot, as you might have predicted. He died when his horse fell on him while he was working on his Bowie ranch. On this day in 1885, the Dallas Morning News bought out its major competitor, the Dallas Herald. According to TSHAonline.org, the Herald was founded in 1849 by James W. Latimer and William Wallace, who purchased the Paris, Texas, Times and moved it to Dallas. The Herald remained a weekly paper until 1874, when it began publishing an edition every morning except Monday. The Morning News grew out of the Galveston News, established in 1842 by Samuel Bangs. By 1879 Alfred H. Belo, who had acquired control of the business, was investigating the possibility of establishing a sister paper in rapidly developing North Texas. When Belos efforts to purchase the Herald failed, he sent George Bannerman Dealey to launch a new paper, the Morning News, which began publication on October 1, 1885. From the outset the Morning News enjoyed the double advantage of strong financial support and an accumulation of journalistic experience, and within a month and a half had absorbed its older rival. On this day in 1924, the Anton Townsite Company sponsored a Grand Opening Jubilee despite a blinding sandstorm and succeeded in selling more than 200 lots in the new town of Anton, Texas. Like many other Texas towns and cities, Anton, in Hockley County about twenty-five miles northwest of Lubbock, traces its origin to the arrival of the railroad, which fixed Texas urban development in a spatial pattern that remains little altered today. PHOTO #3: Todays Texas music: T for Texas by Waylon Jennings (See video, above) Todays Texas quote: Texas is still a last frontier. It is the part of the United States where the traditional virtues are still operating. In short, a piece of living history. - Author John C. B. Richmond
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