Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-26
DALLAS.
Making Extensive and Elabor-
ate Preparations for
THE ANNUAL SAENGERFEST.
a Chorus of 6oOO Male Voices Secured.
The Money weatherford Case in
the Hands of the Jury.
Court Notes.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Feb. 25--The Saengerfest
people are very busy in their different coma
mittees preparing for what they claim will
be the largest gathering of people ever seen
in Dallas. Certainly their attractions are
very great and of the first order, and ought
to draw a large number of people to the
city on the occasion of the Saengerfest in
this city, May 10 to Is. The committee on re-
ception and entertainment met in the coun-
Gil chamber of the city hall, and member
of the committee told The GAZETTE man
that they had a chorus of 600 male voices,
and had secured the Cincinnati grand
orchestra, with its fifty-two finished must
clans, at i cost of 5000. So far, and this IS
very early, seventeen singing societies in
the state of Texas have announced that
they will participate.
In Judge fuckers court Money Wealth
erford has been on trial for the past three
days for the murder of Ike Allen last
March near Mesquite. The case was,
closed and given TO the jury about o'clock
this afternoon aid they are now out.
In the judges and the county courts to-day
little has transpired, i sequeStration suit
having occupied the time of the former
court all day.
Col G. W. Afford has just returned from
his mines in Mexico, near Monterey. He
says his mines were worked by the Span
iards as early as 1896 and abandoned. BY
doing some extensive tunnelng into the
side Of the mountain he expects to strike
the lead where the Spaniards abandoned it
and where the lead is known to be very fine
and run their ore out on tram railway.
Lawyer Carter of Fort Worth was in the
city to-day,
In the council tonight the committee on
retrenchment and refrom, composed of AL
dermen George c. Cole, Nat G. Turney and
]. II. Webster, will present their views and
of expense in the council. They have spent
the greater portion of the day at the city
hall and find that about S156, 600 is what the
city will have to run on after paying inter-
est on bonded debt, ETC., and the expenses
have been running over $685. 900 per year.
They will make strong effort to cut down
expenses to the amount of revenue re-
ceived.
w. H. Crozier, a Santa Fe freight con-
ductor, met with an accident yesterday at
Hale station, missing his footing as he
jumped from the train, and dislocating his
knee-cap by striking the end of a cross-tie
A meeting is in progress tonight at the
auditorium of the city hall, to hear the re-
port of the committee appointed at the last
meeting to solicit subscriptions of stock for
the Trinity navigation andl improvement
company. Col Exall being in the chair called
on the committee for their report, which
was made as follows:
DALLAS, TEX, Feb. %, 1892.
To Hon. Henry Exall, Chairman.
SR-Your committee beg to report that
they find it impracticable to obtain 500. 900
subscribed to the capital stock of a COM
pany as proposed in the meeting held Onz
the Goth inst, but that they do find the SEN
timent of our people unanimous in favor of
the enterprise, and believe that If dona-
ton amounting to not over 100000 in
money. besides lands. is subscribed, paya-
BILE when the river is opened for navigation
and navigated by steamboats, and other
organized which will take the donations
and accomplish the work
BRYAN 7. BARRY,
w. II. PRATHER,
J. II. TRAITOR,
S. II. MCBRIDE,
NEAL STARKE
Speeches were made favo>ab-e to the
adoption of the report by Bryan T. Barry,
James Maroney, j. E. Henderson, w. Ill
ingworth and others.
The report of the committee was unani-
mously adopted.
On the motion of Mr.. Barry to have as
committee of five appointed at this meeting
TO represent the citizens in negotiations
with this proposed company, there was con-
siderable discussion explanatory of just
what Is wanted of the citizens in this mat
ter. The motion carried and the chairman
stated that he would announce the COM
mittee later.
It was requested that all interested and
desiring to take stock in this enterprise
meet at Pinck Thomas Office tomorrow at
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