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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-03-21
SHERIEEIS SALE

Henry N liagclt }. Jesse Moore.
Virginia b"ure, Sarah a Nc
Duel an WIi!Ivm f McI)uell,
lie" hushani, tri.-mus CARROT
and Henry 4 a,r,olt, ~iaIuIIfs,
Sarah +. Car'm-ll and Peylcy NJ.
CUt ell. hrr HNsNauI, Clarence
& CiIlet, EittH Jisgeti. Tho,
Il Moor. May y Il rit.sr, Ed
wand 4. Eo,et,r. Eicnard l..
Brtrivr. rUDBia5 = EUi-lcr,
LOUIS +. JIut,h,a. and W"uing.
tn HnrG,'ns her ~. band Fran Partition
Anna Y. 81 Nuuucc ami j. r.
Yourtrc, her husband, NJ Alice
Eutcl'r, gorge ". iiotelcr,
Joscnhine NJ .L]utliaH and Danlri
W. i~aplan, n"r husband, Mary
j.. GafrnIt, William q Collins.
william IS g rrott Thomas Il.
Ciugett. adm nHirat"r oil ihr
q tl'e Of iicrrJ T. EOielrr, de-
c"sscd, and Slcrhcn n. uil-on,
public 81 rin!slfuIOF Gf Lafayette
COUNT. Mo defendants,
By virluc Of Il decree aud order of sale issued
from the office OF the clerk Of The Circuit
court OF Lafayette county, Missouri, in tie
hoy" emitted Caus", 10 me directci and re-
turnub'c TO the Arm term, 1881. OF said Cir
mt count, | VIII, on
IUEsDhi, APRIL 7ru, 1s9I,
between The hourS Of nine O'Clock in the lore
noon ana hvc o'clock III Tie afternoon of said
day, and ~ mont OF The courthouse cuOr, III the
cny OF Lexington, in Lafayette county,
during lie session oI the said circuit court sell
publicly, mt auction, TO the highest bidder, on
the terms hereinafter stated, MI The right,
tillr. interest and estate of the above named
plrtita pialntin' aud defendants, Of, in and to
the following described real Cstule, situate,
lying and hem IN Laiay ettc, county, Missouri,
lo-Wf: The southwest fractional quarter al
sectiOn eighteen OS) in town. hip hlty 600, Of
range tNcnty seven c1J containing one hum
df'd end eight ana n-hundTeiths
(lOS GI-iOU pCrCS, more or less, also the Gust
hall OF the GOnihrnst quarter OF section thirteen
(lil. in township ally 6), Of range twenty
eight 5S). con mining cilhtY (6O) acres more or
le5t, ON the following terms, to.wIt: One-half
of the amount bid to he pnid in cash and the
bliahre in twelve month";. The purchaser to give
ms note therefor. bearing interest nj iac rate Of
eight ~ per cent per rnnUm, and secured by
deco! Of trust on Tho land FOLD, the purchaser 10
have the right to p'y The full amount in cash.
Given under my hand this 2Srd day Of Fob
ruIry, ISL
CHARLES S. MITCHELL,
inlSStl GbartH
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-03-21

By virtue Of Il decree aud order of sale issued
from the office of the clerk Of the Circuit
court Of Lafayette county, Missouri, in tie
hove emitted causr. 10 me directed and re-
turnahic to thc Arm term, logi. OF said cir
cut count, | viii, ON
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
AN ILLUSTRATION IN REAL LIFE.

Last Dece mber. about the 23d of the
month, q Tennessee farmer hauled
fifty-five bales of cotton to his market
town, and not being satisfied with the
price offered, he stored it for an ad-
vance. On the Goth OF May he sold it
for S275 less than itwould have brought
in December. He paid for insurance
and storage, during the five months
that he held it, SO; he lost by shrink
age, s59.40: interest on money advanced
on the cotton, at per cent, cost him
s25. After five months he is S429.40
worse off than he would have been had
he sold the cotton when he had it
ready for the market in December.
This incident is an object lesson in
the sub-treasury primer. Imagine the
sub-treasury scheme in operation. The
Tennessee farmer takes his cotton to
that depository and stores it, getting
so per cent of its market value at that
time in cash. Allowing I! cents a
pound, and 800 pounds to the bale, his
fifty-five bales would have been held at
s2062.50. Eighty per cent OF that
amount is $3.50, which the govern
ment, through its sub-treasury man
ager, would have paid him. After five
months, the cotton is worth S429.4 40 less
than it was when stored away to wait
for an advance, or $l633.lO But the
owner has drawn $3.50 on it. Who is
to reimburse the government for its
loss of $1,000?
This is one example, The govern
ment would not be bankruptcd by loss
Of $500, but when there are several
hundred thousand depositers in the
sub-treasury warehouses. a possible
loss attending each, it will foot up
considerable item 10 go to the debit
side OF the profit and loss account
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
The Fine Prospects.

