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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

II. II. Phillips, OF the l. u - outfit.
Loaf In the nelghborhood Of 3 1000 yes
terday In crossing from the north side
Of the Yellowstone river TO town; that
IL 10 say, he rated himself ~ worth
that much o when he headed for
town after making his beef roundup,
than when he had crossed the river
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

c II. Grinnell will brand a lot of
young cattle to-day, preparatory to
driving them to the range in Sheridan
County, Wyo.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

An excavation IL being made In
front of Birkle & Truscott's store on
Main street and a wagon scale will be
set up.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

Mr.. 5. C. Allen has returned to his
home, fsvorably impressed
with the people and surroundings Of
Miles CITY.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

features In vocal and instrumental
music that will both surprise and
please the audience.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

The funeral Of the infant daughter
of Patrick Golden took place yester-
day. The little n died on Sunday
evening.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

The county commissioners at their
monthly meeting yesterday audited
and allowed claims Of county officials.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

j. p. Smith came back from q bust
ness trip 10 Billings and points west
sunday and will be in the city several
days.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

DR.. Holloway was again In the city
Sunday but is out on another hunt at
this writing.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

Our old friend Clarence Beebe, Of
Pumpkin creek, left n memorial at this
office yesterday. Thanks!
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

+. M. George, n Of Joe Scott's Ne
vada outfit, was here Sunday and has
gone out to the Tongue river ranch.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

Geo. missing, 81. Paul; Herman
Tripp, Chicago,aud d. J. Cory, Urbans,
Ohio, were visitors TO the city sunday.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

- Mayor Scheetz returned TO the city
yesterday after an absence OF several
days.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02
Band Concert at Fort Keogh,


Those who were fortunate enough TO
attendt the open air concertgiven by the
Twenty-second Infantry band at Fort
Keogh yesterday afternoon, were re-
called with u musical treat that seldom
falls to the lot Of those not resident IN
large cities. The only thing to be re-
gretted IL that the fact Of there going
to be a concert was not more generally
known in town, for without a doubt,
had IL been known, the attendance
from here would have been much
larger. The program consisted Of five
numbers, rs follows:
|. March,. Erminic. ........ Boettger
.. .Snldstenlust..,.. ...C Carl
3. Gavotte.. oar Lutte Nestlings. Moses
4. Selection ........O livette. .......Audran
5. Fantasia. ..... La PalOms.. .Missud
Each of these selections was given
with marked ability and effect, but IL
there was any pre-eminence to he
awarded, 1t is to the fifth selection, la
Psloma. which created a great sensa-
tiou. Should another concert b.
given while good weather lasts, We
shall be pleased to give public notice
Of it, in order that cur people may
realize that what this vicinity lost in
the removal of the Fifth infantry band,
they regsined in the advent of the
Twenty-second.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

New line of mems shoes from s2.75
TO $3.50 at Towers.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

Geo. Lord, foreman for the Grinnell
outfit, arrived from the trail Sunday.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

c. st. John Call aud a. b. Farnum
were here yesterday from Minneap
oils.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

When republicans get democratic
there's the devil to play.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

Train No. l was again delayed, not
arriving until about 4 o'clock this
morning.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

California wines, pure and uDadul
tsrated at Bullard's.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

f. +. Spaulding was at the Mac
queen Sunday from Chicago.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

Mrs. Geo. w. Allerton came in from
the west last night.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

Walter Burleigh returned Sunday
from a trip to Yanktou, Oak.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02
LOCAL 1T E is.

Jco Scott came in from bis ranch
Sunday.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

Clean cotton rags wanted at this
Office.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

C. II. Loud returned to his ran CHI
yesterday.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-02

"o'''" ihh'"''''''
A nurse girl. Apply to Mrs. VIM
Courtenay.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05

sible for this shortage. For, at the tlliie
tbose lands were set aside for those pur-
poses, the state owned, excluding the
school lands, constituting onehalf OF the
nublic domain, enough lands TO
satisfy far more than those TWO
grants. The shortage began to arise
at later date and when the donations OF
the state commenced to encroach upon
the school property, consisting of an IN
divided one.half of what was the public
domain in 1876. The state could issue
veteran and all other certificates linden
nitely 80 long as the schools one-halt OF
the public domain of 1876 remained in
tact. But the trouble has been that grants
of land have been made and certificates
Issued in excess of what belonged to the
public debt fund in 1876, after
the schools had been credited with one
half the public domain. The question
now is, at what time we're the public debt
lands exhausted, and when were the school
lands first trespassed upon? For not till
that time had any injury been done the
school fund, nor had it any cause OF
action. Grants to railroads before that
time, and all other donations are valid,
and while those made since then may be
voidable, it is very serious question as
to whether the state may not have to make
them good.
But the question is with the land'in the
condition as now represented, is the
proper remedy at this time to adjust
these difficulties suit by the attorney
general against any railroad at random,
or any person holding a grant OF
lands since 1876? Is such action
calculated to settle the question, or will
it not be provocative of litigation of
most in furious character to the state aud
her best interests at this time? Can
not a speedier relief be found in the
legislature Or, if that body cannot
rescipd it's action in the wholesale grants
it has made, cannot the remedy suggested
in the article of the "Texas Review
menti2ned, be adopted? That is, cannot
the constitution be amended in its pro
vision for the school fund SO that the
state will not be compelled to repudiate
her obligations? We oppose the pres
ent action of the encouragement, or
the ground that the matter can be ad
iusted in better and more expeditions
wav. and that if loss must occur to any
parties to the controversy, that the schoo
fund can better afford to be the loser thai
that innocent purchasers should b.
wronged through the states illegal dona
tions, and the states obligations should be
VIGOROUSLY repudlated.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
TUE PROCLAMATION HAS BEEN IssUEI

