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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY.
The Great Popular Route Between
THE EAST AND THE west.
Short Line to New Orleans and all
Points in Louisiana, New Mex
leo, Arizona and Cali
fornia.
FaVOrite Line to the North,
East and Southeast.
Double daily line Of Pullman Palace Sleeping
Cars through to st. Louis via the
Iron Mountain Route.

See that your ticket reads via the Texas and
Pacific Railway. For maps, time tables ticket
rates and all required information call on
9. D. LUSK, Ticket Agent Union Depot, Fort
Worth.
JAKE ZURN, Ticket Agent City Office corner
Main and Third streets.
II. G. ARCHER, Travelling Passenger Agent,
Dallas.
B. w. MCCULLOUGH, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent, Dallas. Tex.
JNO. A GRANT, General Manager.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
OKLAHOMA BOOMERS.
They Rejoice Over the Progress OF Their Meas
ure in Congress.

ARKANSAS CITY, KAs., Feb. There
was great rejoicing in this city to-day
when news was received that
Springer's Oklahoma bill had passed the
lower branch of congress. Grand prep
arations are being made for a parade to-
night by the fambeau clubs and bands
of music. Pawnee Bill and many of his
followers have come here where they ex-
pect to remain till the last legal barrier
is removed. Then they will peaceably
take up their march to Oklahoma.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
FIRE RECORD.
Boston Has an Exciting Fire-Business Houses
Burned at Carbon, ILL.,
Blaze at the Hub.

BUFleu dO tafDOhs Al.
Blaze at the Hub.
Boston, Mass, Feb. /, II 80 p. NJ
A general alarm has just been sounded
for fire in the four-story brick block,
107 to 1I3 Court street, occupied in the
upper floor by Albert Russell, manufac-
turer of electrical and mechanical instTu-
ments, and on the lower floors by Austin
Nickelodon. The fire has so far been
confined to the two upper stories. which
are mass of flames, but d stiff breeze is
blowing, sending showers OF sparks IN all
directions.
l2:l5 a. m Six alarms have been
sounded and a detachment of patrol
wagons are on their way to the fire. The
flames have swept through from Court
street to Portland street, across Han
over. Several persons are said to be in
jured.
Soon after midnight the fire was con-
trolled. The loss is $50 900, insurance
SIS 600,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
THE SPRING PALACE.
Citizens Urged to Be Present at the Meeting
Tonight.

Tonight.
The Texas Spring Palace project must
take tangible shape soon or the time viii
be too short to do what must be done.
There is to be meeting at Huffman 5
hall tonight at o'clock, when the COM
mittees will make a report and some de-
cision will be reached that will determine
the matter. Chairman Wynne says all the
members of the committees are expected
to be present, and qll citizens and ladies
are invited to attend. The ladies of the
city are invited by the ladies com
mittee to meet them at the Commercial
clubrooms at o. CLOCK to-day.
If the Texas Spring Palace is to go let
Huffman IS hall be crowded tonight.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
Personal.

E. De Cllle, agent of the Mendelssohn
quintette club, was in the city yesterday
and called on THE GAZETTE.
H. Y. Browning, who for some time
past has been with w H . Taylor, left
yesterday for Baylor university.
The Messrs. Lacroix of this city re-
ceived telegram yesterday announcing
the death of brother who lived III
Michigan
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
MORE TINE GRANTED.
The Threatened COnnellsville Coke Workers
Strike Postponed.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 1.-The
threatened strike of. the Connellsville
coke workers did not take place to-day
and nearly all the large works are in
operation. The men decided to give the
operators forty eight hours more to fol-
low the example of II c.. Frick, and
sign the scale. If this is not done the
workmen assert the strike will be in
augurated to- morrow evening. The
operators are stin firm, and say the clos
ing of their works at this time will do
them no harm, as the supply of the coke
now on hand is very heavy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
a Gainesville Fire.

