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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

to study it's progress and the prospects
for it's future. It's area is probably
best expressed in the statement that
the present population of the United
States could find home in Texas
without much Overcrowding it. The
aggregate value of it's productions is
enormous. and especially when
compared with it's population.
In 1880 it's population was
| 800, 600, and the assessed value of it's
property was little over $500, 1000, 900,
or an average of 5000 per capita; in
the assessed value of it's property
nearly $3.50 for every man, woman
it's wealth per capita almost doubled
in ten years. A few weeks ago the
Record published some statistics
showing that the agricultural pro-
ducts of the state this year would be
worth $200,000,000. Its wheat crop is
estimated at from 100000 to 10000
600 bushels, or two to three times
as much as it ever produced
before. Its corn crop will probably
be between $4,000, 900, and 10O,OOO,000
Gtllu IUo OdU CIOD -U,UUU,UOU
bushels, The wheat has been harves-
ted and is being rushed to market.
and heavy shipments are being made
from Galveston and New Orleans to
Europe. Adding to it's agricultural
productions the value of its lumber
business and it's manufacturing and
mining output, Texas will this year
produce $780, 100000 of wealth.
These figures show a wonderful de-
velopment, but they become insig-
nificant when they are compared to
what the future promises. Though
producing $500, 100000 this year from
her soil, only Is per cent of the agri-
cultural land of the state has ever
been cultivated.
Its climate is salubrious, it's water
powers numerous, and, in general, its
advantages are such as to insure
wonderful growth. Heretofore its
progress has been based mainly on its
great agricultural productions and its
livestock interests; now the whole
state is turning its attention to man.
features. With the development OF
its mineral and timber interests, the
building of furnaces and rolling mills,
cotton and wooden and flour mills,
will come an era of progress anu
prosperity far greater even than mas
been known in the past, as great as
that has been.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
THE EMPIRE STATE.

The Manufacturers Record calls
Texas "The Empire State" and that
the title is well bestowed may be seen
from the following excerpts from an
editorial in that faithful friend of the
south, paper that has probably done
more to promote southern develop
ment than any other journal:
Texas is a state Of such vast extent,
of such wonderful possibilities, that
the mind becomes dazed as we ATTEMPT
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
AN ECZEMA ON A BOY.
sufferings Intense-Head Nearly Raw
Body Covered With Sores-Cured
by Cuticura Remedies.

! bought bottle of CUTICURA REsoLyENT
one box CUTICURA Salve and one cake of CUTI,
CURA SOAP for my son, aged ID years. who has
been afflicted with eczema tor O long time and
am pleased to say that 1 believe the remedies
has cured him. His sutferings were intense, his
head being nearly raw his ears being gone eX-
cept the gristle, and his body was covered with
sores His condition was frightful to behold
The sores have now all disappeared, his skin is
heatniyI eyes bright cheerful IN disposition and
nesses TO this remarkable cure, and the doubling
ones are requested to call or write me, or any of
my neighbOrs. VIM. S. STEPHENSON
Winchester, p o., Union Co., N. c.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

WHAT in goodness name has be-
come of the Galveston News "Sil-
houtten column? For many moons
it has doomed up on the editorial page
of that journal like the refreshing
shadow ola great rock in a weary land.
Now it is gone and there is naught
but sand dunes piled hither and yon
on the dead level of a dreary waste.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
THE sUB-TREAsURY SIDE OF IT.
The Alliance Believes That Col. Tracy
Made an Unanswerable Argument

