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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07

hitting Mexican lead ores into Texas
free of duty. The ruling, however, is
a good thing for Laredo's smelling
works:
ASPEN, Pitkin County, COLI
October "a, 1899.
At the Republican county conven-
ton held at this place October %,
1899, the following resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, The secretary of the
treasury has made a ruling admitting
Mexican lead ores into this country
free of duty, thus throwing our mines
and miners into direct competition
with the Mexican peon, who lives
upon from 80 to so cents per day;
and,
Whereas, His vacillating and un-
certain action in handling this ques-
ton shows him to be a man of en-
tirely too little force OF character to be
an associate of such statesmen as our
honorable secretary of state, or that
venal influences have affected him in
this decision, and,
Whereas, His action in not increas-
ing the coinage of silver (having full
authority to do so, and the wants OF
trade clearly showing that 1T is a
necessity at this time) convinces us
that he is clearly under the influence
of, and tool of the Wall street pow
ers that be, and antagonistic to the
best interests of the people; it is
Resolved, That this convention OF
representative Republicans of Pitkin
county, one of the greatest silver pro-
ducing counties in the United States,
call upon the president to remove MIR.
Window and place man there who
would not be influenced by the capital
lists whose interests in these matters are
directly against those of the people,
and one who would redeem the pledge
of the Republican party to the labor
ing men of this country in the last
campaign.
Resolved, That copy of these res
olutions be furnished the president OF
the United States and the governors
of all western and southern states.
In compliance with the wish of the
convention l have the honor to trans
nit to you the above resolutions.
Ed. F. BROWNE,
Chairman Republican County Com
mittee.
To the Honorable Governor of Texas
Austin, Tex.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07

! 1t has at last been acknowle .ged
at DIR. Thurmond's Lone Star Ca
ttarrh Cure is the peer Of all catarrh
remedies by some of the best physi-
clans in the United States. Try it,.
For sale by Alexander & Cornwell, 219
East Pecan street.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07
CONTROLLERS DEPARTMENT.
From Saturdays Daily.l
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.

The governor yesterday received the
following resolutions passed up in Col
orado, and from their tone 1T is evident
that the patriotic Republicans up there
are disgruntled over the ruling per-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07
STATE DEPARTMENT.

Austin, Tex.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The following foreign charters were
filed in the office of the secretary of
state yesterday:
The Edinburg American Land Mort
gage company, of Great Britain; CAPT
tal stock $2,500y000
The Orr & Lindsey Shoe company,
of st. Louis; capital stock $4,000
The Kaufman Milling Company, of
St. Louis; capital stock $350,000.
The Monk Manufacturing company,
of St. Louis; capital stock $4,000.
The Platt and Thornburgh Paint
and Glass company, of st. Louis cap
ital stock 100000.
The Milus Boot and Shoe company,
of st. Louis capital stock 10000.
The Times Publishing company, OF
Paris, Tex. capital stock $4,000. In
corporators James M, Baird, ]. I.
Berry and ]. H. Campbell.
The Hallettsville Schutzen Verein
filed an amendment increasing the
number Of directors.
The Vernon Artesian Well Water
company; capital stock, $4,000. In
corporators: d. A. Turner, L. X.
Richardson and s. w. Lomax.
The receipts at the office of the sec
rotary of state last month reached
$9,60240.
CONTROLLERS DEPARTMENT.
Comptroller Mccall deposited the
following sums for the month OF Octo
ber:
Available school fund-Lease OF
lands, $170.14; interest on land sales
$44 ,345.
Permanent school fund-Principal on
land sales, $50,855.
University and asylum and public
domain, 1926.
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
For the month of November the
county will receive from the state
school fund $840.70 and the city
S6OO60. Last month the county go
1,177.26 and the city $84O.84. Only
a small balance is left from the origin
al appropriation OF $22, 429 to the coun
ty and $16,0l6 to the city.
From Saturdays Daily.]
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
There was nothing of public i'm
| portance in the governors Office yes
terday.
LAND OFFICE.
Land Commissioner Hall reports
lind sales for October as follows:
Public schools ...........,.......... 49,6S
| University ...............'''.''. ~ ~
Blind asylum ..........."...." ~
Deaf and Dumb asylum ...... 16
Timber. .,..............' ...'..''' l''o
Total. ...................'.. ol'oo
For the year ending August 81
sales were az follows:
Public schools .............."..... .o3oOt
University ................-..-... oo,Uz
AsN lums ................... l5,65
Timber. -. ...................... l,4o
Total. ................. .6I4.So
Leases for September were as fol
lows:
Public schools. .....................s I9e,et
University ....................., $40
For October leases we're:
Schools ...................... >luo'aa
University ....................... u
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The following charters were filed
the Office of the secretary of state yei
terday:
: The Geo. d. Barnard and Compan,
of Illinois; capital stock, 500, 900.
The Trask Fish company, OF Mi
souri,; capital stock, $4,000.
q The Charles Schmidt Toy and N
| ton COMPANY, of Missouri; capt
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07

