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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
a Bold Came.
Philadelphia Record.


The Harrison administration has given
an early proof of its capacity for reckless
expenditure of the public money. The
increase of the net debt over one million
dollars IN July, though unexpected, eX-
cited no particular attention because it
was thought to be due to an accidental
excess in current expenditure. But the
August statement, showing further in
crease of over six millions of dollars in
the net debt, admits of no such eXplana-
ton. Evidently we have reached the
end of the policy of retTenchment en-
forced by preceding administrations, and
have entered upon a policy Of deliberate
extravaganza.
1t is true enough that the money to be
disbursed during the current fiscal year
cannot exceed the amount appropriated
by congress. But what was intended to
cover the expenses of a year may be IN
good part paid out in six months. In
pursuance of the Republican policy OF
resistance to tax reduction, it is OF the
first necessity to keep expenditure as far
rs possible in advance of income. Pro
fusion in the first half of the fiscal year
will bring on compulsory parsimony IN
the last half. It is in the last half that
congress StLSs anu II - IlAOAA C4itNN IAio
clamor for more money for fortitca-
tions, for war vessels, pensions,
public buildings, ship canals and Federal
ala to schools will resound throughout
the land. Under cover of this contrived
leanness of available funds in the treas
ury and Of the voclferous demand for a
more adequate and liberal expenditure
there will be a grand raid on the surplus.
The surplus will disappear. Then it will
be discovered that there is no need of
tax reduction or of tatiff reform. The
administration will have paid the debt it
owes to protected mOnopoGes by making
it apparently necessary to prolong and
confirm their clutch upon the pockets of
the people.
1t is hardly possible that this game, in
which the government descends to the
sharp practices of street spectators,
should pass unobserved by taxpayers
They cannot be convinced that it Is nee
essary that the expenditures for the two
first months of the current fiscal year
should be SIS $50 1913 in excess of the ex-
penditures of the last fiscal year. The
difference between careful economy OF
the public resources and a reckless deter
mination to compel q term Of extrava-
gance Is too BADLY apparent. The whole
matter is embraced in the following com
parative showing OF the decrease and in
crease of the public debt:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
John Wright Murder Trial.

Special to the Gazette.
BONHAM, TEX, Sept. 10.-The abb
sorbing theme to-day has been the trial
in the district court of John Wright for
killing Frank Graves near here last
spring. About forty witnesses were ex-
amined to-day, the evidence closing this
evening. Argument has commenced d.
The court room, probably the largest IN
the state, has been literally filed with
spectators since the commencement of
the trial. The defendant is highly con-
nected and some of the best legal talent
in the state are engaged in his behalf
The verdict, which will probably be
reached tomorrow evening, will be
heard with interest by every citizen of
the county.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
THE COTTON CROP.
Reports to the Government from All
the Cotton Growing States.
The Average is Not SO Good as Last Month,
but is Higher Than in September OF
Last Year-A Good Prospect

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1O.-The cotton
report of the statistician of the depart
ment of agriculture of September repre-
sents the crop as comparatively late.
Too abundant moisture is generally re-
ported producing rank weeds and retard-
ing the development of bolls. Rust has
appeared quite generally on sandy up
lands. The gray soils of the Atlantic
coast show the most rust. Red lands
and heavy soils have been less affected or
entirely exempt. Drought has not
been reported except in the light pine
lands of Mississippi and in similar soils IN
Louisiana and in considerable part or
Texas. In these districts there was
abundant moisture until June or July.
There has been considerable dropping of
forms and of young bOlls in areas most
affected by extremes of moisture and
temperature. Plants are still grow
inc and blooming IN most
locations though in light soils
the bolls are small and pot developing
rapidly. The general average of condl-
ton is SO 6, against SO 3 last month and
SO 50 in September of last year. State
averages are as follows:
Virginia, 81.
North Carolina, 70.
South Carolina, 81.
Georgia, 80.
Florida, "a.
Alabama, 81.
Mississippi, So.
Louisiana, 81.
Texas, 81.
Arkansas, 80.
Tennessee, 81.
The presence of the caterpillar and boil
worm is reported in all the Gulf states
and Arkansas The first brood of the
former has webbed up, and preparations
are generally made for vigorous use Of
paris green and london puT-
pie, which have been very eff
fectfve with the first generation.
The damage has been slight east of the
Mississippi, and not generally serious
further west, with a few exceptions.
Correspondents recognize the largest
value in the present crop of the factors
of good autumn weather and late killing
frosts in determining the aggregate OF
production.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
Henry Ives on Trial.

