Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-23

Mayor sturgis Reph,'s 10 His Critics
In Regard TO the G, nsolidaticn
OF OfIlces.
Active Operations on tbs Texas A Sc. Louis
20 nronden tho Gauge IN =
courts' Work.


special TO the Gazette.
WAcoi Tx, April %, Mayor Ssdasyis
Of this city IL out ID card this evenmr
IN reply TO parties who are accusing him
OF retreaucy and bad faith to the party
that elected him. Mr.. Sturgis was the
nominee OF what was known as the "Anti-
Perqulsitc'' party in local politics. The
platform demanded 8 consolidation of the
Offices OF mayor and recorder. with the
abolition OF all perqhisites or fees OF OF.
nee, and providing a Fixed salary Stnr-
gis was elected aud his inaugural mes.
sage, while II condemned the perauisite
system, was silent as To recommending
consolidation OF the offices
above mentioned. The coun-
Gil took away perquisites from
the recorder, but refused to abolish the
Office and continued it for another year.
This brought down the criticisms of the
|anti-peTqulsiten element on Mayor
Sturgis, they alleging that he has failed
touse his influence az he might have
done. In his card the mayor says he felt
q delicacy In recommending the adoption
of measure that would have Increased
his salary $1,000 TO $1,000 year; that he
saw q majority Of the council was or
posed to consolidating the offices, and he
therefore renamed silent.
The master mechanic Of the ST. Louis,
Arkansas & Texas railrord has Issued or
ders TO double the force In the shops at
Tyler and work day and night. All the
narrow-gauge locomotives are to be put
IN frst-class condition us speedily as
practicable and then offered for sale. To
replace them, a contract has been closed
with the Baldwin Locomotive works for
sixty brond-gauge "Mogul' engines. The
light iron on the road is now being re-
placed with broad-gsuge steel rails at the
rate Of one mile day. About seventy
five miles of steel rails have been laid
between Waco and Texarkana. An order
was also issued yesterday doubling the
force OF the section gangs. All this is
preparatory to broadening the gauge to
standard width.
In the courts to-day no very important
cases have been tried. In the United
States court In the case OF Yale and
Bowling VS.. I. Il. Kinnard, plaintiffs got
a Judgment for Sl,341 %. Brigham,
Mckinney, Rawls and Friar, the four
deputy sheriffs from Hin county, who
created the memorable riot on the Mis-
souri, Pacific train between Waco and
Hillsboro. IN January last, are here to
ans wer an information fled by United
States District Attorney Pearre, charging
them with willfully obstructing q United
States mail train Their case has NOT
oeen called up to this writing.
The ladies of the Fifth Street Meth.
odist church, Rev. Horace Bishop pas
tor, gave an "electrc light tea partyn on
the church grounds tonight. The illu.
limitations were ali electric light and the
novel scene drew large crowd.
The season of lS65S6 at the Garland
opera-houso closed tonight with Milton
Mobiles in Glove and Law"
Reports from Harrison station, on the
Central railroad, eight miles south Of
Waco, say that w. b. Turner, a merchant
at that place, was crushed beneath two
bales OF cotton this morning. He was
superintending the loading of the cottor
into the cars when the bales fell on him
infilcting internal injuries which it Ii
believed will prove fatal