Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-29
DALLAS
Married Doctor and Young Woman
are the Principals.
Special to the Gazette,

DALLAS, TEX, Dec. 2S.-About IL
CLOCK this morning telephone mes
sage was received ct Main street drug
store from town east of Dallas on the
Texas and Pacific railroad about as fol-
lows: 'Take the electric car line that
goes to Falkland, get off at Lennon
avenue aud cross the railroad and over
tine creek Dy the bridge. After crossing
the bridge turn TO the right and follow
up the creek for distance and there
Won will probably find the remains of
Miss ---, who has written me that
she would suicide at the place desig-
mated. A searching party was formed,
and after a long search place was
found on the creek side that was en-
tirely surrounded by cedars. In fact so
nearly so that the cedars had to be
pushed aside TO enter. Once inside the
place it was quite q space in extent, and
showed every evidence of being much
frequeTted. Orange peels, old candy
boxes and sacks and other like things
were on every hand. An old coffee sack
had been care fully spread out and large
piece of wrapping paper made use OF as
pillow. BY the side Of the
improvised bed was a glass tumbler. In
the tumbier was found a handkerchief,
two bottles that had contained chloro-
form and obtained from two separate
Dallas drug stores, and a small pill box
that was labeled morphine pills. The
box was empty. The supposed suicide
was nowhere to be found, and search
was made for a radius Of half u mile with
no results. The young la1y's father and
deputy sheriff kept up the search, but
nothing has been found of the missing
girl.
The young lady is fairly we'll known in
Dallas and ut other points in Texas, and
the father says he is confident she has
not killed herself, but has gone to her
aunt in California. The lady in question
has no mother and has for some time
past been working for an East Dallas
firm as an assistant hookkeeper. On
yesterday she called at the Main street
drug store first mentioned and got a
sheet of paper. wrote q letter to the gen.
tleman who this morning telephoued
from the town to the East. What the
contents of the letter were is not known,
save that she intended TO be dead when
the letter reached nim and gave the in-
st-uctions where to ind her body. The
whole thing is q mystery, but will in
time be made known to the public.
The mystery Is why she should
take all this pains to state
where her remains would be found and
then not commit suicide, or il she is dead
what has bacome OF her body2 The
whole question is, where Is the girl and
what is the cause OF her strange actions?
The man who received her letter Is q
married man and has q family, and is an
old time friend of the young lady aud
her only living parent. The daughter
and father have not been living la the
same house for some time, as their work
IS in different parts of the city, and a
common home will be inconvenent for
both, SO they each boarded near their
respective work.
Mr.. c. e. Gilbert, editor of the Times
Herald, and Mr.. J. T.. Stanley, foreman
of the same paper, each had horse
stolen from their stables 10 Oak Cliff. A
negro boy sleeps on the second floor OF
MIR. Gllbert's stable. and says that some
time during the night two men entered
the stable, struck light, picked out a
horse from the lot of three. aud then
left. The men were white and one of
them held pistol in his hand. The boy
al once Dotified Mr.. Gilbert, who gave
chase. Mr. Staniey's stable, next TO
Mr.. Glbert's, was also found open and
his horse gone. Mr.. Gilbert's horse was
afterwards found where 1t had been
turned loose by the robbers, but Mr..
Stanley's was evidently taken away. as
il has not yet been seen. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley are away from home, having
gone on visit to Fort Worth on
Yesterday. A number of horses have
been stolen from Oak Cliff within the
past few months. aud it is supposed that
an organized gang is at work, who steal
che horses aud run them OF and ssii
them.
The Camp street keno game was
raded aga II last night. Four men only
were arrested. and these were workers
of the game. George Waller, one of
the men, asked the deputy marshal TO
20 with MIN and he would show him
where other gambling games were going
on. Waller and his associates say they
have q long list of witnesses who W Ill go
before the next grand jury and make
complaints against the various gambling
houses in the city.
Camp Sterling Price has sent $500 as
a gift to the Confederate home at AUS
tin.
The bank clearings for last week were
81 .9l6 ,076.6 6.
Real estate transfers yesterday were
S4650.
AT the city council meeting held last
night the secretary was instructed to adj
vertise for bids for the sinking of an ar
tesisn we'll at the city reservoirs, bids to
be on one or more wells, eight bore, to a
depth of 1000 feet.
The Oak Cliff city council last night
fixed the salaries OF the various officers
as follows: The mayor and marshal
$1,000 each; the citv attorney $500 and
the city secretary $3.50.
A $4,000 addition is to be built to the
Dallas county jail to be used as bospi-
tai ward.
Tonight FIRE caueh. in the clothing
house of J. Brown, 90S Elm street, but
was extinguished with q loss not excesd-
ing few hundred dollars, distributed
among six insurance companies. The
fire is supposed to have originated from
causes. Stock valued at
SI4 900; insured for $1,000.