COLUMBUS, Texas, July 25, 1891.
To the Editor of the Statesman:
was authorized and requested by
the Eighth Congressional Distric
Alliance while in session at Kyle, tt
write for publication in your paper 8
correction of the report of the joint
debate between Col. Tracy and Con.
gresham Moore, on the sub-treasury
plan at that place OH the 22nd inst,
which report appeared in THE
STATESMAN of the 23rd inst. | Sc
cured that number Of your paper for
this purpose, but so many wished to
see it that finally lost it and cannot
therefore dwell upon details. But
the report was generally read, and
was regarded as incorrect and very
unjust. 1t was notably brief, and did
not represent Col. Tracy as having
been defeated or that his arguments
were fairly met and answered.; but
while Judge MoOre's speech was rep
resented as an able effort in way to
leave the impression that it was salts
factory to the audience, Col, 1'racy's
speech and rejoinder was barely men
toned.
The report, therefore, if capable of
conveying any impression at all,
would lead your readers who did not
hear the debate to think that Colonel
Tracy came out second best.
And now speak by the unanimous
authority of the Eighth congressional
district Alliance in the following
statement: That Colonel Tracy made
an able speech in advocacy of the sub
treasury plan, replete with solid ar
guments which we regard as unan-
swerable. This was the impression
made upon the audience, and if there
was one exception we did not hear it
breathed; on the contrary, we heard
a few men who We're before i'm
doubt say that they were now sub
treasury men.
Judge Moore, in reply, adroitly
lodged the subject at issue and cot off
on the tariff and third party, and on
the tariff proved to be nearly as well
posted as the average Alliance man
of to-day. But at the close of his
speech he said the sub-treasury plan
would be class legislation, and asked
how it could benefit the blacksmith
for example, ETC., to which Colonel
Tracy, in his briefrejoinder, answered
that it would enable the farmer
to pay the blacksmith what
he owed him. Upon the
whole it was a telling victory for
the subtreasury advocates, and we be-
lieve that Judge Moore will admit if.
Col. Tracy did say in his reioinder
that Judge Moore's effort was the
best speech he had heard against the
subtreasury plan, by which we pre-
sumo he meant other speakers had at
tempted to refute the argument in its
favor, whereas Judge Moore had the
skill to sheer adroitly around if. and
get off on the usual partizan racket
Now, my dear sir, we hope that a
journalist of your standing desires
always to deal fairly by the people in
all public questions, and we therefore
ask you to admit this statement in
full to your columns, for which we
will be obliged. II. J. MoRRIs
Lecturer Eighth Congressional Dis
trict Alliance, Columbus, Texas.
Miss A Rau1ob LOFT Ioct ,.:lI
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
Ten Thousand acres
Fine Farming Lands
In Southwest Texas

In tracts to suit purchasers from
SO to $40 per acre, adjoining
the town of skidmore, on the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass railway, which is des-
tined TO be the great railroad center of
southwest Texas. These lands are of
rich, black, sandy loan that need no grub
bling or clearing; suitable for truck farming,
grapes, pears, peaches, plums, cotton,
corn, etc. These lands are situated in the
Ceuter of the rain belt, derived from the
gulf clouds which render crops q certainty.
RUSsEK IL kEssLE.
Skidmore, Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

WHY is it that many of the great
magazines are sent out with half the
leaves uncut and the rest looking for
all the world as if they had been
ripped by cyclone? A high-priced
magazine should certainly treat its
patrons with as much consideration as
do the cheap dailies.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

"THE Peoples Grover" has taken
up his residence at Cape Cod and is
talking biblical parallels to the Re-
publican puritans. Smart man that.
If he can persuade frankie to wear a
linsey woolsey gown and eat Goldfish
balls, he will go into the convention
with the old Bay state shouting Cleve-
land forever,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
CAPT. FAULKNER,s FRIENDS,

The Corsicana Light is making red
hot war on the Houston q Texas Cen
trail railway. 1t says that this road
never misses an opportunity to give
Corsicana black eye; that it defies
the city ordinances and does many
other things calculated to cause the
souls of the worthy citizens to rise in
arms. 1t wants the people to boycott
the Central; it would evidently likessto
tear up the rails and SOW the right-of-
way down in turnips, if it but knew
how. The STATESMAN knows moth
ing of Editor Whipkey's quarrel with
the Central, but it does know that the
following excerpt from a half column
diatribe in the Light is about as far
from the truth as anything could pos
sibly be:
When the Texas Press association met here in
May last vote of thanks was passed to all the
railroads in the state except the ii. IL II. c., and
Capt Andy Faulkner came in for quite lot of
abuse, and well he should for with but very
few exceptions this road is very unpopular with
the newspaper men, and 1t Is not more unpopu-
y lar with them than with the people at large
The Light wants to go on record as voting not
20 thank Mr. Faulkner or his road in that asso-
citation, because he was not entitled to thanks
for courtesies extended for there were no cour.
tesies extended.
The Central and Capt. Faulkner
were included in that vote Of thanks,
the association refusing to allow a
handful of soreheads to use it to graft
fly a personal spite. Asis well known,
Capt. Faulkner is one of the most pop
ular railroad men in Texas, both with
the railways and the people. 1t is
doubtful if there is another man i'm
Texas in any line OF business who has
such an extensive circle of warm
personal friends. No legitimate,
square tOed newspaper man ever yet
applied to him for favor and was re-
fused. Capt. Faulkner has little pa
thence, however, with any other kind
OF newspaper men, and his bearing
towards them is not marked with u
suavity and Chesterfieldian grace cal
S"i"VoN w OduoS Ullclll 10 COME again.
Editor Whipkey evidently has u
grievance against Capt. Faulkner and
the Central. Perhaps his name is on
Capt. Faulkner's 'black list"
BY the way, is not this the same lit
tie editor who raised such an cutlery
last year because the people of Hous.
ton did not meet him at the DEPOT
with brass band and coach-and-fou
escort him to the leading hotel and
give him a suit of rooms with bath.
electric bells and buffet? Is not this
the same venomous little scribbler
who returned home-after the people
OF Houston had paid his hotel bill
and hurled abuse at his hosts for half
year? Having now annihilated
the city of Houston, he loads up his
little popgun with bad grammar and
snake venom and turns it loose on Can't.
Faulkner and the Central. The Texas
Press Association is growing very
weary OF this spiteful little whipper-
snapper, who only lacks brains to be
very dangerous customer indeed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

