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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-11
AMONG THE RANCHES.
Experience of an Austin Man Searching
for COMMUNICATING Letter.

Experience of an Austin Man Searching
for notwithstanding Letter.
SAN DIEGO, Tex, September A.
Thinking young, or perhaps many,
young readers would like to hear
something from this part of Texas.
1 will try and drop you few lines.
1 left Austin, August 10, for San An
tonic, for the purpose of buying me
a flock of goats. | found none In San
Antonio but little lunches of twenty
five to fifty, but was told | could buy
all | wanted at Del Rio or Eagle Pass
at one dollar per head. l fastened
there as quickly as the train could
carry me. 1 found very few for
sale, at $500 to $3.50 per head. taking
all. big, old, young, little and indiffer.
ent. ! started home in disgust, and
thought what a world ofignorance and
lies one lived in. On the train back 70
San Antonio, several told me could
by all the goats at San Diego l want
ed for IS cents per head, and then
remembered seeing in Farm and
Ranch last spring where goats could
be bought in Cameron county for sou
per thousand. / fastened on here
| lSan Diego). / ind few for S1.5O
DER head. and none in Cameron coun-
| ty at all. and don't think ever was,
unless strayed or driven there. 1t
won't support a goat.
Everything is dry and burnt up
here. They have not had good sea-
son here in four years. 1t L should
buy any goats, or any other stock, it
would be impossible to get them out
from here, as the water is all gone,
and you can ride for days and find no
place t. Craze your 10 Sc. There is
/ nothing green but mesquit bushes
and Live Oak; except these and every
thing seems as if scorched with fire.
The whole aspect seems like dark,
gloomy. dreary, humid. fervid waste.
Many stock are dying. and thousands
more will die if it don't rain in time
to start grass before winter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-11
GALVESTON.
Base Ball-A Victory for the Galvestons
-Suicide

Base Ball-A Victory for the Galvestons
Suicide.
GALVESTON, September g. The
second league game between the Sun
sets, of San Antonio, and the Calves
ton club, was played this afternoon
before a fair sized audience. The
score resulted: Galveston Is; Sunsets
3. During the game Palmer, catcher
for the Sunsets, received a stunning
blow on the cheek, but pluckily play
ed the game through, notwithstand-
ing.
This afternoon the body of a Ger
man about 45 years old, named John
Ellinger, was found sitting upright in
the sand hills at the foot Of 18th street
near the beach. A bullet hole through
the body and an empty pistol in the
hand told the story of dependency
and suicide From every indication
the body has been thus exposed for
five days, but escaped observation.
From a note book in the pocket, a few
lines were, with difficulty, deciphered,
indicating that the probable cause of
suicide was disappointment in love.
Ellinger had resided in Galveston a
short time. The coroner held an in
quest and verdict was rendered in
accordance with the above facts.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-11
CHAs. CRANE.

He Dies Suddenly, but from What, the
Coroner's Jur Have Not Yet Decided.
Charles Crane, for several years past
q hack driver for Mr.. Platt, the livery
man, died yesterday. He had been
drinking rather hard for two or
three weeks, and at about 8 o'clock
a. m. while seated in front of the
stable, had fallen off a chair, striking
his head against the sidewalk with
considerable force. He got up, how
ever, and walked off in the direction
of his home. He was subsequently
found lying across the capital railway
track, at the intersection of East
avenue and Bots d. Arc street, in 9
dying condition, and carried home
where he died at 2p. m. The coroner:
jury are investigating the cause Of
his death, with closed doors, and the
| presumption is that foul play is sns
/ pected by his friends.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-11
THE STATE OF TRxAs-1N THE DIS

