Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-23

THE STATE CAPITAL.
MakinsOn Refused New Trial-Escape
OF n Lunatic.
A Party of Prospcctors--Pen itentiary
Board in Session.
The Cash Balance Nearly Exhausted
University Notes.
GOV. Ircland'S 0lTer-The Herd Law
and the Extra Session.

| special 10 thc GaZctte.
Austin, December 22.-In the
district court to-day motion for &
new trial for Makinson, the young
! highwayman, was overruled.
y negro woman, very violent and
dangerous, escaped from the lunatic
asylum to-day, and the police are on
the lookout for her.
~ party of tourists from Georgia and
South Carolina arrived here this even
sing, prospecting for investments in
lands.
The penitentiary DO ,rd met to-day.
Communicates was received from
Conner IL Farris, contractors of the
Rusk penitentiary, asking to be al
lowed to take 800 men on the first of
January, instead of LOO, ms provided
ny their contract, with the privilege
of increasing the number as the work
and demand developed. They state
that inability to procure timber and
coal necessitates the reduction. The
request was granted by the board
with the provision that when
additional force is called for, il will
only be conveniently supplied with a
due regard for existing contracts, and
also that the consent of the sureties TO
the change Is obtained. Superinten-
dent GOree was instructed to effect an
equitable adjustment with Colonel
Geo. w Grant of Huntsville, for land
used through mistake for burying con-
victs, when the penitentiary was first
located at that place. The accounts of
the superintendent for expenditures
at Rusk during the past two
months for machinery and improve
ments, amounting to Sl4,3SS, were APP
proved. a revuisition was issued for
sB23 in favor of Financial Agent
Brahan, being the balance of the ap-
preparation for buying machinery for
Huntsville, made by the extra session
of the Seventeenth Legislature. The
report of Superintendent Goree for the
months of October and November
shows at Huntsville: Received, 1872;
discharged, -; pardoned Z; escaped,
lbi died " recaptured, q. Rusk: Re-
ceived, ~; recaptured, I; discharged,
y; pardoned >; escaped, 10; died, 8. 10
tai number Of convicts on hand at
1919.
Charterod Galveston Improve
ment Co., capital 800, a. Huff
man Implement Co. of Fort Worth.
capital 100000, incorporators w. A.
Huffman, VIM. Evans, Geo. b.
Harris county bonds to the amount
OF $4,000 were offered for the per-
manent school fund to-day, but on ac-
count OF the low state of It's cash
balance, which Is only about S., 900,
We're not taken.
treasury receipts to-day Sil 900.
Inc Studebaker wagon manulac-
turing company telegraphed an
application Tor n pardon for
young man confined In the
penitentiary for theft, but rs his guilt
Ia unquestioned the governor declined
to grant IL.
The board OF university regents will
meet on or about January LIST, when o
successor to Prof. Mallett will be
elected. AS recently telegraphed, nm
English gentlemen will be given the
place ii he will ACCEPT IL.
Fitzgerald, the pardoned convict
who immediately upon his release pub
lis.ied In the San Antonio papers an
article charging the.governor with be-
ing at the head of II corrupt peniten-
tiary ring, is back In his old position
again, having been sent up from Kerr
county for stealing trunk.
Col. Britton, state engineer, has
gone TO sherman to enjoy the HOLIDAYS.
The university closed to-day for
Christmas, to reopen In the new build
Ing. January lst.
Statistics compiled in the Office Of
the state engineer show that the total
mileage Of railways In the state, in
Guiding slde-tracks, Is 6,4i5 miles
OF locomotives, G02: passenger
cars, 2s3 express, baggage and freight
cars, li,T09.
The governor, In conversation con.
corning fence-cutting, said he would
give an accepted check for $40, 600
TO anyone who would point out pro-
vision IN the constitution giving him
authority 10 act effectively In the mat.
ter, which he had not exercised.
Applications for pardons are very
though rarely successful.
II Is believed here that the herd law.
as In force In California aud other
states, Will find many advocates In the
extra session AS u solution of the fence. |
cutting problem.
Mayor Taylor and a party of ladies
and gentlemen leave tomorrow on n |
pleasure trip TO Mexico.
The land fraud board acted to-day on
evidence Involving 2J.6GO acres. This
makes total slightly In excess OF
100000 acres OF land on which the at-
has been Instructed 10 |
Institute suit for recovery, and about
completes the labors Of the board. with
the exception Of preparing its report.