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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09
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Many bright Lawyers sojournins
Here In Austin.

Austin, Tex. Feb S.-AmonE the at
torneys here pushing the johnson
grass bill are Col, Holmes Cummings
OF Nashville, Tenn, John Duncan and
James Jones' OF Tyler rhRd Holt, John
Stewart and Presley Il Ewing OF
Houston, Edward Dwyer OF san An
tonic, J. NJ Mccormick, Thomas J..
Freeman. W, Thompson, Wislmann
and II. u, Cownrt OF Dallas, Judge
Cochran OF san Angelo ]. W ,swayne
and NJ. A. Spoontg ~ Fort Worth
and the Lord knows who else from 9th
er cities Of the state, j. Wharton
Terry Is also here
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09
NnnonD niuronsls.
isoa. Jen MeLemore Hereivss N re,
Pointers From Constituent.

Austin, Tex, Feb. s.--Hon. Jeff Nc.
Lemore Of Nueces. received a few Val.
liable pointers from a constituent this
|inorning and will act Immediately,
Ecckport, Tex, Feb. Ito Hon, j..
lMcLemore. representative Austin, Tex.
NY Dear Honorable Sir. So many
.difieulties In the state OF Texas for
mot indemnity lincn and corners OF par
Rented lands by the owners or others
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

Kimbnll, Tex. Feb, s,--A blizzard
the hardest OF the season, struck this
place about 8 o'clock Wednesday even
ing The mercury dropped to rs above
zero before night; Thursday morning
y was about 10 the bottom. The
brasos river Is frozen ali over. II will
hold horse up. and stu freezing.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

at velasco. furnishing material for the
Jettles. and q W. Angle, manager OF
the velaseo Terminal who wanted the
rates on rock reduced over the Interna-
tional & Great Northern railroad from
Arcola 70 ChenanEo.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. Sire this
imorning destroyed tho home for frlend-
less women, Firemen succeeded IN res
cuing all the Inmates.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

Boston, Feb, SAN uneonarmod dis.
paleh from Halifax says hundred
swept away by an awful tidai wa,'e
Many lives are believed to be lost.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09
MARDI-CR'
lew Orleans
And Return
One 4

On February 2sd, 2ttb a.,
Texas and Paclnc rallwssl
tickets to New Orleans and n
count Of Mardi Gras feslivi,,',
of one fare for the rouna ,,,s
to March 10, 1895, Tor rs,n' ~
desiring to visit the cresc.n,
business or pleasure shoulS
to take advantage Of his rs,l
n,a,. c. D, ID
c,,,. r,., ], +, I'd
Fort worth]
CASTOR MEsLl
General Passenger aud Ticket
Dallas
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

New York. Feb. s,--The effect Of the
presidents message announcing the
terms ot the bond issue today encour-
aged Gle stock market. The news ala
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

Austin, Tex, Feb. s.-House Judloi-
airy committee No. / reported favor
ably Bailey's connecting carrier bill.
strong fight VIII be made ON this
bill by the railroads,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

Mledlesboro, KY. Feb. s.--rhe n,er-
curry II 10 below and blowing a yale
from tho northwest; suffering ~ in
tenao.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09
rExAnKAsA LOBBYISTS .
Another Detachment In che city
To-day.

Austin, Tex, Feb, s,--Bili Dean and
w. p. Henry came In from rsxarkana
to-day to lobby In favor of the Texef-
kama court bin Upwards OF thirty
here and putting up the strongest
kind OF q fight for their pet measure.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

Austia' Tex, Feb. s.--The railroad
aommisslon was visited bv Aiessss
". A. u. Iaa Que OF the contracs,rs
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

,Halifax, ~ s., Feb. s,-The Aipb,
overdue from Bermuda, arrived todaS
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

Look to your health. Alum baking
powders destroy IL. Dr. Prices Is ahso,
iutely pure.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09
srArurn OF LIMITATION.

