The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-06
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DALLAS.
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ness year, and also the $4,000 ex-
change building now in course of
erection, the excavation for which Is
completed.
y large shipment Of high grade of
geese passed through Dallas to-day
per express, en- route from Cleburne
to Ell Paso, for parties engaging in
the goose rancho industry on Il large
scale near the last named place.
Geo. ScoYille, of Chicago, brother
in-laW to, and attorney for, the late
Charles Guiteau, the assassin of Presi-
dent Garfield, is in tbs city on profess
sional business.
A letter from Mrs. Cora Gamble,
nee Miss Underhill, whose secret mar
riage in June last in this county,
against the wishes of her parents, and
which caused such a local sensation
and also at Connersville, Ind, where
her parents sent her to young ladies'
seminary to keep her away from her
husband, they believing she was still
single, states that the affair has re-
suited in her parents taking her from
the Connersville school with the in
tention of placing her in similar
institution in New Jersey. She also
says the old folks are still uncompro-
missing, but that she loves her hus-
band and will join him as his wife
when she is eighteen years of age.
Mr.. Gamble is in Kansas City,
patiently awaiting the good time
coming.
Matthew Gray was brought to the
city this morning, under the chape-
ronage of United States Deputy
Marshal Tom Gerren. He was ar
rested in Denton county, the charge
against him being that of passing
counterfeit money on several parties
in Denton and adjoining counties.
He was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Burford for a
preliminary hearing, but annouced he
had been unable to get his witnesses.
He was jailed in default of bond till
September 10.
Prof. F. L. st. Clair, of the female
college at Lexington, KY, is in the
city. He will start for the blue grass
region with a Texas delegation of
students, for the coming year, on We'd
nesday.
The office of the land commissioner
of the Missouri Pacific railroad is
shortly to be removed from Marshal
TO Dallas.
The county court is occupied with
tifty-three cases against John Gross for
violation OF the local option law at
Mesquite. In the case of Giles Bros.
& Co., of Chicago. VS.. F. r.. Page ct
al, Judge Aldridge has rendered a de-
cision refusing to grant the injunc-
ton. Page recently bankrupted in
the jewelry business here, and his
father-in-law, II. B. Andrews, of San
Antonio, bid his stock in at sheriff's
sale at much less than it invoiced.
Chas. Solomon, late of Miller county,
Arkansas, to-day filed suit for divorce
from his wife on the ground that she
has become a regular habitue OF a
notorious house of bad repute in
Dallas.
Nathaniel Cohen, registering from
Brenham, Texas, was arrested and
jailed to-day charged with stealing a
valise from Conductor Stafford, of the
Trans-Continental r. R., last Sunday
night near Sherman. The Yalise was
found at the st. George hotel, where
Cohen had pawned it for board. He
admitted the theft, and also to pawn
ing part of the contents for eighteen
dollars. Some sort of a compromise
was arrived at tonight by the parties
interested and the culprit was set at
liberty.
DALLAS, August 81. - Engineer
Cooper, of the Missouri Pacific rail-
way, was seriously and perhaps IA
tally crushed between cars to-day.
The Dallas and Collin county dis
trict Baptist association assembled
here to-day. Quite number of dele
gates are present, but only prelimi-
nary progress has been made thus far.
The Elm Fork association also met at
Louisville, Denton county to-day. and
several delegates went up from Dallas.
The salaries of the Guy officials for
the month of August, to be paid to-
morrow, show up the largest pay roll
in the city's history, aggregating $500
for the month.
The. receipts of cotton at this mar
ket for the year ending to-day, as
made up by Secretary Wheelock, of
the Merchants Exchange, is upwards
of $4,000 bales. The receipts last year
were only $1,000 bales.
Hon. NJ. McComb, of Montgomery
county, was in the city, to-day, en-
route from Wise and adjoining north
west Texas counties. He represents
that the most serious troubles and
open collisions are anticipated and
liable to occur at almost any moment
in that section, between the large
stock ranch owners on one side and
the "nestlers," as the cattlemen of
moderate or small limited means and
possession are termed, and certain
element of cowboys. mostly those I'M
employed, on the other side. The wire
fence cutting matter is the cause of
the threatened conflict. Mr.. McComb
represents both sides to the contro-
versy as quietly arming, and every
thing forshadowing bloodshed. He
says, from his observations the causes
of the trouble are mainly that the
big cattle companies fence up large
tracts of land that they have pur-
chased, and in many instances vast
amounts that they have no
claim to. They keep their
own stock and everybody elses
off their enclosed lands and let the
herds Craze on the common lands till
the grass is exhausted and then turn
their stock on the wire fenced range
and exclude the "nestlers" element.
The latter swear that they will not
tolerate this and demand common
range for all; that they have as much
right to the range of the big cattle
corporations as the last named have
to the common range and that of the
small ranchman, and that in no event
have the big companies the right to
fence off the public domain and get
the exclusive benefit of it. The un-
employed cowboys, Mr.. McComb says,
naturally side with the restlers as a
matter of self interest, as the oblite-
ration of wire fences would give their
numerous fraternity the labor they
have been deprived of. The wire
fence troubles extend over an
area of hundreds of miles and in
wolves several thousand men, and as
both sides appear equally determined
Mr.. McComb says he can't see how an
open war can be ayerted. Both sides
are quietly arming for the affray. In
addition, to the fierce cutting the nest
lers and their cowboy allies swear
that they Will fire the range, burn all
the grass and let the stock perish in
common before they will submit to
what they term the monopoly and
autocracy of the range.
HOUSTON.
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