The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-20

TWeniy'fOur Cases Of Small Pox aud
Six Deaths are Reported.There.
from at and around
COrSicana.
steps taken by the County Authorities
for the Establishment of
Pest House.
Ano'hcr Laud SwindIe Cneartaed.. Mir.
arrio"s Escape of Il Plueky Nan
al San Antonio.
'Aer'enant Governor and State Officers
IN RoStc Tor The Exposition.
An ihRne Clri WaudcYS on and Is fuual
'Fowned, ncsr Lampssas.
Dibpr Intnravfinv EInto NJ
Other Interesting State News.

Oiher Interesting State News.
Austin,
Special to the Herald
AUSTIN, December l9.-The Conmi,.
sionsr of the General Land otl,ce
mere IL m receipt OF u circular issued
from Wllat IS represented to be the office
NE Western l.ahi brokers Agency OF
Gainesville, Cooke coutly. Texas, and sent
nm nm oy W. T. Ford, lalia de- lor, Mcclellan
aillis' isabella, Geor2iu, - 'ng information
as 10 the resron>tnil t. of these
land brokers, 1t - numbered
sos, signed b. l.. Lower, nui ,smrnscnts
that Gao alternate land warrah, haye MI.
Vanced to 500, at which they will fur.
niSh them until thirty days that the pros.
peers Nre that these warrants will adynnce
to 40 or 500 within the next ninety
days, as tlie price Of all State lands
has been fixed at 81 and s. an ucre,
ana hehce po Texas lands can now he had
~ holilludl rates, except the alternate see
lluls ol the public domain of Crockett.
Tom Green, PrcOs lrcsidio and ri poso
counties Ia S1tlhWr,t Texas. Which wus
set asl'ic by the SLI'c lor the holder. OF
these tli iacrcs uf l,Su, alternate land war
rants, Nhic3l were issucd 10 railroads in
stead OF land grants that the roads sold
the. warrants 10 brokers, Ike themselves
winch they tthe lard b.ukcrs aecncy) re-
tall at SlG0 cacii, ar soil 60 these agents at
prices hbove namrG. subject to change
sVery thirty days t'gt thcrearc over 3, 600.
WVaores OF these alternate sections to select
from, all IN organized counties with county
seats, towns, stage lines, railroads, aud !
/ NtlN WDOH SppipI ttlts ~ y
raiSers, and that the lands are generally
prairie with nutritious grasses aud many
| varieties OF timber on The streams. ii
inrlher states that nearly ~ the Go acres
warrants Ve held by the Western Land
Brokers Agency and viii be closed ont
alter lew months hence, after which none
| VIII he iound on the market save u few per-
| haps at SlG0 to SEQ per section "Do
not, 1t says, Come expecting to
buy your warrants on arrival at
$50. We charge SlG0 in order to protect
our agents here at homo as well as those
abroad. Outside of ourselves we do not
know of q plae6 where these warrants are
IN the market at wholesale, there are retail
dealers, ofcourse, Who are supplied by us
and who realize the same profits Us
our agents abroad We are the
largest and oldest dealers in the State and
DO nothing but a fair, square and Legitimate
business, as our many hundred patrons
| patrons eau testify
Commissioner Walsh saws the circular.
! the leading features OF which are given
above, is total misrepresentation of facts
with the evident purpose of deluding poO-
pie outside Of Texas. He to-day replied as
follows to the suspicious Georgian;
To W ]. Ford, Isabella, Ca:
nE,p n.is,,ul.1.,. ,...,,.., ~ Al
18TH instant, covering circular No 500, over
the name of b. l.. Lower, manager Gains
vile, Texas. don't know anything VS. to
The character or responsibility of u. Il.
Lower, But ] know that the circular CON
tains that which Is calculated and probably
intended to misIead non-resi-
dents. The land certificates which
he proposed to sell at Si1 each
are Il drug on the market at $50, forthe sim
pie reason that Il ere is more of them issued
than the vacant domain will satisfy. Any
vacant land now found Is the refusal Of
fifty years culing. Land superior to any
which these certificates can place
can be bougnt already served
and patented, for from $GO 20
$500, | would not advise any one TO pur-
chase these certificates until he has exam
ined the land which lac ], to get,
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circulars are peiug extensively circulated
North, South aud West,
wv w" ,'a'2 ~ Sl,i't' l.oN INV o,oS," pui
mlul'g VIZ hg eg,'',,'v"" ~ "m lV"9 t"u'i,E WHY
'lraoI ,,so mg,u nYo o,",. Mov@ .Gs ny inp n'iVC,eH
lelt Of the spread of the disease,
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