The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-15
GOVERNMENTAL F.
WHAT is GOING on IN THE
DEPARTMENTS.
AN EPITOME OF WHAT WAS
LEARNED AT THE CAPITOL
YESTERDAY.
DEPARTMENT. OF EDUCATION.

of scholastic age, 100000; total dali
attendance of colOred pupils of scholasti
age, 2.362,G24 Grand total of pupils o
scholastic age, 1O,352,G93
Average daily attendance of white pm
pills of scholastic age,77, 1928; average dali
attendance of colored pupils of scholastic
age, 25,910. Grand total of average dali.
attendance of pupils of scholastic age
1884
The scholastic census report of Rock
dale has been received at the DEPARTING nj
of education, and shows the following;
Number Of white male children .......... ....... =
Number Of white female children i Il
Number of cOlOred male children ...".........., ~
Number of female COlOred Children Z;
Total..........,..... .,......,......'.3bi
OF the whites cannot read, and of the
colored, Al.
Total number of school children in
Rockdale last year, 1923.
The following are the points at which
summer normal institutes, for white
teachers, are to be conducted: Beaumont
Atlanta, Marshall, Greenville, Gllmer,
Athens, Columbia, Gonzales, Caldwell,
Flatonia, Bryan, Mexia, Dallas, Gainesville,
Jacksboro, Hillsboro, Waco, Lampasas,
San Marcos, Stephenvile and Paris.
Schools have not been appointed in SEN
atOrial districts Nos. 8, 8, II, "a, 26 and 81.
No application has been received from
district No. 20.
The board of education yesterday pur-
chased $4,000 of Kaufman county
home bonds.
STATE FINANCES.
The comptroller received $500 from
HI Duun of int
bonds Of the county purchased by the
boalu of education for the school fund.
The comptroller deposited in the state
treasury yesterday $4,000 for the school
fund, and $4,000 for general revenue.
II was stated in some of the papers since
the suspension of the state treasury some
time back, that the collector of MqLennan
county from whom $4,000 of the de-
posts were received yesterday held $685.
OO) of state funds at the time of the sus-
pension, and that this amount, with other
revenues supposed to be in the hands of
other collectors, would have tided over the
states finances if they had been for
warded, and prevented the suspension.
ltappcars, however, from the quarterly
report Of the collector OF that county re-
cciysI yesterday by the comptroller, set
ting forth every item collected, that he
had less than $1,000 in his hands at the |
time stated and that this amount would
have been fully covered b. school certifi
Gates, and assessors drafts liable to be
presented to him for payment. The $685.
600 collection above reported was collected |
after the treasury suspension occurred.
The counties of Dimmitt, Kerr, and |
Taylor paid interest yesterday on loans
TO them from the school fund.
LAND MATTERS.
The writ recently served at the instance
,of Attorney General Templeton, upon
Colonel Charles Goodnight, in the Pan
handle section of the state, is intended to
him from making any more
fences on or around school lands, from re-
pairing such fences already constructed,
from line-riding gaps in such fences, from
interfering with the free use of such lands
10y the public, and also from preventing
the public from driving cattle through
the land. The writ is, besides, manda-
tory, in that it en- Joins him from keeping
fences standing any longer where he has
built them upon school lands not leased
or purchased by him. The proceeding is
against Colonel Goodnight as one of the
largest pasture men in the state, having
about three-quarter millions of acres in
his ranges, and will doubtless be followed
up by similar proceedings against all the
free grazers of the state.
The state land board yesterday awarded
bids for sixty-five sections of land,
and adjourned until this morning, when
bids to purchase will be considered.
The state land board, in session yester-
day, passed an application to purchase,
and adjourned till the next regular meet
ing.
CoMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
The following counties paid interest on
school fund yosterdly:
Webb Haskell, Harris, Wise, Callahan
Reins, Washington, Johnson, Bell and
Atascosa, the aggregated amount reaching
about $4,000. I
The comptroller paid into the treasury
S57 900.
Wise county yesterday redeemed $4,000 {
wUrth of her bonds.
The following counties paid interest,
yester lay, on money borrowed from the
school fund: Hays, $2,265; Guadalupe, {
81 ,s00;rarrant,S $4,000; Mitchell, $49O;Lam- t
pdFns. $500; III Paso, $4,000.
The comptroller will pay into the treas {
ury to-day $10S,000.
The following counties paid interest on l
lheir school money yesterday: 5
Pecos, $1,000; Kaufman, 5000; Clay,
81 400; Goliad, $500, and Trinity, $3.50 |
The latter county redeemed $4,000 worth |
Of her bonds.
The comptroller yesterday paid into the |
treasury $4,000 general revenue and c
SS3000 available school fund. v
The following counties yesterday paid b
interest on their bonds to the com ptroller 5
frio, Red River, Wilson, McCulloch and 9
Haskell. i
STATE DEPARTMENT.
In this department yesterday the Range :
Cattle company, of Throckmorton
'Ounty, filed an amendment to its char .
Ter, changing the name to Reynolds
Land and Cattle compady, and increas-
ing the capital stock to $l,0O0,O00.
The Southeast Texas Land and Cattle :
ompany, of Jefferson county, also filed
m amendment changing the name to Texas |
Land and Cattle company.
The Austin Electric Light company, j
capital stock $4,000, filed charter in
the Office of the secretary of state yester- !
day.
The object is the erection of electric
light works, and the supplying of the city i