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Correspondence Solicited
Worth Decatur Weatherford 6o don Baird Atileie
Colorado Bia Springs and Pecos
foil lire of Building Matrlnl PalnlB 0 rnent Tilmo Eto
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leading Buggy and Carriage Bealej
of North Texas
JEOIAL X OTTIOJB
Kml of Panoy Groceries embraces aB flue a lino of good tu wn bo
t9market and wo have Just perfected arranRements for dally anlp
Ircsb Vegetablea from New Orleans
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Telepliono conimunlcatioii ivJtli
all important points
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Strictly FirBtcloss
HALE PIANOS
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FACTORY PRICES DUPLICATED
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SPRING GOODS RAPIDLY COMING IN
Dallas CloMurno Decatur Sliormnii and
Send all orders for Goods nd Samples to
Fort Wortli ITexniS
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Ornnd Upright and Huuara Flanofurteii lu
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cbetrfally farnlabed on nppUcatloa <
MASON HA51LIN
Cloili Warren
AND SKONINGER
THE BEST
For the Least Money
9
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Descriptive Catalogues fUrnlahed on application
Fort V ortla
Wholesalo Dealer in
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TVo arc now prepared to enter into contracts for either the
Miiei Lots il Ml U
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XilberaJ Advances 2WCnde on XlivoluifteH
Wo have on our Hooka a Desirable List of
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Quoenswaro Crockery nnd Glassware
CORNER SECOND AND HOUSTON STREETS FORT WORTH
Grazing Lands Stock Ranches City Property Etc
Seeond Street Between Hotston pd Thrjckmorton
YORT WdnTH TFXA8
VOL IX NO 218
THE MIGHTY AVaLANOIIE
Tho Ltttla Mining Villago Alta
Visited by Three Snow alidea
In a Single Night
Thirty People Known to Have Been
Unuhea to llealb While Many
Others Wcto Iijurcd
Twelve of tho D ad Exhumed Tho
Living In Fear of a Repetition
of tho OftlRBtropUo
Salt Lakh Utah Feb 18 Tha
idler party vcutloAlta to iwouo thu
UvluKHiidbtluR buck tho drad who
wero hilled In tho reoeut aoovrttldo
whloh ovorwhcliiKil ihnt town
returned mrly thin morn
lug Twrtvo bodUs wtro brought
down tho canyon lu mournful procos
Ion
tlnglo tile l thwl upon ttltHts
Tho llrt lud boro thu budy of Mat
tie Ulokoy
Nrxtoamotho rtmalna of Timothy
Mttdduti Jercmlnti Ht > Knii U if
Iiviiuh JamtH WnUmi linrmy Gib
Htm and Mm Fort wlih her baby
lashed to lltT btCHSt
TholnHhUd cnrrled tho four child
ren of Kiward UalbU
Tho following iiirmms reported dead
wro rwcued nlvc
Audruvr Wlitie after btliic under
thoiiuow twelve liuur aligihly In
jured
trttlcrlck Culmnn nftcr being
burttd sixteen Iiouih al o hurt but
inn aeilounly
Mr KcUt in ft drift hIx Imum
BeBltlm theau Mr Kind though not
oovtrtdby tho avalanehr was tmdly
hurt Tho boly of oneoi tin Omuaiuen
wauuolfoiiud Mia lronlllMffnii > hndn
pu monition of Hie danger and b gg d
er huabaud to tnltu her nnd inclr
child to n placu of nafoty that fatal
ulzht nay lug that Nliu felt turu nu nv
nlauehu vm coining
An liiiuost wm litltt to day and thu
burlali > lil occur to morrow
Mrs llollou Mrn JCelsl tvoundod
Mr Hewitt Mm Joimton itml htr
four cuildiuu an IlatiHOimn mid four
children nro aillllu Alia lu constant
lunger AriBOUIiij party will go out
tomurmw moruniKio bilng them In
Suow HlldMi lu that iielghbomod are of
ilolly ocourrenco One occurred last
Saturday In Superior Gulch which
tho urvlvora at Altu fiU Hire reaiiltid
In tho death of tiamuel trtiecoit n
ranger nnd J White woiklng thcro
Two men koIuk > eo If they wero
cafe got In fcight of their cabin
and turned whtn thry naw tho
nuoHBlltte atari and lu an lnutaut al
most llivouWnwv obiltemted In a sea
of mow By thu cuucutslou of tho
elido they Worn thrown vlnleutly to
tho ground iliev hurried away
for four o Auotlivr tilde It In rcx > rl
edthata man iihiiimI McDanlels llv
ItiK eon I h of Alta wbn lul ltd by tho
alldo of Krlday nUlit Koth
liiK hai brcn ateu or heard of
him 11uce and in thrco alldta In Alta
ull of uhloU toourifil nu Friday
thirty pvrttona libve b > eu killed
WACO
Candidates for tha PostrauterBklp
Tho Olty Without it Volea
in Oountv Matters
peelal
Waco Tix Kb 18 Chan W
HniltbayounR hudurcH man of this
city la devrloplnn n iiuUt but strong
oouteet for tho Who poNlolllco lio
labickedby powerful bu lu < M ItiUu
euccfl which la uot tho cme with aomo
of tho other mplrantu whoso olalnm
nro rather of n tontlmentalpolltlcal
naturo Unit ex County Judge Grr
aid enlere the raco H tilth will proba
bly bo tho wUniff O im of tho other
nRplranta lu M J J W Down for
mauy yeira prmrlttor of tho Waco
Uxamluer Jud o Urralda frlonda
It mm bo reuimked have a Blronn
lunli rlii < to mar him fur tint plaoo
now IIH1 by United Hwte Marnhal
M Kp
Ttie tllslrtct cleric madooutUio l > a
pern to < lav for ouiivejlug Hoiny
Mosely Geo Levlnuu nnd A t
61 ore to Ihe penloutlary trt nervo
their re prctlvu aeuiencrn Mo ely la
u nouirliitiM horaclhlef and in now In
tho Dallaa Jill
Tli Uvllrf aaeoclatlon laid a meet
ing Ibla alterunon and reporttd tho
number of diMltitc people lu thu city
decllolnx rapidly A taw wo ka ubo
Iho association Had over ono hundred
om forty pople on thu lint to whom It
lurnMiud fond fuel eto dally
Tho municipal cauvaea Krowa
warmer overy day Tun candidate
for aldermen have oominenccd loan
I tiouuoa now and tha woods are full
of em
Hepro entail vo Jiuoi of this county
who ro urued to Aualn y itUjrdav l
atronij aupporter < > f Mr loaoockaland
bill bellevliiK It thu Mat aolutlou of a
vexed nueatlon
The local itnt bontm the county
commlralouera for to petti manderlng
the fourcolllnllalooer preoluots that
Waco can havo no voice at all In coun
ty mattem The city la partitioned
atnouffthrto praclucUJ thu < dividing
her vote and rendering It linptwalblo
for city votM to ooucoutratu upnany
one oandldato Two of th coniuiW
tlonera who uro ooutnryinon aald
they tbuiurraUKtd the pre dnouao aa
to enable Iho country vuto todomlnato
that or Waco And yet Waco pay
twothirds or the county i xe
An Kittu l u Akkeu For
Puihuuhq Pa Feb 18fta0
Bennett Co Iron manufacturers
who lulled last aprlnu and got an ex
lenalon having paid 40 per cent of
their ilebU havo requeaud their cred
Itora to grant a futtMr xteiinIon on
tbo balaiee owing i Jit < lall Iroa
trade Thenqu t no doubt will be
cranted a the creditor aro fully at
fledbo far a Ijvard from
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