Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-21
WACO
The City on the Brazos Taking steps
TO Enlarge It's System Of
water-Works.
A Woman Pulls a Pistol 10 Enforce Her
Demand for Personal Property
Dismissed the Case.



WACO, TEX, Jan. 20.--The water
works committee Of the city council held
another meeting to-day. The following
proposition, looking TO an extension Of
the water system, was agreed upon by
the committee aud submitted to MIR. c.
White, president OF the water company,
who was present.
]. The city OF Waco will at once order
sufficient number OF additional hydrants
to make eighty In all, mains TO be In ac-
cordance with map submitted to the
committee by MIR. White, and no main to
be less than four inches inside diameter.
2. Mr.. White to build a reservoir of not
less than 100000 gallons, at such time
as the city council may deem necessary;
Mr. White TO have six mouths within
which to construct said reservoir after
being notified.
3. After the construction Of said reser-
yoir, the city TO at once order twenty ad-
ditional MIGRANTS, for which said twenty
hydrants they viii pay 500 each, aud all
additional hydrants over and above the
eighty hydrants first above provided for,
the city to pay Sl00.
4. The man on Austin street to be OF
not less than 10 inches insidVIdiameter;
Mr. White to furnish good, wholesome,
pure water, sufficient for domestic pur-
poses, and TO guarantee sufficient press.
ure for all fire purposes. This contract
to run for ten years.
The committee will now say that we
have tlfty-four hydrants, for which we are
paying $50 each, and most of said hy-
drants are now on threesinch mains, which
are wholly Insufficient.
w. II. GRIpER, Chm'n,
j. IL. MORLEY,
GRO. ID. WOOD,
j. G. STEPHENSON.
Mr.. White, in reply TO this proposition,
said he could not accept IL, and the meet
ing adjourned. Members of the commit
tee say they made as liberal u proposition
as they feel warranted in Offering, or as,
in their belief, ought to be offered. Mr.
White, on his part, says as business
man, seeking sale and prudent invest
ments, he cannot accept such contract,
and he prefers TO so ahead with the pres
ent system and ill ont the contract now
in existence, which has about two and Il
half years to run. And thus the matter
stands to-day.
ON THE WAR PATH.
w. NJ. Wilson, young man who lives
near ANtell, eight miles east of Waco, ON
the Texas & st. Louis railroad, appeared
before Justice Sleeper to-day and fled u
complaint against Spencer Miller for as
sault with intent TO murder, aud Mrs.
Harriet Miller (wife of Spencer Miller)
for carrying pistol. Wilson says he
bought some household goods from
Miller week ago and took them home.
Monday evening Mrs. Miller came 10 his
| (Wilson's) house and said the goods were
sold without her consent and she wanted
them. Wilson told her IL was legiti-
mate trade, he had paid for the goods
and intended to keep them. When he
| said this Mrs. Miller drew a pistol and
said she would have the goods or blood.
/ Wilson caught her arm, took the weapon
from her, fired it into the air, emptylng
/ all the chambers, and returned 1t to her,
when she went away, vowing vengeance.
! Wilson says he was Mt Axtell yesterday
| evening, standing beside the railroad
track, when Miller appeared on E4e othev
side of the track, about twenty yards dis
tant, with rife, and fired one shot at
him. The ball whizzed near his ear, and
Wilson ran. Justice Sleeper issued war
rants for the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Mil.
Ter, and, If found, they will be brought
| TO Waco tomorrow.
GENERAL LOCAL MISCELLANY.
! w. II. Carson, the mulatto parson whose
caper in putting up at the Pacific hotel
was related yesterday, is said TO be in the
| city yet He had case in the county
court suing for $999.24, and brought u
young lawyer here from Dallas TO fight II
| for him, When the case was called Car
sons lawyer asked a postponement, stat
| ing that his client was too sick 10 appear
in court. The defense put Rev.
Leak, the colored pastor OF
! the A. M. IL. church, ON
the stand and Leak swore that Carson
was at that time in his (Leak's) house,
too drunk TO get out. The county Judge
thereupon ordered the case dismissed, at
/ Carson's cost.
Weather as warm as spring to-day,