Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-29

NAV be that they prevented bl0odsheu'
but doubt that, for there was no dlspo-
sirion on the part of the constable ana MS
D0sse to do more than peaceabiY exc
cute the mandate OF the law, and there
was no one with the grit TO oppose them,
armed as they were with Il VIII from
court of competent jurisdiction. IL Is,
however, well known fact that prudent
men have feared bloodshed IN hoOefts
county. and on this occasion the presence
of rangers may have stayed It. Inc
conduct of Capt. McMUrraY and his men
seemed to me TO be exemplary, ana
Judged them to be present to pre-
vent, if possible, conflict be-
tween officers of the law ana men
who threatened to defy the law.
This is the whole of the Roberts county
outrage'' and full history of the blood
less scenes of that fatal day ana dark
some night.
The story, however, has seque4.
Since the war-drum has ceased to beat,
M Little has convened commissioners
court. MI. Alcorn's bonds has been
anDroved. he have been placed i'll posses
sion of the offices and is being recognized
by Little and his cohorts, and peace
refgns again in Warsaw Next VIII
follow Mr.. Little 5 case to furnish an
outrage depicted in d teu-cOlumn neWspa-
Der article. Then the county govern
ment will be III the hands of the people,
who supDort it with their labor and their
tax-money. And when that comes TO
mass INQUIRY will be made into how MI:
Little and his sO-called commissioners
court made a contract with CaSSeTIy q
Kelley TO construct courthouse ana JAN
for $50 600, and how on the same day ne
issued $50 900 of Roberts county BONDS,
Davable to bearer, and on the same Gay
delivered them all to the contractors,
when not a splinter was on the GROUND
for the building, and is not to TINS Gay !;
and those bonds will be hunted up, ana
when it is found that only $40, OOO OF
them goE to New York IN search
of an innocent purchaser, an enort
will be made to find out what
became of the others and IN whose
! caDacious pockets they are to be Iouhu;
| and inquiry will be made into the reason
| for having $50 600 for a building in adj
vance. the construction Of which would
! cost the builders SIS, 600 only; and then
Till 7e discovered the true reason NOV
! inc X. Little and his plant tools TO so
vaIue the peoples property as TO make
| the true values of the county 81 100, OOO ,
! or +v1ce as much as the values of adJOIn-
mo counties having better lands, more
| farmers. more cattle, three times as
much railroad bed, etc, etc, ana
Roberts county people will find out why
theIr lands offered for sale at 81 per acre
! are valued for taxes 81 80 per acre. The
tax-Daving citizens mean to rule Roberts
! county if they can. They do not mean
for half dozen adventures to bankrupt
them. if by lawful means they can pre-
vent it. There is not a cattle baron IN
the county. It is a fight between few
adventures in the village of Miami ano
tine settlers who have resided in Texas
and Roberts county for years. No cattle
man is nv client in these suits to recover
these offices, as is intimated by Mr.
Little. nor does a cattle man pay cent
of nav fee. The people of Roberts county
are waiting patiently for the courts, IL
full faith that the law, though slow o
action, will give them redress. If, as j
charged by Mr. Little, the law has beer
violated in the execution of the VIII o
custer. then all the district courts OF tn
state are open TO him for legal redress
and he need not have gone to the forum
.of,4he public in blalherskite effort Il
-Esmoald public sentiment aRd arouse TIT
"a passions of men, lncitingsgt Rem 10 def.
theIaw and attempt govgsnllfent by nn
lawful force. a. bAhEN'