Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-24
SHERMAN.
A Proposition to Furnish the City
with wster.works Laid Be.
fore the City Daus.
The Heavy slset and Cold Rain Beat =
Funeral Mach for Many Head
Of Weakly Livestock.

Special.
SHERMAN, TES., Feb. 2s.-The
Sherman city council was wrs,ling
with the question OF waler.works sat
urday night, and hRd under consider
alton proposal from j T. Jones, ESQ ,
OF Palestine, Tex, for the construction
OF the works. Mr.. Jones suggestions
were faVorably received by the mem.
bers, but 1t appeared that there was not
the requisite number of aldermen pres.
ent to take any legal action, and the
suciect WAS deferred until the absent
members should return a PROPOSE
ton had been submitted by an
other party 10 construct the works
aud furnish the city with eighty
public ny drsnts for use In time Of fire
at an annual rental OF 5000, with the
privilege reserved TO the city ~ any
time after the lapse OF ten years TO take
Ownership and possession At price To
be liked by appraisers, selected by both
parties To tho contract. The proposi-
ton Of Mr., Jones II, TO have the city
issue bonds for the oOnalruc.
ton OF the works, bearing per cent.
lntererest for thirty years, and he is to
accept these bonds 81 pa, in payment
FOR the construction So soon as the
works are completed and accepted by
tho city, his company agree b lease
them for the time the bonds run and
| pay the interest thereon, together with
per cent as = sinking fund 10 take
them up NJ maturity, and turn the
| works over TO the city free Of debt at
the end OF said thirty years. The
current cost 70 the city will be $4,000
per Rnnum for the use OF 100 hydraniH,
| and proporlionaie cost for each addi-
! tiOnal hydfsnt put in TO supply the
needs Of tbs public ss the city grows
In extent and population Such
- contract, II we'll hedged
about by proper safeguards
to make Il certain that II will to- full
| filed, has Inviting features 30 our city
| fathers, and the probability Is that the
| contract will be closed as soon ~ the
necessary surveys can be msde, and
acceptable plhus and Specifications fur
| nishsd as a starter for business n
/ suggestion was made that the whole
matter might properly be deferred for
nc ion by the new administration, %
| be elected April z, but the outgoing
aldermen were willing TO do this labt
/ important act for the good OF
tho city before retiring TO the pleas
! lag quietude OF private life
and the members holding over thought
the responsibility no greater now
than in the fututure, so they took hold
| OF II in earnest.
Definite action will be taken as,aoon
as full board can be gotten together.
The heavy sleet Of Yesterday and
| the rain Of to-day have seriously az
| fected many Of our cAttlemen aud pro-
duced an elongptien Of countenAuce in
/ inverse proportion TO shortening oi
their purses by the death OF hundreds
OF weak cattle that we're all too pool
10 stand such a spell after
the many prosTating freezes OF tn,
past winter. While they, OF csurse
do not yet know what the loss actually
lie they all agree that this 10 likely Il
product more deaths among the herd
than any previous cold snap OF thr
year
Prof Hersch opened a dancing scad
envy at the old Batsell building on th,
South side last Friday afternoon, anC
started off with a good attendance o
young lady pupils The young meI
take lessons by gas.light With thll
institution and eVerynight matineei
at the skating rink, occasionA
dramatic entertainments, and con
tinuous services at several churche
in the city, there is no need for any
body to lSnguish ct home for want o.
places TO go.
Our wounded are getting well fast
Within the past few months thret
white peTsOns in Sherman have beer
shot though the lungs, and one negrt
In the head, without fatal results. Thu
deadly six.shooter 10 fast losing its ter
rors here, and some NOR" fatal ageD
will have to DO employed II the in
crease Of population le 10 be Suppressed
by violence. We are not advertising
for a dynamite factory.
John Summsrfeld and family 70
turued from New Orleans yesterday
morning. Q. w. Batsell and wifi
came RlAO.
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