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-The trial of
Henry s. Ives was begun this morning,
in part three of the court of general ses-
sions, before Recorder Smyth. 1t took
just three hours and twenty minutes to
find the jury. The court adjourned at
2:30 O'Clock. Tomorrow morn
ing at IL CLOCK the case viii De opened
by the prosecution. Before dismissing
the jury Recorder Smpth admonished
them after the usual fashion.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
RACE COLLISION.
Whites and Blacks Quarrel While Returning
Homo from Revival Meetings..

Home from Revival Meetings.,
Correspondence of the Gazette.
WINoNA, TEX. Sept. 9.-Mr. Ingram
Bass. young man who lives near Brown
ing's postoffce, but is working at this
place, returned from visit to his home
near the above place this morning, and
informs THE GAZETTE man that the peo-
pie are having some race troubles in his
section of Smith county. He SAID that
during last week the whites and blacks
were holding protraoted meetings, and
the two churches were so situated
that majority of the two
factions met on the same road at night
and the negroes would not give the road
to the whites which made the latter
angry. The whites then warned the ne
groes to give the road or take the cOnse-
uuences, and as their warning was I'M
needed by the negroes q few nights after
this occurrence the two colOrs met again
wherewith the whites proceeded to give
the negroes a quartering, knitting and
shooting. Mr.. Bass says some two or
three negroes weresbadly cut. About the
same amount, or more, got beat over the
head with sticks, quirJs, etc. While
this was in progress some one emptied
his pistol among the blacks. Mr.. Bass
said he did not hear of any one getting
hit by any of the bullets. The trouble
broke up the negro meeting, and at last
reports things were quiet.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11

country after witnessing the evidences Of its
past and present rapid development, and the
promises of coming greatness. The West and
its tributaries, therefore, seek the support OF
the journalists of the country in behalf of Chi
cage, whose citizens have the magnanimity and
public spirit to advance the millions of dollars
necessary to make the exposition success
From Chicago address,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11

held to be keepers of disorderly houses,
it is safe to say that not much longer viii
greasy women and tough men tlaunt their
shame in the faces of all who are COM
PEELED to traverse the lower end of Main
and Rusk streets He'll 8 Half Acre
should be moved out.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11

IT IS always after q rain that Fort
Worth most appreciates the fact that it
has the best improved streets Of all the
cities in Texas. This remark may be
tiresome 10 some people and neighbors,
but It is suggested by the strangers within
ovr gates after every heavy shower. -
Hence these remarks.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11

MANHATTAN, KAs. Sept. William
Higginbothan, president of the Blue
Valley bank of this city, has been con-
victed in the district court of grand lar
ceny. The case is the outgrowth of the
suspension of Higginbothan IS bank last
January when the ledger showed a deficit
of 500 900. Notion was made for a
new trial
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
vasbiDpton Territory Democrats.

ELLENBURG, W. T., Sept. 10.-In the
Democratic state convention which met
here yesterday Thomas c. Griffith of
Spokane was nominated for congress on
the first ballot. Ex-Governor Eugene
SempIe of Tacoma was nominated for
governor by reclamation.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11

THERE IS always 90 o negro ques-
TOM and ga Southern question when
Republcanism IS in control of the gov
eminent. Being the outcome of ga ne
gro question: and "a Southern ques-
ton. the Republican party viii die
when these questions are settled. It IS
1or the country to say whether it viii
consent to keep oue-haIf the Union in a
state of conflict in order to maintain the
party of plumber in power.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
VI nIirchsn Granted Bail.

