The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

LIE D6CdIuI 4IlUuuc, anu IIlo IOuOH-
ing well known financial hackers: |
Messrs. J. j. Lang, Sam Levy, J. e.
Halsell. Henry Greenhouse, Chas. ID.
Coles and NJ. w. Shoemaker, all Of |
whom are large cattle operators and |
doubtless desiring journal to spec1-
ally advocate the cattle interests OF |
the state.
COMPTROLLER'S DEPARTMENT.
The following tax collectors settled
their accounts with the comptroller
Thursday; w. J. Mcneil, of Denton
county; w. w. Lyon, of Hardin coun-
ty; and w. b. Foster, of Medina
county.
Suit will be instituted to recover
1868 due the state by ex-Collector
G. w. Michael, of Orange county.
The assessment rolls of Delta, Fan
min, Burnet, Marion and Medina
counties were received yesterday.
Burnet shows an increase in taxable
value of $751;, 2l0, and Fannin of about
S475 600. The other two counties were
not footed up by the assessment clerk,
Mr.. Riley.
Bonds of the city of Cleveland to
the amount of $4,000, issued for
building city hall, were registered.
l. 10y dlO o pCl COhp, OnOAO1 JOolo,
bonds of the denomination of $500
each.
The comptroller received a sworn
statement of the Galveston, Sabine
| & st. Louis railway company, show
ing only $10O.03 as the ,passen-
ger earnings of that road for the
entire quarter ending June 80,
| 1883, on which amount the state re-
/ xya, hnt Gffu oonfc nnn-ho1f
of one per cent, which the law requires
on passenger earnings from railroad
| companies. The comptroller seems
bewildered at this exhibit of the fin
ances of the company, and wonders
what the road has been doing in the
last three months.
| A singular state of facts is presented
in regard to tax sales of lands belong
ing to non-residents and situated in
the unorganiZed counties. At the
than two years ago, the state
OF this amount all has been redeemed
except about $4,000 acres, and the
time has just passed when these lands
can be redeemed, and that amount has
consequently reverted to the state, by
neglect of the parties. There remains
about $1,000 in the treasury, paid in
by parties who have redeemed lands
sold at the comptroller's tax sales, not
drawn out by purchasers at the last
tax sales. There Is some money in
the treasury yet that was paid in, two
years ago, for redemption of these
lands, that parties have nottaken out,
| being perhaps unaware that the land
had been redeemed. These facts will
be readily understood by persons in
terested in land operations, and are of
special concern to great many per-
sons.
LAND DEPARTMENT.
AT a special meeting of the land
board, called yesterday for the pur-
pose of selecting a surveyor to re-
run the lires of the Texas and Pacific
reservation. Mr.. Paul McComb, of
Larmour, and McComb, civil engi-
neer, of Dallas, Texas, was chosen to
do the work. The company will pay
him 5000 per month and defray his
necessary expenses.
Mr.. John E. Hogan, of Dallas, has
filed his location under the mineral
act of April IA, 1888, of section 46,
block 81, township 8 of the Texas
Pacific survey in Ell Paso county.
Judging from the specimens he sends
to the board the land is rich in gold
and silver deposits. 1t is near Carlo
station, and being on school lands the
state will be entitled to per cent of
the gross profits.
ATTORNEY GENERALS DEPARTMENT.
Attorney General Templeton gives
official information to parties inter
eSted that none of the constitutional
amendments can take effect until the
official count of the returns is made
known. 1t seems that some of the
county courts had refused to hold
special terms of court, and were act
ing as if the amendments were al
ready operative. The terms of court
are to be held under the old law until
after the official count is declared,
which will be done on the Gath of
this month.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL' DEPARTMENT.
Six men from Capt. Seekers COM
mand of the Rangers in Uvalde
county passed through Austin yes
terday on their way to the scene of
the fence cutting disturbances in
Hamilton and Comanche counties.
| This department is doing everything
it can, with the limited force of Ran
| gers at its command, to check these
disturbances.
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
AT meeting of the board of man
ayers yesterday DR.. r. S. johnson was
elected second assistant physician of
! the asylum. The usual monthly in
spection of the management of the in
Stitution was made and reported ia
vorably.
A protest of the Capital (water pro-
cess gas company, against the former
action of the board, in awarding the
contract to light the asylum to the
old Austin gas light company, was
not entertained by the board, and the
award made was confirmed. The
board took the position that it was
not their province to take stock in
new enterprises, which, so far as they
knew, was an experiment, whatever
the merits of the enterprise.
The board also refused to grant the
request of the water works company
asking extra pay for water necessarily
used in the construction of the sew
ers, and will refer the claim to the at
torney-general, for his opinion as to
the justice of the demand.
THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANI-
| CAL COLLEGE.
| The governor having been conferred
upon the question whether there is
any appropriation for state students
to this college, referred the matter to
the directors, for their own solution,
as the board of education, of which he
is member, had already decided that
there is no appropriation for the pur-
pose.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
All students intending to attend
| the state university, are requested to
report to the proctor, Prof. Smith
Ragsdale, who will provide quarters
for them.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT..
State Health Officer Swearingen, at
last accounts, still had no answer to
his telegram inquiring as to the cause
of the removal by the Mexican au-
thorities of DR.. Wolff, quarantine Off
Ger on the Rio Grande.
| The Courts.
| Justice Won Rosenberg concluded
an inquest yesterday on the body of
f. w. Stecher. The jury rendered a
verdict that the deceased came to his
death by drowning, caused by the &C
cidental sinking of a fiat-bOat at