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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15

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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
THE SCOUTS ESCAPE
A Race for Life on the Western Plains.

~ n the 10th day of June,
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A.A 1867, a small body Of
u Mfi$SSA Indians appeared to the
HNM3RSS q west of Fort Wallace,
AhtH and from their maneuv
.aMsH ering seemed to be spy
@ES ing out the chances of
NhNk< cutting out the stage
MGa| station, half q mile from
ML the fort, writes an old
TW g;W Governmentscout. The
xp% station was guarded by
seA four or five men at the
time, and the corral held about thirty
five horses. I had just come in that
morning from q long scout and was
asleep when the Indians were first seen.
AS soon as routed out I took two men
with me and rode down to the station.
We picked up a fourth man there and
headed direct for the redskins, who
were then a mile away. We were not a
quarter of a mile away from the station
when I became suspicious that it was
q plot to draw us away. We brought
our horses down to a walk, and after
getting half a mile from the station we
turned to the left as if to circle back.
At that moment 300 Cheyenne warriors,
led by old Roman Nose, burst out of
the dry r~avines, where they had been
lying concealed for two hours, and
made straight for the station.
The plan would have done credit to a
brigadier. About 200 warriors threw
themselves between the station and
the fort, SO us to be ready for any move
IN tho rorf of tho co11ior Thirty
attacked the adobe huts constituting
the station. About fifty made for the
enclosure where the horses were kept,
from from sa The 0i fort. t Only g one e"1 part as t Of the he
the plan miscarried. The men at the
station made such q fight that the In
dams could not break in on them
They killed three warriors and wounded
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15

FooD for speculation: The German
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION VA
CANCIES

The president has an excellent OPP
portunity to render the country val
liable service by the appointment of
two capable men, and not politicians,
to the vacancies in the interstate COM
mission. That is not, and was never
meant to be, any more than the courts
were, partisan body, or membership
on it reward for political services.
Special pains were taken in the law
creating the commission to make it as
non-partisan as possible, by dividing
the membership equally as practicable
between the two parties. Judges
Cooley and Bragg, both appointees OF
Democratic administration, and the
first named Republican, were consti-
tutional lawyers of the highest ability
and the most unQuestiOned probity.
They were hard and faithful workers,
who did great service for the people.
They were not politicians, and OF course
never permitted politics OF anything
that smacked of it to interfere with the
performance Of their duties. While
they were able and conscientious, there
are others fully up to their standard in
both respects, whom the president can
easily find to take their places. Ex-
Senator Maxey of this state would be
splendid successor to Mr.. Bragg, and
there is no doubt that the president
can find in his own party a man fully
as well qualified to succeed Judge
Cooley. But in view of Harrison's
record of appointments, there is very
little room for hope that he will for
once discard political considerations
and forget self long enough to make
decent appointments to these vacan-
nieS
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
TWENTY YEARS AGO.

The responsible editor OF the San
An.onio Light must have gone around
the corner to sample new brew when
this statement got into the paper:
"Whatever the farmer buys is from 10
to 80 per cent. cheaper to-day than it
was twenty years ago, and whatever he
sells is from 10 to 80 per cent. dearer,
and yet the farmer is not happy"
What is it that the farmer has to sell
to-day that is 10 to 80 per cent. dearer
than it was twenty years ago? Not
cotton, for upland cotton sold in the
New York market in 1871 for 10 cents
to % cents pound, and now it is
quoted there at 5 "a to 10 3-S cents.
Not wheat, for wheat brought s1.45 to
81 then. and it was considered great
squirt in the market z few weeks ago
when that grain went up to s1.13 3-4.
Not corn, for corn is quoted at 81 cents
after year Of complete failure Of that
crop, which in 1871 brought 65 to 80
cents, and the year before that 16 cents
to s1.l5. Not oats. for oats are plenti-
ful now at 81 cents, while in 1871 they
sold at AZ to 81 cents. Not wool, for
the wool grower who can get p cents
to-day is in rare luck, while in 1871 he
sold his clip at 30 to 63 cents. If there
is anything that the farmer grows
that he cansget more money for now
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
SHEEP THIEVES.
Two aIe1icans in jail at Laredo to Answer
to this Charge.

