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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-09

Sir John Macdonald is charged with exc
cutting somersault on the reciprocity ques.
tion. But closer examination will show that
ne has done nothing Of the kind. He is no
more In favor Of reciprocity now than he has
Deen before, though he is protesting some
interest in the subject for the sake of votes.
He runs no risk In advocating his limited re-
ciprocity scheme because he knows perfect
iy well that the United States will never ac-
cept II.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-09

1t twill also cleanse the System OF all
climatic diseases, which degenerate Into
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-09

1h9Hp a1SnA for Removing Ledge in York
U Umce: Portland; Maine, Jan. Is, 1881. Sealed
S orE M IN duplicate. for removing ledge in
once M o. Maine, win be receised at this
nuesuay' FEB. 10, 1891, and then putIIciy
dsS7 voI reeaornsry e. 1885, and February 23,
S,aauIes at Large: All necessary information
r nrns ns D. oy JARED A. SMITH, Lieut.. Col.
jamie Amy s..s.oao,,o
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-09
PROPOSALS.

PROPOSALS for Construction Of Breakwater
= ana Beacon at Moose-a-bec Bar, and for re-
moving Ledge from Channel near Jonesport
Maine. United States Engineer once, Portland
Maine, Jan. If, 1891. Sealed proposals in tripli.
cate, for construction OF breakwater and beacon
at Moose-abec Bar, and for removing ledge from
channel near Jonesport, Maine, will be received
m. OF Tuesday, Feb. TO- 1891, and then publicly
opened. Attention Is invited to acts Of Congress.
approved February 20, 1885, and February 20,
1887, vol. %, page, VOL "a, page Ala.
Statutes at Large; Ali necessary blanks and
information will be furnished at this office.
JARED A. SMITH, Lieut.. Col Corps Of Ensi.
neers, y. s. Army. jan19d4t&feb9&I6
PR0POsALs for Dredging in Harbor at Back
4 Cove, Portland Harbor. Maine. United
States Engineer Office, Portland. Maine, Jan. Is.
1891. Sealed proposals In triplIcate for dredging
In harbor at Back Cove, Portland Harbor'
Maine, win be received at this office, No. 537
Congress street until p. m. of Tuesday Feb. 10
1891 and then publicly opened. Attention Is inyit
ed at te Acts q Congress, spproyed February 49,
and Vol. "a page Ala, Statutes at Large All neces
sary information furnished by JARED A. SMITH.
Lieut. Col. Corps Of Engineers, U. s Armyl
jan19d4t&feo9&1O
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-09

PR0POSALS, for Dredging in Portland Har-
Dor, Maine United States Engineer once,
p cortland, Maine, Jan. 10, 1891. Sealed pro.
Harbor, Maine, will be received at this ONCE, No.
R 90 congress Street until 2p; m. OF Tuesday
tention is invited to acts Of Congress-. approved
February 26, 1885; and February %, 1857. Vol
70, page 332, and Vol "a, page Ala, Statutes al
JARED A: SMITH, Lieut.. Col, Corps Of FnSi.
neers, U. D. Army. JAM 9d4t&fedaS ~
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
TO ALL NEWS Ill

AS advertised in THE GAZETTE
Scholarship announcement, alforders
for extra papers from this date to
August i next, must be accompanied
by the cash. This is the rule estab-
lished, and dealers as well as all others
must conform to it. As announced,
papers will be supplied dealers at the
regular prices.
In order to obtain credit for unsold
July and August papers dealers must
return THE PAPERS ENTIRE to this
Office at our expense by cypress. No
credit viii be given for any paper from
which the coupon is clipped, or where
the headings only are r%eturped. The
unsold copies must De returned entire
with the coupon uncut. Return July
overs on August /, and August overs,
up to August Is. on August 10.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
TEE SPREAD OF KNOWLEDGE.