Plow handles and beams, pillow
clevises, singletrees and doubletrees,
axes, barb wire and staples, at
BENGENER's,
5l0Cong. ave.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07

When Baby va sick we gsve Cas.;,fia,
when she was a clllld. sue cried for castoria.
When she became Miss. she chung 70 csstoria,
wbsz she had Children. sns gee them castoril
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07
STATE DEPARTMENT.

The following charters were filed in
the Office of the secretary of state yes
terday:
The Geo. d. Barnard and Company,
of Illinois; capital stock, 5000 900.
The Trask Fish company, OF Mis-
souri,; capital stock, $4,000.
The Charles Schmidt Toy and No
ton company, of Missouri; capital
stock, $37 600.
The Martin Clothing company, Of
Missouri; capital stock, 100000.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07

Hay knives, grain scoops, Eagle
turning plows, Enterprise meat chop
pers, steel rim and mortise locks, at
BENGENER's,
$40 Congress avenue.
Eagle turning plows, equal to any
in the market, at BENGENER's,
$40 Cong. ave.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07

The Van Calvert Point c,mpany, Of
Missouri; capital stock, 100000.
The Schwerltman Toy company, of
Missouri; capital stock, $45, 600.
The John O'Brien Boiler Works
company, OF Missouri; capital stock,
100000.
The ]. E. Bowler Iron and Wire
works, of Detroit; capital stock, $780,
900.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07
coMprRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.

The Texas and Pacific railroad yes
terday paid $4,54S interest and III ,5l6
sinking fund.
The Texas Mexican railroad sent in
their annual report yesterday;
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07

hitting Mexican lead ores into Texas
free OF duty. The ruling, however, is
good thing for Laredo's smelling
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
SIGNS OF A HARD WINTER.

A Rural Weather Prophets Predictions and
What They Are Based On.
New York star.I
"We are going to have an early fall and
a long, cold, hard winter" remarked Sam
uel Lovelace, an old Jersey farmer, to
several friends at the New Washington
Market yesterday.
"How do you figure that out?" asked
one of the marketmen.
''In the first place." the Jerseyman re-
piled, 'just try the skin Of any of your
fruit. You will find your apples and
peaches and grapes, and all your fruit, for
that matter, which is homegrown. with a
thicker and tougher skin than you have
seen for several years. That is one of the
indications. That is the way nature takes
care of her products. Last winter apples
and other fruits were so thin-skinned and
tender that it was hard to gather them
without bruising them, if you will. remem-
ber, and we had an extraordinary m lid
winter.
Corn is another of natures signboards.
The ears this year are protected by thicker
and stronger husks than have seen before
for years, and talking with farmers up in
Pennsylvania 1 find it is the same way.
Wheat and rye straw are tougher, hay is
wirier and seed pods are better protected
than usual. These are old farmers signs,
and they are good ones, because they don't
come from any moon-planting superstition,
but from actual observation year after year
by a class of men whose interests lie in
keeping close watch of all of natures
moods
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08

