The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-02
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

State Exchanges.
Sheriff Buck Hamilton, who has ~
sheriff of Bandera county for the 80.
fourteen years, died on the 24tb from 'S'
relapse of measles.
Anderson county is blessed with ,bo
finest corn crop that has been raised
within its borders the past four wears
and cotton is also doing splendidlv.
The roller mills of Coleman Citv ara il
full blast and the management do No.
intend that bushel of the large wbaot
crop shall leave the county, as thew srs
prepared to buy every bushel offered
One of the latest railroad schemes ra-
ported Is to construct a line from Kerr.
vile, in Kerr county, to Vernon, in VIII
barger county, over the old cattle trail
via Baird, Albany, Throckmorton and
Seymour, on to Kansas City.
John White, familiarly known as "Buf.
falo," shot and killed a Mexican near
Daugherty, few nights ago, at one of 7
5. Daugherty's hay camps. The Mexican
was employed as a cook, and objected to
White sitting down to supper before the
other men came in.
A. M. Bruni, wealthy merchant Of
Laredo, has received two pulsameter
pumps with capacity Ct 10000 gallons
per hour each, and a fifty-horse power
boiler, with which he will irrigate his farm
twenty miles below Laredo. The result
of this experiment irrigatipg the rich
valleys by steam pumps will be watched
with great interest.
1t turns out that the Arkansas Pass road
is less anxious to purchase the Waco and
Brazos Valley road on the terms proposed
than was first apparent, and the latt-r
company is now seeking to make dicker
with the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
company, by which the Brazos Valley will
eventually become a branch of the Mid,
land route.
The corner stone of the old court
house at Marshall, consisting of two small
circular sections of native sock, one rest
ing upon the other, and the under section
containing an excavation, has been re-
moved. 1t contained two one-ounce
quinine bottles, one containing half
dollar coined in 1S4S and a silver dime
coined in 1912, and the other q. copy of the
constitution of the republic and half of an
issue of the Star State Patrol, vol. l, No.
%. Dated August II, 1848. Kelsey &
Harris, proprietors and editors.
Amanda Stout, white girl Is years old,
and negro man by the name of Sylvester
London, were arrested in Kilgore last Sat
urday, at the home of the negroes brother,
on an order from the sheriff of Wood
county, who says the girl and negro ran
away frem the home of the girls father
last Monday, taking wi h them a pocket
book containing $40 belonging to the
girls father. The negro claims they were
married after leaving home, but the girl
denies they are married. They arrived in
Kilgore on Tuesday, repres snted them
selves as man and wife and had been
living as such ever since their arrival
The girl is rather prepossessing and of
fair intelligence. She evinced very little
concern on being arrested and said she
wished to return home. Her father is
Captain Henry Stout, of Wood county, an
old Mexican veteran, and the first sheriff
that Wood county ever elected.
Mrs. Stinnot, wife of J.F. Stinnot, pro-
prietor of the Diamond Touring mills of
Sherman, met with a horrible death Sat-
urday evening about O'Clock, supposed
TO have been caused from an overdose Of
morphine. Mr.. Stinnot went to Denison
Saturday morning on business trip and
left his wife complaining with toothache.
She called servant girl into her room
about 1 O'Clock, and told her not to leave
her alone too long-that she was suffering
intensely. The servant girl states Mrs.
Stinnot went into another room and laid
down on lounge about o'clock, at which
time she was complaining very little, and
about 4 O'Clock the girl went back into
her room and found her lying on the
carpet apparently in a dying condition.
Doctors were summoned at once, but
could do nothing to counteract the
effects of the poison, and Mrs. Stinnot
died at $40 o'clock.
On September l, 1888, the term for
which the Texas Traffic association was
would have reached its limit.
Not waiting for this expiration of official
existence by limitation, this organization
has now practically dissolved and lost its
official existence. This is known to be the
result of the present meeting in New York.
While the Texas Traffic association loses
Its official existence, it becomes part
and parcel of another orgauizat1 to be
known as the International Railroad associ-
alton, which is now practically organized,
though the officers have not yet been
elected. This new association viii en-
brace nineteen trunk lines west of the
Mississippi. 1t is understood in railroad
circles that Mr.. Waldo, pool commits
sioner of the Texas Traffic association,
will be the chairman of this new orgsniza-
ton, with headquarters either at Kansas
City or st. Louis. The railroads which
will form this new and powerful organiza-
ton are the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe, Fort Worth and Denver City, Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe, Houston and
Texas Central, International and Great
Northern, Kansas City, Springfield and
Memphis and Little Rock, Missouri Pa
cfic, Mexican Central, Mexican Interna-
tional, St. Iouis, Arkansas and Texas, ST.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, ST.
Louis and San Francisco, Southern Pacific
Atlantic system), Southern Pacific Pa
,itic system), San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass, Texas and Pacific, and Texas Cen
raj railway companies.
II is understood that the dissolution OF
he Traffic ASSOCIATION will virtually quash
he litigation now pending against thai
to which the state is party
Dlaintiff.-Galvesto News.