Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-26
The City of Dallas Closing in on
the Sunday Sun.
"JAILER, SEND UP MY CARDS =
The Kangaroo Court Takes Hold of the Matter.
Ten Lashes and a Fine Assessed.
Another Strike-City Notes Repudated-A
Gala Day at the Mai-Fest-A Swim
ding Institutional Deed
of Trust Filed.
A Sun MAN IN JAIL.

| Special 10 the Gazette.
! DALLAS. Ten. May 25-On last Saturday
| night man registered at the Windsor hotel
! as j. Z. Williamson" and was assigned a
| room. This forenoon the guest of the
| Windsor hotel was arrested on the charge
of libel and placed III the county Jail But
! the Jail register showed the mans name to
| be J. L. Johnson. OF New York, age twenty
| nine years, weight 1Sl pounds. Johnson IS
| the CORES ondent of the Kansas City Sun
! day sun who has been so eTfectually writing
| up the people of Texas. and especially cor
| tain parties in Dallas: The prisoner has
| visited various cities in Texas, and has
| called himself by various names. John r
Dean. Eugene Johnson and j. +. William
son are on the list of his aliases. johnson
takes his arrest good-naturedly. aud has no
serious apprehenSions as 10 the final result
of the matter.
The people Of Dallas are determined to
| break UP the circulation of the sun at this
point if possible and will go To the full cX
tent of the law TO carry their point. The
injunction suit againt the Sun was TO have
been up in court this morning. but was put
OFF for a few days. In the meantime Mr..
Strahm, the Suns attorney. is preparing 10
stubbornly fight the suit, while the county
attorney is terrifying his position Ill the
matter
II is rumored that Preston. the editor of
Sun. is also in the city, but the truth OF the
rumor cannot be voucheG for.
After Johnson was confined in jail the
kangaroo court, made up from the prisoners
tried Johnson. He was fined 81 or 10 be
placed on the ''iiunkey list" The turnkey
list consists OF those who have to sweep
up the cells ana clean the spitoous. john
son refused to do either. Ten lashes were
given him when he melted and sent the
following note;
JAILEE: Pay this id court s. out of
my wad. EUGENE JOHNSON.
Below is another note also sent out by the
prisoner:
JAILEE: VIII you please send up my deck
of cards in my grip
EUGENE JOHNSON.
1t is understood that parties from Fort
Worth. Waco Corsicana and other points,
who have grievances against the sun
will arrive tonight. If this is true the en-
tire matter may grow unusually interesting.
Griffith, the Suns agent who left Waco so
suddenly few days ago. put up last night
at the Mcleod, and registered as H. \.
Belmont. He paid his bill early this morn
ing and has not since been seen, and is sup
posed TO have left the town.
A DEED OF TRUST.
J. NJ Stress & Co. who have been con-
Quoting business at 222 Film street. have
given deed of trust 10 j. +. Rose to their
stock of merchandise, consisting Of gents
furnishing goods hats. shoes and trunks,
with instructions to sell and pay claims in
the following order:
First. B. ". Rose s, Co, Dallas S 353 20
Ardnger & Rose Co.. Dallas 3g1 "a
Fourth national bank, Dallas $50 VI
A Grumer Dallas . $50 90
Second, l.. Nj. Michael, San An
tonic .......................... 1,5OO 90
Third, Sfaeffer, Swarts & Co, st.
Louis. $40 10
Fourth, Julius Lapsav, St. Louis 4l5 SO
Fifth, j. H. Semel & Co., New
Observation-Disclosures. 1879 50
Sixth. L. Michal 81 Co, New
YORK ........................... 80 IS
Seventh, p. Buchenholz, New
York 442 "A
Total s5.436 u