The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 256, Ed. 1 Monday, December 5, 1892 Page: 6 of 8
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THE GAI.VESTON DAILY NEWS, MONDAY. DECEMBER 5. 1892.
f AILED TO GET EVIDENCE.
THE COMMISSION WITNESSES IN
POET WOETH DISAPPEARED
And an Invitation to Visit the Brewery
Ended the Session—Evidence on
the Beer Question.
Fobt W'ohth, Tex., Dec. 3.-—Getting testi-
mony in the cotnmiBBic^i ease may bo an all-
firod easy business in some towns, but Fort
Worth is not one of them. Yesterday tho
commission adjourned until 9:150 o'clock this
morning when it was expected that tho re-
maining eight witnesses eubpuonaed would bo
on hand to give in their evidence. Promptly
at 9:30 Commissioners Foster and McLean
and Attorney Simkins were on hand at the
courthouse, and soon after Messrs. Terry and
Freeman, railroad counsel, were present.
The commission stenographers and the report-
ers were ready for business, and promises
were good for business and plenty of it.
All that was lacking was the batch of wit-
nesses.
After a wait of twenty minutes a deputy
sheriff was called and dispatched after tho
derelict witness, and pending the return of the
officer with his game Judge Terry broke tho
silence by telling a chestnut. It was an old
one, and though entitled to atiject reverence
on accout of its age, the reporters joined the
commission in laughing at it. Commissioner
Foster, intent upon showing that Judge Terry
had not delved deeper into the recesses of
antiquity than he, produced one that Colum-
bus had brought over centuries ago when this
hemisphere was discovered, and Judge Torry
joined the other lawyers in the convulsions
that followed.
This was all that was necessary in opening
up Col. Simkins' budget, and then an hour
followed in which all the old frionds of yore
were repeated and enjoyed. Some of the
yarns had lost their teeth on account of the
ravages of time, but it made no difference,
and when each story was proposed, the others
(not being under oath) courteously affirmed
that they nad not heard it. It is not the busi-
ness of The Kews to repeat those anecdotes,
and it can be stated with all tho sanctity of an
oath that if an editor of a Sunday school pa-
per wero present he will not regale his read-
ers with them.
But still tae witnesses did not come.
It was not the fault of the commission,
however, for it was ready to do business and
would have continued to wait, but Judge
Terry announced that an invitation had been
extended to visit the brewery. This played
the merry dickens with the morning session,
for under the guidance of Capt. Tom West
the entire party, with the exception of Judge
McLean, took a bee line for the brewery. At
the brewery beer rates were discussed for a
■while and then tho secrets of brewing beer
■were studied. At the sampling counter, Mr.
Cetti produced material evidence that Mr.
Busch was in error when ho said that good
beer could not bo made in Texas. The party
took kindly to the evidence and accepted it.
Col. Simkins was one exception. Ho looked
on, while his mouth watered as he saw the
others taking in tho testimony. Mr, Freeman
said he desired no actual test because it made
him bilious.
An hour or so spent in the brewery,and there
were half a dozen men ready to argue with
Mr. Busch as to the quality of beer to be
made in Texas.
After dinner the witnesses still failed to
make their appearance, and it became evi-
dent that they were hiding cut. Then Capt.
West, in order to show the strangers the hos-
pitality of the town, escorted the party to the
rooms of the court of appeals. Arrived
there Mr. Terry said to Chief Justico
Tarlton: "Judge, Capt. WeBt is kindly
showing us tho sights of Fort Worth. He has
shown us through the brewery and has brought
us here because, next to that, the court of ap-
peals is the institution Fort Worth is most
proud of."
The judge smiled at this and invited the
crowd to take seats, which were declined.
Another visit to the county courthouse de-
veloped the fact that the witnesses had
crawled into a hole and pulled the hole in
after them and the investigation in Fort
M'orth came to an end. Capt. West, Martin
Casey, Zane Cetti, J.J. Gannon and Charles
Scheuber left nothing undone to entertain the
distinguished visitors and the visitors demon-
strated that they had an appreciation for hos-
pitality. And 60 it was. The evening train
bore the commissioners and attorneys to their
homes to spend the sabbath and on Monday
morning the investigation will be resumed in
Austin.
News Notes.
The remains of Mrs. E. K. Haywood arrived
over the Cotton Belt from I'ine Bluff this
evening and will be buried to-morrow after-
noon at 2 o'clock from the residence of Mrs,
C. B. Marklee, corner of Thirteenth and Mon-
roe streets. Rev. J. Morgan Wells will of-
ficiate. Mrs. Haywood was for many years a
citizen of this place. She was 79 years of age
and was a member of the Baptist church for
forty years.
Col. Bob McCart let the cont.-act to-day for
a couple of two-story business bouses on
Main, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
They are to be constructed of brick with Pecos
ted stone trimming.
The Brice residence at Arlington Heights
will be ready for occupancy in about thirty
days. It is built of red pressed brick and will
cost $10,000.
Prof. F. P. Pruitt is erecting a handsome
$7000 residence at Arlington Heights and
hopes to be able to occupy it by the holidays.
There is a large force at work at Arlington
Heights laying water mains and graveling the
Btreets.
Judge Triplett i9 just in from a trip over
central and north Texas. He Bays business
men complain of dull trade, but pay collec-
tions were never better.
The A1 Haney monument going up on Front
street is beginning to assume elegant propor-
tions.
The city is in a cloud of dust since the street
sprinklers have been discontinued.
The excavation for the Huffman building
on the corner of Twelfth and Main Btreets is
being pushed and the material for the con
struction of the building is being placed on
the ground.
Col. Dick Wynne has made some additions
to his residence on West Weat'nerford street.
The McArthur Bros, informed The News
reporter to-day that the water mains for the
new waterworks system were all in and it only
remains for the connections to be made with
the thirteen artcBinn wells. The immense
brick smokestetck for the engine-house is
about completed and next week the building
will be ready to receive the machinery, which
has not yet been shipped but which the water-
works committee, in company with Mayor
Paddock, is now east inspecting.
Charles Whitlow, who was hurt at the arte-
gian well north of the city last evening, is rest-
ing moderately easy. The physician says it is
impossible to tell yet how seriously he is in-
jured. The drill that fell on him is a piece of
steel forty feet long and weighing 3000 pounds.
It fell across the lower part of the unfortunate
man's bowels and the physician says it is re-
markable that it did not kill him instantly.
Sebe Maddox, who started to Chatanooga a
few days ago with the alleged forger Stone,
wanted thero by a banking firm, returned to-
day with a long face. His prisoner got away
from him by jumping, as already reported by
wire, from the train while running at full
speed near Huntsville, Ala.
