The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
wEDEsNDAY.

WEDESNDA1.
Gov. Ireland has appointed w. A.
Wallace, Esq, district attorney for
the twenty-fourth Judge Paschall's)
district, embracing Kinney, Maverick,
Uvalde and some other counties.
Mr.. Wallace is a prominent lawyer
and has formerly served as district
attorney of the same district. He is
appointed to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of the late incumbent
of the position, Hon. Pinkney Jones,
deceased.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The charter of the Pierce education
al institute, at Luling, capital stock
$250,O00, was filed with the secretary
of state.
Also charter of the peoples co oper-
alive loan association, capital stock
100000, in shares of $500 each, and
located at Palestine. Tex. The di-
rectors are John r. Hearne, j. w. Or
ment, A. Teah. Geo. a. Wright, w.
P. Galloway, VIM. Broyles, J. NJ. Con-
oway, A. w. Grigg and e. f. Num-
sen, of Palestine, Texas.
Comptroller Swain warranted We'd
nesday for the payment of forty
claims for pensions, OF $112.50 each,
for nine months.
But few thousand dollars in the
aggregate were paid into the treasury.
The revenue from the sale of lands
= for delinquent taxes, made some time
since, or to express 1T more plainly,
the amount of taxes saved by the
state by selling the lands for delin-
quent taxes, will amount to only
about $l20D
PENITENTIAIY BOARD.
There WAS another meeting of this
board Wednesday, to approve the con-
tract as drawn up by Superintendent
Goree with Messrs. Conner q Fairs,
of Alabama, contractors for the
Rusk penitentiary. The contractors
representative desiring to leave, the
board met for special consideration
of the contract, which was approved
by the board, and accepted on the
part of the contractors The con-
tract covers about thirty pages of
= manuscript, and under lis terms Mai.
Goree estimates that the state viii
realize about $1,000 profit per an
mum, as he stated after the meeting
to the reporters who made inquiry OF
him on the subject.
The contractors are to give IL bond
of 100000, and are granted thirty
days in which to execute their bond
and perfect their contract.
Maj. Goree estimates that the state
will be able to furnish them 200 first
class convict laborers at about $50 or
$50, producing at the latter figure SAY
$4,000 for the state. The expenses
of The state for guards and clothing
for the 200 convictS he estimates in IL
general way at about $4,000, and
other expenses at about $1,000. The
state besides will have to pay for
feed, clothing, etc, of about $50 con-
victs reserved for necessary work for
the state, pay for outside inspectors,
salary of the chaplain, prison officers,
fer medicineS,~phys discharge
money, station h and other expenses,
all of which he estimates will reduce
the profits to about $4,000, as stated.
AS to the Huntsville penitentiary,
if the reporter understood him cor
rectly, Maj. Goree thinks the terms Of
the contract with ether contractors
will make the workings of that prison
within the walls Self-suStaining for
some time, and be the means of ulti-
mate profit to the state, if carefully
managed by the state.
He estimates that the cells in the
Huntsville prison will accommodate
600, and those in the Rusk prison 1000
prisoners. He stated to the reporters
that he had heard parties say that it
would pay the state to tear down
these prisons and build new ones
- better adapted tn the interests of the
: state, and he believed they were about
correct.
Maj Goree states that there is a
great quantity at iron ore in the
neighborhood ut the Rusk peniten-
tiary, enough 10 supply the furnace
blast to be run tY Messrs. Conner q
Farris for years
MeSSrs. SeligsOn and others, of Gal
weston, whose agent here was given
time to consult with them about the
modification OF their terms as insisted
on by the board. have, it is under
stood, signilird their agreement to the
notifications. The contractors are
all represented To be gentlemen of
large means aud reliable character.
A communication from Mr.. Daniels,
local superintendent of the Hunts
vile penitentiary, asked for change
of the rooms of the kitchen and hos
pital, which are badly located with
reference to each other, and the
changes suggested were granted.
The board adjourned for several
hours to enable the secretary of the
board, Mr.. John L. Dickinson, to
make copy of the contract to be col
lated with the original draft and
signed by the parties. The work Of
both these gentlemen in the matter