Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 151, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 31, 1887 Page: 1 of 8
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EOKT WOETH TEXAS SATURDAY DECEMBER 31 1887
This week we shall close our years business with unprecetofdd bargains in every J
department throughout our entire establishment We are desirous of making our sales
of the month of December exceed those of any other motip during our long business
career in this city and hence prices are only a minor considejsmon for this the last week in
Cloaks and Jerseys Must Go fs and Velvets Must Go I
Kid Gloves and HandkerchieiMustGo Men s and Boys
Clothing Must Go LadfeY Slippers and Shoes Must
s and Wraps Must Go I
NOV 15 THE AGCEEIir TIME AND TODAY IS THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
Of buyin
from your purse
youjpnidwinter goods at such low prices as to hardly miss the money
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ties are kaleidoscopic in their nature
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Stw OarB from Union Depot pass In front
pfiSbtel Satisfaction guaranteed
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vances tofitjare the same
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200 Main Btref corner First
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Impritfved and unimproved city property
SnJrban and acreage property Lands
rfinches and farms for sale In all portions of
Texas Titles examined Acknowledgements
taken Will negotiate loans on Vendor Lien
notes and other securities
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Land titlaiirlYestigated tases paid and
coUectioB pe for nonresidents Cor
responderice solicited Postolflce box 197
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jCSI Van Zandt president Fort Worth Nation-
al Bank Captain M 15 Loyd president First
National B nk of Fort Worth AM Britton
gresident Olty National Bank Fort Worth
olonel W M Harrison president State Na-
tional Bank Fort Worth W J Boaz presi-
dent Traders National Bank Fort Worth Dr
H S Brolles Mayor of Fort Worth Colonel J
P Smith exMayor o Fort Worth W A Huff-
man of WA Huffman Implement Company
Fort Worth J H Brown wholesale grocerFort
Worth Captain Sidney Martin president the
MartlnBiown Co Fort Worth Colonel Morgan
Jones president Fort Worth and Denver City
Railway Fort Worth Peoples National Bank
Burlington Kas
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Investments made for nonresidents Corro
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The Merchants National Bank Fort Wcrih
Tex First National Bank Fort Worth
Tex American National Bank Kansas City
Mo First National Bank dwell Vermont
An Arkansas Hanging
MabiannAj Aek Dec 30 Albert
Peters was Ranged here at 11 oclock to-
day for the murder of William Johnson
near Trenton this county in April 1885
Peters escaped twicebut was recaptured
The execution was private Peters was
very religious resigned and frightened
but nervy The death warrant was read
at 1030 and then the doomed man was
led to the scaffold in small building just
big enough to hold twentyfive spectators
Sheriff Harrington sprung the trap The
condemned man fell seven feet and his
necS was broken
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New Phase of the Reading Troubles
BloodThirsty Document Circu-
lated on Streets of New York
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The Onlrfor Twenty Thousand 2Ifen to
Strike at Noon Yesterday Gen-
erally Ignored
Cor bin Ktfnses to Arbitrate The Employes
Mast Decldo Between the Knights and
the Beading Company
A BLOODY CIRCULAR
New York Dec 30 Copies of the
I following bloodthirsty documents were
circulated on the streets this morning
where workingmen could get them
The torch and bomb itiust be applied
Fellow workmen the hour has come
The agencies of science must play a p rt
in the struggle of the future Yesterday
it was the slaughter of our comra des at
Chicago today it is the assassination of
60000 of our brothers on the Philadel-
phia andReading Railroad system True
the sword is a weapon of circumstances
but its victims perish all the same Do
not waste your force on scabs
They are only the effect of
tne present damnable competitive system
Destroy by all agencies at your command
the direct representatives of the system
the Corblns the Maxwells and the
Goulds Let the torch the bomb or the
bullet strike them now Let all they
possess be given to the flames and haunt
them day and night The strike must be
made the war of the classes Brothers
remember Chicago and your oath
KOTHING TO GIVE OUT
Philadelphia Pa Dec 30 Presi-
dent Corbin Superintendent Sweigard
and General Manager McLeod were in
conference this morning in the Fourth
street office of the Heading Railroad
They declined to communicate with the
press representatives but they did send
out word towards noon that there
was nothing to give out for pub
lication Advices from Port Richmond
the depots at Ninth and Sixteenth streets
