The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-12
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

Recent shipments have made some OF
the beef cattlemen sick. They reached
market just in time to receive the full
benefit of heavy decline.
The Bolton News Office was sold on the
9Th to satisfy deed of trust in favor Of
Harry Hudson, of Caldwell, and was
purchased by Capt. j. F. Fuller, who viii
resume the publication of the paper to
morrow.
Mr.. Charles A. Goodnight has 10000
head of cattle now on the trail to Pan
handle City, where he will ship them over
the Santa Fe to Lyon county, Kansas
They will be put on pasture and fatteneG
for the market.
Suit was filed in the district court
Dallas, last Thursday, by Merry Morrison
against the Texas Trunck Railway com.
pany, claiming $4,000 damages for in
juries sustained on June %, through the
company's train lunning off the track
near Seagoville.
Corsicana is now second-class post
Office, and by August l will have free
delivery system. The houses have all
been numbered, and the streets are being
newly named, those running north and
south being designated by numbers.
Mr.. Thomas A. Hubbard, of Ohio, is in
Panhandle City looking at a tract of
agricultural land for the u1pose of locat-
ing colony of practical farmers who will
move to their new homes during the
coming autumn.
Thursday morning Kelley johnson, a
negro, was arrested i'll Houston on an
affidavit by John Burlington charged
with outrage. 1t is claimed by Burling-
ton that Johnson enticed his sister from
her home to Harrisburg, and while on
their journey drew dirk knife and made
her submit to his passion.
In Houston county the crops are not so
promising. Some crops are heavy and
promise an abundant yield, but much of
the crop in the valley or bottom lands has
become 80 set with crab and other grass
that it has been abandoned. The corn
crop generally may be said to be fair
crop, but the cotton is small and grassy
and is not doing we'll
For quickness in raising money for
business enterprises Hutchinson, Kansas,
seems to outrank some of the large cities.
They called meeting out there for such
purpose, and, after the hall was filled,
locked the door. A local paper tells that
work then began, and in just one hour
and fifteen minutes the sum of 1924 ,0O0
was subscribed Fort Worth Gazette.
Judge Nugent, who is now holding court
at Gainesville, was seen Thursday afternoon
and made this statement in reference to
his nomination by the non-partisan con-
vention at Fort Worth: ~ am in sympa-
thy with the independent movement, will
vote the ticket, but in view of my private
business cannot and will not make the
race for Judge of the supreme court"
Thursday morning W. K. Weaver,
press feeder at the Dallas Lithograph
company's establishment, while oiling one
of the presses from underneath it, acct
dentally threw the guard off with his head
and started the machinery. His left arm
was caught in the cogs and was horribly
mangled, being broken at the wrist and
above the elbow and lacerated between
those points.
Thursday night at Devine Emil Graf, q
young German about IS years of age
was instantly killed while running young
mare, which became manageable, and
dashed him against a tree. His skull
neck ard left leg were broken, and death
was so sudden that he never spoke. The
animal was a noted racer and bore the
name of Lily Gibson, of San Antonio
notoriety. There is strange fatality in
the name.
The newly organized Fort Worth Light
Guards are rapidly growing in numbers,
now having forty members on the roll.
After several months of veXatiOus delay
the city was lighted by electricity last
Wednesday night, under contract made
by the city council with the Electric Light
company. Twenty masts, sixty feet high,
have been erected surmounted with lamps.
The council granted the franchise to the
Electric company, as against the gas COM
pany, for one year.
The county Judge of McMullen has no
titled Secretary Gregory of the intention
of his county of sending specimens of
vegetables, ETC., for exhibition at the st.
Louis, Dallas and San Antonio fairs next
fall. Mr.. Gregory has been urging all the
counties embraced in the Southwest Texas
immigration association to exhibit pro-
ducts of their soil ct the fairs named, and
McMullen is the first to respond to the
request.
Alderman Conner has received letter
from Alfred Baldwin, a carpenter who left
San Antonio several MONTHS ago for Los
Angeles, Cal. The writer relates a sad
story of collapsed boom. He says the
streets of Los Angeles are crowded daily
with hungry men and women IN search OF
employment. Ca penters receive only
$1.8o per day, and the wages of other
skilled labor are proportionate. Mr..
Baldwin says he wants toget back here
and live until he dies.-San Antonio Ex-
press.
MIR. E. R. Arnold and family have re-
turned to Greenville from California,
where they have been residing for a
year or more, and they report every
thing very dry out there. The peach
crop is failure, apricots are very small,
and the grapes are just formed. Money
matters are as tight there as here, some
of the people being compelled to pay
eo-. 1 Y 70 Q nor cant ner month to get