The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
STATE NEWS REPERTORY.
Spirit of Our Texas Exchanges.

Spirit of Our Texas Exchanges.
Bosque county is out of debt and
has $4,000 in its treasury
The Beiton Journal does not regard
the fourth proposed amendment, re-
lating to the terms of the county
courts, as of much Importance, but
would not like to see it adopted. Its
says the Journal, would do
but little if any harm.
County Commissioner Hoefiing is
certainly an able and intelligent
official, and proposes to make the
pawnbrokers do their duty in one
respect. Article 1906, revised statutes,
provides that they shall pay to the
owner of any forfeited pledge the
surplus profit derived from such
PLEDGE after the advance and interest
have been paid, and in case such
owner cannot be found such profit
shall be paid to the state. For the
violation of this article there is PEN
atty. This law has not been enforced
and Mr.. Hoefing now wants the
pawnbrokers to do their duty. This
will deprive the local pawnbrokers of
much of the unjust profit they have
previously made.-San Antonio Light.
Il is said that the extensive range
of Captain r. Y. King, the great
Texas cattle raiser, is about to be sold
to English purchasers, who are at this
time actually taking an inventory Of
the property. This consists of 1,0O0,-
600 acres of land, 5000 head of cattle,
1900 to 10000 head of horses and
$4,000 to 10000 sheep. The considera-
ton is said to be somewhere between
100000 and 100000.
A colored swindler Is to buy lot of
remnants" of Texas herds, mostly
barren cows and pony seers, have
them booked" compute the increase
by ordinary rules. and after while
sell the lot on the range, of course
without counting. 1t is said that in
this way herds of 1000 have been sold
and paid for as 10000.
At the Hunt coal mines, near La
redo, Texas, brandy is being made
from cactus, or prickly pear.
From farmers in different sections
of the county welearn that the cotton
is thowing off squares worse this year
than they ever saw before. The stalks
are of good size but are poorly
fruited.-Navasota Tablet.
A case of considerable interest to
land and stock owners was disposed
county last Monday, involving the
right to put up a barbed wire fence
without one plank as required by law.
The court RULED that party fencing
land with barbed wire without a
board, as requird by the statute, could
not be held responsible for damages to
cattle or horses injured by running
against the fence. The distinction
drawn is that the fence was used to
protect the owner of the land, and
was not placed there for the purpose
of injuring the stock.-Exchange.
The decision must proceed on the
ground that there is no criminal in
tent on the part of the owner of the
fence to injure outside stock. This
kind of intent is the great feature OF
the law in all criminal proceedings. it
is true; but there is a rule that when
person does what may enable him
to do thing he is supposed to do it
with a view of doing what is bound
to do The converse should hold equal
ly good that when person does NOT
do, etc. Under this rule it is doubtful
if the county judges decision would
hold good in the supreme court.
The Temple Tribune is the name OF
new paper published at Temple. 1t
favors the constitutional amend
mentS.
The water works scheme, men
toned some time since in the Times
is drawing to focus. Within the
next four or five months Temple will
have a complete water works system
which will be worth thousands of
dollars to us alone. A supply of wa
ter sufficient for two such towns as
Temple can be had from the Knobs
creek springs, just below town. The
| cost of these works will be in the
peighborhood of $25,OOO The gentle
men in charge of this enterprise will
push it to completion as rapidly as
possible.-Temple Times.
The people of Wise county have
been longing for one good crop year,
in which all the crops would hit well
They will certainly be gratified this
year. We, however, advise our peo-
pie to use economy still. and take
good care of what they make, fol
whether it be true or not, there is an
old saying that I'm Texas there is al.
ways feast or famine" We will
have the feast this year; next year is
in the future and we may have the
famine.-Decatur Tribune.
Planters in the BraZos bottom, neal
Hearne, give gloomy accounts of the
ravages of the boil worm and say that
more damage has been done to the
crop by them than ever known before
at this season of the year. The crop
is already damaged 10 per cent, com.
pared with the prospects a week ago
In Milan county the worm is also al
work.
AS Galveston failed to "put up" fol
| the proposed military encampment
no military meeting will be held this
year.
We have been approached by a
number Of farmers on the subject of
fencing all stock-horses, mules, cat
tie, sheep and goats, as well as hogs
1t is argued that it is cheaper to
fence them in than to fence them out
and the country is becoming settled
up to that extent that there is no
longer range sufficient to support
stock. We will have more to say on
this subject in the Naturalization
Herald-News.
1t is generally rumored that the
depot will be located near Hanna
Springs, at which point the new hotel
will be built, and at the same time
connect the Hanna and Hancock
springs by street railway. We look
forward to this enterprise with much
interest.-Lampasas Dispatch.
On last Wednesday we had quite an
interesting speech from Gov. Hubbard
explaining the project of a narrow
gauge railroad to be constructed in
connection with a line from Sabine
Pass to Tyler, and from Tyler, via
Terrell and Rockwell, to Mckinney
and reaching GAINESVILLE with branch
to Sherman. The governor informed
US that the line from Tyler, the Kan
sas and Gulf Short Line, was being
pushed ahead, and that iron was
being received for that work. The
louisiana and Texas narrow gauge
was a separate project, but to connect
with the other road and the general
narrow gauge system, connecting
connection to the great lakes of the
north at Toledo.-McKinney En-
quirer.
Judge Robertson, of the seventh
district, has sent his resignation to
the governor, to take effect on the
goth instant.