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The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-23
SALADo TEX, Jan. 2, 1891.
Democrat Publishing Company, Fort Worth,

DEAR SIRs-The Webster's Unabridged Die
tioIary came duly to hand and l am highly
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the Weekly GAZETTE one year. II really seems
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yours, j. H. BARBER
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Tex.
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Wishing THE GAzETTE abundant success am
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MERIDIAN. TEX. Feb. 8. 1921.
Democrat Publishing Company, Fort Worth,

DEAR SIRs-The premium dictionary re-
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j. w. RUDASILL, Cashier.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb.

KANSAS CITY Mo, Feb 9, 1891
Democrat Publishing Company, Fort Worth,
Tex.
CENTLENEN-Of the Webster's dictionary you
forwarded US Us q premium for our subscription
10 the Fort Worth GAZETTE would say We are
the price at which you furnish it, that it is
the chea pest valuable work we possess. Yours
truly, AMERICAN SUPPLY COMPANY.
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The Fort Worth Gazette Fort Worth, Tex:
DEAR SIRS-As 10 the merits and value of
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cheap at the price. Yours truly, H. WALDO.
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KoPPERL, TEX, Jan. 81, 1891.
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Tex:
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70 your paper, am respectfully,
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FORT WORTH TEX Feb : 1899

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am well pleased with the dictionary, and
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REAGAN, TEX, Feb. 3 1891.

REAGAN, TEX, Feb. 3, 1891.
To the Democrat Publishing Company, Fort
Worth, Tex.
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KoPPERI. TEX, Feb. 2, 1891.
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Democrat Publishing Company, Fort Worth
Tex
GENTLEMEN-Your premium dictionary is a
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BIG SPRINGS. TEX Feb. g. 1891.

Editor Gazette, Fort Worth. Tex
The Websters dictionary sent me find it to
be very complete as the best book for the money
by long odds, yet placed on the market 1 paid
sl3 for one several years ago that with the ex-
ception OF binding, is no more complete. Yours
truly, F. o. VAUGHAN.
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AGNES, PARKER COUNTY, TEX, Feb. 3, 1891.
To the Fort Worth Gazette:
5ENTHEMEN-Haye received the dictionary
and am well pleased with it. Think it "a good
investment for anyone wanting good diction-
AIRY and paper. Very respectfully.
w WERR Postmaster.
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GAINESVILLE, TEX, Jan. 30, 1891.
Fort Worth, Gazette.
DEAR SIR received The WebSter's diction-
airy. 1t was very nice, and like THE GAZETTE
also. T. J. HALL
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To the Gazette

The unabridged Dictionary received from
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LAyrAsAs. TEx.. Feb. S. ISL.

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GENTS The dictionary sent 70 me rs prem.
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able TO examine IT, All yours truly. e'c
j. Z. CRlsWFII.
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FORT WORTH, TEX, Feb. 3. 1891.
The Democrat Publishing Company, Fort


SIRs-I received the Webster's unabridged
dictionary as j premium with THE GAZETTE
AS a book OF reference and instruction it is in
subscription TO the Weekly GAZETTE, is but
nominal when taking into consideration its size
and value Yours etc. r. F. KINsEY.
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CLIFTON, TEX, Feb. 9. 1891
To the Democrat Publishing Co, Fort Worth.

received Webster's dictionary and am well
pleased whit 1t is the book that | ought to
have had long ago. Everybody | think ought
to have one. THE GAZETTE is the paper every
body ought to have. AS ever. ). BALoR.
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ATLANTA, TEX, Jan. 81. 1891.

The Democrat Publishing Company, Fort
Worth, Tex.
GENTs-I think tbs dictionary or THE GA
zETTE either is well worth the money given for
both, Very Respectfully, ]. D. JOHNSON,
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must run the long way of the slip while
that of the pine must run across.

