The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-01
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
Things Seen and Heard Around the
Offices Yesterday.


The Red River cattle company, OF
Terrell. Kaufman county, filed char.
ter yesterday, with capital stock OF
$4,000. The directors are: Frank
Houston, president; Frank Hardin
vice president; L. q. Wright, secre-
tary; Robert Hurt, treasurer.
The Neches Cooperative Associa-
ton of Patrons Of Husbandry, Of
Town Bluff. Tyler county, also filed
a charter. The capital stock is not
mentioned, and each member is sup
posed, of course, to cooperate with
the others in levying on cOllaterals.
The f blowing parties paid into the
treasury yesterday for fifty cent lands
the amounts following their names:
| w. F. Elliott, of Taylor, $1,000; J. S.
Dougherty, of Dallas, spa, 1920, aggre-
eating S33,920. The comptroller de-
posted to the account of general rev.
enue, 17,922.14; to organized county
tax account, S29. 222.02; total by the
comptroller, S43,144.16; making ST.
O64.l6 deposited yesterday in the treas
ury vaults.
The Hamburg-Bremen fire in
surance company of Hamburg, Ger
many, with net cash assets in the
United States of S572, 583.86, was to-
day authorized by the commissioner
of insurance to transact business in
this state for the current year. The
Texas business of this company shows
total amount of premiums received in
the state for the past year, $39, 43.49;
losses incurred in the state during the
same period, S37 ,389.25.
Tie comptroller yesterday depos-
tied in the treasury $3.50 as drummer
tax. He also placed in the bank of J.
III. Raymond & Co., for collection,
nearly $SOOQ against tax collectors.
Tax collectors will be urged to make
immediate settlements, The force in
the cOmptrOller'S office deserve COM
mendation for having kept on with
all business in spite of the hustle and
extra work incident to moving and
Strengthening up the entire office from
stem to stern.
The capital board held a meeting
in the governors Office yesterday
and rejected the ciStern made near
the temporary capitol as useless, it
not being capable Of holding water.
They say that in case the ciStern is
made good and useful the $500 held
! back on the contract will be paid to
the contractor. The board also re-
solved 10 notify the city council that
the old sewer from the capitol grounds
across Mesquite street To the founda-
ton OF the new capitol must not be
opened, as it would endanger the SOL
ldity of the building. The city coun-
Gil will be notified that the sewer must
be run diagonally across Mesquite
street and Congress avenue to- the
gutter by the courthouse.
United States Marshal Hal. Gosh q
yesterday served papers on Commits
sloner of the General Land Office w.
T. Walsh, issued by the federal court
IN favor OF the international and
Great Northern railroad, enjoining
him from issuing patents to private
individuals who may file on lands sur
Veyed by the Houston and Great
Northern railroad in 1875. AS these
lands were alternates, the first, Or odd,
numbers were to the road, and the
even numbers to the state, The COM
missioner OF the general land office had
already ruled that no files under the
fifty cent law could be made on the
even or school land numbers of these
lands; and this injunction will have
the effect of protecting the railroad
lands in the same manner that the
commissioners ruling protects the
school lands Of the state. This in
junction will reach and affect the sur
YeyOrs who made the surveys, the To-
Gators and the commissioner of the
land Office. Those who have filed on
these lands and have paid for sur
veys, etc, will lose all they have paid
out. So far, no patents have been
issued, so Captain Walsh informs a
STATESMAN reporter.
The governor yesterday issued q
commission to Frank Lester, ESQ.,,
as county attorney of Mitchell county.
The commissioner of the general
land Office took in yesterday $1,000 as
fees on files made on $4,000 acres of
| fifty cent land.
There was q charter filed also for
| another Fort Worth Democrat yester-
day, with a capital stock of 5000.
The incorporators are Cary w. Styles.
W. j. Saunders, and Francis Granger.
The Brazos and Richmond ferry COM
pany filed Il charter yesterday. The
capital stock is placed at $500, and
| the object is to build ferry about
one and half miles above the town
of Richmond, on the BrazoS river.
Besides about $4,000 or $4,000
taken into the treasurer's Office in
small amounts as first or partial pay
ments on school, university or asylum
lands, the following amounts were
paid in on the fifty cents per acre pub
lie domain: Edwin Wilson, of Corpus
Christi, $29, 397.5O for So, 1856 acres, and
VIM. Elliott, Of Taylor, Sl9,920 for
S9,840 acres,
Adjutant General w. H. King yes
terday received letter from Pinkey
Jones, Esq, district attorney
of the twenty-fourth judi
cial district, embracing the
counties of Kendall, Bandera, Kerr,
Medina, Frio, Uvalde, Kinney and
Mavrick, in which he states that the
retention of the frontier battalion for
at least two more years on the west
ern frontier is necessary, and that it
has been of incalculable benefit to his
district in suppressing lawlessneSs and
protecting honest people. He congrat-
ulates the frontier counties on the re-
appointment of General King as adju-
tant general of the state.
The governor this morning received
requisition from Governor Steph-
ems, of Georgia, for the arrest of a
fugitive in this state. Gov
ernor Ireland refused to
issue his warrant for the return of
the party, because the affidavit accom-
panying the requisition was not ex-
plicit. it stating that the alleged fugi-
tive, ''to the best of the knowledge
and belief" of the afliant, had been
guilty of the crime charged. In re-
turning the requisition. Gov. Ireland
says:
I'm the opinion of the executive
of the state of Texas, this Ian
guage is not sufficient upon which
to deprive any citizen of his liberty.
l will cheerfully comply with the
request of the governor of Georgia,
when proper affidavit, in positive
terms, charging the party with vio-
lation of the laws of Georgia is made,
accompanied by the proper papers"
Yesterday morning the governor
received what was intended as an ap-
plication from the Mexican consul at
San Antonio, Signor z. Ornelas, for
the release of a Mexican man con-
fined in the Jail at Tilden, McMullen
county, on charge of murder, and
whom the consul alleges, had