Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-28

An Illinois Man on Track Of RObber
and His Missing Money.
The Freeman Murder Case--Bonds OF
The Sew Railroad Company.
Base Ball-An Interesting Game for
Thanksgiving Day.
COIored Sinners -l,i2zie'S Uniaitilful
and Absent Spouse.
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Special 10 the Gazette.
Dallas. November 27.-Geo-ge w
Horton, n substantial and intelligent
citizen of Sangamon county, Ills,
passed through Dallas to-day, en- route
10 East Texas or West Louisiana in
the lower Sabine river valley region, to
endeavor to effect the capture OF Henry
Doty, who accompanied him TO Texas
on Il prospecting tour about two
months ago, Mr.. Horizons object seing
| to invest largely In cattle ranch in
| Taylor county. After prospecting
1 through the northern part OF the coun-
/ ~ Tor about two weeks, he found
| property to suit him and started about
I Six weeks ago for Abilene to have the
/ titles perfected and recorded. They
camped about twelve miles from that
town for the mig t, and the next
morning DOty was gone and had
robbed Horton of $4,000, II
gold watch and a number of
valuable papers. Mr.. Horton has
been quietly looking in all the towns
rs far west as VI Paso and down to
Chihuahua for til nhber. but got no
trace of him till la9t saturday, when
he discovered the watru in the posses
sion of II good appearing stranger NJ
I'll Paso, fully identify ing it by the in
| scription and other marks. The
stranger was from Cir nd Cane on the
Sabine river, in Desoto parish, La,
and said he left the party hepurchased
the watch from at that place ten days
ago. Horton paid the stranger eighty
dollars, the price he paid for the
watch, and hopes to b. able 10 secure
the capture of Doty and recover his
papers and at least n part of the money
he was robbed of.
The Freeman murder case is still
before the district court. The argu-
ment of counsel has b, en- goingon this
afternoon. 1t is expected the jury will
be given the case sometime tomorrow
The stockholders of the Texas d
Great Northwestern railroad at their
meeting yoiei to issue first mortgage
bonds bearing six per cent. interest per
annum to the amount of $4,000 per
mile; also ct cond mortgage bonds, same
rate of interest, to the amount of 81 ,0OO
per mile. Letters from the Eastern
Stockholding capitalists are of II tone
to indicate that they mean strictly
business
~ ENlllN WI bN~c bull Is
for Thursday next Thanksgiving dayl
between the old original Brown Stock
ing Amateurs ana the professional
combination wintering here. One
half the gate receipts are to he given to
the ladies' Charity hospital fund. The
arrangements were concluded this
morning and the following are an
nounced as the two mines and their
positions:
oRGG BROWNS. POSITION. PROFESSIONALS
Coit..........,... Pitchcr... .oieIss
Moloughney ...... tatcher ..,.,,.,.. .stocllwcl
Myers ...........S hort-stop Murray.
Mutually '.......,..t First base Scott.
hhkcny ,..,....."SeCond base. ......,.. Fisher.
Mansfield hasc........,.. Carroll
" hatlcy ......,., Len field. d. .,.... Lewis.
Rawlings. ..,..,....-.Ccute teld..... Morrison
Lou him. .......... Right field. ... lngraham.
Both teams assure the public that
they will play for all they are worth.
and no favOrs be asked or shown by
either nine. No matter whether the
score is large or small they say the
game shall be played from beginning
to finish on its merits. The Dallas
club have nearly perfected arrange
nents with the Fort Worth club to
play at Fort Worth next Sunday. a
number of the Dallas players took
a. 4 uii ONtI w Tue Il pTt tt-uaN.
Tnere are to be number of church
bazars and dinners in the city on
Thanksgiving day.
The Texas Express company to-day
iilS d suit in the United States court in
this city against the hondsmen of
Henry \. Thomas, formerly agent for
the company mt Fort Worth, for 81, 900,
lie being an alleged defaulter to that
~ ,F L. 4
$1,000.
Rev. Nathaniel Swan, a colored
preacher, to-day made affidavit before
Justice Edwards against Daniel Smith
a member OF his congregation, for
having threatened TO take his life.
Upon Investigation it TRANSFERRED that
The preacher had been too intimate
with Mrs. Smith to suit her husband,
hence the threats. Justice Edwards
refused to place the threatener under
bond.
William Kinder, colored. of Fort
Worth, recently married Lizzie b 9th,
a grass widow, of Dallas. Lizzie had
upwards OF 800 spot cash, which she
had saved by irueality and hard wash
ing and ironing. William got posses.
SION OF AL me spot cash and skipped
- i'''' o'NAoNIi' IslLLle Is once
more sorrowing grass widow
AND Hat broke. She to-day in.
voked the aid of the police to find her
inlaith:ul husband, but no trace can
be found of him.
Pleasant Owens. the farmer. who
was so badly injured last Friday by
falling of the court house fence, il
dead. =
The leading real estate men Of lila
city assembled to night at j. S. Do,rh.
ertys Office and took preliminary stern
20 FORM state association, which il IL
oe perfected next Friday night at an
adjourned meeting. A Temporary or.
ganizllion was effected, with II. NJ
Powell as president. The object il To
map out a plan of action 10 secure
favorable legislation on the school land
question at the extra legislature session
In January. A resolution was adopted
calling on all real estate men i'm the
state to attend Friday nights meeting,
WEATHERFORD