THE STATE OF TRXAS-IN THE DIS
l. trict Court, October Term, A d. 1884.
To the Sheriff or any Constable of Travis coun-
ty-Greeting:
You ARE HEREBY COMMANDED, that by
making publication of this Citation In some
newspaper published in the county of Travis,
once in each week for four consecutive
weeks previous TO the return day hereof you
summon Joseph Rosenthal, nonresident of the
State of Texas, and George Bates and Robert
Feige, whose residences are unknown, to be
and appear before the district Court, to be
holden in and for the county of Travis, at the
court house thereof, in Austin, on the first
Monday in october. A. d. 1884, file being 7144,
then and there to answer the petition of the
State of Texas, filed in said court, on the 18th
day of April, A. ID. 1884, against the said Jo-
seph ROsenthal, George Bates and Robert
Feige, ana alleging in substance as follows,
to-wlt: That plaintiff is the owner of fourteen
sections OF land lying in the county of Has
kell, In the State of Texas, and minutes de-
Scrlbed in the petition in this case and
set out in the exhibits hereto attached and
made part Of is Gita3 in That al OF said
veyed and set apart for the benefit of the
common school fund in the manner directed
by law; that on the = day of November 1881,
and on such days and dates subsequent there
to, the parties whose names Severally appear
in the exhibit attached to said petition and
part thereof, did severally file their applica-
lions for the several sections of school lands
therein described, with the surveyor of the
Young Land District. to which district the
said county of Haskell was attached at that
tlme-Said surveyor being at the time in the
city Of Austin, county OF Travis. and not at
his office, as contemplated by law, and as was
required by the instructions of the commits
sioner of the general land office, and of the
attorney general Of said State of Texas, issued
the authority of law; that all of said appIica-
lions were presented to the surveyor at the
place and in the manner aforesaid before the
notice contemplated by law had been given
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THE OLD DEFENDERS,
dropping out lof the Ranks"


BALTIMORE, September 6.-The as
ISOLATION of Old Defenders, whose
members took part in the battle of
North Point in the war of 1912, has
disbanded. The Sun says: The fam
Gus Old Defenders association, whose
annual parade has been q most notable
and impressive feature of the celebra-
ton of the 18th of September, is no
more. The constitution of the organi-
cation provided it should be kept up
so long as there were five members
able and willing to continue the organ
ization. Year after year the veterans
have been dropping out OF the ranks,
until now there are not five left who
are able to attend the meeting of the
association. 1t has been their annual
custom to attend the church in
body Sunday before the 18th, but to-
morrow the veterans will not gather
as of yore, nor will there be the usual
banquet on the 18th. The association
was formed in 1912, at Baltimore, and
had, at its formation 1859 members.
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sections of StatA schoo; lands, he the said w.
ii Randolph, having already, prior thereto
Sail Land AID S 1wu name seven sections q
w. H. Randolph, TO use their several names In
masking said applications for the purchase
i IN lands described In said Exhibit as lying
on the part of them, the said parties whose
namss We're SO used OF ever completing said
IN truth and in fact all of said apniieafions ~
purchase, all OF the payments to the Stats
treasurer were made, and all Of the other nee
eSSafy steps were taken for the sole llse and
beneat of the said w. ii. RandolDh and nof
In any manner for the fse OF benefit OF said
applicants or either of them. Plaintiff further
lanes appear in said Exhibit, and as above
set forth, as applicants for the purchase OF
both the Haskell and Nolan county lands have.
Dy virtue OF their aforesaid unlawful pretended
purchases of said lands been claiming 10 be
the true and lawful purchasers tn ereof and 10
nave acquired perfect titles thereto. That
1882, and sundry dates subsequent
thereto, transfer and sell to defendant. "a. u.
Rhomberg, all their several rights titles and
interests in and to said lands. Plaintiff further
alleges that 10 is informal and believes and
charges that defendant is claiming some kind
OF a beneficial int rest in sad lands, the exact
character OF which Is unknown to plaintfff
Plaintiff charges that defendants had full
knowledge and ample notice OF all the facts
ana circumstances attending the said illegal
appneatlons prior to purchasing from said D.
p1cants. That said pretended claims set an
by defendants is a cloud upon plaintiffs title
aud obstructS the sale or lease thereof and
prays judgment against defendants and each
OF them, annulling and declaring void all acts
OF defendants or their agents in and concern
ing the whole transaction and each part there
of. and that the defendants and each of them
be restrained from asserting claims to said
lands under said pretended purchases and
sales That all clouds be removed from plain
Ilifs title and that plaintiff be quieted In pos
session of the same
Herein fail not, but have you then and there
before said court this writ, with your return
thereon, showing how you have executed the
same
- Witness, James p. Hart, Clerk OF
Is the District Court OF Travis county
AS Given under my hand and seal
- said court, in Austin. this, the 10th day
" July, A. D., 1884.
JAMES Z. HART
Clerk District Court Travis County.
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lectorS and sheriffs, and that the
records of that time are DOt sufficient
to afford satisfactory data. Only one
district attorney (of Travis county,
had made a report. He had fifteen
suits. of which ten were prosecuted to
! Judgments; three settled without suit.
and two were dismissed, one of them
on account of failure to perfect SER
vice, and the other because the defend
ants were insoluent. In the ten cases
judgments for $4,000 were obtained.
The claims on the two cases dis
missed amounted to S20,OOO. The
amount collected was S16,SS0, and of
this amount the state received only
7,166. The balance of over $1,000
was retained as fees and commissions.
The comptroller does not report on
the suits against other defaulters, and
does not give the total amount of de-
falcatio2.
In answer to the second inquiry the
comptroller finds the amount assessed
was So, 144,000, including occupation
taxes, and amount paid into the treas
ury, $3.1S4,000, on above assessment.
The difference is $I,064, 600 between
the amount assessed and amount paid |
in. But it does not represent the |
amount of loss to the state, for the |
reason that a large portion, some
100000, was paid into TIE treasury
after the democrats came iLto office.
The 100000 apparent loss, after
deducting 100000 collected after
wards, includes cost OF assessments
and collections, which were heavy,
and other losses not chargeable to col
lectorS.
The above answers do not include
old debts incurred by republican adj
and which amounts were
named in the report of Comptroller
Darden to the house of representa-
lives, in answer to resolution offered
by Hon. j. II. Cochran, of Dallas, in
answer to the noted letter of Bob
Taylor on radical finances. This
contracted after 1876 and
paid after 1884, prior to 1880 was
80, 287 ,635. Even this does not include
paid by the democratic adj
to school teachers.
About S1,750,O00 of debts were made
)y republicans.
The kernel of the answer is that the
In four years, incurred a
oss OF about 100000, against only
$4,000 by the democrats in ten
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-11
THE BLAINE MATTER.

