San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-11
DALLAS LETTER.
DALLAS, Tex June s. 1885,

To the San Antonio Daily LIGEr
The fire bug has gotten In mis- work
at Oak Cliff since our last. All th.
business portion of that city was de
stroyed by fire last week. In severaI
places rooms In upper stories were
found where the fiend had saturated
the floors and trash with coal oil to
make sure work.
To substantiate the jury's verdict OF
"nUt guilty" (cleared on plea of in.
sanity w. B Jones got on tear
Jones was so elated over his acquittal
that ne secured papers containing an
account of his trial and persisted in
posting them up in conspicuous places
throughout the city, yelling at the
top OF mis- voice, 81 want to go home,
want to go home to my wifev A fter
soft and persuasive words failed To
quiet the wife murderer he was placed
behind bars.
Jones, it will be rernem bered
shot his wife down in the county
courthouse, September, 1887. Mrs.
Jones had gained an unepviable rep.
49, In sensational scandal, and
'h n Srournp suit for divorce, which
business called her to the CURT h9SSse
on the day of the killing. After the
shooting her husband, and murderer
rs we'll. turned to an officer who ar.
rested him on the spot, begging to be
protected from mob. Ever since the
killing he has played the lunatic very
etiectnally. At one time he was on
gagged ss real estate agent. On his
card he h al ., ,o,ra o;Ie Letter. uSaa
,y9oes the agnostio real estate man."
% did everything to attract atten-
ton and call attention to his idiosyn-
cracies in his power. and certainly
succeeded In accomplishing what he
desired. Had the wife. murderer of
San Marcos been as shrewd, per-
haps he would not be wearing
a prison garb today. Murderers of
Texas, get a change of venue where
you can. Come to the metropolitan
city of the state. where our shining
lights of the bar will say, "Rest easy,
will clear you
The Ovens and Mack ey-Elam MUIR
der case is being tried at this writing.
In this, as in the celebrated King
Poston killing, woman's honor was
asssiled. The Ovens claim that
Elan called old Mrs. Owens liar,
and who of us will not fight. nay kill,
for our gray-haired Mothers
In the county commissions rs' court,
yesterday, the name OF Contractor r
L. James was ordered erased from the
Cornerstone OF the new courthouse,
where it appears as builder.
Mr. james aud the board OF
commissioners had some little
Misunderstanding shortly after
the stone was put in place. The diff
ference, it seems could not be AMIGA
DIV settled.
Supt Ortopp was ordered to set in
the .lls lately completed, tablet
bsaiing the names of the present com
miss,oAers, the county judge, superin-
tendept and architect.
Bootblacks, peanut vendors and
others of like kind have been ob
structing the side walks on the shady
side OF the streets to such al extent
that it makes it too crowded for the
rasser.by. There Is an ordinance
covering this wholesale blocksdlng,
and the officers are now seeing that
the law is enacted in this one particu-
lar, at least. Even Evangelist Rice,
who.was told to move on, but failed
TO, did not escape.
The friends of Mr.. Hugh
Blskeney. better known as
Fine, Very Fine" are griev
over his sudden and severe illness.
RE Is at Deaths door and little or no
hopes are enter tanned of his recovery
Mr.. B akehey came to Dallas when it
was an embryo town. He peddled
cream cakes on the streets, calling
out Fine, very fine, one for nickle,
Two for dime" Notwithstanding he
now ranks as one nj our substantial
men, the appslla i'm OF Fine Very
Fine," still clings TO him.
Prof J. L. Hand was unanimously
reelected superintendent of the Oak
Cliff schools. Oak Cliff knows a good
thing when she sees 1t. and she
has good superintendent in Prof.
Hand, for, as her mayor justly said,
He is second to none in the state.n
Apropos of schools, last year there
were sixty-six applicants who took
the city, Dallas examination.
Out of this number, five only
received first grade certificates,
twelve, second grade ones.
aud the rest, none at all, This year
theae are only twenty odd applicants,
and but one out of the number has
applied for high grade certificate.
At a meeting OF the city council the
city treasurer reported the water sup
ply fund overdrawn S4.493 A; school
fund overdrawn IS, l42 80 The chief
of police reported S64 impounding
fees, and 1888 so. fines collected. The
committee on finance recommend ed
that the treasurer's bond be
increased TO $3.50, 900. The salaries of
the teachers and janitors of the pub.
lie schools for the last scholastic
month Amounted To 81 SOL 81