According TO maps made out by the
United States department of the interior
the region Of heaviest annual rainfall in
Texas lies along the eastern border. extend
ing west to about the line of the black
waXv prairies. It is set down at forty-four
inches The black waxy prairies proper
are put down at from forty TO forty-four
inches. That portion of the grand prairie
in which Fort Worth is located is marked ut
forty inches, but few miles west, say
where the Texas and Pacific railway crosses
the Brazos river, there is change TO thirty
six inches. -.
This area of thirty-siX inches has a very
peculiar run across the state. II starts at
Brownsville on the Rio Grande, runs al
most due north to opposite Corpus Christi
then bears eastward to the Nueces river.
From this point il turns westward, taking
IL San Antonio and extending fifty or sixty
miles above. Here it turns abruptly to the
southeast, leaving Austin about twenty
miles TO northward, and striking the Colo
RADIO river in Wharton county. From this
point it courses around to a little north of
east until breaches the Brazos river, where
it makes an abrupt turn to northward, fol-
lowing the course of the river TO point
west of Fort Worth. where it bends off
gently towards the east, going out OF the
state over the counties of Wichita and
Clay The average width of this area may
be put at twenty-five or thirty miles. Be
yond this area the annual rainfall gradually
decreases as we go westward.
II IS rather interesting to trace this area
OF thrty-six inch rainfall above Texas.
Maintaining about the same average width
as already mentioned it bears slightly east
ward after crossing Red river, where it
makes an abrupt turn to the north, continu-
ing on due north course to Leavenworth,
Kan. Here it turns off due east TO the
Mississippi river, striking that stream at
the mouth of the Illinois river From this
point it elbows off to the northwest, con
tinuing on this course until it has reached
the Minnesota line. AT the Minnesota line
il turns TO the southwest, taking in Chicago
Here il bears northward across Lake Michi-
gan to Grand Haven, thence southwark over
Michigan to Ann Arbor, thence southeast
to Toledo, Ohio, thence northward to
Toronto, Canada, thence southwark to
little below Albany, n. Y, thence due
north to Ogdensburg on the St. Lawrence,
thence east to Lake Champlain, where it
ends, giving place TO an aof forty inches
annual rainfall. This narrow and singu-
Iary running strip is the only area of
thirty-six inches annual rainfall in all |
North America.
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CANYON ClIy, TEX. Fed. 2. ItyI
Democratic Publishing Company, Fort Worth,
Tex.
SIRs-I received the dictionary, and think il
the greatest book for the money that i made.
j. Ii PATTON.
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WACO. TEX. Feb. l. 1891.


GENTLEMEN-Your premium Webster's die
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asked for the paper. Yours truly,
JOSEPH B. COZZO.
Permanent address, Box 1923, Weatherford, Tex.
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WHAkTHEY SAY.
PINE MILLS, TEX. Feb. 9, 1891.

Gazette, Fort Worth, Tex.
s&our premium Wehster's dictionary to hand,
4ho after careful examination OF material and
dnlsh, believe II equal in value to any edition l
nave seen To say am highly pleased fails TO
express my pleasure. Yours truly,
! II KNIGHT
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WHAT THEY SAY.
THoRP SPRINGS. TEX. FEB "A, Isl.

IHORP SPRINGS. TEX. FEB H. lSoI
received your Webster's Unabridged die.
IoH,IrN Ie'' Gays ago and have examined =,
ana must say IN highly pleased with it.
Wonia not take twice the money 2, cos. me su-
~ II l could not get another Hlcu SUCCESS %
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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26
POSTAL SUBSIDY.
The New Law to BE i'm Opera
tiOn by September |,
And a Great Commercial Boom
is Sure to Follow.

