Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

:, any road duty whatsoever under the laws.
| The act of the Twenty first legislature ex-
| empting ministers is held not to be repeal of
| the act eXempting mem berg of the Volunteer
Guard.
CHARTERED.
The Texas normal college and teachers
training institute of Denton capital, $40, 900.
World publishing company of Dallas; cap
ital, $4,000. The directors for the first
year are: James j. Moody of Limestone
county, e. Newton of Tarrant county, Sam
FL. Dixon of Dallas, j. L. Goodman of Rob-
ertson county and c. c.. Bell of Denton
county.
A COMING WEDDING.
Cards are out announcing the marriage,
June 80, of Peyton Brown, editor of the
Statesman, to Miss Ellen Douglass Miller,
daughter of Col. j. Fl. B. Miller of Austin.
Mr.. Browns bridal tour will extend to
Baltimore, his old home. He will return
about September l. Charley Edwards will
take editorial charge of the Statesman in
Mr.. Browns absence.
THE 1. 4 G. y. INVESTIGATION.
Interest in the International and Great
Northern investigation among. the poll
ticians here has been very keen from the
beginning. Those who were unfriendly to
the administration made no concealment of
their hopes and expectations. They had
extraordinary confidence in Warwick, and
WERE uedu SURE llltb lie WOuiu plunge HIS
knife deep into the vitals OF Governor
Hogg and turn it around few times.
They expected also that he would make the
Tyler crowd howl when he got after them.
They said so openly, and doubtless believed
what they said. Their hopes We're high and
their expectations great. They are not SO
cocky now. In fact, they have very little
to say. The retirement of George Clark
from the investigation has broken their
spirits and filed their souls with dread and
apprehension. 1t looks like confession of
failure, of a breakdown, and a loss of hope
on the part of those who aimed the inveStl-
CATION at the governor One OF them, well
known as bitter and unrelenting enemy
of the governor, talking with another to-
day who is an avowed friend of the execu-
tive, asked ''what does all this investigat-
ing at Galveston amount to anyway The
query, of course. indicated that contrary to
his hopes and wishes in the premises, it
was futile and barren. The other gen.
tleman replied that he thought there was
a good deal in it, in that it was proving DIS
astrous to the instigators, who appeared to
be getting very much the worst of it. To
this there was no response, the first gentle
man carrying his head low, and by his 81
lence admitting Sorrowfully that such ap-
peared to be the case.
The friends of the administration look
upon the investigation as a complete and
uOUal collapse as lar as IL mas gone. Accept
ing the unguarded statements of, Clarks
and Gerald's friends that the whole thing
was aimed principally at the governor, as
correct, they do not hesitate to say that the
inquiry has proved to be a miserable fiasco.
So far from connecting him III any way
whatever with the proceedings that inau-
gurated or succeeded the appointing Of re-
ceivers. they proved by their own witnesses
that he had no hand, act or part in it fur
Their than his duties as attorney general led
him to assail the bonds of the International
and Great Northern railroad, fifteen mil
lions of which are now, at his instance, tied
up in the supreme court. The evidence of
c. 7. Bonner was conclusive on this point.
His statement on the witness stand that he
studiously concealed from Mr.. Hogg his
connection with Gould, as an attorney in his
behalf, when urging the attorney
general to enioin the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas meeting,
which was meant to gobble up the Interna-
tional and Great Northern, fully acquits
the encouragement of any intention to aid
or abet the receivership. The friends of
the governor are not at all surprised that
Mr.. Clark shonld abandon the case to go TO
Washington on other business. They recall
the fact also that he threw up the political
fight against Hogg last fall and went on
business to st. Louis, as soon as he saw