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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
THE MELON RATES.
Special Trains will be Run Cor Shipments
of Ten or More Cars.

| special Trains will be Run Cor Shipments
of Ten or More Cars.
Just now there is considerable interest
manifested in the melon rates, and espec-
| tally as there will he 100 carloads of
| melons for shipment from Tarrant county
and another 100 from contiguous points
The rate on melons in straight carloads or
mixed with vegetables, minimum weight
$4,000 pounds, from points on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, except
the Lockhart branch, Trinity
and Sabine, TO St. Louis, ST.
Louis, Hannibal, East Hannibal,
Higbee, Kansas City and Junction City, 10
cents per 100 pounds: to Louisville, Ky, 43
cents; to Chicago and Cincinnati ii cents;
to Memphis 40 cents; to Denver and Colo
RADIO common points taking Denver rate so
cents: to New Orleans IS cents. Stopover
privileges will be allowed not exceeding three
stops, with an additional fee of SIS for each
stop. One man is privileged to ride
with each car, provided he pays full fare,
but he must be the owner or the authorized
agent of the owner.
The same rates apply via the Santa Fe.
with the addition of several Kansas points
Immediately on the line Of the Santa Fe.
The Denver has the rate OF 80 cents to
Colorado points, and is already fur
nishing cars for upwards of 100 car
loads from points on the Missouri,
Kansas anu IekaS ana otner points south.
To this is added the local which from Hills
boro makes the rate about 60 cents. All roads
lAyill, when shipments of melons are made in
lots of ten carloads or more. run them
through special. making the same fast run
on them as OF stock. and also quote some
what lower rate. 1t would be well, if ship
pers desire more speedy service than is
offered by the through freight train. for
them 10 combine and thus haze cars
enough for special train.
- claim that the service to Chicago is
-f6t fast enough 20 accommodate Texas ship
pers and enable them TO compete with Lou
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
The Santa Fe Won't AnnuL

SpeclaI 70 the GaZette.
CHICAGO, ILL, June 20.-A movement is
on foot to call a meeting of the managers
of the Western roads to settle all passenger
rate complications. The commissioners of
the Western traffic association rendered
some decisions yesterday, the most import
ant of which was one ordering the Santa
F'e to cancel the tariff in connection with
the Mallory steamship line from the At
lantic coast via Galveston to Kansas points.
Vice-President Springer of the Santa Fe
will not say whether his road would obey
that it will not, as like the exclusive tariffs
which the commissioners ordered the Union
Pacifi G to annul, it is too valuable to give
up1
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

isiana melon growers, is accounted for by
the fact that the Illinois Central for hun
dreds of miles passes through an excep-
tionally fine fruit country, from the time it
leaves Ceutralia, H., until it reaches
New Orleans, and the product of this
country is so great that the Illinois Central
has for years made speciality OF fast fruit
trains.
Under the ruling of the state commission
these rates must remain unchanged until
the commission decides change is neces-
sary, and then the legal ten days notice
must be given, IS in the case of the Inter-
state commerce law.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

Cheap Excursion Rates to All Points on the Cotton
Belt Route. .~ssuI
Large numbers of people ara01t Goy Con-
templating taking adXan1ee 81 the Cotton
Belt Routes 0au1Iena6ly cheap rates for
the Ea1an d July. This line will sell
suennd trip tickets between all local stations
for distance Of 200 miles either way, al
one fare for the round trip; tickets on sale
July and 4, good returning July 5, Apply
to any agent of the company.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
Rebuilding the Denver.

Yesterday the graders began work on the
Fort Worth and Denver grade at Chilli
cothe. There are several miles Of road in
this section that require new fills, and the
result is an entirely new line has been To-
Gated alongside the old track, and Simp-
son g. Dillon yesterday started twenty
teams on the work It is not known yet
just how soon the new roadbed and track
will be ready for traffic
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

= New YORK, june 19.-Jimmie W2kel1
was to have met in conference with MeAkH.
SlaEin and Mitchell at the ST. James hotkt
at 10 o'clock to make arrangements for the
proposed great meeting between his princi-
pal, John L. Sullivan, and the great Aus
tralian, Slavin- Although Slavin and his
friends were ct the hotel on time and
awaited the arrival Of Wakeiy until nearly
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

midnight, the latter did not put in his ap-
pearance at all. Inquiry after Mr.. Wakely
at his cafe elected the information that the
celebrity had gone over to Brooklyn early
in the evening to see Charley johnson aud
had not yet returned. Slavin will sail for
England on the Aurania unless before that
time arrangements are made for a meeting
In that event he will stay over.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
General Passeng
Get One Free.

