Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-23
THE STATE CAPITAL.
The Land Board Hesitating as to Its
Duty Under the Law in Regard
TO Bids for Purchase.
Notes From the Departments and Local
Happenings in the City.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, April GA significant &c.
ton of the land board at It's recent
meeting was that while it returned all
bids for leases at four or five cents in
dorsed rejected" it retained applica.
tons for purchase of seven sections and
less under the legislative enactment of
1888, and has failed as yet to make apy
ruling upon them. This substantiates
intimations coming from a reliable
and well-informed source that the
board Is shaky, at least so far as re-
CARDS its late action affecting the sale
of school lands. A meeting will he
held tomorrow or the succeed
ing day to determine contested cases
OF actual settlers, and this matter will
be probably an interesting feature of
the occasion. The time under the law
to which the institution of suit in the
land fraud cases was limited expired
on the 18th inst Returns have not
yet been received from the district at.
torneys, but ms the papers were all sent
out several weeks ago IL is thought that
no omissions to file suit were made.
me Encouragement in letter to a
collector to-day says: at Is my opin-
ion that parties by allowing their lands
to be sold for taxes waive their right to
pay county taxes in county scrip
The law authorizes the sheriff to sell
only for cash, and he must require all
redemptions to be made in CASH.
THE GAZETTE reporter learns from
private source that a Joint iron
bridge Is contemplated across Calves
ton bay by the railroads centerinp
there, and arrangements are ALREADY
beng made to put the project into exc
cutiOn.
Superintendent of the summer nor.
NAL schools will be appointed about
the first of May.
Chartered Globe Manufacturing
company of Houston, capital $50, 900:
Keller Cooperative association, p. of
a.; OF Field Creek, Llano county, cap.
lei Paso county paid 81 OH interest
on her courthouse bonds, and Cameron
county writes that her interest will be
forthcoming.
county, just received, shows Nh enroll.
ment of 973 children.
queen City applies for n white sum-
nher normal school, and Athens for
colored one.
Hopkins county has called in So 500
worth of her courthouse bonds, on de.
post here. '''
The work of laying stone on the
new capitol was resumed to-day.
Treasury deposits $4,000
the governor gave II dining this
evening. '"''
| State Engineer Britton came in from
Gaiveston to-day.
Mr.. A. X. Swan, late Representative
from Clay county, is here. and savS
,enee..cutting has entirely subsidized in
his district. :"
Inc Evening Dispatch, after five
Gays suspension on account of the re-
cent outrage in which its type was
pleu and Office material upset came
out this evening. Col Leader. The
editor, promises to make II lively for
the parties whom he suspects of tho
vandalism. He was arrested this
evening on charge of libsl preferred i've
Dr. Y. Is. Stoddard, a dentist and
gave bond for appearance at the pres.
EN- term of the county court.
A laborer at the capitol ouarrio0
named AL. Bordes, had his foo,
crushed by stone dropping from th.
derrick, and was brought TO the citv
hospital to-day. WY