Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-15
CORRIDOR TALK,

Colonel Ell Sellers, one Of the most
PROSPEROUS farmers Of Cooke county,
spent a few hours In the city yesterday.
Colonel Sellers Is one Of the strongest
Democrats in North Texas, aud Is always
well Informed on the political status of
his county. Said Colonel Sellers last
night to a Gazette man; These popn-
lists are getting 10 BE- numerous 10 nig
county. | don't know just what proper
lion they bear ~ the whole, hut they are
increasing Ia force all the time and they
Will demand the undivided assaults OF
mo Democracy to repulsN iheia. They
are very loud at present, and make
much capital out of the present depressed
state OF affairs Cotton Is coming IN
slowly rs yet, but heavy Increase ia
the receipts Ia expected shortly
The half pf the suffering that Is being
endured by those who are waiting around
the Registration booths near the Cherokee
strip has not been told.' said rcntle.
man yesterday. who has been there for
several days. 'l'rom the newspaper dis.
patches one can grt but a faint conccp-
ton Of the priyatlons that those people
are undergoing. Al one OF The rcgistra-
ton booths, wherc | visited, the suffering
hnddlcd together, camping In q burning
sand ankle deep onvcloped In clouds OF
dust. 30 hot that Il scogrhes. There h
no escape from the hHstering suu. for
the prairies are bald Of shelter, as bleak
and rs barren as drlert Thousands
Of thcm too, are enduring the fiuch Of
hutgcr Distress, anxiety aud suffering
are portrayed on every face Truly, II
Ia not pleasant spectacle TO see thous'
ands OF men. women and children brave.
ly enduring such niferings, 10 get o
home; ard when one reflects that thoua.
0nds arr doomed to inevitable dlsap
pointmenh the scene ia douhly dismal
one, Those whu came with families, hap.
plly provided themselves with food, hut
there arr thousands, who. coming alone,
expected 10 BE- able 10 purchase sustrn-
ancc They ore ;he suffenfs. None,
70 be sure. Is u scarce article thcrc, hut
| food Is scarcer. aud money can buy but
| little of u But for water, all adfei
/ alike. Boys and men have . profitable
| industry IN csrrying damp mud from tho
| river, mile away, and selling II ut
cents a cup So thirsty are these PEG,
| pie. that the water carriers have to fight
OF the rayenons crowds tllat surround
| them else suffer themselves to be tunl
blei over and their water spilled
Among the arrivals in Fort Worth yes
terday was NJ T., Knowles. who was
formerly i resident IF ,hls city. bit wht
now resides al Roclpor, Mr., Knowlci
is en- route TO the Cherokee strip, II,
says he don't know Wheeler he WI
make a race for home IN the new
| country, but that " he can discOye
any prOspcct OF succcis he may MAKE 1
run. "IlOckIort," said Mr.. KNOWLES yes
ttrday at the Plnkwlck. is very dull
Indeed, the only HE the town sees "a o.
Saturday night when the Waco cxcnrs
ionists come down You sec Roclqor
suffered reytrcly by the collapse Of Air
Russell Harriion's dccp water company
| Then we had q population Of more thai
drcd less than that number But wei
come out Of the kinks. ns he shyiug ~
| A proposition was submitted scvera
| months ago by trustworthy cpmpan
| that II the people would donate lnnd /
thi amount OF 100000, 90 its assosse
valuation. The company would secure
2OfoOi channel over the bar. OF iii
| $GDO, 900, about $4,000 has been seoni
| ed all ready and. that the remainder vii
be forthcoming there u not The slighte-
| doubt. Aud within one year after thi
chHuncl shall haze been secnrid ther
will he 20,OOO people at Rockport: nn
within two years 1000 people will liy
along the coast Ia aud adjacent TO Rocl
port
r. r. Smith Of Archer county wa
at the Pickwick yesterday. Mr. Smlt
IS large stoek.raisar and landowner
"Ihe Panhandle Is little dry enid MI
Smith las, night at the Pif,wick. ''bu
] don't know that X i any more so tia
| the resi- Of The statr Grass Ia n ilitl