The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-16
AROUND THE CAPITOL.
Matters Picked Up in Tour of the
Departments.
From Thursdays Daily.

DeDarLmenIS.
From Thursdays Daily.
Professor Cooper recently mailed some
blanks il the Austin postOffice, addressed
to the county judge at Mangum, Texas,
which Postmaster Johnson returned to
him on account of the department not rec
ognizing Mangum, which is in Greer
county. as being in Texas. The address
was changed to Mangum, Greer county,
u. s. A, and the package was forwarded.
State Land Commissioner Hall has mott
fed free grassers on the school and Uni
versity lands in West Texas, that if they
persist in occupying them without leasing
from the state, the penal statutes will be
vigorously enforced against them. He
has already given them ample time to
lease the lands, and will now test their
power to defy the authority of the state.
The state comptroller is after another
bank for discrepancy shown by its state
ment to the comptroller and that of the
county assessor.
Applications for the purchase of public
school lands were received and filed in the
land Office yesterday, as follows: One for
32O acres in Hardeman county; one for
go acres grazing land in Jones county;
one for 100 acres, agricultural, in Harde-
man county; one for $40 acres in Fisher
county, agricultural; one for GAO acres in
Lampasas county, agricultural; one for
GAO acres in Potter county, agricultural;
one for GAO acres in Bnrnet county, graz
ing land; one for $40 acres in Deaf Smith
county, agricultural. An application to
lease only was received from Burnett
county-160 acres.
Martin Duval, state agent, reports from
Arson his classification of two hundred
and fifteen surveys in Jones county, a
number of which have reverted to the
state for non payment of interest. The
land ia described as all sorts, with only a
very few watered tracts, about half and
half agricultural and grazing.
From Fridays Dailyl
Governor Ross has appointed Hon. E.
d. McClelland, of Bonham, judge of The
Sixth Judicial district in place of Judge
Scott, resigned.
The charter of the Choctaw Coal and
Railway company, in Texas, was filed here
to- day; capital stock, $1,OO0,00o. IncOrpO
rators: Edwin D. Chadwick, Sam L. Shell
enberger, Silas G. Eddy, John r. Carr
Joseph A. Euper and james j. Campbell
of DenisoD, and George B. Kirkbride
Frank B. Lewis, John Washburn and
Jacob A. Wolverton, of Minneapolis.
The general purpose is to construct
and operate line of railway from point
of connection with the company's pro
posed line of railway in the Indian
Territory and on the Red river, the
boundary line between the state of Texas
and the Indian Territory, at or near the
mouth of Bots dare creek, thence in q
westerly direction through the counties
of FannIn, Grayson, Cook, Denton and
Wise, in Texas, to D point of intersection
with the Fort Worth and Denver railway
in Wise county. The principal office is
to be at DenisOu.
The charter of the Bexar Building and
Loan association, of San Antonio, was
filed here yesterday morning; capital
100000. Incorporators: W. @. Richards
Geo. II. Kalteyer, G. Epson, M. Krauku-
mer, j. w. Richardson, John @. Stevens
and q. A. Dueler.
Also filed, charter Of the McDade Co
operative Alliance; capital, 100000
Incorporators, S. W. Floyd and others.
And, charter of the Gillespie County
Alliance, at Fredericksburg; capital, $50
600. Incorporators, Geo. B. Riley and
others.
United States Secretary of State Bayard
some time ago, transmitted to Governor
Ross correspondence in which the Mexi
can authorities complain of the action Of
the Texas authorities at Ell Paso, looking
to the construction of large drain pipe
which the former alleges is to "pass
through lands that are considered as be-
long ing to Mexico, although they are now
on the left side of the Rio Grande, and is
to serve as an outlet into the river. The
main objections are that, as the RiC
Grande is an international river, it does
not seem proper for works to be con-
structed on its banks affecting the
health of the towns lying
opposite without the consent
of the two governments interested, leav-
ing out of consideration the lack of right
on the part of the city authorities of e
Paso, Texas, to construct such a work on
land that is thought to belong to Mexico
Governor Ross sent the correspondence
to j. NJ. Dean, district attorney for the
district, to report to him upon the facts
Mr.. Dean states that the drain-pipe com
planned of has been constructed by the
Texas authorities on the north and Amer.
lean side of the Rio Grande, and empties
into that river two and half miles below
the point where that river is tapped by
the Mexican scqueduct, the Acequia Ma
DIRE of Paso del Norte. The territory on
the Mexican side of the river is wholly
uninhabited for distance of twenty
miles below the point where the sewer pipe
empties.
Mr.. Dean further adds: The drain pipe
crosses no territory belonging to the re-
public of Mexico. The Rio Grande al
the point where the drain-pipe empties is
exceedingly muddy, whereby it is con-
sidered by experts to be impossible for
the sewer discharge to injuriOusly affect
the water for greater distance than two
miles. The Mexican bank is such that it
would be impossible to take out ditch
or acequia in Mexico any nearer the
American pipe, down the river from said
pipe, than ten miles.
Under all the circumstances he con-
cluded that it is difficult to see how the
health, comfort, enjoyment or convenience
of any citizen of the Republic of Mexico
can be directly or remotely affected.
We're tho facts reversed and tbs drain
pipe up the river, or west of the mouth of
the Acequia Madre, then there might be
some apparent cause for complaint. He
finds his conclusions to be the opinions
held by various prominent citizens of
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