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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26
Recorded Transfers.

". A. Hunter ct Tx. to L. H.
Hunter, 81 acres off northeast
part of survey No. 2, thirteen
miles southwest of city. 4
James Ryan to j. NJ. Robbins, lot
{. block a, James Ryan's sub
division of block 15S, Sam
Evans addition. Observation-Disclosures. !
Gavin Walker to J. F. Fenelon,
lot 3, block 10, Stanley Heights.
E. E. Fosdick to Martin Casey
and C. j. Swasey, lot No. 9,
block 80, lots 10 and 20, block 81
and lots - and 10, block 16, cot
ton mill addition Observation-Disclosures.
J. w. Cameron ct ux. to J. y.
Cory, part of block 4, town Of
ALE. Observation-Disclosures.
j. A. Steward ct ux. to j. W.
Cameron, part of block 4, in
town of ALE.
c. Barbuzza ct ux. to A. +. Starr,
lot 3, block so, fuckers addition /
G. H. Silliman to c. Won Carlo
witt, 100x100 feet on Peach
street, in Evans addition. ....
William Capps ct ux. to j. A. T.
Evans, 100x100 feet in block .,
Moore, Thornton & Co.'S addi-
tIon.. .
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THE GAZETTE VIII not undertake to return
rejected manuscripts. Persons wishing 10 pre-
serve their literary productions should retain
copies of all communications sent this office
Tor publication.
Csr-An letters or communications for TIE
GAZETTE. whether on business or for public2
zion. should be addressed TO THE GAZETTE. or
Democrat Publishing Company, Fort Worth,
Tex. and not 70 any Individual
Al! communications Intended for publication
must De accompanied by :hc writer's name and
Ind 4ddreSs-nOt for publication, but as an evil
fierce OF good faith. No attention paid to
luOAymoU- communications.
Parties writing 10 THE GAZETTE on business
personal 10 themselves VIII please enclose
IfaulD for reply.
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PAID INTEREST.
Texas Railroads Pay Up Interest on Pas
senger Earnings for the First Quar-
ter of '91---Chartered.
Special to the Gazette,

Speclal 10 tHe IaZelte.
AUSTIN, TEX, April 25.-Railroads in the
state have paid tax on gross passenger
earnings for the quarter ending March
81 as follows. The tax is l per
cent Of the gross passenger earn
ings: Missouri, Kansas and Texas, 1914
Gainesville, Henrietta and Western, $50 SO
Dallas and Wichita, s34Os; Dallas and
Greenville, $40. ~; East Line and Red River,
S17.35; Taylor. Bastrop and Houston. SO SO
Dallas and Waco, S32 92 Trinity and Sabine,
$51.40; Sherman, Denison and Dallas, So go
Austin and Northwestern, s5S.2S; Sabine
and East Texas, 10l.12; Texas Transporta-
ton company, .05; Texas Trunk, Sl66S;
Rio Grande and Eagle Pass, sos; Rio
Grande railway, AIS; c., W., T and P.
railway, $65.3S; n. Y, I. and NJ, $40 IS {;
Louisiana Western, .16; Gonzales branch,
1896; Texas and New Orleans railway
Sl025S; Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio, S739.Sl; Texas and Pacific, S.
269 80.
Chartered-The Leon Smith manufacture
ing company of Houston, capital. 800, 900.
The Young Mems building and loan asso-
citation Of Lampasas amended its charter,
changing the name to Central Texas town
company, and increasing its capital IRON
500, 600 to 5000 ..skSF
Subscribe sss ~ 5ssnrrr.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26

City Engineer Kerr says that building
permits must be taken out if he can in any
way succeed in making the law effective
He goes to people building houses and tells
them they are not complying with the
law, and they Immediately begin to argue
nothing and it requires but little time to at
tend to the matter. Mr.. Kerr says a num-
Der of our very best citizens neglect TO take
out building permits. He suggests that the
policemen in their rounds over the city
when they see building going up
might ask to see the building permits
There We're four buildings erected or be-
gun during the past week for which no per-
mits have been issued. II these permits
were taken out the building record would
show up 100 per cent better than it does
now.
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Weather Report.
Special to the Gazette.

