Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-09
DALLAS.
Agitating the Placing OF Texas EX-
hibit in a Northern City.
An incandiary Blaza, Loss sl2.00O-Th'
Grand Jrry Charged to look Into
Election Bets and Repeating.
Special to the Gazette.

J the city 10 10 at once locate q flne IeXas
! exhibit In some Northern city and to run
! II 10 the interest OF Dallas and Texas
| This morning News dsvotes much space
/ to interviews with prominent men on
| this subject, and all expressions are that
! the work must be done. They realize
the Importance OF reaching the people
! from other states, and the way 10 ac-
i complisn this Is TO go 10 them. An ex-
! bibit of this kim sent out by Dallas and
! represented 10y men who VIII talX Dali
| las, will give this city great amount Of
| advert Using of an advantageous nature
and place her with strangers as a city off
| push aud progress. Other cities in the
| s.uIe Will sea too late the advantage
Dallas will have in being the pioneer IN
u move of this kind. II will take much
| money TO put the enterprise on foot, but
! the amount expended will undoubtedly
| he returned many fold.
At o'clock This morning an incipient
fire was noticed in the railroad p!anin &
! uii!l on the corner of Pacific avenue and
| Pearl street, and with few buckets of
water was eXtinguishsi. Again at Is
o'clock the fire department responded to
an alarm, which proved to be at this
same mill. The building was n frame
one and the fire was under good head
way, having reached nearly all parts of
the second floor. The department did
great credit for themselves and soon had
the fire out, leaving the first story of the
frame structure in good condition. The
property was owned and operated by
Leeds s ConaiinG, and was valued at
$50, 900, with no insurance. The loss
has not yet been determined. but it Will
probably REACH $40 900 or SIS, 900. The
fire was undoubtedly the work OF an i'll
cendiaTy.
A meeting of the drummer's organiza-
ton was called TO meet Tonight ut the
pariors of the Wiudsor hotel at clock
This is a meeting to further perfect the
organization formed here during the
early part OF the fair. A large attend
ance ID expected and new members ad-
United.
The Dallas county teachers met to-day
at the office of the county superintend-
ent and reorgsnized. The following
officers were elected: Professor J. X.
Palmer, president; Professor J. X.
Bishop, vice. president, and Professor
Pennington, secretary and treasurer.
The next meeting will be held four weeks
from to-day, at which time various SUBJ
jects will be discussed.
Yesterday officer Peguese suspected
a man Is crook and watched him. The
man went to a blacksmith shop and left
some fine steel drills to be sh6rpened and
left. Officer Peguese followed his man
and arrested him, and later arrested his
partner, Il uuia:to, and in their possess
sion found a burgisr' 8 kit. Nc satisfac-
ton could he obtained from the men es
to their business, and they were locked
up and are yet in jail. 1t Is supposed
that they are safe-cracaers, and had a
job on hand for last night, which failed
TO be executed on account of their ar
rest.
When Judge Burke was in his grand
jury room this morning he stated that it
had come TO his ears that heavy betting
had been made on the results of the re-
cent election and it was charged that
there had also hsen repeating at the
polls. He charged the jury to look fully
into the matter and to leave nothing I'M
done to find out the truth. A number OF
prominent men will have to go before
the grand jury and tell what they know
on the matter, as number of them
have already expressed themselves on
the streets.
passenger agent of the Texas and Pacific
system, will start tomorrow on a trip to
Mexico. MIR. Fegan s mother is visiting
HIM from Clinton, Iowa, and will sc-
company him on his Mexican trim.
Everything is quiet in railroad CIR
oies since the close of the fair,
and the overworkei men are get
ting some rest. The passenger bust
ness during the fair was the largest
ever known within the history of Texas
railroads.
This county complete gives Hogg 1898,
Flanagan 2347, Heath 272.
For railroad amendment 1892, against
1922.
For dirtrosd amendment 1903, against
2O65.
For congress-Abbost 1851, Barter
R.) 1868.
For representatives Thirty-t third dis
trict-Rowland &C. 1874, Cochran co.
10, l04.
For representative Thirty fifth floto-
rial dIstriot-Crayton II ,403.
For judge Forty-fourth district
Tucker 62l4.
eThs following are the county officers
leoted: Judge, E. G. Bower; attorney,
d. A. Williams; clerk, Bev Scott; |
sheriff, Henry Lewis; tax collector,
Louis Jacoby; tax assessor, J. T. Witt;
treasurer, w. n. Coe, surveyor, j. NJ. |
Young; superintendent public school, j. |
x Palmer; public weigher, j. T. Boil |
ton.
Total number of votes cast IL AGA, be- |
ing an increase Of about 1000 over the |
election of 1858.
TEXAS JOCKEY CLUB.
Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Ten, Nov. s.-Since the |
close of the fair an effort has been made,
and will in all proba bility succeed, to |
form what will be known as the Texas
jocky club. Many prominent men inter-
ested in such matters have been inter-
viewed on the subject, and have not only
pronounced 1t q good thing, but are will
ing to put money into It. Various ideas
have been talked OF, but 1t is more than
likely that circuit will be formed Of the
cities in the Southwest, dates
arranged for races at the various places
10 a. nos to have them conflict. It Is
thought that IN this way sea-
,on of ten or twelve weeks can be had so
that horses can be taken from one race
course to another without loss of time
and that much better horses can be
brought from the North. even though i