Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-16
DALLAS.
A Feasible Scheme Devised for the Build
ing of Good County Roads.
Fair Officers for the Ensuing Year-E. A. Nor
gan Arrested OH Twelve Charges of
Embezzlement-Atta
THE ROAD CONVENTION .

| Special to the Gazette.
| DALLAS, Ten. , Dec. 15.-The road con-
vention to-day was not large affair, but
it was large enough to start the move
ment. Only about $50 were present, in
Guiding several gentlemen from Fort
Worth. The meeting was called to order
| by Colonel j Is. Simpson, and Rev.
Buck Hughes was made chairman and c.
| o. Wood secretary. Colonel Simpson
then stated the objects of the convention
and went into the discussion of them. His
| idea was TO build four great thorough
| fares through the county. He did not
| think that the constitution stood III the
way.
Colonel ] P. Smith, i'll addressing the
meeting, said that i'll Tarrant county the
people were greatly interested in the
movement the convention had up for con-
sideration. They had estimated the
cost of their gravel roads to be $1,000 per
mile, and they wanted to take the road
tax and issue S4O0 900 worth of bonds,
payable i'll twenty years. Through the
bond system they expected i'll three or
four years to construct 200 OF 500 miles of
road.
sion but the meeting agreed easily on the
| following resolution, which was unani-
mOusly adopted:
| Resolved, that it is the sense of this
convention that 4 wise and conservative
| general law be proposed at the next ScS-
! sion of the state legislature authorizing
| the various counties of the state, under
restrictions to be provided by law, to is
| sue public road bonds, not exceeding -
per cent. of the taxable values i'll each
| county. Said bonds to run not less than
| twenty years, and 10 bear not more than
| 6 per cent. interest and to be sold at not
| less than par value; not more than per
| cent. of the whole number of bonds to be
issued and placed upon the market i'll any
one year. Ample provision to be made
by law out of the fund to keep con-
structed roads in good repair.
Another resolution was adopted, call
ing for IL convention 70 be held in this
city the first Saturday in January, to
which all counties in the state are eX-
pected TO send delegates, to adopt the
| above bond measure and memOraliZe the
| legislature TO make provision for it.
THE FAIR OF 1889.
The directory elected by the stOckhold
| ers of the fair met to-day at the Mer-
| chants Exchange and elected the follow
| ing officers for the work of 1889: Henry
| Exall, president; Robert Gibson, vice.
president; Il NJ Reardon treasurer, and
| &. A. COur, secretary.
| THE HANKS TRIAL.
| The Evening Journal created very
| small and contracted sensation this af-
ternoon by publishing an article declar-
| ing that Rev. R. T. Hanks had not been
exonerated. OF course this statement is
| false. In another column it declares its
| belief that the article in THE GAZETTE
Yesterday was not written by the Dallas
correspondent.
DALLAS LOCAL NOTES.
This has been an April day. The sum
| shine and the rain have been mixing it.
Marriage licenses was issued this morn
| ing to w. J Moore and Alice Daniels, j.
| n. Pippins and Lizzie Hodges.
Real estate trantfers to-day aggregate
only $4,000.
w. f. Rayner, manager of the Rayner
! Cattle Company in King couny, is in the
| city. He says that the people in his sec
| ton are all torn up over the organization
of Stonewall county, which takes place
next Thursday. There are about 100
voters inthe county, a large per cent. of
whom want office.
Colonel Peter Smith was in attendance
upon the road convention to-day.
Henry Exall has gone to Galveston.
Mr. Calvin Sloan, well known stock
man of Colorado City, is in town.
&. A. Morgan, formerly employed by
the Texas Installment Company, has
been arrested on twelve charges of en-
| begzlement.
4SSf. NJ. Tillman filed attachment pro-
ceedings in the county court to-day
against R. H. Stephenson on a claim of
So.
Dan Brien, in the county court, gar
nisheed McRae, Lally s. Co. to cover
claim of S435 against P. J. Loenie.