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T.RA3EDY* IN CORSICANA. '
Ji.m J'.hnson Was illed by Georg
.. People.
Corsicana, Tex., March 2.-At 1
.- , -o'clock yesterday morning on Fourt
: avenue, about a mile from the busi
1; - - tfess part of the city a row occurre
between two negroes named Georg
'Peoples, who was playing dominoe
with Cage Hughes and Jim Johnsor
another negro, who was looking on
Peoples left the house and Johasom
and Hughes remained seated for abou
., * ~three minutes, when the crack of
Winchester was heard at the rear doo
of the cabin and a ball struck Johnsoi
~...,.....,- under the left jawbone, coming ou
?': near the left eye. The wounded mar
grabbed a stick of stove wood and ray
:. . .03 out of the house in the direction of the
::? is gunshot and as he gained the outsld.
i a second shot was heard. When Cag,
At,:. -a' Hughes emerged from the house Jin
i!N!-i-,: Johnson was lying dead in the yard
~. i'. .. the second shot having struck him ii
,,4 ! " the right breast just above the nipple
coming out below the shoulder blade
in the back. He saw the man who did
the shooting running west aloni
Fourth avenue and gave notice of the
killing to the officers. An inquest waE
held by Justice Grantham, who fount
,according to the above facts and issued
a warrant fo rthe arrest of the killer
Constable Rankin at once started ii
pursuit and about 12 o'clock captures
.George Peoples, who was going west
towards Hillsboro, on the Cotton Belt
track, and brought him\to the city
where he was lodged in jail to answer
i/Y : ^the charge of murder.Fire at Plano.
Plano, Tex., March 2.-About 2
- o'clock yesterday afternoon an alarm
-- , > of fire was turned in by the mill whisf
tie. The compress wharf containing
386 bales of cotton had caught tire in
some loose cotton on the wharf, sup/posed
to have caught from' a spark
f. ~from a Coton Belt freight engine
*eVitching on the north side of the
~? 'wharf, the wind being in the north at
-'. .,...the time. Il1ne fire department wag
: badl.y-handicapped by having no water
*" '-'Ct in that portion of the town,
X tade connection by bushing a 2-'
~ '' initn- t..er pipe at the mill tank with a
2 1-2 ineh ho-se, consuming abuot twenty-fi1Ne
minutes' time. About 115 bales,
worth $3450, belonging to Ralli Bros.
agency at McKinney was totally destroyed.
Fully insured. Edwin Lamm
had four bales and R. L. Stevens one
bale, which were saved by rolling off
:'~ the platform. The old compress machinery
and the east end of the wharf
belonging to Birge & Son at Sherman
is a total loss. If any insurance it is
, , nknown. The fire department worked
hard fro nearly three hours before getting
the fire under control.
Salt Water.
Corsicana, Tex., March 2.-The latest
news (and it is reliable) received from
the well on the Cooksey place, near
Chatfield, ten miles from the city, is
that the stuck bailer has been removed
and the resumption of drilling developed
an .abundance of salt water below
the sand. Oil men, where salt water is
struck in a well drilled to strike oil,
cease operations in that particular
hole, but are in no wise discouraged,
as they recognize in the salt water
struck a kind of lead to the oil deposit.
Mr. L. C. Garrett, an experienced operator,
who has done development work
in pther oil fields than those here, in
speaking of the salt. water struck at
Chatfield, said to a correspondent yestenday
morning:
"The pioneer well at Chatfield in developing
a salt water deposit, is good
news, as experience teaches us that
when a subterraenan deposit of salt
water is found petroleum is not far
away from it. The salt water lies under
the oil sand, and when it is struck
that particular hole is usually abandcned
and another drilled near it; but it
is sometimes the case that well men
elect to pump out the salt water, as in
the space it occupied oil will flow from
the neighboring sands.
"The theory of petroleum deposits
is that they are formed by the decomposition
of sea weeds-the sea having
in prehistoric ages been where we now
find oil, and the discovery of this deposit
of salt at Chatfield is certainly a
strike that should encourage oil men
here and promote the work of development
work not far from the Chatfield
hole will result in important discover.
ies."
., . . .. - A /s200 Bond.
