Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-10
FROM NORTH TEXAS TOWNS
FRESH NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR
owa CORRESPONDENTS.
city couhcii at HIiIsboro Tranracts
Considerable Routine Dusincss.
rho wnterworiss Question.
Esamisntion for Teschcrs.

fillisboro. June 9-The city council
mot last night tn adjourned session
With two aldermen absent, Mostly
routine business was transacted. The
city InarshaPs report showed forty-nve
cases for the month Of May in the
city court Tho assessor and collectors
report OF collections for May showed
total OF sGs059. The health committee
reported in reference to the construc-
ton OF new slaughter house within
the city limits recommending that
same be not allowed The report was
adopted. The fire department came in
for good long discussion caused by
the amount OF expense that was
claimed 1t caused the city. No definite
action beyond some matters pertaining
TO Il being referred 10 the IRE commit
tee. A communication from the Mis-
souri,. Kansas and Texas railway COM
pany setting forth the fact that they
thought they should not be required to
put In a street crossing In south Hills
boro was referred TO the street COM
mlttee. The mayor recommended the
employment OF an engineer to mako
q survey OF the city and 10 prepare a
Dlin OF DbhlA bll Nilltil Aif ilAN hbhltl
couid act intelligently on the water
works question and stated as his rcn-
song for calling the matter up now
that the members OF the council and
particularly tho water and light COM
mlttces had more time now to make
thorough Investigations Of the matter
than they would later on In the year.
The matter was referred u n commit
tee. II was also suEBeeted that the
10 uls "a
well marked so that the assessor could
make n more accurate assessment OF
the lands within the city limits, The
slaughter house owners within tho city
llmlt9 are TO be notified TO vacate Same
as slaughter houses within ten days
Accounts were then allowed to the
amount Of s72G, which includes n bill
for 600 feet OF fire hose.
a train load Of cattle was shipped
from here today via Missouri. Kansas
and Texas. all IN fine condition and
bound for Chicago.
A small tenant house on the farm Of
MIR, a. n Ross south OF town WAN cons
sumed by IRE today at I o'clock The
house was occupied By negro tenant,
There was no one at the house and the
occupant was loud In hls statements
that he had $500 In SILVER In trunk In
the house and that he knew some one
had broken omen his trunk, robbed him
and then fired the house 10 conceal the
robbery, a lively time WIS expected
for few minutes, but was quleted
down,
Water was thrown on the burning
trunk until II could be dragged from
the cmbers. when So We're found, but
no more
The city Assessor and collector has
completed hts list OF tho school children
In the city between the ages OF seven
and seventeen wears and the figures ate
as follows: Males. white j1t; females,
white. 403; total. IA: males, colorcd.
100; females. colored. 1853. total, $50,
making total scholastic population for
Hillsboro this year 1851
The Cotton Belt will change It's time
card on the nth no that the afternoon
train Will reach here at 7 o'clock p,
M, which win enable those coming
In ON that train to go either north or
south ON the Missouri. Kansas and
Texas II they should desire 10 do NO,
The track walking evangelist did
iIllabOro for II few hours today and
then passed on south
Work ON the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas yards at this place is progress
sing Ms rapidly as could be expected,
The bridge gang have arrived and
everything is TO be done TO push the
work TO completion, It Is learned. A
great number OF people have gone out
TO see that the work has actually
begun as there We're many people here
who Insisted all the time until now
that no improvements OF this nature
would ever be mnde here,