Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-15
DENTON.
The City Says Hurrah for Fort Worth
and Wants a Chance TO DO
Likewise.
Arrests Made Trials Died -Reooyering-
A building Boom-The News In
General

special to the Gazette.
DENTON, Tx, April l4.--Denton was
all aglow with pleasure upon receipt OF
Tux GAZETTE this morning.
Our people say, hurrah for Fort Worth
and the Atohison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad, and admire the pluck and en-
ergy of your citizens in the prompt re-
Spouse to the call Of duty.
Gainesville has also done nobly, and
now 1t remains to see what Denton Will
do toward this enterprise.
While Denton is not financial center,
yet we have some enterprising citizens
who will doubtless rally to the call II ii
be necessary.
This road cannot well afford to give
Denton the go-by, since il is nearly d.
rectly on the route from Fort Worth 10
Gainesville, and Is the county seat Of
fine agricultural and grazing county
Denton county has population Of about
q 600, with Il taxable wealth of So
500, 507, as shown by the tax rolls of
1885; and the city of Denton will come
In for her share of S700,0 with popu-
lstion OF about 5000.
Denton is located on the western edge
OF the lower cross-timbers, about thirty
sevenl miles north and east of Fort
Worth and about thirty-nye miles north
west from Dallas, and Is on the line of
the Missouri Pacific railroad from St.
Louis, Denison and Fort Worth, aud has
connection al Whitesboro with the Tex
arkaua branch Of the Texas and Pacific
road
The Missouri Pacific has branch line
from Denton 10 Dallas, and the east line
from Mckinney 10 Denton, connecting us
directly with the immense pinerieS of
East Texas, will be built soon.
Our city has been and Is now on
houses have just been completed on the
square, and TWO more are under contract,
besides numerous residences, large and
small
We claim the best graded public school
In North Texas, II not in the state. The
enrolment for the present year has been
Comegys, superintendent, with ten able
assistants
We have enc of the finest roller process
Touring mills In North Texas. They ship
flour to the Mississippi river on the east,
10 FL Paso on the west, in fact to ali
parts OF Louisiana and Texas. The
Farmers alliance will soon have COM
pleied fne, four-story rock and brick
building, in which will be placed at once
roller process machinery, at a total cost
Of about $50, 600, thus showing the enter
prise and pluck OF our farmers.
Near 5000 bales Of cotton shipped the
past year from this point.
Msyor o. z. Poe Is In correspondence
with Geo. Sealey, president OF the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe railroad, and other
officials of the road. We are awaiting q
proposition from the road, to which, II
reasonable, with the same spirit of Fort
Worth, we are ready 10 respond.
J. Is. Davis, charged with shooting c.
b. Masters, three miles west Of Roanoke,
10 this county, on the It'll inst, was
brought here this morning by Constabl,
Snead. He waived examination and gave
boud in the sum Of $1,000 for his appear.
ance az court.
The wounded mans injuries are said L
be serious, having received q load o.
7 buckshos in his foot which may prov,
I fatal. The particulars Of the difficult,
I are not known here.
Deputies Roberts and Mars yesterday
arrested Louis Davis, colored, for thief
OF hogs. lie gave bond in the sum o
I $500 and was released,
I Mr.. Il. G. Scripture, charged with EN-
Z be lzlement, waived examination to-day
I before Justice Wlthers, who placed hi'
7 bond at $500, which was no sooner Sc
than given.
/ Mrs Ella Lee, q highly esteemed lady
and wife 81 Mr.. a. Lee of this city, die,
+ at 1880 o'clock this morning. The re
I mains were followed 70 the Odd Fellows
cemetery by u large concourse OF friends
I $50 p. m. to-day.
Mrs. Bates, wife OF w II, Bates, n,
postmaster here, is recovering from /
severe spell Of sickness.
4 T. j. Douglass, who has been very loN
/ for some time, is better to-day, and hopes
I OF his recovery are entertained