Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-21
A DAY AT DALLAS.
The Military Companies IN Camp
Railroad Rumors.
Other Items Of Local aud General In
tercst in the City.

railroad man who left Fort Smith yes.
terday arrived ut Dallas to-day and
reports having met at Fort Smith the
leading officials Of the st. Louis A 1
San Francisco Railroad company, whe
were IN that city arranging for build
Ing bridge across Arkansas river and
the extension Ut the road through the I
Choctaw nation to Texas. All the
plans and specifications for
the bridge NJ Fort Smith are
ready, the engineer corps has it's work
completed and the construction of the
structure viii begin @on. The line
lhsough the territory Will 20 either to
Deaison or TO Paris, with chances
largely In favor of the last named
plpee. Both points are working hard
TO secure the 'Frise, terminus, but Il
is considered that the projected line to
Paris presents Il route shorter, more
feasible of construction and into n
better portion OF Texas than the one
projected to Deuison. BESIDES, the
Frisco people are represented as being
anxious TO connect itself with the rail.
road system nv Dallas, and to secure
the trade OF the itch and
populous region between this city and
Paris. There Is no doubt that if this
conn any should conclude to continue
its line ON from Paris to Dallas, In the
| present feeling of the people, that cash
sui sldies to the extent of halfa million
dollars could be secured between these
two cities. besides the right Of why and
other land franchises. The Dallas
committee OF public bcuetlt will, il ~
has not already done 20, confer with
the ST. Louis Il san Francisco COM
papy on the project above outlined
| j. n. Simrson, who hes been sick ut
Fort Worth for nearly week, Is OK
pected home to-day or to-
morrow, when the trade between him,
self and Mr.. w. Ill. CASTOR for the
purchase by Mr.. Simpson Of the
Jockey club property in East Dallas
will be closed by the giving Of deeds,
abstracts OF title, etc, 70 the came.
Both the Dallas military companies
petition at the Houston drill In May.
The Lamsrs have quit all other work
and gone into camp, fifty strong, at
Shady View park, where they eat,
sleep, drill aud 70 through all the
routine OF army camp life. The Queen
City Guards have been la camp iortwo
weeks past mt their armory on Live
Oak street, but ns yet have not quit
their work and gone into army
life to the extent that the
Lamars have. The members Of the
company eat and sleep In the nrmory,
drill from to Z q. M, and from 1880 10
$3.50 p. m. Both companies are devel-
opipg rapidly In the minutie of the
tactics, and will be dangerous compel.
itors when the final tests come.
The rumors current here for some
time past TINT large reduction Of fore,
was contemplated ON the Texas 4 Pa
cific and other Gould roads la Texas
have not been realized and at present
appear to be not we'll founded. In
conversation with THE GAZETTE cor.
respondent to-day, ii well.iniormcd rail
road man gave 1t an his opinion that
nothing of the kind will occur very
soon; that railroad business
was keeping up REMARKABLE,
well for this season of the year, nne
!, that unless marked falling oil shall
: result In traffic and travel no reduction
will be made. He said that Of hii
personal knowledge the Texas & Pa
ciiic were employing Il full number o
3 men In their shops, particularly IA
Marshall, and In short time woul,
have the finest rolllng-stock of an,
road In the state. All the locomotive
that have been in use any great length
of time and need anything like repair
ing are being put into the shops u
Marshall and rebuilt ns fast M men car
do the work; tile same cnn be said o
] cars and coaches, a number of which
have recently left the shop
In ~ line shape II
= IL IL was their frat trip from the car
works In which they were original.
built. He predicted that in less thai
two months such a thing as an oil,
engine, car or coach will bc unknown
on the line of the Texas Il Pacific road
The credit for this new departure
given to the new superintendent, MI
Dimick.
Judge Thomhn of the United State
civil service commission Is due hci
tonight from Austin and on to-mol
row and next day will sit in examine
ton Of applicants for positions rnce
the civil service rules. There are re,
eral applicants who have papers o
file With Postmaster Garrison, an
they VIII probably present lhemsslys
for examination.
Judge Maltbie arrived this evenIn
from Sherman to sit In the bnbeas co
pus hearing Of Willis Adams, whic
comes up tomorrow mori Ing. Judl
AIdrldec left tonight to take Jude
Maltblc's place on the bench at She
man.
An autopsy was TO day held on Il
remains of the late l.. y. Banks by Il
following physicians 10 determine Il
cause Of death: Morton. Veal, Lea
Thomson, Childers, Hamilton and a
len. The autopsy was performe
II by Drs. Morton aud Veal, and the OF
Il er pbysiciaus took notes. After II
i work Of tue autopsy was concluded.
consultation WAS held and the cause
I Heath pronounced TO have been infiar
nation OF the brain and Of the bra
membranes, probably produced
over work uud exposure.
The infant child OF Dir. II. Is. ri
was buried to-day.
Between six and seven o'clock III
morning, Frank kirkhan was disco
cred ia an apparently dying condltio
on q lounge 10 the Office OF Hargls' II
cry stable OH ELM street. Drs. Ne
some and Hamilton were called, Al
after several hours work 81
Al ceeded In restoring co
y eciousness In the patient. who h
y taken large quantity Of morphi
! with suicidal infent. Several TIN
during the day Kirkham sank ba
Into unconscsousness and his chane
OF recovery were IN great leopard
but several OF Lis acquaintance ke
the spark OF life iu him by violent
exercising him until the physicis
could bs secured. They Would .,