LaGrange, Tex., March 2.-The doetors
who held an autopsy over the
body of Charles Allen, who was killed
Saturday night, rendered their opinion
yesterday that the deceased was shot in
the back, the bullet coming out below
the left nipple. Judge Ledbetter coneluded
the inquest yesterday afternoon
and decided that the deceased came to
his death by' a pistol shot wound inflicted
by the hand of Deputy Sheriff
Will Loessin. Loessin waived examIning
trial and was placed under a $200
/ " * bond, which he gave... . <: Writ of Habeas Corpus. '
Galvestona, Tex., March 1.-John E
Tracy, from Jerseyville, I111., was before
Judige;Stewrt>of tle :ci.tqtrft~ 'OU
L1 yesterday afternoon, upon an applica,
h tion for a writ of habeas corpus, in
i- which the prisoner complained of hav,d
ing been illegally restraeied of his lib,e
erty. The prisoner was arrested in Gal~s
veston on Sunday upon information of
1, the issuance of requisition papers upon
L the ground that he was wanted in Jern
seyville, Ill., on a charge of larceny.
it Sheriff A. R. Campbell of Jersey
a county, Ill., is here and had taken
r charge of the prisoner. The only evin
dence offered at the habeas corpus
t hearing was a copy of the requisition
n warrant issued by Gov. Culberson in
n response to the demand of Gov. Tane
ner of Illinois, for the arrest and dee
livery of Tracy as a fugitive from juste
ice. After examining the documentary
3 evidence and hearing the arguments
t, of the prisoner's counsel the court ren
fused to release the prisoner. His at3,
torneys gave notice of appeal to the
e court of criminal appeals and Sheriff
d Thomas took charge of the prisoner.
g This is a case out of the ordinary
e as relates to the habeas corpus hears
ing and attending features, which,
d while not establihing a precedent, is of
d more than pasing interest. Counsel for
r. the prisoner set up the plea that the
n requisition papers are defective and
d invalid, because they do not contain a
t copy of indictment under which the
t prisoner is held responsible to the
charge of bigamy. In other words, that
rthe documents are defective in the absence
of attached certificates or warrants
that accused has been legally indicted
for the offense alleged to Have
been committed, the requisition as construed
merely citing that John E. Tracy
is a fugitive from justice and is
wanted in Jerseyville, Ill., 1t answer
to the charge of bigamy.
OIL IN M'LENNAN,<
Excellent Petroleum Has Been Found
Near Waco.
Waco, Tex., March 1-The petroleum
explorers in McLennan country have
not in any instance reported struck
oil in paying quantities, although exc
excellent oil has been found in pockets
which become exhausted after a few
' barrels had been pumped. While no
paying oil has been discovered in the
Waco district a great many artesian
wells have been made by the oil hunters
which are being applied by the
owners of the land to stock and irrigating
purposes. The persons who
drill for oil purchase the oil ohly and
when water instead of oil is the result
of the drilling, the land owner
gains and the oil hunter looses, for
all his rights expire with the failure to
find petroleum. In many cases the
owners of the land makes ready in advance
and as oon as the oil man abandons
the well the casing is inserted
and the gushing water is put under
control for farming purposes. Mr. T.
R. Smith, an oil explorer, secured a
privilege on land on the White Rock
and drilled a hole 1430 feed deep, going
through several strata of hard rock.
At the depth named, water bearing
sand was reached and when the drill
was removed the water spurted forty
feet high, its temperature being 90 degre
Fahrenheit. Mr. Smith abandoned
the well and Mr. Whiteh.cuse,who owns
the land, took possession and put in
the casing, thus securing at small cost,
as far as he, was concerned, a gushing
well which supplies over 400,000 gallons
of good water a day.
S1,0000,000 Judgement.
Austin, Tex., March 1.-Final judgment
was rendered in favor of the
state yesterday in the supreme court
in the cases involving about $1,000,000
of school funds alleged to be still due
by the Houston and Texas Central and
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
on the amounts loaned said roads
from said fund prior to 1860. The controversy
was over that portion of the
debt liquidated in state warrants is--
sued between 1860 and 1866, the validity
of which was disputed by the attorney
general, who was sustained by
the lower court and intermediatory
courts and finally by the supreme
court, which yesterday refused to granta writ of error in both cases.
Fire at Quanah.
