The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-30
LANDS AND GUARANTEES.
Tho Two Solid Subjects Before the
State Authorities.
The Land Boards Final Notice to the
Free Grassers.
Lease aud Pay Rentals by July, or
Emigrate.
No More Dilly Dallying viii be
Indulged In,
But Business from the Jump 10 the Con-
clusion The Louisiana Health
Board Hears from DIR. Swear
ingen on Yellow Fever
OTHER CAPITAL CITY CuLLlNeS.
SCHOOL CHILDREN.


AUSTIN, May 29.--[Special. THE
scholastic population OF Wheeler
county is lis.
NEW RAILROAD CHARTERED.
The Rio Grande X Eagle Pass railroad
company, capital stock 100000, fled a
charter to day. The proposed line is to
run from Laredo TO Santo Tomas, Webb
county, a distance of 30 miles.
THE LAND BOARD
held anl important meeting to-day to
consider the propriety of appointing an
agent to visit the stock section Of the
state to ascertain what incorporators
and individuals have state land Illegally
enclosed. The question WAS thoroughly
di scussed by Messrs Swain, Walsh,
Templeton and Lubbock, tho governor
being absent. All favored the rigid en-.
forcement Of tho enclosure act, but diff
fereu rs TO the propriety of appointing
on agent at this time.
SMr. Swain was decidedly in favor of
the measure, as he wanted no ''dilly-
dallying work" about promptly enfOro-
ing plain law.
Mr.. Lubbock, chairman Of the meet.
but Mr.. Walsh and Mr.. Templeton
thought it best TO wait until after the
July awards were made. They con-
tended that the action of the board re-
ducing rentals to six cents per acre was
In measure compromise, and IL re-
manned to DO seen il tho stockmen
would accept Of 1t. This would he as
certained at the July award, when, il
the cattlemon intended to
lease the lands at all their bids would
be in. If they fail to mako bids, it will
be evident they never intend to, and the
board can then take tho necessary steps
to have the enclosure law promptly and
rlgidly enforced. This Wow of the ques-
ton prevailed, aud tho matter went
over until tho second Tuesday In July.
THE LAND PIRATES
OF lhe Panhandle may as we'll mike up
their minds now that they will have to
pay for all state lands they use, or leave
the country, and those OF them who
have school lands enclosed will
save w0rlu of trouble and
no end OF expense by promptly
paying rentals or moving their fences
snd stock of the lands. Tho enclosure
act and the full letter and spirit OF the
lease law are going To be enforced. Each
individual member of the land board,
and the board as such, is fixed in this
determination. IL Is learned thar there
are lO2 chartered land and cattle COM
panies i'll tho state, and it Is estimated
that they are using near l0,000,000 acres
OF school lands free. One CORPORATION
has about 1000 square miles enclosed,
for which IL pays nothing 10 the
state. The board proposes TO put
stop to this, ana II the civil authority
cannot do 1t, then 1t is more than proba-
BILE that the mild-mannered and meek
ranger will.
AFTER TIMBER THIEVES,
The board to-day instituted civil suit
against certain parties In Harrison
county for 1890, value OF timber cut
from section of school land.
QUARANTINE QUESTION.
Inc state health officer has sent the
following to New Orleans to the Hon.
Jos. Holt, president OF the Board of
health of Louisiana:
SIR-In the proceedings of your board
published in the Picayune of the l4th
INST, the plan agreed upon for the
treatment Of government vessels in
quarantine is indeed revolution. III
naYe no desire to open controversy or
dictate line OF policy Tor your honor
rules referred TO will endanger tie peo-
pie of Texas as we'll as those Of the Mis-
sissippi valle", | hereby enter an ear
nest protest against their enforcement,
Ihe following objections were respect
fully submitted:
First-To the rule governing classia.
cation.
Second-The detention of persons
from suspected places for period of
tive days from the hour of departure,
and to the rule.
Third-The detention OF persons from
injected places for a period of seven
days from the hour of departure.
Five and seven days detention, In
Guiding the number of DAYS consumed
In voyage from any port where yellow
lever Is liable to exist, practically
means free passport from an Infected
city To yours, and an absolute abolish
ment OF quarantine, as applied to per-
sons.
A steamship from Vera Cruz and A
sail ship from Havana must necessa-
rily have been in transit the prescribed
number Of days, while vessel from Rio
ano other dangerous ports will consume
much longer period. II properly i'm.
terpret your rules, vessels from these
distant places will, upon arrival at the
quarantine station, be treated, the only
detention being the time occupied in AZ
tanning by the new process thorough
maritime sanitation.
Admitting, for argument,that you can
with the aid OF steam fans, In a few
hours thoroughly. purify an infected
snip, is 1t possible for you TO DESTROY the
germs, OF the disease that had
found lodgment In the blood of the crew
or the passengers one, two, or five days
before arrival, or to even detect their
presenoeY
Probably nine tenths of the vellow
fever epidemics have been eased 6y mar
sons from infected places, instead of
things. VI
Your plan seems TO bo very han.
py one for the least harmful of these
two vehicles of infection and almost
one.
Dr. Van Gahen and DR.. olliphant
must have entertained views soma.
what similar to these, for thev adyo-
Gated a detention of five days after fu-
migation and voted against the adop-
tion OF tho the new rules.
l notice also in the discussion upon
the subject that DR.. Solomon opposed
detention, saving that the new system
would render II unnecessary; that the
danger with ships lay in the holds, and
as these would be disinfected by an no.
climated crew at the station, there was
little danger of the generation of conta-
gious diseases after the ship left the sta-
ton for the city. You indlvid uallv en-.
dorsed the statsment made by DR.. Solo.
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