Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-21
DALLAS.
Muir Taken Back TO Kentucky to
Answer to the Charge Of Forgery.
The Amount Made Good.
a Suspicious Looking Hole Leads to the
Belief that There Ia n sun Con
cealed Somewhere.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Dec. 20.--Sheriff Rodes
OF Fayette county, Ken, arrived here to-
day from Lexington, in that state, to take
back for trial w, w. Muir, indicted Tor
forgery. The accused Is abont twenty
two years old and IS connected with one
of the best families In that section of
Kentucky. He is young man Of pleas.
ant, quiet address, aud looks anything
but a criminal. He came 70 Dallas in
october last. The grand jury of Fayette
county recently indicted him for forgery
! la the sum OF 800, but
after the grand jury adjourned
/ other forgeries we're discovered, bringing
the aggregate up TO $500 The penalty
| for the crime for which Muir is Indicted
/ is Imprisonment from two to ten years
/ Sheriff RJdes says Muir's relatives have
made good the money obtainrd by his
/ criminal operations, Sheriff Rldes and
his prisoner departed for Lexington to-
night Muir recently attempted suicide
at hotel where he was stopping in this
city by taking morphine.
The Erie Telephone company Is pre-
periug to extend its lines from Dallas to
Southeast Texas towns Via Corsicana and
/ Houston. Dallas merchants are being
induced to take stock 10 the new line on
the coupon plan--lhe stock to be paid up
IN full and the coupons TO be
received ia payment for mes.
sages sent or received. The new ter
ritOry to be penetrated IL now without
either telephone or telegraph facilities,
When the new line is built 1t will make
the total mileage of telephone wires CEN
teIiug at Dallas aggregate 1000 miles,
The coal expl ring party, including Mr..
Carter as the representative OF Messrs,
Elliott, Bird and their associates, and Mi
Arnold, the discoverer OF the reported
rich strata, departed to-day on their mis-
sion to Henderson county.
District Judge Aldredge to-day granted
6 petition applied for by number OF tax.
payers, restraining City Assessor and
Collector House from selling property Ion
deliuquences in payment Of special taxes
for the opening OF Eryay street, The Pc
tilion claims that the ordinance under
which the tax was assessed was not the
result of petition OF moiority Of al
Joining property holders, aud that
the city engineer did not, as re
lauired b law, furnish list OF the
! property holders; aud IT specifically set
10 thai w. O COnnoT's property OF
O eander street, although specifically
benefited, was not ircluded In the as
! sessment, but WAS excluded by the ARD
of aldermen, moved by Alderman Gill
and approved by Mayor Crowdus, Febru
AIRY 81, 1853 Bond was given r $4,000
with 5. W. S. Duncan and Hugh Bake
ney as sureties,
The Injunction WAS issued at 1880 a
M, received by the deputy sheriff a
10 80, and served at lO:40
Some excitement was created last nigh
| by the finding of what was supp 'sed &
: be an unknown grave. Several deAntlel
from the city and several citizens iron
West Dallas went TO the place, which j
, about four miles ON ID alias, ON the For
! Worth road, and dug down over sever
feet, but found nothing. a young MAJ
living in the neighborhoo6 of the hol'
9 was going home from Dallas ABOUT u
: O'Clock Saturday night, when he dis.
4 covered Two men digging the hole.
! is supposed that the men had some
, one to bury, aud becoming frightened a
I the man, tllledap the hole and went else
e where. Two pieces OF an Cd stump wer'
7 stuck up for head aud foot boards. The
hole was not quite filed up. bottle
containing some liquid stun was iount
f. sitting against tree near by. The horst
and buggy tracks show that the horse wa
in a run when leaving the place. Oniceri
will scour the country with the view o.
finding another hole aud perhaps the deai
= body OF some human being Anum0er o.
D persons are known to be missing from
: Dallas, whose names the officers refuse
To give for fear OF arousing unnecessary
alarm.