Special to the Gazette
LAREDO, WEBB COUNTY, TEX. Sept 90
About three weeks ago two MeXicans came
TO Laredo with about two hundred muttons,
and sold them to a butcher here. Every
thing appeared to be all right about the
transactions, but two weeks later notice
was received here that the muttons had
been stolen from 4 sheepman named Viii
liam Hebron, living near Penn Station in
Duval county. He has friends here who
We're on the lockout, and the,
hides were found here after they had been
sold by the butchers. Day before yeSter-
day he telegraphed here that he had lost
another herd OF sheep, some one hundred
and ninety in number. The party he tele-
graphed TO was on the lookout, and this
morning when the thieves came in and
offered the sheep for sale, he at once
notified the officers. Two deputy Sherifs
aud the deputy hide inspector went after
the thieves and found them near the oassea
skirts of the city with the sheep in herd.
They ordered them to surrender. One man
named Lucie Garfa got of his horse and
made no attempt to escape, but the other,
Darnian Capel by name, pulled his Win
chester, and the deputies at once fired on
him. He was shot through the left arm
and one bullet grazed his head, causing him
to fall from his horse. The two men were
brought to The city and jailed. The wounds
received by Capel are not dangerous. The
sheep were secured and their owner notified
Of their whereabouts. E
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

Mr.. HUMPHREY, Alliance organizer
among the negroes, proclaimed that he
was getting up cotton-pickers' league
which numbered SGO,0G0 members and
was growing at the rate OF $4,000 a day.
On the 10Th OF September, when the
league would embrace 100000 mem
bers, gigantic strike was to begin all
over the South for 81 q hundred
pounds. The day came and passed,
but nobody has heard OF strike. Cot
ton pickers are as busy as they can be,
picking for 30 cents d hundred. Mr..
Humphrey should be given new job
that of sending out reports of the over
whelming strength OF the Alliance, and
predictions of the great political
triumphs it is going to win.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
SENTENCED AT MIDLAND.
A Young Mexican Gets Death Sentence
for Murder - An American Sem
fenced to the Penitentiary.
Special TO the Gazette

special 10 the Gazette
MIDLAND, MIDLAND COUNTY, TEX, Sept.
20.-Yesterday the death sentence was pro-
nounced upon the young Mexican, Lorenza
Paris, by Judge Kennedy and the execu-
ton ordered TO take place the Goth day of
November next. This is one of the Mex
leans convicted of the murder of William
Langham in Yoakum county on the 2lst day
OF January, one year ago.
The Mexican claimed that at the time of
the murder he was in San Felipe, and that
Manuel Juoseti and Thomas Billarrici
would testify to his innocence. An effort
will be made to learn the truth of these
statements. This statement was only made,
however, when the death sentence was pro-
nounced. The evidence conyicting him was
largely circumstantial.
A. D. ]. Hooper of Colorado was at the
same time sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary. In reply to the question if
he had anything to say, he made a most
affecting speech, asserting his innocence
and swearing under heaven that he had
been convicted upon perjured testimony.
In his talk he exonerated the court and
jury from blame, but breathed curses upon
the heads of the prosecuting witnesses.
The case has been appealed.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

A WRITER in the Dallas Times-Her-
aid attacks the fair association for in
viting Col. r. G. Ingersoll to deliver
an address at the fair next month. The
grounds Of the attack are that Inger-
soil has always been a bitter enemy OF
the South and OF the Christian relig-
ion. 1t seems little out of place to put
up in so conspicuous a position at the
fair man who has won his notoriety
as defamer Of Christianity and
traducer of the South. But let that
90. God hasn't raised any objection
yet, and the South can stand 1t as long
as He can.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
THE WORK OF THE ALLIANCE.