GALVESTON. TEX. April 25.-The atmos-
phCric pressure is greatest over Ohio and
Indiana and least over the extreme North
west, where 4 storm of increasing euer-
gy Is developing. The temperature IS higher
in b Lake region, extreme Northwest and
Rocky Mountain slope, and lower in the
M,Lile and South Atlantic states. Ohio aud
Tennessee valley. Slight changes are re-
portea from other points. Rain has fallen
over the Atlantic states. Elsewhere clear
weather prevails. Winds are variable
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that they deserved a rest, and gave it

that they deserved rest, and gave it
to them.
But there are besides these, great
landed estates that put to shame the an
cestral domains of Great Britain. Let
the ragged but ambitious young man
who cherishes dreams OF broad acres and
lowing herds take heart as he remem-
bers the following. The Shenley estate
in Pittsburg and Allegheny City pays
one million annually in rents. Van
derbilt owns two million acres, Murphy
OF California four million, Disston Of
Pennsylvania four million, the Standard
oil company one million. and the rail
roads Of the country own two hundred
and thirty-one million acres, or put to-
gether, an area six times the size of
Iowa, and Iowa is big state.
With such examples of great things
before him, such powerful incentives
to effort what struggling youngster is
there that may not become million
aire if he chooses? Il makes but little
difference whether he owes or owns
that sum. Either way he will be
known as great man.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26

Mrs. MARY a. LIvERMoRE says
the world is glorified by its unmarried
women and filed with their good
deeds. Even so. But this gifted
woman should not omit the names of
the married women who have helped
to make the world better for their liv-
ing, among the very foremost OF whom
is Mrs. Livermore herself. Mary
should learn TO speak for herself.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26

THAT old chestnut is going the
rounds of the press that Miss Frances
f. Willard has an ambition to be a
bishop of the Methodist church. The
national president OF the Womans
Christian Temperance union is not
built that way, so she must, perforce,
not fly so high.
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POSTAGE.

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Foreign and Domestic. Per Copy.
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Notice.

To Delegates and others wishing to attend the
National Industrial Union, to be held in Gin
cinati, May Is to %, 1891.
Send name, address and railroad on which
you live, that may procure transportation.
w. r. LAMB,
Secretary Citizens State Mass Meeting,
held in Waco, April %, 1891, Bowie, Tex.
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partic ulars.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26

AN attempt is being made in Penn
sylvania to make all parochial schools
a part of the public school system OF
the state, in which there shall be no
sectarianism. This is the beginning of
war which will rage with great in
tensity, and cannot but result in much
bitterness OF feeling.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26
Notes Of Progress.

In another week the cooperage establish
ment near the packery will assume proper
tions.
The walls of the big cooling house are
well up. IL
The latest information about the F'edessH
building is that work may be expected to
be under way by July.
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NOTICE.

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a SOCIAL REFoRM THAT Is NEEDED.


1t is seriously proposed in the Mary
land legislature to tax bachelors, after
| they have passed certain age and
still remain Indifferent to their duties
as particles OF the social structure and
disobebient TO the scriptural command
| to take account OF the multiplication
table
We have not the particulars of the
proposed impost, and are not able to
give an opinion as to the business OF it.
Under certain conditions such a tax
would prove to be benefcent, Just and
polite, and different circumstances
could make it improper, unjust and
irksome.
Who, for instance, could uphold the
| Righteousness of laying a tax on a
young man who had passed the dead
line and remained unmarried because
of his inability to raise the money to
purchase a marriage license, and whose
sense of honor and self-respec3 forbade
him to ask credit for that document?
And it is very certain, also, that in
this case the law would defeat itself,
for the man who couldn't pay the
license fee would hardly be able to pay
the tax. Or take the case Of him who
has two maids in mind, and is hating
between two opinions: is it right to put
penalty upon him and startle him
into such sudden action as to make him
choose the wrong one? Or still again,
shall he be punished by pecuniary
mulct who is a bachelor by necessity
and not by choice?
These are some profound questions
for the Maryland legislature to think
upon before striking at the evil of
celioacy.
a Persian ruler 1--WE do not now re
can his name or his day., managed
this matter in a way to furnish an ex-
ample to modern lawmakers. At an
appointed time all the maidens of a
manageable age in his dominion THE
widows were supposed to be able to
take care of Themselves, were brought
together and each was disposed of to
the highest bidder. The auctioneer
enumerated their advantages, their
financial standing of course being care
fully quoted from Dun's report. The
prettiest and richest brought great
sums, and the bidding decreased in
amount as they grew palmer and
poorer in purse, until finally, when the
very homely girls, the very poor and
the old maids, were reached, there
were no offers. Then the wisdom of
the caliph's plan shone forth. The
money received for the choice prizes
was put into a fund and apportioned as
a dowry to the undesirable offerings,
who, being thus provided for, went off,
as one may say, as consolation prizes.
Probably, however, better plan
than even taxes or consolation prizes
would be to make law giving to both
sexes equal rights in popping" and
require the poppee to show good and
sufficient cause why the proposal should
not be accepted then and there. If
this does not cure the evil complained
OF, it is useless to pursue remedial leg
islatiOn any further
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TO ADVERTISERS

Advertisements for publication in the Sunday
EDITION OF THE GAZETTE should be handed IN
before o'clock Saturday evening. Advertisers
Ell consult their own interest, as well as cur
convenience. by needing ::lis suggestion, as we
lannOt guarantee the insertion OF advertise
mems received after that hour
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26
HOW GREATNESS ABoUNps.

