Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — TEXAS FARMERS STARVING. [ARTICLE]

TEXAS FARMERS STARVING.

Drenth Rnlna Crops and the People Are in Need of Food. Reports from Zacatapato County, Texas, confirm the news that tho poorer classes there are facing starvation. Range water has failed and cattle ars too weak to travel and are dying rapidly. The country is literally burned up by the drouth. There is not n green thing to be seen except cactus plants. Zacatapato County is fifty miles from ths nearest railroad.