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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
pEpEIV 0N lie S0nTE.

ChaunceY NJ. Depew, whose fame as
an after dinner orator is even greater
than his reputation as q railroad mana
ger, is man of broad-gauge mind. de
is Republican who is in advance of his
party; too big Drained and too indie
pendent TO engage in the despisable bust
ness OF incorporating a people in order
to manufacture campaign thunder, and
1t is his judgment, given with that clear
ness of expression that characteriZes all
his utteTances, that there should be no
more new legislation by congress affect
ing the Southern states; that the people
of the South are doing the very best they
can, under the most difficult circum-
stances, and their efforts are all in the
direction of progress and prosperity.
They are advancing as rapidly as they
are able under existing conditions, and
should not be further harassed by I'M
wise legislation. This plain statement
proceeding from man, himself an
aspirant for presidential honors at the
hands Of the Republican party, and
based upon the observations and eXpe-
riences of a recent trip through the
South, troubles the party managers not
little. They have been engaged so
long in the pernicious business Of manu-
featuring partisan capital by the most
fragrant and outrageous misrepresenta-
ton of the people of the South, that this
telling of the truth by Mr.. Depew fairly
not contradict it, for they know it is the
truth, and THAI if disputed Mr. Depew
will proceed with promptness and vigor
to prove and make it plain to all the
world.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18

AN absolute necessity in a modern pro-
jected city is a hotel. By a hotel is not
meant place where are lily ventilated
rooms, hard beds and harder fare, but a
building commensurate with the wants
of a travelling public when that city shall
have reached the dimensions that are so
confidently predicted. A roller towel,
tin wash basin institution where only one
man out of fifty grumbles at having to
use the same towel may have done in
times past, but it is well TO remember
that those are times past. There is no
better advertisement for city than a
well built, commodious, well equipped,
well managed hotel, fact that should
not be lost sight of. Tourists and pros
pectors must be made comfortable, or
their stay will be short.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18

CHARLES A. EDWARDS may not want
the earth, but it sometimes looks as if he
would be content with little less. Not
satisfied with creating town, the gen.
erous eXpansiveness of his nature has
made him burst the small habIliments
that did hedge him in. In u word, the
New Birmingham Times has outgrown
its clothes, and so soon after Easter as
was possible, has put on a new dress.
1t is now an eight page, six column
paper, pasted and folded, and brimfuI
Of sense and of enthusiasm for the town
where it is published. Mr.. Edwards is to
be congratulated on this evidence of
prosperity, and the town for the exist
ence of live paper, edited and con-
trolled by men whose sole object is the
advancement of that city and its in
terests.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
rhe Neulnnd Poison case.

CHICAGO, ILL, April 1.-THE coroner's jury
to-day began its inquest into the cause of the
death of Mr.. and Mrs. Newland of Engleweod,
who were poisoned with Rough on Rats admin
istered in some canned corn by their maid SER
want, Mamie Starr, few days ago. Miss Grace
Newland told the story of the employment of
the girl as cook, and of giving her twenty five
cents to buy medicine to cure toothache. Mamie
Starr then took the witness stand and she re-
peated her confession made to the police some
days ago. She said she was Respondent and in
tended to commit suicide. She put some Of the
poison in the corn in order that the members of
the family might be made i'll that her death
would not be laid to suicide, but to eating pois-
oned corn, and thereby avoid disgrace. She did
not intend to kin the Newlands.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
SPECULATIVE.
Sugar Trusts Spring Into Prominence
and MonOpOIize Dealings.
Silver Bullion Goes Up with Big Jumps-Lack
Of Demand for Coal Counteracted by
the Demand for Ice.
Srecial to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
Ew YORK, April 17.-After a considerable
period of inaction sugar trust certificates sprang
into prominence to-day, monopolzing the deal
jngs of the stock exchange. The cause of this
is the shape in which tn sugar tariff stands in
the bill reported by the house committee yes
terday afternoon With raw sugar on the free
list and the product of the trust protected by
duty of 10 of a cent, the trust people thinI,
they could make money. The possibilities of
the bill becoming q law were considered by the
street to be strong enough to warrant an advance
of per cent. from yesterdays closing.
Silver bullion continues to advance with big
jumps.
The price for the certificates of deposit
reached l0lE and none was offered There ap-
pears to be a scarcity of bullion in the market.
Only 2 little more than 500. 900 ounces are COW
cred by the certificates. Whatever there is out
side of this is carefully headed by those who
think silver is going up considerably higher.
Dealers in silver bullion who wanted it for
shipment to England, were obliged to go into
the stock exchange to-day and bid for it. Then
the price was advanced so rapidly that the
would-be purchasers were frightened away. If
the dealers should buy certificates they would
exchange them for bullion. and it would
shipment to wipe out all certificates on the eX-
change. There is prevalent Impression that
the stock exchange figures are fictitious, but
little investigation quickly dispelled this.
1t does not seem to have occurred to anybody
that the lack of ice during the winter was going
to be source of compensation to some of the
coal roads for their failure to carry their full
complement of coal during the mild winter. We
understand that the earnings of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western have been very mate
which has been precipitated upon it by the de-
nands already developed.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
HELEN DAUVRAY WARD.
She is Forced to Choose Between Her Hus-
band and the Stage-She
Takes the Latter.