That this is country Of great things
goes without saying. There are great
people, great enterprises, great ideas
and ambitions, and great possibilities.
Even the debts which the people owe
are great, positively splendid in their
greatness. There is something refresh
ing in recounting few of the principal
items thereof. According to a recent
number of the Bankers Magazine,
Kansas owes 1925. 100000; Indiana,
S640, eco, 600; Iowa, 1861. 900. 900: Michi-
gan, $500, 900; Ohio, 81, 43l, ZOO, 900; or a
total in the five states of SO, 431, 600, 900.
This is sum representing in the main
mortgage indebtness on farms that ex-
ceeds the entire national debt by
81, SAG, 900, 900. And this it seems is
what ais the farmers. This is why
there are such things as Alliances,
oranges, F. NJ. 3. AS and the like.
This is why such men as Ingalls,, Far
well, Cannon and Mckinley were last
fall retired from active service as law
makers. They had earned great dis
tnctions aS the architects that planned
and designed the building up Of such
gigantic debts, and the debtors felt
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$40 REWARD.

The Democrat Publishing company will pay
the sum OF SlO Tor the arrest and conviction OF
ANYBODY stealing papers from the residences or
Cfl!ces OF subscribers.
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Notice.
To the Reform Press:

To the Reform Press:
All members of the Reform Press desir-
ing to attend the National Press association
to be held in Cincinnati on May IS to %,
1891, will please send name, postoffice ad-
dress and railroad on which you live; also
name of member wishing to attend that
may arrange for transportation. Address
me at once. w. r. LAMB,
President State Reform Press Association,
Bowie, Tex.
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AS THE GAZETTE'S Austin CORE
spondent telegraphed in the early days
OF the month. the Texas Alliance will
not form a third party, but go to the
Democratic primaries.
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BRANCH OFFICES.


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ASSIGNEE SALE.

FORT WORTH, April Goth. 1891.
On Thursday, April the a]th 1 vii. .aann1@
sale for cash to the highest biaAGG - (5ift Of
the store house, No lG H01 rect in Fort
Worth. all the siaSH1 OF saddlery, har-
ness and otheya with notes, accounts
store d - 9ee-. Conveyed to me in trust by
ZahaR .Nettler on the 18TH day Of February,
2D9es1t - m. for the benefit OF their creditors
Sale to take place within the legal hours OF
such sale. T. W. JACKSON,
Trustee
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26

The clearings of the Fort Worth banks
for the week ending April %, 1891, amounted
to 1895, POI. 80. E. 3. HAROLD,
Manager Fort Worth Clearing House.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

By MAIL-N ADvAScE-PosTAGE PAID.
Daily and Sunday, one year. 90
Daily and Sunday. six months ....-........ 50
Monday, Wednesday and Friday .........- 5 90
The Sunday GAZETTE, DC to "a pages. VI %
The Weekly GAZETTE, (l2 pages. one year 90
BY carrier IN the city and suburbs, % cents
week or 81 per month.
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Texans Abroad.

Special to the Gazette.
New YORK, April 25.-Austin, c. Hinch-
COTE, at the Aston; Dallas, A. Dyer, at the
Aston; San Antonio, S. Johnson, at the
Union Square.
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Indications.

WASHINGTON, April %, /. 8. m.-For
Eastern Texas: Fair, winds shifting to
easterly and southerly; warmer.
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INSTRUCTIONS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Give Postofice Address in full, including
County and State
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for which remittance is made.
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TO THE PUBLIC.

Editorial Rooms. ......... no
Business Once. ........ ....... l05
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SPECIAL NOTICES,
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS,

Tie commissioners court Nn1a BUefong
county, Tex: win receive - l6bosals for
to swisher n ACCORDANCE s'V with 6i pians
and spe0a gl0ns on file in the county clerks
o130D&1Dfds will be received up TO Saturday
80, Mays 1891, and the court reserves the
right to reject any and all bids submitted Ad.
dress John Hotter. Clerk County Court, Arm
strong County
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Drowned While Watering His Horse.

Special to the Gazette.
BRENNAN, TEX, April 25.-To-day while
Abe Tillman was watering his horse iAsa
creek he got tangled up in the halter and
was drowned
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5000 90
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BIDS WANTED
LARD FOB SALE.