Officer Neeley came in this morning from
Deinson with a priBoner named Dock Mc-
iliiler, who is wanted here for participating
in the Brown robbery a few nights since
amounting to $350 in checks and cash.
The R. E. Lee camp will hold a meeting at
the courthouse Monday evening at 3 o'clock.
Assistant Chief Watiins received a message
from a distressed mother in Dallaa to look for
her prodigal boy. Ho was found selling
tickets for a buffalo show on Mam street.
The Texas and Pacific stockyards are being
overhauled in anticipation of an enormous
business in the near future. Beef cattle are
passing to the northern markets in large
Bum bars.
Ex-Sheriff Sisk of Parker county brought
in a deserter to-day and turned him over to
the recruiting olHcer here, who shipped him
to Sau Antonio,
Albert Duke, n Houston street business
man, was icriouily injured in a run away latu
Inst night, lie was thrown out of his wagon
against n barbed wire fence and badly cut and
mangled about the head and face.
This afternoon Edward Alford was driving
pretty lively along Houston street and turn-
ing the corner of Houston and Second ho was
thrown from his cart and quito seriously
hurt, but no bones were broken.
Street thievoienterodCharley Harris'house,
north of the squaro, last night and stole $12
in money and a gold watch.
MRS. T0BIN AT OOLOEADO.
Her Keoeption and Active Work Among
Children and Adults.
Coloiiaoo, Tex., Dec. 2.—Mrs. Tobin, pres-
ident of tho Jworld's fair association of Texas,
came in on tho west-bound train Tuesday
night and was received as a guest of the
la-lies' world's fair club of Mitchell county.
The personoll of this club consists of Mes-
damesC. A. Adams, A. A. Bailey, J. M,
Burns, John Carlisle, G. R. Cheatam, C. A.
Earnest, A. R. EalnoBt, 'F. L. Dearborn, I. S.
Hardy, B. H. Looney, Johu Mooar, Ed
McGehee, H. C. Townsenil, A. B. Robortsou,
John Ponde, W. V. Johnson, W. B. Smoot,
Will Waddell, B. F. Ware, N. S. Walker, M.
Carter, Ben Vantuyl, John A. Walker, V. R.
Scott.
Mesdames Waddell and Bailey met Mrs.
Tobin at the train and escorted her to the
St. James hotel where rooms had been se-
cured and Mesdames Mooar and Smoot were
on hand to welcome her. The next morning
Mrs. Tobin held u levee in the hotel
parlors. From 3 to fi p. m. an afternoon
chrysanthemum reception was given in her
honor by the club at the home of the presi-
dent, Mrs. Smoot. A general invitation was
extended by the committee, MeBdames Burns
and Hardy. The double parlors were thrown
together and a suite of three rooms across the
hall were thrown open. Mrs. Tobin, robed
in black velvet with sweeping train, the
somber brightness of its lustrous folds re-
lieved by the gleam of gold and Hash of dia-
monds, stood in a bay window recess lined
with Btately growing palms, ealla lilies and
geraniums whose great dewy tresses of bloom
away out in these wilds, in unknowing com-
pliment to the distinguished! guest, flowered
into the exact shade of the new red adopted
by the national authority as tho world's fair
color. On tho right stood Mrs. Harry
Smoot, on the left Mrs. Jerry Williams.
Light refreshments were served by the club
in the back parlor. An English breakfast
table that had lain in the bottom of an Ameri-
can ship from 1812 to 1815during the embargo
of that war period, stood in the center of the
room draped in snowy linen edged with the
elaborate drawn work of the Spanish con-
vents. In the center of the table lay a large
Texas star of white and pink chrysanthemums
bearing the legend "Mrs. Tobin, president of
the Texas world's fair association," wrought
in blue violets. This was made by Mrs. W.
T. Scott as an offering from the Standard
Unique ladies' club. Two groat bowls, one
handpainted, tho other of glowing crimson
crystal, tilled, the one with red, the other with
white single chrysanthemums, each resting
upon rose geranium leaves, were presided over
respectively by Missss Dottie Rix and Lillian
Sargent, who, crowned with the halo of youth
and beauty, vied in blooming sweetness
with the How cry favorB thoy so gracefully dis-
pensed. Mrs. Tobin received with a gracious
dignity and cordial suavity of manner that
captured all hearts. The best and brightest
of the young and old of Colorado unani-
mously and enthusiastically decided that she
was the right woman in the right place and
would succeed in her effort to have Texas
represented at the world's fair. On Thursday
morning Prof. Putnam of the graded schools
assembled the teachers and .pupils at the
Methodist church and invited Mrs. Tobin to
explain fair matters to them. She gave them
a nice little talk and at its close, on asking if
they would help, all hands went up with a
laudable promptness that "was too sweet for
anything." In the afternoon she talked to a
good audience of the "grown ups," most
of whom were ladies, and at night was
tendered a reception at the Commercial club
rooms. Mrs. 1'obin'B visit has given great
Eleasure to the citizens of Colorado and it is
oped that slio hf.s enjoyed it. _ Financially
the times are generally out of joint, and the
best part of Colorado lies in tho sackcloth and
ashes of the Clark defeat. A wail goes up
from the highways and byways thereof that
the "purse" is no longer "trash," though
Shakespeare said it. Yet the Texas building
must be finished.
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
Gov. Seay's Report Showing the Lands to
Be Opened to Settlement.
, Gainesvii.le, Tex., Dec. 3.—The annual re-
port of Gov. Seay of Oklahoma shows lands
to bo opened in the territory contiguous to
Oklahoma as follows in square miles: The
Osage nation 2296, Kansas nation 150, Tonka-
was 150, Poncas 150, JjOtoes and Missouris
200, Pawnees H2, Kickapoos 270, Wichitas
1161, Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches 4750
Cherokee outlet 9100; total 18,669.
The area of the above-described lands is
3324 square miles greater than Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware com-
bined, leaving enough to make a state half as
large as Massachusetts. This vast area is now
occupied by about 8000 Indians and 6quaw
men, and by a few cattlemen, and by the
United States soldiers at Fort Sill. It is
traversed by the Arkansas, Salt Fork, Cimar-
ron, North and South Canadians and Washita
rivers, bordering the north fork and on
the main Red river; capable of furnish-
ing homesteads for 400,000 or 500.000 peo
pie ; having a splendid climate and producing
grain,;fruit, grass and vegetables of every
variety known to the north temperate zone.
Continuing, Gov. Seay says: "IS is a mat-
ter of great interest to our people as well as
to the whole people of the United States to
know when and how these lands shall be
opened. Those of us who procured homes in
Oklahoma proper are in full sympathy with
the movement inaugurated in some of the
western counties, which has for its object a
prayer to congress to put them and all future
Bottlers upon Oklahoma soil on an equal foot-
ing with our first settlers: that is, let them
have their lands for the ordinary homestead
fee and for settlement and cultivation. It
wtll also be urged by our people that con-
gress, in view of the fact that many of the
good lands, under its present policy, will be
allotted to harmless but shiftlesB people and
withdrawn from sale and taxation for a quar-
ter of a century, will make liberal donations
of these lands for our schools and public
buildings.
