The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-05-15
Heavy Stock shipments Over the For
worth & Denver.
Hymen In Haste ~ a Hos,lerie-AI
Amusing Scene.
The "Blue Devils" Up and Doing II
TarraDt County.
O,her Notes from u Sister City.

FoRr Worm, May Q. -(speolal l-Qnite
n iufnre OF excitement was created this
evening by var ON u small scale between
the Santa 10 Telegraph company aud the
Erie Telephone & Telegraph company.
Some time ago ths city councl ordered all
telegraph and telephone poles 20 be thirty
five feet In beigh,h on Main Street, forty
on Houston and not les than twenty-five
feet on side streets. In accordance With
toned began putting In new poles. There
was fight when they came 20 Main street.
az TO which corporation should let In poles
frat, and both companies claim
they got there fltss certain it 10 that but a
iew hours elapsed between the planting Of
both parties. The telegraph company
stretched their wires ana said nothing,
The telephone company put uptheir wires
about forty In number, and awaited re.
suits. To-day the Santa Fe complained
that they were troubled by their wires not
working we'll, induction from the Telephone
wires doing the damage. y. Is. CLARK,
train master OF tho Santa Fe. ard n. H.
Fosdick, In charge OF the telephone office,
held consulate about o'clock, and the
result was thai q. Kaiser and Albert Full.
ner, line men, weGe ordered 70
mount the poles and cut the teiephone
forty telephone wires soon dangling
from the cross.bars. OF course the service
on Main street baxes was seriously ctip'
pied, and tho manager Of the exchange,
Mr.. Fosdick, soos oscer'atned wha. had
been done, when he went 20 the court
house and in the name OF the Erie Tele-
phone & Telscrapb company. made com.
plant against the four parties men TONED
for willfnlly nnd maiiciously cutting the
ss,,r nj
Fullmer ana Kaiser ct once, when they
promptly gave bond in the sum OF 500
each. The most prominent lawyers here
shy the Sspta Fe was not justified in law
by the course taken; that an injunction
could have been obtained before they were
10 any way disconnected. Toe case will
20 into the courts and promises to he OF
interest.
The grand Jury returned 80 hills OF indict.
ments to day, q for ielonies and IL for mis-.
demeanors. No indictment was found in
the Murphy Eaton case.
James II. Tfigg, o farmer living eighteen
miles west # this city, had his wire fence
around 800 acre pasture cut all to pieces
a few nights ego, and being determined TO
have all the guilty parties prosecuted, had
all those living In tho nsighborhood sum.
moned before the grand jury to testify.
Probabilities are that indictments nave
been found.
O, d. Higbee. whose rancho is ten miles
west OF Fort Worth, had his fence cut but
has no idea as to who did the work.
Dave Blair, q we'll known stockmsn
representing King & Kennedy, Is hers
WITH 1000 head OF cattle, the
first Of $4,000 to be shipped to Wichita Falls
and then driven to Hunnewell, Kapsas,
where they will be sold. The Fort Worth
& Denver Is more than busy with Its stock
business.
There was Q runaway marriage here 81
the Western Hotel this evening at .
O'Clock which caused considerable amuse-
ment, the groom being IS and the bride
20. The couple very much dread the wrath
Of the boys lsther, and when they learned
that the Told man. was coming after bis
boy on the north hound Santa Fe, they
took the Texas & Pacific for Dallas, and
will then 20 to tho land OF the Indians to
enjoy their honeymoon. The vile took
good care OF her darling hubby until the
tram was boarded. A. y. Carroll Is the
sw ain, and Miss Mary Myers, the blushing
bride. :,
W. FL. Davis, who owns very valuable
property on Houston etreet. speaks OF en-
Joining the building Of the Rossdale street
railway in front of hts property. There 10
considerable opposition to the building OF
he line on this, our main thoroughfare,
the people holding that one street shout d
be- kent freS from street GALS