Tn his call for an extra session of the
legislature Governor Ross mentions the
same subjects indicated few days ago
and adds thereto relief for farmers who
seek incorporated organizations and then
calls the attention of the legislature to
the necessity of state geological bureau
These additions are both in the line of
truly advanced policy that should prevail
in the states councils. There was fall
ure TO mention the present school land
nroblem. but it is taken that this was
done rather because the governor con-
c,uded the legislature would not have time
in its limited session of thirty days to
adjust this question together with the
other important matters it had on hand
than because he did not appreciate the
gravity of the question. The state has
much to hope for from this legislature
We have not thought there was that occa-
sion for it's reassembling that others have
commended for and the governor has no"
held to be sufficient; but since it has been
reconvened there are matters that can not
now be neglected, and The STATESMAN Is
pledged, by its allegiance to the interests
of the state, to do all in its power to OK
pedite and complete such legislation as l;
now demanded by the governor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
HOW OTHER CITIES BUILD RAILROADS

The little town of Columbia, Missouri,
place of two or three thousand people,
has done what will be a revelation to our
people. 1t has given in the last two years,
one hundred thousand dollars for an agri-
cultural college; one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars for the state university;
one hundred thou: and dollars to the North
Missouri railroad; it has built twenty three
miles of railroad track; it gave last Octo-
Der sixty thousand dollars to railroad,
and last week raised $53,175 for still an
other railroad. What do the people OF
Austin think of that record? Think of it
$463,175 in money, besides building
twenty-three miles OF railroad track, and
it only little town of two or three
thousand people. 1t ives done by each
and every man doing his part. A
list of subscribers who made up the $685.
175 has been seen and it is composed o.
men giving great and small sums. One
man gave $4,000, four gave $1,000 each
two gave $3.50 each, eight gave $500 each,
fifteen gave $500 each and so on down thu
list until three gave So each. But the!
made up in the entirety $53,175. Now i
must be remembered this was very small
own, mere village and the people hat
before been drained of $4,000 and owe
for public purposes. Contrast this will
what Austin has and can do. We have
hundred men amply able to give $3.50
where Columbia had one. We haV
dozen men who could Civ
$4,000 or $4,000 apiece, wher
Columbia had done. And thel
think of any subsidy staying city like
ours in its quest for railroads. The on
hundred thousand dollars asked for tn
Arkansas Pass railroad should be ralse'
virtually without an effort, and that it will
be raised easily and promptly we feel as
sured. Austin will not miss such chanc
to place herself upon a great trunk lin
from the north and northwest to the gull
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05

in listening to quarrels on the hastings
between ministers of the gospel and poll
ticians about what kind of beverage the
constitution should permit the citizen to
purchase or drink.
The effort ow made in some quarters
to make deep water perform du'y as
state issue will be failure, unless accom-
nanied with a demand for legislation, that
will make deep water beneficial. Every
hodv wants deem water at the entrance
IN one or more Texas ports; for no
state can be truly great that neglects its
own seaports to send the products of its
soil to the ocean over distant wharves. All {,
Texas people desire deep water; yet,
every merchant and farmer from Denlson
ia Galveston knows that if we had fifty
feet of deep water at the entrance to Gal
veston harbor it would not divert one
more bale of cotton to Galveston wharf,
so long as one man is permitted to sit
down In Houston as pooling officer for
every road, defylng the state constitution,
fixing freight rates, destroying compet-
ton and dividing the plumber.
There is an issue of paramount lmpor-
lance to the people of Texas which they
will not suffer to be ignored, either by
politicians or platforms. 1t concerns the
prosperity of agriculture, on which all
other properties must depend. The cd
church tenth of our products in value is
collected from our people by railway cor
uorations as the price of transporting to
the sea-ports at our very doors; and, as a
result. half of the farms in the most pro-
ductive portions of the state are plastered
with II per cent mortgages to English
aud Scotch money lenders.
These are no times for men who agree on
vital questions to break ranks and jostle
each other in the hunt fer Office. [ be-
leve that Senator Coke and myself agree
as to the evils that threaten US, and also
as to the remedies necessary to unfetter
agriculture and trade. will sustain him,
if he will meet, as | believe he will, with
aggressive earnestness the full measure of
duty i'll the approaching canvass. The
public welfare should be preferred above
the friendships or ambitions of life, and,
highly as | esteem Senator Coke, could
not sustain him if he fails to wage an
open war on the methods of corporate
power in this state. Whether he does
this or not, railway kings, their ennis
saries and newspaper allies will fad that
they will have something else to do in the
next canvass besides inspiring Associated
Press dispatches, loading newspaper
columns with railroad racket" to bride
public opinion with the promise of new
roads, and stocking primary meetings
over false issues before they can elect a
legislature.
remain, sincerely your friend,
A. w. TERRELL,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.