"There is a growing feeling of unrest among
the people of Oklahoma as to whether the
policy of allotting the Indians on the choicest
lands of our territory and making these lands
inalienable and non-taxable for twenty-five
years is fair and just to us, and whether, if the
policy is still persisted in, our future pros-
perity and progress will not be seriously re-
tarded. Many of us believe, from our ac-
quaintance with and observation of the aver-
age Indian and his habits, that it would be
better for him and for us that the United
States government buy from him all his al-
lotted lands, except forty acres for a home to
each head of a family, borrow the price of the
land from him and pay him interest semi-
annually on the money. We shall probably
ask to be heard next winter before congress
on tlieso questions."
Recovering From His Injuries.
FoRNEr, Kaufman Co., Tex,, Dec. 2.—J. K
Brooks, who was severely wounded by robbers
at his residence Monday night in Crandall
neighborhood is better and will recover. All
efforts of the officers to locate the guilty par-
ties have failed. Several arrests have been
made but for want of proper evidence, the
parties were released.
Negro Held for Forgery.
Tekbkli., Tex., Dec. 2.—George Jones, col-
ored, was arrested to-day charged with hav-
ing forged S. E. Waskom's name to an order
which he presented to Philip Brin, a mer-
chant of this city, and secured 815, the amount
called for in the order. He now languishes
in the city jail awaiting a preliminary trial.
THE TRINITY RIVER.
TWENTY 0ARPENTEE8 AT W0EK ON
THE SNAQB0AT.
"The Trinity a Better River Than the Mis-
souri, the Illinois or the Osage,"
Buys a Government Expert.
Dallas, Tex., Dcc. 4.—In order to prove
that the men having in charge the work
of opening up the Trinity river to navi-
gation mean business it is only neces-
sary to call in evidence the manner in
which the snagboat is being constructed at
the dock yards on the bank of the river a few
hundred feet south of tho Lamar street
bridge. A News representative yesterday
visited the scene of the construction in com-
pany with Mr. Leo^'olfson, secretary of the
Board of Trade, who furnished the buggy and
the horse. En route Secretaay Wolfson
descanted on tho merits of his horse, which,
he said, seldom ever got tired, and had a long
line of blood ancestry stretching away back
to the early days of Kentucky. Lamar street
was followed until the approach to the bridge
was reached. There a wagon road branches
out loading across a wide Weld to the
river bank whore the boat is being built.
The News representative found a number of
visitors on the ground, including a gentleman
from Waco, who was taking notes to aid him
in submitting a plan to his people for the
navagation of the Brazos river. Major R. V,
Tompkins, the general manager of the Trinity
navigation company, was also on hand, giv-
ing matters his personal attentiou and look-
ing after every detail. The scenery in the
neighborhood is unpretentious, but not more
bo, perhaps, than that which surrounded the
tirst efforts of Peter the Great. There wero at
work twenty carpenters, three of them regu-
lar shipwrights, under the supervision of Mr.
William Goodwin of Chicago, for years in
charge of the operation of government
snagboats on tho Missouri, Illinois
and other rivers. Tho boat. the
frame of which is almost competed,
will bo a massive affair and indestructible
except by fire. She is 100 feet long and 25
feet beam with gunwales 6 inches thick, bot-
tom planking 3}-£ inches, decks 3 inches, floor
timbers 6x8 inches and a nose piece 14x14.
Her equipment, which is nearly ready and
will consist of driving engines of 45-horse
power, a pair of hoisting engines of 25-horso
power to lift trees and roots out of tho river,
a 50-horso power boiler and a large hydraulic
pump for cutting out the sandbars, but few of
which are to be found in tho upper river, and
they of little consequence. The construction
of the boat requires 60,000 feet of timber and
two tons of spikes besides nail», paint, etc.,
and what is necessary to put the finishing
touches on the upper works.
During smoking time after dinner, as Mr.
Goodwin and The News representative sat on
a log, their shadows reflected on the placid
bosom of the Trinity, Mr. Goodwin talked
about the snagboat, tho Trinity and inland
navigation generally. "This boat, when com-
pleted," he proceeded, "will bo second to
none in point of strength, not excepting the
government steel Bnagboats. She is being
built for rough work and for powerful ma-
chinery that is calculated to do that class of
work with the least possible delay."
"As a river expert, have you any doubt
about the practicability of putting this river
in a navigable condition betweon horo and
Galveston?" 1
"Why, none whatever. The people of Dal-
las, 1 assure you knowing whereof I speak,
have a far better river than they are aware of.
It is a better river than the Illinois river, a
better river than the Missouri at Kansas City,
and a more navigable stream than the Osage,
which is now being successfully navigated for
300 mileB. We built for the Osage river the
Alice Blair, 125 feet long by 25 feet beam,
just such a boat—carrying about 600 bales of
cotton—as would answer this river. She is
now running between Galveston and Velasco.
I have sparred her over a shoal that had| only
six inches of water, nnd here at the present
low stage the Trinity has five feet of water.
What better river do you want? It
iB between fifty and sixty feet wide, almost
free from. sandbars and with an almost
even depth. What the pilot dreads is a wide
river full of sandbars with shifting channels.
If tho people of Dallas should deem it desir-
able to keep the river full the year round it
may be necessary to put in two or three locks
and dams for the first 100 miles of it. Ab far
as I have been down the Trinity I found its
banks so uniform that not an inch of leveeing
will be required."
Mr. D. II. Morrow, Capt. Sim Duncan and
Mr. T. W. Griffiths about this time came up,
seated themselves on the log and entered into
the spirit of the conversation as follows:
"Capt. Duncan—This river is navigable for
eight months in the year, but it will bo made
navigable the year round. You will Bee the
locks and dams going up next year," and the
Bpeaker nodded his head with an emphasis
which indicated that he knew whereof he
spoke.
Mr. Morrow—-I viewed last year the Erie
canal, that carries such an enormous amoun
of tonnage with no bettor power than mules
and I believe, gentlemen, as a waterway it is
interior to this river. When we send a boat
to Galveston laden with ootton independent
of any railroad I can see that incalculable
benefit will arise from it. This is a great
movement, and it is singular that it has been
delayed so long.
"Mr. Griffiths, please let us have your opin-
ion on the situation. You are a lumber mer-
chant, and knpw the kinds and value of the
woods grown along the banks of the Trinity,"
inquired one of the party.