It's the surest-Dr Prices Baking
Powder-becnuse it's absolutely pure,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09

Austin. Tex, Feb. s,--House com
tons reported favorably Wards bill
permitting citizens Of towns Of 1900
or less to abolish the corporation act,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-09
ruE n0ND TnANs1crIox

v. GROVER CLEVELAND"
executive Mansion, February s, 1896
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09
PERSONAL.
q course.

z. H. Campbell of the navy, is at the occi-
dental.
Frank H. Smith, an attorney of Stockton. is
at the Grand.
A. Ekman, q merchant of Oroville, is guest
at the Grand.
Charles S. Beach of the st. James Hotel, San
Jose, is at the Lick.
D. n. Carithers, a prominent merchant OF
Santa Rosa, is at the Lick.
James f. Peck, Sheriff of MERGED and Mrs.
Peck are staying at the Lick.
P. A. Buell. a lumberman of Stockton. regis
tered at the Grand yesterday.
r. NJ. Green, merchant and mine-owner Of
Oroville, is staying at the Grand.
FL. S. Dexter, capitalist of Calistoga, and his
family registered at the California yesterday.
Louis Dean, big cattleman of Reno, Ne
vada, was one OF yesterdays arrivals al the
Russ.
Joseph n. Dolph of Portland, Oregon, a
nephew of ex-senator Dolph, registered at the
California yesterday.
Sam Ruddell, Deputy Surveyor of the Port,
and his family have taken up their qua rters at
the California for the winter.
f. B. Edison of Gazelle, member of the firm
OF Edison Bros, leading merchants and big cat
tie and land owners of Siskiyou County, was
one OF yesterdays arrivals at the Grand.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09
UNEQUAL ASSESSMENTS.

The Watsonville PdjGroniGn says: "The
State Board of Equalization has placed the
mileage assessment of the Paiaro Valley
Railroad in Monterey County at 81 PEI
cent of that of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road. The latter runs several heavy freight
and passenger trains each way daily, its
equipment is frst-class in every depart
ment, its right of way is five times the size
of that of the narrow-gauge, its business is
heavy all the year and it passes through
one of the most productive freight-traffic
sections of the State. The narrow-gauge
is local line, without chance for Eastern
business and depends largely on the beet
factory. It's main revenue is from the beet
industry. If it should be assessed $500 per
mile, the broad-gauge should be assessed
four or five times that amount. The State
board must have based its value on per-
centage of gauge. The comparison of
values placed on these two roads is the
most telling illustration OF the leniency
shown the Southern Pacific Company"
This is very interesting news. The de-
duction drawn by our contemporary con-
corning the lenity with which the South
ern Pacific is treated seems unavoidable
anu JUST, ~ dppSdtS W NC q Sd9C VI hal Si
discrimination in favor Of the Southern
Pacific and against small rival.
This little road was built largely by some
of the leading spirits in the San Joaquin
Valley road, and from the beginning has
been thorn in the flesh of the great cor
poration. The discrimination which the
State Board Of Equalization has practiced
against the little road is clearly serving
the interests of the Southern Pacific,
whether or not the board may have had
any intention to accomplish that end.
This will serve to put the State on its
guard with reference to the treatment of
the San Joaquin Valley road by future
Boards OF Equalization. AS the hackers
of the Pajaro Valley Railroad and of
the San Joaquin Valley road are in a
measure the same, and as both roads are
rivals of the Southern Pacific, it will be
interesting to see to what extent the State
assessors of railroads will go, II any, in
using the power of the State to cripple
opposition to the Southern Pacific. The
San Joaquin Valley road will be very
valuable property, and as its owners will
be numerous and powerful it may develop
into check upon the tendency of certain
State boards to cherish the interests of the
Southern Pacific at the expense of the
people. This would be equally as inn
portant an achievement as the reduction
of freights and fares in the San Joaquin
Valley to point which will insure profit
to industry, an increase of population and
an enhancement of land values.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09
BEGIN THE WORK.

