Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-16
A DAY AT DALLAS.
Railroad Onicials En- Route West Over
the Texas 4 Pacific.
Willis Adams Indicted for the Murdcl
OF Michael Burns.

OF Michael Burns.
A Melaugc Of Current Events In Our
Sister City.
Special 10 the Gazette,
Dallas. April 10 "A party OF officials
of the Gould Southwestern system ar.
rived here by special train Mt 1:3O ana
left for Fort Worth at $3.50 p. IN. Ia
the marty were the following gentle
men: i. C. Brown of st. Louis, gem
eral solicitor; Mr.. Baird Of Philadel-
mia. n Texas & Pacific director: Mr.,
Botts of Houston, general attorney for
Texas and louisiana. Warder Cum
ming. SUPERINTENDENT OF the Texas Il
Pacific. George Noble, ex-general
suuerln endent of the Texas & Pacific;
w. III. Abrams of Dallas, land commits
sioner of the Texas Il Pacific. The
party had been in conference at Mar.
shall to-day on some matter connected
with the Gould system, which was not
made public ut Dallas.
The grand jury to-day returned an
Indictment against Willis Adams,
charging him with numbering Michael
Burns on Sunday, March 30, 1884.
Adams is in Jail at Dallas. 1t is un.
derstood his attorneys will soon apply
for his release on bail through habeas
corpus proceedings, and that District
Judge A. Aldridge will vacate the
bench during the hearing and allow q
Judge from some other district TO pre-
side, as he Is related to the Adams
family by marriage. The state
will in all probability be al
lowed to select the judge.
Judge Aldridge to. day adjourned the
criminal term Of court till Monday,
April 2l, and the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings may come up in the interven.
ing time. A strong fight will be made
by the state to have the prisoner re-
fused bail, while the defense will do
all in its power for release. Adams has
four of the ablest criminal lawyers in
Texas engaged.
A magnificent Pullman car of the
Buffet pattern, with electric. bell and
telephone apparatus, passed west 10.
night for service on the Nj eXican Cen
trail road from I'll Paso to the City of
Mexico. 1t Is named the Guanajuata.
The convention of the Fourth Texas
infantry regiment of state militia was
held at the city hall to-day. Delegates
were present from the Light Guards,
of Cleburne; the Lamar Rifles, of Dali
las, and the Queen City Guards, of
Dallas. The Tarrant Reserves, of
Fort Worth, and the Gilmer Guards,
of Gilmer, were not represented
although duly notified. Regimental
officers were elected AS fol-
lows: Colonel, Capt. b. II.
Smith, of the Cleburne Lighu
Guards; lieutenant-colonel, j. G.. Tur-
ner of the Lamar Rifles; major, Frank
Wheat of the Queen City Guards.
The adjutant and the sergeant-major
are TO be appointed by the colonel.
The subject of the Houston interstate
drill was discussed, and all the compa-
MES represented reported the proba-
bility of attending and participating.
Only one embarrassing feature pre-
sented itself, and that was the ques.
ton OF rates of transportation. The
committee to look after that matter
was continued, with instructions to
confer with the Houston & Texas Cen
trail, the Gulf, Colorado d Santa
Fe and the Texas K Pacific
railroads and endeavor to secure rates
of one cent per mile Tor the Dallas aud
Cleburne companies, all of which will
go In u body from Dallas If that rate
can be secured.
The county commissioners to-day
adopted standard time and rassed an
order that the town Tor rather county,
clock be moved up to conform with
the universally adopted time of thi,
section of the country, and it will here
| "a nf 4.
the public to determine the hour of tn,
day or night without entering int,
"A mathematical calculation under tn,
arithmetical rules of latitude and longi
tude and time.
The telephone line between Dalla
and Fort Worth is still Frustrated an,
of no service to the public. The man
agement at Dallas say the Texas d Pa
ciiic pile-driver has broken down tn
line west of Arlington three time
within week past.
w. G.. Sterrett left to night for Sher
man to see Jim Britton and the races
If Bills presence doesn't stop the race
they can go against cyclone.
n. s. Kimbrough, candidate for tn
/ legislature, stopped in town lon
enough 10 get shaved. He will wea
red socks during the campaign. Bi
{. Sterrett has adopted as his colors, sock
with rattlesnaRe stripes.
3 Steve Moore, reported to have bee
; killed by Ben Shanklin at WIGHT
! Falls last week, to-day falsifies the r,
port by showing up ON the streets
!, Dallas in flesh.
u The stone-cutters and brick mason
$ still hold out In their strike for an IL
crease of wages from 81 to 81 so pe
n day. Many of the striking mechanic
j. to-day purchased tickets to leave Da
Q las, most Of them going to neighbour
e towns. The strikers argue that cor
~ sidering the great amount of buildin
going on in Dallas their demands n,
reasonable. The contractors say the
cannot afford the advance, havin
taken their contracts under estima,,
made when the established way,
10 We're 81 per day.
John Daley, colored, aged fourtee
years, to-day pleaded guilty In ii,
district court to theft and was SCI
y fenced TO two years in the penitel
II tiury.
:, Marion Pyson, charged with cal
. stealing, and for several weeks out q
pond, was last night surrendered L
II MS sureties and lodged IN the coun,
u Jail. 60
y The Hebrews will at sunset to mo nj,
y row begin the annual celebration
- the Passover, COMMUNICATING II
:, ancient historical event of the crossi,
., OF the Red sea.
W James Crawford, colored, az,
m auout hiteen years, was to-day COZ
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