When q Northern tourist dashes
through Texas in u Pullman car, and
stops at the eating-stations for twenty
minutes, during which time he talks te
the ~loafers. around the depot about the
state, he goes back home and writes te
his town paper an account of the trip,
with a brief history Of Texas, garnished
with the scraps of information he has
obtained from the depot loafers.
One of these fellows has written q
letter to the Indianapolis News, a part
of which is interesting enough in its
boundless ignorance to publish and
refute:
When Texas. or, as it is sometimes
styled, the great Empire state, entered the
Union it was permitted by the Federal
government TO retain its state lands. This
was a very unusual concession, as when
other states came in their public lands be-
came the property of the central govern
ment. Fortunate, indeed. would it have
been for the future welfare of Texas had
the Federal government assumed the owner
ship and control of her public domain, be-
cause had this been the case Texas would
ha . had now, and for many years yet to
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21

once t~elegraphed to White Bear and Fitz-
gerald and mis- trainer are now in hiding.
The mass meeting called sfor tonight
brought together 5000 excited citizens.
whose deep earnestness found vent
in a%pplauding the strongest kind
of denunciatory speeches. Archbishop
Ireland was the chief speaker Of the even
ing, and he arraigned the prize ring and
its law~lessness, and the municipal authorities
for permitting exhibitions. United States
Senator S. R.. Mcmillan and Rev. ".
II. Buttrick of the First Baptist
church We're the other speakers, and
were even more severe than was
the archbishop. Toward the close of the
meeting a memorial was presented, calling
on the governor to interfere and prevent the
fight in view of Mayor Smiths public re-
fusal to do so. 1t was proposed to
present the memorial tomorrow. but
the crowd would nave no delay. With
shouts OF present it now" it was decided
to carry the matter before Governor Mer-
riam at once, and the entire 5000 people
went en- masse to the state capital
for hat purpose. \ committee was
sent to summon Governor Merriam from
his residence to receive the memorial. Tn
governor told the committee he could not
address such a great crowd, but would
receive the memorial in the morning, and
the citizens dispersed to their homes. In
spite of this action tonight. the athletic
club is confident the fight will DE held.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
Words of
Waco Day.

"dto lay.
w. B. Stevens, who has been 'doing''
Texas for the Globe-Democrat, wrote from
Fort Worth about John r. Hoxie, the
founder of the Fort Worth packery:
About your market. Aren't you afraid the
Big Four will crush you Out?'' Mr.. Hoxie
raised q substantial foot from the floor and
pointed 10 the shoe. You see that he said
Made from 4 Texas hide, tanned here in Fort
Worth. This is the worst country a carpet
Dagger ever came into. Texans wants Texas
shoes, Texas clothes and Texas meat. If you
don't think so, go over to the packing house
and let the superintendent show you. Besides,
we have got q better climate for packing than
they have up North. We've got, through our
artesian wells. the finest water in the world.
ways, can't be beat for curing. II we didn't
have Texas pride to help us, We could compete
anyway. We put our lard into New York and
into Liverpool. We have sold it 2H cents above
what the product of other packing houses
brought. because Of its superiority. Go over
and look through the packing house. You'll
see the finest cold storage plant in the world"
There is a great deal of good sense in what
Mn. Hoxie says: There is no reason Texas
people should eat meat killed outside of
Texas. or use leather tanned elsewhere. If
Fort Worth lard can be sold IN New York
there is no reason why lard manufactured
in other states should be used in Texas.
When Texas shall manufacture more of her
raw material and send less money away for
manufactured articles, and pay out less for
freights, the people will be more prosperous
and there will be less complaint about hard
times.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
Baseball.
ASSOCIATION.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-Washington-
Runs, q; hits, {: errors, l. Cincinnati
runs. 5; hits, 10; errors, >. Batteries
Carsey and Lehman, Dwyer and Kelly,
Umpire-Kerins.
BALTIMORE, MD, July 2O.-Baltimore-
Runs, l; hits, 8; errors, :. st. Louis-Runs,
3; hits, g; errors, /. Batteries-McMahon
and Robinson, Stivetts and Boyle. Umpire
Jones.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 2O.-Philadel-
~phia-Runs, 4; hits, Z: errors, 2. Column
bus-Runs, 10; hits. 16; errors. Q. Bat
teries-Weyhing and Milligan, KnelI and
Donahue. U~mpire-Davis.
BosToN, MASS, July 20.-Boston-Runs,
6; hits, 81; errors, 0. Louisville-Runs, .:
hits, Is: errors, 3. Batteries-Fitzgerald
and Murphy, Meekin and Ryan. Umpire
Lynch.
CLEVELAND, ONO, July 2~O.-Cleveland-
Runs, l; hits, s.; errors, ?. Cincinnati
Runs, 2; hits, s; errors, 4. Batteries
Young and thinner, Mullane and Harring-
ton. Umpire-McQuaid.
PITTsBURG, Pa, July 20.-Pittsburg-
Runs, 3; hits, 8; errors, ,. Chicago-Runs,
o.; hits, 81; errors, 8. Batteries-King and
Mack, Hutchinson and Kittridge. Umpire
Hurst.
Boston, Mass, July 2O.-Boston-Ruus,
81; hits, g.; errors, o.. Philadelphia-Runs,
o.; hits, 3; errors, 3. Batteries-Clarkson
and Camel, Gleason and Clements. UNI
pire-Battin.
New YORK, July 20.-New York-Runs,
): hits, 9; errors. 8. Brooklyn-Runs, 4;
hits. ): errors, 3. Batteries-Rusie and
Buckley, Lovett and Kinslaw. Umpire
Lynch. /
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
ports.