Special 70 the Gazette.
GAINESVILLE, TEX, Feb. IA two
story residence on Broadway was de-
ing The house was unoccupied at the
time, and it is supposed was set on fire.
The loss is $500; insurance, $1,000.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
SPORTING.
Fight Between Texas and Kansas Light
weights on the Tapis-Pr0ctOr Knott viii
Not Enter the Kentucky Derby.
4 Challenge Accepted.

Special to the Gazette.
GAINESVILLE, TEX, Feb. lone
John Walker of this city has accepted the
challenge of John Johnson, champion
lightweight of Kansas, to spar twenty
five rounds in Gainesville for the gate
fees. Walker claims to be the champion
light weight of Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
a Michigan Loss.

PEwAN, Mich. Jan. 81 A fire at
midnight last night destroyed block of
frame buildings on Main street, causing
a loss of SIS 900. The insurance is small.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
TEXAS PANHANDLE ROUTE!
Denver, Texas & Fort Worth
Railroad.

Shortest line, quickest time from the Gulf %
Mexico, Fort Worth and all principal points in
Texas to Rocky Mountain resorts and Pacific
coast, including Trinidad, Pueblo. Manitou, Col
orado Springs, Denver, Col. and Salt Lake,
Utah. Daily trains leaving Fort Worth $3.50 ,.
m. comprising new and elegantly equipped Pull
man Palace Sleeping Car with Buffet service,
through TO Denver, connecting at Colorado juno
ton points with A. T. & 5 T. r. R., d. & r. G..
R., Colorado Midland Railway and Union Pacific
Railway.
RATES OF FARE FROM FORT WORTH:
To Trinidad 81. 30; to Pueblo. SD 90; to Color
ado Springs So. 90; 20 Denver S24.O0.
ROUND TRIP EXCURSION RATES
From Fort Worth to Trinidad and return 81. 90:
TO Pueblo, Colorado Springs and return S2I 50; to
Denver and return 5000; to Salt Lake and return
SIS, 90.
Tickets good for 30 days going and 30 days re-
turning, with lay over privileges both ways, ex-
treme limit of ticket until October 81. ISIS.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
LOCAL WEATHER.
| daily hrI /. p Nichs.
Indications.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Q, l a. m.-FOr
Eastern Texas: Fair, warmer; variable
winds, becoming southerly.
For Arkansas: Fair, colder winds, be-
coming northwesterly
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
Special Excursion Rates =!

Made by all railroads in Colorado to persons
holding our excursion tickets.
The Summer Resorts of Colorado are noted the
world over, and the scenery over the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad is the grandest on earth.
Tickets on sale via Texas Panhandle Route at
all coupon ticket stations in Texas and LOuisians.
Cali for information and descriptive matter on
J. L. A. THOMAS; w. s DAVIS, City Ticket
Agent, or W. V. NEWLIN, A. G.. p. A, 6l3
Main street. Fort Worth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02

The Cotton. Belt viii be in good condi-
tion if the rains stop for any length of
time and then Fort Worth will have
trains through TO Memphis
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02

The Memphis and Little Rock to Paris,
and the Frisco extended from Paris to
Tort Worth. How Would that fill the
bill?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
THE RAILROADS.
Work to be Under Way on the Fort
Worth Western by May.
The Memphis and Little Rock to Paris and the
Frisco to Fort Worth-TO the
Pineries.