On $50 feet of curbing. Address city, P. o BOX
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AUSTIN.
NJ. G. POEDRxTER, Agent, ICE West Sixth
The morning call., 1891-03-06
-----------------------
RACE WITH A MAN-EATER.
Thrilling Experience OFF the Shore c
a Samoan Island,

Thrilling Experience Off the Shore of
Samoan Island.
During my stay In the Samoan Islands l
found tho waves utilized by the people to
enjoy one of the most exciting sports imagi-
nabe, and | was very quickly initiated into
it.
The men threw off what little clothing
they wore. Then each seized plank and
attempted to launch it. This was easier
said than done, and many were the upSets
that ensued as the big rollers came in, but
finally all of them got beyond the shore and
beyond the point where the waves broke,
and then | saw where the sport came in.
Turning inshore, the men threw themselves
upon the plankS, and watching their oppor-
tunity steered them so that they held their
position on the crest of the roller and came
in with it, and We readily fell into the habit
of getting up wave-riding parties. | had
become so skillful that / rarely missed
wave, and could make my way out with ease
and come riding in with perfect equipoise.
| became so daring that / often swan out
beyond the rest that might obtain the full
force and exhllaration oil the ride, and one
day when the sea was particularly high and
rolling very heavily met with my adven-
ture.
There were six of us enjoying the sport,
with as many natives. l had q plank espe-
cialy made for the purpose. wide and stout
enough to bear my entire weight, and by
lying upon 1t soon forced my way over the
incoming rollers and floated in the c0mpar-
atively smooth water beyond. Here l
turned my plank sh0reward and waited for
good roller. Every third one was, as
rule. large, and finally big green-bodied
one came whirling In. shutting out the
horizon.
'As 1t came / caught 1t, and as felt the
transferred motion lightly sprang to my
feet and steadied myself on the monster
that extended up and down the shore and
was rushing to its own destruction. The
exhilaration amounted almost to intoxica-
ton. On | went, the big wave beginning
to comb and hiss, leaving me on the edge OF
watery precipice. into which would ap-
parently be thrown.
"On l went, shouting gayly to COM
panion on the beach. Then suddenly be-
came aware that something was beside me.
gave side glance and the reality almost
made me lose my foothold upon the rushing
| plank. What saw was the sharp dorsal-
! fin OF man-eater shark cutting along
| through the water like knife. The mon
ster was thirteen feet or mere long and was
partly turned up toward me, showing the
| white cleaning undersurface.
What passed through my mind in those
| few seconds can hardly be imagined. gave
| myself up for lost, as l believed that the
shark would soon rush at the plank. when
| over would 60, an easy victim. l do not
The morning call., 1891-03-06
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter


Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
There was not single delinquent tax
payer in Gtlroy this year.
The Legislature of Nevada has repealed
the duellng oath required to be taken by
every State official.
The Arroyo Grande Herald says $4,000
will be spent this year in extending the
Port Hartford breakwater
A deposit of cinnabar ore was found near
Santa Ana last week by a farmer who was
looking for stone quarry
Harry Rogers of Whatcom killed a 300
pound black bear recently, but his favorite
dog was chewed TO death by bruiu.
The Phoebe Record says: The town has
more nearly resembled vast hospital than
anything else for the past ten days.
The snowfall in Lake County. Oregon,
last week averaged twenty-eight inches,
which insures good crops for the year.
C. B. Wright and Philadelphia syndicate
have purchased the Hunt system Of rail
roads in Washington State for S3oOo,0C0.
There are enough people in Albuquerque,
Y. Mex, TO form a city government and an
election will be held in April to incorporate.
The bodies of Mrs Wells and child, who
were drowned at M0nr0yia last week, have
been found near Duarte, and were buried
beside the father.
The McCloud River Pioneer says the
SnOwtiakes that fell at Bartle one day last
week were as large aud solid as the fanuel
cakes of Red Bluff boarding house.
Says the Fairhayen Herald: TIE Oregon
legislators are spoken of as little dickie
birds" This Is mSn0mer. OrDth0l ogi-
cally and generally they are lays"
In overhauing the asscssment-rolls of
Eugene, Oregon, 1926 lots were found that
were not assessed The Sheriff was in
strueted to collect the delinquent taxes at
once.
A California vulture was caught near
Pomona last Saturday. Its wings spread
eleven feet nine inches. The captor took
the bird to Los Angeles, where IL will De
mounted.
A Fairhayen Indian borrowed gun the
other day to go hunting. He returned in
few hours with the gun-stock, one hand
minus two fingers and the rest OF the hand
terribly lacerated
A citizen of Los Angeles owned two lots
that were assessed for cents lot. He
neglected 10 ny the tax, which was due
under the irrigation law, but when hs went
TO settle he was charged 81 o. The dollar
was for advertising.
The Nevada Transcript says: Frank
White, ditcn-tender for the South Yuba
Company, who makes his headquarters at
Crystal Springs, is handy with the vic lin.
frequently these stormy evenings the peo-
pie at the various stations along the line get
him to rosin his bow and give them telephone
concerts. They hear the music twenty or
more miles away as plainly as though they
were at the PLAYERS side,