The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-08
AUSTIN.
Charters Filed-1roubiesome Land Com.
piications-The Governor Gone To Calves.
toa-Quarantine Probably be Declared al
once,

plications Governor Gone In ca,x..
Quarantine Probably be Declared a,
once.
AUSTIN, May 7.-ISpecial. l-Charters
were fled for the Fort Worth Live Stock
and Land association. capital stock
10000. Object 10 buy and sell stock and
lands on commission. and loanlng ana ne.
goliating loans. The principal office will be
at Fort WORTH with branch offices in all
the states, territories aud Alaska. The in
eorporators are, III. f.. Edrngten, ". q
Finlay, J, NJ. Adams, W. ]. Boaz. The
Relton Compress company, capital stock
10000.
rhe laws of the last legislature are
being sent out 10 county judges to-day.
Constitutional amendments tor insertion
in one rsper in each county will be sent OUT
inavtek,
The Veteran board is in session
to-day and recommended the following
certificates; $. NJ. lsaacs, Simpson Holo-
way, William Hawkins, .. b. Hardeman.
Mrs. l.. loungblood. Mrs. Cherry, John NJ, ,
Healer, Mrs, Nancy Miller.
In answer to questions submitted to the
attorney general in relation to tax
sales of school lands published in
Sundays special, the comptroller refers
collectors to articles i014, 469l, 4705 l7aO,
'i6 of the Revised Statutes, and chapter
90, general laws OF the Sixteenth legislature,
and says; "While the sale of such
lands for taxes would be in com.
pliance with law. this department
will not undertake to decide what rights
purchasers at tax sales would obtain by
virtue OF such purchasers, Such questions
are legal ones over which this department
has no jurisdiction In regard to the paw
ment OF the balance Of purchase money at d
receiving certificates Tor school lands, he
makes no ruling but refers to the commits
sioner Of the land office. In this connec.
tion the commissioner says that purchasers
OF school and other public lands ut tax sales
will not have the rights of original purchaser
transferred TO taem, his office recognizing
no transfer not made by original pur.
chasers, or their legal representatives,
Should the purchaser at tax sale tender pay :
ments due on lands, they will be received
and the original purchaser credited with
the amo unit by the person making the pay .
ment, and II full payment is made, a psteI I
will be issue in the name of tie origl.
nal purchaser, and not to the
holder Of tax title. In relation 10
pre- -emptiou, If the land is sold ior tax, Mt
the end Of two years the person attach the
sale and desires to take possession, he can
do so 1.-THE presumption shows he has been
and is living on the land,as required BY law
The commissioner thinks that pre-emped
land should be dropped from the tax rolls
The penitentary board 10 receiving nu-
merous applications for positions, and to.
dayreceivedtwo more offerings TO sell farms
near the prison.
The adjutant-general has infor-
nation that smngglers along the Rio
Grande, IN Presidio county, are creating
trouble, and has ordered Lieutenant GILES.
pie to investigate the same.
Captain Ecker writes from Uvalde county
that one John Bowles has been making u
| Wholesale business of cattle. .blotching
brands and intmidating citizens, and they
have arrested him and Tobe Sproule, cap
turing twenty head of stock. He also cap.
tured thirty-two head of cattle. with
blotched brands, and turned them over to
their owners on making proof
Water in the Nuecos is getting bad and
will necessita,e change OF camp.
In general row at the colored church
last night one OF the participants had an
arm broken.
Governor Ireland left for Galveston this
morning. The. mayor OF Browns
vile telegraphed Health Officer
Swearingen to-day that owing TO the ies-
tiyities in Matamoras for two days it has
been impossible to arrange with the Mexi.
can authorities relative to cooperative
quarantine. The state health officer,
owing to uninterrupted communication be-
tween Vera Cruz and Matamoras, fears the
fever, and will advise that The governor
order quarantine against Matamoras i'm.
medialely.
COURT DECISIONS.
The commissioners of appeals disposed
ol the following cases today and submitted
to the supreme court; Reversed and re-
manded, Houston a. Texas Central Rail-
road VS.. Chatlin from Grayson; kaufman
vs.. Alexander ct al, from Lee; Calvert VS.
Koch ct al, from karnes.
Dismissed at cost Of appellants, Rlesman
Freeman VS.. Jones, from Tarrant.
Reversed and reformed, Douglas ct al. VS.
Moore & Partain. from Guadalupe.
Reversed AMI dismissed, Mullen Il Co
vs., Ramsey, from karnes.
Affirmed Connervs Holland, from Travis
Shultz vs.. Bennett from Bexar, Rupard vs.
Coon bes ct al. from Dallas; Galveston Har
rsburg & San Antonio railway VS. Hinch-
man IL Lemon, from Guadlupe., White VS.
Barren ct al, from Travis; Boggess vs.. Brow
s)n, administrator from. Montague; Shannon
VS.. Lemons ct al, from Grayson.