The Decision of the Postmaster General
AS to the Policy He viii Follow Ex,
pected within Few Days-A Surprise
Undoubtedly in store for Congress
When 1t Meets in December.
', AsHINGToN. May 26 The postmas
ter general in the course of few days
will, it is expected. announce his decision
relative to the policy which will be pur.
sued as to giving of contracts to steam
ship companies under the new postal aid
act. Mr.. Blount of Georgia member
of the house committee on postoffices,
and one of the most vigorous opponents
of this bill at the time it was under con,
sideration in the house, insisted that the
postmaster general could make as many
contracts as he pleased in his discretion,
and that these contracts would be ad-
Indicated by the court to be binding
upon the government That was one of
the very strongest arguments which he
used in opposition to the passage OF the
bill. 1t is believed that the administra-
ton takes this view. And while no ex.
travagant contracts are likely to be en-
tered into unquestionably efforts will be
made to carry out in the fullest spirit
the intention of this postal subsidy act
The expectation now is that the adver-
tisements will be issued by the LIST of
June, and that the law will be fully in
operation by Sept. /. The friends of the
bill are very confident that by the time
congress shall meet in December, that
body will be surprised at the impetus
which has been given to the commercial
developments Of the country, by means
of the contracts entered into under this
DOstal aid act
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26
Guarded From n Mob.

DECATUR, Ind, May 26.-Saturday
night it waslearned that mob from
Wiltshire, o., would come here to lynch
Lige Holland and Andrew Pickern and
their wives, on account Of their connec-
ton with the abduction and murder of
Daisy Reynolds. The sheriff was mott
fed and ordered the state militia to the
Jail. Hearing this the would-be lynch
ers decided not to put in an appearance,
George Updegraph, the alleged seducer
of Miss Reynolds, who was arrested at
Delphos Saturday, was not jailed in his
own county, but was taken to Lima, o.,
and incarcrated there in order to
remove him from the reach of the mob.
The final trial of the prisoners will not
occur until August, and fears exist here
that the Wiltshire community may ac-
complish the lynching within that time
when the Jail is not well guarded.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26

Japanese had run up and seized the would
be murderer and were holding him power
less in their grasp, Prince George hit the
man on the head with a stick, nearly stun
ming him.
81 Morris, proprietor of the People S
theater, Columbus, o., stood off with a
revolver for three hours the police who
tried to arrest him for Sunday-brealling
but he reached the lookup at last.
1t is said that on last Wednesday the
fugitive Chilian insurgent vessel Itata was
seen off the coast of Central America.
Nothing has been heard from the Charles
ton since she left Acapulco several days
ago.
Miss Bertha Flenner, of St. Catharines,
Ont, who was to be married at Buffalo to
j. Perry Bowen an alleged wealthy Eng
lishman, is minus husband, Bowen hav-
ing deserted her ON the night before the
wedding.
Translations of the pope's encyclical will
be distributed among workingmen of all
countries. The document is regarded as
an Endorsement of the views of Cardinals
Manning and Gibbons as contrasted with
those of Bishop Freppel.
ny bht unanimous IullhE vi liE lull
bench of the superior court of Indianapo-
lis, all the suits against Silas L. Brown,
growing out of the falling of his building,
in which thirteen fremen lost their lives,
were thrown out of court.
Lote Sprinkles and William johnson,
neighbOrs, living near Petersburg, Ind,
went to town and got drunk On the way
home they quarrcled and drawing revolvers
fought a duel Johnson was instantly
killed and Sprinkles died in few minutes.
Miss Julia McMichael, of Denver, dis
covered that she was afflicted with eczema,
broke off "a wedding engagement, and
then, despairing of being cured, ran away
to Chicago and hired as domestic, in
the hope of escaping from her friends and
family.
The man who robbed Michie Brothers
jewelry store, Cincinnati, May /, 1880, of
5000 of jewelry, has been identified us
Clarence Prentice Tiller, now serving time
In the Michigan penitentiary, who was
sent there from Detroit i'll July, 1890, for
raising n check
The Chilian government vessels bonn
barded nsurgent headquarters at the port
Of lquique, and the rebel fleet hid behind
foreign merchantmen. Government troops
landed and captured some officers. The
insurgents are panic-stricken, and some Of
their sympathizers fear exposure through
captured kilograms.
1t is reported from Chicago that Baron
Rudolph Kalnoky, nephew of Count kal-
noky, of Austria, quarreled with young
southerner about Miss Atherton, OF the
opera company They fought duel At
Jackson park in which the baron was
wounded. The southerner escaped with
out being identified
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26
TheY,re Well Posted.
FOREIGN BORN AMERICANS.
Over $4,000, 900 Have Come Since the

