The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-17

management of the United State
marshals Office, at Dallas, as mode
to be copied by other marshals'. Ey
erything is reported correct, and Mar
shall Mckee and Chief Deputy Haley
especially commended.
The booms of the Ceur Dalled golC
mining region in Idaho Territory, ha:
reached this latitude, and during the
past week no less than eight young
men have started for the New Edo
! RADIO to seek their fortune. A number
of others are getting ready to go.
The annual meeting of the Dallas
Merchants Exchange was held to-day,
Oppenheimer was reelected president
and T. Collier president. The
old board of directors were reelected.
Barnett Gibbs to-day makes the
formal announcement that he is in
| the field as candidate for nomination
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
DALLAS, April 12.-In an interview
to day Mr.. Dargan, a member of the
state board of fire underwriters, in
forms your correspondent that at the
annual meeting at Galveston, April
%, there will be very material raise
in the rates of insurance in all towns
in Texas, except Dallas, as the COM
panies in the past quarter lost mo-,
at every other point. The heaviest
losses are in the smaller places. The
rate at Dallas will be left unchanged.
The increase, he states, will be applied
to Corsicana, Waco, Galveston Green
vile, Athens and other palces where
losses have been sustained from eX
tensive and frequent fires.
An homo nrOcnaotnr Fron1y
Whitehurst, was swlndled to-day on
Worth out of $105 which he loaned
check fer $1,460, drawn on the first
national bank of Fort Worth, and
which they said could be cashed at
Dallas. They played the old freight !
bill racket on him. The police are
unable to find the sWindlers,
DALLAS, April 2.-The repul llcans |
of Dallas county, as usual, failed to |
harmonic this evening, and split up, |
holding two county conventions to
send delegates to the state convention |
at Fort Worth to nominate a state
ticket and delegates to Chicago, and
for the district convention at Terrell
to send delegates to the national state
convention. The county is entitled
to delegates and each convention Sc
lected twenty delegates and twenty
with half vote to each.
United States Marshal James A.
Mckee presided over the wing favora-
Die to the old time straightout repub-
lean leaders managing the party, the
followers of whom are almost solidly
to Arthur'S administration.
delegation composed equally of
whites and blacks was chosen and in
itructed to vote as unit for delegates
10 Chicago opposed to Arthur. 1t is
they can do but little for
Blaine, but will favor any one to beat
Arthur.
The other wing of the party was
presided over by w. H. Hatch, and
represented the postof1ice element,
avoring new leaders to head and
landle the party, and favorable to
Arthur, but for some uneXplainable
eason the delegates are split up for
Elaine, Logan, Arthur, ct. al. The
administration is getting very black
ye. Two-thirdS of the delegates are
White and one-third black men. The
allegation were instructed to act as a
nit, but pledged to no particular can
ludIe. NO HdCCer WHICH OIL Gn0 dele
alton is recognized at the state dis
riot convention 1t is said it will be
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DALLAS, April 12-The physicians
f Dallas county and city to-day or
anized county medical society, with .
/. III. Morton, president, and J. t. {
Zeal, secretary. Twenty-seven prac-
icing physicians were admitted as {
harter members.
The following persons leave to- &
borrow to attend the state grand j
,dge Knights of Pythias, at Austin t
'r. Sutton, q. V. c.; Ed. G. Smith,
preventative royal A. Ferris, G. M. t
e. G. c.; Wilson. of Terrell, G. M. n
A telegram received from Wichita f
alls, to the sheriff, says Stephen +
.oore, cattle man, has been killed
7 Ben Shanklin, and to notify his
life, now at Dallas. Shanklin is de-
ribbed as five feet nine inches high, .
yht complexion, blue ey es and sandy o
oustache. Moore was rich, and for G
erly lived at Dallas. A reward of q
.,O00 is offered for the capture of '
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