The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 48, December 15, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
FORT WORTH RAiLWAY NOTES.
FoRT WORTH, December 10, 1894.
Editor of 1 HE TEXAS MiNER :
S. N. Lloyd, genera! roadmasterof the Joint Track, spent Sun-
day in the city.
M. Murphy, division roadmaster of the Texas & Pacific, head-
quarters at DaHas, was here Friday evening.
W. A. Dashiel of the passenger department of the Texas &
Pacific, headquarters DaHas, was here Sunday. ^
A. A. Judges, superintendent of the Pullman Palace Car com-
pany, headquarters in this city, spent Sunday in Dallas.
P. C. Byrnes, repairer of the telegraph department of the Tex-
as & Pacific, has been on the sick list the past few days.
J. W. Allen, freight agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas,
headquarters Denison, was in the city Friday and Saturday.
W. L. Chew of the legal department of the Texas & Pacific,
headquarters in Dallas, was in the city Tuesday attending court.
J. A. Warner, traveling accountant of the Texas & Pacific,
-with headquarters in Dallas, was in the city a few hours Monday.
Gaston Meslier, general passenger and ticket agent of the
Texas & Pacific, headquarters, DaHas, was in the city Wednes-
day.
Samuel M. West, scale and time inspector of the Texas & Pa-
cific, headquarters at Marshall, passed through to Dallas from the
west Sunday.
Leroy Trice, division superintendent of the eastern division of
the Texas & Pacific, headquarters at Marshall, was in the city a
few hours Wednesday.
W. E. Curtis, repairer of the telegraph department of the Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas, headquarters at Whitesboro, was in the
city Thursday morning.
F. R. Place, assistant superintendent of the telegraph depart-
ment of the Texas & Pacific, headquarters at DaHas, was in the
city a few hours Thursday.
W. G. Crush, general passenger and ticket agent of the Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas lines in Texas, headquarters at Denison.
spent the day Thursday in the city.
E. W. Campbell, trainmaster of the Eastern division of the
Texas & Pacific, headquarters Marshall, spent a few hours in the
city Sunday afternoon and departed for the east.
President Murray of the Big Four, in his special car, passed
through the city Saturday morning on the southbound Missouri,
Kansas & Texas passenger en route to Galveston.
J. W. Maxwell, superintendent of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas, headquarters Denison, w as in the city Thursday afternoon
in charge of the Wisconsin Press association excursion.
James Parker, general passenger agent of the Missouri, Kan-
sas & Texas system, headquarters St. Louis, was in the city Fri-
day and accompanied the Wisconsin Press association excursion
party north to Hannibal.
Col. Robt. E. Lee Cook of the Texas & Pacific is again in
hard luck. His fine thoroughbred "Charley" horse, Ginger, got
down in his stall the other night and injured himself so badly he
is now in a fair way to the bone yard. The Colonel will now
walk to and from his labors. He also has a fine "dog cart" for
sale cheap.
Ed O'Keefe, machinist in the Texas & Pacific shops, this city,
has tendered his resignation to accept a position with the South-
ern Pacific in California. He departs for his new home on the
coast Tuesday morning. Mr. O'Keefe leaves a host of friends
in the Panther city, who wish him all kinds of good luck in his
new home.
A party of Missouri, Kansas & Texas officials, composed of
H. C. Rouse, Milwaukee, president; T. C. Purdy, St. Louis,vice-
president; A. A. Allen, Parsons, genera! manager; D. Miller. St.
Louis, general traffic manager; Cary A. Wilson, St. Louis, chief
engineer; J. W. Allen of Denison. general freight agent of lines
in Texas, and J. W. Maxwell, Denison. division superintendent,
arrived in the city Sunday morning and spent the day in the city,
and departed for Waco, where they took in the Cotton Palace.
Thursday morning they went to Austin on company business.
