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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent. J

rom our lltBuihi SoiiS'p'h'Nh''J
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 1889.
Evidently a revival of the era good
stealing, is expected under the Har-
rison administration, if ono may Judge
by the character of some of the ap~
plicants for positions that are already
in tho field.
Chairman McCrary and majority
of the House Committee on foreign
affairs are said to be III favor of the
adoption of the Monroe doctrine res
olutions, which has been passed by
the Senate. They will be reported
to the House in day or two.
Secretary Bayard says the news
paper accounts of insults to the
American flag in Samoa are greatly
exaggerated, and that the admins
tration has taken all necessary steps
as far us it could under the law, to
protect our interests in that country.
The republicans have succeeded in
passing the Senate tariff bill by q
strict party vote, though it required
some very hard work to do SO, as
several republican Senators are OPP
posed to several sections of the very
one sided measures, and only sup
ported it because they felt certain
that there was no prospect of its ever
becoming a law. Senator Blair open.
" stated that if his vote could have
defeated it, he would have voted
against it. The democratic Senator's
to their honor be il said, voted solid
" against it. 1t now goes to the
House, where it is to be hoped it viii
be buried beyond the hope Of re-
BarrectiOn.
I; is a mistaken idea TO suppose
that women are not the equals Of men
in what is known among horsemen
as staying power The fact Was iul
IL proven this week when the Nation
al Womaus Suffrage Association
held their twenty first annual con
ycn;ioa. II twenty one years s'oIdy
Lammcring away On one thing does
NO. prove thsir saving poser. then I
am no Judge 81 sGch qualities
Tie juiic.lry committee a 60
House viii report q Dab au,u..lr-
tas uat1ra..1lG1u lg. Il Tr1yi5e-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07
Transfers of Real Estate.
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.

NONllNI hOh ishoL W E.lsh'
John G and T Blanks to Boston Bailey,
acres near Kyle, 800.
j NJ Nance to Boston Bailey, If acres on
Plum creek, $3.50.
Nichols u Walker to Davis, 640acres
on Barton creek out of NJ d Raper survey
No. 81, SO and other lands
PIG, f, Stewart, G. b, w III, and Z X
Nichols to j, V. Davis, east half of the Nj
Is Raper survey, on headwnters of Spring
creek, quit claim deed, SO.
II. W. Kelly, attorney for Marth Kelly,
to NJ. o. Kelley, t. acres out of s V r Egg
gleston league, $3.50.
II W Kelly. attorney for John Kelly and
wife, to NJ o Kelly, As acres S V Il Eggle-
ston survey, $50.
VIM. OarhGugh to II W Kolly, half in
terest III 60 acres $ Il Esgloston survey,
$50.
A. S. Burleson to James Smith, 80 acres
Geo. Metz survey, No. 80, 81 500.
Chas. HutchiuGs and wife to CT, W. Don
Alison, ono third interest i'll lot five, block
20, fronting public square, San Marcos,
So, 300.
d II Cocreham to Otto Groos, u acres
out of z. Hinton survey No. II, 500
Sam Il Johnson & wife to Il i Walling
40 acres ont of S V r EGgloston league,
ind 1870 acres out of L d Gervais league,
$500.
r P Ellison and wife to Gid G Johnson,
2Oi acres Thomas G McGeLee headlight
and II acres out OF the NJ Veremendi
league No. >. $1,000
Yhos. G McGehce and wife to George It,
McGehee, half interest in POO acres of the
Thos. G MoGehee headlight, $l,S7G.
NJ II Howard to Mary L Howard, 50 acres
on Barton creek, 500,
S VI Hopping and wife to Z P Hnlgler,
1000 acres VIM. Porter headlight, 81 800.
II L Todd aud wife to II L Brown, IS
acres out of VIM. Hemphill survey, release
Of notes for 81 400
C Wetzel and wife to B NJ Hubbard jr.,
lots G, and blk town of Kyle, 81, 200.
Is NJ Hubbard and wife to L Bruunsch-
wig, lots 6, ane s, blk Z, town of Kyle,
$3.50,
en- Brown and wife to H G Wallace, OF
No in block 80, town of Kyle, $500.
IL P Ellison and wife to 9 X Armstrong,
acres out Of the NJ Veremendi survey
No 2, $40
ia Wren, sheriff, to w J Good, LIS
acres. Amelia Wilson league, $2l.95.
w j Good to II G. Williams, l.719 acres,
Amelia Wilson league, S144.
W r McKie and wife to Dan MeKie, IN
divided half interest in 30 acres Veremendi
league, $1,000
w Ii Godiu and wife to w d Wood and
Jcre Horn, lot No ., block No 3, Cofield's
addition to San Marcos $3.50.
TW Caldwell and N X Farios to Geo II
Snyder 5i2 acres 7 J Chambers league, n
acres snme survey, ZIG acres, John Will
liams league, 80, 200.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07
Colorado County Alliance.