"Well," the gentleman to whom the ques-
tion was addressed proceeded, "when I flew
by on the Oak Cliff train over the Trinity
river it looked so narrow that I thought no-
body would conceive the idea of navigating it
except cranks. I did nat allow for the appar-
ent contraction of tho stream viewed from a
train running thirty miles an hour at a hoight
of thirty feet above it, but now I find a river
about sixty feet wide. In fact I never knew
before what we had got. There is enough
ash, oak, elm, walnut, cottonwood and other
valuable woods that I might name accessible
to the commerce of the river to supply ma-
terial for an indefinite period for all the man-
ufactured woodw ork used in the south. As an
aid to manufactures the value of this river
cannot be overestimated and the same is true
of commerce."
Capt. Duncan—We will handle 500,000 bales
of cotton in Dallas when we get this river
working.
Mr. Griffiths—It is like finding a gold mine
that has been lying under the earth. #
With no unforeseen calamity the snagboat
will be ready to be launchod by ehristmas and
then it will not take exceeding two weeks to
build the cabin and put the machinery in so
that at the outside the boat will, it is believed,
be ready to commence operations by the 10th
of next mouth. Since the cutting away last
summer of the raft below Miller's ferry the
work of the first hundred miles has been
greatly aided. In fact it is believed that
a steamer will reach Galveston from
Dallas by the middle of next April. So thor-
oughly convinced are the people of Dallas of
the entire feasibility of this undertaking
which promises such grand and quick results
to their city, that it is believed that the work
of putting in locks and dams will go hand in
hand with the progress of the snagboat down
the river, and then the festive sailor, as he
hauls taut ou the main sheet, will sing:
The captain had u daughter,
Heave high bo; heave hiirh ho,
And her name it was Elita.
With beautiful blue eyes.
At school they had taught her.
Heave high ho; heave high ho,
To play the piano and sing likewise.
With a heave ho. bigh ho.
on the day of the unfortunate occurrence
('has. Middleton went to his brother's house
ofter u saddle. A quarrel took place. Tom
Middleton had a Winchester and started to-
ward hi* brother, who tired three times and
killed him. Charles Middleton was acquitted.
the story of win gate.
Hit Bpurloua Letter of Credit From tho
World's Fair,
Waco, Tex., Doc. 2.—Apropos of tho Win-
gate vordict Friday at Waco, two yearB in tho
penitentiary, tho following review of tho case
will be fouud interesting:
The defendant was arrested last September
at l.a Junta, Col,, by Sheriff R. M. Warden
of Potter county, Tex., on a McLennan coun-
ty, Tex., capias, issued at Waco on affidavit
of W. W. Seley, president of the Waco State
bank, charging S. A. King with swindling tho
Waco State bank out of $150. Sheriff Warden
found the defendant at La Junta going under
tlie name of E. R. Wingate. He brought him
back to this city, and Bashior S. A. Sullivan
iueutifled him as tho party who, on Aug. 4
last, presented a letter of credit to Mr. Seloy
bearing the signature of President Palmer of
tho wortd's Columbian exposition, and ob-
tained the sum of money stated. The letter
of credit was written ou bordered pink paper.
It introduced the bearer as S. A. King. t\ hen
arrested at La Junta defendant denied that
ho was S. A. King. Ou his person was a letter,
Of which the following is a copy:
Columbian Exposition.
Letter of credit. E. It. Wingate.
No, 5.
To any bank in district No. 8: This is to certify
that Hon. JS. K. Wlngute of North Dakota is our
duly appointed representative of tho world's
Columbian exposition and is entitled to credit
with us in any amount not to exceed ($1500) fif-
teen hundred dollars and is allowed the privi-
lege of drawing upon the treasurer of division
"U" at auy time. B. C. Lombcrg treasurer. All
amounts drawn must be indorsed upou the back
of this letter of credit. This letter is not good
unless the credentials signed by the president
and director general are presented with same.
Mr. Wingate is :i5 years of ago, 5 feet 10 inches
high, weighs 160 pounds, has dark hair, blue eyes
and is smoothly shaved.
T. W. PALMi.a. president,
Moses 1'. Hakdy, chief department O.
A miniature tintype of the defendant is Bet
in the upper left hand corner of the letter.
The top lines are printed. The body of tho
letter and the two signatures differ widely in
chirographical characteristics.
On tho back of this letter of credit is in-
dorsed : "First national bank, Galveston, Tex.
Paid $200." This bank wrote: "We know
nothing of the tnaa."
The next indorsement reads: "Citizens'
bank, Fort Worth, Tex. Paid $200." There
is no Buch bank at Fort Worth.
Next is: "First national bank, Wichita,
Kan. Paid $150." There is no First national
bank at Wichita, Kan. The Fourth national
bank wrote: "We wero not caught."
Next: "Bank of Topeka,Topeka, Kan. Paid
$160." The Topeka bank writes: "We did
not meet the man."
Next: "First national bank of Fort Scott,
Kan. Paid $150." This bank wrote: "We
did not pay it."
Then come indorsements of the Lyons
Exchange bank of LyonB, Kan., and the First
national bank of Dodge City, Kan., indorsed
as having paid $150 each on tho above letter
of credit and both the last named banks write
that they regret to Btate that the indorsements
are genuine.
The world's Columbian exposition is repre-
sented here by Judge W. K. Carlisle of Chi-
cago, who deposed that the Wingate letter was
a forgery. The King letter upon which the
Waco State bank paid $150 was described by
Cashier Sullivan as in all respects like the
Wingate letter except as to the name S. A.
King instead of E. R. Wingate.
The defense maintained that tho prisoner
was not S. A. King or F. E. Rogers, but was
truly E. R. Wingate; that he was never in
Waco. Warrants have been issued from
Lyons and Dodge City, Kan., for King alias
Wingate aliae Rogers to answer charges
made by the banks of those cities. Affidavits
have also been made in Potter county,
Teias, and at La Junta, Col. against the
same defendant.
The prisoner talks freely about his case, fie
said he never saw Waco until Sheriff Warden
brought him here. "I am not S. A. King or
F. E. Rogers." he said, "but I am E. R.
Wingate." He also remarked: "There is
much talk about forgeries. I was not charged
with forgery but with swindling. I do not
think any evidence touching forgery should
have ontered tho case in this court."
e:ghee_oourt8.
Second Civil Court of Appeals,
Foht Wokth, Tex., Dec. 3.—The following
new motions were filed in the civil court of
appeals:
Motion to file transcript: E.J. Geer vb.
TexaB and Pacific railway company; L. ,T. Cox
vs. G. G. Wright; Eddy and Cross vb. Polk Reg-
ner; T. D. Montrose vs. J. S. Hudspeth; M.