Quanah, Tex., March 1.-The Acme
Cement and Plaster company's main
building burned Sunday night, the fire
starting about 11 o'clock. The estimated
value of the building contents is
$40,000, insured in the Hartford and
Liverpool and London and Globe insurance
companies for $20,000. The
origin of teh fire is as yet in doubt.
The first notice of it was at a'few minutes
before 12 o'clock, when the engineer
came out. of the engine room
and noticed a light on the first floor.
Senor Bernabe, Spanish minister
to the United States, sailed from
Gibraltar recently.* ** >- : f
WORK
a I Little Work Done by mraas " the
t !t - * *.* ^ t- Spaet-k i ,
Havana, March 1.-ittle work was
done yesterday by the' divers from the
tug Right Arm, Capt. McGee, who is
in charge, seems to' Jaek authority
- from the wrecking people or others and
f is indisposed to work on his own judgment
except in smaller details.
Capt. Sigsbee, was on board the United
States lighthouse tender Fern until
2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He waited
for the Spanish divers, but they did
not appear. Capt. Sigsbee thinks Spain
has a moral and international right to
make an independent examination and
he will give the Spanish divers such
facilities as are possible.
Capt. Sigsbee hopes the survey
steamer Bache will return to the Tortugas
to-day, with all the Maine's
wounded, and he also hopes to send on
the Bache hereafter all the remains of
the dead recovered in a condition making
it possible to place them in coffins.'The difficulty experienced in recovering
the bodies is not understood by
any but the divers. The latter Sunday
worked for three hours trying to bring
out one body inta4t and one of the
divers had a bad fall and several got
their air tubes tangled. They could
not extricate the remains. The principal
efforts of the divers are now directed
toward clearing - the upper
wreckage, smokestacks, decks, guns
hatches, bridges, cranes and gratings.
Then and not before all the dead can
be removed. Capt. Sigsbee continues
to receive letters in great numbers. All
the queries about the men who lost
their lives when the Maine was blown
up are answered as soon as possible
if there is anything to be told.
One of the saddest letters received
by Capt. Sigsbee was from the brother
of a dead man, who wrote that when
death was claiming the victim his
friends at home were celebrating his
birthday and wishing him many happy
returns of the day.
Chaplain Chadwick has been commended
by Capt. Sigsbee as a man, a
priest and an officer. He is always
cheerful and is doing the most effective
work possible.
Senator Proctor had arranged to pay
his respects to Capt. Gen. Blanco yesterday,
in company with Col. Parker
and Consul Gen. Lee, but the captain
general was unusually busy in getting
ready for the outgoing mails, and has
fixed 1 o'clock this afternoon for Senator
Proctor's call.
One body was recovered yesterday,
and it has not been identified, though
there/ axe hopes that it may be later.
On the next trip north the Bacae will
carry to Key West the first company of
wounded taken to the Dry Turtugas.
The Terror at New York.
New York, March 1.-The United
States monitor Terror passed in at
quarantine yesterday morning. The
vessel left Hampton Roads Saturday
afternoon, where she had been lying
for a week, fully prepared to put to
sea. Her commander, Capt. Nicoll Ludlow,
received instructions from Secretary
Iong to remain in New York harbor
until further orders, which is taken
to mean that the Monitor will be on
hand until the final settlement of the
Maine question. It is thought that the
secretary delayed sending the monitor
to these waters during the stay of the
Spanish cruiser Vizcaya through court- E
esy to the Spaniards.
This formidable vessel, which will
probably lie at the man-of-war anchorage
off Tompkinsville, is 349 feet long,
550 feet 9 inches beam and 14 feet 3
inches draft. Her displacement is 3990 1
tons, speed twelve knots, main battery
four 10-inch rifles in pairs, secondary
batery six rapid-fire guns and two ma- t
chines guns; thickness of protective
decking eight inches, thickness eight I
inches, thickness of turret armor eleven
and one-half inches. a
Vizcaya Expected.
Havana, March 1.-Great preparations
are on foot among the Spaniards
here to give a hearty welcome to the
cruiser Vizcaya, which is expected to c
arrive at this port to-day. Gen. Wey- (
ler street is arched with bunting and b
the casino is gay with color. It is be- f
lieved that the election of the auton- Iomits delegates, set for March 29, will c
be postponed until April 27, to corre- t
spond with the election for deputies to I
the cortes in Spain. sRelief Fund. t
San Francisco, Cal., March 1.-The a
entire proceeds from yesterday's at- o
tendance at the mining fair, the largest
exhibit of matters relating to min;'no.
vr~, -hld o-nl , the Pacifli ]o:)cr . I,House and Senate..
