The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-08

Austin.

Austin.
speolai 10 The Herald
AusrrN, November e0.--Tho Surveyor Of
Oldham ocuniy hes procured from The
GenoralIand Onicc a complete transcript Of
the Gsld notes on oil surveys within Oldham
land district, comprising the counties Of
DaIlam, Hartley, Oldham, Deaf Smith,
Sherman, Moore, Potter and Randall. The
district was created by the Seventeenth
legislature and Oldham county was organ
lied last December.
Replying to the Toby heirs touching the
Withdrawal of their protest, Treasurer
Lubbock demands that the renunciation OF
the protest shall be signed by all the heirs
and properly acknowledged.
A charter was filed to-day by the Protec-
tive and Detective Association of Texas with
capital stock of $4,000 and principal
Office at Dallas. The object of the associa-
ton is the protection of stock against
thieves, and the detection and conviction
of thieves guilty Of stealing. The compa-
ny's stock will be branded with the
sist of James II. Duncan, Geo. w. Pfeifer,
Jack Duncan and Kennel Raynor, Jr., all
of Dallas county. There is to be a standing
fund of 81 600 for rewards, and the Com
pany propose to employ experienced de-
, tectives.
r, A charter was also filed by the Texar-
kapa Fair Association, with capital stock
of $25,0 900.
Austin, December 1.-The Alamo, Port
land e. Roman Cement Company filed an
amendment to their charter to-day, chang
ing the name of the corporation to the
Alamo Cement Company.
FISH Commissioner Dink leaves in the
morning for Washington to secure fish for
Texas rivers. He expects to return with a
very large quantity.
Rube Boyce, accused of stage robbery,
whose capture, escape and recapture are
known to the public, was up before United
States Commissioner Rugges today, and
his bond fixed at $4,000. Boyce made up
the bond and it awaits examination.
The Austin e. Northwestern Railroad
Company are in receipt of proposition by
woole nfactory at Marble Falls. Burnett
county, provided the company construct a
branch road to that point. The matter is
under consideration with the probability Of
favorable reply.
AUSTIN December 1.-The Governor and
heads Of departments were to-day presented
an invitation and free pass to the Atlanta
Fair for Texas Day, December 22d, by Mr.,
Crosby, General Manager of the Star g.
Crescent Route.
A fire was discovered in the kitchen of
the Raymond house about o'clock this
morning and the alarm was Immediately
given. The, fire companies turned out
promptly, but when they got to
work it had reached the room above,
occupied by Mrs. G. III. Thompson,
of the Hayerly troupe, who escaped with
the loss of some jewelry and dresses, valued
at about $3.50. The fire companies soon got
the flames under control and extinguished
them. The loss to the hotel is estimated
at $685.
The Governor will convene the Legisla-
ture as soon as the Apportionment Bill is
made by Congress, by the middle of May,
should Congress not have acted upon the
new Approtionment, Bill before then.
Governor Davis makes denial of the
knowledge of any movement at Dallas to.
get him into President Aruhur's Cabinet.
AUSTIN December "a detachment OF
Captain Oglesbys command left to-day for
Rio Grande City, to investigate the reported
murder, by raiders, of the Sheriff and some
citizens of Starr county.
The Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land office gave the fol,
lowing figures to-day: The reported
apparent balance of the public domain sub
ject to location September, 1880, was IL
100000 acres. issued since. Il, 23l $50; de-
ductions for estimated acres in
Spanish surveys, between Mexico
and the Rio Grande, not here deducted
from the domain, 100000 acres; the
amount embraced in what are termed nav
igable streams not heretofore deducted,
100000 acres; besides this there is to be
deducted the unknown amount
of GAO acre tracts in organized
counties, the amount in excess Of old sur
veys throughout the State, showing that
the Oldest standing claims against the
State are in excess of the available
domain by several million acres
The Governor to-day approved the in
spection by General Hardeman, of the
twenty miles of the El Paso & Rio Grande
Railroad, lately completed.
w. NJ. Strickland, of McCulloch county,
not being able to account for fifty head Of
cattle in his charge. has been arrested.
Western capitalists engaged in the Austin
& Northwestern Railroad enterprise say
they will put dollar for dollar with the
Texas people in the erection offactoiies on
the Colorado river.