The proceedings of the Railroad Com
mission on Saturday give encouragement
to the belief that in the long fight against
the monopoly another victory will be won
by the people. All the Commissioners ex-
pressed a willingness to undertake the
work of relieving the people from the
cinch OF the railroad to some extent at
least, and while there was some disagree
ment as to the degree of relief to be given,
there was none upon the general principle
that the railroad has been exacting and
unjust in its determinations and that the
commission should set about remedying
the evil at once.
The series OF resolutions introduced by
Commissioner Stanton form the salient
feature of the situation and to say the
least they are full of promise of future
good. The written opinion containing a
summary OF the arguments upon which
the resolutions are based, is not less en-
couraging ncr less important than the res
olutions themselves, and outlines policy
in which DR.. Stanton will be sustained by
the people and ought to be supported by
his colleagues.
In the opinion Commissioner Stanton
says. LII InuSI DC TedliZeQ Dy Ill lQdC the
work of preparing revised tariff so as to
put the same in operation is a task of con-
siderable magnitude and my belief is that
in order to have the same IN operation by
January l, 1896, it will require almost daily
sessions of this board until then" Fol-
lowing this up, one OF the resolutions de-
clares: THAT this board proceed at once
to adopt a revised schedule OF rates in ac-
cordance herewith in order that the same
may be in force on or before January l,
1885,
Whatever differences there may be
among the Commissioners on other points
of the opinion or the resolutions, there
ought to be none on the points we have
quoted. To revise the freight tariff will
require a great deal of work and there
should be no delay in getting at it. Com
missioner La Rue has already proposed a
reduction in grain rates and he can have
no reasonable objection to going further
and doing justice to other shippers. Com
missioner Clark also has declared himself
sin favor of making a reasonable reduction
on the lines wherein inequalities and diff
ferences exist" SO far then there is an
agreement on the need of getting to work
at any rate, and the agreement should re-
suit in immediate action. The people
have no desire to cinch the railroads.
They ask nothing but justice and certainly
no member of the commission can have
any excuse for refusing that
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which civilization has advanced in the
community. We can imagine what would
be the effect on the material welfare of
Dallas, Texas, if its newspapers should
boast OF the immunity which prize-fght-
ing enjoys there as an iEducement to CAPT.
tallsts to invest their wealth in the devel-
opment OF that section. AS newspapers
very properly are taken abroad as an index
OF the morality, intelligence and security
OF the community in which they are pub
Iished, it is not difficult to imagine what
the better and Weather classes of the
Eastern States think of San Francisco
when they see the columns of its leading
newspapers devoted TO the PRONUNCIATION
OF lottery swindles. The people of the
Eastern States have outgrown that form of
barbarism, and evidence of its existence
elsewhere lnclines them to stay at home.
1t Is natural for strangers to assume that
newspaper which encourages frauds of
this order, which are peculiar to border
civilization and impossible in whole
somely developed community, viii lend
itself to any other base and disreputable
scheme. Such a Judgment of the leading
San Francisco papers which publish lot
terry advertisements would be unjust, but
there is still danger of its existence. 1t
would seem, however, that pride, without
the aid of knowledge that such publication
is bad policy, ought to be sufficient to re-
strain any publisher from so reprehensible
q oaI1rsa
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09
A LOSS TO CALIFORNIA.

DR.. A. c.. Hirst delivered last evening
his farewell sermon to his congregation
and presently goes Eastward to occupy
one of the most potential pulpits of Chi
cage. The passing from our midst OF this
eminent preacher, talented orator and
public-spirited citizen is distinct loss, not
alone to the City of San Francisco,
where his presence and influence have
been felt for the past several years, but to
the entire State of California, which has
far too few of his refined and refining quail
tiles among her public men.
1t has been marked characteristic of
DIR. Hirsts career and ministry in San
Francisco that his energies and efforts as
preacher have been exercised with clear
conception of his place and duty as a citi-
zen. This is g lesson Of wisdom which should
be commended to the heart of every
preacher in the land. If the precepts of
truth and duty which, under the name of
religion, find pulpit exposition within
churches, are to be deemed something
more than mere abstraction by the masses
of men, they must be capable of applica-
ton in reforming the private and public
evils of practical daily life. In his effort to
carry out InlS luea Ut. hlrsC mas DeeH q
notable success in our City. Always
and everywhere digniied, cultured
gentleman a learned and eloquent orator,
brave and strong advocate of practical
reforms. he has moved among our people
in widening circle of respect and in
fuence. His pulpit has been made place
for the outpouring of a powerful cur
rent of thought directed to the better
ment of San Francisco's social and political
habits and the quickening OF her moral
sense. His personality has given i'm
portance and his fervid eloquence has
added force to every movement for the up
holding of right and the spread of culture
to which he has found time to lend his aid.
1t is indeed a loss to California to lose the
impulse 10 right action whichmen like DR..
Hirst inspire.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09
PLAIN TALKS TO FARMERS.
MR. ADAMS WORDS MET WITH WARM ENDORSEMENT
The CALL has begun series of articles e.

