The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-31

HOW HuCn reward mas Deem OueTSQ Dy
the governor for the detection Of the Aus
tin murderers? The state could very well
afford to spend few hundred dollars in
suppressing its fends at the state capital.
Gazette.
No reward as yet, and that is what's the
matter.
Austin is not alone in its horrors. The
N o. Picayune is authority for the fact
that hoodlums are so bad in that city that
ladies were afraid to venture on the streets
on the day before Christmas. They need
few hangings in New Orleans, and need
them badly. The city is obtaining an I'M
enviable character throughout the country
and ropes rath er than exposition is the
cure.
There were several good speeches made
at the meeting which was held in Austin
to adopt some method to stop the muir
ders being committed in that city. The
result was that thirty citizens were APP
pointed to assist the officers. Doubtless
the whole male population will assist with
out any resolutions appointing them to
the work. Dallas News.
Every abiding man will lend a help
derers to justice.
The citizens of Austin have finally or
gained for f-protection or rather self
preservation. During the past year, eight
women have fallen victims to tie brutal
lust and murderOus instincts of cabal of
fiendish brutes, whose detection has thus
far baffled all efforts. Men may decry the
evils of mob law, and there is but little can
be said in justification of it, but if ever
fends deserved short shrift and a strong
rope, it is the perpetrators of these inhu-
man butcheries. The citizens of Austin
should act promptly if the villains are
caught.-Denison News.
There will be some ''activity" or some
thing else here when these murderers are
caught, and that time is not far distant.
The Gazette of Friday contained the
appalling story of the assassin's work at
! Austin on the evening previous. The
Dallas end of the Galveston News gave the
first intimatiOn Of the horrible affair to
its readers On Saturday. Thus is ''an
even" etc, maintained. But if our es-
teemed namesake expects to do business
: at the new stand, it will have to display a
little more enterprise than it has yet done
d since it came to north Texas.-Denison
j News.
It makes all the difference
T in the world whom you have for report
h er. The Gazette has one in Austin that
$ never sleeps, and three times lately he has
!. given his paper the inside track in al
q North Texas.
To argue that law cannot be enforced
" is to argue the weakness of the law pow
=.
q enforcement by officials, it invites and en-
# courages law breakers. If a law is bad
4 law, its acknowledgements will cause its
4 early repeal. The countenance given to
% the sentiment that certain laws, or any
# law, cannot be enforced. by public jour
4 mails, is censUrable, and should be discOn-
;. tinued Ali good people respect the law
: and abide by it from a sense of duty, and
4 bad men should be made to respect it by
its certain and sure enforcement. Tenn
= pie Times.
k All laws should be enforced, be they
good, bad or Indifferent. law that is
# not enforced is worse than no law at all.
o THE AUSTIN STATESMAN calls a halt in
n the frivolous and very much too often
v spiteful assaults upon the state university
8 Galveston News.
n |
n thing more on the line we marked last
e week about frivolous, nonsensical para
v graphs by the press of the state. Let one
> daily paper say something that is little
J. odd, queer or cranky, and then all the lit
! tie faber pushers have to have whack at
u it to see if they cannot improve it by
. making it more ridiculous. We get sick
+ and tired scanning column after column
trying to find something to clip that is
worthy of sensible mans attention, but
= we Gull page after page to find only puny
: puerile. effete efforts at something funny
Bill Sterritt, in a mass of efforts, makes a
= happy hit occasionally, but there are but
Il few Bill territt's.-Temple Times.
r Yes, occasionally" but not very often.
= Arkansas Pass stock is rapidly coming
y to the front through the state press. It's
- advantages will come before congress.
r IF all the business men in Waco had been
h asked yesterday morning to name the sol
n vent mercantile houses in Waco, nine out
n of ten would have put R. P. Sturgis d Co..
, dealers in boots, shoes and hats, on the
q list. It was 2 genuine surprise then, when
O the news spread over the city about noon
10 yesterday that Sheriff Harris had taken
r charge of R. P. Sturgis 6 Co.'S store, serv.
" ing several attachments.
X x
/ Judge Abbott says the liabilities viii
reach at least $4,000. and may go higher
In the way of assets there is a stock Oh
goods in the store estimated to be worth
h from $4,000 to $4,000. This morning
W another attachment, for 81 1851. was run by
S the Stoughton Shoe Co., of Boston, max
h ing the total attachments up to this writ
ing S14,5S3.06. The outside creditors
8 have not got fair start yet, but will nc
q doubt be heard from in due time.-Waco
Day.
+ The establishment of an afternoon pa
(. per in Austin by Mr.. Loving, is an indi-
vidual enterprise, based upon legitimate
;. business prospects, and it will ask nc
: mans aid, other than as a business patron
6 and will be no mans organ.-Fort Worth
= Mail.
If That will probably put an end to the
rumor that Comptroller Swain was putting
T money into the concern.