Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-10

The GAZETTE correspondent to-day
I, ,s,,sa Hil.ssn C"mm ,;., about ,',..
rnent made to the corresponds
ent ON yesterday and that made TO
County Attorney Clint. Caminaek
now says that he did tell County At
torney Clint that he was
SHOOK down" by detective
calling himself Conner at Cal-
abasas, Arizona, for $500, and that the
statement is the truth. Common, he
aays, Identified him on the train at
| Carlo, Mexico, q small station north Of
Hermosislo, and informed him he was
after him. Common IL described ns
being twenty.eight or thirty years of
age, about SIX feet high, weighs about
| $50 pounds; aud being we',-a.elt d with
| the latest improved pistols, Cauiuack
concluded that any resistance on his
part would be useless; that Connor
could get away with him, aud ms they
were on the train bound for Arizona,
he could not make any practical re.
sistance. He cultivate u pleas ant ac-
quaintanceship with Conner between
Carlo aud Calabasas, and mt the latter
points made the plump proposition"
To tsse his own Language, TO pay him
S5Oo To be released and have no trou-
bic. Common, he snys, accepted the
proposition iustanter and the trade
was closed. He thinks il was u good
bargain on both sides.
The tO!al vote east In yesterday's
election was 2,5ii for city assessor aud
collector. aud , 5i5 for city marshal.
AZ there were few voters who only
voted for aldermen, II Ia safe TO say the
total poll was 1850 There was u very
| iull vote in all the wards except the
First, which did not east over two
thirds its voting strength. On full
vote throughout the city, the roll
would not vary much above or below
! 5000. This would indicate, es.iMat-
ing one voter TO every six
OF the Inhabitants, that Dali
las has within her corporate limits
iuliy $4,000 people. But the corporate
limits do not take ia more than one
halt of the people residing at what can
properly and legitim1tely be called
Dallas. The limits OF Dallas are the
smallest of any of the leading towns
OF the state, extending, by charter
Limitation, only one and oue.half miles
In three directions from the court
house-to the north, tc the east and to
the south. They cannot extend west
ward, M the Trinity river and the low
bottoms prevent II. Counting the pop-
ulntions of the corporate municipal
tiles OF Dallas and East Dallas, and
their various suburbs, which extend
thickly II distance of over three miles
to the north, the east and the south
from the court hourse, and population
of what in reality Is Dallas, will ex-
coed %, 600 people. According to this
showing Dallas does not rank less than
second, and may possibly rank first In
point of population among the cities
of Texas.
Joe Foraytbe, who has been In Dali
las Jail several months charged with
assault with intent to kill, WAS releas-
ed last night on bond.
Detective Jack Duncan Mt 8 o'clock
yesterday morning got information
that four or five armed men were ling
eripg In the vicinity OF the Texas ~
Pacific ronnd-house, and thinking
they were up to devilment, got Constn-
BILE Miller and made u descent on them.
The men fled. The horse of one Of
them, John Gates, falling, breaking
the riders leg In two llaces, One OF
tho other fngitives seeing Gates was
down, turned back TO assist him In re-
mounting, but the officers came up
In time to get both OF them. The
wounded man was taken 10 a board
Ing house at the corner of Elm ani
Good streets, and the other, who Is
"A brother to Gates, was taken 10
jail. IL was later In the day asccr-
tanned that the wounded man was
wanted Mt Fort Worth on various
and supdry charges of cattle and
horse theft. A telegram was sent TO
Sheriff Maddox, of Tarrant county,
and the reply came requesting that
both prisoners be held until he could
come for them. Mr. Maddox arrived
this morning but found John Gates In
II too badly broken up condition to be
removed 10 the Fort, and there was
nothing against the Gates who had
been committed TO jail. 1t occurs now
that Gates companions are all fugitives
from Justice and were trying to get out
OF the country.