Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-09
A DAY AT DALLAS.
Proposed Extension Of the SANTA Fe
From Dallas and Fort Worth.
Progress Of the Northwestern Road--
Local and Criminal Notes.

Special to the Gazette.
Dallas, December SIT il reliabl,
Q stated in railroad circles to-day that tn
Gulf Colorado IL Santa Fe railroa,
company will soon begin extensions o
their road from Fort Worth north
7 westward and from Dallas northeast
ward. The Fort Worth extension il
intended to meet the Leavehworth
Lawrence IL Southern or the Atchisop
Topeka ~ Santa he near the boundary
line of the Indian Territory, and reach
Kansas somewhere near Caldwell
forming direct line from the gulf Ia
Kansas City and Chicago. The Dallas
extension will toe to u connection with
the 81. Louis q San Francisco at Paris.
Tex, or Fort Smith, Ark, and form n
direct line from the gull to st. Louis
ana Inc East. 1T is said wo.k will be
rapidly pushed on both lines.
Charles Williams, "A conductor on
the Missouri Pacific railroad, had a
sixty-dollar suit of clothes stolen from
his valise at the st. George hotel TO-
day. He had never worn the gar
ments. No clue to the thief. He has
employed a detective and law firm
OF three members to hunt I'D the
property.
Mrs. Mary Thompson, mother of
Thompson Bros, merchants. died
suddenly of heart disease at one o'clock
to-day.
The district court adjourned this
evening, but new term OPENS on
Monday next, when the civil docket
will be taken up.
The teachers in the public free
schools of the city to-day received their
salaries for the month ending Novem-
Der. aggregating $500.
A man supposed TO be James b.
Curds, suspected of stealing a horse
from Washington Leonard of this
county, is in Jail at Palestine and the
horse in the custody of the authorities.
An officer will be sent for the prisoner
and the animal.
The following parties, who have
been convicted during the present
term of the district court, were this |
morning senteuced: Simp Wilson,
MURDER, fifteen years; john Moony- !
nan. burglary, two years; John Mont |
gomery, theft and burglary, two years
ON the former aud three years on the
latter; David Edwards, burglary, three
years, aud William Ross, theft, nine
years.
I. J, Hurley of New York city, vice
piSSihcht vi tue leS2S ~ treat
Northwestern, with headquarters Mt
Dallas, writes that matters connected
with the company have progressed
80 vorably that he will start for
Dallas in few days and place an
engineer corps in the field early in
July to survey rates for the main line
rom Mckinney to Seymour, and for
he branch from Dalas to Decatur
md that the work of construction will
1c begun Immediately thereafter.
w r.. Hughes OF st. Louis, proprie.
or of the Grand Wiud-or hotel, to- /
light closed u contract with A.
3rownlee Of this city for the enlarge t
nent of the hotel. The present build 4
ny is to he raised and remoddeied, and Il
he following additions made: Two s
hundred feet front on Commerce street, 4
me hundred on Houston street and 2
lity on Mark street. The additions n
re to be three stories high, construct o
d of stone, and will have elevators T.
nd all modern improvements. The
ost Will aggregate $4,000 Work is o
o be commenced and finished within q
tx months. Those improvements {
viii make the Grand Windsor the h
nest helei in Texas outside OF Hous-
on and Galveston. IL