We copy the following resolutions
adopted at late meeting of said AL.
lance. They cover points which are
worth considering:
Resolved, That we are opposed to
lobbios on principle, and recommend
that the county Alliance pay nothing
for the support of one proposed.
Resolved, further, That instead we
put the following demands in the
hands Of our senator and representa-,
tive, with the request that they usc
their best endeovor to have them made
into laws:
Whereas, There is an effort to be
made at the next session of the state
legislature TO fasten on the people OF
Texas q large bonded debt, ostensibly
to make public roads; therefore be it
Resolved, by the Colorado Farmers
Alliance, That We condemn the issue
Of bonds for said purpose; but be
heye that the state convicts should be
used for that purpose, and n tax be
levied on property to meet the neces
sary expenses in putting all public
roads in the state by the state in good
condition.
Resolved. That we condemn any
laws governing railways whose exc
cutions are entrusted 10 n commission
but We wish oil railroad laws 10 b,
made general laws, TO be enforced IL
all courts Of justice in the state.
Resolved, That We favor the re
duction Of interest from u per cent
TO S per cent, and from 5 per cent
10 6 per cent
Resolved. That we favor the pas
sage Of a law that shall force al own
ers Of money due o. payable 70 I'm
der tie same for taxes, on penalty 4
forfeiture 10 the party who Owls Dr.
r be reports il 10 the proper ofioer.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07
The Road Question.

We find in last weeks Times the
following article by our friend Capt
McLendon, OF Dripping Springs
II seems 10 us rather knock'down
argument in favor Of toll system of
making and keeping up good roads
He makes it quite clear, at any rate,
that no other system is 80 we'll adapt
ed to the wants OF the body Of the
people Of Hays county. BY this plan
those who use any road the most
would have TO puy tho most OF tho
expenses, which is certainly just.
Capt. McLendon says
In your issue OF the 9Th, under the
head Of "Road Reform" find this
sentence. awe abhor tolls" BY
tho pronoun 1--WE" in this instance, /
suppose you mean the people at
large. This may be true. Anyway
| will neither deny or affirm, yet the
toll system may be best, and more
nearly approach exact Justice than
any other system OF taxation, thdt
could DO devised for matchmaking
our most important roads.
Toll is q tax, and it is a pay as you
20. 1t accumulates no interest to
pav annually, with the principal
hanging like pail over industry.
The man who hauls his produce
or merchandise over turnpike road
is benefited by the extra weight he
can haul, and the time he saves by
increased speed,-he is the one who
should pay the tax. He pays then
and there, while best uble TO do SO.
Suppose we make our roads by
issuidg county roads. We will be-
gin first, by way of example, and
build road in the N. w. part of
Hays county, say 30 much of the
Austin and Blanco road as passes
through Hays. The whole of the
tax payers would have to pay for
this road, but what proportion OF
them do you think would use it!
This reasoning you say is unfair.
The commissioners OF Hays Co.
would never do such an absurd thing.
Well let us got nearer home then.
You say in tho article above referred
to, 1--WE maintain that good roads
centering upon San Marcos, would
be of more vital Importance to our
people, (San Marcos people?) than
many of the railroad systems Grant
ed, and lot us make one to San Mar
cos. More trade goes there from
Caldwell Co., probably than from all
Hays. We will therefore, as one OF
the most important to our people,
macadamize road from the Caldwell
Go. line to San Marcos.
How many citizens OF Hays Go,
would travel or use that road? Would
there be over fifty or the half of them
regularly? Yet the bonds that made
that road, with the interest accrulrg,
would be paid by the whole people.
If YOU say this is not a fair way to
put it, then we will mecadamize both
of the roads mentioned, and that ey-
cry body may be Accommodated, we
will make for San Marsos roads to
Guadalupe and Blanco counties, and
to Travis if need be. For Kyle we
will mocalamize roads to Caldwell
and Blanco counties, with one for
Buda somewhere? Then L would
ask, should we be able to place the
bonds necessary to make these roads.
Where would we got find emigrants
to settle up q county so deeply in
debted as Hays county would be?
This road problem is a complex
one, but we can all criticize, find fault
and ask questions, and in doing SO
may be solution find.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