Senator PETER in public speech: 'If
the Alliance should fail in everything
else it proposes. but should succeed in
breaking up the solid South by absorb
ing a majority Of the Democratic votes
of that section, it will deserve the last
ing gratitude of the whole nation. 1t
will have accomplished what the mana
gers of the Republican party have spent
years of time and several millions of
dollars in vain to do, and by so doing
demonstrate its greater potency as
political Diplomat"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

TIE West Point Miss sub-Alli-
ance has surrendered its charter and
gone out of business. Too much sub
treasury foolishness in the Alliance for
it. Many other suo-Alliances in Mis-
sissippi are said to be getting ready to
follow the lead ofsthe West Point body.
Ii the opponents of the sub-treasury'
idea, at their St. Louis convention, had
had the courage of their convictions TO
the extent Of starting up a non-political
Alliance, it is very likely that those
bodies that ere withdrawing from the
AIacune Alliance would at once have
gone into the new organization.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
a Question Answered.

NleDufne tnfOnlcLe-
Can a newspaper man tell farmer how
to farm2- Mansfield Mail.
If he is competent he is not generally
found steering the average country news
paper. He must be thoroughly versed in
the science of farming. and it takes city
paper, which can afford to pay a good
salary, to command his services. The editor
in charge of the agricultural department of
the Fort Worth GAZETTE is competent to
tell him how to farm, and no doubt many of
them read his articles with much interest
and profit. II takes very sensible and
leyel-headed man to make farming pay. A
very large per cent Of editors presume TO
tell farmer how to farm" cannot profit
ably run a newspaper.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

scheme will have tendency 10 destroy
confidence in the government and produce
financial panic instead of relief to the
farmers. There is no safe redeemable base
for the government except lawful money.
because the government of the United
States has no power from the constitution
TO speculate, or sell one horse, one acre of
land, one bushel of any kind of produce, one
book of any kind, or anything else except
what is essential in paying the necessary
expenses OF the government.
l assert emphatically that congress would
have no constitutional power TO sell any
amount, small or great, under this proposed
sub-treasury scheme after the purchase
of the produce was made. Now. If any one
denies this, read the tenth amendment 10 the
constitution and then give the section and
article. GEORGE L. MURRAY.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

than he could twenty years ago, We
cannot find what it is.
Neither is it true that what the
farmer buys is 10 to 30 per cent.
cheaper than it was twenty years ago.
There has been a considerable reduc-
ton in the price of cotton and wooden
goods, because cotton and wool are so
much cheaper and the wages paid to
workers in the cotton and wooden mills
are so much smaller. His sugar costs
less because the tariff has been taken
off. though he pays enough to equalize
the price in bounties to the sugar pro-
ducers. His coffee, rice, salt, and
such necessities OF life, cost as much
now as they did in 1871.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
40 CoRREsPoNDENTs.

THE GAZETTE viii not undertake to return
rejected manuscripts. Persons wishing tc pre-
serve their literary productions should retain
copies Of all communications sent this office
for publication.
sEsrAu letters or communications for THE
GAZETTE, whether on business or for plblica-
zion. should be addressed 10 THE GAZETTE or
Democrat Publishing Company, Fort Worth,
Tt1... and not 10 any Individual.
All communications intended .or publication
must be accompanied by the writer's name and
G:.d 1ddrcss-Eot for publication, but as an evi
C"ucc OF good faith. No attention paid to
auOIyuous Communications.
Parties writing 10 TEE c AZETTE on business
personal 10 themselves VIII please enclose
htaMp for reply.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

SECRETARY NOBLE instructs the
land Offices that the word white"
doesn't mean white at all, in restrict
ing the Indian lands to white settle
ment. The agreement of the Indians.
therefore, that their lands should be
thrown open to white settlement is set
aside and counts for nothing. A hot
political contest is now going on in
Ohio and New York. There are good
many negro voters in those states, and
a few voters, one way or the other, may
count for great deal. That is the
reason that white doesn't mean white
at all, or anything else, just now, in
the opinion OF Mr.. Harrisons admins
tratiOn
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

