Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09
DALLAS.
Republican Club Meeting-MIssourIans Organ
ize-The City Cleaning Up-Insurance
Agents Make Up.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Oct. S.-A meeting of the Dial
las Republican club was he'd last night at the
city hall After some debate as to amount OF
admission fee that ought to be charged new
members. it was found that no quorum was
present, and the meeting was declared informal.
Some OF the members though. the present fee
81. 0O-was too much, and it probably was the
cause of a quorum not being present. An at
tempt will lie made 10 have q meeting on next
Tuesday night
The Mssourians residing in Dallas had a
largely attended meeting yesterday evening to
arrange Tor Missouri day October 10Y at the
state fair. The meeting got down TO business.
An invitation committee, committee o. badges
and a committee on MissourIan headquarters
were appointed. The meeting adjourned to
meet again on Saturday afternoon at O'Clock
at the county court room when large attend :
ance is desired.
Dallas is going through systematic cleaning
and repairing, preparatory to the fair. Streets
being fixed up IN bad places, and the light
ing OF them is being increased. Transit facilI-
ties are being improved and increased. Stores
are being renovated in every way, and resi-
Gences receiving new Q bats of paint. When
October IS comes, and the holiday attire is put
on. Dallas will be unable to recognize herself.
1t is perhaps good thing for the appearance OF
Dallas that the fair comes once year.
Late yesterday evening the local insurance
agents had meeiag free for ALL and at
which the agents not represented at the dark
lantern meeting of the day before were present.
1t vas agreed to discontinue hostilities and
when another meeting was TO be held. At the
meeting this mo ming rates were restored with
an ind arstandIng that no agent Is to cat under
the rates without permission from his fellow
las board OF underwriters will be re-
established and that fifty dollar forfeit will
be put up by each of the agencies. The fun
was of short duration, but it lively Will lie it
las ted. Hundreds of thousands in risks were
cancelled and rewritten at a lower rate. Some
of the agencies cancelled their own policies aud
took the same risks at lower rate in order to
keep the opposition from taking their risks
from them.
One faction would find where the other side
had risks and would offer to lake the same at
low rate and stand all the expense OF cancella-
ton, and in this way many risks were changed,
but the end has come for The present, and in all
probabili Y the rates will be indefinitely main
tanned At least one good has been accom-
pished by the rate war for 1t Is un ierstood that
a revision of rates will be made and that under
the new tariff the rate will be considerably
lessened as compared with those now in force.
The insured have held that the old rates have
been too high and will welcome the proposed re-
6uction.
The Dallas freight agents are more than
pleased with the business being done at the
stations of the various roads. The receipts are
e. heavy as when the cut rates were in force.
For the month of September the Dallas station
freight receipts of the Santa Fe were II, 600
pounds, and the indications for October are that
an equally large volume OF business will be
done.
The examination of Abe Mckinney on the
charge of the imaroper OF the mails
finished this morning before United States Com
missioner Lednum. Mckinney was bound
over in the sum of sl0i.
The association of Kentuckians in Dallas has
got down to business and they are determinedto
make Kentucky day, October %, great sue
cess. Any having friends in Kentucky to
whom they wish invitations sent if they will
send the names of their friends to Mr.. NJ. d.
Gano, Al Main street, he will see that the invi-
tations issued as requested.
To-day R. U. Meier of Fort Worth was
rested by the Dallas police as suspicious per-
son. He had two watches and other small
things in his possession.
1t is understood that some Of the older men
will enter a serious protest against the substi-
tuition of any engineer in the place of Mr.. Cook
ground for the protest is that Mr.. Cook was
hired and paid $500 as consulting engineer
this work and that accor ing to the terms of the
contract ne alone can arbitrate and settle differ
ences between the contractors and
the city. For another ~. man to
would probably lead to question of legality in
case his judgment was not satisfactory 10 all
parties interested. The question will probably
come up in the council meeting to nj hit and in
all probability will be amicably settled in some
way. The people growing tired of the
settled condition of the reservoir matter and
hope for a speedy adjustment of the same.
Mrs. Leck Kelly of Gainesville to-day brought
suit against the Western Union telegraph COM
pany for SIC, 600 damages for their failure to de-
liver her telegram on the 18th Of last Septem-
Der while she on visit to this city. The
lille and should have notified her OF the NOR
tally wounding of her husband by having been
shot Another telegram was sent after the one
mentioned above and it was cot delivered until
it was twenty four hours old.
Real estate transfers amount to s33, l22 for the