more than two children out of that. The
people are very nice looking, and exceed
ingly polite. There is
NOT HORSE
on the island, and many of the people have
never seen one; and there are only five cows,
the Governor owning two OF those. The
people use goats and sleeps milk. Ny
husband has met here an old gentleman
he met on the Elbe two years ago, Captain
Ralf, from Detroit He owns one of the
lines of steamboats, there. His son-in-law,
Mr.. Burt, is with him. and they have been
very kind to us. The Captain was born
here, and came here few years ago nearly
dead with catarrh, and is now entirely
cured. He owns "villa" here, and is
spoken of as the "rich American" He is a
very fine old man. Last evening Mr.. Burt
took us to the theater, and it was very good,
as the actors were from Hamburg. Tonight
there is ball, where the natives all dance
once a week in costume.
Sunday evening we went to the Clubhouse,
to the ball, and the music was so grand
could hardly sit still. The Germans dance
Just the same. There are great variety of
people here, some very nice, a great many
very fast looking. have seen some very
pretty girls, and few pretty dresses. Their
clothes are quite as modern as ours. The
people 60 across every morning to an island
a mile away, in boats, to bathe. l have not
gone over yet The stores here are filled
with the usual glm-cracks - nothing to
tempt one. However, we will remain here
about ten iaYs, then 60 to Hamburg and
Berlin. M.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08

right could be dispensed with. 1t is so
warm, clinging easy, and stands such hard
wear that Il is of all others the dress for
outings, for prairie walks and mountain
scrambles, gardening and hard usage gener-
ally. 1t is the sanitary dress, above all
others, made of elastic, all-wool jersey stuff,
delightful for cool autumn wear.
AT A DIFFERENT RESORT.
Before reaching this favored island it was
my luck to spend few days at hosteIiy
of another sort close to huge summer gar
den, the daily resort of shoals of excursion
lists. / stayed because not strong enough to
get farther, but the study of the average
American society fascinated by its hideous-
ness, as long as one could not get away from
it. Such unrelieved vulgarity, en- masse, I
never saw before. Money seemed plenty,
the people were well-to-do small manufact-
urers and business men with their families
or the inevitable young fellow" and
his "girl, who might be wife
or sweetheart. The women dressed
well enough, with abundance Of cheap
bracelets and Rhinestone eardrops, a good
deal of jet and moire, and common en-
broidery. There had been money enough
spent on them, evidently. and I have seen
women far worse inexpensively dressed who
looked pretty as pinks, but these women
could not hit their own style at all. Their
gowns had the look of ready-made things, of
being manufactured from unstable rem
nants, and rafled for. The dresses were
trying, but endurable, compared to the man.
ners which went with them.
SHIRLEY DARE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
ABUSY DAY FOR THE WASP.
A Surprising Amount of Work Performed
By an Industrious Insect.

A Surprising Amount of Work Performed
By an Industrious Insect.
New York Start
There is a circular flower bed in City Hall
Park situated directly beneath big button
wood tree on the Broadway side. Yesterday
the attention of passersby was attracted by
the actions of big black ''sand" or dirt"
wasp. The wasp was digging hole in the
ground beneath broad leaf. The hole was
evidently intended for nest. After having
selected the site for his future abode and egg
repository the wasp commenced operations
by removing small quantities of earth with
his Jaws. This earth the wasp carried away
and hid in the grass about four feet away.
The wasp worked very rapidly, and in
surprisingly short time mad burrowed out
quite a hole. During these boring opera
tions the insect, in order to give the hole
perfect shape, kept his body continually
moving round and round, and continuously
ducking his head in and out. In the
meantime, he kept his wings moving with
a jerky, angry motion. The hole thus
made was about three-eighths of an inch in
diameter. After working in this industri-
GUS manner for nearly half an hour, the
wasp had burrowed out quite deep hole.
His work seemed lighter when he got some
distance below the surface, for he fairly
forced the loose dirt up out Of the hole in a
tiny stream.
In short time the wasp left the hole and
took away the little pile of loose sand from
the mouth of the hole. In one of his jour
news he ran across a small shaving. He
turned it over and over repeatedly, and after
satisfying himself, apparently, that it
would suit his purpose, he seized it in his
Jaws and carried it to the mouth of the hole.
He carefully placed the little shaving over
the hole. Then he piled little mound of
sand upon the chip.
Later in the day the same wasp seized
worm and dragged it to the den he had
built in the morning. When the hole was
reached the wasp relinquished his prey
for a moment, removed the shaving from
the mouth of his den and then sprang into
the hole. In a few moments he came back
and again seized the squirming worm, which
was slowly crawling away. Walking back
ward, the wasp dragged the worm into the
hole He soon reappeared and Immediately
began shoveling sand and little pebbles
down upon his capture. He then replaced
the door again, covered it with sand, took to
his wings and few away.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
A GIANT AMONG FLOWERS.
Description of a Floral Wonder That Bloom