THE only rule given under heaven
whereby Fort Worth can grow and at
tain the greatness possible to it is for
its people to stick together. In the
common good all profit, as all suffer
from the common i'll. Fort Worth peo-
pie cannot separate and live. and the
man who sneers ordepreciates or under
estimates the interest of others but in
jures themselves. Some people in
Fort Worth talk too much in envy or
ignorance or indiscretion. Shut your
mouths and go to work-all for the
town in whose growth all will grow,
il whose failure all would fail.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
KANSAS CITY BANK FAILURE.
The Central Bank of Kansas City, Kan,
Goes Under-Depositors Will
Lose Nothing.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 20.-The Central
bank of Kansas City, Kan, failed this
morning. The failure was due to the fail
ure of the First national bank, which
was taken charge of by the bank
examiner last Thursday. The liabilities
are S35, 900, assets s65, OO0. r. W. Hilliker
is president and cashier of the bank. The
bank was organized under the state law.
The Central bank of Kansas City, Kan,
was the oldest in the state. Under the law
providing for the organization of state
banks. 1t was organized in 1854 and was
then known as the Savings bank
of Kansas. In 1889 the bunk reorganized
under the name of the Central bank of Kan
sas. with a capital stock Of So. 900. The
bank was the depository of the funds of
the Metropolitan police department of
Kansas City, Kan, the oldest Kansas City
bank interest fund, and the old Kansas City
bond sinking fund. The money belonging
to the city is covered by bonds. The police
fund was deposited in the bank.
1t was stated this evening that
the depositors would probably
De paid in full, but a complete inventory of
the liabilities and assests will not be con-
cluded until tomorrow. r. w. Hilliker,
president, is a well known figure in bust
ness circles here for the past twenty-five
years. He is president of the Kansas
state bankers association.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
A MARKET FOR WHEAT AND
PORK.

The French chamber OF deputies has
passed the final clauses of the new
tariff bill, which fixes the tax on
American salt pork. hams and bacon
at 20 francs per 100 kilos, equivalent to
about Is cent per pound.
Portugal has promulgated a decree
reducing The import duty on wheat to
7 refs per kilogramme, which amounts
to about - cents per bushei.
These actions of European govern
ments favor the extension of the
market for American wheat and
American hog meats. France
has been utterly prohibiting
the importation to that country of
American pork products, on account
of an alleged fear of trichinosis. Por-
tuaal has had an almost prohibitory
duty on American wheat, which eX-
Guided our product, Or when 1t was
brought to that country the tariff put
the price up to such a point that very
little of it could be purchased.
The opening Of these two markets to
the American farmer is of importance.
Portugal will not, indeed, take a large
amount OF American wheat, but France
will be a large consumer of u hog
products. and this demand will serve to
stiffen the price of corn. With a de-
mand from France and England for all
our surplus wheat and much of u
corn, in the shape of hogs, the Ameri-
can farmer will thrive.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
REALTY AND BUILDING.
FORT WORTH'S GREATEST YEAR
IN REAL PROGRESS.
Pany Puts Out Some Money-New
Loans to be Made-Transfers.

For two or three days it has appeared as
II midsummer dizziness had fallen o the
real estate market, but agents say this is
only apparent and not real, that quite a
number of fair sized trades are in course of
negotiation, and that at no time for months
past were there so many inquiries in regard
to property.
The efforts of the Texas real estate asso-
citation are expected to do Texas much good,
and Fort Worth and the section tributary
TO 1t will get its share of the benefits. Many
of our most enterprising real estate men
are members of this organization. and with
the aid of our Chamber of Commerce are
preparing to make a good showing of oar
resources to the people of the East and
North.
Capt. Paddock, of the Fort Worth and
Utica trust company, leaves for New York
this morning on business connected with
his company. Although not fully ready to
transact business the company has already
put out several thousand dollars in Fort
Worth.
Two oans on Fort Worth real estate ag-
gregating $4,000 viii be closed this week.
The bulk of this money will BE- used in i'm
provementS.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
A WAR in Race Cir.le.. ChIcago.

