Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-02
DALLAS ENJ0lNED.
Taxpayers Tie UP the Sum of
$4,000
DUE FOR STREET-PAVING WORK
A Boiler ExpIodes, Seriously Injuring the
Fireman-Board of Trade ReOrgsn-
ized-Two Women Claim a
Boy-Trinity Navigation.
Dallas Enjoined.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Feb. 1.-The city has
about $4,000 outstanding in unpaid street
paving tax which to-day was tied up for an
indefinite length of time, by rush to the
courts asking for injunctions retaining the
collection OF the tax for various reasons
cited by property holders.
l.. S. Thomas and other property-owners
on Mckinney a~.enue Sked that the city
be enjoined from collecting the paving tax
because the ordinance under which the
contract was awarded required them to pay
only two-thIrds of the cost of paving, while
the ordinance under which the levy was
made required them TO pay all the cost of
paying, showing difference OF cost in favor
of the city amounting to S10S7. The city
charter was changed during the time inter
yenipg between the award of the contract
and the ordinance making the assessment,
which was passed in conformity with the
new or amended charter. For this reason
and other minor allegations, which in gen
eral merged INTO the objection cited above,
the plaintiffs asked to be released from the
payment under the assessment made.
]. I. Elliott ct al. w. E. Best ct al, ].
NJ. Tillman ct al, j. B. D. Young and l. G.
Leeds ct al, all asking for injunctions re-
straining the city from collecting the tax,
set up different pleas OF violation of speciti-
cations, etc.
SUITS FILED.
The following suits were fled to-day in
district court:
Eaton and Prince Company VS.. the Orien-
tai Hotel Company ct al; debt and fore
closure.
w. K Henderson Lumber Company vs..
Simpson, Perkins & Company; debt and
attachment.
Simpson Haws vs.. Dallas Consolidated
Traction Railway Company; damages.
BOILER EXPLOSION.
The boiler of the artesian well works, en-
gagged in boring u well at the Dallas cotton
mills, exploded this morning. A man named
Mcdowell. employed by the contractors,
was slightly injured. About fifty windows
in the cotton mills were shivered to atoms,
and considerable loss entailed on the con-
tractors by damage to their machinery, etc.
A section of the cornice was knocked off
and every pane of glass in the windows
were broken. The fireman was hurled
across the street. and it is feared he will
lose one of his eyes, while the little portable
engine was blown into atoms.
BOARD OF TRADE.
The charter members of the board of
trade held an interesting business meeting
this afternoon. Reorganization under the
charter was effected with ffty-siX charter
members, and the work of the organization
takes new start and promises much for
the future A committee on constitution
and bylaws was appointed, and the meet
ing adjourned until Thursday evening TO
hear the report OF the committee and to
elect officers.
A KING SOLOMON CASE.
Some two or three months ago baby boy
was found on the doorstep of a Dallas
citizen, who turned it over to the city
health officials. 1t was placed in the city
hospital and, though no one took particular
notice of the little waif, it grew fat and
strong. Yesterday claimant called for it
and detailed the circumstances of the
childs early history its dress and every
thing tending to identify it and to establish
a clear title, and the little one was trans
ferred to the care and keeping of the
woman who was represented to be its
mother. But to-day another claimant ap-
peared eager and anxious to prove clear
title to the little one. who was already in
possession OF another.
The case puzzled the officers. They felt
incompetent to act as judges in such deli
cate matters, and habeas corpus proceed
iugs are talked of. Both claimants assert |
their intention, the one of holding the child
and the other of getting possession of it. |
Nothing like it has been presented in this
section Of the state since the days of King |
Solomon.
City advalorem tax collections during |
January amounted to $S90SS.11.
The Trinity river navigation and i'm |
provement company, which is chartered |
with capital stock of 500, 000 is endeavoring |
to get up q rouSing meeting tomorrow |
afternoon in the interest of the navigation |
project and the stock of the company,
which Is offered 1t S100 nar share