over Io,OoO,OOO have Come since the
Revolutionary War.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-Maj. Brock,
chief of the bureau of statistics, is pre-
pairing an elaborate review of immigra.
tion since the foundation of the govern.
ment In 1920 the government com
menced to make record of the foreign
ers arriving in the country. Since that
time $4,000, 900 immigrants have come
in. Maj. Brock WILL in his pamphlet,
show the exact number of the different
nationalities, also their ages, sex and oc-
cupations.
Previous to 1920 and after the revolu-
tion it is estimated that 2,500,000 immi-
grants came to this country. During
the past decade it is noticed that the i'm
migration from France and China has
fallen off considerably. In 1880 73,OD0
Frenchmen arrived at our ports, while
in 1890 this number decreased to 51,01U.
Between the years 1871 and 1880 122, 600
Cinnamon came to the United Slate8.
During the ten years following 1880
China sent us only 80, GOO of her subjects.
OF this number 81 900 came over during
the years 1881 and 'S2. The passage OF
the Chinese exclusion act has not entire
ly shut out the Cinnamon. as nearly
5000 celestials have entered the United
States since then.
Maj. Brock expects to have his sta
tistics upon this interesting subject
ready for the printer within ten days.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26
CONTRACT LABORERs.
Many of Them stepping In-Remedics
Suggested.


NEW YORK, May 25.-The Herald
says:
Every steamer coming in from Eu-
ropean port is boarded at quarantine by
one or more inspectors, accompanied by
an interpreter, according to the national
ity of the passengers on board. Efforts
are then made while the vessel is pro-
ceeding to her pier TO discover if any
contract laborers are ON board.
This is the only real detective work
done by this bureau, and these, in brief,
are the methods employed by the in
spectors to detect the violators of the
contract law. 1t allows year in which
to convict contract laborer and send
him back, and upon this time the travel
ing inspectors bank their hopes.
1t is certain that the plan does not ac-
complish the desired result. Cases are
constantly cropping up where contract
laborers have slipped into the country,
gone TO work, and afterward, becoming
dissatisfied with their employers, have
asked the barge Office authorities to re-
dress their grievances.
A case in point is that Of the German
girl who came here in March under con-
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26
KILLED While Stealing a Ride.

WATsEKA. H., May 26.-Three young
men hailing from Hamilton, o., who
were stealing ride on a Chicago and
Eastern Illinois freight Saturday night in
a box car filled with lumber were crushed
while the train was switching at this
place. Their names were Hofmeir, Bis
dorf and Eldridge. Hofmeir was killed,
Bisdorf is dying and it is doubted
whether Eldridge can survive.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26
How IL Occurred.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, May 26.-Con
gresham L. p, Houk died Monday
morning from a dose of arsenic taken
accidentally Sunday night He had ap
piled ut a drug store for drink Of
water. The latter was placed in a glass
on the counter alongside of another glass
containing a solution of arsenic. The
error was discovered, but emetics and
other means failed to relieve his stomach
OF the deadly drug and he died.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26
81. Paul,s Big Arcade scheme.

ST. PAUL, May &C. "A gigantic scheme
is on foot in this city in the building line.
Architect C. A. Reed is perfecting the
plans for an immense arcade building
extending three squares, from Robert to
Wabasha streets, TO be erected by syn
dicate of capitalists at cost of between
$2 .OOO, 900 and $1,000, 900. Besides the
arcade feature, which will be ON the sec
ond story and cross two streets by
bridges, % tlree-square row of stores
will face on Sixth street.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26

DENVER, May 26.-While John Ken
nedy and his father were 1idding along
the country road in Jefferson county
Saturday evening, some unknown mis-.
creant in ambush fired, at the father, BAT
missed the old man and shot the son
dead. A relative with whom the elder
Kennedy had been on bad terms for
some time is looked upon as having
something to do with the crime.