Special to the Gazette.
CoRsIcANA, TEX, Sept. 10.-W. J.
Mitchell was to-day on a writ of habeas
corpus granted bail in the sum of Sl0,-
600, which was promptly given, Con-.
gresham w. Il. Martin beng one of lis
bondsmen. Mitchell is charged with ne
murder of Jeff doom in this county last.
August near Rural Shade. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11

THE Big Four have been ruling the cat
tie market with a high hand, but Uncle
sam VIII find a way to convince them
that he is the biggest thing in this coun-
try; and it is the duty of the government
to protect the people from robbery SO far
as law against conspiracy can be made
to do So
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11

HELL's HALF ACRE ought 20 be re-
moved from the heart of the city. If
wickeduess and sin there must be, COM
mon 1ecency and sef-respect should
dictate the removal Of the low dives and
shantias, the negro gamblers and prosti-
tutes with their white companions to
some less prominent section of the city.
If the owners of these little dens are
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
BRANCH OFFICES.

DALLAS
q. NJ. BAILEY. Correspondent and General
AGENT 725 Main street, where orders for sub
rrrirlfions and advertising should be left.
TEE GAZETTE can be found on sale at all news
stands 81 the city
WACO.
JAMES II. CUARLEs. Agent and Correspondent.
WEATEERECGD.
n. B. DORSEY, Agent and Correspondent.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
MARSHALL.
Brothers-in-Law Quarrel, a Funeral the Result.
Caught Between the Bumpers.

Special to the Gazette.
MARSHALL, TEX, Sept. 10.-Bob
Brown, while coming in on a freight,
slipped, his feet coming betWe the
bumpers. DR.. Hearthill OF the hospital
amputated the left and two toes of the
right foot. He is doing well.
H Boyd and Jordan Childs, brothers
in-law, quarreled about a trivial matter.
Boyd struck Childs with a club. The
funeral took place to-day, Boyd is in
jail; preliminary trial tomorrow.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
UNDER HARRISON

July, 81, 81, 81
No argument could add to the force of
the above figures, and no explanation
would serve to break the force OF their
appeal to the people who make and I'M
make administrations.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11

ENTERED At THE FORT WoRTH, TEXAS POST
orr7rE. AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11
BOYS JERSEY VA.qS.

Sizes 20 to 2S. ain Cream, Navy ,stllsrret a,s
Maroon; Plainsa Fancy and Braiaed; SIIG,
81. 30, Sis, Sl.6S8 -
We cannot do justice to our neg Sock tbi.
week-that viii come along later4 8ANe INNS.
have room is one reason for the ahdNeloY y~ess
on our present stock of staple Fail gj6ds.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-11

WARRINGTON OFFICE,
1923 + Street, Il. " SPoFFORD, CoTTeSpo''-
dent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-25
POSSIBLY THE MAN.
Detective" Brooks Arrested for
Assaulting Miss Virginia
Deak1ns, of Moniteau.

1t is possible that Sheriff Adams
has under arrest the man who so
brutality assaulted Miss Deakens, in
Moniteau county, several days ago.
Miss Deakens was riding along a
country road when she was APP
preached by a man and taken from
her horse. She resisted for several
minutes, but was finally overcome.
The man in Jail here says his
name is T. III. Brooks, a detective
by profession. He referred Sheriff
Adams to the Sheriff of Lincoln
county, but that official tele-
graphs that he knows nothing
of Brooks reliability nor of his
VIII ereabouts on the day of the as
sault. Brooks stories are crooked
and he exactly fits the description
furnished by Miss Deakins. His
face is badly scratched as if from
finger nails. A telegram from Cali
fornia, Mo-, states that Miss Dea-
kins' assailant has not yet been
apprehended in that county, as re-
ported. A tramp was arrested
there, but his identity is not estab-
lished and he is not thought to be
the man. Brooks will be held un-
til something definite is heard from
| the Sheriff of Moniteau county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-25
Trustees Sale.

