Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 27, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 11, 1891 Page: 1 of 12
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Santa
J
HIGH WATERS
Fe Track Washed Away
in the Territory
CANADIAN RIVER FLOODED
Runs Into the Washout
Loads of Stock Drowned
v
Windy at Cleburne
i
Tex dune f Tin
Sev
Higher tlau for Many fears
Rise In Almost as viany
Minute Reported from Mon-
tague County
Red River Itasmg
lazette
Fort Moxtagcb Cot NTT
i Red river higher than
has swept everything from
ai i oclock last night and is
ie rate i f si inches an
Lhai were camping at the
v and it is feared they are
In liars County
zette
June A very heavy rain
accompanied with some hail
his place to day doing con
it developed into a
a n ile from here on Mr C
m and uprooted trees corn
ices and one barn I he air
n ake was ho1 like steam
dwe ling house at Scienci
by lightning and burned to
In Runnels Coniy
NI N COUX1 - TFTlme
ted here thai a cyclone struck
ihern pari ol Iiunnels county
1 and comjiletelj demolished
mils ai I ruined a number
No one reported killed
afternoon
nb a light rain sect npanied by
the north part of
he roof off a small barn It
a resilience knocking it
fo ir tee- li looked
some littli nine but subsided
i In r damage
Canadian and It I Rivers
-
i Ti v June 6 An arerflow
i anadiau river washed awat several
I he San I track ai an
i hty miles north i
and j freight train loaded
reported to have run into the
and several carloads of stock
i
even miles north of here rose
u lev hinirs to day and at
thai stream higher than for
nd grave fears are entertained
ii he Santa Fe bridge will be I i 1
The river is tilled with large
reeu trees washed out from I j
eal damage is reported to crops
iroperty in the bottoms several i
-
rains accompanied by hard
stream 1 lie rise is m the
country near the headwaters of
I en here and
throughout
yesterday and to day
t iter Ten Feet High
Isazett
Vlos rAQl i t toCXTY Tex lime
Jed river running three miles
p ie s mi one of the greatest
known for years yesterday
aboul I oclock i volumeof wa-
tt high came rushing down the
trees brush house tops
- and debris of all kinds In
he whole vallej ivasone
I dark red seething waters
near the river are all un-
il mud and great damage will
Such a rapid rise and height ob
e water is unknown to the old-
- there il was ill expected
been raining here fur more
1 he waters ai pr sei i
i by the overflow
A Sherman
net Ie
imanTej Junefi This section has
VO very hard rains within
hours Wheal ami outs are
iome in Ms Hail fell in other
a as cut from the limbs and
i a lew instarces in other
was general
hillings Work at llcnton
i Ca Hi
Tex June 6 During
torm thai prevailed here
nfternoon the residence nf
- as si ruck b liirhl nin
i he
-Mr
Tie
brick Hue of the kitchen
i io tearing ofta large
tiie rool the house Three
fan ivere in the house ai
All of them were shocked Mr
Ida svas knocked down
recovered after a short
rsons u the residence of Mrs
shocked over 100 feet away
I our Lives Lost
tte
H Ulie 1 s Co x rv T
We fi IT
rams i -ay night
iih a severe hailstorm in
Wonderess creek valley So far
-even crops were ruined
is reek is six feet higher than
vi before
i mr lives were lost
- re- - id oul buildings
washed away The family arc ai
two men employed by Mr
lives
rangers who camped
oi i Ice between here
rued I lie inquest a I amgs
them de nol disclose anything
identity They will receive
ile burial at the hands of the
S nda morning at a in
nearly suspended
RESIDENTS
SISTER-
N LAW
Secures an Kight Thousand Hollar
Pension Twenty One Years After
Her Husbands Death
I to the Gazette
so li i dune 6 Mrs Elizabeth A
son widow of the presidents brother
ibaldJ Harrison licrtenanl oolonel of
twenty seventh Indiana volunteers re
1832993 Thursday iast in settlement
pension claim which was favorably
- upon at Washington within the past
e weeks The pension was granted
the declaration that Lieut Har-
ms death resulted from consumption
eh be contracted while serving his
ry in the held Lieut Harrison
1 in 1670 on a farm near Indianapolis It
j twelve years after CoL Harrisons
before his widow presented a claim
a pension Tho claim was for-
warded to Washington and placed
tile in the pension office
early in President Arthurs administration
and though it was back d by Gen Harrison
o was tueu lhe ackuoviedced leader of
Indiana Republican politics and by many I
other politicians of note the commissioner I
of pensions refused to allow it The papers I
did not prove to his satisfaction vhat
Coi Harrisons disease was contracted
while m the service lhe papers were
j withdrawn but placed on file again i
during President Clevelands
I ration Gen Black the pension coin- j
I missioner under Cleveland absolutely j
ignored the claim It seems the i
claim laid in lhe pension office till shortly
after President Harrison was inaugurated
and was advanced by slow but sure stages
to finai consideration wliich resulted in its
allowance The payment covers twenty one
years since the death of Lieut Co Harri
son at the rate of 39666 a year
EL PASO DUTIES
That City the Most Important Port In
Texan Amount Collected
Special to the Gazette
El Pso Tex June 6 A special agent
of the treasury department was in the city
yesterday He is just from Galveston and
says that the average collection of duties
on imports at that place amounts to 25000
pcrmontn E3 Paso can just double that
sum the collection of duties at this port