The Wisconsin Press association excursion train, having on
board a party of seventy, arrived in this city on Friday, the 7th,
and spent the afternoon seeing the sights. They were shown
through the packery, the new courthouse, and all other points of
interest. They departed about 4 o'clock in the afternoon for
Henrietta, where they were tendered a banquet and reception,
leaving about i a. m. for Denison and home via Hanniba!.
They expressed themselves as greatly pleased with the Lone Star
state and the people they became acquainted with.
The eastbound Texas & Pacific passenger was held up by rob-
bers just west of Fort Worth Thursday evening and the express
car looted. Since the express companies have declined to carry
money into the Indian Territory the festive train robbers have
been compelled to change their field of operation. It is passing
strange that with the number of officers who are paid good sala-
ries and carry Gatlin guns in this great state of ours the train
robbers have things a!! their own way. To a man up a tree it
looks like the officers, some of them, are either Standing in, too
alfired lazy or afraid to tackle them. The story the daily papers
te!l of the two officers who were passeners on the looted train
smacks of this, and reflects anything but credit on them.
Rock Island passenger train No. 2, which left here at 7:45 p.
m. Monday, the 10th, was hetd up and looted one mile south of
Terra!, I. T., just across the state line, by three well armed and
masked men, supposed to be the same three who he!d up the
Texas & Pacific train at Benbrook. As this train does not carry
valuables in the express car on night trip they got nothing there,
but went through the passenger coaches, robbing every man,
woman and child on the sleeper and all. They shot several
times at Conductor Cannon, also at Pullman Conductor Brown,
who was struck by one ball, but not seriously injured. It looks
much like the four men in jail at Fort Worth for the Benbrook
robbery were not the right men. The sheriff who wi!! do up the
Texas train robbers and make possible safety in travel and per-
mit the express companies to do business will cover himself in
glory. Now !et the Moses come to the front and lead the chil-
dren of Israel out of the wilderness. AjAX.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Ni:w YORK. December 8, 1^94.
Editor TEXAS MlNER:
n^HE Congress of the United States has convened, and you
1 now know what the chief magistrate thinks the national legis-
lature should do to insure the largest measure of peace and pros-
perity for the seventy millions of human beings who constitute
this great nation. Seventy millions, each one of whom, like the
immortal Texan sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representa-
tives, think themselves "a. bigger man than old Grant;" or, in
other words, the equal of every other man on the continent—a
characteristic that in itself makes the American nation dominate
the world.
Truth is the greatest thing in the world, and the American peo-
ple are eminently truthful. It was a Texas Republican who con-
vulsed the Republican national convention, and indeed the whole
country, by his comment on a Northern politician's deprecatory
remarks; that if such sentiments were tolerated the public would
think we were a nation of office seekers. "Why! what are we
here for?" said the honest Texan. In point of fact, the innate
truth and "naviete" of the South has furnished us with most of the
political catchwords of the time. "Where are we at?" has grown
into a political classic, and in politics, as in commerce, the coun-
try's hope largely centers upon the South. It relies npon the
South for a growing conservatism which will ostracise whisky and
pistols and make life and property as safe south of Mason and
Dixon's line as it is north of it. When public sentiment in the
South ostracises a man who carries a pistol and eulogizes one
who does not capital will begin to flow into the South and make
it easier for every man who is willing to work to earn a living.
In no other part of this great country has nature done so much
to attain this result with a minimum of effort. The fields, forests,
mines and manufactures of the South are steadily pushing her to
the front, and if her people show themselves worthy of their op-
portunities general prosperity is not far off. No one who knows
the Southern people doubts what their response will be to the in-
quiry of her sister states, "Are you there?" It was the very im-
pulsiveness and chivalry of the Southern people which led them
into the mistake in 1861 of trying to break up the Union. Their
magnanimous nature has led them to accept the arbitratement o f
war and make them the strongest supporters of the old Hag. The
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 48, December 15, 1894, newspaper, December 15, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200495/m1/2/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.