Washington, March 1.-Former Vic
President Stevenson was a visitor 01
the:aselate floor at the .qguming of tht
session yesterday.
The consideration ,of the Corbett case
was resumed, Mr. Bacon of Georgia
addressing the senate in opposition t(
Mr. Corbett's claims. He felt it was
extremely fortunate that in this case
the senate was not controlled by parti
san motives, because he thought it
ought to be understood by the legislators
that they must perform their
duties or the onus of. their failure
should fall upon their states.
Mr. Burrows of Michigan followed
with an extended and elaborate argument
in opposition to the seating of
Mr. Corbett. He maintained that the
governor of a state had no authority
to fill an original vacancy. Mr. Burrows,
after quoting in suport of his
position many eminent authorities,
said that if the senate should seat Mr.
Corbett it would overthrow a long line
of precedents and make a new precedent
that would prove dangerous, as it
would open the doors to conspiracy
and fraud, the results of which nobody
could foresee.
Mr. Morgan of Alabama supported
the claims of Mr. Corbett to a seat in
the senate, holding that in no circumstances
not absolutely tainting the applicant
for admission with fraud could
the senate properly refuse to accept
the governor's credentials. He maintained
that a sovereign state had at all
times the right to its constitutional
representation in the senate.
Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts moved to
strike from the resolution the word
"not." Upon this motion the yeas
and nays were demanded. The motion
was defeated-yeas 19, nays 50.
Washington, March 1.-The sundry
civil appropriation bill, the consideration
of which was resumed in the house
yesterday, displaced the regular District
of Columbia day, which was postponed
until next Monday.
Before the house went into committee
of the whole Mr. Hull (Rep.) of
Iowa, chairman of the military committee,
asked unanimous consent for
the consideration of a joint resolution
providing for an investigation into the
expenditure for the work by a joint
committee of the house and senate into
the river and harbor work at Savannah
since Jan. 1, 1892.
Mr. Cox (Dem.) of Tennessee called
attention to the fact that the whole
subject was being investigated by the
court-martial now sitting in the case
of Capt. Carter. The reputation of
the civilians was involved, as well as
that of an officer of the engineer corps,
and until the court-martial returned
its verdict he saw no necessity for a
congressional investigation. He therefore
objected, and the resolution was
referred to the military affairs committee.
When the sundry civil bill
was taken up, the pending amendment,
appropriating $4000 for building a road
from Natchez to the national cemetery
was adopted.
NEW RAILROAD.
It Will be Built from Guthrie to Red Fork,
on the 'Frisco.
Guthrie, Ok., March 1.-President E.
S. Brown, Secretary J. T. Nelson and
other officers of the Muscogee Coal and
Railway company, accompanied by N.
Monsarratt, receiver of the Hocking
Valley company of Ohio, and representing
various New York companies,
and a party of coal experts, civil engineers
and contractors, have arrived
here in a private car, inspected and approved
the bonus contract and terminals
offered the road. Last night
they were banqueted by the Guthrie
club, and to-day will start overland for
Muscogee. -They announced positively
that the road will be built at once
from Guthrie to a junction with the
Frisco at Red Fork, and probably to
a conenction with the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas at Muscogee, the Missouri
Pacific at Fort Gibson, and on to Tahlequah,
the Cherokee capital.
Colonizing Indians.
South McAlester, I. T., March 1.-On
or about the 15th of March a party ofChoctaw and Chickasaw Indians, numbering
at least eight persons, will leave
for the City of Mexico. The party will
be chaperoned by A. B. Hulit, who is
one of the prime movers in the scheme
to colonize part of that republic with
Indians from the two tribes who have
shown a disposition to dispose of the
nterest they may have in this territory
and seek a land where they will
again be free from the encroachments
of the white man.
A Picture Himself.
Blobbs-Why have you stopped get;,$5,U. .u En G ' ting shaved at Bayrum's tonsorial parwhich
has been attracting crowds to lors? I haven't seen you there lateMechanics'
pavilion for the past y. Slobbs-He doesn't keep the comnmonth,
are to be devoted to the relief ic papers on file now, and I like to look
of the families of the victims of the at something funny while being shaved.