We regret to learn of the death OF
P. II. Ward, Esq, prominent attor-
ney of San Antonio, who was well
known to many of our citizens. Mr..
Ward had lost his eyesight, being
entirely blind, and had gone to New
York to have cataracts removed,
which was SUCCESSFULLY done and his
sight restored. Two days later he
was taken with pneumonia and died.
A pathetic case.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

Our representative, VIM. Clemens,
occupies several very important posi-
tions in the House. On the commit
tee he is chairman of Commerce and
Manufactury; End on the list of Inter
national Improvement, and further
member of committee on Cities and
Towns, Mining and Mineralogy, and
the Finance committee. On the lat
ter committee We will venture the as,
sertion he has no superior, being one
of the best financiers in the state.
--Blanco City.News
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

Acorrespondentof the Times-Dem-
Graf, writing from Catahoula parish,
says: The low prices Of cotton is the
cause of the increased stock rising in
our parish. The Farmers Union
and Alliance, having in view tho les
sens inculcated by the Grange, has
been enabled to moro thoroughly dis
cipline our farmers and educate them
in the practical, business like meth
dds of farming.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

About 2 o'clock on the Goth ult. the
fine residence or Mrs, Reynolds in
Bastrop was burned, and her son,
Mr.. G. W. Maynard, OK district clerk
of Bastrop county, was burned with
it, his mother and sister not being
able to arouse him. The house was
very combustible, being OF cedar, and
q strong wind blowing at the time
A shocking affair.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

Texas is great state, but Wlscon-
sin, with little more than one-fourth
of the area of Texas and admitted in
to the Union three years later, has an
assessed value equal to that of this
state, only two congressman less, and
two thirds of our railroad milenge
AS Texas is four times as large as
Wisconsin it would seem that Texas
ought to have four times as many
people and four times as much wealth
rs Wisconsin, especially as we have n
soil and n climate so much superior.
Fort Worth Gazette.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07
"DOlph IIeyliger,"

Tho third OF tho series OF lrvlngs
stories, begins on our first page 1t
is considerably longer than the 9th
ers, and while much less known to
readers, will be found equally inter
esting. We can supply tho back
numbers from tho beginning.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

Speaking of the reelection of Coke,
the Galveston News happily says:
The "heart of oak fellows must
have lost their spectac,es. A year or
80 ago they were going to read Coke
out of the democratic party, but they
failed to read last Tuesday.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

Col. ABNER TAYLOR, Of Texas CAPT
.tol fame, was interviewed the other
day on the subject Of deep water,
and declared his implicit preference
for the mouth of the BrazoS, He
says it would be the making OF San
Antonio. He said nothing about
Aransas Pass.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07
Marriage Licenses

Since our last report, January 3, 1889:
Raves Espenosa and Juana Morris.
Leon Handspeath and Fannie Skaggs.
w. u. Uranium and Alice NJ. Ryder.
James Z. Parr and Mrs. Emma Williams.
H. j. Haste and Mavor Polling.
Albert W. Lock and Mrs Lizzie Roland.
Albert l.. Connell and Mrs. Matte Jor.
Ter
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

Po.rr,vrLY no communication published unless
Abe writer's real name accompanies H. not Tor pub
pe.,Ion uuls.. desired bu, for our own eeheh'
and protection,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07
Patents Granted,

To citizens Of Texas during the past week,
and reported for this paper by c. 4. Snow
& Co. Washington, ID. q.
G. r. Butler, Alliance, Wire tightener.
J. Clark Tyler, Radial tube boiler. J. 4.
johnson. Austin, Artist eassl,s II. S. Nun
gsr, Dallas, Saw gin.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

AL co..vslosrroS' for the fArs Passes should b
..n, in on Monday 10 insure insertion the came
,eek, aud al advertisements aud business notices
moi later than Wednesday noon,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

Okla hcrars
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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-02-07

Nothing is happening and nothing
is going to happen until the begin
ming of
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-08
lOUISIANA'S EX.TREASuRRR

