The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-10
FORT WORTH FACTS,
4 War Between the Wire. Workers,
Telephin, asd relegfaphic.
The Nipper Used win Disastrous Eject
"A Legal Harvest.
No Indictments Returned In the Mar.
phy'Eaton Case.
Heavy Stock shipments Over tho Fort
Worth & Denver.
IIymen In Haste at a Hostlerie-An
Amusing Seenes
Tho "Blue Devils" Up and Doing In
TarraDt County.
The Nipper Used win Disastrous LIE,
"A Legal Harvest.
No Indictments Returned In the Mar
phy.Eaton Case.
Heavy Stock shipments Over tho For,
Worth & Denver.
lIymen In Haste at a iostlerie-A,
Amusing Seenes
Tho "Blue Devils" Up and Doing II
TarraDt County.
Other Notes from Sister City,

EoRr WoBrH, May 0. 9.-[5pecisl J-Qniie
furore oi excitement was created thit
evening by a war on a email scale between
the Santa re Telegraph company aud the
Erie Telephone d Telegraph company.
Some time ago the city council ordered all
telegraph and telephone poles 70 be thirty
h,e feet In beigh,h on Main Street, icriy
oo Houston and not lesp than twenty-five
feet on side streets. In accordance WITH
this order both the companies above mon
toned began putting In new poles. There
was fight when they came 20 Main street
on the west side OF the street
first, and both companies claim
They got there ilrss; certain ~ Is that but u
lew hours elapsed between the planting OF
both parties. The telegraph company
stretched their wires and said nothing.
Tho telephone company put ptheir 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 'r IN the telephone
wires doing the damage. ~. B. CLARK,
train master OF the Santa Fe. ard h. Il.
Fosdick. in charge of the telephone otiirc,
bald n consultsti about 2 O'Clock, and the
;esut was tnst y. Kaiser and Albert Full.
mor, line men, were ordered to
wirse. IL was done ia short order,
forty telephone wires soon dangling
from the cross-bars. OF course the service
OF Main street blGes was seriously Grip
pied, and the manager of the exchange,
Mr.. FOsdick, sooa nscertained what had
been. done, when he went TO the court
| house and in the name OF the Erie Tele-
phone & Telegraph company, made com.
plant against the four parties mentioned
for ~illfully and maliciously cutting the
| wires. sheriff Maddox arrested Fosdick,
| Fulimer and Kaiser at once, when they
promptly gave bond in the sum Of $iO0
each. Tho most prominent lawyers here
say the Santa Fe was not justified in Law
by the course taken; that an injunction
could have been obtained before they wers
10 any way discommoded. The cate viii
go iuio the courts and promises to be OF
| interest.
The grand jury returned 80 bills OF indict.
ments odsy, Il for telonies and IL for mis-
demeanors. No Indictment was found in
the Murphy Eaton case.
James Fl. Trigy, O farmer living eighteen
miles west ~ this city, had his wire fence
around a 800 acre pasture cut al to pieces
\ lew nights ago, and being determined &c
have all the guilty parties prosecuted, had
all those living In the neighborhood sum.
moned before the grand jury to testify
Probabilities are that indictments have
been found.
@. II. Higbee. whose rancho 10 ten miles
l VIEW VI roIb Noftu, uhu Cub put
has no idea aB to who did the work.
| Dave Blair, q w,ll known stockman
representing King & Kennedy, is here
with 1000 head Of cattle, tho
first OF 80 600 TO be shipped to Wichita Fall,
aud then driven to Hunnewel, Kansas,
where they will be sold. The Fort Worth
& Denver Is more than busy with its stock
business.
There was runaway marriage here at
the Western Hotel this evening at Q
o'clock which caused considerable amuse-
ment, the groom being Is and the bride
90 The couple very much dread the wrath
of tho boys father, and when they learned
that he Tod man. was coming after his
ooy on ths north bound Santa Fe, they
took tho Texas & Pacific for Dallas, ana
will then 30 TO the land of the Indians to
enjoy their Honeymoon. The wife took
good care OF her darling hubby until the
tram was boarded. A. q. Carroll IL the
sv ain, aud Miss Mary Myers, the blushing
bride.
w. II. Davis, who own8 very valuable
property on Houston street. speaks Of en-
joining the building Of the Rosedale street
rail wsy IN front OF his property. Taere II
considerable opposition 70 the building OF
The line on this our main thoroughfare.
the people holding that one stree. should
be kept free from street cars.