Maine disaster. An extraordinary pro- bbBut has't he a ,rror o.
gramme of a military nature was pre- posits each chair?
seuted for the occasion. . carV A ", At E '. A 6
-. ;. . ,,:-.. - , ' .. ? : r,
J. B. and Jim Dale,-of Bonhain, Fan,nin
county, recently shipped 480 beef
steers to the St. Louis market.W. F. Burton, of Denton, Denton
county, recently shipped three cars of
fat meal and hull fed steers and a car
of hogs to the Kansas City market.It is learned that, commencing with
-the month of March, oveP 300,000 head
of stock will be moved from southern
and south.-ast Texas for points in the
Indian Territory an} Oklahoma, below
the quarantine line.Sorghum seed is in very large demand
this year, and la large acreage of
this product will be planted, mostly, it
is thought, for the .Yeed of the stock
that has come into ti e western country
during the past threk: weeks.
- The generous raim of the 10th and
11th of this month removed the fears
of a general drouth o' the farmer and
cattlemen alike, for the situation was
beginning to assume a serious aspect
for both, but it is quite clear from
the reports of those who have recentlyThe Eagle Pass district, on the
Southern Pacific, is credited with a
sheep deal of unusual magnitude for
that section. A herd, consisting of 15,000
head and an unexpired \lease, was
sold for $55,000, the sheep being count,
ed !-a a $2.30 a head, a sharp advance
on stock sheep in that locality~
Scharbauer & Waddell, of Mlidland,
recently sold 2800 head of weli bred
stock cattle to Davidson & Siders at $25
a head. This was the herd that\John
Scharbauer bought of Wilkins Iros.,
of Crockett county, some months sice,
at a price considerably lower than that
.which they realized for the herd.
The following amounts have been
assessed by the commissioners' court
of Midland as the valuation of cattle
and live stock generally: Native cows
$12, 2-year-olds $16, 3s $20, stock
horses $8, saddle horses $18 and sheep
$1.50. Average lands $1 per acre, wire
fences $25 a mile and wind mills at
$40 each. About the same figures were
fixed by the adjoining counties.visited the cattle ranges that it will
not be long before another rain would
be very welcome. The mild winter
has been specially favorable to young
stock as well as to the great number.
of southern cattle that have gone into
northern Texas during the past six
months, and now should the Pleasant
weather be accompanied by copious
rain within a reasonable time all fears
of the farmer regarding his crop and
the stock breeder as to his water supply
will be dissipated.
Between 150 and 200 cars of cattle
will go from Tiexas to the Cherokee
nation, beginning about April 28. Of
these 110 cars will go from Hebronville
and 50 from the Brownwood country.
The quarantine law is strictly enforced
in the territory by the different nations
and the Cherokee quarantine
closes on the date named above. This
accounts for the extra movement of
cattle just prior to that time. The
quarantine law has been pretty lax
heretofore, but it will be different this
season, with government endorsement.
Recent sales of Texas cattle in Kansas
show that stock from that stateP
is meeting with a better reception at
the big markets than it did a year ago.
A sale was made at the yards in Kansas
City recently of a small bunch of
Texas steers averaging 1416 pounds at
$4.50, which was the very top price
obtained for that class of stock on
that day. The cattle cams from West
Texas. It is becoming apparent to
northern buyers that Texas cattle are
being rapidly bred up, and the grade
shipments already made this year have
shown such a wonderful improvement
over the old-timers that their bringing
top prices is scarcely to be wondered
at
No people in any age of the world
have been so successful as breeders
and improvers of poultry as the Americans.
They have done more in the
last wenty-five years than all the other
nations, from Noah's flood to the beginning
of the last third of the nineteenth
century. The Chinese have
been breeding the Asiatic fowl for perhaps
10,000 years, and Americans took
them up and improved them more in a
few years than the Chinee had done
in many ages. We took the French and
Italian breeds that had been worked
on for a century and a half by the
best in Europe, and in a few years had
better breeds from them than the
French or Italians ever saw. We have
taken common scrubs and improved
them until in a few years they were
equal to the pure bred fowls of other
nations. And we are just getting the
hang of the thing. Look out for
greater revolutions in future. A 300eggs-a-year
breed is what we are after.
Let mossbacks stand aside and see ua
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