The Texas Miner, Volume 2, Number 41, October 26, 1895 Page: 3
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THE TEXAS MINER.
FT. WORTH RAILWAY AND NEWS NOTES.
FoRT WORTH, October 21, 1895.
Editor TEXAS MiNER:
W. T. Gates, agent at Aubrey, Texas, was in the city last
Wednesday.
S. G. Warner, genera! passenger agent of the Cotton Beit, was
here Thursday.
P. A. Miller, commercial agent for the Houston & Texas Cen-
tral, came in Thursday.
Sands & Astley's circus went to Bridgeport over the Rock
Island last Tuesday night.
G. H. Turner, assistant general freight agent of the Texas &
Pacific, was here Tuesday.
E. Koehler, commercial agent of the Chicago & Alton, came
in Tuesday from St. Louis.
The Texas & Pacific announces a $i round trip rate from this
city to Dallas during the fair.
M. E. Sebree, trainmaster of the Rock Island, went north
Wednesday night with the circus.
J. H.Cobb shipped a carload of fine Holstein cattle to Dallas
Wednesday night for a fair exhibit.
H. G. Krake, assistant general freight agent for the Missouri
Pacific, of St. Louis, came in Tuesday.
E. E. Bixby, traveling passenger agent of the Vandalia lines,
has returned from a trip to South Texas.
George England, traveling auditor of the Santa Fe, is engaged
in checking up the city ticket office here.
C. A. Waterman, traveling freight agent of the Missouri Pa-
cific, was here Tuesday from San Antonio.
Charles B. Sloat, assistant general passenger agent of the Rock
Island, has returned from a trip to South Texas.
W. H. Reiley, superintendent and master mechanic of the T.
C. & W. railroad, is here on a visit to his family.
Colonel James A. Wilson, general agent for the Chicago &
Alton, has gone to San Antonio on a business trip.
E. A. HirshReld, traveling passenger agent of the Fort Worth
& Denver, returned from a trip on the road Saturday.
Charley Ware, live stock agent for the Fort Worth & Denver,
is at Colorado City for his health and is steadily improving.
W. F. Steriey, chief clerk of the Fort Worth & Denver freight
and passenger offices, is in St. Louis attending a rate meeting.
R. C. Andrews, who has been working for J. H. Young, dis-
patcher for the Rio Grande division, has returned to Big Springs.
J. H. Young, third trick dispatcher for the Rio Grande divi-
sion, has returned from a trip to Chicago, accompanied by his
wife.
Mike Murphy, roadmaster of the Texas & Pacific, is here in
charge of a work train repairing the tracks in front of the Union
depot.
William Doherty, passenger agent of the Santa Fe, went to
Oklahoma City last Wednesday to chaperone a party of editors
over the line to Texas.
On account of the Concho Valley fair and races at San Angelo
November 5th to 8th the Santa Fe announces a maximum rate
of $5 for the round trip.
The Texas & Pacific will put on an additional passenger train
between Fort Worth and Abilene, made necessary by the change
of schedule November 1.
The Panhandle country will be well represented at the Dallas
fair, to judge by the number of people who have been arriving
here for several days over the Fort Worth & Denver.
On October 31 the Southern Pacific will resume its "Sunset
Limited Service" between New Orleans and San Francisco.
This service will be twice each week instead of weekly, as for-
merly, and will include every convenience known to the passen-
ger service.
Commencing October 18 and continuing until November 10,
the San Antonio-Kansas City sleeper on the Katy trains Nos. 1
and 2, which have been running via this city, will go by Dallas
on account of the fair travel. Passengers can obain tickets here
and take the car at Hillsboro.
The remains of Archie Jones, the Texas & Pacific switchman
who died here Saturday night, were shipped to Joplin, Mo.,
where his relatives live. His death was particularly sad, as he
left a young wife, to whom he had been married but a few
months. He was well esteemed by all who knew him.
The Houston & Texas Central has received four more of the
big engines which are to be devoted to passenger service. The
engines are the finest of their kind, and before being used on the
passenger run will be first limbered up in the freight service. It
is expected to make some fast time on the Central when these
new engines are in suitable condition.
Judge J. B. Johnson, master in chancery of the Santa Fe, has
returned from Minneapolis, Minn., where he went to consult with
Judge Henry C. Caldwell, the Santa Fe receiver, the oncers of
the road and the reorganization committee in reference to the
sale of the property. The time for the sale was fixed for Thurs-
day, December 5 at 2 p. m. at the freight depot of the Santa Fe
at Topeka., Kan. Judge Johnson says it is very safe to say that
the name of the new road will be the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway company instead of the present name, the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad company. He surmises that D. B.
Robinson will be president of the road when reorganized. The
property is expected to bring between forty and fifty million dol-
lars.
NEWS NOTES AND PERSONAL MENTION.
The Panther Social club will give a masquerade ball Monday
night, October 28.
The Imperials opened the social season with a German at
Hotel Worth last Thursday night.
There is a movement on foot to hold a reunion of the old set-
tlers of Tarrant county in this city some time in the near future.
Mr. David Hughes, a Kansas City capitalist, is here preparing
to establish a stone-cutting plant, which will employ twenty men.
Max Morris, formerly of Fort Worth, the noted bicycle cham-
pion, was married October 16 to Miss Kate Willisat Champaign,
111.
President O. L. Fisher of Fort Worth University will deliver
the annual address before the Oklahoma Methodist conference at
South McAlester.
I here will be a meeting of the various labor organizations at
the city hall Sunday afternoon, November 3, to discuss the sub-
ject of reciprocity.
The residence of Mr. Charles McKinsey on Peach street was
raided by burglars Saturday evening, and a quantity of jewelry
and other valuables stolen.
The-case of Frank Ware, charged with the murder of Martin
J. Black, will come up for trial before Judge Harris in the Sev-
enteenth district court to-cay.
The marriage of Mr. Dudley Portwood and Miss May Tulley
will occur Wednesday morning, October 23, at 7:30 o'clock, at
the home of the b ide, 703 West Third street.
The ex-Federal colored veterans will hold a reunion in Fort
Worth at Douglass Park October 22, 23, 24 and 25. The pro-
gramme will consist of addresses, orations and essays.
Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Anna L. Hog-
sett to Mr. J. J. Ballard of Wichita Falls at 8 o'clock Wednes-
day evening at the home of her parents, Fourth and Lamar.
The big break in the cotton market Saturday caused consider-
able excitement among local dealers. Fort Worth buyers, how-
ever, have been very cautious, s<;!d out at good profits, and were
not caught.
Judge J. H. Jackson of Fort Worth, supreme vice-president o
the American Protective association, lectured at the city hall
Saturday night on the object, history and future intentions of the
organization.
Mrs. C. C. McMichael, her sister, Mrs. Brewster of San An-
tonio, and niece, Mrs. R. H. Shipler of Mansfield, have returned
from the oil regions of Pennsylvania, where they went to attend
a family reunion.
Mr. Charles W. Childress and Miss Medora Alice Rainey were
united in marriage last Wednesday evening at the home of the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Rainey, on Adams street by
Rev. J. Morgan Wells. Terrell will be their future home.
Encouraging progress is being made on the Glenwood and
Polytechnic street car line. The work is being pushed rapidly
forward, the poles and wires are up nearly to the college, and the
work of putting up the cable was commenced to-day. AjAX.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 2, Number 41, October 26, 1895, newspaper, October 26, 1895; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200522/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.