Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-06-02
SHERMAN.
The Sub Committee Of the Senate on In
dian Affairs Makes Flying Tour
Of the Town.
The Dullest Stray Sale Day in the His
tory Of sherman--'rhe Farmers
Too Busy to Come to Town.

special,
SHERMAN, Tex, June l. = This
morning at o'clock the special train
over the Texas & Pacific railway
brought to our city the three distin-
guished men who compose the senate
subcommittee on indian affairs, now
travelling in the state of Texas,
Seniors Maxey OF Texas, Dawes
of Massachusetts, aud Morgan of Ala
bama, Senator ingalls, OF Kansas hav-
ing left the party in the Territory and
returned home. They telegraphed to
Mayor Buckler last evening the time
OF their arrival and committee
OF city Off Gals met them at the
train and took them over the city to
show what manner Of place Sherman
Is. After seeing our public and private
schools, mills, machine shops, stately
residences and the driving park, they
were taken back to the special train
and went on their way to Paris, the
home Of Senator Maxey, for their next
stop. Senator Dawes expressed him
self greatly pleased with what he had
seen in Texas, and said the New En-
gland states would send us thousands OF
immigrants If they only knew what a
| glorious country Texas Is. Senator
Maxey was seriously complaining of
lumbago, which he thought was super.
induced by stopping about In the Mac
| Allister coal mines of the Territory last
week, but did not think his 9flllction
at all serious.
The Dallas Herald has secured a new
Girculator for Sherman, because the
old one, who handled both
1t and The GAZETTE, sold
too many of the latter
to please the management. A lively
competition will now go on between
the carriers aud test of popularity
will be made that no one can question.
AT present The GAZETTE sells about
three to one over the Herald.
The new Sherman daily has all ite
material here now and is fixing up an
office on East Houston street as fast as
possible. The first issue Is prom
Used on next Monday, June
7. With two morning and one
evening paper published here
to be used as au appetizer at the break.
fast table aud to steady the nerves at
tea, and the II O'Clock batch from thu
Fort and Dallas as midday luncheon,
with st. Louis dailies to provoke an
afternoon nap, the citizens of Sher.
man ought to be an enlightened peo
pie in few months more. In this
condition of affairs the principle o
the survival Of the fittest will apply
and the contest will narrow down to
that point in u short time.
This has been the dullest stray-sale
day this writer has witnessed here IL
the past ten years. Only those mer
from the country who were compelled
by business came to town to-day, anC
the streets were not more animated
than any ordinary day in the week,
The farmers are in the fields anC
trying to make up for the time los
during the heavy rains OF the pas
month. Everything that can hsndl,
u pillow, WELD how or pull weed
including women and children, are IL
the corn and cotton patches, and, i
: good weather continues few day
longer, will soon get the crops in goot
condition.
A. l., Matlock of Montague Is her
on legal business that will keep hin
over till tomorrow.
| w. II. Price, deputy sheriff of New
ton county, Mo, arrived here las
night from Bonham with q ma
named VIM. Martin, alias Pomp Ches
ter, who was arrested at the latte
place yesterday on an indictment foun
seven years ago in Missouri for thei
of horses. He left the prisoner In ia
last night and started North on the
3 o'clock train to-day with his ma
well ironed. Pomp Chester is know
/ in Texas as a gambler.