The two and one-half miles extension
of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande is well
under way.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02

Gentlemen who are in position TO be in
formed on the subject say that the Fort
Worth Northwestern viii be under con-
struGtion by May l ut latest.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02

Mr.. jenkins of Grapevine, who was in
Fort Worth yesterday, says the Dallas,
Archer and Pacific under its new man
Rgement, has not yet made Grapevine n
pTopositiOn to build to that place.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02

There is q railroad now being built III
the pineries of Eastern Texas which is
heading for Fort Worth. construction
company of Fort Worth people is building
it. An air line from Fort Worth to the
pineries will not be Il bad thing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14

1t is now brought out that the police chose
to adopt the theory of the boys guilt, and
used the most extraordinary methods to sup
port it. An ante-mortem statement of the
murdered man, exonerating the boy, was
suppressed. The prisoner was prosecuted
while in Jail with efforts to extort confess
sion from him; and nothing seems to have
been deemed improper in the effort to hang
the youth, innocent or guilty, except the
actual subornation of false testimony.
Allegations of this sort have been made
with regard to the conduct of the police in
connection with the so-called Anarchist
plots of Chicago. While they have not
been clearly proved in either case, the as
sertions have enough color to call for the
statement that any detective resorting to
that sort of work should find himself speed
lily lodged in the penitentiary. Detective
forces are kept up and paid by the public
to ferret out and punish crime. They are
not hired to suppress evidence in favor of
people falsely accused, or to secure convic-
ton, regardless of the real guilt or inno-
cence Of the offender. The idea which
seems to have been uppermost in the K ru-
lisch case, that the reputation of the detec-
tive force required victim, and that they
would convict one without caring whether
he was guilty or not, would be disgraceful
to any hslf-civilized government and in this
age ought to bring down condign punish
ment on public officials, committing them
selves to such barbarity.
Between police officials who are unable
to catch criminals at all; those who are re-
ported to get up manufactured alibis for the
benefit Of certain criminals; and those who
try to convict innocent people, the subject
of police reform promises to be one of the
great issues of the future
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
LAYING UP TROUBLE AHEAD.

So much has been said during the week
past, of the WherrY bill and upon the whole
subject of railroad discrimination, that it
would not be surprising If the public were
now arrived at the point of weariness. In a
nutshell the case amounts to this: Dis
elimination. does exist; it is working seri-
ously against local interests. But not one
of the three possible remedies is in sight
The business men have not yet felt the
pinch with the severity that compels the Sc
curing of competition. The Republican
majority in the Legislature will not enforce
the constitutional clauses. The railroad
authorities will not yield their point that
localities where competition does not exist
must pay according as the traffic will bear.
That this situation can be satisfactory
that it can be otherwise than fraught with
threatening probabilities for all the inter
ests concerned, no sensible person will con-
tend. The result is always possible that
continued discrimination, especially if coin
cident with other causes of depression, may
affect the business of a section and the in
terests of individuals to the utmost degree
adversely-perhaps fatally; the Republican
representatives cannot continue to ignore
constitutional requirements, unless at the
manifest risk of their party's supremacy;
and the railroads, which already see in some
Western States how business can be har-
rassed by too radical statutes for Commits
sions and too extensive grants of power to
such bodies, are pursuing anything but a
wise policy in inviting similar enactments
in Pennsylvania, when popular senti-
ment, desperately in earnest, shall at last
compel legislation.
Further agitation for the present, under
the existing circumstances. seems useless.
There is no election at hand, nor can any
thing be added to what has been said. 1t is
a clear and uncomfortable case of "What
are you going to do about it?" But time
never yet failed to bring fit answer to such
a way of meeting an issue; and only the
blind and the foolish ever imagine that the
swing of the pendulum can be altogether
and forever to one side.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
EARLY SPRING BLOSSOMS.