Whereas, J. r. Baker and Susie Baker
his wife, by their certain deed of trust,
dated the LIST day of October, 1885, and
recorded in the Recorders office of Au-
drain county, Missouri, in Book W., at
page $50 of records of deeds of trust OF
Audrain county, Missouri, conveyed to
the undersigned trustee, the following
described real estate, situated and being
In the county of Audrain and State OF
Missouri, to-wit: The southwest quarter
of the northwest quarter u northwest
quarter of the southwest quarter of Sec
ton five [5), township fifty (50), range
nine (9), and the east half of the south
east quarter and southeast quarter of he
northeast quarter of section six (6},
township fifty (50), range nine ,9l, con-
tanning in all 200 acres, more or less,
which said conveyance was made In trust
to secure the payment of u certain note
in said deed fully described; and, where
as, according to the privileges OF said
deed of trust in case of the failure of said
j. r Baker and Susie Baker, his wife,
to paw the interest on said note when the
same became due and payable and the
trusted could proceed to sell said land to
satisfy said debt; and, whereas, default
has been made in the payment of said in
terest, which now remains due n up
paid. Now, therefore, at the request of
the legal holder of said note, and under
the provisions of said trust, the under
signed will, on
Tuesday, April 80, 1889,
at the east front door of the Court House
in the city of Mexico, county and State
aforesaid, between the hours of 8 o'clock
in the forenoon and 5 O'Clock in the after
noon of said day, sell the above described
real estate to the highest bidder for cash
to satisfy said trust and the costs of exc
cutting the same.
JOHN w. ATCHISON,
52-tds Trustee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-25
From the jefferson City Tribune.

From the Jefferson City tribune.
The House has twice refused to
pass Hon. Champ Clark's bill re,
curing the execution of criminals
to take place within the walls OF
the penitentiary, and it many be
looked upon as a settled fact that
no change will be made in the ole
law. The ancient system of chok'
ing men to death by bungling
sheritfs and deputies will continue
for two years at least. The prac.
tice is barbarous at least and much
more so when executions are con
Quoted by incompetent men. Mr.
Clark's bill would have been :
decided improvement inasmuch as
it would have insured competen'
executioners and prohibited thu
usual publicity given to hanglngs
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-25
HE HOLDS HI SACK.
Landlord Douglas Badly Fleeced
by a Tough Painter and Ball
Player.

Stephen A. Douglas, proprietor
of the Delmenieo restaurant on the
West Side, is looking for the scalp
of a ball playing painter named
Thomas Il. Wilson. Wilson came
here several weeks ago, out of a job
and with holes in his clothing. He
proved himself a pretty good ball
player and on the strength of his
work and a story he told of a sea-
sons playing with q team in New
Jersey, was given a place on the
Browns. He secured work as q
painter and seemed to prosper until
last Saturday night, when he got
mixed in a billiard hall fight. He
was locked up and on Monday
morning Judge Riley fined him
S14.25, including costs. On Will
sons promise to at once go to work
and keep out of trouble, the res
~taurant proprietor became the pris-
oner's security for the fine and he
was released. Douglas did this in
order that he might not lose a
board bill that the ball player owed.
Once out of Jail, Wilson didn't
seem anxious to go to work and at.
ter loafing around public resorts
for twenty-four hours, he skipped
the town, leaving Douglas to hold
the sack. Wilson distinguished
himself a few nights ago by picking
up a pool ball at Kemp's and throw
ing it into the court house yard. He
was threatened arrest for this. bu'
begged off.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-25

II New York the Republicans
pretend to be very much in favor
OF a ballot-reform bill, mainly
because they expect Gov. Hill will
veto it when it gets to him. This
will enable them, as they imagine,
to pose cheaply as the foes OF
bribery and corruption. On the
other hand, over in Pennsylvania,
a similar bill is pending, but is re.
ceiving scant consideration from
the Republican majority. The
House refused by a vote of 50 to
81 to make it a special order, and
now there is very little prospect
that it will be passed. We may
add that Ohio declines to do any
thing for ballot reform, and that
reform bills were passed in In.
diana and Tennessee in spite o
the bitter opposition Of the Re.
publican mInOrItles.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-25
Trustees Sale.

