Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
LOCALETTE5

Last night the NJ. T. johnson hook |
and ladder company met in regular !
monthly session. The attendance was
by no meaus a full one.
Lou Sanders, the negress who raised |
such a disturbance on twelfth street last |
Tuesday, was yesterday fined Sl5 and |
costs by the recorder. She will likely
lie it out in Jail unless her friends pay
her fine.
The market for marriage licenses was
brisk yesterday. Five of the articles
were taken out, as follows: Sterling
Autry and Miss Mollie Spike, j. F.
Markham aud Miss Hattie Bowman,
n. H. Suren and Miss Lillian Peterson,
Sidney Smith and Miss Hattie Baker,
w. w. Dexter and Mrs. Magdaline
AbercrOmbie.
J. U. McAllister's boot and shoe house
on Houston street was closed yesterday,
pending the process OF invoicing the
stock, the same having been conveyed to
A. b. Smith as trustee to secure the
Merchants National bank on credits
amounting in the aggregate to $4,000. "a.
1t is expected that the stock will invoice
about $40, 900, and that Mr.. McAllister
will soon be doing business at the old
stand again.
1t is reported that the chairmen of the
various committees of the city council
have mutually agreed that upon the in
auguration of Col. Peter Smith as
mayor they will hand in their resgna-
tions Is chairman in order TO permit the
new executive to form his own committees
in the manner that TO him seems just.
This will be peculiarly graceful act on
the part of the chaIrmen, and shows that
the reign of harmony in the city govern
ment has been inaugurated. The welfare
of the city is put above personal abition.
The Philbin and Jackson contract for
the extension of the city's water mains
is about completed and ready to be
turned over to the city, long in advance
of the time specified in the contract.
The work will add over eight miles
to the city's waterworks sys-
tenn. Yesterday Superintendent Scoble
of the waterworks made 80 ne slight
tests of the work and found it satisfac-
tory. One of the fire engines was taken
to the South Side and pressure of 125
pounds was withstood by the new main,
although the contract calls for guar
antee of only 100 pounds. So far as
tested the new work appears more than
credltable to the city and the CONTRACT
tors.
Ed King resides on West Weatherford
street near the culvert over Robinson g
branch. For a few nights he has been
| suspicious that there were persons prowl-
ing around the neighborhood with an eye
| to stealing his horse, which was kept in
q stable at the rear of the house. About
3 O'Clock yesterday morning he
was awakened from his slumbers
| by distinct noises in his yard.
| Going to the window he peered through
the gloom and deserted chap about to
| enter the stable. He reached for his
shotgun and, taking deliberate aim,
blazed away at the thief. A howl as of
pain went out into the night. So did the
thief. He jumped hedge and ditch and
hid in the brush in the branch. King is
sure that the shot took effect. A party
! beat about the bushes couple of hours
trying to find the wounded man, but
| without effect. He is unknown.
There ism much doubt about the IN
sanity of Mrs. Ella Haley. She arrived
| in Fort Worth from Dallas yesterday
morning and knocked around the city
until night, when she undertook to Sc
cure accommodations at a downtown
hotel, but the managers perceived her
mental incapacity and had her passed
| over to the police. She was lodged in
the county jail by Officers Bill Rushing
and Peyron Maddox. She Is quite old +,
| probably sixtY-hve years, but claims
she was born in 1904. She says
that she spent the week after last Christ
mas in the hospital ut Dallas. She is
quite feeble from old age. She had
eight dollars when taken in charge.
! Religion appears to be the subject upon
which her mind wanders. When ques-
toned she said that she was on her way
to Tom Green county to attend big
campmestIng, but stopped over at Fort
Worth in order to rest before entering
upon such long journey.
Recently published statements of the
alleged official census returns from Texas
cities would indicate that the expecta-
tions of the people of Fort Worth were to
be cruelty baked by about 10, 900 heads
But the official returns are not out. The
Washington correspondent of the Globe
Democrat under date of August says:
"The census Office is making a rough es-
innate OF the population of the principal
cities, and as fast as the Official count of
city is completed it will be substituted.
Further on the correspondent says:
"Texas towns generally have grown rap
idly. The six largest are pretty Close
together in the race, but Dallas is now
in the lead. Her population is 80, 300
an increase of 279 per cent, and Sau
Antonio close second with a population
of So 300, an increase of SO per cent
Galveston, third city of Texas, has 3d.
900 population, showing the smallest in
crease of the five, only 81 per cent.
Houston is fourth with 80 900 popula-
ton, an increase of 81 per cent. since
1880. The fifth city is Fort Worth, anC
while her population is only 81 900, TIL
percentage of increase is extraordinary
} 1t is 300, being nearly as much as that o
, Wichita, Kan.
Stella Kuohler, the ten-year-old CIR
| whose troubles in g camp of tamal
makers on the North Side were recent.
revealed, was yesterday removed from
the protection of the people who tool
charge of her upon the disclosure of he
condition. While her friends we're ava.
from home her mother (by adoption
arrived and induced her to accom-
pany her home. She lives on tn
!, Mansfield place. east of the city. He
husband is a laborer. They came t
!. Fort Worth from Weatherford. at who