Result of the Election - Football - Shots Fired - Candidates for Marshal - Quarrelsome Cook
4 DEC 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.
Saylor is still sailing, Saylor’s majority, 225.
Maj. Ryan, who returned from his ranch Sunday, brought with him a curious stone, found by one of his men. It is a perfect foot with a sandal on it. It is quite a curiosity.
There will be a football game today a 4 o’clock between the University club and Prof. Bickler’s school club. It will be played at the ball grounds and promises to be highly exciting.
The election yesterday was very orderly. All the saloons were closed and not a drunken man was seen in the city. Both parties worked like beavers. A full report will be found elsewhere.
Mrs. August Tiedeman was seated in a room of her house, near a window, a small bullet, which could have been fired from a weapon at no great distance, penetrated the blinds and fell near her. Another struck the side of the house a few minutes after. Tiedeman and a hired man are well satisfied whence the firing came, and an arrest may be made.
It is said that Capt. Ed Creary is a candidate for city marshal, and in that he has the inside track on the rest of the boys on the result of the election yesterday. There will be a lively scramble for the appointive offices now, and especially that of city marshal. Capt. Kirk is also a candidate and it is said that Ben Thompson will not refuse. All of these gentlemen have served in the position before.
THE LITTLE GUN. Another Shooting Scrape in Which One Negro Lets Daylight Through Another.
Yesterday morning, about 9 o’clock a shooting affair took place in the yard to the rear of Simon’s eating house. The facts as reported by those who saw the occurrence appear to be as follows: Some time ago Steve Mayes was employed as cook in Simon’s restaraunt, and Mr. Billeisen says he was quarrelsome with the under cooks, so much so that several had left as they could not stand his abuse. Mr. Billeisen finally hired a young colored man by the name of Ed Daggart to assist Mayes about his cooking, and Mayes was told by Mr. Billeisen that if he quarreled with Daggart, he would discharge him. Sunday night Mayes went off on a lark, and yesterday morning did not get back to his work until nearly 9 o’clock. He gave Mr. Billeisen some trumped-up excuse for his absence, but Mr. Billeisen says he knew he was in the First ward indulging in several kinds of dissipation, and so he talked a little high Dutch to him, giving him to understand that a few more such episodes would vacate his position. Mayes was, as a consequence, in no very amiable frame of mind when Mr. Billeisen left him. He took offence at something the helper, Daggart, did and began to swear at him and call him more titles than an English duke ever possessed, and the young man went to Mr. Billeisen and entered complaint saying if he was to be abused in that manner he would not remain in the cook room longer. Mr. Billeisen went to Mayes again and told him if he said another word to Daggart he would discharge him forthwith. So soon as Billeisen’s back was turned Mayes, however, began to take Daggart to task for complaining to their employer, and the young man said something in response that greatly incensed the cook, whereupon he knocked Daggart down with his fist and then jumped on to him and began to choke him when he was down. Mr. Billeisen heard the fuss and came running out as Mayes was chocking Daggart. Daggart, who had for some time been very much in fear of the hot-tempered cook, had provided himself with a pistol, and when Mayes was choking him he drew the weapon and put it against Mayes’ breast and fired, sending the ball through him. Mayes got up, and Daggart, who thought he had killed his man, took leg bail and gave chase to the police, who ran him as far as the river, when he jumped into the water, gained the woods on the other side and succeeded in foiling the officers. The foregoing report of the matter is obtained from Mr. Billeisen and the other persons present who saw the trouble.
