Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-27
WACO.
Preparing for Decoration Dayton Crouch
Jailed-List of Delinquent Tax
payers Small.

Special TO the Gazette.
WACO, TEX. March 26.-Pat Cleburne
camp Is making arrangements for Dec
Grafton day, May Z. A committee ap-
pointed for the purpose of arranging the
details has been meeting weekly, and
Monday night the committee decided
that the field officer should not appoint
officers of the day outside of the ranks OF
the working members of the camp. II
was also decided that the thirteen girls
who are to represent the thirteen Con-
federate states should be selected from
the daughters of the working members
of the camp. An interesting programme
will be arranged.
Deputy Sheriff Abe Russell, arrived
on the south bound Missouri, Kansas
and Texas last night with Tom Crouch
wanted in this county for theft of mare
from MIR. J f. Boynton in one case,
and theft of a pair Of mules from Hon.
Seth P. Mills in the other. He is the
party wounded near Hillsboro by Sheriff
Love of Limestone county, some weeks
ago in arrestlng him.
Real estate sales yesterday and to-day
will reach 500, 200.
The Houston and Texas Central will
sell round-trip tickets TO Fort Worth
April II to %, inclusive, for four cents
per mile. The occasion is the meeting
of the Texas veteran association and the
Texas medical association in your city.
The list of delinquent taxpayers is
smaller this year than usual, both coun-
ty and city, and as the day of sale,
April l, approaches the list gets smaller
and smaller. The rate in this county,
state and county, was fiftv-seven and
one-half cents last year and is sixty FIVE
cents on the 500 valuation this year.
The increase s this year was in the assess
ment of road tax, which was raised from
five cents to twelve and one-half cents.
BY this means 1t is expected that Mo
Lehman county will improve her roads in
good style, but it will not be sufficient to
enable the authorities to put the roads in
first-class condition.
The board of trade has appointed
Messrs. James B. Baker and VIM. L.
Prather as delegates to the road conven-
ton in Dallas April 8.
Mr.. Louis Hinchman received a tele-
gram from Gaylord, Blessing s. Co..,
confirming the sale Of the 5 per cent.
Waco street improvement bonds, and
Alderman w. d. Lacy, chairman of the
Louis in few days to deliver the bonds
and receive the money therefor. The
2 points premium received for the bonds
together with all accrued interest to
April l, makes for the city something
near S12 900 over what would have been
received had the bonds been sold when
first placed on the market.
The streets of Waco are now alive with
men and teams-some excavating and
some paving, some lowering the Bell wa
ter company's pipes and some laying the
tracks for the Waco street railway COM
pany, which has in contemplation the
building of something near ten miles of
road in the city this year.
A sharp competition between hotel
men in this city seems imminent The
Pacific will open again soon with Mr..
o. W. Buck, a genial gentleman from
Sioux Falls. OAK. and an experienced
hotel man. Capt. John Mckay, how
ever, says the Royal will do the bust
ness, while Grand Bros. seem compla-
cent and show perfect confidence in the
New McLelland. Mr.. Buck opens the
Pacific hotel bar tomorrow.