The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31
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Messrs. NoXon, Albert ~ Toomy
of st. Louis, have been awarded thu
contract to furnish scenery for The
Dallas opera house now being built
| Thirteen pieces of scenery and a droI
curtain are to be furnished for $1,000
The great inconvenience now be-
ing experienced by the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe railway on account OF
the enmity of the Gould system, both
in freight and passenger matters, has
evidently caused the Santa Fe people
to look around to devise sure and
permanent remedy therefor, and nu.
merouS rumorS are af1oat touching
the roads future course. 1t is accept
ed as an almost assured fact that a
determination has been arrived at ia
extend work east, with the ultimate
destination at st. Louis. Parties
familiar with the ground say route
between the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco and Iron Mountain roads, en-
tering Arkansas from Dallas at the
| southwest corner of that state, pene-
trating the vast coal deposits in the
Arkansas river region and the iron
be fully one hundred miles
Iron Mountain route, and nearly
eighty miles shorter than the St.
Louis and San Francisco. These par
ties assert that the Santa Fe finds it
necessary to seek an outlet entirely
| free from connection with either
Gould or Huntington, and the plan of
closing the six hundred-mile gap be-
tween Dallas and st. Louis is now be-
ing seriously canvassed and developed,
| and that st. Louis business men and
| capitalists will be called upon to aid
in successfully carrying it out.
A German stranger named Henry
Mercer was found on Congress street
this evening, shot in the head, but not
fatally. He claims to have been shot
by a negro five miles in the country,
but a lady asserts that he attempted
suicide in the southern suburbs.
Constable Campbell and a posse to-
day brought to the city and lodged
in Jail c. E. Horn, a thoroughbred
horsethief, who they captured at
midnight last night stealing cattle
near Cedar Hill, and close by they re-
covered from a coral eleven horses
| which Horn had stolen within a IA
dius of a dozen miles. All the ami
mails were identified and returned to
their owners. Horn is twenty-five
years of age and is good for a SEN
tence of fifty years to the penitentary.
A big American scheme, in which
Kentucky and Texas spectators on
the one side, and a bevy Of Mexican
politicians on the other were deeply
Interested, has suddenly been eXplod-
ed by falling out between the diff
ferent parties of the two republics.
One of the Texas projectors to-day
gave your correspondent the follow
ing in regard to the matter: During
the last session of the Mexican con-
gress bill was engineered through
by an American syndicate and MeXi-
can politicians, providing for the sur
vey of the public lands in the states of
ZacatecaS, PatOSi andiDurango. One
third of the land was to go to the re-
public, one-third to the state in which
it was located and the remaining
third to the syndicate and politicians.
The syndicate began negotiations
through Messrs. Samuel Clay and B.
B. Groom, of Lexington, Kentucky,
with the following monied men of
Dallas to begin the survey: j. S.
Dougherty, W. H. CASTOR. G. c., w.
H. and 1. c. Middleton, VIM. Thomas
and w. r. Mcintyre. The public
land to be thus surveyed is some
where between 100000 and
100000 acres, Of this the syndi-
cate was to get one-sixth and
the Mexican politicians, for getting
the bill through congress, one-sixth.
The Dallas company was TO receive
100000 to make the survey, to come
out of the first sale of lands, An ap-
pointment was made for the Dallas
company's representatives to meet
he syndicate in Zacatecos, and Messrs.
Mcintyre, Doughty and G. Middleton
started for that place. When they ar
rived at Saltillo they discovered that
they would be unable to reach Zaca-
tecas by the appointed time, and
they telegraphed the syndicate to
wait there. All of them started home
except Mr.. Dougherty, who went on
and met the syndicate at San Luis
Potosi, to ask for an extension. The
Mexicans granted the extension Of
time, but had wholly changed the
terms of the proposition. They now
demanded that the Texans,
instead of being allowed
the 100000, put up 100000
on spot cash as a donation before
anything was done. Mr.. Dougberty
was allowed to return to Dallas to
confer with his associates, who re-
fused to have anything to do with
the scheme if they had to put up the
100000. The value Of the Mexican
land connected with the scheme is
said to be about thirty cents an acre,
and had everything remained harmo-
NOUS the Dallas men and their friends
would have cleared fnlly one million.
Why the Mexicans changed their
minds is a mystery, but it is limited
that sharp friends of Jay Gould in
huenced them. Now that the Ameri-
cans have been victimized, there ap-
pears to be disposition to ventilate
the devious ways of securing favors
from the Mexican congress and poll
ticians.
FORT WORTH, May 26--The waif
found at the depot is likely to cause
trouble and shooting match. Irate
relations are in arms.
Max Elser, manager of the opera
house, returned from New York to-
day, where he arranged with Booth
Mccullough, Mary Anderson, and
Mckee Rankin for several nights.
The opera house will be opened with
grand gala week in October, special
trains to be run from surrounding
cities.
d. S. Jones and two confederates
were arrested to-day for swindling
two young Mississipians named Price
out of seven hundred dollars
by representing they owned a ranch
in the Panhandle and selling the new
corners shares of stock in cattle
company.
An Irishman, J. Looney, stole eev-
eral fine watches to-day from the Gal
weston house. He was spotted to.
night, seen to go to the suburbs and
dig up the watches, where he ha,.
buried them, when he was arrested.
Farmers are jubilant over their
prospects. Wheat harvesting will be-
gin on several farms next week.
GALVESTON, May 26.-The efforts
of City Treasurer Julius Runge and
Mr.. Geo. Sealey, in about two hours,
succeeded in placing the 100000 of
the city's five per cent bonds for the
continuation of the harbor improve