The reports received from al portions OF
the country tributary 10 Fort Worth tell
the same story. Crops are abundant and
the quality of wheat and oats was never
better. In the famous Brentwood country
there will be an immense surplus and the
people all through that section are anxious
10 see the Fort Worth and Rio Grande
railroad completed 10 Brownwood ii a@l
TO handle 4 portion of the great crop At
least. Fort Worth should realize that in
this country is trade aggregatinC several
millions of dollars annually which now
goes TO gulf ports. The merchants and the
people want to trade at Fort Worth, and il
this city viii reach out for this rich trade,
II is hers. The Brentwood country is
rapidly filing up and IS becoming is famous
as the Panhandle.
Along the Fort Worth and Denver them
will be 4 certain average of twenty bushels
of wheat per acre, and large amount of II
will be marketed at Fort Worth. Mr.. d.
D. Mcmillan and his two sons of La Crosse,
belt making their arrangements TO handle
the wheat for export. They viii make their
headquarters i'll Fort Worth.
Our mills are all at work preparing 10
run day and night and make every barrel
of -four their capacity viii admit. In a few,
weeks az the outside the Fort Worth four
ing mills will be making 100 barrels of -four
daily and every elevator will be full Of
wheat. Fort Worth IS the clearing house
for all this section aud our banks Will
handle vast sums OF money. 1t was said
yesterday that one bank alone mad 4 quar-
ter Of q million dollars on the way TO begin
the work of moving the crop. Arrange
ments are also being made here TO handle
oats and hay on a large scale This is Fort
Worth's opportunity; the wealth of an en-
pire is ready 10 be poured into her lap and
her people can snap their fingers At what is
called financial sTingency if they want to.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
Great is Texas.



The Hon Robert PorterhouSe Porter
skipped lot of Texans while making his
Texas count, but he can't keep Texas from
pulling ahead all the time, even il he has
robbed the state of one or two congressman
by his juggle with the arithmetic. The
"man with the hoe in increasing num-
bers, is still overrunning the COW pastures
of West and Northwest Texas and making
stalks of wheat, corn and cotton TO grow
where only grass grew before. On road
going northwest from Fort Worth it is es-
timated that 5000 cars viii be needed this
year to haul the wheat grown mostly upon
ground that was thought. three or four
years ago, to be a part of the Great Ameri-
can Desert and fit only for grazing. At the
present rate of settlement this viii soon
prove to be only fraction OF the pro
duct harvested in the Panhandle The
sugar product of Northeast Texas Is in
creasng at such rate that there is call
for barrel factories, which will find still
more active employment if proposed salt
works be put into operation in Wood
county and thereaoouts. Verify, with its
deep-water enterprises on the coast, its
constantly increasing crops of cotton. grain
and sugar, its cattle and its wool. its ex-
panding manufacturing interests, and its ar
tesian wells to keep away drouth, Texas
is fast approaching the time when it Will be
not only the biggest but the: most populou
andproductive state in the Union.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
the country; but, unlike the remainder