Special to the Gazette,
NEW YORK, April I7.-Mrs. Helen
Dauvray Ward denies the statement
published to-day to the effect that she
and her husband, John NJ. Ward, have
agreed to a legal separation. Mrs.
Wards denial was absolute and en-
phatic. The published statement had
some foundation. Mrs. Ward and her
husband may not be legally separated :,
but they are living apart. The actress is
living at the Vendo me in New York
and the shortstop lives at ClareD-
don, Brooklyn. The cause of
the discord is Mrs. Wards deter
mination to return 10 the stage.
After her marriage with Ward in the fall
Of 1887 the lady never lost an opportu-
nifty of declaring that the stage had lost
all charm for her. She said that she
lived entirely for her husband and, in
obedience to his wishes, she had aban-
doned the footlights forever. But
Helen Dauvray's sentiments gradually
underwent q change. Her admiration
for the baseball hero was apparently as
great as ever, but the stage once more
presented a strong attraction. Mean
while Ward was in the midst Of the great
ball fight. He was almost fierce in his
earnestness and most people thought
there was nothing on his mind
but the affairs of the baseball world. At
length public attention was drawn on the
unhappy difference between the two
popular favorites. 1t was on the ocoa-
sion of the recent baseball trip round the
companied her husband. She had
promised to meet him in San Francisco
on the day that the steamer left for
Honolulu. A few hours before the YES
sci sailed Ward received a telegram from
his wife in Omaha informing him that
she would be unable to make the trip.
Her lawyer, she said, insisted
that her presence was absolutely
essential to the settlement of certain
business matters. Ward received this
excuse with much discredit. When he
returned to New York from Europe his
wife was not among the crowd of en-
thusiastlcs on the pier to welcome him
home. Those familiar with the events
that had occurred made shrewd guesses
at the reason. The final breach between
the two came quite recently. Last
month Mrs. Ward made a public an
nouncement that she was going on the
stage, and outlined her plans for the sea-
son. She intended to star, she
said, under manager whose
name she declined to mention, in a
play called 1.-the Whirlwind -
written for her by Sidney Rosenfelt.
Immediately after the announcement the
pair separated as unostentatiously as
possible. Mrs. Ward went to live with
her sister at the Vendome. Her sister is
Mrs. Keefe, wife of the well known
pitcher. John Ward took up his quar-
tiers III Brooklyn. ''MY wife had to
choose between me and the stage,' said
he to a friend. She has made her choice.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18

