San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-01
TEXAS TOPICS.

Dallas has discovered millionair
who, in connection with relatives, IL I
inherit s33,000,00O.
The Times Printing Company, SaI
Antonio, filed n charter on the 10TH
Capital stock, $4,000.
The total number of deaths caused
by the cyclone at McAllister, in tn
Indian Territory, last week, is fourteen
The Missouri Press Association
numbering seventy-fye gentlemen anC
twenty-five ladies, visited Texas thu
week.
"A dispatch from Abilene states thai
about 1000 pounds Of wool are stored
away in that city awaiting orders foi
shipment.
The Continental Cattle Company
filed charter at Austin on the 10th
Capital stock 100000. Their princi-
pal office is at Dallas.
Coy. Roberts has appointed Judge
Wilson, of Rusk, to fill the vacancy in
the court Ol appcuiS SduoOt W viz
death of Judge Winkler.
"A few months ago Coy. Hunt in
vested $4,000 in coal lands on the Rio
Grande, near Laredo, and recently sold
q portion of his interest to the Rio
Grande and Pecos Railroad Company
for $4,000, 000-a very handsome profit
on the investment.
-Driskil and Day, the Austin, Texas,
stockmen, purchased from the Mexican
Government territory of land in old
Mexico, q million and half acres i'll
extent. They paid u cents an acre for
the land, thus securing territory OF
2,344 square miles for $11,250. They
will establish an immense cattle ranch
upon it. Capt. Hillard, formerly of st.
Louis, has bought $4,000 acres of land,
sixty miles west of San Antonio, at 55
cents an acre, for cattle ranch. These
facts will show the extent of the cattle
trade in Texas, and the impetus which
has recently been impaired to it.
An Act to Extend the Time within
which All Persons, whose Lands have
been Sold for Taxes and Bought in
by the State may Redeem the same.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Leg
islature of the State of Texas, That all
lands which have been sold for taxes
and bought in by the State shall be
restored to the owners of the same, if,
within twelve months from the passage
of this act, said owners or their agents
shall pay to the State the original taxes
due thereon, and taxes due for each
year since said sale, with eight per
cent interest thereon per annum from
the date of the accrual of each years
taxes and all costs which have accrued
and 5 per cent. commissions
to the collector under such rules and
regulations as shall be prescribed by
The comptroller of the State. Takes
effect from passage.
On the dividing ridge between
Cherokee creek and San Saba river
7alley there is, covering space of TO- ,
100 acres or more, evidence of the ,
whole of this tract having been occu- Q
Died by the dwellings of an ancient peo- !
Die. Thous ands of circular elevations =
,xist of size almost uniform, being 25 q
eet in diameter across from the other
inc of circumference at the base of the =
elevations at the highest i
Joint do not average more than q feet 9
bove the surrounding plains Instead r
# being mound shape, round on +
he top, they have in the center de- O
'ression six feet in diameter. This de- Y
ression never exceeds in depth one s
bird the height of the mound. The a
Material of which the circular ridge is q
opposed is generally small broken 4
tones or gravel taken from the sur n
ounding deposits, entermixed with q
arth. The material of which the CEN n
ral part is composed is of somewhat \
ifferent nature, being earth and ashes n
1termixed with small fragments of r
tones which show unmistakable evil a
ence of having been submitted to fire. o
uent heatings-the earth shows to have q
cen baked. Fragments of the shells n
t mullusks, principally mussles, of a
0ecies differing little from those found q
i the neighboring creeks at the pres. h
ut time are common. y