Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 287 of 1,110
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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
Wood, eleventh ward; H. G. Putman,
twelfth ward; T. G. Harris, superintendent.
Taxable values .............. $32,000,000
Number of school buildings ............14
Number of school buildings in
course of construction ...............5
Value of school properties........ $325,000
Number of teachers employed......... .96
Number of scholastic months............9
School fund available for 1892:
State ... ...............$.35,397
County ................... 2,500
City..................... 40,000
City (special tax for buildings).. 80,000
Number of school children.......... 7,886
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Of the various departments of the city of
Dallas none of them are more perfectly organized
and more harmoniously regulated
than the police department, and the excellence
attained in the regulating of this department
is due in a large measure to the efficient
services of the chief of the department, J. C.
Arnold. He has held this office of chief of
police since 1882, and is thereby familiar with
every locality of the city and its demands.
He, with his able and congenial assistant, G.
E. Cornwell, who has been in service in this
department since 1884, has a force of policemen
superior in every respect.
This department of the city is required to
hold court every morning. Kenneth Foree,
the city judge, a gifted young man, was
elected by a vote of the people, having been
nominated by a convention in April,1891, and
20is exceedingly popular as judge of this court.
John T.Carter is clerk, appointed. The charter
gives to this court concurrent jurisdiction of
misdemeanor with that of the county court;
and Judge Foree, being an able, active and
talented judge, dispatches business rapidly by
holding court daily, thereby giving all prisoners
a speedy trial.
As an evidence of what the cosmopolitan
city of Dallas can do, and also to show receipts
of this department and expenses, we
give the following statement from the chief
of police in report of the fiscal year ending
April, 1892, taken in connection with that of
the city judge: Number of arrests and cases
docketed 5,374, convictions 3,547, cases
transferred 328, amount of fines assessed
$21,384.
Amount of fines collected $11,493, fees
from stock pound $888.05, fees from dog
pound $4, worked out by prisoners $4,337.50,
stolen property recovered $11,925, transferred
to higher courts $26,500; total $55,145.40.
Expenses of this department: Expenses of
stock pound $3,132.54, expenses of city prisons
$3,209.03, expenses of police $39,524.85;
total $45,866.52.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
Chief......................J. C. Arnold
Assistant Chief........... E. C. Cornwell
City Detective......... M. W. Kirby
Assistant City Detective......A. G. Peques
(deceased, killed by accidental discharge
of his pistol).
Clerk .................. J. R. Cummings
Station Keeper .............. D. S. Arnold
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/287/?rotate=270: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.