San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-02-07

,zn<ss s.l1< lnetsv.s-sl- ss.fsng
I time thousands Of dollOrs on thei
property, connot now obtain credi
for hundreds on the same property
or course this depreciation of prop
erty is only in those portions OF tn
State that have been at tho mercy O
the nippers
After a great deal OF palavorinl
and taking Of testimony the specie
committee recommended n short bill
which has passed. II makes the de
struction of property felony, and
Furnishes the offender with confine
menti in tho penitentiary for not lest
than one or moro than five years
A great many wanted the offenders
tried in Austin. but II was finally
voted down and tho cases are pro
ceeded with as any other offense
against the State There has also
been an appropriation made Of fifty
thousand dollars, to be used by the
governor for the payment of rewards,
and forreting out and suppressing
crime. This is regarded rs legislu-
ton in the right direction, and it 10
evident that the time has passed
when the people must regard the
governor MS public enemy and place
n guard between him and tho treas
ury when it becomes necessary for
him to offer rewards for the suppress
sion of lawlessness. Tho bill pro-
viding penalty for enclosing public
land has not yet passed both houses
if it passes, as it doubtless will, that
will complete all the legislation ne
cessary to prevent fence-cutting,
1t will be remembered that 1 gave
the outline of the road bill last week,
which throws the responsibility of
good on the county commissioners
Representative Swan of Clay coun-
by, the seat of the land and cattle
of North Texas, says:
eff the Legislature don't settle the
'ence-cutting troubles, Twill feel like
nm going to damnbigfuneral when
60 home, because forbearance has
las ceased to be virtue in my por-
ion of the State, and at least twenty
i've men will be killed in my district
this disorder is not stopped instan-
err.
The Exposition bill appropriating
wenty thousand dollars to represent
lie State at New Orleans, has finally
assed. 1t provides for the appoint
1ent of commissioner by the gov !
rnor, who shall receive q salary of :
wo thousand dollars and shall de-
ote his personal attention to the col t
'ctlon of the various industries of the ,
tate, also eleven assistant commits
oners, one for each congressional
istrict and twenty honorary delegates
70 to be appointed. COL Elliott, b
the Dallas Herald, has applied for, g
I'd it is thought will obtain the up r
ointment of chief commissioner. "
Ben Thompson has been agitating :,
le communication again. He tried q
corral the city in his vest pocket a
1t succeeded in cursing out q few
.rties and putting to fight few v
lewis" in the Statesman office. Mr.. I
aines the proprietor, has filed seven NJ NJ
argos against him, and the public p
xiously await the legal develop Il
ents in the matter. d
Austin has at last dropped into b,
le with her sister cities and now VI
8 the electric light. 81
Last Saturday night clerk who &C
the name of Hunt in W. B. Walk s nr
SIS store was bound and gagged by
rec burglars who presented pistols er
his his head and then proceeded til
blow open the safe and robbed it ~
several hundred dollars. The m
tier occupied the same quarters as W
ung Hunt for several months after se
st arriving at Austin, and often W.
ndered that he was not sand wi ";
gged when going homo late at
d the premises robbed; but it ca
Ems that burglars, like death, love lo'
Inning mark, hence the escape. ;n
Miss Carrie Rogers of Mississippi, 70,
SIS Dora Bridges of Waxahachie, Sc,
1 Mrs. j V. Hutchins spent sever no
days at the Capital and returned tn
San Marcos the fore part of the p be
elk. j. E. LAMB. chs