and the Willow street wharf at noon were
to the effect that the situation has under
gone no change since last evening that
the men were all at work and the com-
pany had numerous applicants from un-
engaged who were anxious to go to work
AT SHAMOKIN
Shamokin Pa Dec 30 The order to
strike had no discernible effect here at
noon
IT FALLS VLAT
Reading Pa Dec 30 By 7 oclock
this morning every delegate to the con-
vention had left Reading and departed
for home Captain LindoD a well
fenown Pinkerton detective passed
through here today bound for the coal
reaions where he will organiza special
officers to protect the companys prop
ertyNone
None of the employes on the road or in
the shops in this city struck today in ac-
cordance witn the orders of the conven-
tion It foils flit throughout this section
and the only turbulent feeling is reported
from the coai regions
We sent twenty coal trains in the coal
legions and 2000 loaded cars to tide wa-
ter besides nearly 1300 cars of freight
yesterday and last night said General
Dispatcher Bertolet of this city this
morning
Do you think there is a probability of
the revival of the strike among your
present force was asked
No sir emphatically no Why should
they The men applied for work volun
tarily and it is not probable they would
act so foolish Oh no they are not made
of that kind of material The men we
have now are going to stay with U3
TO TAKE 8TRIKERS PLACES
New York Dec 30 Thirty engineers
who were discharged from the JBrcoklyn
Elevated Railroad Companys employ be-
cause of their connection with the strike
which recently took place on that road
have been engaged to take the places of
strikers on the Reading road and left for
Philadelphia this evening
who have obeyed
Reading Pa Dec 30 Superintend-
ent Cable has information this afternoon
it is only in places noith of this city
the men have obeyed the orders of the
Reading convention and gone on a strike
They were situated in the coal regions
such as AsMxud Slamokin and Pott3
vlle It is believed by the officials that
if the companys 2000 employes in this
city can be kept at work the order to
strike will prove a useless effort
SITUATION UNCHANGED
Pottsvillk Pa Dec SO The order
to the Reading employes to strike has not
been observed here 7 he shifting crews
in the companys yard all went to work
At Palo Alto everything proceeded as
usual At Tamaqaa the center of opera
tins at the Mahony and Little Schuyl
kill blanches everything is in motion
ana there Is no change in the situation
there
10 NO ONB STRUCK
Philadelphia Pa Dec 30 As far as
could be learned this afternoon the order
for the Reading employes to strike at
noon today had but little effect here
At Port Richmond and at all points along
the lines of various branches of the com-
pany in the city there was the usual ac-
tivity and the officials say none of the
employes have quitLWork Superinten-
dent Keim coday issued the following
notice Men wanted for handling coal
at the Elizabethport docks of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad Com-
pany Steady employment ensured
and as high wages as paid
by other companies for the same service
asd full protection guaranteed to
every man who engages with U3 None
of the men discharged on December 24
for refusing to handle the companys coal
will be reengaged
Mr Keim said this afternoon there
are about 10000 Idle men in New York
and plenty who are willing to work We
have no difficulty in handling coal at
Erzxtettport Men are loading the
boats and one of the boats has already
left
A special from Reading says represen-
tatives of the Reading assemblies claim
today they were not fairly treated and
chfjge that the convention was packed
with delegates from the coal regions bent
of on forcing a strike In the language o
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oneofthem The Schuylkill countrymen
came here lor a tight determined to force
the 20000 employes of the Reading into
an unequal contest
REFUSES TO ARBITRATE
Reading Pa Dec 30 This
morning
the convention made public the corres-
pondence of the Knights of LVoor and the
Miners and Laborers Amalgamated As-
sociations in Pottsville with President
Corbin In the first dispatch the men
say thev are desirous of arbitrating their
demands Till a satisfactory settlement
is reached work to continue as usual
pending arbitration
To this President Corbin replied that
he had nothing to arbitrate
The men replied that public Interests
should not suffer and urgently appealed
that negotiations be opened in hopes of
an amicable adjustment
President Corbin replied to this that
the company had nothing to discuss
or arbitrate He adds Any dictation
by any one m our employ as to how we
shall do our business will be followed by
the immediate discharge of the meddler
He says that the employes must decide as
between the Knights of Labor and the
company He adds If such allegiance
is to the Knights of Labor first such men
will not be tolerated in our service a
minute
To this the men replied that they wanted
