Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-05
WACO.
Killed by The Gazing IN OF Well Pc
tltlon Filed for Local.0ption
Election.
scnsntion Urcated by the Pulse Report 81
the Return OF the Fugitive cattle
King, Jackson,

/ special 10 the Daletto.
/ waco, Tx, Aug. The Examiner
this morning published the following
preceded by flaming headlines;
"IIILsBono, TEN.. Aug 3.-W. 4
Jackson has returned. The explanation
Of his protracted absence is that he wac
called suddenly 10 Mexico to inspect and
pass on 5000 head OF heicrs which had
just been delivered 10 his man IN charge
OF his ranch near Monlclova, Mex. He
has been away from railway and iclc-
graph aud was very much surprised TO
lind oul what little confidence his friends
IN Waco had In him, and thinks
they were altogether too nasty lie in
tends to make everything all right. lie
values his credit and the good will which
his many friends bear to lin more than
money, but those who have made him
costs will have 20 stand them. lie is well,
The trip seemed to have agreed with him.
He says all the talk there was about his
going 10 Cuba was fabrication and did
him great injustice.n
W. 4. Jackson is the fugitive and mach
y
who has left sundry banks, firms aud in
diyIdunls In Waco. Hill county and other
points In the nine-hOlc to the tuuc Of over
100000. When the above, in the In
amincr, was read this morning, II created
genuine sensation. The telephone and
telegraph lines To- Ilillsboro were fairly
heated with the message, OF in
qulry. In every instance the response
au laY In llsla. In. ttttN
thing about ,lacksOn'S return \ brother
of the missing man tclcphoned from llills-
boro TO the Examiner to know how that
paper got the news. W. w Trcadwcll
of Nbbott, the honest old merchant who
was broken up by udorsing ,lacksOn's pa
per, arrived at noon to-day. He had not
heard u word Of jackson and promptly
denied he had returned The whole story
seems TO he Il Mutation canard, and now
the wonder Is who victiml2cd the En-
mnincr so badly. 1t Is expected that the
paper will explain in the morning.
The body of Joseph Poguc, twenty-five
years of age, arrived here late this even
Ing from BOsque county. The young
man left here yesterday morning for his
ranch near Valley Mills. Reaching there
late In the day he was examining a well
WHICH Ut WlSutU 10 Cltbn OUT, IhP wei
caycd and buried him alive The body
was gotten cut as soon rs possible, but
Poguc was dead. He was in prosperous
circumstances, much liked and leaves a
widowed mother.
Citizens of the city have tllcd II petition
praying for local-OptlQD election on
September I'd In Precinct No. which Is
virtually Waco city. This Is intended to
forcstnll the prohibition movement 10 gel
the vote of the whole county pittcd
against Waco II complexities matters
somewhat, ~ II is not known what the
county commissioners will do. II left TO
herself Waco would defeat prohibition.
Much iccllngwill be cugcndcrcd ON each
side over tho question.
Mr.. Geo. W Brown, )r., cashier OF the
Texas Express company at this place,
was married tonight To Miss Hattie NJ.
Clisbcc, at the residence of Mr., \. o.
Dewey, Texas Express agent. Mnuyrcl-
atiycs aud friends from other points were
present.
quite number of WaCotCS, including
senator Coke will he in Fort Worth to-
morrow to attend the reunion.
II is known that the Texas 4 st. Louis
railroad was not sold in Tyler To-day rs
had been advertised,
The Day states, apropOs of an item In
TUX GZErrEs Austin letter, that Hon.
George Clarke of Waco dots not aspire to
the attorney gcncmishlp.