Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-07
GAINESVILLE.
A Man with Two wives-cOurt NOtes-PersOna

A Man with Two Wives Court NOtes-PersOna
Mention.
! Correspondence of the Gazette.
GAINESVILLE, TEX, Sept. 5.-Tom
| Wagner of the Chckasaw nation was ar
rested Tuesday and taken to Paris last
night by Deputy Marshal Little on a
charge of bigamy. Last May Wagner
married Miss May Corsner near Lone
! Grove, l T. After living with her about
a month he transferred his affections to
Miss Nettie ElZv, whom he also married
| in the same neighbOrhOOd. Wife No. l
is the prosecuting witness, and went to
! Paris to-day to appear against Wagner
| Wife No. , is the woman who made a
complaint against j. w. Reynolds some
| time ago, charging him with criminally
assaulting her. Reynolds was released
at the preliminary trial.
Capt. Tom Wright OF Denis on passed
| through the city to-day en- route home
from Oklahoma City, having in charge
as prisoner one Samuel Arteu of Deurant,
l. T. Arteu is charged with making a
deadly assault upon one Wilson some
days ago with a siX-shOoteT, and was
being taken to Muskogee. Capt. Wright
reports Oklahoma City as q dead town.
! Very little business is transacted there,
| and besides many houses, both dwell
lings and stores, for rent, people are
getting away by the hundreds.
District Clerk Lilly has completed
transcripts in the following cases ap-
pealed at the last term of the district
court:
Dick Turner vs.. the State, convicted
of bringing stolen property into the state
and given five years.
A. Huffman VS.. State; three cases, two
for horse theft and for theft Of buggy
and harness.
Samuel Lawson, convicted of horse
theft.
Fire Insurance Company of PhiladeI-
phia vs.. Mary L. FIournoy; Northern
Assurance Company VS.. Mary L. Flour
nOy; Jacob Cook ct al. vs.. W. H. Cas-
well ct al; j. B. Watkins Land Mort
gage Company VS.. w. w. HOweth ct al.
Missouri Pacific Railway VS.. J w. Chill
dress, and J NJ. Lindsay vs.. Mary +.
and d. c. Freeman.
Marriage licenses were issued by Coun-
ty Clerk Perry to-day as follows: J. p.
Ratliff and Miss Z. E. Armstrong, e.
l. JettOn and Miss Maggie Blankenship,
Louis Proebeth and Miss Annie Mayer,
and j. Stations and Miss Maggie Farms.
The boil worms have turned the cotton
crop over to the farmers in much better
condition than was expected a few days
ago. Cotton on new lands has scarcely
been visited by the pests
Governor Ross has appointed Hon. j
H. Garnett Of this city as a delegate to
the deep water convention to be held at
Topeka in a few days.
MIR. John Prudhomme, manager of the
Western Union at this place, left to-day
for a visit to Lebanon, Mo. During his
absence Miss Sallie Judkins of Dallas
will have charge of the office.
Mr.. A. L. FaiTchilds, agent of the
Santa Fe, has returned home after an
absence of several weeks in California
He left his family at Santa Rosa, and
reports that Mrs. Fairchild has fully re-
covered her health.
Louis Dryfoos left this morning on a
visit to Utah, California, Washington
Territory and other points Northwest, to
be absent about six weeks.
The cotton receipts in this city to date
are fourteen bales, with prices from nine
dollars and sixty cents to ten dollars.
A heavy rain fell last night, laying the
dust and cooling the atmosphere.