Menard County Texas

Mexican Research

Galveston Daily News
Galveston Texas
November 18, 1885

Letter From Menardville
(To The News)
Menardville, Tex, November 12, 1885-"The boys" at Fort McKavett county, fired into and assaulted the inmates of a Mexican house there last night.

Ft. McKavett Breeze, August 3rd 1889:

(page 3) There was about town, and possibly is still, a Mexican who has been making good use of his time playing the accordion, got on the war path last Tuesday and, with blood in his eye, started out to hunt a fight. He did not have to go far until he was thoroughly convinced that he was not a John Sullivan, or in any way related to him. It is reported that afterward he went into the store of F. Mayer, where he used some very abusive and obscene language, and not until he was forced to go did he leave. Give us a Calaboose for all such.

The Menard Messenger
Vol. 10 No. 25
Thursday, April 19, 1917

ARRESTS
Last Thursday, Sheriff Slaughter went to Ft. McKavett after a Mexican, Mack Salazar by name, who had a six shooter on his person. Monday, the sheriff arrested another Mexican who was charged with having stolen a gun. The same afternoon he went to the Perry McConnell ranch and returned with two more who were being charged with fighting, bootlegging and several other minor infractions of the laws of the country.

The Menard Messenger
Vol. 10 No. 28
Thursday, May 17, 1917

(page 10)

MEXICAN MERCHANT ELECTROCUTED
Last Saturday night Santiago Morales who conducted a small grocery and market in the suburb of Chihuahua, west of Del Rio, was electrocuted by a live wire. It appears that earlier in the day he noticed the ceiling of his store was catching fire from an electric wire and he got a ladder, cut the wire and put out the sparks, letting the wire hang. When he went to get some apples from under the counter his head came in contact with this wire, killing him instantly. He was well known and was a very large man, weighing over 250 pounds. The funeral on Monday was a large one. -Val Verde Herald-

Menard Messenger
Vol. XI, No. 10
Thursday, January 24?, 1918

Mexican Laborer Burned To Death
(Yolintias/Volintias) Garcia, a Mexican laborer employed on the Bud Ellis ranch was burned to death Sunday night. Monday morning when Bud went out to call him he found the Mexican in bed with the clothing burned off and his flesh cooked.
Garcia had been working the night before on a pear burner and the supposition is that with his clothing saturated with gas, he had caught on fire and managed to get down to his shack and in bed before dying.

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