Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-30
The Generals Opinion In Re.
gard TO Terms OF County Courts.
Tie sunsets Scheme TO Distance the
Cannon Bali Line.
IN Elopemenl Sensation With Horse
Stealing Features.
Base Ball--City and state Taxes-An
Attempted Outrage.
special to Che Gazette.

| tionals wilNbe here ON October eth.
They will he Mcomed by an immense
crowd. John E\Hogan, last night,
resigned as manag&> of the Browns.
| w. j. Kain, one ofthe wealthiest men
of the city, was elected in his place.
The examining trial of lIen'ry
Shanks for the murder of August
Weimer was adjourned over TO Tues
/ day next.
State and county taxes are due Mon
day. Taxpayers have until Mar II l.,
! 1854 TO settle. The county valuation
IL So, u.s., 500, and the state and county
tax to be collected for 1883 Is Sl27. 700.
There are fifty retail liquor
dealers in Dallas. Half the
licenses fall due October lst.
The state tax is $40 and the city tax
$3.50. There are no saloons in the
county outside the city, as local option
prevails in all hut one precinct and
the license Is SO high no one will en-
gage in the traffic there.
Judge Hurt starts for Tyler to.mor-
row to take his seat OH the bench of
the court of appeals.
Geo. Adams, aged seventeen, at
tempted to outrage an eight year-old
daughter OF c. Il. Peters few
miles from this city this morning.
Mr. Peters swore out warrant, and
officers are on Adams trail.
Hon j. n. p. Craner member of
the legislature from Robertson county.
was IN the city today, returning from
his West Texas ranch
William Jesse Grant has been an
pointed 10 clerkshlp ia the Dallas
! postoliicc.
Out of one hundred and seven
! school communities in Dallas
county, only ten have sent
in contracts with teachers for
County Judge Burk's approval. Last
year some OF the communities had 90
little school that they failed to exhaust
| their prorata of the state school fund.
Sheriff Douglas of Gravsou county
is in the city to see United States
| Marshal Mckee, in reference to fees
for Keeping prisoners in The sherman
Jail. Mr.. Douglas has brought u bill
charging forty five cents per day for
boarding prisoners. to which Marshal
Mckee excerpts. The Dallas sherifs
| have always charged thirty cents per
day for keeping federal prisoners. that
being the amount allowed by law.
u response To a letter from County
| Attorney Clint, Attorney General
Templeton writes as follows, under
date of Austin, September %:
~ have given careful consideration
To the question submitted In your let
Ier of the 18th instant, and have I'M
hesitatingly reached the same conclu-
sion as yourself, viz: That without
awaiting legislative enactment, your
county commissioners court may, by
order duly entered on its minutes,
provide for the holding OF
as many terms of the county
court rs may he deemed
necessary for the prompt disposal of
the business of the court. The express
sion "and such other terms each wear
as may he fixed by the commissioners
court contained in the amendment
seems to have been intended to leave
tue matter to the county commits.
sioners' court. | will add that this
question was recently examined nv a
committee of the Travis county bar
and that theirreport was In conformity
with the above. This report was rati-
He'd by the bar, and will be followed
ny the county commissioners court Of
this cOunty.o
On the strength of the above letter
County Judge Burke has determined
TO issue a call on Monday, October lst
converting the commissioners court in
special session on Monday, October
Sth, TO ilS the terms of the county
court for the ensuing year.
From gentleman connected with
the sunset route,o now in the citv
the GAZETTE correspondent learns too,
mat there Is not universal harmony
between Mr.. Huntington and his as
sociates In the Houston & Texas Cen
tral System, and that arrangements
are now being perfected to place a fast
train on the Sunset" between San
Antonio and Galveston that shall
make the time of the new seaman
oail' rain via Austin and Homestead
appear very slow He says the nSnIr.
set track y IN good condition and
the cannon blllN folks viii be given
an Illustration OF what rapid transit
Yally means. '"''s''
a new sensation blossomed out lnsl
",.nt and to-day, embodving horsn
stealing and clopcment features.
middle-aged Mexican with ,Iontv az
cash aud buxon looking Whit
woman, aged about twenty.four. with
pretty blonde daughter aged about
four years, arrived in the eity yester.
day evening and were soon lie OH.
served of al observers In tho neiph.
borhood of the union ,lepot on -.
count of their nervous conduct and
the great disparity of their featuras
aud compilations. They took quarters
at hoiel on Pacific avenle and
soon three mounted white men
arrived IN town, bat although annor-
entity interested in the parties showed
no disposition 10 modest them. Iast
rightthe husband of the woman discovs
cred her whereabouts, and after relieN.
ing her other little daughter jeneriaa
without creating any disturbance Thn
Mexican, an eNceediuglv iatelli.
gent llngnist and sharp-laoking indi-
Nidnal registered us Il. l.. MARINE
and claimed to hail from San Antonio
iiedeposited Ia the hotel safe nearlv
eiyht hundred dollars In twenty dolIar
gold pieces, Ats o'clock this morning
ne and his white companion ar,,se. Ue
secured his wealth, had their haypape
checked Tor san Aatonio, and tlpy az.
parted on the south bound Texas Con.
tn'il train Tor the Alamo city. ReIore
leaving he admitted that although ~
ana tho woman had passed for man
ana wife az the hotel, they were noi
married, but that they intepded 10 he |
united at san Antonio. After they |
were sone the true state OF affairs
anne out. The Mexican hos hnen
Working ali summer on a farm In tbs
part Of the county. ana re-
eh'iy returned from the louisville
xposl'lon. The woman is the
ne u Samuel Coyle, who Z
SIDES ~, the neighborhood where ihe I
Iex'can has been living, aud who J