bic than our Eastern people generally
suppose. The extremes of heat and cold
are not great, and In summer or winter
living in the state is pronounced by those
who reside there as very comfortable.
Lands can be had remarkably cheap,
and millions of acres are offered for sale
by the state for the benefit of its school
fund on very long time and low interest
at 81 per acre, while a vast amount can
be had of private parties at 81. so per
acre. II is a singular fact that with the
settlement of the country, where it was
considered necessary to irrigate, the rain
fall has largely increased so as to render
the soil tiIlable and desirable.
Galveston is on a tremendous boom
in consequence OF the prospect of getting
large appropriation for q deep water
harbOr, and / saw hundreds of men who
were buying property for speculation at
what We would consider enormous figures
in Washington. 1t was noticeable that
the large majority of operators came
from the West and were men who had
made fortunes in real estate or mines.
All the cities and towns near Galveston
sympethized with Its boom and the Pull
mans were daily loaded with prospeo-
tive buyers. 1t is q beautiful city to live
The sales of several large stores amount
to from one to three millions annually.
san Antonio is fine city OF 90 900 peo-
pie, growing rapidly, with q perfect
gem of postoffice, which would be a
credit to the national capital, and a city
hall which made me envious. Both these
buildings were of a white stone resem-
bling marble.
81 ought to speak of Fort Worth and
many other rapidly growing cities, but
the time will not permit. In general
terms, you can find as good people re-
ligIously, morally and financially in
Texas as in any part of the world. The
day of the bowie knife and danger has
passed away. A man who minds his
own business and has any brains can get
along and make money there as he can
here-only a great deal faster. The
class of immigrants going INTO the un-
settled parts is vastly superior TO what [
expected to see. The opening of the
great Panhandle road from Fort Worth
to Denver has given access to a wonder
full section. Think of it-whole counties
thirty miles square are without a single
permanent resident.
''FrOm Texas we went up into Colo
RADIO, which is also on a boom, and rap
idly coming to the front as great min
eral and agricultural state. 1t is not
simply the land of hills, but among its
l04 900, 600 acres are many fine farms,
and the advance in the system of irriga-
ton is making land productive and ex-
ceedingly desirable which has been here
tofore valueless, and unstable at any
price. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
LOVELADY.
Farmers Feel Good and are Ready for the
Campaign.

Farmers Feel Good and are Ready for the
Campaign.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
LovELADY, TEX, April l6.-We have
been having to-day a gentle, warm
spring ram which is the very thing
farmers need to soften the top of the
ground and put it in good condition for
cotton to come up. Cotton planting is
now well under way. Farmers are well
up with their work. The crop outlook
begins to improve.
Col. Belcher, (Alliance lecturer), is
now in our county rounding up his flock.
He is very OutspOken for a railroad COM
mission bill. He is also advocating the
measure of the government establishing
a warehouse in each county in the United
States, so the people can deposit their
produce in it and get an advance of say
so per cent. on it and let Mr.. Govern
ment hold for bigger prices. He is also
reorganizing old Alliances into new ones,
and predicts a very hot political cam
paign this year.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18

the promise of his earlier career. He
has made it an institution, and
pride not only to Elgin. but this whole
state and people. Its appearance in any
of our great cities is now the signal for
an ovation, and the new compositions of
Mr.. Hecker are watched for by the pub
lie with expectant delight. The critics
of the press have but one opinion on the
Elgin band, and it is tersely nut by our
own illustrlous governor, ''Uncle Dick
Ogiesby, who warmly avows that ''lt is
the best band in the United States. -
Under its genial and gifted leader, Pro-
lessor J Hecker-who is no less a social
than a musical favorite-it is sure to
maintain this proud eminence, and we
read its future greatness in the statement
that it now has engagements for two
wears ahead
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
DIXIE'S RAPID GROWTH.
Mr. B. H. Warner Chats of BIS Trip Through
Texas.

Mr. B. H. Warner Chats of BIS Trip Through
Texas
Mr.. B. II. Warner, q wealthy bank
president of Washington city, recently
returned to the national capital from a
trip to the Southwest and West and was
interviewed by the Washington Post.
Upon being asked to give the public
brief account of his observations, he
said: 1.-The South is improving WON
derfully; capital is pouring into every
section of it either in the line Of manu-
factories or the development of mineral
resources. Towns and cities are SPRING
Ing into active life and there is great
confidence in the future. Especially is
this the case with Texas. This state is
an empire IN itself-its area is more than
two hundred and seventy-four thousand
square miles, or more than all the thir-
teen original states, except Virginia and
Massachusetts, and more than the great
states of New YORK, Pennsylvania, In
diana, Illinois and Minnesota, with Yer
mont thrown in to fill up the corners.
It's resources have really not yet been
materially drawn upon, and there is a
most tempting opportunity for either
the iuvestor.or the settler, the man of
means or he who works. Cotton, corn,
wheat, alfalfa, and rice grows well.
s'In fact, modern systems of treating
land will help to bring out good crops on
almost any of the land, and what we
have been accustomed TO consider
as a desert viii soon blossom as the
rose. The climate is much more desira-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18

