The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-06
Special kilograms.
DALLAS,
Special to The Statesman.

has assumed such Importance thai
the respective sides are holding meet
lngs and passing resolutions agains
each other. There was meeting a
the Merchants Exchange at u O'Clock
to-day, and a committee was ap
pointed composed of two cotton buy.
ers and three farmers to see what
could be done in the way of a com.
promise, and report at a meeting ia
be held at o'clock this evening, to
which all the farmers are invited. A
committee of three was appointed by
the cotton men to draft response tC
a set of resolutions adopted at a meet.
ing OF farmers Saturday, which are as
follows:
A meeting of the farmers in the
vicinity of Dallas, at Balls school
house, being called, the following
preamble and resolutions were
adopted: The object of this meeting
is to get an expression of the farmers
IN this vicinity relative to sustaining
tne public weigherS of Dallas county,
Since the public weighers are elected
IN accordance with the laws of our
county, and since anumber of individ.
uals are ignoring them entirely. and
using every means possible to sub
JecG the farmers to fraud; be it
resolved, LIST, that no individual
except the elected cotton welghers
shall weigh our cotton, and that
we employ every means to sustain
them in their official capacity. They
being our servants elected by the
people Of Dallas county.
Resolved, second, That we ignore
and dlscountenance, so far as business
IS concerned, every individual, what
ever his calling or profession may be.
who opposeses the public welghers
or aids the ring in endeavoring to
drive them from Office.
Resolved, third, That we find other
markets for our cotton than that Of
fered at present, should this opposition
continue,
Resolved, fourth, That we ask the
cooperation of every farmer
In the county, the press and all
other responsibility, and that a COPY
OF these resolutions be sent to the
Mesquite, the Mercury, the Times and
the Herald for publication, signed by
100 farmers.
The committee appointed by the
Merchants Exchange this morning.
reported this evening that they were
unable to accomplish anything. The
adjourned leaving matters
In conversation with a leading
farmer to-day your correspondent
learned that concerted move was on
foot to ship their cotton direct to
Houston or Galveston for sale. after
weighing by the public weigh
ers here rather than submit
to the terms of the local
buyers. Ed. Krassen, the thief, who
stole cotton seed, grain, etc, from
farmers in the Cochran neighborhood.
plead guilty to stealing cotton seed.
this morning, and was fined 800 and
thirty days in Jail. He will next he
tried for stealing 200 bushels of wheat
from John Floyd, and next for steal
ing about 800 worth of Chinaware
and crockery from L. Goslin. Kassner
confesses all charged against him.
The wheat was found under his resi-.
dence, and the cottage adjoining was
stored as full as it would hold of China
and crockery. He was delivery driver
for GoSlin who had implicit
faith placed in him, He saws when
he delivered bill of goods he ALWAYS
duplicated the order from the ware
house and started it home. He saws
he disposed of as much in the sur
country as stock he had
on hand when arrested. That
he often exchanged for chickens
when he found he conld steal
them with safety for his huckster
store in East Dallas. Mr.. Goslin has
removed six large wagons of the re-
covered goods back to his warehouse,
Kassner played no faverites, but stole
everything in sight, from a spring
chicken to a crystal palace.
Last week he bought a magnificent
two-horse wagon on credit. Henry
Loeb went his security, and now has
to pay for it.
a. L. Eaton was closed by attach
ment to-day in favor of Fee Bros. e,
Coy, dry goods merchants, for $3.50.
There are other creditors assets and
Liabilities not named. The stock of
i Gregory, a small grocery dealer,
was attached by T. L. Marsalis to Sc
cure $115.
Miss Florence Gerald, of Waco. the
Texas actress, at present at
tending school of art in New
York, and widely esteemed in
this state for her splendid
talents, has recently written a plav
ga Friend" which has been
placed on the boards this season with
the fair authoress in the leading roll.
Miss Gerald is brilliant elocutionist.
and her many friends are confident
that eminentIy fiattering results will
crown her efforts. She is highly spo-
ken of by the New York press. She
will appear in leading cities during
the coming season.
Mr.. Charles Benton is to leave Fort
Worth in the morning to train several
hundred children for the musical fes-
tival of Cinderella" to be held in the
new opera house October II, IL and 10.
United States District Attorney J.
G. Bigger to-day filed suit in the
United States court for the northern
district of Texas, against DR.. Mckay,
a Republican politician, and of con-
siderable local prominence, to recover
$159.06, with 10 per cent interest on
same from October IL, 1864, to Sep
TENDER 3, 1889. Mckay was surgeon
of the Twenty-ninth regiment of col
ored troops in the Union army during
the war, and drew his salary twice for
the month of July, 1864, it is alleged,
with intent to swindle the govern
mont onh Ton6n Vac%fk,r
ton of the same. The first payment
and the second on the 18th of october
following. Both payments were made
by Paymaster Decosta Mckay, as the
surgeon was holding the rank and
drawing the salary of major. All the
documents bearing on the case, in
Guiding the original vouchers, are in
possession of Attorney Bigger. Nc
Kay has been in Dallas nearly dozen
years and is one of the most OBJ
noxious Radicals ever in the state,
none of the better element of the
white people associating with him.
His avocation here Immediately after
his advent in the community being
that of negro school teacher. He
has for a year or two been prominent
with the faction of the Republican
party that made the bitter warfare on
ex-Postmaster Wissen, spending
much of his time in Washington.
The raking up of this old swindle is
the result of that Republican wrangle
Mckay will be prosecuted now to the
full extent of the law.
BRENNAN.