Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-17
DALLAS BUDGET.
A City Official Alleged to be Short.
a Clash OF Opinion.

DALLAS, Tex, Sept 1G.--(Speeial.)--
The city council met at noon today and
provided for the issuance of $4,000, 6
per cent twenty-year bonds for the fol-
lowing purposes Sewers and drainage.
$4,000 funding, $4,000; waterworks.
S10OVOi street Improvements, $4,000.
and the city attorney was accordingly
instructed to draw up three ordinances.
A resolution was adopted empowering
the finance committee 10 settle the dis
puted interest on the 5000 bond.
The council then went into executive
session for the purpose of considering
charges of shortage against City Col
lector j. q. Bogel.
Mr. Boge was found 90 be $4,000 short
in his accounts. A vote to temporarily
suspend him from office was taken and
carried
Tom Scott was then elected temporary
collector,
Mr.. Bogel has turned over to the city
$4,000 worth of property to make good
the shortage.
clash Of opinion on business accuracy
recently occurred between Superintendent
W. X. knight of the work on the federal
building and Messrg. Brown Il Dabney,
the COZ tractors, which has just terminal
ed in an official investigation, in which
the superintendent has been sustained.
1t appears that MIR Conkling, who was
superintendent under the Harrison al
ministIG ton, and whom Mr.. Knight sue
ceeded, had followed q sy stem of endorse
nlenis on estimates for work done that
Mr. Knight refused to be guided by.
Mr. Knight was Of the opinion on Sept.
] that the contractors were not entitled to
an estimate on work done which would
permit them to draw money on their
contract; in other words. that the pay
mcnts already made were In excess of
what they were entitled TO draw from the
government at the present timc. When
Messrs. Brown * Dabney called OIL
Superintendent Knight for mn estimate
he refused to make one. Right there q
difference of opinion arose and Mr.,
Brown, representing his firm, went to
Washington and appealed to the treas
ury department, under which govern
ment building work is done.
Supervising Archichect James O'Rourke
OF the treasury department ordered H.
spector Fourchey 10 come to Dallas,
make thorough examination and report
his findings. This inspection, covering
two days time, was finished yesterday
afternoon, and Mr.. Fourcfcy stortcd for
Washington last night, The report
which he will make to the treasury de-
partmelt fully. sustains Superintendent
Knight and Messrs. Brown 4 Duhhey
Will not get any estimate on work donS
probably earlier than Oct. /.
A Gazette representative made tour
of the railroad otlices of Dallas today
% learn u any Cherokee strip boom had
| struck this particular latitude. His i'll
designations are convincing that Il had
| not.
The Houston and Texas Central re-
| ported practically no local call for rates
or TRANSFORMATION. On the southern por-
ton of the system there had been some
| oil aud few settlers had gone to the
strip by way Of Garrett and Fort Worth,
taking the Rock Island from the last
| named point.
The Santa Fc reported comparatively
heavy traffic over their lines from North
Texas, but only a small portion of 1t
could be credited to direct immigration
from Texas. About 600 homesee iers
had come into this section by the last
harvest excursion, which arrived at Dal-
| las three days ago. These people came
| mainly from Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi aud were bound for the strip.
The Texas and Pacific reported con
siderable traffic for the strip, but moth
ing like what had been anticipated. So
far as observation could go, the people
along the Texas and Pacific seemed TO
think that Texas is good enough for
them
The general estimate of all railroad
I transportation to the strip during the
| last four weeks from the vicinity Of
Dallas was that 1900 TO 1000 would
cover the number Of persons carried,
including the $40 harvest excursionlsts.
Ii was learned outside of railroad
| circles that during the same period OF
time there had been n steady overland
movement for the strip in prairie schoon-
| ers and other conveyances, but nothing
approaching an exodus from any particu-
lar locality identified with Dallas or
North Texas.
The regular monthly examination OF
applicants to teach in the county schools
is going on in the office of Superintend-
eat Palmer on the fourth floor OF the
courthouse. There are thirty-six e,Dli.
cants Of whom nine are trying for first.
grade certificates, twenty three for sec.
ond class. and four for third-class There
are 100 schools in the county, and Il
requires 100 teachers to conduct them
Less than one-fourth of the number hold
first-class certificates, something less than
three-fourths hold second-class and the
remainder third-class. The schools are IL
tlourishlng condition, and q compulsory
system could hardly make the attendance
better. The county institute will be held
In the superintendent office Friday and
Saturday, Sept. 20 and 30.