Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-05
a Uniaue Petition.

WASHINGTON, Feb. president Pro
Tenn ingalls, to-day laid before the senate
the following petition:
To the Honorable Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives:
Your humble petitioner would respect
fully beg that your honorable body pass
bill introduced by Senator Butler of the
South Sea islands. empowering the COM
1nissioners of Whitman county, Wash
ington territory, to issue bonds not to
exceed 500 900 TO build a courthouse
and jail in the town of ColfaX.
Now your petitioner most humbly
prays that you double the dose and give
them the privilege toTealize 5000 900. 1t
will take this amount to keep the county
seat down IN this hole, and while you are
about it give us $4,000 more to build
balloon TO get down to the county seat.
And your petitioner will ever pray.
FSigned. JOHN SMITH.
The petitien was referred to the COM
mittee on territories.
Senator Mitchell introduced a bill to-
day providing that each volunteer who
Joined the services of the United States in
Oregon, Washington territory or Idaho
during the war with the NeZ Perces
Indians should be paid 81 for each day of
his services, and the actual value of any
horses, arms, etc, lost by him while III
the service. These laws are made APP
pIicable to those who contracted wounds
or disease during the said war.
A bill was introduced by Senator Glib
son to-day authorizing the Southern
bridge and railway company of Louisi-
ana to construct and maintain bridge
over the Mississippi river at New
Orleans for the passing of railway trains,
wagons, cattle and foot passengers. Tolls
that may be charged are 10 be subject TO
approval by the secretary of war. The
length of the spans of the bridge and the
height of the super-structure above the
river will be determined by the secretary
of war, who is given power at any time
to cause alteration to be made in the
bridge if it should be found to obstruct
navigation.
The following telegram has been re-
ceived by the Austro- Hungarian legation
at this capital from Count Kalnoky, min
lister of foreign affairs:
You will please tender TO the president
of the United States in the name of his
majesty, OF the government and of the
people of Austria Hungary the warmeSt
thanks for your telegram of coincidence
presented through Minister LawtOn,
which was received here with the highest
appreciation.
fSignedl KALNOKY.
Senator Evarts from the committee on
privileges and elections made a report to-
day of the results of the investigation
into the alleged election outrages III Wash
ington county, Tex. The first conclu-
sion the committee reaches is that the
averments of the petitioners as TO their
situation III their homes in Texas, and
the occasion of their being compelled TO
flee from them are in substance and eff
feet sustained by evidence. As to sup
pressions of the vote at Chapel Hill dis
trict the conmittee thinks tits chargea-
BILE to the leaders of the opposition ticket
and IN that interest, with motive TO
discourage and suppress the Republican
vote there and to the colored Republican
voters being unwilling TO expose them
selves to the fate which was visited upon
the eolored judges of election at Chapel
Hill in 1881
AT Llewellyn polls Devices Bolton, who
headed the raiding party that entered
the polling precinct in disguise for the
purpose of destroying the ballot box was
shot and killed. The report says all in
the room fled at once IN dismay and the
dead man was left alone uncared for,
as he lay all night, the lamp burning
bright. Towards morning presiding
Judge Robinson persuaded an aged col
ored man, his neighbor, Alfred Jones.
20 leave the sick bed of his wife and
go with him to the scene OF the homicide
on the plea that he was afraid to go
alone This man had no knowledge of
the bloody occurrence until informed of
it by Robinson, but their visit 10 the