CHICAGO, Ill, July 20-The merry war
so eagerly awaited in Chicago turf circles
opened here to-day in earnest. Thenew rival
tracks operated only 4 few miles apart one by
George HankinS. the other by Ed Corrigan
began business, each with the avowed in
tention OF bankrupting the other. The
%well-knowr determined character of the
two men, and the fact that both have back
ers with funds reaching considerably above
the million mark, added to the interest OF
the contest. AT Garfield park the track
owned by Hankins, according to the Inter
Ocean, 5000 people were present.
First race. three-fourths of 4 mile, Lake
view won, Aiaha second, Jed third. Time,
ia.
Second race, fve-eighths of a mile, Mollie
V won, Fona second, Toad third. Time,
1:O14.
Third race, one mile, Top Gallant won,
Drake formerly st. Paris second, Hamlet
third. Time, 1:441!.
Fourth race, # se-eighths of a mile, Farine
won, Unadilla second, Orlie third. Time,
1:G2
Fifth race, one and one-sixteenth
miles, Ray S. won, German second. Jim
White, third. Time, l :0S15.
Sixth race, five-eighths of a mile, EUrealis
won, Pilgrim second, Long Branch third.
Time, 1:0ll,.
At Hawthorn park, the Inter Ocean says,
$500 people were present.
First race, three quarters of a mile, Fred
Taral won, Rival second, and Maud B. third
time. lis.
Second race, Selling one and one-eighth
mile, Silverlake won. ST. Adams second and
LauraDorsey third, time lbs.
Third race, trial stakes, three-fourths of
a mile, c. L. Brown won, Phil Dwyer sec
ond, julius Sax third. Time. III.
Fourth race, fiv~e-eighths of u mile, Blaze
Duke won. Little Billie second. Lord WillO-
brook. third. Time, 1:04.
Fifth race, one mile, Allan Bane won,
Blue Banner second, Red Fox third. Time,
| AL
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
The HaIl-Fitzsimmops Fight.

ST. PAUL, MINI, July pa committee
representing various churches to-day waited
upon Mayor Smith and Governor Merriam
to urge interference with the Hall
Fitzsimmons contest next Wednesday.
The mayor reiterated his declara-
ton or Saturday that the contest
was in the hands of a high class of business
men and could undoubtedly be best man
aged and with. the least objection of any
thing of the kind that ever took place
in st. Paul: that he absolutely
declined to interfere at this late stage after
the Minnesota athletic club had obligated
itself to the amount of over SIS, 900,
which would be a dead loss, and
that the proper time to nave moved
in the matter was sixty days ago, when
the articles were first signed.
Governor Merriam told the committee
that he was powerless in the matter, and
should take no action unless the proper au-
thorities appealed to him for aid in a
legal way.
Sheriff Bean refused to interfere. saving
it was an affair for the municipal court and
city authorities alone. The result is that
the fight will take place as advertised.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
A VICIOUS LAW.

Coal miners in the Briceville region
of Tennessee have organized TO resist
the working Of convicts in the mines,
and several companies of the state mill
tia are at hand, headed by the governor
/ of the state, to uphold the law, for the
operators who employ convict labor
are acting within the law. The gov
| ernor tells the disturbing miners very
| plainly that he will enforce the law at
any cost-the meaning of which is that
if the operators insist or working the
convicts. and the miners go to the
length of armed opposition, the state
will sustain the rights of the operators,
| ever if it has to fight for them and kill
a lot of miners. and have a lot of its
own soldiers killed.
The governor is only doing his duty.
| He can do nothing else. The state law
provides for the hiring of the convicts.
The mining operators have hired them
and want to put them to work. If
armed opposition is offered, the state
must Quell it, at whatever cost, and
protect the convicts and the contrac-
tors. To lease the states prisoners. 10
receive the money of the contractors.
and then to say that the state could not
protect them against a mob, would ex-
pose the state to a charge of fraudulent
practices.
The fault lies with the system of hir-
ing the state cOnvicts, that brings
them in competition with free labor.
For free white men, whose labor is the
sole livelihood of themselves and their
families, to be ousted from employment
by convict labor, is an injustice that
cannot be defended. But the governor
OF Tennessee is not responsible for that
injustice. The laws of the state need
amendment, and that must be done if
the people would protect themselves
against the dishonorable and democrat
iZing competition of convict labor.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
St. paul.s Cathedral Reredos Case.