Pauline vs. 11. E. Cheatham; E. B. Williams
et al. vs. W. Pollard et al., which motion in-
cludes request to withdraw transcript.
Motion to dismiss appeal and strike out
statement of facts and assignment of errors:
W. A. Greonlease et al. vs. Adams county
bank; Fort Worth and Denver railway com-
pany vs. P. G. Roach, this to dismiss appeal
only.
Motion to affirm on certificate: J. T. Young
vs. J. E. Haunes; B. F. Coffman vs. M. C.
Scoble; R. H. Parker vs. H. B. Cook; G. C.
McGregor vs. A. G. Tabor.
Motion for rehearing: W. E. Harrington vs.
C. H. McFarland et al.
Suggestion of delay: Sam Evans vs. E. L.
Cunningham.
Motion to set aside submission and grant
appellee time to file brief: F. J. Westmore-
land vs. J. X. Richardson,
Acquitted of a Harder Charge.
Pabis, Tex., Dee. 3.—Charles Middleton
was tried in the federal court for the murder
of his brother, Tom Middleton, near Garland,
I. T., May 30, 1892. The killing took place at
the home of Tom Middleton. They had not
been irettinir alona well for a louu tiuie. and
Methodist Cotvention.
Marshall, Tex., Dec. 3.—The twenty
Beventh session of the Texas annual conven-
tion of the Methodist Episcopal church con
vened at the Wiley university on Dee. 1 and
will adjourn about the 6th. There are 150
ministers present from the entire east Texas
Among tho visitors are Rev. S. Duncan, New
Orleans; Rev. M. Westbrooks, WeBt Texas an-
nual convention; Rev. Henson, AuBtin;
Rev. Dr. Spencer (white), church extension
secretary of the Methodist Episcopal church
of the United States, Cincinnati; Dr. E. W. S.
Hammond, editor of the Southwest Christian
Advocate, New Orleans.
Dr. J. C. Heartsill, general secretary of the
Freedman's aid and southern educational so-
ciety of Cincinnati, is expected to-morrow.
Bishop S. M. Merrill of Chicago presides
over tho convention and tho proceedings show
a great amount of good has been accom-
plished since their last meeting.
All of those mentioned above are oolored
divinos except Revs. Spencer, Heartsill and
Bishop Merroll, who are white ministers of
prominence,
Lamar Fair Association.
Paris, Tex., Dec. 3.—The stockholders of
the fair association held an informal meeting
Thursday night. A committee was appointed
to draft a constitution and by-laws. Fine
grounds have been selected, and it is the opin-
ion of experts that the race track will be the
finest in the south. Assurances have already
been obtained from leading breeders that
they will make their homos here. This city
will be a competitor for the next annual
meeeting of tho State breeders' association.
Cattle Movement.
Colorado, Tex., Dec. 3.—One hundred and
fifty-four carloads of cattle have been shipped
from this point to Chicago this week. A. B.
Robertson bought the following lots during
the last two days. From A. J. Long 1350
cows at $0; from Jumbo cattle company 500
cows at $10 and 175 steors at $19 50; from
Holloway A Wulfjej 400 cows at $9 50.
Held for Burglary.
Blossom, Lamar Co., Tex., Deo. 3.—Yes-
terday morning a man named Bucanon lodged
complaint against a negro boy, Bill Jackson,
for burglary, who was arrested. Mr. Bucanon
lives aiiout throe miles west of this place. He
Btates that ho heard a noise in the house about
midnight, got up and on investigation found
the negro under the bed of his two little girls,
aired 10 and 12 years.
MURDER OF SHERIFF OLIVE
moonlight maneovees of theee
mounted men.
Inoidents at Belton Fair and on the Road
to Eoho—Eye-WitneBB Describes
the Tragedy.
Belton, Tex., Dec. 8.-1116 closing testi-
mony on behnlf of the state, in tho habeas
corpus proceedings in the case of Fayette
Bryant and Theo and Noah Armstrong, charged
with the murder of Sheriff Olive of William-
son county, was as follows:
Hob Smith, colored, for tho state, after stating
that he was 19 yearn old, lived in Helton and at-
tended the late Hell county fair, said that he was
ut the Armstrong stalls luto Saturday afternoon
after tho fuir broke up. About 4 o'clock he was
there und saw a shotgun in Armstrong's stall.
Asked Lofton whose it wus and he
suid lie did not know. Was there
uguin at 8 o'clock. Theo. Armstrong, Noah
Armstrong, Mr. Ford. Mark Ross, Fayntte Hiy-
ant, Mr. McKay, Claudo Lofton, Mart Hitt
and Jim Upshaw were thero then. They were
about ready to pull out. They suid they were go-
ing to Holland. At thut time 1 saw Theo. Arm-
strong huvo a pistol. 1 had formerly seen an-
other one in the stall that Claude Lofton said was
hit*. When they went through the gutf Theo.
Armstrong was riding a sorrel hurst*, Noah Arm-
strong was riding u bay horse. Favette Bryant
wub riding a gray horse. Albert Ale Kay una Mark
Kosa were in a wagon. Claude Lofton uud Murk
Hitt wore riding horses. Hoforo tins Theo. Arm-
strong had said let's tlx up boys, uud go home, i
think he lived at Holland. Ah you come out of
the fair grounds gutu you turn to tho loft to go
to Holland. When the wugon went out
of the gate it turned towards
Holland, Clauue Lofton and Mark Hitt followed.
Theo and Noah Armstrong and Fayette liryant
took tho road toward Holton. Thoy wore riding
sorrell, bay and gray horses. Theo Armstrong
had on a light suit of clothes and white liat.
Noah Armstrong hud ou a kind of light chocked
suit. I know whero Echo is. If u party wero go-
ing to Echo corning out of the fair grounds ho
would tako the suine road that was taken by
Theo and Nouh Armstrong and Fayette Hryant.
1 never worked for any of the parties I have men-
tioned above. 1 never saw Noah Armstrong that
1 know of till tho week of tho fair. Never had
any dealing with him. 1 talked with hun one day
about horto racing. Claude and 1 had a little
rucus. 1 felt no particular interest in the Arm-
strongs thut oau.-ed mo to notice them more than
any one olso. Never had any business with either
of the defendants. Theo Armstrong offered mo
$5 that night to go homo with him und help take
his horses. Very toon after this he said, "Hoys, let
us get ready and go home.'' All those 1 have
mentioned abovo were near and heard
his remark and they soon loft. Thoy
all started together. I went down to
Hill Hean's stand. In a short time 1 saw
thom start. At Hill Heau's stand I struck Ed.
