San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-08
Ehe Daily Eight.
THURSDAY, JUNE s, 1898
DALLAS LETTER.
DALLAS, Tex, June 6, 1898.


the LIGHT.
While tending ranch, the LIGHT
for awhile, afforded our only source
of information. 1t was ever eager
~ read, not only by your cores
pendent, but by others. AS litera-
ture was scarce, we made fire.
Quent inroads on the supple
ment to help out with our all
around newspaper work, which we
kept up while acting as ranchero,
as we'll as we could without neg
lecting our herd, when the fleas,
chiggers, gallinippers, ticks and
serpents would let us. The latter,
as we'll as the former, are numer-
Gus. One trophy is rattle from
mammoth rattlesnake, that was
making midnight depredations on
the young chickens.
That wonderful boat, the Har-
vey, has come and gone, and all
Dallas is jubilant over the pros
poets of Trinity navigation. The
Harvey started down the river Sat
urday to join the snag boat at
McCommas' Bluff, where work will
be resumed to make the stream
navigable between Dallas and the
former place. The committee
appointed to solicit money to build
locks and dams can go to work
now that Sam Jones is gone.
While the noted slang Singer was
here calling people to repentance
no one thought of going into his
pocket-book for any purpose other
than to contribute to the fund for
the support of the 800 orphans
that Sam Jones supports.
To secure a desirable seat for
night service one was almost COM
PEELED to be on hand as early as
4 D. m. While his batter
les were turned on the luke
warm, and hardened sinners, the
rogues were plying their vocations
with telling effect. Private houses
were invaded, robbed of clothing
and jewelry.
Last Friday night the night spe-
cial policeman at the North Texas
National bank reached his home
in pitible condition, his mind
wandering, and his face covered
with blood. His wife sent for a
surgeon at once, who pro-
nounced his wounds severe
but not dangerous. During
lucid interval, he stated that just
after he had turned out the gas, he
was struck a severe blow. After
this, all is blank to him. A week
prior to this assault kit of burg
lars tools had been discovered in
the bank building. The engineer
of the building states that the
morning succeeding the night of
the assault, when he arrived to
start the elevator machinery, he
found the electricity turned on in
the basement, and cold chisels and
other tools missing.
- A professional man who, for the
past four or five years, has held
positions paying from 500 to $50
per month came to grief.
His rascality was at last found
out. A few sympathetic people
are inclined to believe that this
crOOkedness is a sort Of insanity,
and he is not accountable for the
wrong doing any more than the
kleptimaniac. Whether he is re-
spOnsible or not, the directors of
the corporation employing him
gave him the G. b. just two weeks
before the expiration of his term
Were all the truths and facts
in the case stated, the
learned gentleman could, and
doubtless would resort to that ever
protective agency, the libel law
that muZzles papers. AS your cor
respondent has suffered through
the crOOkedness and rascality O
the aforesaid, no sympathy i!
wasted.
The fair directors are perfectine
arrangements for the coming fair
The press of the state has done
much for the Texas State fair, anC
it is largely due to the press. tina
our fair has met with such UMPIRE
cedented success.
Judges Ansonson Rainey, N. w
Finley and Henry Lightfoot, of tn,
Dallas court of civil appeals, me
in the parlor of the Windsor hote
and chose G. w. Blair, of Bonham
clerk Of the new court of civil ap
peals. After the selection of tn
clerk, the judges left for their re
spective homes.
The general supposition is tina
the mate of the snag boat, VIII
was drowned, walked into the rive
while in a state of intoxicatiOn.
There were seventeen to gradr
70 from tho DALLAS nnnnl,li, Ii Ill