Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-13
GREER COUNTY.
Coke and Lanham Form a Bill To
Createa Beard of Arbitration To
SsttIe The Controversy.
1 Beard Appointed To Investigate Loss
OF Signal Service and Ordnance
Property at San antonio.
Senator OulIom Introduces Bill To Pen
sion Survivors of tbs black Hawk
and Seminole Indian Wars
GREER COUNTY MEASURE.

GREER COUNTY MEASURE.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, jan. 9.-To-day Senator
Coke and Mr.. Lsnhsm introduced in the
Senate and House bill to create board
of arbitration to 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 as offers
the greatest hopes for e settlement CT the
issue. The bill provides for the appoint
ment of five arbitrstors, 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 70 be fiaal.
IL will require an act Of the Legislature
of Texas Of like import before the meas
ure proposed can take effect. The recent
proclamation OF the President has rem
dered Il necessary that action be taken in
this matter and the President has ex-
pressed hope that it would have 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: GAS write, Coke
of Texas has come to the chair
Of the president Of the Senate
and his great bRlGheaded dome
shines below. | reach out my pen and
the ink quivers at its point and moment
later drop would lot that wide sheet Of
Wilderness. The event would set the
Senate in an uproer and 1 draw back the
pen TO my paper. Coke's head wCuld fill
hslf bushel basket. 1t is as white as the
check Of baby and it shines like the
parchment Of q boys new drum. 1t Is
toll IT the crown and the forehead fades
into il without 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. C0ke's bToWs
sre heavy and his face wears perpetual
fIOWn. The skin of mis- scalp is me Their
mometer Of his brain, and When he grows
angry it rises to redness, and il he is en-
ragged 1t becomes slmCgt purple. Still
Coke takes well, and ne is 3 big-headed
man with los of brain.
His colleague, Judge Reagan, has brown
h3ig, which Is fsst thinning, aud there is
& bold Mexican doIlsr at his crown.
Through the center Of this is g
whisp OF black thatch as big as q cxmers
hair p2int-brush snd from here to the
forehead the hair is so thin that the dsrK
rosy Fl ssh shines through. He shaVes his
face daily and wears his hsir b If au inch
long"
TO BE INVESTIGATED.
a board of survey consisting Of Cap
tain Z L Ssener, Third cavalry; First
I TOh0 MCnrc
lery, and Second Lieutenant Edwin A.
Miller, Third artillery, is ordered to as
eemble e. San Antonio, Tex, on tbs 12sh
for the purpose OF investigating, report
ing upon aud fixing the responsibility for
the alleged loss Of certain signal service
and ordnance property for which Second
Lieutenant Leroy Esbree of the Signal
Corps is responsible.
IXDf4N WAR PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Cullom
introduced bill ia the Senate today TO
pension, st the rate of IS per month, ell
Surviving officers and enlisted men who
ettuslly served sky days in the
northwest in the Back Hswk Indian war,
or il the go%tA in the Florida Seminole
Inii&l wSr. Pensions are also granted
20 the widows q the deceased soldiers CT
those WAITS. \ special pr. vision declares
thst this set snail POT be SO construed as
to grant pension 10 ffarson Davis.
bill was introduced By Senator Res
gan 20 amend the biz introduced By him
To reCu' ate immigration So thst the right
Of imm grants 20 IemAin IN his country
msy ba Challenged s: any time within
twelve mouths :trer their landing.
FORT BE0WN MILITARY REsKRyATI
spe tel o III, Gazette.
WASHING Ten, Jan. 9--Tbe committee
On military affsirs TO day faToEab:y re-
ported q resolution to tie House 10 IN
yestigate the subject of acquiring tile
for he United St.ges in tbs F0rt Blown
miiixrg reservation. II sasms >thas
100000 was appropriated il 1886 FOR the
purchase # the grounds, but dispute
arising among Gilman SIS - their share
Ct the 10 2aey, the Secretary CT War WITH
held sll payments General Sherman re-
ported inst to pay $l60 000 would be 6
fraud upon The eoveInmen ;. Theic )mmisiee
VIII send for persons or papers to Inquire
into the necessity If any exists for s
military reservation ana the cost Of ssid
post since 1885
TEXAS PENSIONS.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, JSn. 9-The foliowirg
Texss pensions were issued to-day: Mex
icsn war, william F. Ribottom, Raes's
Mill; Morris 3 May, Barnet; James ".
Johnson, Blossom Prairie; Wilson Riley,
Greenwood; james M. McClintock, Bluff
Springs.
WASHINGTON MOTIFS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. The following
nominations were sent 10 the Senate to-
day: Posfmasters-E j. Cook, Arkadel-
phis, Ark; j. d, Price, Newport, Ark.
John B Wright, Tennessee, chief of
The mineral division in the General Lsnd
Office, has been appointed chief Law clerk
OF the General Lsnd Office, vice John L.
Barnes, removed
The conference of the fisheries
negotiations was re umed at the Depart
ment of Stste this afternoon with all tae
members in attendance.
The Senate committee on territories
this morning Instructed its chairman TO
report fsvordbly the bill for the division
CT Dskots and the admission Of South
Dakota as state.