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capstan and howser. Twelve bridges
span the river between the two
points. Prof. Hurwood submits the
following estimate of cost of remov-
ing existing distractions and jetty-
ing the shoal portions of the stream:
For removing snags and rock in
channels over the shoals, 100000 :;
eighty jetties at $1,000 each, $780,
900: excavating channels in eight
rapids, 100000: total, S5S0,000.
Brush for use III constructing jetties
is said to be abundant all along the
stream. The report concludes ::
''The lakes and steps enumerated do
not include the water from Waco for
nine miles down the river, but that
piece of water is included in the es-
Inmates for improvements. The
study of the river was made at an
excellent time, the river beng nearly
at its lowest. AS a summary, the
Brazos, during our measurement,
contained from Waco to Richmond,
in round numbers, 39S miles of wa
ter practicable for light draft boat
ing and sixteen miles of shoals and
rapids"
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now investigating the condition OF
the people by inspection from house
to house. The agent says that at re.
publican convention which was held
there he met representative people
from all parts of the territory and
found that fully one-third of the peo-
pie without any fault of their own, are
now or soon will be in actual want.
Many are anxious to keep from the
public their actual condition, and
seem to prefer to do so or die rather
than ask aid. Even the poor negroes
in the northwestern part of the ter
ritory, the letter goes on to say,
seem to be imbued with the same
high purpose to get along somehow
and hold their land. Secretary
Noble has instructed the commits
sioner of pensions to make special
inquiry and to expedite all claims for
pensions by parties living in the
territory so as to relieve their desti-
tuition, many of the old soldiers and
their families who are entitled to
pensions being among the destitute
dwellers.
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EMnuE Ksoop. the infant dauob-

EMMrE KNooP, the infant daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Knoop,
died at the residence of her parents
in this city at eight o'clock Tuesday
morning, aged two years, six
months and eleven days. The
funeral took place at five o'clock in
the afternoon. The little child had
been ailing for a day or two, but
was not considered very i'll and had
not taken to bed. At seven o'clock
On Monday evening while she was
lying in a hammock her father con-
Guided to give her medicine to keep
off an attack of sickness, and when
he picked her up noticed that she
acted peculiarly. The child rapidly
grew worse during the night and
died of cramps.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

MEssRs. F. W. Schuerenberg,
Judge Kirk and Frank Haubelt have
been appointed by the board of trade
as a committee to solicit subscriptions
from the merchants and business
men of Brennan to build the bridge
across the Yegua to draw some of
the trade of Burleson county to this
city. 1t is said that there are fully
two thousand bales of cotton raised
over in Burleson county that would
be marketed in Brennan if it wasn't
for the difficulty of getting across
the Yegua.
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THINKS IT FEASIBLE.

Several weeks ago, it will be re-
membered, the Waco Day started
agitation of the question of render
ing the Brazos river navigable, and
the people of Dallas took up the re-
frain and the feasibility of navig ating
the Trinity from the mouth up to
that city became a mooted question.
Both propositions struck the people
Of the state at large, who had no
immediate interest in the matter, as
being extremely absurd and vision
airy. The people of Waco, however,
had so much faith in the plausibility
of the Days suggestions that they
employed Prof. J. H. Hurwood, a
well known scientific gentleman and
engineering expert of that city, to
explore the river. He fitted out a
small craft ana in company with his
two sons started on his voyage of
exploration, which extended as far
as Richmond in Fort Bend county,
and lasted about a month. Prof.
Hurwood returned to Waco about a
week ago and has submitted his re-
port to the board of trade, in which
he takes the ground that the river
can be made navigable. The board
of trade ordered that a thousand
copies of the report be published.
From the report the following statis-
tics are gathered: The distance be-
tween Waco and Richmond IS 416
miles. Three hundred and eighty
nine miles consists of pools, varying
in length from one-fourth mile to
eighty-four miles, and in depth from
four to forty feet. There are thirty
six shoals from twenty-five feet to
two miles in length, which could be
removed or deepened by a system
of ietties. There are eight rapids
from 500 feet to one and half
miles in length, to stem the current
of which would require the use of
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DEsr1rUT1oN IN OKLAHOMA.

