The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
DEPARTMENTS.

IL Collector G. B. Dixon, of Titus, S
N. tied his accounts with the state.
IT. The absence of state official me-
ed berS of the land board prevent
is quorum of that body for the presel
n The secretary has the bids all tab
D. lated ready for their consideration.
L. Superintendent Baker has receiV,
o. nearly all the reports of the SUNNI
v normal institutes. They show goC
r, work generally.
ID Judge Walker yesterday dismisst
n all the land fraud charges against
W w. Wampler except one, in which
r reduced the bail from 81 500 to 81 GO
e which Wampler processes he will
d able to furnish as soon as his brOtht
n arrives from Illinois. d. G. Kerr, tt
d witness in the case who testified
e having signed Vampires name as N
|. tary public, to the fraudulent paper
4 used by Pierce, and was at once a.
}, rested on a charge of forgery, is hor
e in Jail, awaiting the calling OF hi
( case.
Barlow, who seems to have bee
= Pierce's advisor in the business, wa
2 yesterday arrested, charged witt
: falsely swearing to being an attache
| witness in the case and to have trav
, eled nearly a thousand miles iron
Big Springs, in Howard county, wher
the frauds were perpetrated, and t.
! be entitled to nine days service, WheI
in fact he was served as witness il
Austin.
AS the evidence strengthens agains
Pierce and others it seems to weaker
against Wampler, as a party imposed
upon by them.
A, Car load of granite for building
the new capitol came in yesterday
from Burnet. There are about {
dozen car loads already quarried anG
about as much more will be ready by
Saturday. The white stone used in
the basement, will it is argued, last as
well as the granite on account of be-
ing but little exposed to the action of
the atmosphere.
Assessment roll of Cherokee county
show an increase in value of $21l, 719,
Rains $60,128, and Stephens $780,, 400,
Filed yesterday: Charter of Yer
mont Stock Company of Tom Green
county, Texas. Capital 100000. In
corporators-Fred w. Porter, d. w.
Hazleton, Arthur Putnam, ]. w.
Pierce, Albert Brown, Chas. ID. Brink,
DanI O'Gill, II. Whitmore. Fred w.
Putnam and Sam P. Francis.
Also, charter of the Supreme Grand
Lodge of Colored Mems Labor Union
| of TeXarkana, Texas. Incorporators,
j. W. Murray, j. l.. Lawson and ten
others.
J. T. Barlow in his sworn state
ment before Justice Won Rosenberg,
yesterday, denied in toto having COM
mitted the offense of perjury. He
states that he had asked Judge Walk
er with reference to his fees as wit
ness in the WampIer habeas corpus
case. The judge referred him to the
comptroller, who told him no certifi-
cate could be issued till he was at
tached. District Clerk Hart asked
him if he had been attached as wit
ness. He said he was a witness in
the previous Wampler preliminary
case and was under attachment, hav-
ing never been discharged by
process of law. He had
been served in the habeas
corpus case week ago and went home
and returned with the officer and the
witness Kerr.
The encouragement met him and
asked him why he had claimed mile
age, and been here all the time. He
replied that the encouragement was
mistaken, that he had been home, etc.
He had an offer to cash his claim but
told the party that he didn't need it
till next day. He had no idea of do
ing anything criminal.
The bill as made out for witness by
Clerk Hart amounts to $3.50.
Attorney General Templeton testi-
fled to having heard that Barlow was
offering his claim to Mr.. Thompson,
and went over to a saloon
where he was told. Barlow
was, and told Mr.. Thompson who was
there and who said he had bought the
claim that Barlow was not entitled to
fees. Here the encouragement asked
Barlow if the fees he claimed were in
the habeas corpus case; Barlow said
yes, and he had been attached in the
case, and then Col. Templeton told
Thompson it was all right. The at
torney-general, however, not feeling
satisfied about it afterward. made in
qlliries of the comptroller, and found
that the sheriff had filed claim only
for Kerr as an attached witness; nor
did he find any paper for Barlow as
attached witness in the Office of Mr..
Hart, and after consulting with As
s:stant General Burt and
County Attorney Wooten, he had
Barlow charged with perjury.
The case was continued till this
morning.
Wampler has not yet been able to
furnish bail and despairs of being
able to give it.
NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.
According to the Times-Democrat
complete canvass of the city is being
made to secure a list of boarding
houses and private apartments where
visitors to the exposition may be ac-
commodated. The places and terms
will be announced before hand, and
published daily during the exposition,
which is to be kept open several
months. 1t is expected that great
many citizens. besides, will accommo-
date some of their special friends.
Few people who have not actually
seen it, says the Times-Democrat, can
realize the vast, enormous size of the
main building of the exposition at
New Orleans. Those who have en-
tered the famous drill-room of the
Seventh Regiment Armory, in New
York, have been invariably struck by
the suggestion of enormous space. 1t
is colossal apartment. Men seen
from the far corners look like pig
mics. The great clock over the rear
door is dwafted until it resembles the
toy in doll house. Wonderful and
wierd echoes resound, and 0give i'm
pre- sions of gigantic distances. Yet
even to one who has seen and appre-
ciated this prodigious spectacle, what
must be the aspect of the main build
ing of the exposition, which is eight
or ten times larger than the room in
question, which covers with one sin
gle roof, and encloseS within singh
set of walls, the amazing area of thir-
ty-three acres! 1t is thing impossible
to realize, 1t is an immensely which
battles description.
The railroad fare from Austin tC
New Orleans and back during the eX
position will be but $40 so for TIE
round trip.
INDIAN DEPREDATIONS.
The following report was received
yesterday at the office of the adjutant
general:
VAN HORN, Texas, Aug. 4, '84.
a Gen. w. II. King austin, Texas.
: SIR:-At the request of some ranch
men in this vicinity, made scou
: with eleven men through the Carrie
: and Diable mountains, in search o
f Indians; saw no indications of any il
, those parts, but found they had kille
8 cow or 1.-TWO belonging to Mr.. Coz