The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-05-10
The Galveston City Company and Its
Tax Middle.
The State Printing Mr.. Moore Rein.
stated In Office.
The Governor Raps Mr.. Romero
Sharply on the Knuckles.
A Big Land Case to be Tried in
Dallas.
Appointment Of Railway Engineer
Still Hangs Fire.
What the Rangers are Doing De-
partmpnt Notes,
What the Rangers are Doing De-
partmcnt Notes.
Other Interesting Capital Chronicles.

AUSTIN, May 3.-ISpecial. 1.-THE First
National bank paid into the treasury
| to-day SIS. 600 for four-bit land.
The Baptist church of Fort Mason filed
charter today.
The comptroller paid into the treasur
to-day $65.000 to the permanent schoo
fund for sales of school lands.
| The board of uniyer'ity regents have ad-
journed till June 4, at which time they will
prepare TO open the university.
The attorneys of the Galveston City com.
pany telegraphed the comptroller to-day TO
| suspend action about receiving taxes from
the company until he can hear from them,
and he countermanded the instructions
| sent the collector yesterday authorizing
him to receive the same.
| The printing board has unanimously ap-
pointed w. ID. Moore, former clerk and e&-
| pert, to the same position he resigned some
| time ego. They also refused to pay the
state printer for journals before their deiv
cry, and rejected proposition to print the
| captions OF all laws in pamphlet form. 1t
seems that there is move on foot to have
all the state printing done at the state
office, at the deaf and dumb asylum, and
an estimate has been made, showing that
it will require $4,000 to purchase addi-
tlOHtl materlal anu erect necessary Dullu-
ings.
In reply to letter from the
city assessor of Weatherford, asking
| if he can invest certain public
| funds on personal security, the comptroller
writes that such investment is contrary to
law but says if the loan can be made at
| fair rate of interest secured by lien on real
estate of such valuation as will place the
safety OF the funds beyond doubt, the in
m M q Wi iatN
In regard to horses supposed TO have
been stolen in Mexico some time ago, and
parties arrested and brought to San Anto-
nio, the following correspondence occurred
to-day:
Washington D: C May I'd. lSS3-To Governor
Ireland, Austin, Texas:
The Mexican minister reports that horses
stolen from Marcoz Flores, Santana Jimenez
| and Barilto Flores, of San Antonio, have
been recovered by the police and with the
| parties are believed now to be at San An
tonic, and have there been declared contra
bands. The Mexican minister asks its res.
toration to the owner on proof and punish
| m lent of the horse-thieves.
| rs gnedl FRED. T. FEELIYGHUYsEN,
Secretary of State.
To the above the governor replied as fol-
| lows.
Hon Frederick T. Frpliughuysen, Secretary of
| State, Washington, D. c.
yon GOV that t6e Meyicsn n,;nistar Jas;mos sns,,
,hot nronar,y ho rastoreJ On ,rnoFt $50.
Sh;n pnd nc ,n;itv T - ,np,abod naoh
of these narticnIsrs IN. NeYican n;nistor
will nndonhtedIv Sc o., lifted the conditions
being favorable, but am, with great re-
| spect, tempted % ssk Mr.. Romero what dis
,he nronertw on nrppf of ownarSbi o9 auo VI
how unnId tba oniity nar,ios he daai, ,ri,h Giu
nUon ryitbont (; re1nns,5 p r., ~ H. VIII
nertr ,r"a UtoIan IN Nayico ,he tnie pIO'
ishn;yont ~ ,nat onrid ha a. gjctaH pun
or,,,'a,,, ,oSIJ ha for hr;noi' " t,,S soN-
49, tS;s go. LII o.e" piV
nv '"'' VII, "i'e
you "h"iN' "Hi, IouS TSr,y, co,,u
'onN iALLHHD' "o' T.
Ihe governor also instructed the county
attorney OF Bexar county TO fully lnyesh-
gate the matter and report as early as pos
si6le.
Ihe governor TO day remltted portion
OF the Judgment on the forfeited bail bond
for twelve hundred dollars against Mrs. NJ.
Il. Allen, OF Hays county, because she is
very poor, and has paid over two-thirds OF
the amount.
The appointment OF state railroad engl-
neer still hangs hre. Ot the numerous ap-
pliCanls Nj. DTiI.on, iOfmer contractor on
the Missouri Paclllc, seems TO be the
strongest, as his recommendations are
however, because ct his former connection
with the Missouri Pacific as contractor, that
several protests, backed, 1t is said, by the
Santa Fe railway, have been hled against
his appointment.
The case OF the New York and Texas
land company VS.. W. @. Walsh, commits.
sioner Of the general land Office, ct al, is
set for May 7th, in the United States chan
Gerry court at Dallas. This is an important
suit, involving large quantity OF land,
fled on by the Houston IL Great North.
ern railway, prior to ITS consolidation with
the International, and sold to the New
York and Texas land company. After
the transfer under the act of July, 1879
other parties filed on the lands, and a suit
is brought against Walsh and the survey
ors in the districts where the land is To-
Gated, TO show cause why patents shall not
issue on the files first made.
Lieutenant Gillespie writes from Fort
Davis that cattle and horse thieves are very
troublesome on the Rio Grande, and thai
be will sfart on a scout along the river as
soon as possible.
Captain Johnson has returned from La
Sale and Uvalde counties, and reports the
health Of the rangers good, but grass scarce,
owing 10 the lack OF rain. Company 4. last
month recaptured ninety-fOur stolen
hrrs rses, and Captain Rudd is now on the
tai Of an organized band Of cattle thieves
fhe superintendent OF education has re-
G., we'd no application for white scholars in
the 10th, 22d and 9TH districts.
The lunatic asylnm board this evening
confirmtd the contract with S. Fish er
for the new BUILDINGS, which will be
completed within thirty days, but the wa
ter fixtures will not be In place.
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