averaging 50000 tier mouth El Paso is
the most important port in Texas and her
importance is growing daily
HOWS THIS
The Candidacy of Calhoun of
Georgia for the Senate
ARE THESE THINGS TRUE
A Iofy Texas Alliance Character Charged
with Offering to Sell Out to the
Georgia Railroads for ho
Many Thousands
The following is taken from the Ellis
County Mirror of June 3 1891
We wish to say lie word in regard to Mr
Calhouns candidacy for the senate We
looked upon Mr Calhouns advent into the
race with a certain degree of suspicion
We fully believed for months before his
nrme was announced or even before he
wrote the Georgian letters or his name
was whispered in Alliance circles that Mr
i Calhoun would be a candidate for tin-
ate Our belief was based upon the facts
in our possession that Mr Calhoun fur-
nished Dr Macune and Col Sledge the
money wilh which to buy a controlling in-
terest in the Southern Alliance Farmer
This evidence we yet have in our posses-
sion and are ready at any time to turn it
over to the executive committee
We saw the Calhoun boom originate in
Washiugton city and later saw it turnup
in Georgia If Gen Cordon Col Norwood
or any other man who aspired to the
torship had done lhe same thing had gotten
control of our official organ lor the purpose
as we see it to put himself in official posi-
tion the Monthly would have opposed him
Under the circumstances and with the evi
dence before us that Mr Calhoun did fur
nish these gentlemen the money to purchase
ilio mouthpiece of the Farmers Alliance in
this state ana use it to elevate himself in
the United States senate we had a right to
oppose him ami were he to make the nice
ovor again under similar circumstances we
woultl make a ureal deal more noise than
we dill before
The senatorial race is over and it has
never been our purpose to reopen it and
only make this explanation because of false
statements as to our motives lor opposing
Mr Calhoun
Seeing il as we do and knowing what we
do we teel safe in saying that Dr Macune
and Col Sledge are responsible for many of
the existing differences between Alliance
officials in this state Their connection
with our state organ was not what it should
have Ix cn and we believe the majority of
our Alliance brethren will agree with us
when we make this assertion CoL Sledge
went to an official of the railroads inter
I esvd iu the lease of the Western and At-
lantic railroad and to this official did make
a proposition to make the official organ of
I lhe Georgia state Alliance advocate the
lessees claims for betterments against
the state of Georgia for a consideration of
j so many thousand dollars paid to him
I Sledge i Phis is a fact and we dare Col
Sledge to deny it
The Monthly has never asked any in
dorsement for itself or anyone else but
we do think that Col Sledge should be
indorsed if indorsement will cleanse him
from the shame that justly belongs to
him But the Monthly cannot indorse
such traffic on the peoples rights and the
honor of our noble order
We do not make these statements to
create strife in the Alliance far from it
If this was our object we could say more
but we do it merely to put ourselves right
before the public We are not making
war on the official organ We are only
leiling a few fads concerning those who
have offered to sell its influence and the
peoples welfare for a few thousand
dollars in their own pockets Georgia
Alliance Monthly
The above coming as a plain statement
of alleged facts from an authoritative
source and put without any indication of
passion or bad feeling cannot be ignored
by the great order in whose interests it is
written
Who are the characters mentioned One
of them is now one of the most conspicuous
leaders in the order having recently had
the indorsement of a state gathering and
the other is an influential worker in the Al-
liance in this stare lie is the most promi-
nent party in the present management of
the state organ of Texas and yet we have
tl e assertion that he did propose to the rail-
roads of Georgia thai he would use the
state oraan in their interests for -so many
thousand dollars paid to him The Georgia
Alliance Monthly further says This is a
fact and we daro Coi Sledge to deny it
What does the Texas Alliance think in
view of these assertions and in view of
t lie official prominence of Col Sledge If
these things are false he must speak out
for the night and the Alliance of the state must defend
i d Quanah him if innocent If they be true can the
order in rexas longer tet mm control its
destiny Are these things false or are
they true
STABBED TO DEATH
Dr Halcouibe a Denton County Farmer
Stabs a Neffru Fatally
Special to the Gazette
Dknton Tex June 5 News was re
reived here this afternoon that Dr G W
Halcombe a well-to-do farmer stabbed
Harve Coleman a negro yesterday after-
noon at 0 oclock killing him instantly
The particulars are about as follows Dr
Halcombe and the negro got into a fisticuff
on the formers home place and the negro
was getting the best of it when Dr Hal
combe ran into his house The negro ran
after him and it was here that the doctor
drew his knife and cut the negro rive times
in the breast resulting as above stated
Dr Halcombe has a wife and children and
looks to be about fifty years of age He has
resided in this county for several years
The negro is spoken of as being very or-
derly and never before to have been en-
gaged in a difficulty
Dry Sunday at Nacogdoches
Special to the Gazette