Hill Hoan's boy. Thero was no reason why I
lookod at them as they wont except that Ed
asked who they wore and 1 told him. I saw thorn
in the day and noticed their clothes, and when
they passed out of the gato 1 had it in my mind
that thoy had on the same clothes. Mark Kobk is
a negro; ho was m the wagon. 1 don't know
how he was dressed. I wus not paying any
special attontion to him. The difficulty I had
with Claude was about three weeks boforo the
fair. It was at night when the Armstrongs wont
out at tho gato. It was after 8 o'clock; don't
think it was as late as 8:30. The moon was shin-
ing bright; it was away up. 1 saw them and can
tell how they were dressed by moonlight, The
Hoan boy and I wero standing near together,
about fifty feet from the gato. I did not havo
any reason at all for noticing which way they
went. Theo. and Noah Armstrong and
Fayette Bryant were on horseback. Fay-
ette was oq a gray horse. I swear posi-
tively that Fayetto Hryant was there. I swear
positively that ueithor Theo or Noah Arm-
strong was riding a gray or white horse. I swear
just as positively to Fayette Bryant being thero
as I do to Theo and Noah Armstrong. I was not
close enough to thom to seo whethor thoy had a
shotgun or not as they rode ont of the gate. 1
could seo that Noah Armstrong had on a light
green colored suit, but it did not look us green
as it did iu tho day time. I don't think they had
a shotgun. If they did I did not see it. The
first porson 1 told about seeing them going out
tho gate was Bud Owens. We weut to the head
of the stairs at Dr. Farr's ollice aud talked about
it. Have talked some with Jake Kinger and Jim
Martin about it, but did not tell them what I
knew. Mr. Kinger told me not to talk about it.
Mr. Ringer told me 1 would have to go to (Joorge-
town. Jake Ringer told mo he would cot me a
new pair of shoes but did not do it. I wore an
old pair of Mr. Ringer's boots. Mr. Riugor sent
me and J. S. Reed to Lampasas after some sheep.
Hero the witness was shown the testimony he
gave at Georgetown aud recognized it.
Redirect examination—Mr. Ringer did not offer
me a pair of shoes to go to Georgetown to testify.
I asked him on Saturday if ho would give me a
Sair of shoos. Ho t aid he would get me somo
[onday; he had a pair of boots at his liouae he
would give mo; that ho wanted me to go to Lam-
pasas after some sheep.
Recro9s-examination—When they were nearly
ready to go that night Mr. Ford and Mr. James
Upshaw were there in the ciowd. If Tarrant
Spark was with them 1 did not seo him. There
were no horses tied behind tho wa^ou, I did uot
say there were three norBes tied behind the wagon
when I testified at Georgetown.
WITNESSED TUE SHOOTING.
ChaB. McCarty said: My name is Chas, Mc-
Cart y. I stay in Temple. I was at the Belton
fair, and staid there until it broke up. 1 went
down ou the train the night Olivo was killed. 1
was in next to the lastc oach on the same side of
tho depot, was sitting in the coach aud heard tho
shot. I raised myself partly out of the window
and saw a man with what looked to me to be a
double-barrel gun. He was about 15 or 20 feet
from me when I tirst saw him. It was pretty
dark and 1 could not see any one ou the plat-
form- The man with the gun ran under the
coach, right whore I was at. He was about 5 or
tj feet away from me. He had no b.«ard on his
face: could have had a light moustache. Points
out Theodore Armstrong and says ho thinks ho
looks like the man he saw at Echo. He had on a
light coat and white hat or cap.
Cross-examination—As I rode to Echo I was
sitting in or by two Beats turned together. Tho
cars were crowded; could not tell how any ono
was dressed. When we roachod Echo I was iu
about half a doze. I was aroused by the shot
trom a shotgun. I did not know at first where
the shot came from ; thought it was from the
depot. Tho car was about forty feet from the
platform when the shooting was going on. I saw
tho Hash of the pistols; could not seo the men.
When I first saw the man with the gun he was
running sidoways toward the car with tho gun in
his hands, his face was turned back and he might
have been looking toward the men who wore
firing. The man with the gun did not shoot after
I saw him. I saw part of his face as he was fall-
ing; did not see any mustache. 1 thought he
was hit when he fell; I heard him groan. When
the man fell the only light I had to see him by
was that from the car. I don't swoar that Theo-
dore Armstrong wub the man 1 saw. I am 23
years old; have been gambling for a year or a
year and a half. I am what is called a booster in
a gambling saloon. They found me in the cala-
boose at Temple when 1 was summoned as a
witness. Mr. Jim Martin came there and inter-
viewed me. I told Georgo Brown what I saw be-
fore the detectives came to Bee me. Tho two
Armstrongs were pointed out to me at George*
Dr. Doak said: I am a practicing physician. I
live in Taylor, Tex. Knew John T. Olive. He is
dead. He died in Taylor, Sept. 12,1892. He died
from a gunshot wound. He was shot both
through the bowels aud stomach. From tho na-
ture of the wounds they were made with a shot-
gun. The wounds were the occasion of his death.
Cross-examination: There were the marks of
four shots on the body aud one in the arm.
[Here the doctor described the position of the
wounds at length]. These shots ranged forward
and upward. He was reported to be shot about
1 o'clock aud I saw him about 4:30 in the morning
of tho 11th of September. He died on the morn- -
ing of the 12th. When I first saw him he was on
* litter being carried out of the railroad
coaoh at Taylor. I could not swear positively
what kind of clothes he had ou. His shirt
was somewhat torn in front. I examined
the holes but paid uot much attention to them. I
saw one shot on his being undressed. The shot
came from his clothing a» it was being taken off.
I have the shot here. [Witness here shows shot
and keeps it.J 1 saw no powder burn on his cloth-
ing. I was with him almost continuously from
my first visit to the time of his death. I was
present for an hour or two at a time, He did not
claim while 1 was with him that he recognized
who it was that shot him. I think he recogniied
approaching death. 1 think ho was fully aware
of the fact that he was g9ing to die, for I tola him
so and ho appreciated it. He wai in his right
mind when he was talking about dying. I asked
him if he recognized the party who shot him and
he said he did not.
Redirect examination—I asked him who he
thought it was, or who he believed it to bo. Me
answered that he believed it was the Armstrong
boys. I asked him which one, and he said one of
the younger ones, and that was all that was said.
He said he could not describe the man who shot
him by his elothes. Olive would weigh from 200
to 220 pounds; may be 210 pounds. He must have
been 6 feet or more high. I would rather not
make any statement as to Olive's clothes, as I
paid no attention to them and oan t be sure
about it.