The opening of the Oklahoma
Territory to settlement was one of
the most notable events in the his
tory of the United States People
were madly infatuated and crazy to
move on the country and possess
themselves of the lands 1t was
equal to if not worse than a gold
mine excitement when the precious
metal is first discovered and all
kinds of stories are toiu as to the
fabulous wealth of the hidden treas
ure. 1t was all that the president
of the United States could do with
federal bayonets at the back of him
to prevent the boomers from enter
ing the territory before the day
formally designated. But like all
other mad crazes, the Oklahoma in
fatuation has run its course, and the
desire to get out of that apparently
God-forsaken land is as great as was
the desire to move on to it short
time ago. Secretary Mobiles of the
interior department has sent to the
chairman of the committee on ter
ritories copy of 4 communication
received from the special land in
spector sent by the secretary to
Oklahoma to inquire into the re-
ported restitution of the people of
the territory, The special agent in
his letter says that be reached
Guthrie, Oklahoma, August IS, and
Immediately called on Governor
Steele. who placed the destitute at
one-third of the people outside of
the largest towns. Capt. Burbank
and Capt. Wade, of the army, are
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28
A REFORM NEEDED.

The last issue OF the Paris lines
contains an able and sensible article
on crying abuse in the administra-
ton of justice in this state, which is
directly to the point, and every
word of which is true as gospel.
The Times says truly that the cry
ing shame on the administration of
the law in Texas, and more particu-
Iarly of the criminal law, to which
branch its remarks are addressed, is
the great delay in bringing cases to
trial. Says the Times: There are
very few cases in which bail is not
allowed, and as long as defendants
are free on bond they do not want a
trial and use every effort to secure
continuances. The result is. cases
are worn out by delay, criminals are
not convicted, people lose their res
pect for the law and their fear of it
and crime fourishes. The principal
cause of delay in trying cases is the
absence of witnesses. This cause
can be removed and should be. In
der the present law if a witness fails
to appear he can only be fined and
the fine is collected only by execu-
ton, and as most witnesses are law
proof they do not care for such
fines. If attached the officer must
either take a bond worthless as to
securities, or release him if he makes
a proper affidavit On his own bond,
and the result is the same. The
witness is gone again and the case
continued again. What is needed
is law that will compel witnesses
to attend court when summoned I'M
der penalty of fine and imprison-
ment for non-payment of fine in case
of failure to attend. There should
be an amendment to the penal code
making it a misdemeanor for any
witness legally summoned to court
to fail to obey the summons" AS
the Times says, the delay in bring
ing cases to trial is the principal
cause of so many abortions and mis-
carriages of justice; and the plan
suggested by it to secure the COM
pulsory' attendance of witnesses
would in great. measure obviate
the most FREQUENT excuse offered for
the continuance of cases. But, af-
ter all, the most of the blame seems
to lie with the trial judges. AS the
BANNER has heretofore remarked, it
does seem that crime can not be
committed in Texas under such
heinous circumstances as to deprive
the criminal of the right of bail.
And III applications for continuance
where it lies within the discretion of
the trial Judge to grant the continu-
ance or not, too much looseness is
shown in acting upon the applica-
tions. A speedy trial is guaranteed
by the bill of rights in the constitu-
ton of every state as well as of the
United States, but it is only the in
nocent who want speedy trial. It
is to the immense advantage of the
criminal to prevent speedy trial
While the clause providing for
speedy trial should be insisted on to
protect the innocent, it should be
insisted on by the state in the inter
est of justice.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

An exchange appropriately OBJ
serves: The singular spectacle
was presented in the senate yester-
day of Senator Quay rising to deny
certain expressions attributed to
him by Washington morning pa
per in its report of the republican
senatorial caucus held on Thursday
night. Quay has a fair measure of
sensitiveness after all. He is quick
to deny anything said about him that
isn't so. As to the grave charges
preferred against him of dishonesty
and malfeasance in Office, he believes
in maintaining the strictest silence
and the logical deduction is appar-
ent."
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28
THE COMMISSION PLANK.

Since the adjournment of the state
democratic convention the newspa-
pers and politicians have been deyot-
ing considerable time and space to the
discussion of the railroad commits
sion plank in the platform declara-
tions, the question being as to the
duty of all democrats to support the
commission, and as to whether they
are bound by the platform endorse
ment to support it at the risk of be-
ing read out of the party. Hon.
Thos. J. Brown, of Sherman, the
father of the movement in favor of
commission and the author Of the
commission plank in the platform,
gives his views on the subject in
the Galveston News in concise form.
He says that the commission plank
is no more nor any less a test of
party fealty than any other plank in
the platform. 1t was the right and
the Imperative duty of the conven-
ton TO declare in plain language its
will as to the policy of the party on
the amendment and the commission.
1t had no right to say III advance
that all democrats who should vote
against the amendment should be
debarred of party rights. When the
convention by a majority vote de-
clared its policy it was left to each
democrat to determine whether or
not he would submit his individual
opinions to the expressed will of the
majority. If a democrat should OPP
pose the policy of the party, as thus
declared, it would rest with him and
his primary conventions to decide
whether or not he was entitled to
participate in the conventions Of the
party. For the very reasons given
by Col. Brown the BANNER suggested
that it was entirely unnecessary to
insert a commission plank in the
platform that the object to be at
tanned could have been Just as well
reached by simple resolution en-
dorsing the proposed commission
amendment, and there would have
been no room for confusion, doubt
and chickering's. Parties ore suppos-
ed to be bound by platform declara-
tons, while resolutions simply de-
clare the sense of the convention,
and outside parties not
members of the convention
are left still to do as they please.
The BANNER has all along mildly OPP
posed the idea ofengrafting the com
mission plank in the platform, and
since ones position and views with
reference to it are not to be made
test of party fealty, according to
Mr.. Brown, it is to be regretted that
the plank was inserted in the plat
form. The moral influence and effect
of resolution would have been as
strong or stronger than a platform
declaration, as the latter looks lit
tie like coercion and will have ten
dency to cause the anti-commissiop-
lists to grow frmer in their OPPOSE
ton: whereas, by gentle means, they
might have been won over.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28
SCHOOL FEST.