Nacogdoches Nacogdoches Cocsttt
Ti x June 5 To morrow will be a dry day
here as the strict enforcement of the Sun-
day law has been ordered and we have a
marshal who will enforce it
w
THE FORT WORTH GAZETTE
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING CO
FORT WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY JUNE 11
MEXICO DENIES IT
Story of Suffering Toid By a
Texas Commission Merchant
ASKS UNCLE SAM FOR REDRESS
Ex Senator Blair Thinks the G 0 P Platform
Will Declare for Free Coinage
Not Much Faith Placed in the Story that
Gov Steele of Oklahuiua Is About
to Succeed Pension
tioner Raum
Not Credited
Special to the Gazette
Washington June 5 The presidents
private secretary Halford was asked this
morning if there was any truth in the re
Mrt circulated in New York that Governor
Steele of Oklahoma bad been offered the
cominissionership of pensions
That is the first I have heard of it he
answered I was not aware even thai
the present commissioner had resigned
Xo credence is given to the report here in
well informed quarters Almost everyone
now appears to be satisfied that although
the president has his eyes open to be pre-
pared for any emergency he has not de-
manded Katuns resignation and will not at
present This would in his opinion be
giving the enemies of the administration
too much satisfaction
Mexico Investigating
The Mexican legation here has made an
investigation into the case of James Bellew
a Galveston commission merchant who re-
cently reported as having suffered indigna
ties at the hands of the Mexicans at Paso
Del Norte Bellew declared I hat while in
that city he had liven 10 in gold in pay-
ment for something ho bought of a Mexican
merchant and that the latter declared it
to be only a 5 piece This led to
I a dispute between the two and after the
arrest and imprisonment of Bellew who
alleged that he was not permitted to com-
tnnnioitn 1 1 1 i li 111- fiiitiJo v villi Vi
WHAT TO EXPECT
Three Storm Waves of June
Followed by Cool Weather
FROSTS EXTENDING
SOUTH
Fallacy of the Hot Air Theory of Storms of
iieitt John P Finley of the
tnited States Weather
Bureau
Special to the Uazette
St Joseph Mo June 6 In my last
letter I gave forecasts of a dangerous storm
period covering the time from June T to Jf
inclusive stating that this period would
contain three principal storm waves one of
which 7th to 11th 1 particularly described
The second of these dangerous storm waves
will be due to leave the Pacific coast about
the 18th cross the Rocky Allegheny valley
from 14th to Itth and reach the Atlantic
coast about the 17th I cannot say which
of these three storm waves will be of great-
est force but I am inclined to believe that
it will be this one and that its most de-
structive energy will be expended not far
from the center of the Rocky Allegheny
valley and not far from J une 15 hollowing
this storm wave the weather will be un-
usually cool and in Northern latitudes
frosts will occur much further south than
is ordinarily the case for this season of the
year The middle part of June will have a
few hot days but will average quite cud
with no extended hot term Rainfall will
be unevenly distributed with too much in
some localities and not enough in others
This concentration of rainfall in particular
spots as the storm waves pass across the
continent will lead many who do not look
beyond what they can St to imagine that
no storm wave is passing and that my fore-
casts have not been verified Those who
read and observe however will realize that
the regular storm pulsations are about as
well timed as the railroad trains My next
letter will describe the third great storm
wave of the June period of destructive
storms
FINIET OX TOKXADors
Lieut John P Finley of the United
States weather bureau has had the most ex-
tensive experience in the investigation of
tornadoes of any man living and therefore
is the best informed as to the history of de-
structive storms of all those who have
given attention to this subject He also
stands high as a scientific scholar and re-
ceiving a good salary from the United States
government for many years has enabled
him to devote his whole time to the subject
of destructive storms He is the champion
the Jleader the oracle of those who hold
that wiud alone is the force of ail storms
and that all winds are caused by heated air
rising thereby causing a suction the result
being an inflow of atmosphere to fill the
vacium caused by the rising column of
heated air This is the old theory of storm
forces and no man in Europe or America is
better able to uphold that theory thau is
Lieut Finley He has published a book on
tornadoes and other destructive storms iu
which lie gives a record of jOOO storms
covering a period of more than AW years
Besides being a valuable record the special
purpose of his book as stated by himself
is to prove that the force of the storms is
wind alone and not electricity On pape 14S
of his book he says In 1S79 UK and
1SS1 the question of the electrical origin of
wiud storms came before the courts of
certain states principally Wisconsin Mis-
souri and Kansas in the interest of insur-
ance claimants Certain parties who were
policy holders had their property which
was insured against lightning destroyed by
wind storms and brought suit for the
recovery against the insurance companies
on the ground that both in the popular
acceptation of the term and in its true
scientific meaning lightning or electricity
