The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30
GOVERNMENTAL.
WHAT is GOING ON IN THE
DEPARTMENTS.
AN EPITOME OF WHAT WAS
LEARNED AT THE CAPITOL
yesterday.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
The executive department was bare of
interesting items yesterday, but Mr.. Car.
penter, the excellent private secretary OF
his excellency,was very busy answering let
ters relative to pardons.
The governor yesterday issued pro
clamation revoking quarantine against
Biloxi, Mississippi, as danger of yellow
fever is supposed to be over.
Governor Ireland was able to attend 10
official duties yesterday.
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
In the insurance department Miss Bet
tie Brewster, the chief clerk, was busy
transatlng some old papers referring to
San Antonio and Texas, and which were
written in 1888. They are the original
documents and the hand writing is beau
tiful.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
Protection fire company No. l. Of
Columbus, Colorado county filed char
ter yesterday.
The DANA pure butter churnery com
pany, capital stock S25,000,o Fort Worth,
filed charter yesterday. incorporates,
S. l.. Dania w. j. Murphy, u, j. Reese,
and b. f. Murphy.
STATE LAND BOARD.
The receipts at the Office of the land
board were light yesterday. Bids for the
purchase and lease of lands in the several
counties closed day, and next Tuesday
the board will meet to make awards.
The state land board received three APP
plications to purchase yesterday, and one
TO lease $50 acres of land in Gillespie
county.
Secretary Laurence, of the state land
board, yesterday received seven bids to
purchase from actual settlers, and two
bids to lease, the latter, calling for 500
acres of land in Medina county.
Receipts were very light yesterday, but
the usual batch of applications were re-
ceived.
This month eighty applications have
been received to purchase land in Lips
comb county from persons living near
Camp Supply, Indian Territory.
Secretary Laurence, of the state land
board, yesterday received a bid to lease
for term of five years, section of
school land in this county, twelve miles
south of the city.
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE.
The attorney. general yesterday placed
in the hands of County Attorney Barn
hart with instructions to institute suit
papers against cattlomen, who have failed
to pay their lease money.
The amount TO be sued for is about
$500
COMPTRoLLERs DEPARTMENT.
Comptroller Swain paid into the treas
IVY yesterday $4,000, to tine credit of gen
eral revenue.
The assessment rolls of the following
counties we're received yesterday;
Angelina, increase in values, Sl11,4S6;
Delta, increase, SSS,OS7 Bastrop, increase,
$l64,447.
The assessor of Hidalgo county settled
yesterday.
The assessment rolls of the following
counties were received.
Taylor county, increase in values,
$364,41S.
Victoria county, increase i'll values,
$l26,430.
The following assessment rolls were re-
eceived by Comptroller Swain yesterday:
Harrison county Increase in values,
S114,450.
Jack county Decrease in values, $780,
0)o.
The Fort Worth and Denver City rail
road company yesterday paid in $l76.Si,
passenger tax.
The following assessment rolls were re.
ceived: Preside county, increase in val
ues, S1,934,421.
Navarro county, increase, $7S4,2
Atoscosa county, increase, $4,000.
In this Office the following assessment
rolls were received;
Guadalupe county, decrease in values
S1,17s.
Van Zant county, decrease Sl51,27S.
IL looks very much now as if there was
going TO be a general decrease in values
all round this year, owing to a shrinkage
in values of stock and the effects of the
irouth in northwestern Texas. There will
also be a big falling off in occupation tax
receipts this year.
THE NEW CAPITOL.
Yesterday Sub-Contractor Wilke dis
covered assures in two granite blocks six
teen feet long, in the wall of the new CAPT.
toll along the top of the FIRST story at two
points, one near the front entrance and
the other in the rear wall. Both will be
taken out, and perfect stones will be put
in. The blocks were cracked in handling
but the isslres were not observed until
after they were placed in the wall.
The blocks of granite removed from
the walls of the capitol yesterday
are not as badly fractured AS was thought
indeed, they are not fractured at all, tn,
fssure in each being a natural seam in the
stone, and is so very small that one. ever
when looking for it, can hardly discover
its whereabouts
STATE HOUSE ECHOES.
That Captain Baiues, the present excel.
lent and efficient secretary of state, will
hold over under Governor Ross.
That State Health Officer Swearingen
whose long experience, learning, and
eminent ability in all that pertains to yell
low fever and quarantine matters has
given him national reputation, will hold
over, to the great JOY of the coast people
and the intense satisfaction of the health
officers of other states.
That Mr.. Worthan, the next state treas
urer after Governor Lubbock. will be the
right man in the right place.
IL.