The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-06-18
CAPlrApCllY CULLISGS.
SOME plrny CHARTER NEWS.
The Port worth A New orleans Railroad
Looms Up-sebolss,io Reports snd
the school fund 81 Capitol
Dsak.L Lock- sunstroke.
NEW CHARTERS

NEw CHARTERS.
AUSTIN, June l3.-tspecisl' l-Chartorsi
shelby County Cooperative Associa-
ton, capital stock, $4,000.
Wichita Water Power Company, capt.
tai stock, $4,000
Fort Worth q New osleans Railroad
Company, capital stock, 100000. Tho
line, as proposed, will run through the
counties OF Tarrant, Dallas, johnson,
Ellis, Freestone, Anderson, Leon,
Houston, Trinity, Polk, Tyler. Hardin,
Jasper, Newton, Jefferson, Orange,
there to connect with the Texas n
New Orleans rroad. incorporates; j..
j. Roche, NJ. q. Hurley, Thomas Roche,
Eugene Roche, William Rouse, John
Hurley, w. s. Pendleton, Charles Ma
loney, James Wholen, all Of Fort
Worth; Q. o. Allen, of Galveston.
SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Scholastic census OF Bandera County,
$50; Angelina, l,i50; Edwards, SOL; Fay
ette, 6,5iS; Gonzales, 3,93l; Grlmes,
Denton, 46i; Tyler, $50. Only about
one-third OF the counties are IN and Il
towns are still 10 be heard from. The
law makes IL imperative that assessors
send up reports before the 10Th OF July,
and they should attend to the matter
Immediately, as the superintendent OF
the school fund Is 10 be made shortly
after the above date.
The Kentucky Mutual Security Fund
Company to-day paid its occupation
tax. This Is the first company to pre-
sent its annual statement under the
Jew law.
THE NEW CAPITOL DEADLOCK.
Colonel Abner Taylor this AFTERNOON
addressed note to the Cnpitoi Board,
calling attention 10 the tact that the
board was delaying the work and re.
tarding the erection of the capitol, ana
asking that meeting be hold this
afternoon to take definite action, as his
business interests made IL imperative
for him TO leave for Chicago tonight.
In response to the request the Doaru
met, Colonel Swain being absent. After
some discussion, Colonel Taylor oelng
present, the board offered TO lot him
have as many convicts as ne couiu
work for the bare cost of maintaining
| them and TO do away with the unneces'
ton IL he would agree to
construct the exterior walls OF
Texas granite. This he positively re-
fused 10 do, and insisted on using indi-
| ana STONE. his tho coaiu IvSis' ~
refused TO agree TO, and stoutly insist
that If the building goes up IL Will be oil
Texas material, and thus the question
stands. Colonel Taylor lett tonight
for Chicago, and before leaving General
| Walker asked him when he would return
to Austin. He replied:
| ~ do not know when, If ever"
The result of the meeting to day was
precisely SGT forth in The HERALD's
| nj q month o..
only one thing mentioned then
remains to be fulfilled, and
this is the abandonment OF
contract, and this is sure to follow, II
all signs do not fail. As mentioned
then, the proposition to use Indiana
stone was only a trap for The board, and
it comfortably fell into it. The costly
work of the building now begins, and
carefully made estimates by skilled
contractors place the cost to finish it at
from Sc, OOO, 900 to $sO0O,O00. The syndi-
cate, skilled in the science OF building,
are as well aware OF this as they are
that they cannot raise that amount OF
money on the capitol lands, and they
will retire, it is believed, a aha
THE HERALD correspondent, after
the meeting, from which he and Other
press representatives were excluded,
| followed Colonel Taylor to his room In
the Brunswick Hotel, hoping to gel
his views on the matter. but on send
ing up his card the astute colonel
was "not in" 1t is not known when
Colonel Babcock will leave for Chicago
| FATAL sUNSTROKE.
A sunstroke killed workman in the
Quarries north of town to-day.
STATE COURT OF APPEALS.
Court OF Appeals affirmed: Jose San
hiabat VS.. the State, from Bexar County
J. H. Murphy vs.. LEIGH d Landrum
from Howard County.
Reversed and Remanded: Antony
| Price VS.. the State, from Travis County
Dave Hunter VS.. the State, from
Travis County.
Albert Brewer VS.. the State, from Bra
EOS County.
Chap Loving VS.. the State, from Mon
tacue County.
William Clark vs.. the State, from
Montague County.
| V. Gonzales VS.. the State, from Bexal
County.
Texas & Pacific Railway vs.. b. d
| Crawford, from Howard County.
johnson vs.. w. Y. Price, from Gala
han County. ,.,
Reversed and dismissed: Lyd Smith
vs.. the State, from Milan County.