The Houston Post mentions that
Kansas is mortgaged for S235,0O0, 900,
and the assessed valuation Of the real
estate is but s290000,0O (which is
more than so per cent of the total value
Of the property in the state" This
quotation reads as if it was taken from
a calamity shrieker organ. The Post
should distinguish between assessed
valuation and real value. 1t is said
that property is assessed for about one
third its real value in Kansas, which
would make the real estate in that state
worth about $50, 100000. a mortgage
Indebtedness of S235, 100000 On that
much property is bad enough, but in
stead Of 50 per cent it is only about %
nor cent
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
A SUNDAY RECORD
In Kansas City-Two Suicides and Two
Fatal Accidents
Special to the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept 2O.-Two sui
cides and two fatal accidents is the record
here to-day. Thomas j. Steele, aged fifty
five, baker, was sent to the workhouse a
few days ago and to-day cut his throat
from ear to ear with a razor. He died az
most instantly.
Mike McGinnis, aged forty-fve, from
Buffalo, n. y, was found lying in vacant
lot, and lived long enough to say that he
had taken strychnine.
John Roth, young laborer, while intox-
icated, jumped from an 81" road train, frac-
turing his skull and dislocating his neck.
He died within few minutes.
George G. Carpenter of Holden, Mo-, died
at the city hospital from injuries received
by walking out of window while under
the influence of liquor.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
THE GAZETTE MACHINE
How the People Can Save Sa5 ON Firss
Class Sewing Machine.

A sewing machine i. a household uece,-
aty, and when first-class machinss1lQ4'
IN aI respects 10 other machines, Can he
bought for one-half the money. il is III
part Of wisdom and economy to save the
useless expenditure. Ladies' who wish to
buy drst-class high-arm No. 4 sewing ma
chine can see such a machine at The CAz-
HTTE business office. and they can buy such
machine for only s2S if they subscribe to
the weekly, daily or Sunday GAxErrR,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
NOTICE.

ALL SosTHASTERS in the state are authorized
90 take subscriptions 20 TEE GAZETTE.
Liberal. COMMISSIONS ALLoTED-Write for
tsrlns and sample copies.
I.EvTT~ANCE s-By draft, check, postorice
money order or registered letter can be sent at
our risk. All other character Of Temittances
a. sender'S risk.
Silver can be sent IN registered letter.
All checks. money orders. etc. must be made
payable 10 THE GAZETTE, Fort Worth, Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
Taylor Fire Department.
Special to the Gazette.

TAYLOR, WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEX, Sept
20.-F. W. Adams hose company No 3 has
just received new Nelson cart, six-foot
wheel in diameter. 1t is a beauty and has
all recent improvements. The company
has forty-fve men, most of them being rail
road men, and buying this gives Taylor four
hose carts and one hook and ladder conf
pany with apparatus. We claim that 70
city of the size of Taylor has as good fire
department.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
GOOD FOR ARCHER.
The County Shows an Increase of Very
Nearly One Million Dollars in
One Year.
ARCHER CITY. TEX, Sept. II. 1891.

aRChER CIII, TEX, StpL. II, Io5l
To the Editor OF the Gazette.
In THE GAZETTE of September II there
appears under Capital Cuttings an article
that is calculated to show Archer county
in i bad light. 1t shows that the tax rolls
of Archer county show decrease of 1922,
$50, when really it ought to show an in
crease of $3.50. 247, an increase over last
year of more than 50 per cent.
J. D. POWELL.
Tax Collector OF Archer County
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
FISH STORY.
But This One Has tho Merit of Being
True.