James Blair said: I live in Belton. Bell coun-
ty, Tex. I was living in Belton at the time Olive
was killed. I don't know whether he was killed
Baturdav night or Sunday morning. 1 was in
Helton Saturday night. 1 live in the eafteru por-
tion of Holton. I Ufa on the side of tim county
road. A man going to Echo, who leaves the fair
ground* uud goes around b> the oil mill, could
got to Echo by tho road i live on. Ou tho Hatur-
day uitflit that Olivo was killed I aw person
traveling on that road- As 1 eume homo 1 panned
threo parties. Thoy wore going in the direction
• if Krho. I Hiipposed thoy were men and not,
women. They wore on home back. The man
nearest to me wan riding u ur.iy hor»e. The other
horses I cannot describe. One of the parties. I
thinlc, had a gun. but J am not sure that .t u
gun. It looked like a gun. I could not swear it
was a gun or what it wus, hut it lookod like a
gnn. I suppose it was a gun.
('rocs-examination 1 generally go down tho
MifMouri, Kansas aud Texas truck to go home,
and went that way thut night. As 1 went down
the track 1 noticed tho three men go across the
track to the oil mill. 1 don't know if they turned
toward tho oil mill or toward town. I paid no
attention to thom. It is a fact thut ono road
goes betwoon tho comprois aud the foedhouso
and one goes to town. Thero is another road
that goes to the Shallow ford, I think tho object
in front of the man was a gun, but I cun t bo
positive. I can't say whether it was an umbrella
or a gun, as tluit i» a hard question, it flashed
iu my mind thut it wus a gun, It might havo
been something olso. 1 don't know. There wore
a good many people from the country iu town
that day and that night. Persons were passing
in every direction that night. 1 auppote it wax a
quarter of u mile fiom the public square thai I
saw those men. Tho parties 1 saw were ruling
iu a walk. They made no effort to conceal thorn
selves; tiiey were just riding along.
J. H. Petersen said: i live out on the Shal-
low ford. I live about 8J0 yards from Echo. I
was at homo the night Olive was killed at Echo.
1 did not know Olive. 1 went to bed at 10 o'clock
that night. 1 hoard some noise us of stock break-
ing into my truck patch; this was about 11
o'clock. I got up and walked out to see what it
was. 1 went out through tho orchard. I guesa
1 went fifty or cixty yards from the house. 1
thought I paw some horses standing down next
to the weeds down there. 1 starDed to thom aud
got to within 1 <A) feet from them. 1 buw what 1
thought w us some men. 1 saw what looked to
ma like threo men uud three horses. Two of
tho horses wore real durk and the other was
lighter; it was a gruy horse. Two the men
looked to be ou tho grouod aud it looked like
oue was horseback, They were on the outside
of the fenco. 1 next noticed there was u
man that lookod like he had a gun. When 1
turuod around 1 started to go back to the house
and 1 suw them walk back to the jveed patch
theres thoy did not take thoir borsei with them.
I did uot notice which direction thoy took after
they struck the weed patch. I then went back to
the house. I remuined iu bed an hour or such a
matter, when i got up ugaiu. I hoard the report
of some guus in tho direction of Echo. I heard
loud talking in the direction of Echo just after
the shooting. I saw two meu running: it lookod
likefhey wore running at me. It looked like they
ran in the direction oi tho horses. I guess enough
time had olupsed from thetimo I hoard tho shots
nntil 1
saw the hen running
for them to have come from Echo if they run like
I do when I got started out if anything is wrong
with mo. They ran toward tho horses and I did
not seo whore thoy ran then. Where tho horses
were tied there is a branch lined with willow
trees, I did not sav the horfee* wore tied.
Cross-examination—I gues» it is 400 yards from
my houbo to tho Belton road. My house is in-
closed in a yard of about lour acres. My regular
bed time is about 9 o'clock. 1 laid down and
was just dozing off when I hoard tho noise, Tho
noiso 1 hoard was south of my house, to ward tho
back road. 1 weut botweon fifty and sixty yards
from the house. The horses aud men wore not
inside my four-acre lot but wero inside tho pas-
ture. They wero on the side next to Bolton. 1
thought 1 noard somo stock in tho west side of
my lot. und that wub tho first thing that directed
my attention there. 1 walkod between fifty uud
sixty yards from my house; then 1 saw the par-
ties thero. There wore treos on tho creek wnere
they were. They wero in a nock. Tho neck is
thirty or forty foot wide; it is a nock mado by tho
creek. I don t know how far their horses wero
from my house. 1 guess, from the looks ot it,
thoy wero twenty or thirty feet from the Helton
and Echo road. To got out of that neck
they would have to turn around and go
by tho lane. I lie lane runs right towurd Helton.
Tnat lano is for Mr. Parkin's stock to go from tho
barn to the pasture. 1 did not seo if thoy had
torn down the fence, as it was none of my busi-
ness. 1 think there are two big trees. They were
not under the trees, but abovo tho trees. It lookod
like oue man was sitting ou his horso or getting
down. 1 never paid any attention to it. 1
wanted to go back. 1 dia not know if they were
up to getting some melons and would try to
scare me or not, aud I wont back to tho house. It
wus about 11 o'clock when 1 saw those horses. 1
did not notice the moon that night, only 1 know
it was shining. Tho parties 1 saw were kiud of
in the bright moonlight uud uot
the shado. To me they did not
appear to bo hiding. 1 went right back and went
to bed. I noticeu nothing more. 1 was next
aroused by tne report of a guu or something liko
that. Tho ahooting had just stopped when 1
stepped to tho door, Tho parties got within 300
or 400 yards oi me when 1 first saw thom. They
wero in tho Duck pasture when 1 saw them, 1 hoy
wero coming from tho direction of Echo. 1 hey
were bearing toward the country road, iueycamo
within u couple of hundred yards oi my house. 1
lost sight oi the parties in tho weed patch. 1 do
not know who tho men were: don't know whether
they wero white or black. When 1 first saw tho
men leave tho horses they wont toward Echo.
W. W. Houston, witness lor the state: 1 live
about a mile west of Echo, on tho roau ruuuiug
north and south from 'Temple to Little river.
The Saturday night Olivo was killed 1 was at tho
alliance mooting until late. I got home between
II and 12 o'clock. It wus a good loug while
alter I went home before 1 went to sleep, lean
hear tne tap train como in at Echo. 1 heard it
thut night. It parses within Six) yards of my house.
1 don't remember hearing any Bliots after
tho train came in thut night. 1 know whero Pe-
terson lives. Iu going from Peterson's house to
Holland there is a route uown by Echo and if
you did not want to go by Echo you would go by
my house. 1 hoard some one come by my house
after the train caiue iu. It was near 2 o'clock. 1
wus in boa ut the time, rlhe parties that pussed
my house wore riding. Thero were two or threo
oi them, 1 could uoi tell exactly. The best I
could got ut tho horses thero was one sorrel aud
one gray thut thoy woro riding. 1
thought there wore throe horses. Tlie reasou 1
thougut so wus, 1 wus looking out and it seemed
to me like tho man would wiggle and it impressed
mo thut there was another horseman on the other
side of him. They wero on tho road thut was on
the direct route trom Peterson's house to Hol-
land, That is not a public road. It is not usual
for men to be traveling by on that road at night.
