Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-08
FROM AUSTIN.
The Gszette's Weekly Compilation ~
from tbs State GapisaJ,
Special to the Gazette.

Special 70 Lne tiaz9!tas
AUSTIN, TEC., June I.-Csnpsroler
Mccall has returned from hie lste trip TO
Huntsville. As foreshsaowed n special
from Austin 3eY or two age, the Comp
troller has formally declined 20 register
the new HoussUn CON promise bonds IN
der the ordnance passed some time
ago. The Comptroller, while Wiling
TO aid Houston IS far IS he caR with pro-
priety 90 so, >sfuses 20 become = custc-
dian Of she bonds amounting to nearly
Sl.000,Q00 a. required by the ordinance.
which y3ill have TO be- amended. The at
-orney representing large creditors CT
Houston has Seen here locking after the
matter
1: was learned at the L.nd Office
today that aH classifers OF
schoe lands in the west had finished
their work except ouer and he will soon
! be done.
| TT ,e total amount Of school lsuds leased
J oy c Commissioner Hall during the month
Of ! Nay, $4,000 acres, in the various
COZ mites mentioned in yesterdays special
Wa leased at cents per acre; also the
26, 900 scres OF University lands men
tic ned n the same special.
Ssles ny the S ate Land Commissioner
/
81 res OF school lands.
! The following charters were fled in the
O flee of the Secretary OF State: Dallas
Vater and Gas Company, furnishing
water or gas and other illuminating ma
! terlsls, headquarters at Tyler, capital
/ stock, o., 900, 900 Incorporstors-James
! ?. Douglass, III. T. Brown, r. e.. Brown.
j. B. Douglas, al Of Tyler.
Summer Hill Select School OF
Omen, Smith county, runs fifty
years. Independently W. Hamilton,
4. W. Foster, Henry Flore, all of Omen,
Smith Co.
Franklin college of Goodville, Tyler
county, runs fifty years. Incorporstors
. S, 3. Cooper, W. A. johnson, KIRBY.
Cruise and Hyde.
The Young Mems Building and Loan
Association Of Fort Worth, object ths
ton OF capital, charter runs
3fty years. Capital stock $780,
000, divided 1900 shares Of SiOc
eacn, Incorporators: Zane Cetti, S NJ.
.Ery, George Strong, 4. c. Ross, ". Il.
, Manchester, 4. B. SMITH, r. Il. Sellers
and S. NJ Furmsu, all Of Fort Worth.
The charter is dated Fort Worth May 81,
ultimo.
AUSTIN, TEx., June 5-Gomp!roller.
Mccall has written letter to J. Z. Muir
ray, Collector OF Tarrsnt county, In ref
erence to the GermanIs Club of Fort,
} Worth, advising that II beer IS sold at
the club, 1t MIST pay retail liquor deal.
er's license, and if ten pin alley is used,
the regular tai must be paid for that.
Governor Ross is in receipt of letter
i, from the committee on safety appointed
at mass meeting OF Wsller county citi-.
zens, giving history of the many assas-
sinstions in Hampstead andtssying that l.
ventaole reign Of terror existed. They,
charge that Sheriff McDsde has kept In.
office IS deputies the worst des--
peradoes in the county. The
committee ask G. vernon Ross
20 aid the law snd order class 70 change
this state Of things. The names Of the
committee Are those Of some of the brav-
est and most determined farmers In
Waller county.
The total cash balance in the state treas
ury were handed out to-day as follows:
General revenue, 81 451, 7S9; permanent
school fund, sl22,3 1928; other iunds,
S497,792 Total cash in the State Tress,
ury, s2,071 $50 II. Total in bond, ST..
2l0,54 80.
The case Of Mr.. A. B. Woodbridge before
United States Commissioner Foster waa
continued till tomorrow. Albert Pei
yea, Treasury agent OF Washington, gave.
his testimony in the case.
AUSTIN, TEX, June 5--The trial OF the
State Of Texas VS.. the International ene
Great Northern Railway Company, for
forfeiture Of its charter and its tax e1.
emption privileges is In progress in the
District court to day, and will probably
occupy the balance Of the week. The
suit is based on the allegation OF tbs de-
PENDANTS os general noncompliance with
its charter, and involves privileges, the
SEXUAL value OF which Can hardly be
estimated from 8 peclniary stand point.
The case is being tried before
Judge Towns, and lots Of lawyers are en-
gagged fer the defense. The Attorney
General represents the state single
handed and alone, and appears to have AL
| mis- Waf paint on. The suit Is brought
under acts Of August 2 and 5, 1870, and
March 10, 1875, all OF which sre rigorous
and mandatory regarding accommoda-
turn ior privileges conferred on 1t by the
stare. Nearly the entire day has
been occupied in reading depositions
tc9 absent witnesses, snd among
these who have testified, al Of them for
plaintiff, were the following: William
Giles, A. L. Patton, j. McMullan, Judge
| 81. W. Cate, B. T. Reade, all of Mineola;
". S. Herndon, W. q. Cousins, J. B.
| Henderson, J. W. Robins, j. M. Sharp,
Gus Taylor, T. j. McCord, j. W. Finley,
! George A ans, al OF Tyler; j. Waldo OF
Houston. Mayor Walton was examined
for the state, and Colonel A. Fl. Swanson,
| railway expert, was permitted, through
courtesy, to testify for the defendant be-
fore the defense was entered into.