MR.. ADAMS WORDS MET WITH WARM ENDORSEMENT.
The CALL has begun q series of articles en-
titled, "Plain Talks with Farm.
FARMERS ers," by Edward F. Adams,
AND THE himself a farmer. The series
HARD TINES begins we'll. In the first
article Mr.. Adams makes these
pithy remarks:
Speaking as a farmer, I ask: Why is it that
mercantile and professional classes live more uxu-
rously than we? Why do not their wives also
rise at five in the morning and toll till bedtime?
Why do they ride in palace cars and we in tourist
cars? Now our usual answer to this is that the
whole race of them are nefarous cormorants
noble, honest OF toll. But the real reason that
they thrive while we strive unprofitaby is because
they are not such fools are; they know their
business and do not. If they buy ton of grain,
they know what it cost them, and when they sell
it, they know whether they have made profit.
Never were truer words written. There is
much complaint just now over "hard times"
among the farmers of California. Much SYM
pathy is expressed for them. Yet we hear no
the shop-keeper, the small tradesman. the
small manufacturer Why not? Have they not
suffered during the past few years just as the
farmers have? ooh, but they are business
men," would be the reply. That is exactly it.
They are business men, they do not ask for
sympathy, and they suffer in silence, while the
farmers suffer noisily. The sooner the farmers
put themselves on the same score as other men,
run their business like other business men and
men, the sooner win they attain the same
measure of prosperity as other business men.
AS Mr.. Adams, himself California farmer,
says of California farmers: "Other men know
their business--the farmers do not."-The Ar
gonaut.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09
LOTTERIES IN OAKLAND.

The crusade against the lottery evil in
San Francisco has extended to Oakland,
for the Chief of Police of that city has in
structed the officers to enforce the laws
against dealers in lottery tickets there.
We have not observed lately whether or
not the leading newspapers of Oakland
are given to the habit of publishing the
lists of lottery drawings and winning
numbers" but we trust that they are
moved by higher considerations than those
which affect the conduct Of the leading
journals on this side of the bay.
1t is not possible for the question of
newspaper support of lotteries TO have two
sides. The whole story is that lottery
advertisements are published because they
are handsomely paid for, and that the
moral effect of this support is ignored by
the publishers. This effect is manifold.
1t not only refers to the encouraging of
swindling and the robbing of the people,
but it is taken as measure of the point to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09

California they will exact it from the
workingmen, but however strange it may
seem the threat is apparently unmistak-
able. Not few workingmen have been
alarmed by it and some men claiming 10
be their representatives have made pro-
tests to the Railroad Commissioners
against any reduction whatever in existing
rates and determinations.
The workingmen have, however, no good
reason TO be alarmed by the threat. The
shippers of the State do not ask nor desire
that railroad rates shall be reduced below
a point sufficient TO yield good profits to
the owners and pay good wages to the
workingmen. Moreover, the reduction
asked for will benefit the whole COM
munity and not merely those directly en-
gagged in shipping. The interests OF all
classes of people in this controversy are
one and the same. As Commissioner
Stanton well said: every necessity or
commodity OF life used by the artisan or
laboreT, the farmer or producer, manu-
facturer or merchant at some time is re-
quired TO pay the cost of transportation,
and this in some shape must be added to
its cost and eventually paid by the con-
sumer"
The interests of the people in the contest
are one, and as there can be no division of
those interests there should be no division
among the people themselves. The rail
road company will have no occasion to re-
duce wages, and though it may indirectly
threaten to do so it will not attempt it.
There is limit even to the power of mo-
nopoly. California has now become
stronger than the Southern Pacific Com
pany and its ability to crush is past.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09
USELESS THREATS.

