The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-07-01
From Texas.

WACO, TEXAS, June 18th, lSS2.-The busy
hum Of the thresher is heard all over the
broad fields of grain, while ever and anon
some belated field In ripening sounds the last
| lingering click OF the harvester, already worn
and tired OF It's heavy labors.
! The grain thus far has fallen off from the
averaged estimate made bat few weeks since
% to 80 per cent. Spring oats are scarcely
worth harvesting. On account Of which
prices are running high. The outlook for
corn is very tlattering, while cotton is poor,
too much cold having dwarfed the plant very
badly, \ new industry has sprung up along
our western border In the shipment of prairie
dogs to the north. If the new experiment
proves successful, it will result in no little re.
Enumeration, as there exists an Inexhaustable
supply of the little creatures out there. Train
robbing has come to a stand, several of the
gang having been caught and roughly
handled
Our little neighboring city Bolton was the
scene of another sad tragedy the other day. A
body of armed masked men took out and
white man,-allcglng no other cause or excuse
for their action than that they were worthless
Migrants about the city. This makes about
the fourth time men have been ruthessly
slain by mob violence in that place during
few years back. In fact, the vivid memory of
one scarcely dies away until another one is
enacted. The last victims called forth severe
criticism from the press throughout the state
and it does seem that the time has come when
civil law should be the supreme arbiter of
justice.
Candidates for the various Offices of both |
state and county increase rapidly as the time
of election draws near. The greenbackers'
meets at Fort Worth this month |
J. b. Weaver, their great leader in $780, will |
speak In our town on the Gath inst. Perhaps
he may win votes for his hire on his tour
throughout Texas, but there will have to be a
mighty political revolution before the coming
candidate of their convention wears guberna.
torial honors Governor Roberts has refused
to become candidate for the third term and
there Will be considerable pulling and hauling
at the next convention as to who shall be the
standard bearer of Texas Democracy during
the coming campaign.
More than two thousand miles of railway
have been constructed within the state since
January. The law enacted by the last leglsla-
lure reducing tariff on passenger rates to three
cents per mile elected free discussion from
both the people and the press, the latter in
some instances taking the ground that legisla-
live bodies have no right to say what railroad
men shall or shall not charge the public for
transit.
Statistics gathered from the recent meeting
Of the wool growers' convention at San Anto.
lio place the value of this years clip for the
state at seven million and half dollars, which
s neat little sum for the sheep interest In
Texas, just now in its infancy
Among the Improvements OF our city
would mention the building of grain eleva
or, which will handle part of the present
,rop. 1t has been very much needed long be-
ore this.
A grand time is expected on the Fourth,
when they will make big things out of little
ones, and new ones out of old ones
LITTLE TEXAN.