The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-06-14
100 Doses One Dollar
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.


The Brazos Mandatory, of Columbie,
has been chartered. Object to manufac-
ture Woodenware.
The man who would want better coun-
try than Nolan county this year would GER
tainly be hard to please.
Every section of land within radius of
eight miles from Amorillo is said to have
an actual settler thereon.
Forty-six carloads of cattle were ship
ped from Corpus Christi, on the 4th, over
the Aransas Pass road, to Vernon, Wllbar-
ger county.
Moses Stockwell, who was convicted in
the district court at Beaumont, of the
murder of Captain Georgeson, has been
granted new trial and released on
| $4,000 bond.
The county court CT Milan county met
at Cameron on Monday and adjourned for
the term without transacting any business,
| in order to give the farmers a chance to
work in their fields.
Miss Maria Huselby, of Mobeetie, was
awarded the contract for carrying the
mails between Mobeetie and Miami. The
distance is twenty miles, and the contract
is for two years fir m July l.
Wheat is being harvested in Coleman
county, and there will be good crop
gathered. The ost crop is the finest that
has been made in the county or anywhere
else in Texas for number of years.
Mrs. Hildebrand is the mother of the
first child born in the new town of Claren-
don, and on this account she has received
donation of lot on Fourth and Gorst
streets and they will erect home on it at
once.
Crops in the vicinity of Hearne, Rob-
ertson county, are on the whole reported
better than at this time last year, but the
farmers in the bottoms report the appear
ance of the careless or webworm, which is
doing considerable damage in spots.
While two boys were digging On the
bank of the river at Waco for angling
worms on the 5th inst, they unearthed
skeleton, apparently of a man. 1t is
probably the remains of some one washed
down the river and stranded in the mud
as the water subsidized.
A gigantic scheme is on foot to organ
ize joint stock company on the Cali
fornla plan, for the purpose of turning
the South Concho river on the Lipan Fiat
and irrigatipg the entire 10000 acres,
which comprise tract OF the most fertile
land in America.
Very few places in Texas or IN the
whole country can produce as great va
riety of fruit and vegetables in their
greatest perfection as the Rio Grande
valley,and none, owing to irrigating, facil-
tiles and genial climate, is less liable 10 a
failure of crops.
1t makes West Texas man sick to see
the train loads of Kansas hay that is
being brought into Colorado City at
present. We've got more hay on one acre
of ground than Kansas has on two, and the
reason why we import Kansas hay is be.
cause we've got more laziness around here
than she has.--Colorado Clipper.
The Texas and Pacific now has lumber
and material in the Weatherford yard to
frame about dozen bridges for the road
between Fort Worth and Weatherford. 1t
will take quite number of men during
the summer to do the work, and their ex-
pendltures, in the meantime, will to that
extent be beneficial 20 the mercantile
interests of that city. Mr.. E. D. Oliver
thinks the construction of these bridges
will give employment to some thirty car
penters during the greater part of the
summer.
1t is foregone conclusion that all the
present state officers will be nominated at
Dallas to succeed themselves. Aspirants
must wait with patience two more years,
then they will have an opportunity to
sacrifice themselves for the country's
good" as the prevailing, yet silly, custom
will preclude the remotest chance for
third termer to succeed.-Tyler Democrat
and Reporter.
Is it quite certain that all of them will
be renominated?
One of the surest signs of the times is
the building preparations for this year.
The architects are full of business, and
the plans for various residences and com
merclal structures to be erected in Ell
Paso this season indicate great impetus
to trade. Labor will be in demand,
mechanics busy, the lumber, brick and
stone yards full of activity, and scores of
beautiful buildings rearing their walls up
ward during the summer and fall months.
The close of this year will number over
$500 buildings in Ell Paso.-El Psso
Tribune.