Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-10
GREER COUNTY.
Coke and lanham Form a Bill To
Create a Board of Arbitration TO
Settle the Controversy.
4 Board Appointed To lives tiga.e Loss
OF Signal Service and Ordnance
Property as San Antonio.
senator Cullom Introduces q Bill To Pen
hoa Survivors OF The BLACK Hawk
and SeminOle Indian Wars
GREER COUNTY NEAsURs.

GREER COUNTY NEASURs.
Special 10 the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-To-cay Senator
Coke and Mr.. Lsnhem introduced In the
Senate AID House bill to create boarti
OF arbitration 10 settle the Greer county
controversy. The matter has been
thoroughly considered by them and others
OF the delegation, and it is believed they
have prepared such measure IS offers
the greatest hopes fora settlement of the
issue. The bill provides for the appoint
msnt Of five arbitrators, two TO be ap-
pointed by the President, two by the Gov
ernor OF Texas, and the fifth to be deter
mined by the President and Governor, the
decision to be rendered is 10 be iioal.
1t will require an act Of the Legislature
of Texas Of like import before the mess
ure proposed can take effect. The recent
proclamation of the Presidents hss rem
dered it necessary that action be taken In
this matter and the President hiss ex-
pressed hope that it would hsye the effect
of expediting settlement OF the dispute.
SENATORIAL BALD HEADS.
Frank Carpenter, in gossipy article
to-day in the New York World on senate
rial bald heads, writes as follows Of the
Senators from Texas; "As l write, Coke
of Texas has come TO tie chair
OF the president of the Senate
and his great bsldheaded dome
shines below. | reach cut my pen and
the ink qutvers 81 it's point and moment
later drop would ,ot that wide sheet Of
Whiteness. The event would set the
Senate IN an uprcar end draw back the
pen to my paper. Cose's head would Ill
& half bushel basket. Il is as white as the
cheek Of 8 baby and it Shines Ike the
parchment OF q boys new drum. It Is
full at the crown snd the forehead fades
into it without s wish to mark the line OF
its height. Coke is tall, but with him
the saying does not hold good that the
coke loft is often empty when the build
ing Is several stories high. Coke's broWs
are heavy and his face wears perpetual
frown. The skin of mis- scalp is the ther-
mometer OF his brain, and when he grows
angry It rises to redness, and IL he is en-
ragged II becomes almost spurnle. Sill
Coke takes well, and he is big headed
msn with LOIS Of brain.
His colleague, Judge Reagan, has brown
hair, which Is fast thinning, and there Is
bold Mexican dollar at his crown.
whisp of black thatch ss big IS camel's-
hair piint-brusA md from here to the
forehead the hair is so thin that the DARK
rosy fish shines through. He shaVes his
face daily and wears his hair IF an inch
long,
TO BE INVESTIGATED.
A bOSrd Of survey consisting OF Cap
tain L Il Steiner, Third cavalry; First
Lieutenant John f Myers, Third ertil-
leTy, and Second Lieutenant Edwin A.
Miller, Third artillery, is ordered to as
sembe at San Antonio, Tex, on the 18th
fer the purpose OF investigating, report
ing upon and fixing the responsibility for
the alleged loss of certain signal service
and ordnance property for which Second
Lieutenant Leroy EsbIee of the Signal
Corps is responsible.
INDIAN WAR PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Cullom
introduced bill in the Senate to-day to
pension, st the rate OF So per month, ali
surviving officers and enlisted men VINO
actually served sixty days 10 the
northwest in the Black Hawk Indian war,
or in the south in the Florida Seminole
Indian war. Pensions are also granted
to the widows OF the deceased soldiers CT
those wars. A special provision declares
that this act Shall not be 80 construed IS
to grant pension to Jefferson Davis.
A bill was introduced By Senator Rea-
gan 10 amend the bill introduced by him
To regulate immigration so that the right
Of immigrants 70 remain in this country
may be challenged at sny time within
twelve months after their landing.
FORT BROWN MILITARY RESERVATION.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Tne committee
on military affairs to day fsVorabiy re
ported resolution to the House TO in
vestigate the subject of acquiring title
for the United States in the Fort Brown
military reservation. 1t seems that
$3.50, 900 wss appropriated in 1885 for the
purchase ct the grounds, but dispute
arising among claimants as to their snare
Of the money, the Secretary Of War WITH
held sll payments. General Sherman re-
ported that to pay $3.50 coo would be
fraud up J! e oV Inme n The c Imni.tee
Will Send for persons or papers TO inquire
into the necessity If any exists for
military reservation and the cost Of said
post sinces1S85.
TEXAS PENSIONS.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The following
ieXse pensions were Issued s0-Cay: Mex
ican wsr, William F. Rubottom, Rhea's
Mill; Morris B May, Barnef; james W.
Johnson, Blossom Prairie; Wilson Riley,
Greenwood; james NJ. McClintock, Bluff
Springs.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WAsHNGTON, Jan. s-rhe following
nominations were sent TO the Senate to-
dsy: Postmssters-E j. Cook, Arkadel-
phia, Ark; J, D. Price, Newport, Ark.
John B Wright, Tennessee, chief of
the mineral division ia the General Land
Office, has been appointed chief Law clerk
of the General Land Office, vice John L.
Barnes, removed.
The conference of the fisheries
WAS re umed st the Depart
ment of State this afternoon with al the
members 10 attendance.
The Senate committee on territories
this morning instructed its chairman 30
report fsyorably the bill for the division
Of Dakota and the admission Of South
Dakota as state.