The Fort Worth and Denver City in con-
nection with the Union Pacific rSiInn1 Is
first in the field with lO0fste Illus
trated Western look, free for those
conteQpiA1e Summer trip. Call at city
z11l1ee, HI Main street, and secure CYCLIC
pedia Of information regarding the numer-
Gus and cheap summer resortS reached by
the Union Pacific railway.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
4 WESTERN GIRL IN NEW Yoak

She Has Had n singularly Adveatareus
and suecessful Career.
One of the most remarkable young WON
en- of the time is Cynthia NJ Westover
secretary of Street Commissioner Beattis,
of New York city. In variety Of accom-
plishments there is scarcely her equal any,
where among women. Her father was a
geologist and expert miner, and the child
learned to ride almost before she could
walk. She rode with her father all through
the western mountain and mining regions
from Mexico to the Canada line in his pros
pecting journeys. During these years the
child became an expert shot and horse
woman, and learned the Spanish language
besides
Once, when little girl, she shot dead an
Indian who had his tomahawk uplifted
over the head OF a white woman. Again,
when her fathers camp was surrounded
by hostile Indians, she galloped out upon
her pony and brought relief The redskiHs
saw her, but they were used to meeting the
child riding about after the cows and did
not disturb her. She had played many a
time with the little Indian children and
thus won the good viii of the older ones.
These years were the making Of Cynthia
MISSIONER. They gave her health, practical
knowledge and splendid Independence and
self reliance. She was go much at home
with the shy wild creatures of the wood
that she learned their calls, and they came
to her like domestic birds and animals.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
Huntington Buys a Road
Special to the Gazette.

New YORK, June cot is announced
that negotiations between Coils P. Hunt
ington, representing the Texas Central
railroad, and the owners of the Austin and
Northwestern has resulted in the purchase
of the latter by the former.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
Will Join Palestine.

SpcclttI 70 tne baztttt
palestine, ANDERSON COUNTY, Tex,
June 20-The citizens committee who
visited Rusk and New Birmingham on the
18th returned to-day with the gratifying
information that the board of directors al
those towns will join Palestine in building
a road soon
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

Seven YeAFA for killing His Son.
1t ia the popular opinion that the skull
Of negro is thick enough to withstand
violent treatment John Harris shared in
this view Of the matter, and a. . result has
gone to prison for seven years He was the
solored janitor Of a fat building in New
York he and his son quarreied in the
basement Of the fats, and Harris struck
his con upon the head with . bit of board
not moro than two feet long The autopsy
showed that young Harris skull was alb.
normally thin, consequently the fathers
blow, which would have done NO serious
injury to a person with normal skull,
crushed young Harris skull
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
Mexican Freight Rate War.

New YORK, June 20.-The freight rate
war to Mexican points still RACES, and the
general Generalization of rates prevails to
points beyond the Rio Grande.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

WEATHERFORD, MINERAL WELLS AND
NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY.
The trains OF this line make direct connection
with the Texas and Pacific railway trains Nos.
:. 4. and 10 at Weatherford. leaving Fort Worth
via Texas and Pacific railway and arriving at
Mineral Wells as follows:
Arrive Leave.
1920 a. N. Fort Worth Ct & P. Ry.). e:05 i. N.
sos y. Fo-t Worth IT. g. p. Ry.). Ass p. IN.
l2:22p m...... Mineral Wells $3.50. 7:20 a. m
7:S. .. ...... Mineral Wells 49,. 500 p. III.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
TABLE OF DISTANCES

The following table shows the distances from
Fort Worth Of some OF the important points IN
IS well as outside Of Texas:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
A HEATED QUESTION.