Cross examined—It was about 2 o'clock when I
hoard tho horsemen pass by. 1 form that opinion
because I heard the clock strike ono und 1 heard
it strike two. 1 could not say positively, but I
dou't think it was over ten minutes either way.
The sorrel horse was iu front, I thought there
was another horso beyond the gray horso. i he men
wero trotting, traveling a pretty port gait. They
were uot traveling in a lope. 1 suppose tuey wero
goiug five or six miles au hour. They wore going
south. The south end of tho roud they were
traveling loads into the Belton and Heidenheimer
road. That road would load to belton or Heiden-
heimer. It would go to Little Rivor switch, to
the three forks bridge and it would go to Rogers
Broke Two Kibs.
Pilot Point, Tex,, Dec. 3.—N. H. Stanley
while unloading lumber from a car fell
against the standard of the wagon, breaking
two ribs.
Sent Up for Cow Stealing.
Trxahkana, Ark., Doc. 3.—Peter Light, a
one armed negro, wau arraigned to-day on a
charge of cow stealing. Light lived on Red
river. The overflow washed everything away
and brought hard times. Last June a band of
Bit right — all
tho proper func-
tion* of woman-
hood. Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Pro-
scription is the
remedy. It regu-
lates and pro-
motes their ac-
tion, and removes
the obstructions
and suppressions
which cause trouble and misery. At the
two critical periods In a woman's lix©—tM
change from girlhood to womanhood, and,
later, tho u change of life "—it is a perfoctlr
Hufo and an especially valuable remedial
agent, that can produce only good results.
it's a jjowerful, invigorating tonic, nnd a
soothing mid strengthening nervine; a legiti-
mate medicine—purely vegotablo, perfectly
harmless—and carefully adapted, by an ex-
perienced physician, to woman s delicate
For all tho derangements, irregularities,
and weaknesses peculiar to the sex, the
14 Favorite Prescription " is a remedy so cer-
tain that it can be guaranteed. If it doesn fc
give satisfaction in every case, the money is
returned. No other medicine for women is
sold in this way. No other medicine can be.
negroes went into the cattle stenling business
on a large scale. After operating for a
couple of months the gang wan detected and
Light aud six of his associates were arrested
and lodged in jail. The theft of twenty-six
beef cattle, sold to different butchers here,
wart traced to the gang and all were indicted.
Two of the gang were tried by jury this
morning, resulting iu one of them getting ono
and the other two years in the penitentiary.
Light pleaded guilty in two cases and was
given live years and the remaining cases
against him wero dismissed. A great many
cattle owners attended tho trials and had tho
defendants been discharged they would prob-
ably have been lynched, so strong is the feel-
ing against them.
Weary of It. t
Now York Evening Post.
The claim of the republican organs is the
severest reflection upon their party ever yet
cast by anybody. They have always boasted
that their party was "the party of intelligence,"
and yet here they are asserting that thousands
upon thousands of its members are so ignor-
ant that at the fourth election under the
Australian system they do not know how to
mark their ballots! Some change in the sys-
tem is demanded so that these ignorant re-
publicans may be saved from committing
such blunders in future. There are republi-
cans who are growing weary of these claims
of republican ignorance and stupidity. One
of thom is Secretary of State Pcirce of Massa-
chusetts, who says to a Boston Joural re-
porter:
Gov. Russell is not elected on a technicality.
He has a plurality on tho face of the rojurns, jast
as Rutherford H. Hayes had, und he must be de-
clared elected by the returns. Thero is no other
way out of it. You see if a man could take up a
handful of ballots and say those voters intended
to vote my way and I shall assume that they did,
why that would bo revolution right oil".
We had allowed that the republican party was
the party of intelligence, and I favored the Aus-
tralian ballot because I Baid, now we shall havo
more intelligence behind tho ballot. Hut wo f^nd
what? That republicans are the most cureless
people in the world ; that they are too careless or
too lazy to attend their primary meetings; that it
is too much of an exertion for some of thom to
look over and mark their ticket and to vote for
every candidate, and therefore that it is necessary
to make some change in our method of voting.
Cotton Receipts and Building.
McKinnky, Tex., Dec. 2.—New machinery
has been ordered for the completion of the
artesian well.
Up to date 14,900 bales of cotton have been
compressed at this place.
Nineteen cottages and residence buildings
are in course of construction, besides several
brick business houses.
A man passed a confederate $10 bill on a
liveryman to-day, for which he was arrested
and jailed.
Hailroad Commission and Cotton Seed.
Garland, Dallas Co., Tex., Dec. 3,—Cotton
seed have been in great demand hero for the
past few days in consequence of competition
of rival nulls. Prices have been up to $13 per
ton, or a little more in a few instances. Some
sold to-day for $12 75 per ton, but this even-
ing the price tumbled to $12. It. is said by
leading buyers here that it will fall to $10 by
Monday. Agents representing oil miils at
Honey Qrove, Paris and Wolfe City have
been buying seed here this week.
Criminal Court Notes
Decatur Tex., Dec. 3,—Sheriff Garrison
caught Bill Chalk, who is wanted for dispos-
ing of mortgaged property. He was carried
to Montague to await his trial.
The grand jury has found two bills each
against W. G. Chumley and Henry Grantham
for assault to murder and an attempt to rob
the Byrd boys near Alvord. The circum-
stances were published at the time in Taa
News.
Opera-house as a Grain Warehouse.
Bonham, Tex., Dec. 3.—About two years
ago a joint stock company was formed and
constructed an opera-house in this city at a
cost of $15,000. Yesterday it was 6old to Ed
D. Steger for $7500. Mr. Steger will let the
house be used through the present season for
the purposes for which it was constructed and
afterward will convert the building into a
grain warehouse.
Hailroad Land Case.
Higgins, Lipscomb Co., Tex., Dec. 1.—In
the case of the state of Texas vs. the Houston
and Texas Central railway company, for the
recovery of 180 sections of land in this county,
a change of venue has been granted from this
county to Travis county. This is a case that
was instituted by Gov. Hogg while attorney
general.
Breckinridge JottingB.
BRECKiNafcxjE, Tex., D ec. 1.—W. J. Haynes
has sold out his drug business to W. P. Love,
who will hereafter conduct the business.
Cotton continues coming in rather lively.
The crop will likely be as large as it was last
season.
Applicants for the postoffice are becoming
numerous.
Remanded for Forgery,
Eastland, Tex,, Dec. 3.—-S. M. Gower,
charged with forgery, waived examining trial
and was remanded to jail in default of $500
bail.
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