The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-08-19
SWEET CHARITY.
CT ITEMS MEETING AT THE
COURT HOUSE LAST EVEN
ING IN AID OF THE
SUFFERERS.
STARVATION STARING A WHOLE
COUNTY IN THE FACE, AND
COMMITTEES URGED TO GO
TO WORK IMMEDIATELY.

Last evening at 3 O'Clock citizens
meeting was held in the district court
room, for the purpose of taking active
steps to render assistance and relieve the
distressed people in Coleman county.
Judge Cyrus II. Randolph was called to
the chair, and Judge Fillmore explained
the object of the meeting. Mr.. Pittman,
of Coleman City, who was present, was
called on to state
THE CONDITION
of affairs in Coleman county.
Mr.. Pittman said that in Coleman coun-
ty there had been complete and entire
failure in everything, crops and grass.
''We have had no rain to speak of,
and have had no season in the ground since
July, 1885. It's true, last spring there
were few showers, and the farmers plant
ed wheat and oats. Oats got up about
six inches and died, and the wheat did not
grow at all. All the grass died, and the
prairies of Coleran county to-day are
ALMOST AS BARE
as your streets, and cattle are poor and
dying. The few that are alive have man
aged to live thus far on mesquite beans
and what few weeds they could find.
Men cannot sell their stock, and they
have no provisions to carry them through
the winter. There is no prospect for them
to make anything, and if they are not as
sisted they will have to leave the country
or starve, and many of them cannot
leave. The people of the county have
perfected an organization, and donations
will be distributed to the needy. Mr..
Pittman alluded to other counties whose
people are suffering; among them, Young,
Jones Taylor, Eastland and others.
Judge Fillmore moved that committee
composed of one or more persons from
each ward, be appointed to solicit aid for
the Coleman county sufferers. Adopted.
The following were appointed:
First ward-Jake Schneider ara Billie
Sutton.
Second ward-Chsrlie Anderson and
Ben Pillow.
Third ward-Prof. Bickler, j. B. Hooper
and Jack Johns.
Fourth ward. B. Smith, G. G. CAld-
well and Joe Goodman.
Fifth ward-H. G. Shelley, Dick War
rem and R. +. Thomson.
Sixth ward-Walter Graham and j. W.
English.
Seventh ward-Wm. Wellmer and DIR.
Rainey.
Eighth ward-George L. Robertson and
Bob Holman.
Ninth ward-John H. Robinson and
DR.. j. Cummings.
Tenth ward-Joe Male and R. B. Under
hill.
On motion the following committee for
the county at large was appointed.
Judge q. L. Fillmore, j. F. Bracken-
ridge, Louis Hancock and Frank Hamil-
ton, with C. M. Sawyer and G. F. Austin,
for precinct No. 4; d. G. Pace and F. W.
White, precinct No. 8; G. W. Walling and
G. w. Thorp, precinct No. 2; j. W. Brown
and B. g Giles, precinct No. l.
1t was moved and carried that all
money collected be deposited with Hon.
A. P. Woodbridge, at the City National
bank.
The gentlemen appointed to do this
work are urged to go to work at once, as
the needs of the people to be assisted are
pressing
The committees will meet again Thurs
day evening at o'clock at the court
house.
An official report to the governor rela-
tive to the condition of affairs in Cole
man county, will be found under Govern
mental" in another column.