Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-29
{ DALLAS NEWS BUDGET.
!, uoRrIcuLruRAL DOME STILL
7 DISCUSSED.
o,estiop Is, Can the city Issue
ID. 90 Ray for TITO Reduce city
About seabrooi<,
Man who Died In II Dive.

I,.uas TEX. Sept. 2s--Here is what
"a. o'Keefe has 10 say about the
enances, and the horticultural
|s,,ne He admits that Dallas is
] dead. but he has hopes OF her
Eurrection
Iwhen Dallas was booming and
.,,body making money-or at least
Imagined they were--by Invest
i in real estate, they were so busy
~, their own business that the
" business was neglected or over
Ia. But things have changed and
|. crisis has passed. and while we
r. no such personal interests 10
| 4 after how can we help the oity7
/, all the citizens encourages the
council to take hold of the work
help get Dallas back to where she
I four or 1--WE years ago.
As 10 the question whether the city
ancil can issue city bonds for such
purpose, don't know, But the city
the right to issue 100000 or $780,
more. and why not do 1t in duh
hes, and not when everything is
ntiful
' rhe appointing of special COM
tee at the last meeting OF the city
uncll to inquire into and report upon
|,uctions that can be made in the
uenses OF the city has caused con-
|erable reckoning as TO the correct
Expectation of the move. Some
|nk II means that many Official heads
|an fall and all OF the city officers
he suddenly become crowded 10
. attn with business. Others advance
. rlous Ideas as to It's meaning. and
| fe is what Mayor Barry has to say,
N prefer not TO make any express
In In the way of an interview in adj
Ince OF a meeting Of or action by
! committee. | suppose the commit
will meet and take up the work
due time, and / will gladly CO.
crate with them. II the council
cans business the subject Is one
Importance and will require time
ID a careful investigation and
.traight from the shoulder report
| a action, but II not. little viii come
ON the investigation. The city gov
nment Is not suffering from num-
1ns official high salaries and general
penses now as in the past. but a
Wing can be made without Gripping
efficiency of the government n
eAted heroically. Our total revenues
~ are a little over one-half what
g were few years ago, and OF
Purse expenses must be curtailed
ormerly. also. money was raised by
2 sale OF bonds. and although II was
u legal nor right that the proceeds
| those bonds should haze gone into
e general fund and been used for
brent expenditures Of the city It
as done nevertheless, and although
| are now without the sewers and
Their needed public IMPROVEMENTS
. hich we should have for that money.
are compelled 10 pay Interest on
ose and other bonds. which takes
most half of our total revenues and
that account We must cut of eX-
naes all we eau. We run as we
now because unpaid taxes help us
)me. My Idea is, however. that all
0ney derived from that source should
into needed public improvements.
. nd that we should begin now. as we
our current income"
Mr.. j. G. Mckinney OF Ennis came
Dallas this morning. at the request
the officers, to see n he could iden-
| ~ the man who was poisoned In a
reservation" dive and buried as an
| nknoWn two weeks ago,
The coat and shoes and some papers
the deceased. which were kept at
ollce headquarters, were readily iden-
. Ned by Mr., Mckinney, who said that
~ description printed In the Fort
Forth Gazette n few days ago suited
harles Seahroolt to the smalles de-
NJ. Mckinney says seabrook came
his house last January and offered
cut wood for his breakfast. He APP
|eaied 20 he good hand and willing
work, and he employed him regu-
.Atly IN his wagon yard
IN The summer he went TO Chicago
s old home. where he learned thai
ome property In which he had ar in.
|eftst had been sold by his brother
End sten-mother He employed a law
~ 70 sue for his share. The sui
sun pending. and Mr. Mckinney
VOC not know the name Of the lawyer
" me address OF any OF Seabrook'i
relatives.
Afew days before his death Seabrool
,Hl IN with an old bum and got /,
ennking, for the first time since III
re been In Ennis He was so asham
| q Of himself that he was about ieav
~ the place when Mr. Mckinney
sn told him the old man would for
nFe him II he would sober up. Sea
SIook replied that he would come 4
palias aud get good sober. and com
nAek Saturday night sure. This wa
'he last seen OF him.
Mr Mckinney made HE statemen
me grand Jury and that body or
80 the dead man exhumed, whicl
sas done at $3.50 p. m.
me body was IN an advanced stat
decomposition. and notwlthstandln
,,ne liberal use OF dislnfectants by Mi
.Andermilk. the undertaken, the odo
"a. aickening.
20 Mckinney fully identified tn
ny as that Of Charles seabrook.
. ni,,.eWs has reached here that 7 w
SSane' formerly OF Dallas. died In III
isrreu Insane asylum yesterday.
~ Cline was an old and well know
|N<rh or Dallas. was about 40 year
age and born IN Tennessee. u
s.ne % Dallas In the 70's and engage
n ne olacksmithlng and carriage NAL
"s business.
r, ne was sent TO the asylum shol
, s~.,e ago 10 be treated for lnclpicr
s,.se1annlty. brought on by bad heali
~ business reverses. His friends la
~, ~ sientest hopes Of his recover
~ az hia bereayed family are almo
~ ~ I, remains were brought to Dalli
" 'nterment.
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