Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-17
PARIS.
Contract Securing the st. Louis 4 San
Francisco Signed, So son
TO Red River.v
More About the Fire--How the Firemen
Were Rewarded-HonornbIy Retired
Won't Pay the Reward.

Special to tho Gazette.
PARIS, TEX, Feb. lG.-Paris has taken
decided railway boom. One Of the
highest officials of the Frisco is here, and
with him the directory OF the road held
a meeting this evening in Capt. Hale's
office and contract was signed The
people here are to give $50, 900, right of
way and depot grounds. They have a
week in which to do the work The en-
gineering corps will be here to begin
work tomorrow, the 18th. "This Is
official" On to Red river. This gives
Paris another and better showing for the
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, for it is very
reasonable that II will pay them better
to come TO Paris and meet the Frisco
than to build by Honey Grove and on to
Red river, and have no town nor meet a
railroad. A mass-meeting Is called for
tomorrow night, ut which the workings
of the committee will be made known.
The law firm of Maxey, Lightfoot s.
Denton and Col. Aiken came up and gave
one hundred dollars each to the fire boys
for the gallant work they did last night
In saving those buildings IN the block
that were near the fire.
The fire as stated in special last night
was in the Neagles building, which is be-
tween the Massenburgh and the Odd Eel
lows hall. Your correspondent was told
last night that 1t was the Massenburgh
building, but was misinformed. The fire
originated in one of the rooms on the sec
ond iloor used as law-ofllce by j. T.
McNemer. 1t is said that the stove had
no zinc under 1t, and it is supposed that
the fire fell out on the floor and caught
as there was no one in the building at the
time. III II had not been for the good
work that the fire company did thousands
of dollars would have been lost.
The hook and ladder boys were on the
ground hrst and went to the top of the
building and cut holes in the roof TO let
the water in on the fire. The old engine.
that has been condemned by some of the
people here for several months past, did
noble work in throwing two streams for
more than an hour. IT VIII now be re-
tired with honor, as the new engine Is
looked Tor every day. DR.. Ncagles had
the building insured for $4,000, while the
saddle-shop in the lower part only had
$3.50 insurance, and j. Il. McNemer lost
everything he had in his office. lie had
no insurance at all.
Yesterday evening the sheriff's posse
here arrested young man by the
name OF James Lane, wanted at
Eureka Springs, Ark, for the
killing of man last fall
He was arrested byDeputy Sheriffs Bootho
and Sanders. lie was jailed and will be
held till officers from Arkansas can arrive
for him, lie is about twenty years old,
sparely built, will not weigh over one
hundred and thirty-tve or forty pounds
Fathers Damen and Blum of ST. Lonis
arrived yesterday. They will give a lecture
every night this week.
Mrs. Curtis left yesterday for Port
Worth to make her future home.
Your correspondent is told by the oil.
GERS here that there is some fraud mixed
up with the arrest of James Frank and
mis- pal, and that there is put-up lob TO
secure the private reward of $50 acres of
Delta county land. 1t viii be lnvestIga.
ted j. c. Hodges telegraphcd the gov
ernor last night not TO pay one cent of
that $500 reward that he offered, as there
was fraud in it.