The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-27
STATE NEWS.
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Galveston Irio11e.
Mrs.. J. Coomb=, Of DzlLz5, Wednesday
found hs- yezr-oId b! playing vita Z
cOppsrnszd snake IN the narsery. Tas
child mad the snake By the neck ard vzs
I21gaing a. great rate. The I'D!
screamed, bringing neiZhoo-= 20 ne. ss=-s
lance. Inc child vas found 20 O@ u1aC-t
ard ths fzmil! got away zita the snake,
when Is noE embz!ned II alcohol.
The community near Coperss Cove i
under considerable excitement eve:
tight between ITO !o4ng meu owe. re
port circulated by one Of the ps-t!. 4-=
greater part Of tns cOluuci:y are I1c=c
arms, and serious trogb!e i liEe.y 20 PIE
vail If the fsui Is not suppressed.
Monday night On the zo1ta50znd Mis-
sO1'i Pacific passenger tain :ae stzie
G1sraasius officers ne: TO Eecl=lcsc
Eno refused 20 tell wae-e the! we've from
and a. Z corseq 7eres they se-s lot psr-
miited 20 enter the state o1: were p1i OF
tie train il the territory with Instructions
20 return north OF the next t:zi1 OF the!
would b. liable 20 imprisonment.
/ The race problem l. before the Dsrison
cisy council for solution. !. regular
meeting il June the large two-s:oc! bricz
school house in tae Fourth ward was yO.et
20 the rss Of the cO.o-sd people. Il nov
/ becomes apparent that If :ae b1Liing i
used By the c1lored CHILDREN TIE waite
children will have 20 60 Ei:ao1: school
il mat ward or occIpy such small shan
/ ties g may BE- vacant in O1:-Ot-the-=sy
/ places in the ward.
( The crops Of sGZar AMI corn OF al the
TeIss coa7ic: farms are =pleu lid, and tas
cotton is above the average. In this re-
spect the con7icts are doing vel for the
state, but there has been great moris!i:!
among them, which shoys room for in
proyement in taeir szui:ary condition.
! Ous Of 1928 co17ict=, third were sick
duriug August, With tots! Of seventeen
desihs.-WscO Day.
1. vas reported on the streets yes.er.
day thss the name OF Col. John I. Brady
lican congressional Convention, 20 be held
here on October S, assurances having
bsen obtained from him 70 the effect thu:
ne will scc=pt the nominstion should il be
rendered to MIN. Mr.. Il. D. Johnson Is
candidate for the nomination, and 30 i
, Lock Mcdaniel. Tyler county, in the
east, has very unexpectedly endorsed the
latter gentlsman.-Hou-ton Post.
Mr.. Chas. I. Hicks, the live and euer-
getic young merchant Of Austin, Is in the
city, en- route west for Maria for the
benefit of his health. NJ. Hicks has
Travelled nearly 81 over tie state within
tbs past few weeks ard be says tia:
everywhere be heard people talking about
the great San Antonio fair. he says
every section of Texas will be represented
a. Riverside psrk in November, and the
attendance from Austin will be Particu-
Isrly lsrys.-Ssn Antonio Express.
Officers Desmond and CoEan Tuesday
night in Dallas ran in Chi Chung, Ye:
Lung and Alb Yon, on the charge of con-
Quoting az opium joint on E-yay street,
near It's intersection with Main street.
The officers found two young men under
the influence Of the pip, which they had
been hitting. Soon after the arrest Of
the Cinnamon one OF their species asked
the chief Of police what the bond Of
each would be, and being informed $3.50,
observed that eacn could PIT up that
/ amount without trouble. The police
/ have several females under suspicion OF
visiting the place.
The disappearance Wednesday morning
| of Misses Nellie and Mauds Rising, aged
respectively - and - years, from the
! home of their parents, corner Of Ninth
street and Ross avenue, Waco, il producing
much alarm as hoG-s elapss. The young
ladies are daughters Of Mrs. a. Z. Rising,
who mas been married second tine. Her
! husband, Mr.. Rising, il a rOofer and cor
nice worker. The family moved TO Waco
year ago from Galveston. Mr.. Rising,
accompanied By City Mar.hal Hill, went
| 20 a'reporter Wednesday nigh: and asked
| that the public be made aware that his
daughters had disappeared from home
Wednesday morning, and that his wife
was suffering grea: anguish. Search il
being made in ever! quarter. So far this
mystery is impe1ettab.e.
In the yellow fever stricken city Of
Jacksonville the hotel and restaurant
business Is at a standsti.l. A correspond
ent writes: "Only the Ho.e! Togni re-
mains open. Of the restaurants not over
| half q dozen have their doors open at
present. A man accustomed 70 good
home fare il actually a sufferer in this
| city to-day. He can hardly buy gOO5
dinner. 1t seems as if wha. cooks remain
had caught the general Generalization
and lost their former cunning in the cult
nary art With the exception Of one
restaurant, the Chinese, all close at 4:3O
or p. IN. From that hour until IN the
morning to buy so much as dry biscuit
in the city is an utter impossibilit?.
Many citizens have adopted the club sys-
tenn of living, half dozen sharing the
table of one Of their number and dividing
the expenses, and this must inevitably be
extended or dyspepsia will have more
terrors for those who remain than the
yellow fever itself. Houston Post.
The new state capitol cos. the people
100000 OF acres of land. At the time
the trade was made this was the widest,
most worthless land in the state. Lying
along the edge of New Mexico, without a
tree or shrub on it, Desert of Sahara in
summer and an Arctic steppe in winter,
the people of Texas sniggered in their
sleeves when they made the trade. For
they believed-oue and all of them-that
they we're "skinning" the Yankees in right
royal fashion. Those same Yankees en-
closed the land and put cattle on it. The
wave of population rolled on, and this
desert came nearer to the people. Then
the cry arose, eve have been cheated ="
But we have not been cheated. The land
is now tsx-bearing. It will be settled.
The individuals owning it will work for its
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