Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-29
Postponcment Of Action In Bids by the
Land Board - Closing an
Avenue of Frauds.
Burial Of hrs. Roberts--An Imposing
Funeral and treat Respect
10 the Venerable Lady.
Distribution OF Carp by Commissioner
Lubbock Genc nj Depart
ment News.
Special TO tho Gazette.

to pustp one action on bids for land un'
der the resolutions OF October 23d.
from the first Tuesday in December
until the first ru, sday in January.
The reason assigned Is that sufficient
notice has not been given to parties in
terpsted in making applications. In
the meantime the bidding ON any
tract may be continued. The COM
missioner of the land Office was au-
thorized 10 employ Il clerk at
seveuty.iive dollars month to assist
in the registration of applications. y
resolution was also passed providing
that in case OF the absence OF the sur
veyor of Il land district, or failure on
his part for any reason to register APP
plications, the county clerk Is empow-
cred to perform that service and receive
the regular perquisites. The origin of
this was that in II certain dis
trict the surveyor received nineteen an
| plications, covering n valuable section
| Of land, and has been missing ever
! since, leaving no one to register other
bids and thus preventing competition.
| This resolution, however, will defeat
his little game, be ides involving to
him forfeiture of Il very valuable
source of revenue.
The capital board held meeting
to-day. A telegram from Architect
| Myers to the governor caused post
| ponement of action on the resignation
of Superintendent Clark. An order
was issued for tha payment Of $500,
to Contractor Brush for building the
! temporary capital sewer. The balance
of his account (S2, 400 is to be settled
when it is estei.
a requisilion was made upon the
permanent school fund to day for $24,-
900 invested in Trinity county bonds.
Heavy orders for carp are daily re-
ceived by Fish Commissioner Lub.
book. The number shipped out dur
ing the month has been between two
and three thousand. There are
still plenty of fish, and persons who
anticipate stocking their ponds should
order ut once, us shipments will con-
clude the first of January.
The funeral OF Mrs. Gov, Roberts
this evening was attended by vast
conrourse of people, The state de-
partmenls were closed i'm respect to
her memory, and the university stu
dents joined the procession in body.
Mrs. Roberts was about 90 years of
age, and unive sally esteemed.
Comptroller swain has returned
from his visit to East Texas.
In the county court to-day the case
of Webb vs.. Thompson was decided i'm
favor of the plaintiff The amount in
volved was wagon worth about $50,
and the parties To the suit have eXpend-
ed in fees and costs over ten times that
sur, this being the third trial it has
undergone.
The contracts for supplying theluna-
TIC asylum with provisions for the en-
suing qua ter were awarded to dav,
mostly 10 Austin houses The aggre.
gate of the contracts is something over
$1,000
At citizens meeting tonight, p.
DeCordova was nominated for mayor.
lie made Il speech accepting There
was much enthusiasm, and the race
will br lively one
The following explanatory circular,
Issued ny the state land oGartl, is in
the hands of the printer:
Actual settlers on common school
lands in the following countics will
observe thal the time within which
they are allowed to purchase said
lands at the appraised value, under the
PROVISIONS oi the first proviso of sec
tloh D OF theactof the Eighteenth legis-
lature, approved April Il, 1883, expires
on me tweiith OF January, n. D., 1884, |
to wit:
Angelina, Archer, Armstrong. Alas
cosa, Austin, Bandera, BayIsr, Bee.
Bell, BeNar, Hlanco, Bowie, Brazoria'
Briscoe, Brown, Burnett, Calhoun,
Callahan, Cameron, Castro, Chambers
Clay, Coleman, Collin, Colorado, Co.
nal, Comanche. Concho, Cooke. Cor
yell, Crosby, Dawson, Denton. De.
Witt, Dickens, Dimmitt. Donley. Du.
val, Eastland, Ellis. III Paso Encipnl
Eraih, Fannin, Fisher, FLOYD, Fort
Bend, franklin, Eric, CARA, Gillespie.
Goliad, Gonzales, Gray, Guadalupe,
Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hardeman'
Hardin, Harris, Haskell, HAYS
Howard, Hood, Hopkins, jack. josk, |
son, jasper, Jefferson, Johnson Jones,
karncs, Kendall, Kerr, Kent, King
iimh!e, Kinney, Knox, Lamar
Lamb, Lampasas, LaSalle, Liberty
Limestone, Live Oak, Llano.' Lub, |
book, Lynn, Martin, Maso,., Maverick
McCulloch, McMullen, Medina. MI,
nard. Mitchell, Montague. Moniuom-
cry, Motley, Navarro, Newton. Nolan.
Nneces. Orange, palo Pinto, Parker
Pecos, Polk, Preside, Red River. Run.
nels, san Augustine, San Saba, Sour
~, Shackelford, Starr, Stephens
Stonewall, Swisher, Tarrant, Tavlor
Terry, Throckmorton, Tom Green
Travis, Tyler, uvaldc, Victoria. Walk,
er, Waller, Webb, Wharton. Wheeler
Wichita, Wilharger, Wilson. Wise
ioung, Iapata, Iiyala.
Actual settlers on unappraised lands
claiming under the first pas of section
iive OF said act of 1883 have until the
"a day of April 1854, TO complete
their purchases; and may purchase
common school, university or any of
the asylum lands, watered ms well as
upon which they have set.
Tied, at the minimum price Of two
and three dollars per acre, but mnst
their application with
of the wboIo
value of the land and make
the additional statement, under oath
IN their application whether the land
has on 1t water or no water. A note
iof balance of purchase money, bear-
ing iiVe per cent. per annum Interest
and payable In annual installments NJ
of the whole amount viii
De signed by the purchaser.
Ihe applications OF actual settlers of
both kinds will receive the attention
$40 . L.. 4