The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-15
TEXAS NEWS.
FACTS AND OPINIONS CULLED
FROM STATE EXCHANGES.
Tho Cross Timhera

FACTS AND OPINIONS CULLED
FROM STATE EXCHANGES.
The Cross Timbers.
Henrietta has her proposition to the
Missouri Pacific in good shape and will
hand it in soon. Our neighbors have in
vested good deal of work and money in
this enterprise, and if they fail in secur-
ing the road, labor won't have its just re-
ward. We don't consider their case very
hopeful one.
THF DISPOSITION OF THE SCHOOL LAND, AS A
POLITICAL ISSUE.
We expect the coming campaign to be
one of deep interest The people gener
ally are studying issues and no man can
go before them with vague or uncertain
platform. Men must come out squarely
on all leading questions and make their
positions matter of principle instead of
policy. The question which most con-
Germs the voters of this part of Texas is
thd disposition of the school land.
Texas Panhandle
We would suggest to the land board that
they might benefit the country and save
millions of tons of the dear children's
grass by devising some means to prevent
the prairie fires, which annually consume
every particle of vegetation in these
parts. 1t may be wrong for poor set
tiers COW to eat this grass and thus pre-
vent the flames from devouring it, but we
should certainly prefer the COW, as the
flames will not only destroy the grass, but
kill out young trees, etc.
AN EXACT ECHO OF AusTIN's CRY.
San Antonio Express.
1t was the intelligent mayor of city,
not San Antonio city, however, who spoke
as follows to his common council:
This brings us face to face with sewer
age, necessity which is forcing itself
upon us, and from which we cannot turn
aside. This demands immediate attention.
Some means must be devised whereby we
can rid our city of its daily accumulation
of waste and filth, otherwise the health of
its citizens must suffer. would advocate
the solving of this problem at an early
date. We are now considered a healthy
city, and would have our name as such
remain unsullied. If, from neglect of this,
we should fall into ill-repute, as regards
the healthfulness of our city, and should
, lose our foothold, disastrous results weuld
soon follow. Upon the health and pros
perity of city depends its growth. We
must look TO her needs, and as far as pos
! sible meet her demands. No light respon-
sibility is ours to guard the citys interest,
and expend her resources with wisdom
and prudence.
Waller Couny Couri r.
Only one-seventh of the prisoners in
the Texas penitentiary last year were ma
tive Texans.
Wichita county is being rapidly settled
up, the immigration being largely from
Ohio. Much of the soil will be over
turned for the first time this season.
"ELBow ROOM" YET.
Texas has about eight persons to the
square mile, and ninety acres for every
one of her population.
is IT TEXAS JUSTICE?
negro convict passing through Dallas
Z for the penitentiary bewailed his bac
5 luck. He said he had killed three mer
{ and had never been troubled, and nov
! was going up for stealing an old cow-bai
: of horse and it worried him.
The Waco Evening Rambler-is a young
but remarkably precocious paper.
Hon. A. W. Terrell's great speech, deliv
. cred at Anstin on the evening of the 8tl
!, instant, demonstrates the fact that he il
e thoroughly conversant with the causes un
y derlying the existing troubles betweei
: capital and labor. He recites the griev
i ances of labor in such plain terms tina
" all may understand them, and he make
the charge that corporate power, by in
huencing class legislation, has establishes
y monopolies of such magnitude AM
strength that the people have just caus
y to be alarmed at such encroachments. II
. . suggests remedy for existing evils an
would have the people check the cormor
ant and the commune.