Sabine
Parish
News
Highwayman
in
Sabine
Parish
Reign
of
Terror
Created
Along
the
Louisiana
Border
Special
to
the
News
Beaumont,
Tex.,
Oct.
5
–
Extract
from
an
article
in
the
Sabine
Banner,
Many,
La.,
Sept.
28:
“A
lone
highwayman
and
horse
thief,
who
from
numerous
descriptions
furnished,
is
believed
to
be
a
man
who
escaped
from
officers
in
this
parish
recently,
is
now
creating
a
reign
of
terror
along
the
Texas
border.
Officers
from
both
Louisiana
and
Texas
are
on
his
trail.
The
highwayman
in
the
last
two
weeks
has
robbed
pedestrians
on
county
roads
of
$500
in
cash
and
has
secured
at
least
four
fine
horses
in
raids
on
farmers’
stables.
“About
six
weeks
ago
the
officials
of
this
parish
were
called
upon
to
arrest
the
man,
who
was
accused
of
stealing
a
horse
at
Bienville
Parish,
and
a
mare
and
colt
and
pistol
at
Pelican,
De
Soto
Parish.
To
get
rid
of
the
colt,
which
followed
its
mother,
he
shot
it
dead
by
the
roadside.
Deputy
Sheriff
Joe
Skinner,
with
a
posse
of
citizens,
affected
his
arrest
on
Bayou
Scie
and
turned
him
over
to
a
deputy
from
De
Soto.
The
deputy
put
him
on
one
of
the
horses
and
after
tying
his
legs
to
the
stirrup
leathers,
started
wit
him
for
Mansfield.
As
darkness
came
on
he
managed
to
untie
himself
and
ungirth
the
saddle.
Suddenly
he
jumped
from
the
horse,
flirted
the
saddle
across
his
back
to
protect
himself
form
shots
and
succeeded
in
escaping.
On
the
ninth
of
this
month
a
lone
highwayman
held
up
and
robbed
three
men
near
Woodville,
in
Tyler
County,
Texas
securing
from
one,
a
Mr.
Cooper,
$500
in
cash.
He
represented
himself
to
be
a
United
States
Marshal
on
the
lookout
for
parties
who
had
passed
counterfeit
money,
and
that
Cooper
was
suspected.
When
he
had
searched
them
and
got
what
they
had,
he
told
them
to
make
tracks
down
the
road
and
not
look
back.
On
the
13th
the
highwayman
appeared
in
the
vicinity
of
Harrisburg,
in
Newton
County,
and
began
a
raid
on
the
horses
in
that
community,
first
taking
the
horse
of
W.
S.
Hines;
then
he
went
to
Ben
Sanders,
taking
his
horse
and
leaving
Hines.
He
then
went
to
Mr.
Coles
and
took
his
horse,
leaving
Sanders,
all
the
time
making
his
way
toward
Louisiana.
On
Wednesday
night
he
crossed
the
Sabine
River
at
Robertson’s
ferry
and
made
his
way
across
Sabine
Parish
toward
Kisatchie.
The
same
party
was
next
heard
from
last
Friday
night
on
Bayou
Scie,
where
he
stole
a
fine
black
mare
(branded
with
a
half
circle)
from
James
Taylor.
The
description
given
of
the
man
at
all
points
where
he
was
last
seen
is
the
same
and
there
is
not
doubt
as
to
the
man
who
committed
these
crimes.
It
is
also
reported
that
he
told
certain
parties
on
Kisatchie
what
he
had
done
and
showed
them
the
money
he
secured
from
the
spoils.
Dallas
Morning
News
–
October
7,
1905
New
Well
in
Sabine
Parish
Special
to
the
News
Shreveport,
La.,
July
23
–
The
Standard
Oil
Company
has
drilled
in
a
well
in
section
26,
township
10,
and
range
12,
Sabine
Parish.
Although
it
flows
only
twenty-five
barrels
daily,
its
oil
is
forty-seven
gravity,
which
is
the
highest
gravity
in
the
history
of
the
North
Louisiana
field.The
well
is
also
only
1,500
feet
deep
and
it
is
the
second
well
in
Sabine
Parish.
Dallas
Morning
News
–
July
24,
1914
Sabine
Parish
Planters
Excitement
over
Boll
Weevil
Commission’s
orders
Special
to
the
News
New
Orleans,
La.,
Feb.
28
--
The
excitement
over
the
order
of
the
Louisiana
Boll
Weevil
Commission
that
no
cotton
be
planted
on
1,000
acres
of
land
in
the
Nigreet
neighborhood,
Sabine
Parish,
over
near
the
Texas
line,
has
by
no
means
subsided.
Gov.
Heard
and
the
members
of
the
commission,
with
the
experts
who
visited
the
parish
and
delivered
the
order,
think
there
will
not
be
any
serious
trouble
or
that
any
one
will
attempt
to
defy
the
ruling
of
the
state
commission.
Gov.
Heard
says
that
not
over
thirty
planters
are
directly
affected
and
he
believes
that
they
will
be
satisfied
to
abide
by
the
decision.
The
reports
from
Sabine
Parish,
however,
are
not
of
the
same
sanguine
nature.
It
is
said
plenty
of
planters
have
talked
open
defiance
to
the
commission’s
rulings
and
that
they
are
preparing
to
plant
their
cotton
as
usual.
They
claim
that
they
can
not
subsist
on
the
compensation
of
$2
and
acre
for
upland
and
$3.50
per
acre
for
bottom
land,
and
that
they
can
not
keep
their
families
on
this
amount.
May
of
the
planters
appear
to
believe
that
the
cotton
bull
leaders
have
sent
men
throughout
this
district
of
the
State
sowing
boll
weevils
in
order
to
restrict
the
cotton
crop
and
keep
down
the
output,
thereby
bulling
the
market.
Some
actually
believe
these
reports.
Others
claim
that
Texans
have
been
known
to
come
through
the
parish
from
over
the
State
line
with
weevils
to
distribute
in
the
Louisiana
cotton
fields.
The
sufferers
are
willing
to
believe
that
Texas
has
had
something
to
do
with
the
infection,
because
she
had
it,
but
of
course
such
thoughts
are
far
from
the
commissioners
and
Gov.
Heard.
Dallas
Morning
News
–
February
29,
1904
Transcribed
and
Contributed
by: Frances Cooley
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