The citizens of Oak Hill School commune
ty will give Grand Fest and Ball, at their
grounds, near Berlin, on
SEPTEMBER 21st, 1890.
There Will be public speaking by German
and English orators. Exercises will com
mence at o'clock in the afternoon. Prof.
Voss' cornet band will furnish the music.
Refreshments to be had on the grounds.
Admission to grounds free. Everybody
TO attend. THE COMMITTEE.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

A DISPATCH to the Galveston News
announces the death of Mr.. Jack
Baker, a wholesale grocer of Lusk,
Wyoming. Mr.. Baker was formerly
of Plantersville, Grimes county, and
had a number of acquaintance in
Brennan. He married Miss Lulu
Hand, whose father was superind-
ent of the public schools OF this city
for a while.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

LEE RUcKER,, who has been in
capacitated for work for nearly a
year past, resumed his occupation OF
selling milk and made his first round
among his old customers since his
recent infection yesterday. His
many friends will be glad to see
him restored to health of body and
mind.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

CAPT. T. G. CLAY says that some
of the farmers out his way will be
through gathering their cotton in
about two more weeks He says
that there has been no rain, scarcely,
to speak of, and consequently no
top cotton. That on the body OF
the stalk is already open or will be
in few days.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

YESTERDAY afternoon at the resi-
dence of Mr.. I. D. Aff1eck out on
West Main street his little son Dun
bar had the misfortune to fall off
the gallery and break his collar
bone.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

TOUCHING the prospect of his be-
ing defeated for re election to the
United States senate through the in
fuence of the farmers alliance of his
state, Ingalls, is reported as having
SAID he didn't mind it and that he
could make $4,000 a year by his
literary contributions. 1t is sug-
gested that lie seems to not take
into consideration that the merit
and market value of his contribu-
tons are gagged by his ability to
write II. S. Senator and President
protein of the Senate after his
name.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

The local war in the democratic
camp is still going on in Bell coun-
ty. They are getting themselves IN
to an ugly muss.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

THE San Antonio city administra-
ton is making efforts to purchase
the waterworks system of that
place, which have become a giant
monopoly.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

The Galveston Oil company is the
only one at present buying cotton
seed in Brennan, and the price paid
is six dollars per ton.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

The protracted meeting out at In
dependence is being well attended,
but no additions to the church have
been reported.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

A grand Schuetzenfest and Ball will be
given at the above named place, IN Fritz
Harms pasture, on SUNDAY, SEPTEM-
shooting, games for children, publias speak
ing, &c. Grand Ball on Mammoth platform
at night Exercises to commence at 2
o'clock in the afternoon. Everybody invited
invited to attend and have good time.
A. g. G. VOSS.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

The Philadelphia Record says that
McKinley's crazy-quilt tariff bill
would not open market for a sin
gle barrel of pork, but that,it would
open huge frying pan for many a
barrel of fat.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

HEREAFTER in Texas instead of
saying ''as dead as a mackerel," peo-
pile will say ''as dead as Gustave
Cool,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

CULBERsoN, who was nominated at
San Antonio for encouragement,
is the youngest man ever nominated
for a state Office in Texas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

The latest report from the Lang
Try is that she has become the hand
maiden of an English hord.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

The aggregate debt of all the
colonies of Australia is said to be
S215 per head or S6SS, 100000.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28
Marriage Licenses.

