The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-08-26
GOVERNMENTAL.
WHAT is GOING ON IN THE
DEPARTMENTS.
AN EPITOME OF WHAT WAS
LEARNED AT THE CAPITOL
YESTERDAY.

sence of the chief clerk.
Routine work engaged the attention OF
the com ptroiler's force yesterday.
STATE LAND BOARD.
Up to date this month the land board
has received about one hundred appllca
tions to purchase from actual settlers
The receipts yesterday amounted to
nearly one thousand dollars.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Governor Ireland yesterday received the
usual batch of offers to furnish troops,
and among them the offer of service OF
lieutenant in the British army, now sta
toned in Canada.
STATE LAND BOARD.
Mr.. Williams has completed the survey
of university lands in FL Paso and Pre-
sidio counties, and has turned In his re-
port to the board of regents.
The land board yesterday paid into the
treasury $4,000.
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT..
All the summer normal reports are in
except the one from Marshall.
The following students from the state
at large have been appointed to the Sam
Houston normal school by the state board
of education:
Miss Lucy Carol, Miss Mamie West,
and Miss Annie Bickerstof. One yet re-
mains to be appointed
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Hon. Sawnie Robertson, associate JUS
tice of the supreme court, has resigned,
to take effect September |, and Governor
Ireland yesterday appointed Hon. X. H..
Gaines In his stead.
The governor yesterday pardoned MI.
James Muir, sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment and fine of $500. The par
don relieves him from the sentence of i'm
prisonment and from any duress of i'm
prisonment to enforce the fire.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The Mckinney Land and Loan associa-
ton, capital stock $4,000, of Mckinney,
Collin county, filed charter yesterday in
the Office of the secretary of state. In
corporators: II. S. Seay, r. c, Wood, IL,
A. Finch j. r. Parker and j. H. White.
ooMpTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
The collectors of Lampasas and Palo
Pinto counties settled yesterday.
The collectors are settling up promptly
this year, and it is Il source of much salts
faction in the department.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT..
Governor Ireland is in receipt of a let
ter from an English gun company, calling
his attention to new, self-loading guns, In
case of war with Mexico. The letter says:
Il send pou by this mail photographs of
one of these guns. The four photographs
show the same gun, but in different posi-
tions. 1t is the only automatic gun ever
made; that is, the only gun that loads and
fires itself by the force of its own recoil
The gun proper, without the carriage
weighs forty pounds, and fires 600 shots
per minute"
Governor Ireland, yesterday, also re-
ceiyed letter from George Cabel, dated
San Francisco, sole master, owner and
commander of the American schooner,
Adriana, in which he complains
he was seized by set of
armed men, near Lu Paz, Mexico,
in January, 1888. He says: II was about
thirty miles from Lu Paz at sea when
boarded by armed men. They placed me
under guard in my cabin where lay sick,
took all my papers from me, as well as
ships log book, and took command of the
vessel. / ordered the United States flag
hoisted, as was my duty going into for
eign county, but they would not allow 1t
hoisted, and put their feet upon it and
spit upon it in my sight. They brought
my vessel to Lu Paz and would not allow
me to see or send letter to the United
States consul or see lawyer.
On January 2, was taken out of the
vessel to the so called custom house, and
was there told under threats against my
life that had to make a statement. again
demanded to see the United States consul
or lawyer, which was denied me. They
held some kind of court, but | was mo-
brought before any court, and did mo-
know, when making my statement thai
there was any charge against me, or tina
my crews statement was not credited, ano
they kept the men in Jail seventy Five
days, at my expense of feeding them, OF
they would have starved.
Then, after they could not get them tC
state falsely to the Judge, they let then
loose, but confiscated my vessel and sen
fenced me to serve five years in prison
with five. Mexicans. None of the Mex
leans we're detained, but | was kept six
teen months and eleven days, and all tina
time, with my many appeals to tn
United States government, L got no re
lief-only red tape. l even offered t.
send persons and papers to Washingto
to prove thu wrongs done me if their ex
penses were paid but got no reply, an
was left to my fate to die there.
After they robbed me of my last dolla'
they gave me a chance to go away, an
when 1 got means to go lef
and came here sick and destitute, wher
1 arrived in May, 1884. All this time
have been appealing to the governor
see t,.at l get justice, but nothing ha
been done to give my case hearing
This is fine usage for legal America
born citizen, who has been in two wal
for the United States, and with goo
record of citizenship.
Is it not time that us Americans ha
some protection in Mexico! l hope tn
will be published, and let the world kno
the protection we receive"
The governor also received the folloV
ing circulars, which explain themselves:
APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC FROM oALLAHl
COUNTY.
Whereas the county of Callahan hayir
been Providentially visited by drouth
unprecedented duration and extent, Il
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