LopLoN, July 20.-The famous st. Paul's
cathedral reredos case was dismissed to-
duy in the court of appeals with the cost
against the appellants. This was an appeas
of ..Allcroft and others" against the decisl
ion of the Bishop of London, and
has been the subject of great. interest to
churchmen and others since the litigation
was commenced in 1855. The question
raised was as to the legality of the
figures in the rcredos, or wall at the
back of the altar of st. Paul's
cathedral, the contention of the appellants
being that the sculptured figures of
our Savior and the Virgin Mary
in the reredos were calculated
to encourage superstition, and TO suggest
unlawful ideas of devotion. TIL decision
sustains the bishop, who held that this
contention was not well founded, and con-
sequently insures the retention of the
figures in the reredos.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21

come, sufficient Land Of q suitable kind fol
that proportion of immigrants, agriculture
and pastoral, which a state like Texa.
should receive yearly, and thus become
proportionate to her extent and grea
natural resources. But what is the
actual condition of affairs there nowl Sur
prising as the statement must be, Texas
has now no lands suitable for immigrants
to settle upon, and this has been the cast
for some years past. OF course ther rail
road companies, and other corporations,
have yet, unsold, some of its best lands, blu,
the price per acre that they demand is such
as will not tempt many settlers to her
shores.
Surprising as the statement must
SEEM" Texas has about 5000, 900 acres
of land-several millions more than the
whole state of Indiana-the greater
part of which is as good farming land
as the pillow ever turned up. These
lands are not, indeed, held by the
state, but by the schools, which re-
ceived them of the state. For the pur-
poses of the immigrant and settler it is
the same as if the state owned them,
for the state has exclusive control Of
the school lands and disposes of them
in such manne as is most advantageous
to the settler. They are sold for 81 an
acre on forty years time at five per
cent interest to the actual settler.
There are millions Of acres of these
lands that will grow twenty to thirty
bushels of wheat to the acre. Numer-
Gus cases can be found where settlers
who took up a farm last year have
more than paid for it and the improve
ments put on it by their first wheat
crop.
The writer in the indianapolis paper
makes a further venture in the domain
of facts and figures and the result is
given here:
Again the legislature took it into its head
that such a great state as theirs should have
a capitol worthy of Texas. They deter
mined that nothing smaller than q S5,00O,-
900 building would do. So as money was
scarce and they did not wish to increase
their taxes, they offered 5000. 900 acres of
land. yaluing it at 81 per acre, TO any syn
dictate who would be willing to accept the
same in lieu OF cash, for the erection of the
proposed capitol, according to the plans and
specifications, which had been approved.
They had no difficulty whatever in finding
a syndicate ready and willing to ac-
cept this offer. Before the foundations of
the capitol were built the syndicate had
sold their grant of !, 100, 900 acres for some
thing like Sl1 GOO, 600.
The land grant was 5000, 900 acres,
not 5000, 900. A value of 81 per acre
was put on it by the state, though no
body who knew anything about it at
that time thought it would ever be
worth more than 80 cents an acre. And
the land has not been sold for 81, 000,-
600, or for any other sum, still being
held in its entirety by the Capitol syn
dictate to which the state patented it.
If any man from Indiana wants to
better his condition he can find land
enough here for that purpose, and he
a get it cheap enough and on long
enough time.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21

LIVESTOCK dealers and raisers will
find the daily livestock reports OF THE
GAZETTE invaluable to them. Actual
sales are reported daily from st. Louis
and Chicago b. wire. These sales re-
ports are sent to THE GAZETTE with
special reference to Texas, and names
OF sellers, number Of cattle and prices
realized are all given. Livestock men
should examine THE GAZETTE'S re-
mont.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
The Decree Refused,

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 2O.-The application
for a pro forma decree of incor-
poration, filed by the Deutsche
Observation-Disclosures U-nterstutzunge Won
ST. Louis, proposed by the
Austrian society. was filed in the circuit
court and referred to Col. Pat Dyer for a
decision. Col. Dyer made his report
to-day, recommending that the de-
cree be refused. Report says that
the evident purpose of the proposed
corporation is to fr~aternize all Austrians.
their descendants and friends. The consti-
tuition provides that the proceedings of the
board of directors and working of So
cieties shall be written in German.
and that no one can be eligible to member
ship unless he understood that language.
which Mr.. Dyer considers contrary to the
spirit of the law, hence the decree is re
fused.