MR.. JOHN HOENY, JR., the wide
awake and philosophical editor of the
Abilene Reporter, who thoroughly under
stands that the interests of country and
its newspapers are identified, has made
an arrangement that is unparalleled in
weekly journalism. He will send, at his
own cost, an advertising and i'm
migration agent through the North
and East to disseminate facts
relative to Abilene and the surrounding
country. The gentleman selected is Mr..
NJ. SwanwIck, said to be well qualified
for the work. He will have his head
quarters III Nsw York city, and there
establish a bureau of information. As
THE GAZETTE is for the whole state, and
especially for Northwest Texas, it takes
special pleasure in ohroniclIng this
evidence that Abilene has in Mr..
Hoeny and the Reporter an ad-
mirable team to pull for it.
That his enterprise in this matter will
meet with the proper appreciation, and
be a means of bringing INTO notice rich
section of country, and thus hasten its
development, there can be no reasonable
doubt.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18

MRS. VIRGINIA c. THOMSON of the
Louisville. postof1ice is in Washington
seeking her fourth appointment. She
has battled so successfully in the past
for her place that even those opposed to
her admit her to be a foeman worthy of
their steel. As Mrs. Harrison is said to
be for her, and the president, it is
his wife, it is fair to presume that Mrs.
Thompson will continue TO add P. NJ. to
her signature. This is all the more Ger
tain as the Louisville lady is of Scotch
Irish ancestry and of the school of John
Knox, who taught the doctrine of, and
his followers believe in the final per-
severance of the saints.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18

THE Boerne Post is a new paper started
under the guidance of a veteran journal
list. Mr.. John Guthrie, an experienced
editor, both in Texas and in Scotland,
has made for himself clear field in Ken
dali county, by the purchase of the
Boerne Advance, and now promises to
meet all the requirements of the field in
his latest venture. Being no tyro in the
newspaper business, MIR. Guthrie knows
what he is promising, and those who
know him in journalistic labor have no
doubt Of his ability to perform, and fur
Their wish him the success that is dear to
the heart of every earnest man.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
What Jones County Wants.

Correspondence Of the Gazette.
ANsoE, Tex, April 10. On yesterday even
ing and last night the finest rain fell in Jones
county that we have had since July last. The
clouds are threatening to-day and it does truly
look like the ''backbone of the impending
drought has been broken. The oat and wheat
rejoicing over the crop prospects. Merchants
and business men are in high spirits. Jones
county is unquestionably one of the best coun-
ties in the state with plenty of rain. What we
sSVant is more farmers and better farmers, as ex-
perience has proved that the rain follows the
imam with the hoe
Real estate is looking up. The real estate
men predict lively sales.
Immigrants are steadily coming in. Men OF
means are closely watching this county.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
The steamer Erin 7riss,ng.

New YORK, April 1.-THE steamer Erin, of
OF the National line. which sailed from here
December Is with 200 head of cattle aboard. has
not been heard from. The managers of the
National line, while allowing that the vessel
has probably been wrecked, laugh at the cable
gram received from London yesterday saying
that bottle had been picked up containing
card of Mr.. Woelke of New York, and on IL the
words: Erin, bottom of the sea-. There was
no Mr.. Woelke on the steamers passenger list.
1t is extremely possible that the vessel may have
been disabled and have floated south of the lines
of travel. In this case sixty-fve sailors and
thirty catrlemen aboard would be safe for some
time from starvation, at least.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
TO TIE PUBLIC.

The only travelling persons, male or
female, at present authorized to receive
and receipt for subscriptions to THE GA
zETTE are j. f. Steedman, c. w.
Wilson, W. J. Meadows and L. Cal
houn. The public are cautioned not to
pay money to any other person represent
ing themselves as travelling agents of this
paper, as all authority heretofore issued
to any other person than those named is
hereby revoked.
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY.
April II, 1890.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
BRANCH OFFICES.

