The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-06-07
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

head of cattle to put on the market tnls
fall.
Potter county's assessment rolls show
valuation of more than S2,5OO,OOO worth
of property.
Ochiltree county is now circulating
petition praying for an early organization
as a county.
The campaign for county officers is
already warming up in great shape IN
Carson county.
A mail line has been granted from Full
ton, Neutral Strip, to Hausford to go into
operation July 1.
Frank Dean, who shot and killed Bill
Gotcher last week, in Bell county, is still
at large in the mountains.
A colored military company has been
organized at Paris, and will go to Dallas
June 20 and drill for prize.
J.C. Now, general Texas agent of the
Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago, has made
Fort Worth his headquarters.
Four thousand people turned out at
Denison to witness the decorating of
graves in lakewood cemetery.
Texline is the name of the town where
the railroad crosses the line between the
Panhandle and New Mexico.
The petition praying for the organiza-
ton of Carson county has been granted
and an election ordered for June II.
The mail route has at last been extend
ed over the Fort Worth and Denver road
from Clarendon to Texline on through to
Denver.
A force of not less than seventy
men are now at work on the mammoth
mill and grain elevator of Cameron and
Tatum in Fort Worth.
The city council of Laredo has author
lied the mayor to make contract with
the electric light company for sixty three
lights to burn all night.
The magnificent granite of Burnet
couRty, the same that was used in the con-
struction of the capitol, is being sent to
every portion of the state.
The first sale of wool of about 1OO,-
600 pounds and the first shipment for
this season was made on Thursday by the
Texas Trading company.
Lipscomb hopes to have several large
brick buildings erected this season, one
of them for a bank. Kilns for 10000
brick are now being made.
In order to reduce expenses, the St.
Louis, Arkansas and Texas road at Waco
has discharged thirty hands and the
switch engine has been sent away.
Corsicana is to have another national
bank. The Texas Loan agency stock
holders have decided to start one on OF
before July 1, with capital of $25O,OOO
The first two-and-a-half miles of the
grading on the Santa Fe extension be-
tween Ballinger and San Angelo has been
sub-let, and the road will be built in g
hurry.
Cattle shipments from Corpus Christi
have been very heavy for the past two
weeks. The railroad companies are hav
ing troubls in furnishing all the car:
needed.
Beth Coca has been arrested and jailed
at Sherman by the sheriff of Graysor
county, on the charge of murder com
mitted near Powhatan, Lawrence county
Ark, on June 10, 1888.
few nights ago gang of six Mexican
bandits entered Brownsville and encoun-
tered two policeman, with whom they had
a street fight with pistols. One of thu
gang was killed and the Others we're driver
out of town.
Cotton in the neighborhood of SaladC
was never more promising at this season
of the year. A few farmers have already
harvested their wheat, which averaged
from twenty to twenty-five bushels PEI
acre.
Considerable trouble has been expert
enced by the right of way committee OF
the San Angelo extension of the Santa
Fe road from land owners in Runnel.
county. All of the property had to bt
condemned.
Bonham is reported to be on a biz
boom. Work on the fine court house /
progressing rapidly. Four new bricl
business houses are in course of construc.
ton, and number of handsome priyat,
residences are going up.
The county assessors rolls, almost com
Pleted, show that the values of Dalls
county amount in round numbers to S26
100000. The assessor has performed tn
duty OF statistician, and reports that tn
population of the county is about $4,000
The incessant wet weather has inter
fered with the progress of the locatin,
corps between Victoria and Beeville, OF
the Southern Pacific extension, but it il
expected that the work will be completed
in time to permit the commencement O
construction by July 10.
Two men were arrested at Brownwoot
on last Thursday in possession of l9C
head of horses that we're stolen in Preside
county. The names of the parties ar,
Durion and Brantley, and they claim Il
have bought the horses from one Gardne,
of Tom Green county.
There is a great deal of Indignation n,
LAGRANGE against the Western Unior
Telegraph company on account of it;
charging 10 cent delivery fee on pre-
paid messages, contrary to published
rules on the back of their blanks. Seyera
suits will be filed to recover the dime;
thus extorted
Austin was in gala attire for six dav,
last week, and so resplendent was her raj
ment that it attracted the concentrated
gaze of the nation, The dedication of the
new capitol, one of the finest buildings
IN the country, drew to the capitol of tht
state many thousands of her patriotic SOM
and daughters and numerous strangers
some of them men of distinction. Every