Where Shall We Go For Health and Pleas.
Ure7
Nowhere on the g,paA Qlefe 70 be
found 2 1lall Ultimate. scenery and
-s-rMeap resorts to equal that tributary to the
Union Pacific Route.
Ticket Office toi Main street and Union
depot
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
CN\NANGA,.->

She had a strange power over them, and
and squirrels upon her shoulders. Besides
that she could lasso steer with the best
of them When at length she went to
graduate at the state university of Colo
RADIO she paid for her last years tuition
with the price Of her own small herd of
cattle, which the gallant cowboys mostly
took care of for her
The girl mostly fitted herself for college
After graduating at the normal depart
ment Of Colorado university she took a full
course in a commercial college. In Denver
she taught school while, taking charge Of
the truant and bad boys of the streets
Her great force and magnetic power, as
well as her wonderful executive ability,
showed itself In the way in which she
Strengthened out the crooked sticks among
the rude children she dealt with. The little
girl who had brought the birds and ami
mails to her side at her call, controlled with
out effort the almost equally Unframed chill
dren Of Denver streets.
The same magnetic power, coupled n6zH
with striking practical executive ability, is
manifest in the street commissioner office
in New York. Fifteen hundred Italian
laborers are employed in this department..
Cynthia Westover can talk to them in
their own language and .'boss" them as
few men have been able successfully to do.
During an illness Of Commissioner Beattie
lasting several weeks she managed entirely
the affairs of the whole street cleaning de-
partment of New York.
Miss Westover obtained her appointment
in the beginning simply because she passed
the best examination of any applicant for
the place. New York state is under a
civil service law. When this girl got the
place many were the disguised faces among
the "boys," who thought an Office with
salary of 81, 500 quite wasted on woman.
Once in Office, the young lady found there
were several things she did not know. She
was ignorant of some of the technical
terms used in the Office, for one thing. I'm
mediately she got dictionary and sat up
much Of the night learning these terms, also
learning something else Of which she was
ignorant. That was how to calculate the
amount Of dirt street cart and dump
scow would hold. In New York the street
sweepings and garbage are loaded upon
scows and towed, or supposed to be towed,
by tugs out into the Atlantic ocean and
dumped among the wild waves. 1t was a
part of Miss Westover's duties to calculate
how many cubic feet Of this refuse could
be loaded upon cart or scow. She can do
1t now to dot.
She went to live In an Italian family to
learn their language, and had herself fined
a cent for every English word spoken. The
first day it cost her s.. so, but after that it
came easier. Finally, she can sing like n
bird, and has been a member of an opera
company. ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
SUMNER DAYS.

Where Shall We Spend Them7--Haif Rate Excursion
to Minneapolis, Mimi, and Return via the
Cotton Belt Route .-u1n1ll
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

| route has the only through sleeper to Menu
phis, thus making but one shannn %
all the prominspt 4eastern points
They slseS difect connections in depots
ba10oAnetting lines and save you disagree
| able omnibus ride of two miles, Ticket
Office, 401 Main street.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

Before purchasing your excursion tieke1a,
to your favorite summarzH eiie
agent Of The. 80 route, 4o1 Main
10 Get some valuable information
as to the cheapest and pleasantest way to
make your trip
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

IlOketS VIII Ue SoIdu21 -. Uth and 18th,
good for rafa111 - august 27th, 1891.
- oner Information furnished on ap-
pllcation to any agent of the company or to
W. II. WINFIELD,
General Passenger Agent, TeAarkana, Tex
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN.
Arrive. Leave
?:IOp NJ. Memphis Express. $50 u. M
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
FORT WORTH AND DENVER
GULF, COLORADO AND SANTA FE.

FORT WORTH AND RIO GRANDE.
arrive. Leave.
1870 Fort Worth ..... 300 p. m.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

Sa1t11 81 City, Portland and San FRAN
CISCO and all poins .orth and northwest.
Ticket Office 40l Main street and Union
depot.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
Tho Productions Of Bluesson..

