The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-07

hand mine owners and the strikers;
that they intend to operate their
mines entirely independent of other
mines, and cannot be dragged into
the controversy. As the strikers de-
mand price for digging which is
considerably higher than wages being
paid by machine mines, there seems
to be no prospect of speedy settle
ment of troubles.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-The follow
ing is an abstract from the special re-
port of Burchard, director of the
mint, upon the production of precious
metals in the United States, now in
the hands of the printer: Yield of
minis of the United States for the
year of 1882 was S32, 10000 in gold
and S46,SOO,OOO in silver. Compared
to previous years this shows decline
OF $2,2OO,OOO gold and an increase of
$3,SOO,OOO silver.
ST. LOUIS. June ga terrible piece
of criminal recklessness by a U. S.
marshal has just come to light. Three
weeks since Deputy Marshal Mershon,
with party, were looking for a
couple Of Indian murdererS in the
ChickasaW nation, near Red River,
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house. Just before daylight the Off
GERS surrounded the place. The wo-
man of thehouSe, with two of her chill
dren, aged twelve and sixteen, were
| sleeping out under trees, owing to
the heat, and the third child, nine
years old, was sleeping in the house.
The marshall on riding
up awoke them. They supposing
some drunken Indians were carousing,
ran for the house to barricade the
doors. The marshal, without wait
ing for closer investigation to see
whether they were the parties want
ed, opened fire, killing both of the
boys and wounding the woman, and
then rushed into the house and seeing
the other boy lying there in the dim
light, shot and killed him. On discov-
ering the mistake the posse left and
reported they had killed three despera-
does, but the facts have just come
out. The ChlckaSawS are greatly eX-
cited over it and are determined to
| Sift the matter to the bottom.
BOSTON, June 3.-yas. Fl. Langtli,
alias "Dr." Langtri, alias j. Henry
Langtri, known throughout the coun-
try as "the king of Peter Franks" ca,
was arrested on the arrival of the
Fall river boat train. He has for
years been operating in leading cities
east and west as a promoter of stock
jobbing corporations, organized on
paper for swindling purposes. One
corporation is the United States Con-
struction and Investment company.
Another is the Limited Live
Stock Express company. The
construction company's headquar-
tiers are fitted up with
great elegance, and occupied by a
small army of clerks, mostly Lang
iris victims, who were induced to in
vest savings to obtain situations, and
who received neither salary, divi-
dends nor principal, which were all
secured" by blocks of stock in the
construction company. 1t was found
that the company was sending out a
beautifully printed prospectus which
reports that the construction and in
vsstment company has capital stock
of 100000, and is authorized by it's
charter to buy, sell and deal in new
! inventions for railway service, to Sc
| cure patents in all countries, to or
ganiZe corporations for the purpose of
developing Improvements and enter
prise connected with railway service,
to negotiate capital for the promotion
of such enterprise, to build railway
rolling stock and sell, own and lease
the same, to construct railways, to
buy and sell railway stocks, bonds and
I securities, to own any real estate and
| personal property necessary or con-
Yenient for the business of the corpo-
ration. The prospectus further stated
the company had correspondents in
all railway cities all over the world.
The capital stock was represented
as fully paid, with large surplus in
the treasury. During the last five
years Langtri has organized a score
of bogus concerns. A Bostonian
named Worrell invested in one enter
prise and lost fully 100000. AL of
Langtri's concerns proved worthless,
While his victims are legion. Langtri
is supposed to have numerous confed-
crates in various parts of the country.
He is said to have served term
in the New York penitentiary, and
also to have several indictments
against him in the west. The costly
furniture and trapping of the office of
the construction company were mort
| gagged some time since. Some weeks
since j. H. Langtri's uncle wrote the
Doctor, while stopping at the Victoria
hotel, New York, telling him his i'm
poveriahed condition and asking that
his stock be turned into money. He
said he knew large sums could have
been realized at Boston, but Nettle-
ton refused to give him
any; that if he was not cared for, he
would make it warm for the whole
party. The doctor replied, recommend
ing the uncle to be of good cheer, and
The reply fell III into the he hands OF the the
Langtri, is now in Jail under
nominal bond of $4,000 which will
probably be increased to 100000 to-
morrow.