The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-28

| ing room and the promotion OF TIT
| fine arts. Austin is headquarters FOL
the club and its directors for the frs
year are Messrs. Geo. w Cleveland
! Z. NJ. Hahn. Chas. Edwards, NJ. Tiling
and H. NJ Finch, all OF Austin.
The secretary of state issued per-
NIT for the Carver Cotton Gin com
pany, incorporated under the laws OF
Massachus e6ts, TO do business in Texas.
The concern is credited with capital
stock of $50, 900 and manufactures and
sells cotton gins and other machinery
and parts.
Articles of incorporation were issued
yesterday for the Dallas Cotton mills,
which proposes to engage in the man
ufacture and sale of cotton and wooden
goods in Dallas with capital stock of
100000 and the following directors:
VIM. Oliver of Wesson, Miss; Theo-
philus King of Boston; B. Banker
ship, A. F. Hardie, G. Branford and
Seth Miller of Dallas; and S. w. Stay
den of Waco.
Public Instruction.
Yesterday was the day for lady cal
lers at this department., and the re-
porter caught a glimpse OF several fair
faces in the superintendent parlors
as he whisked about the office, but his
well known diffidence forbade his ven
turing into their presence.
Clerk Carruth reports that there are
forty-one cities in Texas with scho-
lastic population OF over 600, and
twenty-one with over 1000.
In reply to many inquiries regard
ing the revised law relating to teach
ers certificates issued by city school
boards. superintendent Pritchett says
he will hold that these certificates are
rendered valid under the new law,
which goes into effect July 10, 1891, for
period of one year, and they may be
accepted as valid for period of one,
two or three years, at the discretion of
the school board.
General Land Office.
AS THE STATESMAN representative
strolled into Commissioner McGaugh-
ey's boudoir at the land Office yester'
day he noticed several voluminous let
tiers lying upon the desk, and being
endowed with the usual reportorial
curiosity, he, of course, made a few
passing remarks as to their general APP
pearance, preparatory to getting the
sum and substance of their contents.
In reply to the inquiries the commits
sioner answered.: Eyes, those are
rather queer documents, and they
are, by no means uncommon. They,
of course, relate to lands, and both are
in reference to the same section. This
man says he bought the section from
the state and that we have his appli
cation; he settled upon the land before
making his application for purchase,
and that he has put various improve
ments upon it, such as so many hun.
dred yards of fence, so many acres
grubbed and well having been dug
so many feet. 1t also states that
while the writer had gone off of the
land for few hours for the purpose
of getting a load of wood, another
party moved in and squatted upon the
land, and at the same time forwarded
an application to purchase the same
to the land office, claiming that he
had found it vacant and settled it in
due form. In view of these facts he
prays that this department award
him the land and GUST the squatter.
On the other hand the so-called
sQuetter writes that he found the land
vacant and settled it in due form, and
furnishes affidavits to that effect
Both letters are backed by such aft
davits and now the ques-
tion is who is entitled to have the
land awarded to him2 Such questions
as this, make mans hair fall
out or turn gray, and make him long
for better world where squatters, let
tiers and ::affidavits are unknown, and
one whose domain is not divided into
sections and sold at So an acre in &C
cordance with statutes. Now q re-
porter's cord of life is said to be very
full of knots, twists and kinks, and l
would like to inquire if the unravelling
propensity of THE STATBsMAN's re-
porter can throw any light upon the
matter, or offer any suggestions in the
case; if so the court is open to receive
same" But not being accustomed to
this particular kind of knot the re-
porter allowed his 'unravelliug pro-
pensities" to wander off in the imagi-
native avenues of thought until he
was awakened to the fact that he
must visit the school land department
and see how many sales had been
made during the day. Here it was
learned that only about $500 acres had
been awarded. The office was very
quiet, and but few visitors were in
during the day.