If the facts are correctly stated from
Washington this morning, the probabilities
are strong that the president will sign the
river and harbor bill, if passed as it comes
from the hands of the committee. The
total amount of appropriation in the bill,
nineteen million dollars, it is said fits into
the presidents calculation of the reduc-
ton of the surplus, by this and other
measures. In making his estimate
of the reduction he contemplates and in
cludes nineteen millions of this bill. There
fore, say the Washington correspondents,
he intends to sign it.
If he does it is pertinent to inquire
what does the bill do for Texas? Well, SO
far as our harbors are concerned, the
measure is built as of old on the diffu-
sive, not the Commemorative, plan. That is,
half million goes to Galveston to re.
sumo work on the jetties abandoned after
the departure of Colonel Mansfield. Then
again, so much to Arkansas Pass, and a
quarter of million to Sabine Pass. That
is, nearly million dollars are to be divided
out, and, as of yore, prove so much money
wasted, while deep water might be ap
proximated, if not attained, by concen
tration at single point. Especially i;
the money to be given to Sabine Pass
thrown away, on place over which the
great cyclone two years ago drove the
water of the sea to the height of fifty feet
unless it is contemplated to dredgt
through Sabine lake.
But then the politicians had to be
suited, if we are to judge from the con
struction of the bill. The wishes of the
people of the state are altogether a sec
ondary matter. So we go.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
Strange But Nice Are Fortunes
WAYS.

70 buy or not to buy was the question
that three ladies, Mrs. H. DeLaup, 377 st.
Ann street, Mrs. Honore Flotte, PSI Bayou
Road, and Miss Mary Henry, POS st. Philip
street, asked when Mrs. V. Gilly, POS ST.
Philip street, vendor of Louisiana State
Lottery tickets, called upon them with the
last tenth ticket she had. A mutual in
vestment of a quarter of dollar was re-
solved upon one-tenth of ticket No. 1,575,
the number that, in the Grand Monthly
Drawing, February 7, 1888, drew the capt
tai prize of One Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Dollars, and Mrs. Gilly pre-
sented the ticket last Thursday, and req
ceived therefor check. Nice, wasn't it,
for % cent investment each.-New Or
leans (La.) Picayune, February II.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
THE SCHOOL LAND PROBLEM.

Space is given this morning to an article
on the school land problem, as now pre-
scented to the state by Attorney general
Hogg. This communication is virtually a
condensation of an article appearing in the
Texas Review of October, 1885, edited by
G. Il. Johns and s. G. Sneed. 1t is very
clear statement of how the land question
has been complicated by rash appropri-
ations of land by the legislature. 1t
shows that the State has decided away
more land than she owned, and it also is
intended to demonstrate that in this gen
erosity the public school lands have
been especially despoiled. The feature
of the article and of the whole case,
as now presented by the suit
just instituted, is this: the public school
fund has been deprived of several mill
ions of acres of land whittier have they
gone, and whence, if ever, shall they
be recovered? The school fund was, at
the time the present constitution took
effect, entitled to one half of the public
domain; the lands of the state have now
be en- exhausted by various grants and To-
cations, and the school fund does not to-
day own that one-hslf OF the domain
given it at that tine. Positive and spe-
cific grantsScf land, such as those to the
university and the capitol, are no. respor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
THE DENVER CELEBRATION.

