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f.:10…* c L Oil f. ft announcing… A/ea/Clew P for Lone Star Beer in Cans LONE STAR REWING COMPANY SAN ANTONIO. TCYAS OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA cessitated the separation of the parties on or about December 12, 1958, and since which time they have not lived together as husband and wife. There were no children born of this union and there was no property of any nature accumulated. All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office, and which reference is here made for all intents and purposes. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, O. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 30th day of April, 1962. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By JOHN DICKSON, Deputy. CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS To Jo Ann Tuttle Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: by commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 18th day of June, 1962, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 116,349, in which David Tuttle is Plaintiff and Jo Ann Tuttle is defendant, filed in said Court on the 15th day of December, 1959, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties: Plaintiff alleges that Defendant was legally married and had never been divorced. Plaintiff says that Defendant’s said previous marriage was wholly unknown to Plaintiff at the time of His, Plaintiff’s marriage to Defendant and that upon learning of the same after said ceremonial marriage, he immediately and within a reasonable time, three days, repudiated said marriage, and ever since has refused to recognize the same as a real and binding marriage, and has lived continuously separate and apart from Defendant. Plaintiff further alleges that Defendant was guilty of acts of cruelty and excesses such as to render the further living together of Plaintiff and Defendant insupportable. There were no children born of this union and there was no property of any nature accumulated. All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office, and which reference is here made for all intents and purposes. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 3rd day of May, 1962. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy. CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Gene Gordon Patterson, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: by commanded to appear before the 126th Disti ict Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county In the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 4th day of June, 1962, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 126,127, in which Barbara Burke Patterson Is Plaintiff and Gene Gordon Patterson is defendant, filed in said Court on the 16th day of April, 1962, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer by the plaintiff and against the defendant for divorCe on the grounds of cruel treatment. Plaintiff alleges that defendant was guilty of excesses, cruel treatment and outrages toward plaintiff of such a nature as to render their further living together insupportable. Plaintiff alleges that there are no children the issue of this marriage and that no community property was acquired during this marriage. Plaintiff prays for such other relief to which plaintiff may be entitled. All as more fully appears from the records of this office. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 16th day of April, 1962. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By 0. T. MARTIN, JR. IN TWO PARTS AUSTIN Just before daybreak on October 4, 1821, James Long, age Z8, with 52 followers, “all afoot and half dead from hunger,” dashed through the lanes of the sleeping village of La Bahia, in Mexican Texas, to the gate of the old Spanish fort, shouting “Republicanos!” and making as much noise as an army of two or three hundred. Startled families fled to the brush. Charles Ramsdell One day earlier, on October 3, Stephen F. Austin, who would be 28 one month later, rode wearily into Natchitoches, in the American state of Louisiana. Exactly three months earlier, he had left that same place for San Antonio, capital of Texas, to discuss with the last Spanish governor of the province the terms of the grant authorized by Spain on January 17, 1821, to his father Moses Austin. Moses had died in June, passing to the young Austin as a legacy the permissiona complete reversal of Spanish policy up to that timeto settle a colony of Americans in Texas. Stephen had been informed by a rider, on August 12, as he camped beside the Guadalupe River on his way to San Antonio, that Mexico was now an independent nation. On his way back to Louisiana he had stopped at La Bahia \(which had declared for the guides who would lead him to the site of La Salle’s fort on the Gulf coast and to the fertile bottomlands of the lower Colorado and Brazos rivers. Even in a drouth and under the glare of an August sun, this country looked rich to him. He resolved to settle his people here. JAMES LONG, when he banged on the door of the captain’s quarters at La Bahia, was unaware, or only dimly aware, of these events and. of others that made the year 1821 the most portentous in the history of Texas. And, of all the events recorded for this portentous year, the farcical invasion by Long’s tatterdemalion crew would seem at first glance to be the least significant. It was an event with no visible consequences, like the tossing of a stone into a stream. It is significant, however, because it is the filibuster reduced to simplest elements without the complications or disguises that attended earlier and later expeditions, into Texas or Mexico, beginning with Philip Nolan’s “horse hunt” in 1801. Banded with Long in this, his second attempt to conquer Texas, was a bizarre assortment of restless men, young and ambitious, aging and desperate, from near and from remote parts of the so-called civilized world all determined to move into this vast, virtually uninhabited land where a man could make a fortune once the strangling hand of Spain was removed. Spain! The name stood for despotism, repression by kings and priests, the power of Rome, the Inquisition the archenemies of Freedom. Texas was, therefore, thank God, fair prey. Long and his men, banging on