a show in the pending difficulty but would
contest every inch of ground inspired
with the motto No surrender until
victory is complete
THE RESOLUTION TO STRIKE
Reading Pa Dec 30 The conven-
tion of Reading Railway employes after a
continuous session of nearly four hours
adjourned at 330 oclock this morning
At that time it was decided to issue or-
ders for a general strike to take place at
12 oclock today Every man in the em-
ploy of the Reading Company with the ex-
ception ot the passenger train crews
trackmen and signal tower men and
crossing watchmen was to go on a
strike and fifteen mnutes after
the meeting the signal was flashed
across the wires to Philadelphia
and Williamsport The resolution say3
that the men shall strike and remain out
until the company shall agree to arbitrate
all differences This includes the shop
men in this cit7 who took the Initiative in
refusing to go out early this week thus
breaking tne backbone of the strike at
that time and every man who belongs to
the Knights A resolution was also passed
offering a reward cf 2000 for
the arrest of any person who
inany way destroy or injure any of the
companys property The order includes
not only the hands of the main line but
over the whole system and is to take
effect at noon today It is thought that
the shop hands in this city will not obey
the order
After the adjournnaent of the conven-
tion the miners had a separate session
and did not adjourn until 5 oclock this
morning They transacted nothiog
definite in reference to striking but
agreedto give full financial and moral
support to the strikers on the railroad
The Schuylkill country delegation con-
sists of 125 delegates and they almost to
a u an predicted that the companys 30000
miners would strike if they were not as-
sured of the continuation of the pres-
ent advance The miners did not
decide to strike with the railroad men
because they are working by an agree-
ment with the company which is binding
until January 1 and because they still
have hopes that the company will con-
tinue the per cent advance Chairman
Lse of the executive committee before
he left Reading this morning declared
that if the strike took place it would
not only affect the Schuylkill
miners but those in the Wyoming
field as well as the Lehigh miners He
felt sure that they would all remain firm
thus placing on a strike at one time 10000
miners and not a nound of coal could
then be mined Last nights convention
consisted of 3G0 delegates a majority of
w iom came from the coal regions the
Lehigh and Wyoming miners being also
represented The convention was secret
Hardly a delegate arrived before 7 pm
and every one had disappeared
from the city before daylight The com
panys officials in this city are not greatly
exercised over the new order to the rail-
roaders to strike They say trains are
ail running on time that they have all the
men they want and others in reserve and
that the only danger is of a coal famine if
the miners should strike
EVERYTHING RUNNING SMOOTHLY
Philadklpqia Pa Dec 29 There is
a uniformed police guard at every en-
trance to the Port Richmond coal
wharves There has been no trouble of
any kind Eich of the seven wharf en-
gines st worK on the coal wharves to-
day was in charge of Pinkerton gpolice
who rode on them about the Port Rich-
mond yard to protect the crews No at-
tempt was made to molest them Agent
Keims said the seven crews who struck
yesterday came to his office this morning
and asked to be reinstatedbut he informed
them they were discharged and could not
again enter the companys employ The
stevedores who went out yesterday did
not return to work today Agent Keim
dispatched a tug into the city where a
large force of stevedores were secured and
taken to the freight wharves and set to
work There was nothing today at
either the Ninth or Broad Street stations
that would indicate the existence of a
strike All trains moved ca usual
UNDER PINKERTONS CARE
Elizabeth N J Dec 29 Work was
resumed on the Reading docks thi3 morn-
ing Two steamboats arrived with 175
men of all nationalities many experi-
enced coal handlers They were imme-
diately put to work under the protection
otPinkertonsmen Sheriff tilasley has
promised Superintendent Wallace that he
will see no violence is done No one is
allowed on the docks and the discharged
employes keep aloof
A Shooting In the Territory
Special to the Gazette
Vinita I T Dec 30 Oce Dick was
shot at an early hour tnis morning by Cute
Benge A number of young fellows had
been ti a dance and probably got pretty
full of whisky When they arrived almost
in the center of town several shots were
fired one taking effect in Dicka backpro
ducing a serious though not necessarily
fatal wound Both pirties were Chero-
kees Bsnge it is presumed will give
himself up though he left on his horse
as soon as possible after the shooting
occurred
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YOL XUI NO 151
DEE TERRITORY
England About to Found a Colony
Which Will Extend Her Dominions
to the Source of the Nile
The Tory Cabinet Haying Alienated