Description of Floral Wonder That Blooms
in London Garden.
Frank Leslie's Weekly.I
A floral wonder recently unfolded itself
in the water lily tank at Kew Gardens,
London, opposite the famous Victoria Regia.
1t was gigantic aroid, which was discoy-
cred in 1878 by DR.. o. Beccari, the italian
botanist, in Sumatra. The tuber of one of
these enormous flowers which Beccari took
up was nearly 8 feet in circumference, and
while two men were carrying it they fell
and the tuber was broken. He tried to pro-
cure others, and meanwhile, in 1873, for
warded some seeds. which were planted.
They were shaped like an olive, bright red.
and Il inches long. A Seeding year and
hall old was presented to Kew Gardens.
Year by year it demanded larger and larger
pot. What was thought to be the trunk
finally proved to be a 10-foot leaf-stalk, and
the three branches as thick as a mans
thigh were veins or ribs OF leaf yards
long. Last March the bulb was repotted.
and measured feet inches in circumfer.
ence, foot 6 inches in diameter, 10 inches
in depth and weighed 81 pounds. Early in
May the flower bud began to push, growing
an inch day the first week, two inches the
second week, then three inches, until in the
second week of June it swelled almost visi-
bly,.
Finally the head of the object began to
uncurl, showing a deep maroon lining with
a great toothed rim. The stature of this
giant flower. from head to foot was feet
inches. The spathe was feet deep and
feet across, the spadi1 feet long and 10
inches in diameter at the base, narrowing to
a point greenish in the early stage, turning
l-n !
spathe was of blush maroon with velvet
like sheaf indescribaSly beautiful, turning
over at the edges beautifully white and
crumpled. The odor, however. was simply
vile, filling the entire atmosphere with an
stencil.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
AN EXTRAORDINARY CATCH.
A Chicago Fisherman of Truthful Antece

A Chicago Fisherman of Truthful Antece.
dents Lands Whole Menagerie.
Chicago Herald.l
Thomas D. Snydar, in the Illinois Bank
Building, is fisher of men, enticing them
to bite at his real estate Office. He hasn' t
had rod in his hands since he played
truant at school. Still he has friend who,
he says, was fishing in an Illinois river a
short time ago when he caught 16-pound
pickerel. "That is not so extraordinary, Z"
continued the good natured real estate man.
"Just as large fish have been caught before,
and will be again. But 1 am assured by
him that when he opened that fish he found
it had swallowed a muskallonge weighing
nine pounds. Opening the muskallonge he
found in its stomach a four-pound black
bass inside of whose stomach was a IL
pound yellow bass, which in turn had
swallowed a half-pound sun fish, and inside
the latter was beautiful ruby-throat hum
ming bird, not yet dead. Indeed he has it
at home in beautiful little cage, where it
huns happily all the day long.
All the fish were as sound as though life
had not been extinct, and from the fact that
that humming bird was yet alive and itbeIng
the first of the crowd that was swallowed, 1t
would seem that all this extraordinary
swallowing, winding up with the capture of
the pickerel, must have been within the
space of seven minutes" While Mr.. S.
declined to verify the statement in all its
particulars, he said his informant is the son
of preacher and born in Breathitt county,
Kentucky, either of which distinctions
ought to be sufficient proof of his veracity
and his character for truth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
QUEER PEOPLE AT ROTELS. .
One Man ForRets His Name and Another Is
Afraid to Register.