the country; but, unlike the remainder
Of the country. Fort Worth faces an
early relief and. like all the country,
return TO normal conditions. The
grain crop is being harvested and Fort
Worth is the entrepot Of wheat fields
that demand millions of money to
handle; cattle prices are better than
for years, and Fort Worth is the con-
coded livestock market OF the South
west, and already money by tens OF
thousands OF dollars has been paid out
in Fort Worth for the cattle product
of West Texas; and back of these
special causes are the general forces
that are working to q restoration OF
financial confidence and the specific
causes that are at work in behalf of
Texas.
Never was there less cause for the
Fort Worth pessimist to air himself;
but human nature is ever the same,
and this season of general depression is
meat for the local prophet who has
been telling you so" for ten years.
while Fort Worth, despite his lament,
has been growing.
THE GAZETTE can only bid its New
York correspondent to be patient, and
those outsiders who make inquiries OF
Fort Worth should first make inquiries
OF their informants. The man who has
done nothing TO make values what they
are cannot be expected to speak encour-
agement for those who do work 10 build
up cities. That man is to be pitied
who depends upon such information.
He misses an opportunity, just as lis
informants have missed it for years.
And that is one reason they take a
gloomy view of property values. 1t is
impossible for them to take any other
view
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
THE BaCCARAr VERDICT.

The verdict in the famous baccarat
trial for libel was what people on this
| side OF the water expected. Sir Will
liam's guilt in cheating at cards did not
| admit of a doubt. Everybody believed
| him guilty at the end OF the first day OF
| the trial. Since then nothing appeared
in the testimony to show that the
charges against him were the result OF
conspiracy to ruin a distinguished
member OF the nobility. 1t appears to
the casual reader OF what was testified
to at the trial that either Sir William
cheated or the Wilson's and the Prince
OF Wales were in conspiracy TO ruin
him. OF the latter no evidence what
ever was produced, while five persons
testified that there was cheating and
stated with detail the manner of it. 1t
is impossible to get around these facts.
Gordon Cummings attorney was wholly
unable to do so. He did not attack the
credibility of the witnesses in the only
way that could have injured them with
The jury, that is by impeaching their
testimony in the usual way. The ut
most he could do to break the force Of
their testimony was TO point to the
youthfulness OF some OF them, and to
hint that the older ones may have been
fuddled from drinking too much.
Then, too, the Wilson's had
money, and were a rather
common lot" anyway, circumstance
which it was hoped the jury would duly
consider in making up its verdict. 1t
did so, but not with the result wished
for by the plaintiff or his attorney.
But the evidence of the five witnesses
was not unsupported. II was strongly
correlated by the written pledge to
abstain in the future from card play
ing, given by Sir William in considera-
ton of the silence of the Tanby-Croft
crowd respecting his cheating. That
document put the question beyond all
doubt. The plea that it was given in
burst Of manly sacrifice in order TO pro-
tect the Prince OF Wales. was nothing
more than a bit Of stage play before the
jury. In the language Of Sir Charles
Russell, man conscious of his inno-
cence would not have signed that docu-
ment to save fifty princes. Besides,
there is no evidence that the prince
wanted to be saved. The fact that he
gave the whole bill OF the race to his
particular friend Lady Brooke, who
upheld CALAMITY the fame of her sex in
scattering to the four winds all that the
prince told her. and that he allowed
the case to get into the courts, without
any effort on his part to prevent it, ap-
pear TO prove that he was in the posi-
ton OF Emin Pasha, who did not care to
be rescued.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
The Great Land Sale.


The sale of the G.. W Mahoney ranch at
public cutlery Tuesday and Wednesday was
great success and III every way satisfac-
tory. The land all sold, and at figures as
high or higher than the same quality of
land can be bought at private sale.
Whatever Mr.. NIahoney's motives for
selling may be- the effect is great adyeIsi
tisement for Coleman county.
OF the hundreds who came TO attend the
sale not one went away disappointed, while
all were charmed with the beautiful coun-
try, and many who could not secure tracts
to suit them are still prospecting, intend
ing TO buy before leaving the country.
Others still give assurance that they will
return at ar early day.
Aggregate OF first days sales. .Sll5,157 a.
Acres sold "a TO3
Highest price, per acre .S Is 90
Average .. 7~
There remained but about two thousand
three hundred acres to dispose of, which
was probably sold at Santa Anna yester-
day.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13

The Fort Worth GAZETTE and Barnet
Gibbs both appear to think no one has a
right 10 object to Gibbs land loan scheme
unless he can offer a better Gibbs and
The GAZETTE should set the gait by Offering
something Democrats could afford 70 take
in the place of what the party offers
u Alvarado Bulletin.
What does the party offer? 1t has
untiringly denounced the national
banking system, so it is not national
bank notes that the party offers. There
is not enough gold and silver in the
country TO restrict the currency to
coinage of those metals. Legal ten
ders are fat money, which is Green
backism. If we are opposed TO the ma
;ional bank circulation, dare not COM
nit ourselves to the Greenback doc
trine of flooding the country with fat
money, and have not enough gold and
silver to supply the needs OF business, it
is time for other Democrats, as well as
Gibbs and THE GAZETTE, to set their
wits to work for devising something
that will satisfy the people.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13