Another Step Taken in the Litigation.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, September g.
Another step was taken in court to-
day in the Blaine Sentinel matter by
the filing of the following:
Defendants move the court for a
rule against plaintiff herein to answer
heterogeneous under oath as recited,
and filed with answer of defendants,
and that the court shall make such
rule returnable at such time as may
be deemed by the court to be reasona-
BILE, for the purpose of said action, as
by the statute provided and required"
Argument could not be heard upon
the motion to-day, and 1nasmuch as
Judge Woods goes to Fort Wayne on
Monday to hold court, the matter will
probably not be ruled upon for sew
eral days. Plaintiffs counsel have
not refused to answer the interrogato-
ripC
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-11
THE SHOOTING OF HENRY.
The Account by Fredericlks, One of the
Executioners.

The Account by Fredericlks, One of the
Executioners.
INDIANAPOLIS, September 6.-Julius
r. Fredericks, who was sergeant in
the Greedy polar expedition, is in the
city. He denies the story that there
were Two sections in the Greedy party,
and says the men of the expedition
were united and harmonious. There
may have been cannabalism, but of
this he has no personal knowledge.
He gives the following account of
the shooting of Henry:
Henry hae been warned several
times about stealing food, but he re-
peated the offense, and, finally, Lieut..
Greedy issued an order for his execu-
ton. Three guns were loaded-two
with ball, and one blank. Fredericks,
Long and Brainard were detailed to
carry the order into effect. They took
the guns, and found Henry $50 yards
away, in the act of stealing sealskins.
The three men approached within
twenty yards, and the ranking man
called out: Henry, we are now COM
PEELED to carry out orders" The men
fired. and Henry fell dead"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Cremation is making great strides
in France, where the Project of the
Seine means to establish Sieman fur
naceS in several of the cemeteries IN
Paris, and proposes to cremate all per-
sons whose remains are not claimed by
their friends.
To cure us of our immoderate love
of gain, we should seriously consider
how many goods there are that money
will not purchase, and those the best;
and how many evils there ara that
money will not remedy, and these the
worst.
DIR. Farr, an English scientist, says
that of 100000 people, 10000 die the
first year, $1,000 the second, 2S,OOO the
third. 1900 the thirteenth, and at the
end of 1OS years there is only one sur
vivor.
A charity society in Philadelphia
reports that in six months ls5 cases
of assertions by men of their families
have come under its care. lntemper-
ance was the active cause in liz OF
these. The estimate is that this
species of cowardice is practiced in
Philadelphia to the extent of 600 to
700 hundred instances a year.
Lobbying in the British parliament
is expensive. The London, Brighton
81 South Coast railway line only
profted $1,000 by the reduction of the
passenger duty. while no less thai
e13,OOO was spent in fighting no fewer
than fifteen bills.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-11