the captain’s door, had only the vaguest knowledge of the people and the country, much less of the politics, that awaited them, beyond that door, once they should gain admittance. These men, like all other filibusterslike Austin’s peaceful colonists as wellwere blind forces of nature, the spray that foreboded the tidal wave. A BAHIA in 1821 was a pictur esque spot, on a height overlooking the San Antonio River. The belltower of the chapel in the fort could be seen from a distance on any road \(as it still can houses, whitewashed, with flat tops, stood about the square wall of the fort; but most of the height was built up with grass-roofed huts made of poles plastered over and whitewashed. There were peachtrees and figbushes, but the small gardens of corn, squash, and melons had dried up in the long drouth. The plight of La Bahia summed up the plight of Texas. The only ways to make a living were in cattle or soldiering. But the Comanches had been on the warpath since 1814, and it was impossible to round up cattle. The revolution against Spain, breaking out sporadically since 1810, had cut the lines of communication between the frontier and centers of government, and emptied the treasuries, and the soldiers at La Bahia had received no regular pay for more than six years. Even when they got money there was nothing to buy with it. They lived on roasting-ears and green wild fruit. In the month of September, 1821, they were reduced to eating hackberries. Few of the villagers were lucky enough to have even tortillas. A group of w omen and children driven by hunger strayed from the settlement, searching for grapes or anything edible along the riverbanks, were murdered or carried off by a band of Comanches. One little girl was found dying, “a victim of their brutality.” No wonder, then, the best fields, at some distance from the town, were left untilled. While Captain Francisco Garcia, commanding the garrison at La Bahia, had received strict orders to keep a detachment of men always on the coast, at a spot known fitly as “Los Mosquitos,” he had received no provisions with which to sustain a detachment, nor even the necessary horses. Ever since August of 1820, when Long had begun to set up some sort of base on Galveston Bay about the time the pirate Jean Lafitte sailed away from those shores and out of history an attack on La Bahia had been expected. On the morning of October 4, 1821, three soldiers and a corporal were on guard in the fort. But the gate was open, and the corporal, who had forgotten to have it locked, was asleep. A banging on the captain’s door woke him up. He found himself alone, except for a musket that one of his men had left behind. Should he warn the captain? But why? The bang LEGALS CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Charlene Walthor James, defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 18th day of June, 1962, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 118,361, in which Charles Edward James, Jr. is Plaintiff and Charlene Walthor James is Defendant, filed in said Court on the 22nd day of June, 1960, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment In favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties: Plaintiff alleges that Defendant has been guilty of excesses and cruel treatment toward the Plaintiff, which treatment has been of such a nature as to render their further living together insupportable, and such treatment has ne ing on the door would amply warn him. One of the men, Reinaldo Perez, who had been sleeping out in the street, ran to the guardroom and seized two muskets with the intention of firing on the invaders. But, by then, the invaders were already inside the gate. He waited till the last one was in and slipped out. But his hat! He had left his good hat. He started back after it, changed his mind, made for home. The sentinel Juan Ramon, posted inside the gate, was alert when the attack came. But his musket was not loaded; he could not fire; he thought he had better not give the “quien vive.” But he shouted a warning, as he ran, to the corporal. Could he help it if the corporal was asleep and failed to hear? When Captain Garcia, roused from sleep by the banging, opened the door, Long grabbed him by the right arm and demanded the keys to the munition room. Garcia handed them over. Lieutenant Aldrete was seized as he came out of his quarters next door. The invaders then opened the jail doors and freed the prisoners and mounted the three cannon in the fort, placing them in the bastions. MEANWHILE, out in the village, the citizen Juan Jose Hernandez, learning what the cause of the commotion was, ran out of his house, half-naked, and, without stopping to supply himself with food, leaped onto the first horse he could find and rode the 100 miles to San Antonio and reported these things to the governor. The Alcalde of La Bahia decided that his presence was required on the outskirts of town: It was his duty to keep the fugitives from scattering; otherwise they might become victims of the Comanches, who, he had noticed, were hovering very near just now. Before departing for the brush, however, he instructed the Second Alcalde, Tomas Buentello, to carry on in his place. Buentello went immediately to interview Long, who was preparing to celebrate his glorious victory by firing a salvo. Long took the “Little Alcalde,” as the men called him, cordially by the hand, asked him to persuade the inhabitants who had skedaddled to return. He had no intention of hurting anyone. Two of Long’s artillerymen fired a cannon, while the flag they had brought with them, white with blue stripes, was raised. The second time the cannon was fired, the face of one gunner was burned. The other fell over senseless, and the pistol in his belt went off and shot him in the leg. Long, much shaken, had the men treated. Then he held a conference in the captain’s quarters. He was astonished to learn, from those local bigwigs who had not yet made for the brush, that La Bahia had taken the oath of Independence in July. Long wrote a letter to be delivered to the governor at San Antonio: “I came to this Fortress for the purpose of establishing friendly communications between it and San Antonio, which I chanced to learn had declared for Independence, and with the hope of giving