Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-22
DALLAS.
City Council in Deep Water Over Ord
nance Reducing Ad yalorem Tax.
Brakeman Relieved of His Earnings by a
Fleet Footed Negro-Folicemen. Ask
Show for Their ALICE.
CHTNAMEN RUN IN.

Chy Chum, All Lee and All Sam were
orderly house, but gave bond for their
appearance at the city court tomorrow
and are now at liberty. The police state
that there is an opium joint being run at
the house where they made the arrest,
and that it is frequented by Americans
as well as Chinese.
RELIEVED OF HIS EARNINGS.
Charles Trechetts is a brakeman on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad 4,
and his home is in this city. Last night
ne drew his month s pay and left the
most of it with friend of his engaged in
business near the depot. About $3.50
this morning his friend gave him back
his money aud Trechette put the same in
his pocket without counting it and started
to the railroad yard. On reaching the
yards he took the money from his pocket
and counted it, finding he had 500.
While counting it, according to Trech-
ette's statement, a yellow negro, u
stranger to him, approached and aske d
the time Of day. The negro snatched
the money and ran. Trechette started
in pursuit, as did also friend of his who
was near by, but the negro evaded them
and escaped among the cars and has not
since been seen. Officers were at once
notified and dogs put on the track, but
SO far without results.
POLICEMEN s PROTEST.
Some time ago petition was circulated
among the policemen and the same was
signed by q majority of the force. The
petition set forth the statement that they
could not get a proper hearing on the
cases they brought before City JudEs
Brown, and that il worked an injustice
upon the members OF the force. The ar
ticle rs signed was intended for publica-
ton, but through the solicitation of Chief
Arnold and Mayor Conner the matter
was dropped. Last night Judge Brown
sent to the council u communication in
which he denounces in general the whole
matter, and which shows very plainly
that he ''has it i'm for most of the po-
licemen. The document does not show
that the Judge was overly careful in the
language il contained, and has not for
its tendency q calculation to harmonic
the existing bad feeling between himself
and the police force. The communica-
ton was referred to the committee on
police department. The conflict Is now
on, and where the end will be is hard to
snrmise, but it is hardly likely that the
force will let the matter rest where it is.
JUGGLING WITH THE AID vALoREM TAX.
The city council had another hot meet
ing last night, the issue being the ordi-
nance reducing the ad valoTem tax from
one dollar to seventy-five cents on the
hundred of assessed valuation. The
friends of the ordinance had the advan-
tage from the start and passed the bill by
a vote of ~ to 6. The opposition fought
10 IL n
anaucial condition of the city and the
amount of public work being done that
reduction of the revenue could not be
made in Justice 10 the city; that means
would not be available to meet the obli-
cations, and that the floating debt would
be bound to increase. After the passage
OF the ordinance the finance committee
introduced the following:
COUNCIL CHAMBER, September, 1880.
Honorable Mayor and City Council:
Comes now the chairman of your COM
mittee on finance and revenue and says
that since the city council has, by in
dicating an intention TO lower taxation
and diminish the public revenues, made
it imperative to retrench expenditures
and reform your policy of internal i'm
provements, it owes to the public the
resembling and abandoning of all con-
templated improvements that can be dis
peused with, and desire, therefore, to
suggest and insist that since the pump
house has just been surrounded by wall
higher than which the Trinity river will
not, probably, rise in the next fifty
years, you should abandon the intention
10 raise that building and thereby save
500 600. You should, also, defer house
numbering and building the Elm aud
Ashland streets sewers, saving $780,
1929, and refuse to create any con-
tracts for new improvements until pro-
vision for payment can be made. Re-
spectfully submitted,
SAM KLEIN, Chairman.
The whole matter looks as if there was
n plan on foot to create as much debt as
possible and then cry to the state legisla-
ture for cid In the way of the refunding
of the old bonds aud the Issuing of new
ones for the floating debt. This Will if
done make q uonded debt of about
81 900 900, but the council would have a
clean sheet TO start with and the iucome
from taxes, fines and other sources
would be good amount for future i'm
provements aud would give them proba-
bly, about $500 600 year above the rum
ming expenses. This amount could be
used with great benefit TO the city aud
employment given to hundreds of the
common laborers that are now having TO
leave Dallas to find employment. But
to the increasing OF the bonded debt
there will undoubtedly be much opposi-
ton and the emo is not vet in sight.
FAIR PRIVILEGES.
4 large crowd attended the sale CT
privileges at the fair grounds on yester-
day Twenty thousand dollars is the
amount realized on sales up TO date.
ANOTHER ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
With morphine has been brought to
light. Annie Overback says her husband
has deserted her and keeps from her
their child. She wants the child and not
being able to get it says she cares to live
no longer.
FRANCo-TEXAS LAND COMPANY.
Another chapter in the Franco-Texas |
land company affairs. J. B. Simpson of |
this city has purchased all the land,
400 600 acres. He also bought all the |
stock owned by J II. Taylor and others, |
paying for the same Sll0, 900. These |
transactions settle the litigations on |
81, 500, 900 worth of property.
THE STATE FAIR.
Out at the fair grounds everything is |