Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-18
A DAY AT DALLAS.
New Tme.Card and Close Connection ON
the Central Railway.
The Duck Creek Shooting End Of the
Stonc.Cutters, Strike.
Comprehensive Reviewer Current News
In Our Sister City.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to tho Gazette.
DALLAS, April l7.--It Ia said a new
ume-card Is being prepared for the
Houston IL Texas Central road. the
most important change contemplated
being to have the morning south-bo
mail, express and passenger train
make close connection with the east.
bound Texas IL Pacific train. At pres
ent the Central south.bound passes
Dallas two hours earlier than the east.
bound Pacific. The contemplated
change is greatly needed. Parties
from the West desSing To visit
Ennis, Corsicana, Wa&ahachie and
other points on the Central now
have. to walt over at Dallas Atil /
evening, taking two days to transact
business that ought only to require
one. IL close connection were made at
Dallas there Is no doubt the Houston
4 Texas Central would greatly Increase
Its travel. The new schedule II IL un.
derstood Will so into effect about MAY
l. An earlier date was contem-
plated, but the great floods on the
Texas u Louisiana line, between
Houston and New Orleans, necessi.
tated n pcstponement. Mail facilities
for the points above mentioned would
also be vastly improved by the change
outlined, as letters from the west
would reach their destination a day
earlier than at present.
Ezell, who was shot by j. w. Bow.
man in the Duck creek neighborhood
on Tuesday last, and who was be.
lieved TO have been MORALLY wounded
was reported still alive but In a critical
condition this evening. Bowman has
not yet been captured,
Ground was broken to-day for the
fire-proof house to be erected In the
courthouse yard for the storage of tn,
records. A large force of laborers and
mechanics will push the work rapidly
to completion.
The striking stone. cutters and con
tractors compromised this morning
and the strike ended. The mechanics
are now working on piece-work in
stead of by the day, as previously.
The new board of directors of The
Merchants exchange held its first
meeting to-day and transacted n large
amount of routine business. G. A.
King was elected secretary OF the ex.
change, superseding w, K.Wheelock,
who declined 10 be u candidate for re.
election. Paul Furst was reelected
treasurer. The new exchange build.
ing Is progressing rapidly In construc.
ton and will be ready for occupation
by the LIST or 10Th of July.
There never has been greater activ
ity In city real estate in Dallas than al
present, and prices have never ruled
as high. The transactions are numer.
Gus daily, particularly In choice resi-
dence sites, which nre sought after b,
the weather. and more prosperou
business and professional men. IL Il
safe to say, without exaggeration, tina
fully 81 900, 900 worth OF buildings ar,
going up or under contract now la
Dallas, East Dallas and their suburbs
Large tracts OF fine residence property
| that have been held oil the market
heretofore, particularly In the eastern
portion of the city, are being laid of
INTO one and two-acre and halfacrt
| lots, fenced in and Offered
for sale, and are being rapidly taken
Prices for these residence lots range
from 81, 500 10 $1,000. The town Is on
one OF the biggest and most substantial
booms IL has ever experienced.
James Hendricks, colored, was ar.
rested and jailed here to-day for burg.
larizing Wiley Tate's barber shop al
Terrell last night, while the proprie-
tor WIS filling an engagement at a
church festival, carving cold ham for
the white folks. The burglar took $s
In cash. a fine pistol and sky-blue
knights of Pythias cap. He owns up
TO the crime, and stands In the shadow
OF the penitentiary.
The race for the choicest position In
the gift of the city council, the water
works SUPPLEMENTARY, Is animated
and lively, the candidates being
Wheeless, the present superintendent;
Bennett, Of the Times, and ex-Alder-
man Gill. All are competent for the
position, but on the principle of to the
victor belongs the spoils'' Benefits
claims are gilt-edged. The Times
championed In the late campaign the
cause of every alderman elected ex-
cept one, and Bennett on election day
went TO the polls and worked from
the opening 10 the closing for the
ticket.
The citizens of that thriving and
populous North Dallas suburb, called
Oak Lawn, are signing for metropoli-
tan benefits and advantages, and to-
night are to hold mass meeting to
consider the annexation to Dallas, or,
following the example Of that pert and
pretty sister, East Dallas, form a
municipality OF their own. Inaslnuch
as East Dallas is getting In the humor
to annex ON fair and equitable terms to
the parent city, Oak Lawn should
dismiss the separate municipality idea
and set q good example by securing
equitable terms and ut once annex,
Destiny intends for Dallas and all her
suburbs the proportions OF one big city
with mutual identity.
Arch Cochran and his brethren in
the wing known as the BEEF Head
Republicans, who were SO ingloriously
defeated at Terrell yesterday by the
"Plug-Hat" faction, are on the war
path with louder whO0pg than ever to-
day, and say the fight has only begun;
that upward Of five hundred Republi.
cans OF Dallas have been
thwarted by clique Of about
sixty INSCRIPTIONS men, and
that when the Fort Worth convention
meets there will be blood on the moon
and revenge will be sweet. Get the
Tarrapt Reserves in trim. The red
flag has been raised.
Reports from live stock sources are
decidedly favorable to that industry In
this section. The warm, soaking rains
OF last Friday and Saturday served q
most salufary purpose. Pastures and
ranges which were 10 far this spring
short Of grazing material were set on
the grow In earnest and there Is now
an abundance OF grass for stock cattle
During the past week, large numbers
OF corn.fed cattle have been turned out
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