Anxious to Face His misunderstanding
Under Circumstances that DGtain Him.
LONDON, Oct. 7.-Mr. F. A. Burke, ex.
Treasurer OF Louisiana, who sailed from
Liverpool for New York on tho steamer
Teutonic, but disembarked on the arri.
val OF the steamer ut Queenstown and
returned to London, says that when he
arrived at Queenstown he found await.
ing him there number OF kilograms
from Mr.. Matthew Robins, his London
agent, insisting that he return To attend
to negotiations relating to his Central
American and other properties, which
Mr.. Robins said we're iinp1rilled through
the haste in which he had taken in bis
departure. Mr.. Burke says that he also
received cable dispatches from his prin.
Cipal In New York who likewise urged
hun to remain and complete his business
In England or to put II In a safe way for
completion. Mr.. Burke sent his family.
on the Teutonic, and says that lie will
expedite the business connected with
his American trusts and transfer his
powers Of attorney, etc. Both Mr..
Robins and himself, Mr.. Burke declares,
are confident TINT they will complete all
their arrangements aud put everything
In order 80 that Mr.. Burke can sail
within week.
Mr.. Burke says he has not had single
communication from the State officials OF
Louisiana. Referring to the alleged
confession Of the reporter Stanshury to
the effect that he had pledged illegal
bonds for him, Mr.. Burke says: Can
anyone credit his employing a lad, a
junior employe on his paper, as trusted
conldant. He never employed STAINS
bury in any confidential business. Mr..
Burke says he trusts ho will succeed
after his return to the United States In
discovering how the illegal bonds got
about. He declines, meanwhile, to
mako the slightest suggestion directing
suspicion toward any one. He declares
that the Attorney Gaueral OF Louisiana
aud the others directing tho inquiry are
animated by political anlmosity, and lo
eagerly awaits the moment when he will
confront them In New Orleans. Time
after time during the course Of the
interview MIR. Burke recurred In OK.
cited and energetic terms to his anxiety
TO fACe his aSsailants at the earliest pos.
siblO moment. He iS iretting under the
disadvantage entailed by his absence
| from America.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-08
PROlllDIilON DEFEATED.



Connecticut Votes Down the Amendment.
How tho Australian ballot Worked.
HARfroRD, COM, Oct 7.-Returns
from towns that cast more than two.
thirds Of the state vote last year show
that the vote on the proliibitory amend.
nent 10 about three to ono against II.
These towns alone gave an aggregate
majority Of twenty thousand against the
amendment. Only ten towns 80 far re.
ported paveita majority. In tue principal
cities The vote was; Hartford, 1,0l0 yes,
32O3 nor New Haven, 1913 yes, 0,OSl
no bridgeport, O2O yes, 2,3S3 no, Tue
secret ballot law received lts first trial.
There was no excitement at the polls,
but the election was In general quiet.
The plan worked surprisingly well.
Hartford county complete gave 1000 for
tho amendment and 10, 23i against II,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-08
GEORGES LIHUYHNAIl
Discouses on the Single Tax
Theory in Chicago,
IT'S A CURE FOR ALL THE ILLS
That AtllIct Our Economic System,
He says-He Takes u Gloomy
View Of Things and Predicts
a Terrible Crisis.

CHIcAGo, Oct, 7,-Judge James G.
Mcguire, Of San Francisco, for some
years a prominent figure in California
Democratic politics, and more recently
distinguished as Henry Georges chief
lieutenant on the Pacific coast, Is in the
city, the guest OF the ChlcagoSingle Tax
Club, He delivered an address on the
single tax question here this evening.
In the course Of an interview this after
noon he said, "The adoption ot the sim
gle tax is, in my opinion, destined to he
the next great step in the order Of social
evolution, The times are ripe iorit aud
the thinking men Of the world are being
attracted toward 1t, What the world Of
industry and commerce now wants Is
irrer access to the sources Of wealth pro-
duCtion. Discoveries and inventions
within the last lorty-iive years have in
creased the average wealth producing
power OF man more than eleven.iold,
"Fhis enormous displacement OF In
bor," continued the Judge, "has been
OF immense advantage TO the world, but
the great masses oil the laboTing people
have not adequately shared the advance,
because land monopoly has cut of the
natural opportunities for self employ.
ment, and their displacement by labor
saving machinery has forced into
the labor market surplus millions to
compete for the remaining places, and
such new places as stimulated enter
prises might create, with the alternative
OF beggary or starvation In case OF failure.
"Under such conditions the tendency
OF wages has naturally been toward tho
starvation standard, and the lAborers,
not successful IN finding employment
have been transformed into mighty ar
niles OF tramps aud paupers, such Us no
previous age in the world has ever
known. These con litions have nat
urally produced strikes, hoycotts and in.
clpient revolutions throughout the civ.
iliEed dworld-all substantially unsuCcess-
iul, but all tending to aud preparing the
different classes, trades and CalliDgs now
acting separately for the certain terrible
crisis, when, maddened by constant in
justice and previous failures, these
classes will rise together like human
tigers to destroy their civilization which,
to them, hos been 80 harsh.
"Hhete people have a real grievance,
which the friends OF modern Individual
ism must ASCERTAIN and remove, or they
must be prepared ut no distant day To
fall into the gulf oi state socialism to-
ward which all Of our present wealth
and labor combinations are directly and
rapidly tending,
against this tendency toward social
ism the single tax Ia the only rational
barrier which is being raised"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-08

