Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-21
DALLAS.
Reservoir Investigating Committee will
be Ready to Report This Week.
Galveston Congratula ted-The Bell Cord Fuller
Valves Observation-Disclosures Post
master Still In Town.
IRREGULARITIES FOUND.

IRREGULARITIES FOUND.
Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS. Tex, Sept. 20.-The reservoir inves-
tigation committee about through with their
work and their report can be looked for early
next week. Mr.. Webster says many irregu-
larities found and that the specifications
have not been carried out in a number of in
stances.
DALLAS TO GALVESTON.
The following telegram was sent out to-day by
the Dallas board OF trade:
DALLAS, Tex, Sept. 90 1890.
Board of Trade, Galveston.
Dallas congrstulates you. May deep water
prove contagious and contaminate the Trinity.
LEO WoLFsoE,
Secretary Dallas Board of Trade.
BASEBALL.
McCloskey and his celebrated ball team will
arrive in Dallas on October is.
Charles Comiskey will be in Texas during the
month of December with two crack baseball
teams and will give series of exhibition games
at Fort Worth, Dallas and other large cities.
His men will be picked ones from the brother
hood and national league. They will leave st.
Louis November for the Pacific coast, and will
return East via Ell Paso. After visiting Texas
they will go to New Orleans.
WANTED HIS DINNER.
N. ]. Trammell, the man arrested a few days
ago for pulling the bell cord on Texas and Pa
cifc train and delaying the mails, to-day waived
examination and gave bond in the sum OF $500.
Tramme ell says he thought it was time for dinner
out and eat.
WENT HOME WITHOUT HIM.
The postofhce inspectors, Messrs. Wayland
and Danisls, who came to Dallas to try and get
w. N. Sellers, the defsulting postma ster of
Lebanon, N. c., returned home to-day without
the prisoner. and Sellers is still in the custody
of the local Federal authorities.
The city Of Oak Cliff is still keeping pace with
its past rapid growth. Since the Oak Cliff ele-
waited belt line railway has been completed it is
carrying thousands daily, and has given an
impetus to the already fast developing place.
Work is progressing on the cross-town railway,
seven miles of which is under contract. An
electric car line will be built from the new pas
senger station on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe railway to the Oak Cliff hotel. This line will
pass through the Oak Cliff park near the sum-
mer theater. Several new storehouses and 100
residences now in course of construction.
An election on Incorporation will be held on the
9th, also election on local option will be
held on the 18th of this month, both of which
which will probably carry. The boundary line
of this corporation will include all the hills
on the west side of the river directly opposite
Dallas.
LOCAL NOTES.
Bank learings for the week ending Septem-
Der 20. 1880, amount to 81, 254, 1868, being an
increase Of 81 per cent. over the corresponding
week Of last year.
Twelve indictments for felonies and forty
five for msdemeanors were returned by the
grand jury this morning.
On October Judge Burke will take up the
criminal docket.
The material has been bought for another
electric railway to North Dallas and the road
will be put under construction at once.
The police force will have new uniforms be-
fore the Fair opens, and from reports they will
be Candles
PERSONAL.
W.. H, Masten, general freight agent OF the
Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe is in the city.
C. H. Boardman, travelling passenger agent of
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy, is in town.
Rush II. Barns of the Louisville, New Orleans
and Texas railroad is in Dallas.