1t has been evident for some time past
that in the struggle to maintain the cinch
upon the shippers of California, it is part
of the tactics of the monopoly to array one
part of the people against the other by
threatening its workmen with reduction
of wages if the exactions of the monopoly
are reduced.
To men who are dependent upon the
railroad company for work and wages the
threat is by no means pleasant to face. 1t
is indeed strange that millionaires who are
rich enough TO live in prodigal luxury, to
pay the gambling debts offoreign Princes,
to give large sums for the development of
Central Africa and to pay dividends on
large quantities of watered stock, should
have the impudence to declare that if they
cannot exact money from the shippers of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

He about to propose}-My dear Elsie, do
love you
She--You know, of course, am poor.
He-Yes, Miss Elsie, and hope you will per-
nit me to be a brother to you.-Hum oristisehe
Blaetter.
Hell had a dream about you last night Miss
Louisa. was about to give you O kiss. when
suddenly we were separated by river that
gradually grew as big as the Thames.
She-And there was no bridge and no boat?-
Household Words.
81 wish had place in your heart" said the
summer young man.
eyes 2" said the summer girl.
eyes indeed. 1t is SO delightfully."- cold.-In-
dianepolis Journai.
Waiter-Will you have spinach to-day, sir
Guest-Yes, but don't want 1t so spunky as
it was yesterday. Bring me some with no sand
in it.-Boston Transcript
Cultured in Boston ?" said Perry Patettic.
"Well, guess yes! Last time was there got
throwed out of q beer saloon for eatin' me free
lunch wit a knife" -Cincinnati Enquirer.
never touch liquor with your lips, and here
you are drunk.
George-Didn't touch stuff WI m lpsh. Used
shtraws!-Syracuse Post.
Mr.. Noopop-My baby cries all night. I don't
know what to do with it,
Mr.. Knowitt-Pll tell you what I did. AS
soon as our baby commenced to cry used to
turn on all the gas. That fooled him. He
thought it was broad daylight and went to
sleep.-Pearson's We ky.
"When mans clothes are too loose" says
the Manayunk Philosopher, "there are two
ways of remedying the evil. One is to take
them back to the tailor. Another is to get a
new clearinghouse. '-P Philadelphia Record.
Old Bullion (playfully) Suppose l should
lose my money and die poor, what would my
little duckie darling do then?
Young Bride neutrality-suspicious. medi-
cal college would give me something Tor your
corpse.-New York Weekly.
"What Is Charley doing for living now?"
Writing"
81 didn't think he was literary"
"He isn't He writes home for remittances."
-Tid-Bits.
Clef-They tell me your daughter Julia is
quite singer. Has she good voice? Is her
method
Staff-Cant say so m uch about her dice, but
her method is superb. She never sings when
am at home.-Boston Transcript.
$50 old Mr.. Brown is married at last?"
eyes; furriner, l card"
"a foreigner? No, an English lady"
ION, l card as 'ow she was Tartar
Household Words.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09

Captain George W. Couch of the steamer Old
Dominion, is among the eldest steamship cap
tans in the world, not in point OF years, but in
length of service, having been in commission
forty-nine years.
j. Pierpont Morgan, the chief of the syndi-
cate which supplied the United States with
gold in exchange for bonds, began life as
clerk with the old New York banking firm of
Duncan, Sherman Co.
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn of the
United States navy is one of the few officers of
high rank who are not graduates of Annapolis.
He began his career as apprentice in the
Charleston navy-yard.
Herr Gura, the barytone, the original Wotan
in "Der Ring des Nibelungen," has been dis
charged from the Munich Hoftheater, as his
voice is no longer fresh enough. He will con-
fine himself to concerts.
Cardinal Ledochowski, who bore the brunt of
the Government prosecution during the period
OF the kulturkampf, is to celebrate his sacer-
dotal jubilee in a few days. The celebration
will be general throughout Germany and Po-
land.
L. E. Chittenden, who is spending the sum-
mer with his son, Horace H. Chittenden, at
Shelburne Bay, VT, is correcting the proof
sheets OF a book to be entitled, selections
From the Writings and Speeches of Abraham
Lincoln"
Grover Cleveland has been in public life
thirteen years, and one Maine boy named for
him, Grover c. Watson of Knox County, Me-. is
big enough to run as reform candidate-or,
at any rate, as q candidate-for the reform
school.
General Won Hannekin, the youug German
officer who played an important part in the re-
cent war between China and Japan, fighting
on the side OF the former, is in Berlin and is
the recipient of much attention.
Great regret is felt in Germany at the death
of Professor Rudolph Won Roth, the famous
sanskrit scholar, who had been professor at
Tubingen University for fifty years. With
Bothlingk, he published Sanskrit dictionary.