was the cause of all violent wind stomis
This theory the policy holders tried to
maintain by every possible means and in
cvrse of tae strugeie 1 was summoned o
appear before the courts as a scientific ex
i pert on the question of the origin and de
I velopment of tornadoes I made special
preparation tor the engagement ana ook
occasion to embody the results of my labors
in the form in which they here appear
All this proves that Lieut Finley has put
forth in his book his best efforts to su stain
tiie old theory that hot air causes the force
of all storms and 1 propose to sIkuv up the
fallacy and inconsistencies of his argu-
ments 1 deny the orrectness of his theory
and affirm that electricity is the moving
force of all storms and now that we are in
the midst of a period of great Tornadoes and
other destructive storms a discussion of
this issue will be of more than ordinary in-
terest Mr Finley correctly says that a
practical knowledge of the various kinds of
stomis known to the United States should
be one of the subjects of instruction ic our
public schools Very true But it shouid
not be forgotten that many things iearned
in our schools have to be unlearned through
public discussions through the press The
accumulated results of discussions through
the public press are the truest educator for
there everything is taken before the bar of
reason and only that which can withstand
the most scathing criticisms is permitted to
implant itself in the public mind This is
not the case iu our schools Our teachers
see it to be their duty to follow the dictates
of their text books without questioning
their correctness
There is no question of greater importance
before the human race than that of the
cause of mot inn in our atmosphere To dis-
cover the real cause means that we may
soon be able to know long in advance the
coining changes in tiie weather and this
would benefit mankind to a greater extent
than any other possible revelation while to
continue our researches on the old theory
advocated by Lieut Finley means another
century of failures for meteorology
W T FoTEK
FOSTERS STORM
HEAVY RAIN IN SOME CASES AC-
COMPANIED BY A GALE
Pease River Higher than liver Kuufrn
forc Two Miles of Denver Track
Submerged--Bridge Gone
in in hwi mi inn ii itima vi jiii in e vi
Special to the G
United States consul and was subjected j
Mi Kinney
besides to al Kinds ot indignities which
i suffering so wrecked his health that he pro-
posed to apply to the United Slates
i government for redress The Mexican
I legation here has received an official re-
port to the effect hat there is no I
record anywhere even of the arrest of i
i Bellew though a careful search of all the
archives has been made0
I AS UK VI THE IlANK
Ex Senator Blair said to The Gazette
j correspondent I think that the next
I publican platform will declare in favor of
tiie 1re coinage of silver f be
lieve if the old party will put itself together
it will meet the demands of the people
and will win in 1893 1 believe 1 could write
the plank iu the platform now Wo be-
lieve in the free coinage of silver and gold
as a legal tender for all debts public and
private
Do you think then that the Republicans
in the next congress will join the Demo-
crats of the house in passing free coinage
was asked
No I do not was the reply That is-
sue will not be settled in the next congress
but will sjo into the campaign The Repub-
licans will put lree coinage in the platform
and they will try to placate the discon-
tented farmers
At RIcKinney
aei Ie
Tex Jill- A thunder
storm prevailed this evening
berland church was set on fire
department extinguished the
number of other house- were
one man a drummer knocked
was nut hurt
Gum
Killed a Car
Special to the Qarette
Dallas Tex June 5 During the thun-
der storm which visited Dallas this after
noon an electric car on the Commerce street
line received a shock which paralized it and
left it dead on the track Iliree persons
were in the car and ail received an electric
shock thai they will not soon forget Fortu-
nately no one was hurt
Flood liates Thrown Open
Special to the Gazette
Gt riiniE O T June 5 It has rained for
a week past with but litt s stop and to day
it seemed the Hood gates of heaven had sud-
denly been thrown wide open TheCiinma
ron and Cottonwood rivers are rising rap-
idly and old scouts say the like before has
never been seen The country is rolling
and the ravines oaten of course all the
water Farms in bottoms are deluged and
guards are watching the railway bridges on
i id
the streams and the one over the
inaron will probably be washed awav before
morning Guthrie is on several high hills
and suffers little
Damage at Potlsboro
Special to the Gazette
Pottsboro Tax June S A driving
storm came up here from the south at 4
oclock and gave us a splendid rain but the
terrible winds did much damage Graham
Jones big storehouse was badly shat-
tered and goods much irjured Damage to
building and stock about S00 The buggy
house of Mrs Wilkinson one half mile
east was demolished with a fine carriage
The splendid fields of wheat anil oats are
as flat as pancakes and greatly damaged
The heart of the storm passe a few miles
east of here
The Sttrm at Vernon
Special to the tlazette
YruxoN Tux June 5 Heavy rains
west of here last evening raised the Pease
river at least three feet higher than ever
known and in places it was two miles
wide This morning the water submerged