Well may our friends of Denver engage
in weeks jubilation over the compile.
ton of the Panhandle railway. That line
not only Immediately links the Colorado
metropolis with the great railway system
of Texas, but taps the growing wealth Of
the Panhandle, besides opening direct
line of communication with the Texas
coast, which will, in the near future, have
deep water port and outlet to the sea
for the expanding commerce of which
Denver is the center. That city, reposing
in the shadow of the Rockies, becomes
more than ever the great railroad center
of the west. The Fort Worth connection
gives Denver still another competing line,
and puts it at the apex of triangle of
competitiv transportation one corner of
which rests on Chicago and the other on
Galveston. No doubt the average Den
verite feels good.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05

The senate committee on the Washing
ton county election outrage cases
is not making very much pc
litical capital out of its investi-
gatious. Even the colored people sum-
moned to testify, or, at lees', all the in
telligent ones, give evidence anything but
soothing to the outraged feelings of those
republican senators itching for sensations
and chance to abuse the south. The
Investigation year ago in the rational
capitol came to naught, and it will amount
to less this year, especially since the trial
and acquittal in the United States district
court here last fall in these same cases.
The senate is on the wrong scent when it
tries to hunt down Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05

The press of the state has been very
liberal in noticing, favorably comment
ing upon and without charge advertising
our great May drill. In behalf of the
drill management and of the citizens of
Austin who have laid this event upon
their consciences and intend to make 1T
the most memorable occasion in the his
tory of Texas, The STATESMAN returns
thanks to one and all of those newspapers
and pledges Itself to return the favor
when events in their respective towns call
for such public recognition. In the mean
time representatives of the entire press
of the state are expected here in May Il
share in our festivities.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
THE EXTRA SESSION.

Since recent events, including the pay
ment Of the Texas claims by the federal
government, have created not only the oc-
casion but, possibly, the necessity OF
called session, probably no more oPpor-
tune time could have been selected than
the 10Th proximo, on the eve of the com
pletion and reception by the state OF the
finest, most imposing granite capito'
building in the world. The assembling
of the peoples chosen representatives al
this time is appropriate.
Whatever else may be said OF inc
Twentieth legislature, its acts, and the
practical effects of ITS acts, indicate the
wisdom, ability and honesty of that body
and it is so regarded by the people
Probably few of its predecessors have as
sembled with a greater share of pubic
confidence than will be granted the
Twentieth Legislature upon its assembling
at this time in extra session.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
THE
FLYING DOVE
OF PEACE.

A richly frosted, quiveripg, flying Dove.
dream Of Life screen calendar. An i'm
ported ide al head. An imported frosted
snow scene and full set of magnificent
floral cards. Fourteen artistic pieces.
Sent to anyone who will buy from drug
gist box of the genuine DIR. y. M,LANE's
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and mail us the outside wrapper from the
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cure for Sick Headache, Biliousness and
Dyspepsia. They are peculiarly adapted
for ladies and are absolutely safe. Pre-
pared from the purest materials.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
FARMERS ENCOURAGED TO ORGANIZE.

The Farmers Alliance is an association
that is bringing into closer union and
Welding together the men who represent
the great agricultural class of our state
and country. To this time, and until the
introduction of the Grange and the ALI
ance, each farmer has been accustomed to
stand alone; there has been no interchange
of opinion; no concert of action; no COM
mon purpose as in the associated classes
of other divisions of work and laboring
men. The farmer has brought home to
him self the merit of the maxim "in union
there is strength" and the Grange and
Alliance have been the result. 1t is a
class of labor that is the most
self reliant of all, and needs less of gov
eminent patronage or protection than
any other. But at the same time these
associations of the farmers have resulted
in changed ideas of farming, in new
methods of work, in different theories of
crop predicting that have placed the
science of farming score of years ahead
of where it otherwise would have been
There is no class of labor for which all
men have more respect, and upon which
government is more dependent for sub
sistence and support than the farming
element, and the proceedings of all asso-
Citations of farmers are of universal inter
est. We bespeak, in the interest of our
reading public, from all alliances of farm
ers reached by The STATESMAN, full re-
ports of their proceedings, their plans
and purposes, accounts of new organiza-
tions of lodges and all such matter as
they may care to have published and vii
prove interesting reading.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05

QUERY: Which needs those ten million
acres of land more, the actual settlers who
now hold them or our amply endowed pub
lie school system fund! Had the state
used. sold, leased or exhausted her vast
public school domain and did she then need
funds for running the schools, there
might be some excuse for such action as
is now begun by the attorney general
But this is not the case. Texas has mil
lions of acres of school lands she cannot
sell or even lease; what would she do with
ten million acres more of such lands'
The men who now hold these lands are pay
ing taxes on and improving them, and the
state is infinitely better off for such citi-
zene than it would be with twice or three
times ten million acres of land. Texas can
not afford to break her faith with those
citizens, nor will she do 1t.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05

The war in Abyssinia assumes fresh in
terest as il advances towards a conclu-
sion, and it must have an end, like all
wars. According to the dispatches this
morning, the Abyssians are repeatedly
surrounding the Italian forces. A de-
movement similar to that of Macmillan in
Mexico is one of the probabilities. There
is no doubt King John is solidly backed
by his subjects against the invaders.