Following is the list of marriage
licenses issued from the county
clerks office during the past week
Henry R. Schuelz and Ophelia B.
Hutchinson.
Richard jackson and Ara Limnial.
Willie Bats and Vina Garner.
Gustav Schumacher and Nina
Schroeder.
Austin johnson and Amelia n.
Hunt.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

THOSE who think that the com
mission amendment will not carry
will be as badly fooled as those who
professed to believe in the early
part of the campaign that Hogg
stood no chance for the nomination.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

ONE cotton platform in the city
had thousand and five bales on it
yesterday.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

Hon. W. Il. MARTIN, alias
E'Howdy" Martin, congressman from
the Palestine district, has been de-
feated for denomination. Hon.
John B. Long, of Cherokee county,
secured the nomination after several
hundred Intellectual ballots were
cast.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

The Texas Cartoon continues its
vicious attacks on Mr.. Hogg after
the convention is over.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28
Schuetzenfest,
AT VALLEY GROVE,

Sunday, September %, 1880.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

Thursday, August %, 1890.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

INGALLS,, of Kansas, makes the cal
culation that the last surviving SOL
der of the late civil war will expire
between 1910 and 1850, and that be-
fore the account is finally closed the
government will have paid out not
less than four billion dollars in pen
siOns
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

THHnE will not be an unbroken
delegation from Texas to congress
this fall. Hon. W. H. Bailey, of
Gainesville will succeed Congress-
man Silas G. Hare. He carried the
Collin county primaries last Satur-
day, which insures him the necessary
two-thirds vote.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

An exchange says: james Rob
inson, who could not read or write,
went to Phoenix, Ariz., and became
a millionaire. He could not write
his name, but could make his Y
mark. He is now forty years old
and is attending a primary school in
Kansas CITY.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

JEFF DAVIS county borders on the
Rio Grande, where people are sup
posed to get up and kill man
every morning before breakfast to
stir up an appetite. And, yet, the
grand jury Of JEFF Davis county met
the other day and adjourned for the
term without returning single in
dictment.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

j. O. RANKIN. Proprietor.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

WILL the negroes of Washington
county fight the white democrats
this fall and try to antagonize them,
while the white republicans in the
state are trying to throw them over
board, in order, as they say, to make
their party respectable ? If the
darkeys go against the white demo-
Gratis and the white men oftheir own
party shake them off, who will be
their friends?
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

THE st. Paul Pioneer Press, a
staunch republican paper, says !:
eve cannot recall in recent political
history any such general revolt
against a measure brought forward
in congress, and supported by all
the power and prestige of party
leaders, as that which the Mckinley
bill has had to encounter
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

CAPT. EDGAR ScHRAMM, chairman
of the democratic executive commit
tee of Bexar county, denounces Hon.
N. W. Finley and the state execu-
tive committee as being traitors to
the democratic party. Captain
Schramm should keep cool. It Ill
becomes one who comes from San
Antonio to try to denounce the
democracy of the state. San An
tonic democrats do not command
the utmost degree of respect in a
state convention. The only honor
conferred on the democracy of that
town at the late meeting was to
have one of its number appointed
on the committee that notified Mr..
Hogg of his nomination, and this
was, as has been suggested, because
he knew the way to the hotel where
,Hogg was stopping.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-11-29
ALLOWED
THE
'TY COMMISSIONERS.
Lyon County, Nevada.
NOV. Term OF 1890.

The following bills were examined and allow
ed by the Board of County Commissioners al
its regular quarterly meeting, held November
9Th 1850:
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-11-29
Our Great Offer to Subscribers to the Times

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aboved
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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-11-29

COUNTY OF LYON.
I. W. ]. Harris, County Clerk OF Lyon County
State OF Nevada, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Is iull, true and correct copy of the
office at Dayton. in said county
In testimony whereof have hereunto
set my hand. and affixed the Seal OF
Lyon County, this 9th day of Nov.
1850. W. J. HARRIS.
County Clerk.
The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-02-05
JUDICIAL FAIRNESS,

The Herald says: "The fact should
not be forgotten that Judge DeWolfe in.
sisted in sitting on n case that involved
him as a candidate. Chief Justice Blake,
on the contrary, refused to sit in a case
involving the decision of the state can
wasting board, of which he was a member.
These are two samples Of official deli
cacy." The fact should not have been
forgotten by the Herald that the vote in
Precinct "a could not elect Judge De-
Wolfe and SO he was disinterested in the
result. On the other hand, Blake acted
with indecent haste, unbecoming a Judge,
when he undertook the duties of state
%canvasser. We have it, on undoubted
authority, that he never canvassed the
Silver Bow vote in public. He and his
pals hastily annouced the result and hav-
ing declared the canvas closed, they
skipped away as stealthily as burglars do.
As for the recent case, we presume Blake
knew what he was about. The result
shows that he took no risks at all in step
ping aside.