the Fort Worth and Denver track for two
miles and took the most of it down stream
The railroad bridge is all gone except one
span
At 3 oclock this morning a freight train
came dashing into town anil was
wrecked two miles west of Vernon the
engine and four cars loaded with ties
being dumped into five feet of water one
mile east of the bridge The engineer and
fireman jumped into the water receiving
slight injuries and swam to the shore
The bridge was thought to have been
extra safe
The ntwy county bridge north of tosvn
was unharmed
A heavy storm from the north struck
Vernon at 1 1a this forenoon and it rained
steadily for six horns It was accompa-
nied by severe wind but no damage was
done
The crops along Pease I lver are under
water District Judge Brown has f00 acres
overflowed
Telegraphic communication from the
west is cut off and it is not expected the
break iu the road will be repaired and the
bridge passable for several days
FRED DOUGLASS
HIS DIPLOMATIC CAREER DRAW-
ING TO A CLOSE
The Condition of Affairs in Hurti Not at
All Complimentary to Frederick A
Leave of Absence
Special to the Gazette
Washixotox June 4 It is the general
belief about the navy department that the
diplomatic career of Frederick Doug-
lass at Port au Prince is rapidly draw-
ing to a close It is known that
the report of Admiral Gherardi brought
to Washington in regard to the condition of
affairs in Hayti is far from complimentary
to Douglass and made it even more apparent
than it had been before that the affairs of
the United States were in very ioor hands
One of the chief faults found with
Douglass is that he seems to have
considered himself the representative of
the negro race rather than of the luited
I ONLY A DRUMMER
New York June 6 As soon as the col-
lapse of the Baring Bros was announced
the New York World sent a staff corres-
pondent to the Argentine Republic to inquire
into the investments which precipitated the
failure The correspondent made a thor-
ough investigation ami his report makes
a remarkable story showing how
Charles H Sanford a Yankee drummer
for the sale of pills and toilet preparations
first gained a membership in the American
11 rni of S B II ile v Co in Buenos Ayres
and after malting 1000100 by a single
financial coup went to Gondon and woi
confidence of Lord Reiliistoke head of I
Baring firm Thence returning to Argen-
tine he invested millions of the
Barings gold in doubtful enterprises
and securities Twenty five years ago
Sanford was on the east coast of S
America and traveled as n drummer of a
New York firm dealing in drugs and chemi-
cals This firm failed and he turned his
attention to the firm of S B Hale Co
whose members were aboul to retire He
us- the maternal love of Mrs Pear-
son daughter of Samuel Hale and
wife of John R Pearson as a
lever to further his interests tie argued
thai THE 1 uy
of the old house of Hal v in mighi be re
vives ano mat in us operations there was
a brilliant future for Mrs Pearsons sons
The ambitious hopes thus filled in lhe j
ladys mind forced co operation iu j
the minds of other feminine members
of the family and although Mr
Pearson remonstrated the house of Samuel j
B HaleCo was continued with the pill i
drummer Sanford as one of the partners
Sanford obtained full control and engaged
ina foolhardy enterprise which would have 1
ended in ruin bui for The orivale fortunes
riia Gum- of Hale Pearson Then came the stroke
but the fire of the Yankees life thus described
names A After the revolution lhe Drovincial
struck and government found it necessarv to
down He date its debt In order to accomolish this
purpose outstanding loans had to be
taken up including the popular
loan held by Hale Co
The real ability which Sanford possessed
now became apparent Through no antici-
pations of his own the loan had failed and
the personal resources of ihe Pearson
family alone
SAVED THF BOCSK
Sanford counted on the immediate nc of
bonds and the failure of the public to buy
was a crushing blow to his pride San-
ford intrigued with the government in be-
half of tin popular loan and it is cur-
rent here tluri he subsidized certain officers
whose favor was useful to the
realization of his hopes Gold aud
silver were now at a par The loan was
taken up by the government in paper and
the safes of Hale Ai Co were cleared of cer-
tificates which cost the firm many anxious
moments and sleepless nighls European
loans were paid in gold and the profit which
ensued solely by reason of good luck and
the parity of gold and paper turned out a
profit of upward of 1000000
liXli VARIED M PANORAMIC
Short ty after Sanford wen London
where he besieged Lord Reiliistoke head
of the firm of Baring Bros Long varied
and panoramic was the tale poured into
Reillisti hes ears Sanford talked to him
about the extraordinary resources of the
Argentine and unbounded prospects of the
country Soon the head of the Baring
Bros was heard to say That Sanford was
the cleverest man he had ever met When
Sanford departed from London carrying
with him the confidence and admiration of
Reiliistoke and with the millions of the
Baring Bros behind him to spend and in-
vest a universe of chances were revealed
to his triumphant vision
The correspondent then relates in detail
the story of the investment of Barings
gold by Sanford First ho was compelled
to subsidize the government officials
to obtain a great waterworke contract
This part of the story is told
iu these words The estimated cost of the
