The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-10-17
STATE CAPITOL.
NEwSY NOTES PICKED UP In THE
STATE DEPARTMENTS
YESTERDAY.
Items of Interest for the People and Official
Figures and Opinions for
County Officials.
From Sundays Daily.l
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.

1nere was nOtnlng OF puDlC interest In
the governors office yesterday; The usual
batch of applications for pardons were re-
ceived, and Maj. Holems will cheerfully
arrange them in proper shape for examine
ton by the executive. 1t is a pastime ill
which the genial major delights.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The Vernon Building and Loan associa-
ton, capital stock 100000, filed charter
in the Office of the secretary of state yester-
day. Incorporators: S. w. LomaX, Eu-
gene Easton, J. r. Wood, S. w. Mabry, j..
J. Stephens and Geo. NJ. Cook
The following foreign corporations filed
charters yesterday:
Land and Cattle company, limited, of
England; capital stock, 10000 pounds
sterling. Incorporators: William Tyrone
Power, X. Q. B., late commissary general
in-chief; George Granville Campbell, re.
tired lieutenant, R. N; T. Maxwell, retired
surgeon major; James Alexander Forbe,
Andrew Archibald Buchanan, John Smith
and Henry Stephen Boggs, all of London.
The Cedar Valley Land and Cattle COM
pany, limited, of England; capital stock,
100000. IncOrporators: Duncan Stewart,
James Graham, Thomas Arthur Fitzhard-
inge, George Dixon, George Ganville,
Thomas Webb and Charles Stewart, all of
London.
CoMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
The deposits by the comptroller yester-
day were about $4,000.
So much has been said about Fort Worth
and her assessments that the following Of
fetal figures are given from the roles for
the year 1889 as sworn to by the assessor
and placed on file in the Office of the comp
troller:
Town lots in the city, resident owners,
$5,020,925; town lots in the city of Fort
Worth, nonresident owners, $52S, lis; town
lots in the city of Fort Worth, unrend-
lots and improvements in the
city of Fort Worth, . $5,734,6S5,
Goods, wares and merchandise in Fort
Worth and Tarrant county, village and
country stores, $3.50 900.
Total assessed value of Tarrant county,
including the city of Fort WORTH as sworn
to by her citizens, $14, 970,940; total value
in 1888, $l2,5l6.O2l, increase in values over
last year 50, 454, 919.
The Fort Worth board of equalization in
creased the city values from $5,734,635 to
over $l6,OO0,0OO, a sum greater than
the total valuation of all the prop
erty, real and personal, in Tarrant
county, as sworn to by her people and
returned to the comptrollers office
by a sworn officer.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE.
me following commissions nave been
Fred p FeigI lieutenant.coIoned and aid
de camp.
Fencibles sum- ''i'' l''''"' Wv VI VI
J. NJ. Watt, second lieutenant Fort Worth
FenGlbi 6.,,. Go. ,o,.o,,,,,. o.o.o
Fort z Bi IgLui''e'"i' i''S' liou'ei'"nV ''oii'
c. D. Stinson, second lieutenant Stone
Fort Rifles: 49,.
ne peI,l nSa hlteS anu anu DracnG' ro Ls'
,n .~nT Trp, ~ n I prMr~T
Galveston monnfootnrina statistics
Flour and grist mills, capital invested,
1854, OO1; value of production in 1888 was
$S4 Az SGo cotton ana wool factories capital
$iS 9Oic0c cotton seed oils conital s4I5 060
value of product, $4,000; patent medicine
factories capital, $4,000; value of produc-
TOn SopE 1ae bagg%g ip9
powder mannfactories' box, trunk, mat
iress, tin can, sail, cistern, boiler and other
manufactures
From Tue days Daiiy.l
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
Governor Ross left for the Dallas
fair Yesterday morning. where he will
deliver the opening address to-day.
sr,r1 ,nyn ,pr,,r>,r
M $50. I1-41I c,,
me loilcWlng cnarVGrs were hieu
yesterday sue WiIn the rI secretary Oh state
,,on,,. oonito1 ofocI, GOO OOO Tnoor-
porators: Charles Kurt, William
McGarrv and G. w. Hill.
The American Trust company, of Fort
Worth: capital stock. $4,000 Incor-
porators; A. Munger, of New York.
A. A. Thomas, J. V. Green and w. G.
Curtis. of Vernon, Texas, w. Martin
and w. E. scarrite, of WATERFOWL,
Dakota, HIM. Mcknight, of Stephens
vile, and A. L. Williams, of Grand
bury Texas.
The following foreign charters were
filed:
The Bucvrus Foundry company, of
Ohio; capital stock, $4,000.
The John L. Boland Book and Sta
tionery company, of Missouri; capital
stock, $3.50 600.
The British and American Mortgage
company, of England; capital stock,
VI ,5OO,OOO.