A census bulletin recently issued shows
that during 1889 5,126, $40 cubic feet o.
bluestone were quarried in New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which were
the only states producing this peculiar va
riety Of stone, the value Of which was
81, 6s9,606. The expenditures aggregated
500, $50, Of which s527, 6s4 was the wages OF
the 1,79s persons to whom the industry
gave employHlopt.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

Texas and Pacific trains Nos. band 6only stop
II Texsrlsana, II. C. Junction, Atlanta, Jeher-
son. Marshall, Longyiew Junction, Big SANDY,
M.neola, wills Point, Terrell East Dallas,
Dallas and Fort Worth
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

This Is the Best Route. usri
The Fort Worth and DenHnuunues rail-
way, in connection -Hi1hDl NON Pacific. is
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

ArrlVG Leave.
MO a, mail - $40 p. m
No. As. accommodation. 9:l5 q m
500 a m......No. IS, mail. .......
ECO p. m. No. AZ, accommodation.
AL the above trains from the Union Depot.
c. D. LusK, Ticket Agent
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
GULF. COLORADO AND SANTA ee.
FOR. WORTH AND DENVER CITY.
FORT WORTH AND RIO eRaNpE

Miles, Miles
Granbury.,........ 10 Dublin. ........... 90
Stephenville...... 70 Comanche ...--.... liz
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
MASS-MEETINGS

Arrangements have been made for
holding grand Alliance mass-meetings
in North Carolina at the following
times AM places:
Kings Mountain, Wednesday, July
goth.
Maxton, Thursday, August 9th.
Rocky Mount, Saturday, August 8th.
Charlotte, Wednesday, August goth.
Brethren in these parts of the State
shouldseeto it that these appointments
are thoroughly advertised, and that
every voter possible be induced to at
tend. President Polk will be at each
of these appointments, and Jere Simp-
son, of Kansas, has promised to be at
Kings Mountain, Col. - Talbot, of
South Carolina, at Maxton, and Hon.
S. B. Alexander at Rocky Mount. Re
member the place and the day and
keep your neighbors reminded. Let
everybody attend.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
NORTH DAKoTA'S STATE CON.
VENTION.

A State Convention of the North Da-
kota Farmers Alliance was held at
Grand Forks on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of last week. New officers
and delegates to the next National
Convention were elected, the constitu-
ton and bylaws were revised, and
resolutions were adopted declaring for
Prohibition, the Ocala platform, gov
eminent control or ownership of main
lines of railroads, uniform textbooks,
free coinage and the taxation of options.
While a meeting of the enemies of
the Alliance is being held in Texas to
disrupt the order, the politicians held
another at the other end of the line in
New York State. This latter was
called as a farmers meeting, but de-
velopments showed that it was q trick
by the two political parties to catch
the farmers. Not an Allianceman was
present. Of course they denounced
the Sub-Treasury plan. That was the
object of the meeting.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
NINTH ANNUAL FRUIT FAIR.

The North Carolina horticultural
Society will hold its ninth annual fruit
fair at Greensboro on Tuesday and
Wednesday, August 4th and 18th. All
fruits for exhibition will go by express
without cost to exhibitor, limited to 60
pounds. All packages intended for ex-
hibition should be addressed to the
estate Horticultural Society, Greens
boro, N. c." with full instructions by
mail to Jas. w. Albright, secretary of
local committee.
DR.. B. F. Dixon will deliver the adj
dress of welcome on Tuesday. This
will be the most attractive fruit ex-
hibit ever held in this country by any
State society. The premium list is
liberal and attractive.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
IN AND AROUND RALEIGH

