The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-18
City Hall Pot Poupri.

Why nan VI
Negotiations are now pending look
ing to q contract with Contractor
Oglesby.
Joney Jones is very busy bringing
up court dockets. The receipts
from fines were very gratifying last
quarter.
1t is rumored that the chairman of
the finance committee has been offered
90 net for city street improvement
bonds and balance Of sewer bonds.
Will Joblanowsky is hard at work
posting the city's books. He is both
capable and industrious, and there is
not one of his brother officers that do
name him but to praise him.
Quite an interesting incident oc
cured in the trial of Eugene Spain,
charged with vagrancy. The evi.
dence showed that he was a destitute
stranger in a strange land. Mr.. Joney
Jones whispered to City Attorney
Flint to ask defendant where he form.
erly lived. He answered Nashville,
whereupon Mr.. Jones at once arose
and stated that he boarded with de
PENDANT aunt in Nashville in 1880.
and that his father was at that time
banker. Defendant was discharged.
On tomorrow or next day the city
attorney and VIM M. Flournoy for
Robert Goldsmith, will argue the con-
stitutionallity of the clause in the
charter giving the city court concur.
rent jurisdiction with the county court.
This is a matter of great importance to
the city. 1t is said among lawyers
that the court of appeals lately decided
that such jurisdiction was unconstltu.
tional. The opinion, however, has
never been published, and its full i'm
port is not known.
Geo Crippen was acquitted upon a
charge of rudely displaying a pistol.
Con Boyle fined $l.00 for intoxica-
zion. and Arthur Virgins was fined
$40, for vagrancy. In this last case
the proof showed that defendant was
boy of Is years of age, and a regu
lar habilue of the Red Front saloon
in the reservation, and that his
familiars were roues and strumpets
His honor imposed the highest
fine. He was right. If
we are to have a reservation,
boys of tender age must be kept out
ofit.
lament the arrival of friedrich
Warde and the consequent revival of
interest in theatrical celebrities, list
of those having license shows that
among the names of Waoo's ward in
the reservation appear those Of Hazel
Kirke, Fanny Davenport aud Estelle
Clayton. We had Mary Anderson
last month. These are of course as
sumed names, and shows that the ad.
miration tor the distinguished actress
SEES whose names they bear are not
confined to the refined and elegant.
1t is stated as fact by the officers
who know, and it is to their credit,
that none of those poor creatures re-
tain their proper names, and the
names they assume are generally very
aristocratic.
4-L~bfayor McCulloch al police judge
-tis-the ideal Judge whose judgments
are always tempered with mercy.
Neither is his quality of mercy strain
ed or sentimental, but is as it should
be, wise recognition of the un'ortu;
uate beings that face him from the
prisoners dock. 1t is, too, the best
policy for the city. Most of the crimi
nalities are of the venial kind and are
of constant recurrence by the same
defendants. The defendants seem
to pass out one door and come in an
other, circle made of the same faces
Most of these, particularly the women
are unable to pay fines, and when com
mittel become charge upon the city.
The men are worked upon the streets;
but often are disabled by vile dis
eases and unable to work.