rTHESTATE OF TEXAS. INTHE DISTRACT
Il court October Term, A. ID. 1884. 10 the
sheriff or any constable OF Travis county
You are hereby commanded, that by making
publication u this citation In some newspaper
published in the county OF Travis, II there be q
newspaper published in said county. (but II
not, then in the nearest county where a news
paper is published, for four consecutive weeks
revfous TO the return day hereof, You summon
Ed. Wilkerson who Is a non resident OF the
state of Texas, TO be and appear before the
district court. to be holden In and for the
county OF Travis at the court house thereof, in
Austin on the first Monday In Oetob er 1884.
File number being 1894, then and thef to an
swer the petition Of Sophia Krelsle, lied In
said court, ON the Y day Of July A.. ID. 1884,
against the said Ed Wilkerson and James v.
Bergen and alleging In substance as follows,
to-wlt: That defeRdent, I'd Wilkerson and
Toney WilkersoD. (who is not sied) made, ex-
county, Texas, their Joint prolnissary note on
the 18th day Of June, 1873, for one Thousand
Isl, 00O) dollars currency money OF the United
States, bearing interest at the rate OF II cents
per annum, and at the same time and date ex-
ecuted TO said Bell, to secure said note and the
further consideration OF one dollar. to them
conveying to said defendant Bergen as trustee.
part of lot No. ~ four in block No (43) forty
three in said city OF Austin Texas. The part
SO conveyed being the northern part OF said
lot fronting thirty feet on Congress Avenue
and running back the same width onehundred
and sixty O60 feet That afterwards said Bell
departed this life, leaving said note and deed
of trust among the assets Of his estate. That
the same was subsequently, transferred by the
heirs of said Bell to one Robert Cempbellf for a
valued consideration, who thereafter for like
valuable consideration assigned and trans
ferred the same to plaintiff. Plaintiff prayg
Judgment against defendant, I'd WIlkers0n
for the amount Of said note, interest and costs.
that said deed OF trust be foreclosed upon said
property herein described according to the
provisions thereof, and the proceeds OF sale be
applied to the payment OF said note, interest
and costs, and IL the same be insufficient, that
manning unpaid. Herein fail not, but have you
then and there before said court this writ,
with your return thereon. showing how you
have executed the same,
WITNESS: Jas. L. Hart, clerk OF the dis
trict court of Travis county.
Given under my hand and the seal Of said
-, court In Austin. this the 23d day ef
SEAL July A. ID. 1874. JAS. p. HART
t-' clerk district court Travis county
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-11
The Cattle Plague,

From the San Francisco Argonaut.
Silk has almost entirely disappeared
in Paris as an article of dress Except
in foulards) and wool has taken It's
place. The lovely dresses seen at the
Grand Prix were almost all of WOOL
1t is the most healthy material to wear
next to the skin, and should
there be almost white, as col
ored wooden undergarments
are fast corroding. But the
lovely tints of merino are now so
common and so cheap that fashion
dictates that these should be
worn for dressy occasions; also cot
ton and linen fabrics in stripes and
spots, now so fashionable, made up
with French taste, take their places
on the coach, in the Victoria, on the
promenade, at Hurlingham, and at
the garden parties of London. One
scarcely ever sees a silk dress on a
young person. except at dinner or in
the evening; all is simplicity and
cheapness.
Dress should be light Of weight to
be healthy and becoming; heavy ma
terials spoil the figure, the mind and
the body, ann spoil the walk in sum-
mer. In the Bots de Bologne women
walk in very short dresses with i'm
mense bustles, and with very pretty
clicked stockings of color unlike
the dress. They drive in short dresses,
and show the feet very much. 1t
is doubtful if this is pretty fashion,
as short dress never looks well when
woman sits down. The pretty flow
cred muslins, the percales, the foul
ards, and the white merine dresses,
and new shot silks made up with
muslin, cause, nuns cloth, cashmere,
cream yelling or grenadine are very
tasteful. Slippers are worn with de-
cidedly low heels.
For dusty drive French women
have their pretty little full cloaks,
called mushrooms, made of sort OF
Japanese silk, richly set off by lace in
cascade falling down each side, and
the sleeves gayly trimmed with lace.
These are at once useful and orna-
mental. The bonnets are OF a
high conical shape, so that a pretty
French woman looks like Titanid
peeping out of a fox-glove. Colored
Spanish laces for silk ald cashmere
dresses aid the light summary appear
ance of these dresses. which are cheap,
light and pretty. If woman is seen
in a heavy expensive silk, weighed
down with trimming, she is known to
be an American.
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FOREIGN RAGS.
Dangers of Their Importation into the
United States.