ISpfAxApoLis, lSpa Oct, 1.-THE Sc
Cret service officers ralded gang Of
counterteiters south Of this city yester.
day aud captured Isaac Reynolds, John
Lucas and j. NJ. MGBido the latter an
old offender, and his coniederates,
farmers. After the capture Lucas house
was searched and the mold and $l40 In
spurious coin were found. The gang has
been making $40 gold" coins, mud a
number OF them have been put ln CirCu'
latlon III this city aud johnson county.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-08
TERRIFIC STORM.
Vessels Wrecked In Lake Huron and soy
ernt Lives Lost,


Vessels Wrecked In Lake Huron and Sew.
orat Lives Lost.
CnIcAdo, Oct. 7.-Dlspatches from
several points report a terrific storm on
Lake Huron yesterday. 1t is feared that
several vessels have gone down. Al
Sand Beach, Mich, several vessels put
in Saturday night, Yesterday a huge
sea struck the propeller diego, smashed
in the port rail and instantly killed Mate
Thomas NJ. Fisher. Wheclsman Thos
Rowland Of the propeller was killed
during the storm. While the vessel was
in Saginaw Bay laboring in u heavy sea
the wheel got away from the mate and
wheelsman, and tho latter was instantly
killed. Every spike Of the wheel was
broken when in It's rapid revolutions II
struck his head. The schooner Magru.
der, laden with lumber, was driven
ashore In Sand Beach harbor. A dis
patch reports the steamer Viking
aground on st. Clair flats and the steali
barge Glasgow on Pelee Island. The
Wave, one Of the Glasgow's consorts,
was run down and sunk by the schooner
j. D. Sawyer. The cook, a woman, was
drowned.
Adispatch from Port Huron says many
vessels put in badly damaged. and several
are reported ashore at different points.
The big steamer Chemung arrived in
Port Huron last evening. Her Captain
reports that the Chemung's air pump
burst In the morning. The steamer
driited in the trough Of the sea and
shifted her cargo. She arrived at Port
Huron almost on her beam ends.
Tho vessels report black three masted
steam barge, with one large smoke stack
ashore ut White Rock. Both think 1t Il
the Rhode, Emily or the EscanRba, o
the Owen line. No fatalities have so fal
been reported, except those mentioned
above.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-08
TnR cIIINEsl QUESTION
tho Engllsh to Considerable

BOtlicrinR the English to u Considerable
Degree.
LONDON, Oct. 7.-Remoustrances are
being received from eminent men in tho
Dominion, protesting against the re-
moval Of the restrictions now In force
against Chinese oimmigation into Canada.
The matter has aggravated the provin-
cinl wrath, already sufficiently aroused
by the sealing sauabble, To the highest
pitch, and nlluentialmelDbers Of PArlia-
mCnt are already being appealed to to
oppose the removal OithG barrier agalnsy
Chinese invasion at the next session OF
Parliament.
On the other hand, merchants at the
open Chinese ports have informed the
Government that unless the Chinese are
treated as human beings by England the
latter can have no grounds for complaint
II determinations are made against her
subjects that will have crushing effect
upon the trade OF England with the
celestial empire. The English colonists
at Hong Kong and other ports are
wealthy and Influential, and will spare
no trouble and expense to put the ques-
tion before Parliament Ia the most ia-
vofable light.
The English ut home, not being
brought into contact with the Chinese
in any appreciahle numbers, are not
aware how Objectionable they are In
many respects ab neighboTs.