The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-07
DALLAS.
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= continued to the next term I'll
: cause of this seems to be that the case
2 are so ponderouS in size and detail
that neither the state or the defer
: dants' attorneys have yet been able t
get down into the merits, or rattle
dement's of them.
y fatal disease has broken OH
among the stock cattle in the western
part Of the county and large number
have died from i. The disease is no
like anything ever known there an,
fails to yield TO treatment. Stock ar
taken suddenly sick and expire in
few hours. \ mass meeting of farm
ers and cattlemen was called at Crane
Prairie this AT eruOOn to make efforts
for a remedy or to check the disease
X. y Rambo, new conner from
Tennessee, was worked by conf
dence crook for $1,000 to-day. Tht
swindler was jailed tonight and gave
the name of w. +. Schroeder.
Passengers from the east tonight
report general strike of the traiI
forces on the Texas q st. Louis rail
road. and that it extends through AR.
kansas and Texas. Nothing but the
United States mail cars are allowed tC
move. The strike is for the payment
| Vi overdue salaries.
Nearly 800 worth of jewelry and
$18 in money was stolen from Miss
NJ. l.. Miner, of Dallas, on the night of
January IA. The jewelry was all re-
covered to-day by City Marshal Ar
mold. 1t Was in possession of Colorado
City and Fort Worth gamblers, who
proved that they had purchased it. No
clew to the thieves.
The grand jury met to-day, and
everybody is on the qui vive for new
sensational developments in the great
cotton frauds charged against E. D..
EastOn, Morgan. Cammock and Joe
Lohnstein. a true bill was returned
to-day against Joe FOrSythe, late city
marshal of Hunnewell, Kas., who has
been in Jail at Dallas the past three
weeks, charged with assault, with in
tent to kill Samuel Bills. Forsythe
expects trial tomorrow.
News reached here tonight of
clash this evening between horse
thieves and officers near WaXahachie,
in Ellis county. Two men offered a
number Of horses for sale, in Waxa-
hachie, for which they could not pro-
duce satisfactory evidence of owner
ship. One man, named Hickey, was
arrested on suspicion of being a horse
thief. The other, unknown, fled, pur-
sued by Deputy Sheriff John Mere
dith. A fight took place three miles
from WaXahachie, in which the thief's
horse was wounded and captured. The
rider shot Deputy Sheriff Meredith
through the thigh, and he is in crit
ical condition. Sheriff Brawley is in
pursuit with q possee and pack of
blood hounds. 1t is Thought Mere
dith's possee wounded the desperate
fugitive. He will undoubtedly be
killed or captured.
Harvey Dean, while riding through
the business part of the city this
morning about 2 o'clock, was shot
through the right leg and dangerously
wounded. There is no clue as to who
did the shooting. This is the third at
tempt this week to aSSaSSinate people
by unknown parties.
DALLAS, Jan. 31.-The county court
came to sudden standstill to-day and
all business of the term, including
the famous gambling prosecutions is
declared null and void. The synopsis
of decision by Judge Wilson, of the
court of appeals, at Galveston, de-
claring unconstitutional all the pro-
ceedings of all additional terms of |
county courts, felt the observation of
Judge Burke. He was in the midst of |
an additional term at the time of the |
reading of the synopsis. He immi-
diately adjourned court, and wrote |
Judge Hart, an associate of Judge |
Wilson, at Austin, with the request |
that he telegraph him instanter ii the |
decision as printed was correct, and he |
is now awaiting telegram. 1t ap-
pears that the constitution as amended |
at the election, authorizes only five |
terms of county courts of three weeks |
each per year, "and such other terms |
as the commissioners court may direct |
under the law" Before the adoption |
of this amendment the Dallas county |
court, with the advice of a committee |
OF Dallas lawyers, who conferred with |
the encouragement, and the commits |
sloner's court made four terms per |
year, and Judge Burke has been going |
right along with the additional terms |
thus authorized. Judge Wilson holds |
that commissioners courts have no le-
gal authority for making addi-
tional terms till the legislature passes
an act comforting such authority on |
them and the legislature has so far
failed to pass such act. The business
done by the county court during ad-
terms is null and void and of |
no effect. This will end a very large
of legal business in Dallas
county. If the legislature should |
the commissioners courts to
make additional terms, such an act
will not legalize the work of the addi-
tional terms prior to its passage. Tar
rant, Grayson, Harris and other thickly
counties are said to be in
the same disagreeable delimma that
this county is in.
E d. Easton, the alleged forger and
and embeZZler on the Texas & Pacific |
railroad fraudulent cotton transac-
lions, was to-day taken from Jail into
the grand jury room and was sit is
said in the presence of hegrand jury"
Informed that he was offered last |
opportunity to turn informer on his |
associates and was promised, in case |
he would do so, that all of the indict. |
ments against him in this and Gray
son county should be dismissed. Eas- |
ton processes that he made no request |
to appear before the grand jury and |
was not expecting the summons, and |
declined the offer. The procedure is |
regarded as extraordinary in legal |
circles. 1t is said that the teSti- |
mony of an accomplice is some
times used after an Indictment |
is found to secure conviction,
but that it seems harsh and dangerous
to employ the evidence of a confessed |
criminal to obtain indictments on par
ties not otherwise suspected up to this
time. Neither Easton or Cammack
have made any effort to give bond,
nor is there any indication that they |
will try or be abe to do so. tits re-
ported here that the Texas & Pacific |
railroad company have secretly settled
all losses sustained by parties who
were defrauded by the Johnston
bogus bill Of lading, amounting to
over 100000,
w. z. Vaughn, of Goliad, Tex, re-
turning from a visit to his old home
in Illinois, was to-day swindled at the |
union depot by confidence crooks out
of 500. One of the swindlers repre-
sented himself as an old acquaintance
named Stewart, and engaged Vaughn
in conversation, telling him that he
had been East and purchased a big
stock of goods to engage in business
at Victoria, Texas. A third party |
with the words express agent" on
the front of his cap came up and pre-
sented bill of charges amounting to
$1,000 against the alleged stock of
goods. Waugh took a $1,000 bond of
the Butler City, Montana, Gold and
Silver Mining company and advanced |
1910 on it. The h00d iS WORTHLESS