The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-13
GOVERNMENTAL.
WHAT GOING ON IN THE
DEPARTMENTS.
AN EPITOME OF WHAT WAS
LEARNED AT THE CAPITOL
YESTERDAY.
STATE DEPARTMENT.

yesterday viz: The Mexia Fire company
and the Galveston Union Benevolen
association.
The secretary of state received yester
day official information of the organiza
ton of Fisher county, which was effecte,
April 9th last. The following organiza
ton was effected: County seat, Roby
county Judge, q. w. Jernigan; district anC
county clerk, VIM. Tuggle; G. E. Ray sher
if and tax collector; assessor, j. +. Col
lett; county attorney, Orrin Robertson
treasurer, j. V. Hulse; animal and hide in
spector, j. p. George; county surveyor, II
NJ. billiard. The following were elected
county commissioners: Precinct No. l
w. s. Wallace; No. 2, S. II. Carter; No, 3
j. w. Dewing; No. 4, VIM. Hudspeth. Jus
tees of the peace, NO. l, g. Graham; No
3, u. w. Dewing; No. 3, w. s. Wallace
Constables, No. /, Il. j. Patterson; No. 3
s. B. Dinkins; No. 3, G. w. Smith.
The following charters and amended
charters were fled Denison Crystal Ice
company, incOrpOrators, Russell Myrick
Caleb w. Dawley and K. G. Foster; capita
stock 100000. Paris and Great Northern
railway company, amendment increasing
capital stock to 100000.
The st. Louis, Arkansas 81 Texas railway
company filed resolutions (l) authorizing
1st and 2nd mortgage bonds; (2) ratifying
and confirming purchase of the property
and franchises of the Texas d. st. Louis
railway company, and (3) widening guage
to standard, and altering rolling stock to
correspond.
VIM. +. Leet was appointed commission
or of deeds for New York.
CoMPrRoLLERs DEPARTMENT.
The Houston d. Texas Central railway
com0tny paid into the comptroller yes
terl.... Sl4,4i0.82, interest due May on
school fund loan; also sinking fund.- 81,
1851; the Texas and New Orleans inter
est, $14,30f. II; Houston and San Anto-
MO, interest, $l4,29S.80 sinking fund,
$4,766.27; aggregating $43,04439 of inter
est, and sinking fund $l4,34S.13, total ag
gregate, S57,3S2.52.
Llano county redeemed one of its bonds
for $1,000 yesterday.
The sum of $4,000 was deposited to the
credit of the available school fund yester-
day, and about $4,000 to the general
revenue. This was all beyond routine
business.
st. Louis firm, in applying to the
comptroller for renewal of its drummer
license, says: 1--WE hope your state will
soon be free from this relic of the dark
and barbarous middle ages, but we will
comply with all requirements so long as
1t stands upon your statutes"
About $4,000 were received yesterday
by the comptroller of collectors remit
tances, consisting chiefly of bank drafts,
which will bo cashed and the proceeds
turned over to the treasury.
Something over $4,000 was received at
the comptroller's office yesterday from
collections.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Mr.. William b. Workman, The STATESMAN
representative cheerfully accompanied his
guide into the vault, where glittering
heaps upon glittering heaps, were piled
the states treasures. 1t was enough to
daze one accustomed only to the ordinary
transactions of life. OF the amount in
the treasury about 100000 in round !
numbers $4,000 is in silver coin, the
remainder in gold, and paper currency,
some bills of the latter of the denomina.
ton of $4,000. Bandits will get no COM
fort of this information since the vault
is absolutely burglar-proof.
The state treasury received from Comp |
troller Swain, yesterday, $57,392.52, the
aggregate amount received from the
Houston d Texas Central the Texas q |
New Orleans, and the Galveston, Harris
burg d San Antonio Railway companies,
for interest and sinking fund due on the
school fund loan.
About $4,000 was deposited in the
treasury yesterday, $4,000 of which goes
to the credit of the available school fund.
This deposit will enable the treasurer to
take up all the registered warrants drawn
against this fund.
The treasury was reinforced yesterday
by the comptroller's deposit of $4,000, |
which goes to the credit of the general
revenue.
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE.
The following Is copy of the letter of
Agent Cowan, with regard to the man
damus suits in Howard county:
BIO SPRINGS, HOWARD Co., TEX, |
May 3, 1886. |
Hen. John d. Templetor, Attorney, General,
Austin:
DEAR SIR-There have been five suits
filed here against me as surveyor of the |
Howard land district; to require me, as
such officer, to register and sell, seven
sections to each applicant, under the act
of 1888, and resolutions of the board.
The cases are appearance cases, and have
been continued over till next week to hear
from you. Please answer what am to do
in the premises. will, at least, file gen
eral demurrer, and general denial, but will
look to you and the state to defend the
suits. Very truly, S. II. CowAN.
Necessary instructions have been for
warded to Agent Cowan by the attorney
general, and vigorous steps will be taken
to defeat what is considered an attempt
to unlawfully absorb public school lands
mo, there is nothing to-day" said Gen.
King, in response to The usual inquiry.
but stop moment, and look at this tes-
timony of the prowess and efficiency of
the Frontier Battalion 1t was simply
Colts double-action A, but its handle had
been shot away, and was in several frag-
ments. The pistol was taken away from
Wiley Collier, the murderer of old man
Branigan, at Fredericksburg. On the Goth
Of April last, Private Ira Aten, of COM
pany d, fired at Collier, whom he was at
to arrest near Travis Peak, this
county. The ball passed through the butt
Of the pistol, carrying away at the same
4 middle finger. Collier made good his
escape, however, leaving behind his pistol
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