waterworks upon which interest was to be
allowed was 136500000 in gold The price
of the concession to the Barings
through S B Hale Co
was S210000n0 in gold payable to
the minister of finance in three inssall
ments This was the public price but
there is
AXOTHKK SIUK
to the business and il forms a dark chapter
in the record of the Barring Bros bank
Nothtng is concealed from the government
j in Argentine without a price as has been
I described in the correspondence
The officials from the president down to
the janitors in public offices expect consid-
eration for their services in addition to
I their regular stipend The procuring of
1 the concession was obtained as was pre-
viously mentioned by Charles H Sanford
and a greater coup d ejat was never ac
i complishrd in the delectable capital where
BRIBERY CORRTJPTIOK AXI FRAUD
thrived as they rarely do elsewhere In I
order to secure great contracts Sanford j
was compelled to bid high and the success I
that be attained placed him on the pinnacle I
toward the apex on which the less form-
nate operators of the speculative market j
gazed with eyes fraught with admiration
J uerez Coleman was the chief executive
of the Argentine republic He was rijie for
boodle before he had warmed the presiden-
tial chair and at the time the concession
was granted the Baring Bros through
Sanford his need of money was great
Dr Wild another of the gangoT sharpers
who formed the boodle ring of the Argen-
tine was secretarv of the interior To
these two worthies Sanford addressed him-
self and their favor secured to him the
concession Coleman received upward
of JoOOUOO for his -fee in grant-
ing the concession An additional
sum of 100000 was also paid to the presi-
dent if the statements of some of the most
responsible here are accurate The minis-
ter of the interior received in00in for his
share of the deal
It proved a difficult task for this corre-
spondent to trace the entire disposition of
the Baring corruption fund used in the
waterworks deal The belief is current
fa re that nearly 3000000 was spent iu the
prelTninaries
Sanford is popularly credited with se-
curing speciai commissions wliich put
him high above the water in his course
down the financial stream among the
braen kettle aud earthen pots Having
secured this contract Baring Bros
forwarded to Sanford two installments of
000000 each and the third of a like
amount will fall due this summer Other
Suites It is this verv weakness of the suras were advanced at various times
minister however that constitutes his
office holding strength for the negroes
have already complained of being neglected
by President Harrison in the distribution
of offices If one of the few men
of that race to whom he
has given conspicuous appointments and
that one man who has posed for years as a
representative negro shouid be turned out
there would be much criticism of the ad-
ministration among colored politicians
Douglass has been granted a leave of absence
by the state department with permission
to visit the United States The application
for leave was granted about ten days or
two weeks ago and is foi the customary
sixty days It is expected that Douglass
will arrive in Washington within a short
time
until now the correspondent estimates the
governments liability to the Baring Bros
on this single enterprise at ncarlv 30
000 000
rnt watebwobks investment
He umtiuues The loss of the Barings
from their waterworks investment will not
b as great proportionately as in their
of bonds and other money here which
no one outside
j hi mind and politely declined The cir-
cumlocu ion office system prevails here in
all its complexity The Inquirer who
wishes to know is regarded as a suspicious
character only to be denied information
Notwithstanding these difficulties
I the correspondent learned that amounts
The Remarkable Exploits of a IP1 oooooo to twice or
Yankee Pill Peddler
THE BARING BROS FAILURE
llow the Moneyed Huail of tiie Great
Financial Firiu was Turned i the
Iauoralni Pictures Drawl
hy Charles II Sanford
various provinces for internal improve-
ments it of these loans toCordoba
the correspondent says is largerthan the
entire province is worth
The Baring- also have large investments
fn railroad bonds but these the corre-
spondent thinks will yield fair returns
time
Coleman County Land
Fori Worth Ti s J no 6 1891
To iita
in this mornings issue of TreGazi
the statement is made thai the big pasture
recently sold to the man with a ho
located in Browi The Fact is tho
land is situated in Coleman county about
ten miles west of the Brown count due
near the town of Santa Ana and within a
few mites c Ccleman ihe county ot
the county of that name The wttlemeut of
15000 or 20000 acres of splei did agrieultn
ralland by practical farmers means some
thing of great interest to the eoun so
fortunate as to secure those honorable
of toil and justice requires that Coleman
county shou have ie ere 11
I I OI EM F
WICHITA WHEAT
WHAT DOUGHERTY OF THE
WICHITA FALLS HERALD SAYS
vvclnla is All Right- The Banner
cultural Conntj llcr I
This Year
oi
Tnc Gazette reporter met F T Dough
erty of the Wichita Herald al the E is last
night and ventured to ask him How is
V iii
He replied Wichita is all right She
still carries her head proudly its the county
that has won more banners medals etc
for agricultural products tha i any other in
all Texas and she is conscious of the fact
that she is more justly entitled to the dis-
