Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-10-20
NEWS BUDGET FROM DALLAS
PREPARING TO TAKE CARE OF ALI.
CROOKS.
Rev. Baker VIII Go TO California,
where He Has ,, Good oner-sin-
killer Griffin Gnthering I'm Dueat-.
Cotton Very Low in Dallas.

Dallas, Tex, Oct. ls.-Numerous In
stances of guilt and odd looking sights
and faces are now being encountered
ON the streets Of Dallas. There are
one armed men. one legged men. men
with no arms, men with no legs, blind.
deaf and dumb men and men and
women with every allment that mortal
was ever afflicted with.
The streets resound with the moan
ings of the hand organ, the pieadings
OF the distressed the orations of the
falSir. Never was there skin game
invented that isn't now on exhibition
on the streets OF Dallas
In order to prevent burglars. pick
pockets and crooks generally getting
foothold in the city during the fair.
the police have orders to ask for the
credentials OF every idle or suspicious
looking person breaking Into the city
during these beautiful fall days.
In pursuance of these orders about
twenty men and boys We're arraigned
in the city court this morning.
Some OF them said they came here
to get ON the police during the Dali
las fair, but had not YET he'd
an opportunity to see the chief.
Others claimed that they had engage
ments TO 30 to work on the Midway
Plaisapce as soon as the fair opens.
One of these men, giving the name
of Riley Jones, was amusing himself
by playing crazy when officer Willie
ran him in.
The statements OF all Of these men
We're taken by the court with grain
Of salt. Some OF them were turned
reference, and the rest taken 10 the
river bridge and placed on the high
road to Waco.
Rev, Charles Baker. the erratic Dem
ton pastor. who brought himself be-
fore the public by disappearing from
his home in Denton a few days after
his marriage last June, and showing
up in September leading mob OF
strikers against the Federal troops in
Sacramento, Cal, and explaining that
he was crazy in the meantime. threw
up his job at Worloy's printing office
in Dallas last Tuesday with a view
OF going to Sacramento, Cal. to make
that city his permanent home.
book blndery In Sacramento, in
which Rev. Baker worked for a while
after the recovery of his reason, has
offered him the foremanship with good
wages attached. The health OF the
eN-pastor's wife is poor and the hope
that the climate Of California may
prove beneficial to 1t, also had lis
weight In determining him to accept
the offer.
Rev. Bakers nervous system was
somewhat run down In consequence OF
his mental arrangement when he re-
turned to Texas, but his health has
grown very much better since thcn.
The failure of his old congregation at
Denton to give unanimous indorse-
ment to the proposition to re-elect him
as pastor had the result of causing
Mr.. Baker to quit, for the time being,
at least. the ministry.
Sin Killer Griffin, along with the
rest of the freaks, has blown into the
fair. lie claims to nave along with
him wonderful instance OF the soft
enlng power of religion in the per-
son of Dub Williams. Dub has served
four terms in the penitentiary and has
seen the inside OF hfty-two Texas and
Arkansas jails. and sun he is only 20
years old.
These few incarcerations represent
the efforts Of the law to punish Dub
for murders, highway robberles, bur
glaries and other crimes too numerous
TO mention.
When Sin Killer was preaching I'm
Marshall the bad negro landed In
that town to XIII man, but he CHANGED
TO come under the sound O, Sin Killers
Voice and was converted.
Sin Killer will have the negro with
him during the fair
Cotton is down today, the lowest
price being $3.50. But the staple is
rolling in by all the roads.
Col II, c. stephenson suggests to
farmers that they hold half Of their
crops over until next year, and then
plant only half the acreage they put
In this season. This, he says, is the
way TO readjust the cotton market.
Editor Joe Green of the Lancaster
Herald, VINO Is here today, says Lam
caster received over 400 bales OF cotton
last Wednesday,
President Edward Braden Of the Mas
ter Plumbers association Of Texas, has
called special meeting OF the asso-
citation to take place IN the city hall
of Dallas next Monday.
This Is the eve OF the opening OF the
much announced Texas state fair and
Dallas exposition, and as expected,
the Mcleod today had great rush
OF guests from all quarters, but none foh
of guest from all quarters, but none too
many to be suitably accommodated.
Mr.. Sigh, the enterprising manager
OF the Mcleod. has made every pre-
paration and now they can't come too
fust, and no matter how great the
rush. every guest will receive the very