GOVERNOR FRANCIS OF Missouri
tells that the Farmers Alliance OF his
state Will take no part in the Peoples
party movement. They are satisfied,
lie says, to enforce proper legislation
through the Democratic party, and
they Will support the Democratic can
didates with that end in view. It
would be work to very little purpose if
the farmers should divide their forces
between the Democratic and the Peo-
pies party, and let both be defeated
and kigh-tariff gold-standard Republi-
cans elected.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
A Hint to Mr.. Jones.

The Fort Worth GAZETTE remarks that
the Rev. Sam Jones must have indeed made
an impression upon Houston when he sue
ceeded in closing the saloons Oh Sunday,
but if he wants to dash his head against the
wall in vain let him tackle the San Antonio
saloons. Mr. Jones is not that biblical
fool who is wise III his own conceit." He
knows the difference between inducing the
editors of the Post TO weep bitter tears of
repentance and inducing the people of San
Antonio to writhe on the mourner's bench
and groan. In the first place the people of
this city have nothing of which TO repent,
in the second place their religion is the
cheerful and smiling kind, not the grooming
and law and order kind. in the third place
they possess the ineStimable merit of at
tending to their own business ana allowing
other people to do the same.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
OH, YE OF LITTLE FAITH
10 the Gazette.
NEW YORK, June s 1891.

| To the Gazette.
| ] write you realizing you are 4 leader in
| public opinion. Something has just hap
| pened TO awaken my indignation. A report
| comes from a Fort Worth citizen relative to
| the condition of the city ana the value of
| properties. 1t was not matter that | was
| directly interested in, but il is shame that
anyone trying to help build up Fort Worth
| should be handicapped through lack of
| confidence of its own citizens. Yours cor
| daily.
THE GAZETTE's correspondent is
righteously indignant, but a little re-
Election will convince him that there is
no remedy for the evil OF which he
complains.
There was a time in the history of
Fort Worth when all its people pulled
together" and this unity of purpose
was a potent factor in converting a
hamlet into city. But the city's mar
Vicious growth has attracted to it men
of various kinds, and not now, as was
the case in the city's infancy. are all its
people town-builders. Ten years ago
| all of Fort Worth's people were pro-
ducers now the consumer is here with
the producer, and unfortunately, the
outsider who needs information of Fort
Worth cannot know whether the men
he applies to for information are pro-
ducers or consumers, since the very
fame of Fort Worth has led tC the pop
ular belief that all men in Fort Worth
are builders, hustlers, producers.
But alas, the consumer is here! He
was attracted by the fame Of the
towns growth and came very much as
the carrion crow would come, and he is
here to pose as a Fort Worth citizen.
as one CT those men whose push and
enterprise and iberality and faith and
acumen have made Fort Worth what it
is and filed the country with its fame.
1t is pitiful when dead men are at
tracted 10 live towns. They cannot
comprehend; they cannot see: they
come to reap where others have sown,
and stand aghast at the holiness (so-
called OF the sewers: they are not in it,
and in their disappointment they seek
to pull down rather than to build up.
But these men are citizens of Fort
Worth, and the outsider has no means
OF distinguishing the producer from
the consumer-the eagle from the
crow-the town-builder from the moss
back, and if inquiry is made OF one of
these men the answer is what naturally
might be expected from one who has
commended that properties were too
highly valued in Fort Worth, as well
when Main street lots were $50 a foot
as now, when they range from s40O to
$500 foot.
And yet there never was a time
when Fort Worth rested on q more
solid foundation, and never a time
when the owners OF property might so
certainly count on appreciation OF
their values. The financial depression
Of which men complain is not local to
Fort Worth. but it is general all oyef
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13

FIFTY-TWo million dollars OF ma
tional bonds mature in about seventy
five days. If they are called in and
Cancelled the national bank circulation
based on them must be retired, and tn"
money volume Will be contracted 20
that extent. They may be extended
for awhile, but at last they must be
paid, and the contraction Will come.
There is $l6S. 100000 of national ban5
notes in circulation, based on bonds.
In about eight years all these bonds
will have been paid and Cancelled, re-
ducing our circulation by cutting off
$l6S, 000,0G0 Isn't it time to be looking
for substitute for the national banking
system as it now stands?
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
Christian Union.