Whereas, Sanford c. Watts and Mary
Nj. Watts, his wife, by their certain deed
of trust, dated on the tenth day of Octo-
Der, 1884, and recorded In the Recorders
office of Audrain county, State of Mis-
souri,, in trust record book w, at page
l52, conveyed to j. H. Hayden, as trustee.
the following described real estate, stu
ated in Audrain county and State of Mis-
souri,, to-wit: Southeast IA of north
west quarter, section 81, and the east
half of northeast Ia of southwest quar-
ter of section 30, all in township 90, of
range s, and containing 67 55-100 acres,
more or less, all lying and being in said
Audrain county, Missouri, which said
conveyance was made in trust, to secure
the payment of a certain promissory note
in said deed described. And, whereas,
said deed of trust provides that in case
default be made in h payment of the
said note or any part thereof Of the in
~terest; or if default be made In payment
Of the taxes, as they become due, the
said trustee, or his successor, shall pro-
coed to execute the powers therein on
ferred; and, whereas, default has been
made in the payment of said note, which
is now due and unpaid. Now, therefore,
at the request of the legal holder IF said
note, and by virtue of the authority
vested in me SO to do by said deed Of
trust, | will, on
Friday, May 3, 1889,
between the hours of Q O'Clock in the
forenoon and 5 O'Clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the east front door of the
Court House, In the town of Mexico,
State and county aforesaid. sell said pro-
perty at public yepdue to the highes-
bidder for cash, to satisfy said DEBT and
trust.
lids ]. II. HAYDON, trustee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-25
THE LAND.
Oklahoma Opened to the Boomers
"A City Twenty-four
Hours Old.
Special n,spatch 10 the Ledger,


OKLAHOMA City, April %
Oklahoma is open and every foot
of the coveted land has been laid
claim to. There is surprisingly
little difficulty among the boomers,
although forty thousand are disap-
pointed in getting lands.
Guthrie stands to-day as an apt
illustration Of Max O'Rell's para
graphs about what Jonathan can do
in the way of city building on short
notice. That town now has an es-
timated population of II, 800, with
five hundred houses completed and
ready for occupancy; streets one
hundred feet wide and grounds
laid off for public buildings.
Where all this mass of humanity
and improvement now stand there
was but n building-a land of
tice-yesterday, that half complet-
ed, and ten persons, all told, con-
stltuted the population. Ofcourse
these houses were not all built at
Guthrie. Most all of them came
in on fiat cars, in large sections,
ready to put up and nail together.
Klngfisher, or Lisbon, is the
rival town, but Guthrie is destined
to be the leading city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-25

The Missouri Legislature is not
near through its work, but the time
is almost here when the member:
will get only 81 per day, and many
of them are preparing to go home
While some of them, we think.
come high at even a dollar per day
we need them IN the business
They were sent there to do certain
work, and they should do thi:
work and do it properly if it take:
all summer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-25

AT last a White Cap has been
convicted. In Arkansas the only
member of a band that could be
captured has been given twenty
one years in the penitentiary. Is
it not somewhat noteworthy that
the only known instance of a White
Cap being punished should be, not
in the North, where White Caps
most abound, but in the so-called
lawless South
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-25
Three Boomers Murdered.

GUTHRIE, April 23.-About 5
O'Clock last evening three men
were murdered by claim jumpers
about a mile east of this place.
The names of the assailants or their
victims cannot be produced. One
of the men murdered was q young
man, we'll dressed. He was shot
through the heart. The m%iscreants
made their escape, but the vigi-
lants are after them and should
they be caught they will be sum
marily dealt with. This is reliable.
1t is also reported that two other
men were killed ON claims near
here, but is impossible to trace the
rumor to a reliable source.
The murdered man was named
S. 7. Comps, and he was about &c
years old. Comps and his partner
were endeavoring to stake a claim
on the opposite bank of the Cotton,
wood when he was shot.
The rumors of the two other
murders cannot be confirmed.
10 to W =. Hathaway