BALTIMORE american: Alligator skin purses
should fasten with a snap.
RICHMOND State: Preservation Of the unities
"a dude astride of donkey.
IT appears to be only the sugar part Of the
rum power that is pulverized.
BALTIMORE American: New spring dresses
are generally worn with an elastic step.
ROCHESTER TTdfngs: A sleeping policeman
is one of the silent watches Of the night.
NEW YORK Herald: Who kills all the dead
letters?-Rochester Post Express. Miss Direc-
tion.
on CITY Derrick: A man should not be
called Jim Crow citizen without sufficient
caws,
BINGHAMToN Republican,: Queer about
flowers, isn't it? They shoot before they have
pistils-
LOUISVILLE Western Recorder: A man who
does not know anything is pretty sure to tell it
the first chance he gets.
BOSTON Post: The eminent Boston divine
who said "the saloon is in the saddle evidently
had heard Of pony of brandy.
TROY Press: The bill collector probably
doesn't like his business any better than the
man who pays him. but it has to be dun.
ROCHESTER, Post Express: We may not be
very strong in war ships, but when 1t comes
down to consulships the United States gets
there with both pedes.
NEW HAVEN Palladium: Jenkins to Hen
klns latter vaInly trying to understand mes
sage over the telephone wire)-That's right
Get madi I can hear you all right now.
BALTIMORE american: Secretary Rusk is
cutting down expenses in the Agricultural
Department. The discharged employees are
unanimous in the opinion that this branch Of
the Government service is going to seed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
THE PENITENTIARYs v1NDICATIoN.

The investigation by the Senate Commit
tee, of the management of the Western Pen
itentisry, came to an end yesterday for lack
of further evidence. Although the formal
report of the committee is vet to be heard,
the agreement, both from the published evil
dence and the private hearing of COM
plants to the prisoners, is general that
nothing has been developed to show either
mismanagement or corruption in that in
stitution.
This verdict, if supported by the full
report of the committee, may be taken as
final settlement and explosion of the
charges. The Senate Committee was not
prejudiced in favor of the institution. 1t
gave everyone having charges to make full
opportunity to support them by evidence.
and made its work so thorough as to visit
the prisoners privately and hear their state
ments. If such an investigation develops
nothing out of the way, it is fair to conclude
that the reputation of the penitent1ary as a
carefully and honestly managed institution
is fully sustained.
After this satisfactory termination of the
SoSS Aels bCSA ASdShSNs ~ Ao pAOpCL W pOlub
out one or two minor points which afford
room for amendment. The furnishing of
supplies by a member of the Board was
shown to be on so small a scale that it can
not be deemed an abuse. But it should be
remembered that while the amount NAV be
unimportant the principle involved may be
important. The law is plain on the subject,
and the management of public institution
should be careful to conform with the law
in every respect. 1t is also worth while for
the management to perceive the error Of the
idea which has prevailed there, that every
thing that goes on within the walls must be
kept secret No one considers it necessary
that the prison should be open to every one;
but fair degree CT publicity is better for
all parties. The Board can see from the
present case that it strengthens rather than
weakens good management to have the pub
lie pretty we'll Informed of the conduct and
occurrences within the penitentiary.
The penitentiary has been pretty well vim
dictated by the ordeal to which it has been
subjected, and with the lessons of expert
ence applied as they should be, it can re-
sumo its position as a well-managed and
creditable institution.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14

Constitutional amendment, placing the sub
ject within the jurisdiction of Congress.
What is wanted is not so much the change
of the law as to divorce and marriage, as q
change of the uncertainty and confusion
arising from the difference between State
legislation. The pressing necessity is to do
away, with the abnormal discrepancies
under which people may be legally married
inone State and illegally married in another;
by which the parties to an unfortunate mar
riage may be released from it in one Com
monwealth and under its bonds elsewhere;
or the legitimate children in one State be
unable to receive the property owned by
their parents in others.
This is the view which THE DISPATCH
has urged for a long time, and the growth
of opinion as to its necessity is encouraging
to the hope of an ultimate reform.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
KEYSTONE CURIOS.

