Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-05
A DAY AT DALLAS.
Unabated Interest IN Railroad Matters
Much Cry aud No Wool.
Magnates Of the Santa Fc Prospecting
With Fort WORTHLESS Following.
Suicide OF c. w. Sprayue-- Republican
Ce1nty Convention.


special TO the Gazette.
Dallas, April A shooting ailray
occurred this morning ut Mckinney |
between Editor Robinson OF the DEM
ocrat and Deputy sheriff Haskins.
Robinson wrote an article rejecting on
Haskins rs an officer. Haskins went
TO the office for n retractlon, but failed |
TO get IL. Hashins hit Robinson on |
the head with a siX.shooter, and Rob |
inson shot his assailant nfiicting bad |
wound. Robinson was arrested
News reached here last night by |
private telegram Of the killing of an |
old man named Hyde hy youth |
named Cockrell of Canton, NanIandt |
county. The killing proceeded from n |
feud which had long existed between |
the two families to which the parties |
belonged.
The railroad interest here Ia unahat- |
ed, and 10 the intelligent observer Il is |
| plain that Dallas Is In dead earnest In
her determination for the early eon-
struction OF the three lines recently
| mapped out and considered 10y the
merchants exchange particularly aud
the business community generally.
President Oppenheimer of the mer-
chants exchange, In conversation with
the GAZETTE correspondent this morn
ing, stated that meters connected
with the lines proposed to
Brownwood via Clebul ne, tothe north
west via Grapevine, and 10 Paris via
Rockwell and Greenville, are now in
very satisfactory and tangible shape,
and that Dallas will pay 100000 to
the company building, equipping and
putting In operation one hundred
| all 80. a a.l. ,,.a an,
all of the directions named, and that
the committee appointed to look after
the financial features have encouu-
; tered nothing but encouragement, and
that he can say for Dallas that her
cash Is ready at any moment, aud
that she will aid In securing suhstan-
tial encouragement from other locali-
ties along the proposed lines. Quite
a ripple Of interest was
manifested in business circles this
a morning upon the arrival from Fort
Worth OF special train-load of Santa
Fe magnstes--among them General
Manager Webster Snyder, Chief At
torney Walter Gresham, General
Freight Agent Crowley and others
They remained until one o'clock p. m
and departed for Galveston. On In,
heels OF the Santa Fe folks cam'
Messrs. Mayor John Peter Smith
James d. Reed and Mr.. Montgomer,
of Fort Worth. IL was evident thes'
lastDamed gentlemen came over will
their eyes wide open to watch out 70
the interests of Fort Worth IN,
to see what the Dallas committee o
public benefit did in connection viii
the visit of the Santa Fe top-Iow fe
lows. III Ia evident the railroader
while not specially here for that pun
pose, were not averse to bearing from
@ Dallas in regard TO an extension north
Y easlwardly, and were willing 70 hea
a the echoes of any words OF "anhstai
tial encouragement that might
sounded along the line from Dallas
Paris. They met the sub-comu tie
Messrs. Marsalis, Sanger aud Seine
der, appointed from the general con
mittee Of public benefit, and had quit
lengthy consultation on the recen
propOsition-$l00, 900 for one hundre
miles, etc. But just what expression
were INDUCED in could not be learne
a by newspaper men iIo'
Y the committee, further imam I'M
= everything was encouraging ana OF
good-news character; that when any
thing positive Is contaminated IL WI
he given TO the public. The GAzETT
correspondent II satisfied from ca.
- wasting around and from genera
observation that Dallas has detel
mined TO have road northeastwnrdl,
and IL the Santa Fe does not come
the front and build II some other mt
dunn VIII be found; there are man
good business men who express d.
cided partiality to the st. Louis d Sa
Francisco company being negotiate
with, arguing that il that compan
: could be induced to put
NJ line into Dallas, aud another line
\ constructed from Dallas to Brow
wood, and the two, or one, work ma
mopicu,ly, the 81, Louis u San Fra
cisco would not be loser by the ne
departure. The only thing that e.
be positively learned from the come
ence to-day Is that the Santa re COL
pany will on Monday, April 'l9th, F.
on another passenger lrain, nas'i
Dallas ut O'clock q, ni,, and run
rect TO Lampasas, making two trui
each way, Instead OF the present 81
gle bobtail commandments
freight-no-acoount excuse Of ira
now plying from Dallas TO CieburD
leaving here late in the afternoon.
The Messrs. Harry Brothers, wi
l have the contract for street paving, a
70 putting their machinery In shape (
preparing material in East Dallas, al
are having delivered large quantiti
of bois dare timber 10 be sawed up !
TO blocks for paving purposes. Il
work Of paving nearly three miles
additional streets will be showed ahe'
very rapidly after the work starts
May.
The Republican county convent,
(or more properly conventions, for q
party IL split wide OPEN will a4scmb
tomorrow at the county court hous
The annual meeting OF the Dali
n merchants exchange occurs
"Wednesday next, April 9th, at Will,
officers for the ensuing year VIII
St, elected and other business transacte
: There is general desire expressed
the members that President Oppel
in heimer will fill that position iur q
u other Term.
G. w. Sprague committed suicide
a Fast Dallas, Mt 10 u. N. to-day. ~
- following proceedings Ia the coroner
court ex plains the tragedy:
(. Inquest held over the body
- Charles w. Spraguc, In East Daili
on the 4th day OF April A. y, 1883: