Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-07
A DAY AT DALLAS.
Arrangements Perfect TO Light the City
by Electricity.
On tle Trail of Morgan Cammack-
The Burns-Adams Case.

Special to the Gazette.
Dallas, April Arrangements are
about positively concluded to illumi.
nate the city by electricity. The cleo
trio light company tonight displayed
ten brilliant lamps from the cupola of
the st. George hotel, ninety feet above
the streets TO demonstrate the utility
of the system, which made brilliant
illumination in that vicinity.
Paul JamisOn left tonight for Hills
boro To act Us n contractor expert, to
aid in adjusting disputed loss to the
damaged walls of a brick building.
United States court, April term,
opens at Waco tomorrow. Marshal
Mckee, Attorney Bigger and Assist
ant Attorney Bigger left for that place
tonight.
The grand jury meets to morrow.
The killing of Mike Burns by Willis
Adams will be Brought before that
body, and after it has taken action on
1t, Adams will, Ii is said, apply for re-
lease on habeas corpus proceedings.
He is farlng sumptuously at the county
jail, his friends sending him the finest
beverages and the most palatable del.
icacies by the basket fuli-something
to which Mike Burns widow is a
stranger. In the meantime Madame
Molly Parker is watching in
some secluded part of the
city. the course of procedure
the Law will develop toward her high
toned friend
Hon. john II. Cochran is in the city
to-day shaking hands with great rep,i.
larity. Political Iumor has 1t that MIR.
Cochran has abandoned his ambition
10 become comptroller for the present,
ana Us State Senator Gibbs ia now
squarely on the track for lieutepant-
governor, he thinks that he is lust the
peg to fill the hole, thus made vacant
in this (lhe 10TH enatorial district
and will try to 'get there Eli,
A great many Dillasites will attend
the races at Fort Worth the coming
week. .
There has not been word from
Morgan CammaclS or his pursuers to.
day. ollicers, and the public geuer.
ally, are of the opinion thet he will he
IN Dallas within the next forty-eipht
hours, as his whereabouts are so Ger.
Ianly located that 1t is almost impos.
slole Tor him to escape, If all parties
interested determine on his capture
IL may be, however, that he will he
allowed to come in voluntarily and
save himself from prosecution ON the
ground of violation OF his agree.
ment with the state, as il is
questionable If any legal proceedings
could be instituted against him under
mat head until he has failed to re-.
I'spond as witness when called. which
VIII not be the case until after the lanse
OF several days yet, at the earliest. n
~ known That he is not far from Her.
mosiiio, Mexico, and that he has since
yesterday mornin" ,,;een mn, -io, ave..
tur,s to be allowed to return and retain
the clemency Of the law extended To
nun at the time he was allowed TO turn
states evidence. This is regartie d as an
indication that he is nearly "brole,,
Numerically, and has no hope of perma
hentiy avoiding capture.
LATER-Detec.ive Bailey Of the
LIQUID system secret service, left for the
West to night. He evidently is on
oammack's trail. George Cammact
brother of Morgan aud one of III
principal bondsmen, Is in the civ
keeping close watch on all incoming
aha outgoing trains and the NOV,
ments OF officers and detectives.
Inc city election is getting red.ho,-
ana charges at combinations of this
sort aiiu That are freely INDUCED In hv
candidates and their enthusiastic
friends. Tomorrow the quiet "prettv
work" VIII he put in after the stiff
hunt fashion, which will settle the
BUSINESS for many II man who will r.,-
,use To believe he is being led like y
Iaihb TO the slaughter, Till after the
votes are canyassed Tuesday night.