True.
Cores ondence of the Gazette.
SULPHUR STATION, BOWIE COUNTY, TEX,
Sept lS.-Sulphur river and its tributaries
probably contain more fish than any other
body of water in Texas. 1t is literally alive
with an inexhaustible supply of bass, white
perch, buffalo, etc, the surface of the water
presenting continuous state of animation.
About half mile west of this place is a
slough of considerable dimensions connect
ing with Sulphur river. This slough was
to-day discovered to be entirely white with
millions and millions of dead fish of the
finest description, the wholesale destruc-
tory of which is as yet mere conjecture.
Along shore where the water has receded
the fish are piled foot high and the stencil
emitted from that locality tonight is horri-
BILE.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

Advertisements for publication in the Sunday
edition OF THE GAZETTE should be handed IN
before o'clock Saturday evening Advertisers
viii consult their own interest. as well as our
convenience, by needing this suggestion, as we
cannot guarantee the insertion OF advertise
r1eltS received after that hour.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
Navarro County Finances.
Special to the Gazette.

CoRs1cANA, NAVARRO COUNTY. TEX,
Sept. 2O.-For the six months ended August
this county has received the following:
From taxes collected, SIS, 65365; fines ana
forfeitures. sl1T.05; jury fees. 1888: estrax.
sales, 1889; poor farm, sl5G305. The a.
ance from last year due the county was
$500 l3, and this year sl5j6 "a, making the
total in the county treasury now s2O62 81.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

lSth, and up to the present, we have
been engaged very largely in hopping
the perspiration from our brows. We
don't want frosts, but we will take
norther now and then, if you please,
MIR Foster
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
Fell Under an Electric Car

Special to the Gazette
DALLAS. TEX, Sept. 20.-At 1890 O'Clock
tonight, Robert Thorneton, negro boy
about fifteen years Of age, was run over by
Main street electric motor, thereby crush
ing his left leg so that amp1tation is neces-
sary. The boy was jumping ON and off the
car when the accident happened. His par
ents reside in jefferson.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

The only trayCHrg persons male or female,
al present authorized 10 receive and receipt Tor
subscriptions 10 TIE q hZETTE are:
{. r. Hogan. John p. AicDud,
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Mrs. c. b. BaUEh. W. T Register,
!. Calhoun. o. ". Ellington,
Miss Annie Shapard, Mrs. NJ J. Roberts.
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The public are cautioned not 10 pay money
10 any other persons representing them
selves as travelling AGENTS OF this paper, "a all
authority heretofore issued 20 any other person
than those named Is hereby revoked
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY.
June !. 1871.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
San Antouio VS.. Waxahaehie.
Special to the Gazette.

SptVIaI 10 tne UdZette.
SAN ANTONIO, Ten, Sept 2O.-In the
ball game between the San Antonio and
Waxahachie teams to-day the score stood )
to in favor of the visitors. In the last
half of the ninth the San Antonios refused
to play, owing to a squabble, and the game
was awarded to the Waxahachies by a
score OF to 0. Each team has now won.
one game. The tie game will be played OK
tomorrow
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
Wreck on tho Frisco.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
PARIS, LAMAR COUNTY, TEX. Sept. 90
The south-bound Frisco due here at SIS
last night did not arrive till this morning,
the delay being caused by cave in the
Winslow tunnel in the Boston mountains ir1
Arkansas, beyond Fort Smith. No partic-
ulars could be learned, except that several
persons were hurt, but none seriously.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
POSTAGE.

Entered at the Postofice in Fort Worth, Tex,
as Second-Class Matter.
For the benefit OF our Patrons who desire 70
scnd single copies OF TEE GAZETTE through
the mail. we give herewith the transient rate CT
postage:
Foreign and Domestic. Per Copy.
Eight aud Twelve page paper.............:l cent
Sixteen and twenty page paper. cents
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21
John A. Lewis Still Missing.

WACO, TEX, Sept. 20.-The disappearance
of John A. Lewis from his home near
Battle, McLennan county, fifteen miles
southeast of Waco, continues to agitate theN
region. A thorough search has been made
and the expected remains have not been
discovered
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-21

To ''MAKE a waterhaul" is generally
regarded as an euphemism for max
ing a failure, but Gen. Dyrenforth is
best pleased when he makes water