Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-24
THE STATE CAPITAL.
The Eula Phillips Case On Che Boards
Again Cansed by an In.
dictnent.
brigodier-Generai Roberts to Mayor Aztec
Count Goodnight clever
Person.


AUSTIN, TIN, April 29.-The Phillips
murder case assumed fresh interest from
the fact that the grand jury has Just found
an indictment against Phillips charging
him with the murder Of his wife, Mrs.
Enlh Phillips, on Christmas eve night.
The trial viii be SCI by Judge Walker
in few days.
Charles Goodnight, the redoubtable
land nabob and panhan die cattle.king, is
at the best hotel here, picking his teeth
quietly against to-morrow's Injunction
proceedings before Judge Walker Ia the
Travis county district court.
Goodnight is accompanied by able
counsel $50 tight the uase, which Il is af-
hrmed by those who know,that II II goes
against him twill well nigh rain him.
IL Will be remembered some time ago
IN Donley county, whore Goodnight IS
supreme, he aud others escaped the law,
the district judge ruling that he and
other oattlemen were not amenable be-
cause they had rendered 1 cents per acre
under the original law, but Attorney
General TempletoD took another
tack aud made application for
the Injunction restraining Goodnight
and others from fencing, inclosing, or
line-ridlng school lands which they have
not leased. The application for luiuuc-
ton charges that Goodnight has by line
riding without authority appropriated to
his own use $4,000 acres of school land
and $1,000 acres OF public domain The
case tomorrow will be a test case, In
volying the whole issue between Illegal
fencing Of public lands and the state gov
eminent, and carrying with It the ques-
tion OF the loss Of hundreds OF thousands
of dollars annually to the school children
OF Texas.
Goodnight was interviewed by re-
porter to-day, and said, among other
hings, that the newspapers had handled
him rather roughly, charging him
with being everything from pauper
up TO a millionaire, and he
didn't like 1t. That he didn't
have a very high opinion Of newspaper
men. The cattlemen,s own paper, cut
where Goodnight lives, and which was
paid for, then pitched into him, and acted
the same as IL they hadn't done so.
Goodnight said we would have had the
national cattle trail now open IL our legis-
lature hadn't been such set of stupid
asses.
Goodnight is seemingly capital good
fellow, and is very popular with the
/ boys
Gen. Roberts, commanding the state
militia, to-day addressed the following
letter to Mayor Atbe Of Laredo;
! AUSTIN, TEX, April 23.-To Mayor
Aztec, Laredo: SIR-Your letter Of the
10th inst. has been received and duly con
sidered.
IN my report to his excellency, The
! governor Of Texas, concerning the late
difficulty in Laredo, the statements were
| based upon information hastily gathered
from your citizens, and may in some minol
! points have been incorrect. Had you
submitted facts to convince me that In
| justice had been done any one, it woult
have given me great pleasure to acknowl
edge the fault and apologize for 1t. Yor
have, however, seen proper to adop
another course, and one that necessarily
precludes me from offering explanations
Your rude letter has led me to believe
that you are not altogether innocent o.
the charges made In my report, and L
your official position alone is due thii
courteous answer.
have the honor to be your obedien
servant, A. S. RoBERTs,
Brlgacier- General.
1t may be stated In explanation OF thu
above that Gen. Roberts charged thu
officials of Laredo with being concerned
in the late riot, which Atlee resented ant
denounced as untrue.