One Wan F0rRets His Name and Another Is
Afraid to Register.
Hotel Clerk, in Chicago Herald.l
"Once in while we have a queerer char
acter even than usual to deal with. ONLY
yesterday fine looking man, whom I after
ward found to be distinguished scientist,
couldn't for the life of him think of his
own name when he came to sign it on the
register. The general run of queer custo-
mers comes from the agricultural districts.
A big city hotel is revelation and a terror
to him. Everything in and about first
class caravansary surprises and scares him
everything except the dining-room-there
he is very much, too much at home. Even
the first act of signing the register is seri-
Gus and awful thing to him. To him the
signing of his name, besides being an act of
mental and physical difficulty, is, in his
mind ever connected with judgment notes,
mortgages, lawsuits and foreclosures.
''The meekest and easiest to satisfy of all
whom hotel clerk meets is the typical
western cowboy. The tougher he is on the
plains the meeker he is here. The muzzle
Of loaded Colt placed against his temple
wouldn't make him turn half so pale as the
sight Of pen and ink thrust toward him.
He is out of his element then and appre-
ciates it without the slightest effort at dis
guise."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08

Renarkabls verdIcis That Wsrs Base.
Upon rriori Reasenins.

Renarknbls yerdIci. That Wsrs Based
Upon n PriorI Reasenlns.
London Giobe.l
There is the story Of the DeYonshirs jury
1--WE believe aufhentic-who tried man
for stealing hay found hlm guilty. adding
as rider that they didn't think the pris-
oner done it, but there's been lot taken
hereabouts by someone" Then, too, there
is the famous Cornish jury, which began its
deliberations on q murder case, where the
prisoner was accused Of having killed his
mother by putting poison in her supper Of
"a rabbit smothered in onions" (" BY the fore
man saying: swell, gentlemen, I suppose
were all agreed that he did it?"
The remark having received general A.
sent, the following comments are said to
have been made: For myself j can't
see what business an old woman had 10 20
eating rabbit smothered in onions at that
time Of night" "Serves her ri1ht for he
ing so foolish" II haven't touched q RIB
bit smofhered in onions for years. nor don't
want to. /" 81 hate the stuff
After many such observations. a iuror
finally remarked, 'Well, the woman's dead.
and hanging him won't bring her to life. y
remark greeted with approval, and with
the clInching query, Then suppose its
Not guilty. gentlemen" and 'Not
guilty" it was.
If We cross the Irish Channel, such in
stances could. Of course, be multiplied .
hundredfold. As it is. we viii take leave
OF the subject by recalling to our readers
minds the legend Of the Irish jury, who, in
spite OF the fact that case of mistaken
identity had been proved, insisted on q ver-
dict Of Guilty Of arson" because. as one
OF them said,-"Sure, your Honor, it'svery
IKE to De the man that stole my grey mare
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
A METROPOLITAN MOUSE.
He Lives on Broadway and Conducts a Very
Thriving Business.
New York Herald

New York Herald
He resides on Broadway, between Nine
teenth and Twentieth streets, and does a
thriving business in the show window of a
large upholstery house. Every day when
the lavender tinted blind is dropped this
little mouse comes out and runs along the
lower edge between The glass and the cur
tain, digging up flies with its tiny claws
and then sitting on his hind feet munches
them as squirrel would MUNICH hickory
nut. Meanwhile he blinks out at the pas
sers by in utmost indifference.
People often step up to the window and
take near view of the busy chap, but be
doesn't mind it in the least, seeming to
know that no one would break the largest
pane of plate glass on Broadway for a mere
mouse Almost any day after six and
every Sunday this little fellow may be seen
haTing jolly good feast of dainty flies that
have dined on the tapestry painted fruit of
the richly upholstered furniture.
For months he has enjoyed himself right
in sight of all Broadway, yet his age can
only be guessed at, for such life of secu-
rity and plenty would keep wrinkles off
for years.