Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-06
FIRM AUS IN.
The Gazette's Weekly Compilation
from the State Capital.
AUSTIN, TEX March 81.

AUSTIN, TEX March 81.
Special to the Gazette.
By estimate made at the Land OH.e
to-day, the total amount Of school lands
remaining unsold is % $40 491 sores. The
university lands comprIse about 2,oO0,-
600 acres.
Agricultural Commissioner Foster to-
d.y bat On exhibition at MS &c bottle
white SULPHUR water. pronounced as
good a. the Virginia white sulpaur The
Tster was recently discovered in we'll
suuS neNr San MarcCs Tire wells 100 feet
deep aud the white sulphur water rose
from sand he'd 20 4 neig7. Of 40 feet.
The S'ste Comptroller reports the re-
ceipts for the month Of March, and amOEg
them the following: lease Of school
lands, S6i9l; interest f-um ss!e ot school
lsris, S25 492; principal from sale Of
school lsuds, Sl4 972; available lunstic
Nv nm fGnt, 1914; uustrc asylum fund,
Sl047; sales Of public dpmsiR under the
set Of March II, 1887, S4O95.
AUSTIN, TEX April To-day work
men were engaged in the rail- OF Repre-
-ehtAtiYe5 In the temporary capitol put
ling i In order snd brushing aws7 the
tust tlSt accumulated since lss- session.
Tlere were Chartered this morning:
TIE Dua'il FIr AS ci4.Gu Il
Du0liu, Ersth county; c7pitsI stock,
$4,000; nCprp0ra.0rs-C. A Sultn,
: J WesYer, L II Towns nd. J. &. S..
Cisir, J A rlcsIsni, + ". Audruss
and others. Tle MeXla d Strict Alliance
I u KS Lin, s,.ue CouaFv, cspitel,
$4,000; ia0rporstor-, Warren Csn6eId,
I j Red, r Andrews, NJ. REYNOLDS
and others. The Prfry's Landing Steam
Ferry Comp7ny; capital stock, $40 200.
TIE 81 Ohur Springs Lumber Company;
capita stock, S25, 600
The Comptroller TO-DAY inside 3 state-
rIsGt 10 the Governor Il the states d1GD-
Ci1l condition. According TO this tue to-
tsl bonded deOt is s4,232, 100; annual in
teIest, 1886 C62. OF hese bonds $500 0G0
are due IL 1891, being per c. nts;
$500, 900 in 1890, and S467, GOO
in 1891 ami 1892 SIugularly enough
n-re has been DO sinking fund provided o,
TIE t1tkl cash balance IL the TreasuT
August 81 lsss, Was sSSS. go The It a.
c. pts from oil sources VIE 50, 90. -
NJ sipg total of 1898 S72; esnmatet u"
can balance in the S ate Treasury, Au
gus SINK, 81, Is7 $40. 81
AUSTIN, Tx April 3.-Glye-nor Ross e
today received q dispatch from Congress
mau Savers st Washington, saying:
Everything has been satisfactorily az
RAGGED concerning the 81 600 coo awarded
I xIs," snd that the murev RAJ been for
warded by rtmittsnces on New York. Tfs
Governor is much pleased over the result
If the matter.
G ,vsrn0r Ross to-day received letter
from prominent cl'izers concerning the
Wharton county troubles. Tee letter
says that with the Exception of the rela-
lives and intimate friends Ct the men
arrested bv the rargers, charged with
molicI'y N the recent murders, the cit
liens = morally indOTse Governor Ross
ac,Ion in sending the rangers. Those
VINO sigGsd the protest, the letter s,y9. :
did not read If, and after seeing IL 10 p
print became alarmed a IL
The Governor received .Ais morning s.rt
letter frou Elk Governor TlrackmOr.en a.
now in Washington C ty, in the course tccr
which he SAYS; II see from letters an q
receiving that people hsve been writ Eve
to you aoo1. the Indemnity claims. rance
are endeavOring ~ get law enaCted.ts'e
creste S triDuasl before whom own 81
claims cen be tried su1il
rbat will lift the bsr 10 claims not eled
committed PRIOR % December l, 1873.
believe the refUudng law t5x bill (lt
the Tsr) will be passed"
In tie event it should pass the state
will receive 1885,. 600 more from the gen
eral government.
To-day an es innate st the treasury
makes the cash balance to the account #
the general revenue amount 10 81, 450 coo.