Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-04
DALLAS.
N $4,000 Suit filed-Ths Maysr'l
Salary Raised One Thousand a.
DoIlarss
.,d stst.s Prisoners Ea Route u Al
bsny, N.Y-oourt Notes-sohn Hey j
ard In Tovn-Fair Notes. ~
HEAVY SUIT PILKD.

sp n.LIAs, TEX, Msy s.-Sait VS. nedsa
.,a limited States court to-day d. Crown,
watts 1 Hall, attorneys OF Rssad
Nod & Bomsr of Fort Worth for Clark {
p,rnb Of Montreal against James q.
campbell, The live stock com nission mer-
.h.nt OF Chlc,go, for ss2. 600 damage for
che wrongful taking and holding Of 3
,.,oe body of land in Clay county, known
.be Iksrd ranch. The ranch has 81, 600
.c,es, and is now being held by Defend.
1T campbell, and ne has large herd Of
cattle on the same.
CITY OFFICIALS SALARIES.
Al the Council meeting lass night an
o,dIpsuce wss passed fixing the salaries
~ the city officials as follows: Mayor,
$4,000; attorney. $4,000; assessor, $500;
soIIector, S2400; secretary, $500;
m,rshsl, 1890; treasurer, $1,000; en-
.ineer. $500; superintendent OF water
works, $500; health fil;er, $1,000; re-
cnrder, $1,000. By this ordinance the
m.yor's s.iary is increased $1,000; health
oricer s200 and recorder 5000.
COURT NOTES.
Mrs. Ssllie DICKSON vs.. M. z. and A.
R Hamilton, is the Etyle of suit fled
to-day, brought on three promissory
notes and for foreclosure of vendors lien
on land situsted in Hunt county.
Sam Ayers has brought suit against the
Texss Trunk Railway Company for DAM
sges.
Marriage license WAS issued to-day to
william Snow and Arkie Simpkins.
The Commissioners court will meet In
extra session Saturday, to take steps
looking towards repairing the bridges
10 the county damaged by the late big
rsin.
FAIR NOTES.
A meeting OF the stockholders of she
Texas State Fair aud Dallas Exposition
was held this morning and resolution
passed authorizing the issuance Of $780,
900 worth of bonds, and mortgsgipg the
propsrty OF the association to secure
their payment. The bonds were ordered
printed, and the resolution provides for
tneir negotiation aud sale.
Ths counties Of Ector, Midland and
R)ckw.ll, the two former Of the Filth
district and the latter OF the Third dis.
tric., have dled applications for space to
make special cOuoty exhibits. The Texas
and Pacific and San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass Railways have also secured space to
display * lioits of the general resources
Of the sections Of country through which
they pass.
"OP AND FOR TKxAsn
John Howard, "of and for Texas" is
in the city. He reports his work in st.
Louis es progressing nicely, but that It,
could be much better II the people OF the
stste would aid him more literally. So
far Fort Worth is the only city from
which he has received assistance. He
says THK GAzsTTK's efforts for Texas are
bearing good fruit and that it Is read by
many 81. Louisians every cay.
MINOR MOTIFS.
The house Of Sanger Bros. was closed
this afternoon in mark of respect to the
death OF Mrs. MandeIbnum of New
Haven, Conn. Mrs, P. SInger's mother,
who died suddenly last night. &
Real estate transfers .o-day aggregate
$4,000.
Deputy Unlsed States Marshal Ben Ca
bell arrived this morning with the follow
Ing prisoners sentenced ut the late term
Of United States court held in Waco: J.
2fsulkner, embezzlement; Peter Kelly,
passing counterfeit money; Fred Muller,
roooing posto flee; Jas. McGlanahau,
passing counterfeit money; Jas. Nunley,
rooolng pos office. These prisoners viii
DC transferred to Albany, N. Y, in few
days.
ROMANS IRE Up.
thrilling event occurred in Esst Dsl-
mgesterday afternoon in which The old
Nom u, John Henry Brown, played
conspicuous part Ia order to perfectly
Understand the nature OF l.. the full his
Wy must be given, and the "story run
meth thus !"
some eighteen or twenty wears ago
colonel A. Il. Shepard, who was one of
I0e early settlers of Texas and a Mexican
war veteran, decided to John Henry
D,oNn, e. oil as trustees, a certain par
el VI proune which Is how situated on
H Gas, LIm street. for monument to the
confederate dead. When the property
sss donated it had very little value at
Hsaea to it, but the men
ag whose hsnds it was entrusted
He.u the object for which 1t
s granted sacred Time passed
w ana the town Ct Three Forks spread
Vus lato the city OF Dallas, and the
monumental ground Is now worth as
LAZY thousands as i! was dollars twentyl
years ago. ~
nS several years ago old Colonel Shepsrdi
S.su ana his estate passed iuto the
,Aaas oil his heirs, who subsequently sfSr
s., consideration transferred the whole
rsn1e to & M. Tillmap, the n6Sor
s".t OF this city. Mr.. TilIman .asss
~ aIust Inc Impression that the monumeks
a. ground WAS included in the Convey i
n ,Os, ana soae days ago he leased the i
n,n 10 Jew BY the name Of 55fo.
nnos, "no proceeded to erect 4 Asloon
MAJ, II, Yesterday afternoon whom
he SIT brown was passing kythe placs
,h,. mal!s OF the proposed ssfoon were
,so0n. 'nree feet high. The old patriot
tbs Spsu anc inquired by what authority
WAS , ne,e building on thst ground and he
;b., 'T =. mat the house was Solomon's,
grow, ~ was to be & saloon and that the
E En- ma nad been leased to Solomon by
the ala was man more Indignant than
IA n. grsg-hsired veteran, whose heart
b,vs Iolntry's and whose best energies
and vesn devoted to her both III peace
alt.,ss WAT; Without any attempt at
,s,r t sint he drove the masons
nm aa rum The place and with q bsttering
eyerv S.oisoed the walls and then threw
p,,bs, LICE On the lot. The sight was
who o,.s ano grand, and when the crowd
The @.;os,eo about learned the reason of