tinction of being the banner county of the
sate this year than ever before
What ate her total winnings
Well in the first place she i ntered the
1 lists three years ago at the Dallas fair with
wheat alone She carried away the pre
i miimi for this cereal over sixty other coun
j ties composing her distinct Ayear later
I she shied her castor into the areua again a
Ie las and walked off with the banner for
the best wheal county in the state She
bobbed up serenely at your men Spring
1 Palace and captured the handsome gold
medal awarded for the l display of I
the products of the earth FVom the Spring
lalace she went to the International fair at
San Antonio and was given the S1O0O pre
mium ineiargest ever won ny any counry
in the world lor the besl display of ail pro-
ducts Later but the same year she re-
appeared at the State fair at Dallas and
pocketed the 500 prize the largest cash
premium paid by the State fair association
that year What do you think of that for
a record
The scribe admitted thai it was good and
asked after the wheat crop
Mr Dougherty said The wheat crop
was never better in Wichita count There
are thousands and thousands of acres of it
It is not only very thick on the ground but
the heads are long ami well tilled and the
average will doubtless be greater than it
was two years ago
What was the average then
Twenty four and a quarter bushels per
aire for the county
Hoc did you obtain the exact figures
My paper sent a reliable man on horse-
back to every farmer in the county from
whom he got the drill and thresher meas-
urements The Conner gave the number of
acres sown and the latter lhe number of
bushels garnered The latter divided by
the former gave twenty four and a quarter
bushels exactly as the average
Are your other crops as good as year
wheat
Yes they never looked better and are
as line as in any country on earth Cotton
corn oats millet and sorghum are all in ex
cedent condition and promise a magnificent
yield
Are you not going to have a picnic or
barbecue or something of the kind soon
Yes sir On the 3rd and 4h of July we
are going to hold high carnival with a
Harvest Jubilee In this we will be
joined by our enterprising neighbors Hen
rietta and Iowa Park whoso interests in
the great wheat Belt are co equal with out
own We will secure low rates over all the
railroads if possible and expect no less than
10000 visitors The first day there will be
numerous excursions over the Wichita
Valley road and many persons will be
driven in carriages to view the splendid
wheat and other crops There will bo a
grand ball at night The second das will
be devoted to speeches from prominent
Texans races a mammoth barbecue horse
and cattle shows match games of baseball
probably a balloon ascension with fireworks
a nigh Governor Hogg Roger Q Mills
Mr Culberson Harney Gibbs and our own
congressman J W Bailey of iainesville
have been invited and are expected A
large delegation will lie present from the
line of the Denver road and there will be
people there from all parts of Texas I is
going to be the biggest thing of the kind
ever seen in the Panhandle It will be a
representative showing of the greatest sec-
tion of the greatest state in the Union
IT IS PROFESSOR BRIGGS
The Directors of the Union
Seminary Stand to Their
Formerly Taken
Theological
Position
Xnw Yokk June The directors of the
I Union theological seminary have met and
declared thir iosition on the ijuestion ot
the right of the general assembly of he
Presbyterian church io vote to transfer
Professor Charles A Briggs from the chair
of Hebrew tQthe chair of Biblical theology
The resolution passed at the meeting hed
this afternoon is as follows
Resolved that the board of directors
after having taken legal advice and after
due consiueration see no reason to change
their views ou the subject of the transfer
of Dr Briggs and feel bound in the dis-
charge of their dutie under the charter
aud constitution of the seminary to adlv re
to the same
The intent of the veto passeu by the gen-
eral assembly at its recent session in De-
troit was that Dr Briggs should cease to
be a professor in the Union seminary The
effect of the resolution given above is that
it is the judgerant of the dim
that the veto was a usurpation
Of powers never given or intended to oo
given to the general assembly aud that
since the veto was illegal the appointment
stands aud Dr Briggs will continue as pro-
fessor during the coming year as during
the past seventeen years
The Santa Anna sale
Special to the Gazette
Santa Avxa Tlv June The returns
he confidential clerks of j are all in for the pubiie sale of theMahoney
tue nouse aeu those of their agents can
debcribe I have met with many difficulties
in obtaining the simplest facts regarding
the Baring affairs The government of-
ficials svill disclose nothing The chief sec-
retary of this treasury after promising to
lay before me certain important of
ficii data was constrained to change
pasture made bv Capt Hasack auctioneer
A grand total of 110000 instead of 107000
as reported yesterday The Vaughan
pasture also in this county containing JO
000 acres has been placed on t he market in
tracts to suit farmers
VOL XIIJ NO 27
GERMAN TARIFF
Discontent Over the Decision to
Maintain Corn Duties
RYE ATTAINING PANIC PRICES
The Exocfos of Ktusten lews Assuming
Vawt Proportion Private Iliarity
Will soon be Powerless io
opt With It
Bl Rl IN
hted i Is ited Pr l
uneh II th
tenl we v allowed to tnanifi