DduS0rs OF Ine1r importation INTO the
United States.
WASHINGTON, September 6.-The
treasury department received a letter
to-day from DIR. Hill, United States
health officer, at London, asserting the
Importation Of rags into this country
from England is fraught with great
danger. Smallpox, he says is and has
for some time been prevalent in Lon
don, where quantities of rags, are col
lected and shipped to America and
large quantities of continental rags
are forwarded to London for ship
ment to American ports. These rags
undergo no procession of disinfection,
previous to expectation, and are very
likely to be agents to convey the in
lection of cholera, or smallpox, if
collected in Infected localities. Twen-
ty-three bales of rags were recently
shipped to New York by the Lydian
Monarch, upon the representation
that they had not been collected in
any infected district, but Investigation
showed they came from Dunkirk,
France, where cholera had just broken
out. Large quantities of continental
rags are now being forwarded to
America from Wall Hall, more dan
gerous port to ship from than either
or London.
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der, have been in close consultation
with the committee. Secretary Chan
der said to an Associated Press re-
porter that all the members of the ad-
ministration were hearty in their sup
port of the ticket, and, with the COM
Ing cool weather, they will enter
heartily into the campaign.
1t was learned that Gen. Gresham
and Gen. Brewster had rendered their
services as speakers.
Senator Cameron expressed a cordial
interest in the ticket and the cam
palgn, and said he was ready to help
IN the campaign. He was confident
of success.
Senator Allison was enthusiastic
over success in northwestern Indiana.
AT both the democratic and repub-
llcan headquarters it was agreed that
Ohio will probably be the battle
field Of the campaign.
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Applicant.
Grantee.
County,
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF TRAVIS.

NOTICE is hereby given of the following
described estrays:
One bay mare, 1874 hands high, 7 years ODD,
thigh IL.
One bay horse, IA hands high, 8 year cid
branded on left jaw and on left thigh ID.
left hip o and marked swallowfork in both
ears.
One brown stag, years old, branded ca the
right hip Do; and on the left hip .; marked
One yearliUg, no mark or brand
One red and white 2-year-0ld steer narkf-
crop off both ears; no brand.
(L.S.] Given under my hand this 226 dil
August, A. D., 1884.
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THE GRAIN CASE.
Death From Intoxicatfon.

Death From lntOXtcatiOn.
Justice Won Rosenberg concluded
his inquest into the causes of the
death of Charles Grain, the hickman,
whose death was noticed in THE
STATESMAN yesterday. The verdict
of the jury was:
"We, the jury of inquest over the
remains of Charles Grain. deceased,
find that the deceased came to his
death about 2 o'clock p. m, September
5. in the city of Austin, from conges-
ton of the brain, caused by the ex-
cessive use of alcoholic stimulants."
[Signedl
W. M. ROBINS,
S. J. TRIPLETT,
W. M. DORNWELL,
LEWIS SIEONS,
III. w. THULIN,
81. MONTGOMERY,
M. V. r. JUsTFN.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-11
GOV. ST. JOHN.
A Reception Arranged for the Prohibi
ton Candidate.

"A hOCcpllOh aTTdHSou IOr Oile
ton Candidate.
OLATIIE, KAN, September 6.-Gov-
ernor st. John returned home to-day
for the first time since his nomination,
by the prohibition party, to the presi-
dency. An effort will be made to
tender him a reception, irrespective of
politics, but the mayor and council
refused to have anything to do with it.
So the management of the reception
was confined, almost exclusively to
his personal friends. The ex-governor
was met at the depot by delegation
of citizens and band of music, and
escorted from thence to the pub
lie square where an address
of welcome was made by Mr..
Pitcher and responded to by Mr..
st. John; both speeches being
very brief. The number of people
present did not exceed 400, including
women and children. The ex-gov-
ernor is addressing quite large audi
ence at the opera house tonight.