DALLAS.
JoH.7 NFAGHER, Correspondent.
q " WILSON / Business Agent.
Office: ~ Main street, where orders for sub
scrjl.ticus and advertising should be left.
TlIE GAZETTE can be found on sale st all news
stands IN the city.
WACO.
" 7 ETvaDows. Agent and Correspondent.
Office: Corner Fifth and Franklin streets.
MOTHERHOOD.
E.B. Dorsey. Agent and Correspondent.
ABILENE
2 p FaDroPD, Agent and Correspondents.
Once: PostoflCe building, p Chestnut street,
first floor. where all orders for subscriptions
aud advertising should be left.
CLEBURNE.
W Il. BYRD, Agent and Correspondent.
AUSTIN.
II. C. PoINDExTER, Agent, lo2 west Sl2Ih
street.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18

IT IS charged that in the convict camp
for women in Georgia there are men ap-
pointed to fog these unfortunate Great
ures when they commit any breach how
ever trivial of the rules. That such
power should be delegated TO men, and
that in country Boosting of its high de-
gree of civilization, seem almost incredi-
BILE. Nevertheless, a special TO New
York paper gives this as q fact, and, il
true, it merits the severest denunciation.
1t i'll becomes AngIo-Saxons to rail at
the Siberian policy of Russia so long as
such an atrocity as woman beating in
port of any form OF law
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
HOUSE
CANTON.
Ira williams Murder Trial in PrOgress-Van
Zandt Democracy.

Ira Williams, Murder Trial in PrOgress-Van
Zandt Democracy.
Special to the Gazette.
CANTON, TEX, April 1.-THE Ira
Williams murder case has been on trial
in the district court since yesterday
morning. The testimony was closed to-
day at noon and the entire afternoon will
be utilized by the lawyers of both sides
of the case in addressing the jury. VII"
liams is charged with numbering DR..
Joslin near Grand Saline last fall, an &C
count Of which appeared in THE GAZETTE
at that time. There were over fifty wit
nesses in the case. Court Will adjourn
Tomorrow.
Quite a norther blew up yesterday.
Fires and overooats are comfortable.
S. G. Raddy, chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the Democratic party
of Van Zandt county, has called coun-
ty convention to meet at Canton May II.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
A RANGER KILLED.
He Serves Papers on Horse Thieves and is
shot-A Posse in Pursuit.

He Serves Paper3 on dorse InleVeS ana IS
shot-A Posse in Pursuit.
Special to the Gazette.
FL PAso, TEX, April 17.-John
Barnes, ranchmsn living about eight
miles northeast of the eitv, came in this
morning and reported that during the
night his horses had been stolen and a
yearling calf killed and a good
portion of the meat taken. He pro-
cured the necessary papers for the
arrest of the thieves, and Charles H.
Fusselman, commander of the state
Rangers in Presidio county, went with
Barnes to make the arrest. A messeu-
ger Just in from the ranch brings the in
telligence that the thieves opened fire on
Fusselman after he had served the pa
pers aud killed him. A detachment of
six men have gone in pursuit of the
thieves, and there is little doubt but the
thieves or their bodies viii be brought
in
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18
Judge Lynch i'm Readiness.

Special to the Gazette.
OKLAHOMA CITY, l. T., April 17.-Capt. W
Couch, the veteran boomer who vas shot weez
ago through the left knee joint by ]. c. Adams
a contestant on the Couch claims, suffered Sc
sious relapse to-day, and mis- death is hourly e
increased 10 5000, which At q late hour to-nlgn.
he was unable to give. The feeling IS stroh5
against Adams, and should Couch die, theI'
will be lynching party.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18

Good old Taylor county wires for space
in which they expect to make a hand
some display. TAYLOR may be n little
slow, but she always gets there; and any
person acquainted with the people there
is aware of the fact that the display will
be second to none.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-18

OAK VIEW, the noted summer retreal
of Mr.. Cleveland during bis presidential
term, and recently sold to a syndicate,
is to be cut up into city squares and its
beautiful green slopes SCARED by streets.
The house will remain untouched, but
those who have seen the place think it
will lose much of its picturesqueness by
the chanre