the Tenants of Ireland Would Now
Alienate tbo Landlords
Prince Blamnrck Has Thrown Into the
Scale of European Politics the De-
cisive Word In Favor ot Peace
Zanzibar
AN ENGLISH COLONY
Brussels Dec 30 The Geographique
says advices from Zanzibar are to the ef-
fect that the British East African Asso-
ciation ha3 concluded a treaty under
which the Sultan of Zirzibar cedes to
the association for titty years
sovereignty over the territory between
Port Wanga at the mouth of the Gumba
river and Vitue a distance ot over thirty
five kilometers This will facilitate the
openiDg of a route to Victoria NTanzi
and shows that England is desirous of
founding a colony which will extend her
influence to the source of the Nile It is
probable that when Stanley returns he
will be asked to undertake this work of
civilization
France
A TREMENDOUS DECISION
Paris Dec 30 The Temps today
publishes an interview with Gladstone In
which the exPremier described the Irish
Land Commissioners rent reduction
decrees as a tremendous uecision and
said he was thunder struck at the news
He also said that the Tory Cabinet having
alienated the tenants would now alienate
the landlords
Germany
DOES NOT DESIRE WAR
Berlin Dec 30 The National Zei
tung in an article on the political situa-
tion says that Germany neither expects
nor desires war Prince Bismarck has
thrown into the scale the de-
cisive woid in favor of peace
It is hardly probable that Russia
will be in a position to force war upon
Germany The chances are therefore
that peace will prevail although this
peace cannot be taken as synonymous
with the restoration of European tran-
quility a fact for which Russia must
answer to the world
Sandwich Islands
DESIRE ANNEXATION
San Erancisco Cal Dec2J Private
advices received from members of the
Hawaiian Legislature say that were it not
for the presence of English and American
menofwar in the harbor an outbreak
would undoubtedly have occurred on the
assembling of Legislature December 19
Minister Asnford brought out the
Honolula Rifles with the Intention
of subverting the government at once
but the success of the design was pre-
vented by the oilizers of the vessels whose
threads stopped the proposed insurrection
The Kings vetoes are among the chief
features of the contention Their legality
however and the validity of the constitu-
tion will be sustained without a dobut as
the King has a majority of the Supreme
court The Legislature passed resolu-
tion by a votei of 2S to 11 that it
was sense of the assembly that
the alma of the King in vetoing
the two bills relating to the
abolishment of the office of Governor was
unconstitutional The Cabinet waited
upon the King and notified him of the
fact The King referred the question to
the judges for their opinion A letter
from one of the nobles says if the King
does not assent to the acts of the present
Legislature he will be dethroned and a
provisional government substituted
Those concerned in the kingdoms pros-
perity are favoring annexation to the
United States and the feeling in this
respect is spreading among all classes
SCIENTISTS Iff TEXAS
Searching tor Fonlls Traces of a Giant
Kaco
Special to the Gazette
El Paso Tex Dec 30 W B Mc-
Dowell of San Erancisco and Dr Jacob
Wortman of Washington city repre-
sentatives of Hemingways Southwestern
Archaeological Expedition who under
the guidance of Lieutenant Cushing have
been prosecuting archie Dlogical re-
searches among the Zaai and Pueblo In-
dians in Arizona where they have par-
tially explored the ruins of a
city that now lies beneath the
sanda of a desert arrived in the city to-
day Mr McDowell is an attache of the
San Francisco Examiner and is a son of
General McDowell of Bull Ran fame Dr
Wortman pathologist and comparative
anatomist of the United States
army medical museum has been
detailed by the SurgeonGeneral to
assist in preserving skeletons etc and
to pa3s upon all questions of paleontology
that may arise He is the author of sev-
eral important publications on paleon-
tology and comparative anatomy and is
making a representative collection of
fossils for the Army Medical Museum to-
te studied there with regard to their
physical characteristics These gentle-
men left last evening for Carrizo station
in the lower part of this county where a
discovery has been made of fossil re-
mains of a human being of giant stature
The skull is about the size
of an ordinary human skull
but the jawbone is twice the ordinary
size and the vertebraj are also extremely
large They were discovered in a natu-
ral tunnel or cave in Diablo mountain
700 feet above the level of the plain Bone
needles six inches long fragments of
pottery and cooking utensils were also
found This is the first systematic
archffisloglcal expedition In the United
States and these gentleman think from
discoveries already made that subse-
quent explorers will develop the fact
that all the valleya of the south have been
densely populated by a people who have
mysteriously disappeared
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