Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-17
MINEOLA.
What n Conductor Had to Say About the
Recent strike and Its Cause.
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HeCebt 5ttAke anu It's cause.
Correspondence Of the Gazette.
MISEoLA, Tex, April l3.--The strlk
has ended so far as this place is con
cerned, and things have settled down b
their normal aspect, although bushes
continues 10 be somewhat depressed an,
money scarce Some important change
have been made in the railroad fore,
here; one man in particular, who held
good place for i've years, finds himself
by reasons of what he is pleased TO cal
his 'foolishness," out Of position here
aud be fiourishes as a guard at Marshall
and Tor a pittance sports a musket ant
tramps aboutas soldier grim, and "useC
to wars alarms -
! Speaking OF the strike calls to mind tn,
remark made by conductor to-day
| chat the strike was a failure, and de
seryedly so, because those engaged In Il
/ exceeded the bounds OF reason and Jus
tice, when they undertook, not only &
quit work themselves, but TO prevent
other honest men, who desired to earn q
| living for their families from working, by
unlawfully killing engines and attempting
10 prevent trains from being run"
When the scribe drew out his note.
book to record the statement as a note.
worthy one, coming from the source il
did, the conductor mistook the motive.
and in an energetic manner added foot
note, that he chad no sympathy with the
stril ers, and he didn't care Theological
term who knew 1t; that they had caused
him TO lose d whole months work, and
had put him behind about q hundred
dollars, besides all the Inconvenience and
annoyance he had suffered" This con.
ductor's headquarters were at Palestine,
and continuing the conversation. he said
that "many OF the so-called grievances
put forth by the strikers were after.
thoughts, and In some instances devoid
OF truth, notable instance being the
complaint that engines and cars were
needlessly carried from Palestine 10 Sc
dalia for repairs. In no case was such
thing done, except where II was impos.
sl6le to get the work in the shops at
Palestinei that the shop-men dallied with
the work, so that the road and its bust.
ness had actually been damaged by their
carelessness. He had known five men tn
be engaged for one whole day In doing
lob OF work that one man ought to have
completed IN the same time, and he at
tributed the whole thing to the fact
that the Knights had the railroad bust.
ness grabbed and could dictate their own
termsn
A, krauss, grocery merchant of this
place, has made discovery that ranks
him with the scientific men OF the age,
and one that will call forth the gratitude
OF the cattlemen Of the West. He bought
a COW the other day, and being anxious to
learn her age consulted with some friends
as to the means by which he might dis
cover the number OF summers she had
nipped the heritage Of the surrounding
hills. After divers and sundry confabs in
which the assembled wisdom Of the town
took part, MIR. Krauss became satisfied
that cow did not shed her upper teeth
until she reached green old age, about
nineteen years in fact. IL seems Mr..
krauss had bought the COW with the un.
Outstanding that she was to be a gIddy
young thing OF Ave summers. Yesterday
at noon he made an examination OF her
mouth, and you can Judge Of his surprise
and chagrin on discovering that she hadn't
a single upper tooth in her head. How
visions OF her frolicsome youth faded out
Of his mind before the awful presence of
facts, and how anger at being
so shamefully cheated took their place, Is
leit to the susceptible mind of the reader
Mr. krauss was very, very angry.