Senator PETER proposes that the govern
ment shall lend the people money. on ade-
quate security, at 4 nominal rate of interest.
What does this mean? The government of
the United States is the people of the
United States. 1t means that the people
shall lend to the people. Right-hand pocket
lend some money TO the left-hand pocket
this is what il means.
Or else it means that the people who
have money shall lend to the people who
have not Voluntarily? No, not volun-
tarily. There is no law now against their
lending voluntarily at low interest or at no
interest at all. Senator PETER proposes,
either that all the people shall lend TO all
the people. that the right hand pocket shall
lend to the left-hand pocket, or else he pro-
poses that the men who have saved their
earnings shall he compelled TO lend TO the
men who have not.
This is contiScatiou.
If the rich men have made their money
unjust.y and are not entitled to It, let US
say so frankly, and take it away from them
But let US not call it loan by the govern
ment TO the people. The government is the
people
This is worth remembering The gov
eminent is not an abstract entity with
plenty OF surplus energy wherewith to do
things, and plenty of surplus money where
with to buy things. The government is the
people. It's money mas all been taken out
of the pockets of the people Under our
systems of taxation most of its money
comes from the people of very moderate
means. Whenever it is proposed that the
government shall do something with its
money, it is proposed that we, the people.
shall do something with our money.
Shall the government subsidize steamship
linesl That is, shall we, the people, pay
our money TO the owners of steamship
lines, who take our money but pay Us no
share OF the profits
Shall the government pay 500, 0Oo, 600 to
build 4. Nicaragua canall That is, shall
every family in the United States pay $40
to the men who propose TO build that canal
and let them own and operate it and take
the profits,
1t will help our readers to form better
judgment as to the various plans for spend.
ing the money of the government. if for the
word government" they will always SUBJ
stitute the words 1.-The people,
Shall we, the people, build railroads for
other men TO own. steamships for other men
10 sail, canals for other men to operate-we
TO pay the money, they 10 take the proftsl
Shall we: the people, put our money into a
common fund to be loaned by the politicians
at nominal rate OF interest to anyone who
has influence enough to get the loana
What do YOU think of itl
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13

The force of Contractor John p. Hughes,
which is now under the direction of George
Dricbelbis, arrived in the city yesterday
and viii Immediately be sent TO Granger to
commence work on the Georgetown and
Granger road. The work on this road will
be pushed as rapidly as possible, and it will
DE finished by the time the cotton crop is
ready TO harvest.-tG GAZETTE Local, Friday.
And yet the people Of Texas were
told last year that if ''Hogg and a
commission" triumphed in the election
an end would be put to all railroad con-
structiOn in Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
EKANCH OFFICES.

DALLAS.
G " NUSo,'. Correspondent and business
a cEt. Once: 81 Elm street, where orders
:or subscription anU advertising should Oe
lett TIE GAZETTE can be found on sale at I'll
NeWs stands in the city
MEATEERFORD
II Il. DORSEY, Agent and Correspondent
ABILENE.
J.. y. RADFoRD, Agent and Correspondent
Once POstorlce building, - Chestnut street.
first floor, where ~ orders for subscri ptiols
had advertising should De left
CIEBURNE.
" 4 BYRD, gent and Correspondent
AUSTIE
NJ. @. PoINDEETER, Agent, 1G3 West Sixth
street
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-13
TIE TEXAS COMMISSION.

The railroad men are taking much inter-
est in the commission and are on the look
out for its movements. Not one will
give an opinion on either the commission
or what ii is expected to dc. Several of the
officials intimate that they expect no radi-
cal changes in the present system of rail
reading, nor do they look for a policy
which will have a tendency to seriously
embarrass the roads.-[Dallas News.
And yet the people OF Texas were
told last year that ''Hogg and com
mission" would result in ruin TO the
railroad interests OF the state.