The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-22
LOCAL NEWS RECORD.
A DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY
Doc Fritz Indicted Injunction Against
tho City - Trying to shake His
Creditors-1ickled Lawyers
Capt. Peaks Death.
Death or Captain Jefrerson pen

Death OF Captain Jefferson Peak.
Captain Jefferson Peak died at his
resiioncs Ia East Dallas at IL IN. yes
to-day, 10 tho S5th yenr of his age. lie
was born in Scott county, kentucky,
and raised in Gallstin county, Ken.
lucky, where no continued to reside
until May, 1855, when he removed to
Dallas county, Texas, where he had
resided until his death His has been
an earnest and an sc.iye life.
Leaving tho farm In early life he be-.
Cama u merchant ana followed mer
camille life in his esrly manhood. He
was postmaster ut Warsaw, Kentucky,
for 10 years. Early In 1916 no raised a
company TO serve Ia the Mexican war,
and declining the captaiucy, was
resigniug on account OF i'll health, was
pany, sud by his galantry
and Intelligence commanded the
confidence OF his superioys
and tho affection Of his men. He
served two years in the Legislature Of
his native State. In all his official re-
lati0ns he made spotless and blame-
less reputation. In public Office he
regarded himself as the peoples SER
want, and gava his time and his tai
0nts to that sefvltude without fear,
AND with that yea d vigOr which
brings success.
A Democrat all his life-trled, true
and trusty. La his native state, when
the Wing parry carried overwhelming
majoriti-s, igDting against odds, and
with defeat almost suro ahead; or in
Texas, where Democracy rules, no was
always the same brave Democrat:
never stifled his c0nvic ions or failed
to speak the truth AS IL was in his
heart. He never knew what 1t was TO
compromise; he had no compromises
10 make. or superior mind and intel
ligonce, he exami0ed for himself, and
made up his mind an to what and
what Was not right, and planting him.
sell upon these, he stood immovaOle.
And yet few men had greater respect
Tor the opinions and feelings of others
than he. CeptRin Peak quit public lie
more thsp 80 years before his death,
and at q time WHOM most men would
nave sought further Advancement.
His inc,in lions all led him to private
Life, and 1t is IN this field that he was
best known ard most appreciated, and
no privste citizen ever SURPASSED him
In public spiri. dc was alive TO ev
erytbing that would build up his cit, :,
his county, his STATE. Mis- hands, h,s
purse, his time were always ready
and not only ready but open and ~
work IN building schools and churches,
and when built 10 see that they were
applied 10 their Intended uses. His
last work az this kind WAS the erection
OF the Christian church, on the cornbr
OF Penrl ana Bryan streets
DO contributed more to the
erection Of this building than any one
else, his cnbtrlbu lon being about
$i,V0V, and besides this he gave his
timo to notwithstanding its erection,
from the lay ing OF It's foundation to
1tscomple ipa. He vas 8 member of
the Christian church for long years,
and such Yves his zeal as n member
thai his absence from any meeting of
the churon waa noief, and the source
Of inquiry. From 1865 until his last
Illness no nan was eyer moro regular
or Jealous in attendance upon the
meetings of ihe church than he. As n
husband, father, friend, no was true
and never felt0rtd ~ his devotion In
all these relations Wsrn-hearted ana
generous, TO know him was to love
him
He leaves bshind him hia dear wife,
VINO has Journevcd with him for the
long, long years past, thrss daughters
and several sons, all we'll known to
our people, auo whose moral worth
voices back fathers ch sracter In their
lives as pare, grand aud noble.