Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-31
DALLAS.
All the Movers from the West Seem to
Select Dallas as the Place for Tell.
ing Their StOrles.Of DesOIation.
Jim Scott, the Slayer OF Big Mack, Ap
plies for Writ of Habeas Corpus
The Teachers.
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speclhl 10 the GaLette.
DALLAS, TEX, July 30.-Movers from
the West continue to pass through the
city en- route to some more hospitable
cline. More than dozen wagons loaded
with families and household effects,
mostly from Stephens and Palo Pinto
counties, have passed through the city
to-day, the purpose of the movers being
to find more favored locality, where they
can hire out to help gather the present
crop during the fall and winter and make
arrangements for the coming year. They
report the condition OF affairs in the West
as worse even than has been generally re-
ported, the protracted drought having
ruined everything. Stock is dying for
want of water, and in many instances
fences have been cut to give cattle wider
range and enable them to find water.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Hicks have been
reconciled to each other after a temporary
| separation as result of alleged harsh
and cruel treatment on the part OF the
husband. Some days ago Mrs Hicks left
the bed and board of her liege and re-
turned to the parental roof with the COM
plant that her husbands treatment of her
was such that she could no longer live
/
fore Justice Kendall and swore out war
rant charging him with assault and bat
terry. When the case came up to-day
Justice Kendall placed Hicks under a
peace bond Of 500, and delivered kind
ly and conciliatory lecture to the warning
couple, which had the effect of bringing
them together and causing them to kiss
and makeup. They left the courtroom
hand in hand and apparently as happy as
when they first plighted their troth.
Quite delegation left the city this
morning for Huntsville to enter the serv
ice of the state. Among the number
was Valentine Sanford, the lad who sho
and killed his mother while she was pick
ing cotton In field near Henrietta. III,
is not bright looking boy, but he diC
not appear to be crazy. 1t will be re
mem5ered that when ne was tried for tn
murder he admitted having done tn
killing, but claimed that 1t was at the in
stigation of his father. The latter was
however, acquitted and returned 20 hi
former home In Minnesota, and the DO
was sentenced to the penitentiary for life
OF the other convlcts which Transfe
Guard Winston took away this morning
SIX were from Tarrant and six from Gray
son county.
The charge of mistreatlng their seven
, year-old son Freddie was lodged agains
Mr., and Mrs. Joe Carr of East Dallas 1
the county court to-day, The AFFIDAVIT
against Carr was made by Police Office
Ramsey and that against Mrs. Carr
4 w. Mckay, each charging assault an
|, battery. The neighbors are said to hay
i become very much incensed against Nj
and Mrs. Carr on account of what the
consider unnecessarily severe castigatio
of the child.
The Dallas County Teachers associ
ton has arranged programme for Il
meeting which Il TO be hel
in the Dallas high-school bril
4 Ling August IA. Among the auhiec
o to be discussed will be, How
n correct bad hab1ts IN readlpy sbould I
a federal government affor, aid ia the nm
Is lie schools; should Latin and Greek
!, taught in the pub nc schools: corpol
q punishmenti imr. ortance Of United Stat
n history and how to teach it. A large
st tendance OF teachers and an intere sti
% meeting may be expected
al Jim Scott, who is charged with the ki
7, ing OF t. j. Mcdonald, better known
n "Big Mack" this afternoon applied
~ Judge Aldredge of the district court fol
n n. fwrit of habeas corpus, returnable to-m'
" row morning. Scott has been conhn
in the county jail here since he was
"a rested and brought back from Los 4
sc geles, Cal, some weeks ago.
of William Higginbottom, a colored b'
m charged with an Indecent assault upoI
nd little girl named Mary Belle Porter, ha'
It. preliminary hearing before Justice X,
C. dali this afternoon and was discharge
there being no evidence to convict h
with the alleged assault. 1t was in G
e6 dence that the parents Of the little 8
ty first charged the offense against a younl
mt brother of William Higginbottom, a
n n that William, when he heard of it, joiI
~. in the pursuit Of his brother.
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