Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-01
LOCALITIES.
Talk about weather.!

Talk about weather!
The city's artesian well has gone be-
yond the l2OO-foot mark, and still the
drill goes Chinawari.
c. d. Rogers, who was convicted on
charge of lunacy couple Of days ago,
has been released on bond.
/ Rev. Robert Logan will preach at the
/ Broadway Presbyterian church to-mor
| row at IL q. IL. also ut the evening ser
| vice.
The grand jury yesterday adjourned
/ after returning ten mIsdemeanors aud
/ three felony indictments. Their work
has been felt in Fort Worth.
| ''lt might look better if the travel O.
! the patrol wagon were limited as much
! us possible to the back streets, - was the
comment OF a citizen yesterday.
| The case of c. L. Frost against the
/ Fort Worth and Denver railway was OF
trial in the district court yesterday. The
suit occurs over alleged unpaid salary.
III the district court Yesterday in the
/ case of A. &. Brooks against the Fort
Worth street raj way company, the jury
| rendered verdict for the plaintiff fer
| $50.
Marriage licenses have been taken out
by John W. Ross aud Mrs. A. q. Croft,
c. s. Rice and Miss IhLIe c. Nichols,
aud E. Robinson AMI Matte Smith, COL
Ored.
1.-The Man with An Aim in Life and
the Man Without IT, will he the sub
iect of discourse at the Unitariun
church next Sunday morning ut IL
O'clock.
A man named William Bryant and an
sweriuR to the suggestive TILE Of Okla
home Bill, was yesterday run in by
Officer Dick Kits aud fined S3l 10 for
vagrancy.
Scotty Mcclure, who has been In the
county Jail for the past ten months for
alleged connection with the mostly rob
berry in this city. was released on bond
yesterday afternoon.
AN itinerant preacher pitched his tent
in the courthouse square yesterday
and exhorted long and Justify, but he
did not attract II large crowd. People Of
Fort Worth are busy these days.
Dick LLOYD is the name of colored
man who WAS fined in justice court yes
terday afternoon for disturbing the
peace. Twenty dollars and sixty
cents was taxed gaiust him. He was
released upon giving convict bond.
Says Gen. r. A. Cameron: t'The d.
rection from which most immigration to
Texas Is now coming is north. In and
around Chicago, aud in states adjacent
10 Illinois, there is much inquiry about
Texas. l attribute this condition of af-
fairs TO the Spring Palace and its attend
ant features. The visit of Mayor Cregier
aud his party was great hit. -
Give the Fenclbles an armory. They
are an institution the CITY has pride in,
and the pride should be exhibited in a
substantial manner. An Interstate drill
at Fort Worth, organized by the Fenci-
bles, would be appreciated by the citi-
zens, but the Fencibles would appreciate
little ENCOURAGEMENT from the citizens.
Chairman James Ryan of the street
and alley committee of the city council
states that his committee has not yet
purchased the steam road -roller that they
were authorized to buy ut the last meet
ing of the city council. A man will be
here on Monday from Denver who will
manipulate the machine for time for
purposes OF test.
Clerk of the Commissioners Court j.
F. Prosser has just completed his annual
report to the court on the expenditures
by the county on account of convicts for
the year ending October 81. The cost of
the outfit during the year was Sl446.75
as against S2455. 10 for 1882 and SSH. 35
for 1888. Tbs running expenses were
Sic. $3.50 for the year as against
Sl2,54 5.35 for 1859 and S5874 so for
1883.
Horace Haggart and Carl Cromer,
youthful members of the oorndodger
club, were captured by officer Ben Bell
yesterday. They had stolen hand cart
from boy and were engaged stealing
coal when captured. They sell the coal
at private houses at fifty cents per bar
rel. They were captured under house
where they had crawled TO escape OBJ
servation.
The building on Throckmorton street
intended for boys home is being
placed in thorough COOL condition. 1t is
now being well weather boarded. It is
hoped to have it ready for occupancy
early next week. The ladies who have
it i'll charge have received much sub
stantial aid from the people generally,
aud the institution appears TO meet the
general ideas as to the direction in which
phiauthropic am bition should be ex-
pended in Fort Worth.
There appears to be q demand for
better method of record keeping in the
police department of the city. Yester-
day when an officer who had been off
duty for five days on account of sickness,
applied for salary for that time, ii was
found that the records showed only a
couple of days abseure from duty. The
roll call of officers is taken during the
session of police court In the morning,
and If member of the force happens to
be on another watch than that there il
ssseszreans of knowing whether he is on
duty or not.
Sanitary officers Craig and Eowdry