Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-03
DALLAS.
The Shooting at Shingiown Turns
Out to Have Been an Affair OF
Honor Over n Girl.
} W. Jessum Found Dead In HEIDI
shippers organizing Close of tho
Summer Normal.
Special to the Gazette.

DALLAS, TEX, Aug, 2.-The shooting
of Frank Gilbert and Nose Parish turns
out to have been sort Of affair OF honor.
1t is said Nose Parish whipped colored
girl named Eddie Crooms for taking
water from well In the yard of the
colored free school in Strlngtown, and
Gilbert called him to account for it, The
result was that Gilbert challenged Parish
70 mortal combat, and the challenge
being accepted, the two repaired
to grove near Shady View
park, accompanied by a few friends,
and, at a given signal, opened fire
with their pistols Several shots were
exchanged, and both combatants were
wounded in the leg when satisfied honor
called halt. The matter was kept very
quiet both before and after the sanguin-
airy meeting, and either the police know
nothing about it or do not think 1t worth
while to trouble themselves about it, as
no arrests have been made
j. w Jessum, who was employed In a
sausage factory, was found dead In his
bed az l4l5 Elm street this morning. He
had been drinking heavily during the
afternoon, II is said, and on retiring In
the evening complained Of feeling Of
heayiness about the stomach and head.
An inquest was held by Justice Schulz
this afternoon.
ine EXERCISES OF lhe summer normal
sU.aooi o,oseu .o-nisnt WIN IaIge ettenG
an ., anu very interesting ana enjoyable
pfVSluinlne. ohpeflntehuent otanoerry
Va vuV Dallas pubic SCHOOLS dellVered
shoIs D "a, entertaining speech al the open
lus vi tHe exercises, ana pther addresses
Tele uUIiyereu oy froi' uroVe ana mayor
oOuh ilenIy Dlo"n. AMONG tne most
pIeae.ns ieatules VI Ine programme were
S ". leoiaIlohs Iaul revere 8 Rlde,
~ "iss 60. anI "a, hosssetS anu sue Hlgs-
9ee VI FoIt worm, ana Inc Angles 81
n, VISTA ny MISSES Molile Meek
151 hisoee anu hliza Qulgg cI Fort
Olth'
IN ne nles na'e "a oo1Ioh reserved lhls
season was noC SOU az puollc auctioh TO-
Jay Us unnounceu, Postponement OF the
sale nuNlng oeen uecideu upon. me pale
WelShs 40 POUNDS ana rs SAID TO be the
nrsG Daie Oh new cotton ever received In
O9,las us carry III Vhe season as July.
30 DasIety CIa"iolu, Cape; "A, D. houston
iel' Lor uaiVeston tonight TO participate
III the Interstate ufll. O5her compa-
mes WIN loiioW Ia Jew days.
Inc EAST DSllas water-works company
mas commenced laying pipe from the
WORKS 10 inc Dallas state fair grounds,
giving assurance OF plentiful supply Of
water oy the llme the lalr opens.
me Fh~aiA saloon was closed by at
tachinent at tne suit OF ", M. TtIlm9n
anu frelosrS mime thls morning, and
Ine proprietor, MI scott, charged WIN
Vlolatuhs ene sunday law, was surren-
oeIeu ~ us Donusnen.
Inc Farmers aillance committee on
SoDVoh-yaIu Was III session al tne court
house 1o-uay, pub what was done the re-
potIers were not permitted TO know
IL Is sara tney are negotiating with the
cp'toh-ihllS Win view OF selling
uirect 10 them, thus avoiding any deal
ing Win cotton buyers and other middle
men
meeting OF prominent cotton ship
peH OF TINS and adjoining towns was
lelu mere TINS morning for the purpose of
ioinl'ug COTTON Shippers organization.
me Shippers OF North Texas will be
| invited 10 meet mere the Esd inst. to
perfect Ihe organization. 1t is said the
poor now III lorce VIII continue, as far as
ianu shipments GO
CARD.
as lalse statement OF fact which no
veneer can conceal, deliberately made
III an an appeal ITO the csttle-breeders of
Ie s tne artlcle IN the Fort Worth
Lave STOCK journal by the Dallas fair
Junto ana land syndicate, demands from
the Texas State Fair association that de-
gree OF attention which so wilful and ma
llcloos Il fabrication to catch unsuspect-
ing stock-growers may deserve. After
the so-called boiling on the part of the
Ie&as state lair organizers, still each
successive plot on the part Of this Dallas
talr concern, appears to be conceived in
Trying TO perpetrate yet another decep-
uoh, ana IN the effort to antagoni2e the
puoh; against rival and more legiti-
mate association, every sentence is a
miscarriage from that selfsame simon
ster womb" Not only these, it has Ia