We had a great big GLORIOUS fourth
of July in Raleigh, but we see by our
exchanges that we didn't have a
monopoly in that line.
Mr.. P. H. Andrews, TRUSTEE. of the
Direct Land Tax Fund, is a busy man.
One days mail last week brought him
90 letters to be read, endorsed and
filed.
The Governor sent F. H. Busbee.
Esq, to Washington, D. O., to look
after that little error of 500, 900 which
should be added to the amount coming
to North Carolina from the special tax
fund. Payments will begin as soon as
this is settled.
Governor Holt has appointed the
following as directors of the N. G. R.R
for the ensuing year: A. Burwell, of
Charlotte; M. A. Angler, of Durham;
Benehan Cameron, of StagsviIle; W.
H. Pace of Raleigh; r. w. Thomas, of
Thomasville; Theo. f. Kluttz, of Sails
bury; John E. Morehead, of Charlotte,
Donald McRae, of Wilmington. Armi-
stead Jones, of Raleigh, was appointed
State Proxy.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Louisiana expects to produce 551,-
$50, 800 pounds Of sugar in 1891.
Four murderers, Leocum, Snide
Wood and Jugiro, were ]electrocuted at
Sing Sing, N. Y, On the 9TH inst.
Elk. Vice-President Hannibal Ham
lin died at Bango, Me-, July 4th. He
died suddenly in a club room while
playing in Pedo.
The large carpet mills of E. R.
Prestly & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa,
we're destroyed by fire on the 9TH inst
Loss about 800, 900.
Three million pounds Of tobacco sold
in DanvilIe, Va, in June. Sales for
nine months to June 3Oth were 80, 616,-
836, an increase of II, 281, ga over same
time last year.
Under the plan promulgated by the
National President, there will be ten
grand Alliance mass-meetings held IN
California and eight in Kansas in the
month of September.
A terrific cyclone struck Baton
Rogue, La, Monday morning, July
9Th, completely demolishing the
steamer Smoky City, two squares Of
the city, the factory and hospital
buildings at the State penitentiary,
and killing about forty people.
The city of Philadelphia, it is said
has ordered a clock. It is to be PLACED
in a tower 351 feet above the street, its
dial is to be % feet in diameter, it
bell will weigh between 20, 900 ard
%, 900 pounds. It's stroke will be dis,
tinctly heard in every part Of the city.
1t is to ring chimes at the quarter
hours.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
SOME POOR ADVICE.

The advice of many political Jour
nails to farmers to let politics alone
and attend strictly to farming is more
a tribute to the Importance of agri-
culture thanit is to it's representatives.
There is little danger that a majority
of good farmers will allow their farm
ing interests to suffer through devotion
to politics. But for many years poll
tics have suffered because farmers
have not given them due attention,
and farmers find that, while they have
left politics exclusively to the poll
ticians, their interests suffer with those
Of the entire community. 1t is the
interest of everybody as well as of
farmers that those who In two-thirds
the States have a majority of the
votes and pay the bulk of take should
exercise the influence which rightfully
belongs to them in the affairs of State
and general governments.
The farmer must putin all his time
working if he wants to be popular with
a certain class of people. You must
not read and educate yourself as to
the duties of citizenship. If you do
you will go into politics and ruin the
country. No matter how much of the
earth's products he raises he will be
termed indolent if he don't work every
moment. Our farmers have raised
grain and cotton until the market is
nearly always glutted. Yet if he
complains of any imposition that old
chestnut, "overproduction," will be
fired at him from some ambush while
from another quarter will come the
cry Of laziness.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14

vidual, party or organization al pre-
vent our standing by these measures.
If your party can't incorporate them
in its platform, it can refuse. This
paper is not a party organ. 1t will not
go out of its way to endorse or condemn
the third or any other party. If your
party gets low enough, the Alliance
may step over it. If it does right and
holds up its head, due consideration
will be given. If your party insists on
getting in the way with whole cords of
old rubbish and dead issues hanging to
it, you need not be surprised if it gets
knocked into a cooked hat. Most of
our people mean business; they will
not be side tracked. They want some
thing new. They are going to have it,
The rickety old stage coach covered
with moss and campaign lies, is not
satisfactory. These party vehicles
must be remodeled and made of better
material, or else they must be freshly
painted. Unless this is done, the
farmers r going to stay at home.
That will be staying in politics" in
stead of "going into politics."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
INSUFFICIENT LAWS.

The following article from the
Grange Advocate contains a volume of
good sense:
eff existing laws are insufficient to
control combinations of capital which
are used so as to Cypress the people,
new laws should be made. If these
combinations feed each on the Consti-
buttons of the States or the National
Constitution, then these constitutions
should be changed or men selected as
judges who will construe them in the
interests of the people for whom they
were formed. To say that the people
have no rights under the Constitution,
but the right of being robbed, is In
direct opposition to the spirit and in
tent of the Constitution itself.