SOMERSET county has place called PeeYish
Hollow.
]. HARMAN, of Madison, Perry county, drove
so hard to catch train that he broke 30 dozen
eggs.
SINCE the last robbery at McClellandtown
bank deposits have largely increased in that
section.
DR. STEVE, of Huntingdon. put strychnine
around his stable for rats, and mourns q Valu,
able mare.
ONE result of the tailors' strike in Erie
is the postponement Of swell wedding. the
groom being unable to get his suit in time.
JOHN AcKER, of Lehighton, has on exhibi-
tion pheasant which he caught Just after it
had dazed itself by flying clean through win
dow pane of the Gazette office.
FRIENDS told Peter 'Blaeser, an Allentown
saloon keeper, that a big frecraeker would
clear the chimney of SCOT. He tried it, blowing
out two sides of the chimney.
THE remains of Mrs, Mary Connolly, buried
over five years ago at DanYille, Montour
county, were found in perfect preservation q
few days since, and even the flowers were un.
faded.
In the center of rock taken from the Lo-
Gust Spring Colliery was q collection resem-
bling in size and appearance q SNOWFALL. Il
has soapy nature. Is quite soft and when
dried resembles silver dust. 1t puzzles Potts
vile geologists.
MRS. JACOB THOMAS, of Upper Oxford, was
carrying lighted candle. when flash went the
drapery around bird cage, two pet canaries
were sixzled In . wink, and the lady's life was
saved by her husband beating out her blazing
clothes with his bare hands
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

THE Gar OF hussia' according 70 an English
traveller, wears silk strap around his waist in
place OF suspenders'
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER is going to intro
ouce Dili at tne next session Oh congress Tor
the election OF postnasters py the people.
SECRETARY NOBLE has called halt on the
Missourlans. he says it will not do to take
any more into the Interior Department lest the
other States find fault.
THE late Isaiah V. Williamson, Of Philadel-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
MEMORY BY PROXY.

When deputation from South African
kingdom visited England recently there
was in the party distinguished person
known as "Chief Bubayane. the memorizer
for the King Lo Bengula.' To him was
assigned the duty of remembering in chron-
illogical order everything that occurred
during the tour, for the purpose of making
faithful report to his master. He con-
fessed when he left England that his memo
ry was little crowded with data, for he had
seen the British elephant in all its phases,
from royal courts to plebeian taverns, but he
hoped to straighten out the story of his
travels before he reached home.
Why should the useful Office of memo
rizer be known merely in dusky mon
arch's court? The idea could be applied
here in too many ways to mention. For ex-
ample, there are good many political lead
ers who would be glad to know that Mr..
Harrison had turned over his memory to a
paid attendant during the campaign. The
memory of man after he enters the White
House is proverbially short. The memo
rizer would be mechanically accurate and
closed to subsequent influences in mars hal
ing his remembrances. He would remem-
ber for his master with strict impartiality,
and there would be no Senators going
about the country chanting: % an
migrate"
Aside from politics and official statesman
ship, the memorizer would be handy per
son to all sorts of busy men. The editor
who wants to know how he viewed ques-
tion year ago, would find memOrizer
much more convenient than file OF news
papers to refer to. Besides he could swear
at the memorizer with some comfort, if the
memorizer's report were disagreeable. The
society woman who often is at a loss to tell
how much gush she should bestow on this
woman, and how much frigidity on that,
would have general use for memorizer in
the shape of tailor-msde angel in attend
ance. For the society woman who sees
thousand people in her parlors in year, is
naturally at times unable to tell who is
worth cultivating and who is not.
Yes, let us have memorizers at once,
please.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
THE OCEAN MYSTERY.

The loss of the ocean steamer Denmark,
and the doubt that prevails as to whether
the hundreds of souls on board of her were
rescued or not, affords an impressive lesson
Of the perils that may attend ocean travel.
OF late years the ocean lines between this
country and Europe have been attended
with so little disaster that they have come
to be regarded as nearly, if not quite, as safe
as land travel. Occasionally, however,
some wholesale destruction of life warns hu-
manity that the ocean is still unconquera-
bic. The hope that is entertained of the
rescue of the passengers and crew of the
Denmark, will be nourished by their friends
as long as possible; but the foundation for
it is daily growing less. Whether they
are alive or dead, their perils will give a
forcible example of the dangers that environ
modern life in almost as great variety az
that of more ancient times.