- f
against tnc rovernment s decision
to
tain th ties Germany would be
ablaze with demon itral Sii
lor i surprisi th coi nl
he ariai parti u itli lits dec ara
C3 stii gtarifl roust re
treat i ncgi
were arranged
j the ro i i
exaspon Hie pol lea p i
to Kpi
lion - becoming penetrate
jc sens hat the go emmou has u
l -
espci s the s
the peoples ii Kven tin press
speal
The
alone
terial poln y urging
die ie on cereal -
sol lD N I IPEX iui to
i while the abolii
a revision of the hole pn I jt iff
in the i - idc
I he nal ional Libera organs o h e ad
mining the severi of 1
hat since all parties ci I pi iple i
suspension thetii
rive effeel to ii
The VossiseheZeitunsi iva us the govern
men ace ministers tb
- uuig a menacing charach r
Tie Verwaerts are other royalist pa
pers have nol terms bitter enough to re-
proach the ministers I
rai lan
light of
declaring
prefer
tie when it
K Zeitung
he cl aucellor s
the protec
temoriri - - il
is nliiii - that
necessary to the
ial treaties iuvolvin
i eptai ee
llie
iNCM SUM 1 OF
The Progressists u I lov
the Prussian diet have
to nc the ii ter to
I UK TARIFF
I ISC i if
rail
i ii the
reports on which their decision nol to
reduce the duties is alleged to be based
Chancellor Von Caprivis estimates are
hold to beof small value bi i the marked
facts
The Freissinnge Zeitung points out that
the price of rye is now almost attaining the
figure reached during tho famine years of
1876 and sr
As the session of the landtag wili close
within a Fortnight there is small chance
that the opposition will get time to conduct
a parliamentary agitation They are there
fore preparing for a campaign in the com
r
The Socialists are active They value
the situation and will give energy to the
opposition movement In overs populous
center meetings has- Ih ou held this week
Six have bem held in the Berlin district
1j eiii various quarters of the country me
morials reach the government in favor of
the suspension of the duties
exodi OF 1 rss s
The committee for the relief of Russian
Jews report thai man injured Hebrews
are arriving at Charlottenburg The
people were wounded while fleeing
from the Russian police A number
oAiews were killed white trying to escape
over lhe frontier Theexodus isassuming
such vast proportions thai private charil
svill soon be powerless to cope with it and
ihe government will be compelled io
interfere
CULBERSONS RULING
HIS OPINION ON THE PENITEN-
TIARY SUPERINTENDENCY
Austin ov Hustling to Make Her n Tor
I tie Mate Military Knr tin ment
Good- A Swollen Bfver
Special to the Gazi
Austin Tex June 6 Attorney-General
Culberson iss iil a lengthy opinion to
day at the request of Hon U A VVhalley
touching tin legclityol hts appointment
assunermtendenl ofth penitentiary- The
attorney general rules thatthe appoint
was legal The validity of the appointmi
is made to turn on lhe idea thai the iip
pointment was an executive act and was
not made in part by the senate Author-
ities are cited in proof of the posi
tion assumed and the racl Is
pointed out that the constitution pern
the legislature to vest appointments of many
offices already existing or of others
that may be created directly in
the house or senate Evidently be thinks
the disqualifications pointed oul in section
13 art fcle 8 of the i
reference to such cases A clear
is therefore made by the
I attorney general between appointments
made in whole or part by the senate and
I those to which the senate mere consents
Bad the purpose of the constitution been
to disqualify legislates from holding of-
fices the appointment to which the senee
must i in set it would has e been sij ex-
pressed in clear language Laws that dis-
criminate against and curtail the equal
privileges of one class of citizens
cannot be given effect by mere inference
They should be explicit
Adjutant General Mabry received a tele
gram to day from lien Stoddard chairman
of the committee to select a state camp
ground saying that amajoi j of the com-
mittee two out of three had voted for
Austin The capital riven until
i day to perfect her bid and furnish the aec
i essary guarantee that make good the
I terms of i To dn so svl Involve an ex-
penditure of about fa 000 a public meet-
I ing of citizens w i held this afternoon to
I boom the project
The Colorado riser is on its June jam-
boree with an eighteen foot rise No great
1 damage is anticipated to the dam excava-
tion
Capt Hutchinson of Houston and Sir
Miles Crowley were in town to lay
Chartered The Sunset oil company of
i Louisiana capital 3000000 the Lnion
stockyards Sac Antonio capital jslOO000
MPi
The Weekh iAzrriEjiinnWT
tisimenMjfjjiiBBPWWrTr
Haf irf i in
TO EXPLORE GREENLAND
The Obje tfs to Find Whether Greenland
1ft an llanl or a t outinent
New Yokk June 5 The little brigactine
Kite starts to morrow afternoon for Green-
land with the exploring expeuition of the
Academy of natural sciences of Philadelphia
The chief object sought to be accomplished
is whether Greenland is an island or a con-
tinent If it is a coninent the vexed ques-
tion of finding the north pole will have been
answered iu the affirmative for it will be
necessary in order to reach tho pole only to
penetrate further and further into the
frozen country along I he line of the western
coast of Greenland If it shall be proven
ienbiud is a continent many lives of
xplorers who might seek to reach the oole
by sailing north will be spared
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