HAS the Galveston News "Sil-
houette" man found Texas journalism
a pent-up Utica and launched out up
on broader sea? Or did the base in
situation that he was "a female tyron
cause him to droop and fade like a
great white rose with a worm gnaw-
ing at its heart?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

The interest on the war debt
steadily decreases, but the pension ex-
penditure as steadily increases. More
than quarter of century after the
close of the war the amount an
nually paid in pensions is vastly
greater than Grant and Garfield
thought it would be when Lee sur.
rendered. Pensioners donot die; they
multiply.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

MASSACHUSETTS appears to be
as fond of President Cleveland, as
though he had been brought up on Il
Goldfish and high tariff diet. While
many may differ with Mr.. Cleveland
on matters of public policy, all respect
and trust him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

AUSTIN should boom like presi
dental candidate with "bar'l" and
a double set o. twins. 1t has three
daily papers, and they are all pulling
back on the tow line with steady,
persistent swing. Apparently they
are all Gin it,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

SOME OF the counties are said to be re-
fusing to buy jack rabbit ears and wolf
scalps at the price prescribed by the
immortal Twenty-second Legislature.
viii it be necessary to call out the
militia to protect the infant industries
of the wild and woody west?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
STUBBORN SKIN DISEASE

l used the CUTICURA REMEDIES for about four
months for the treatment of very stubborn
case of skin disease, something like eczema. |
remedies and had been treated by local physi-
cians and all to no purpose. The CUTICURA
REMEDIES did the work, and my body when |
commenced was absolutely covered.
L. d. MCCLELEN, Piedmont, Ala.
In accordance with an act of the Twenty
second legislature of the state of Texas, ap-
proved Feb. 81, 1891, will lease on long time,
all vacant lots parts of lots and blocks in the
city of Austin belonging to the state not now
pied by church edifces, and will also sell about
six acres of land on south side of Colorado river
known as the fish pond"
For particulars, applicants to lease or buy are
referred to Corwin, Hill & Brown Temporary
Capitol building. VIM p. HARDEMAN,
Superintendent Public Buildings and Grounds
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

COTTON picking will soon begin in
Texas. Then there will be work at
good wages for everybody and it is to
be hoped that the authorities will put
a pressure upon the tramp that will
cause him to either get into the cotton
patch or out of the state.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
Cuticura Resolvent

The new Blood and Skin Purifier and greatest of
Humor Remedies, internally Ito cleanse the
blood of all impurities and poisonous elements,
and thus remove the cause), the CUTICURA, the
great Skin Cure, and CUTICURA SOAP an eX-
quSite Skin Beautifer externally Ito clear the
skin and scalp, and restore the hair, speedily
and permanently cure every species of itching,
burning, scaly, crusted, pimply, scrofulous and
hereditary humors, from infancy to age, from
pimpleS to ScrOfula.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

Sold everywhere Price, CUTICURA, 5Oc.; SOAP,
2jc;; RESoLvENT, 81. Prepared by the POTTER
Ef3 Send for How to Cure Skin Diseases" G.
pages, 80 Illustrations and 100 testimonials.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

The reporter of THE STATESMAN
after carefully cleaning in the
fields which the steam reaper of Mon
days issue had shaved so smoothly,
succeeded in gathering several grains
of news which are herewith turned
over to the public to be ground.
The Secretary of State.
The Oakhill Cemetery association
was chartered yesterday with CAPT
tai stock of 5000. Located in White
right, Grayson county.
Articles of incorporation were issued
for the.Galveston Fruit Importing and
Trading company with a capital stock
of $25O,0O0. Incorporators, Leo n.
Levy, P. A. Lang and Fenelon Can
non.
The Bluefields Banana company
amended it's recent charter so that
while it's capital stock is fixed at $780,
600 business may be commenced
when $500 shares at 500 each are
subscribed and the remaining 1000
shares may be disposed of afterwards
as when the directors may order.
The Taylor Furniture, Company
with capital stock of $1,000 was
chartered yesterday.
A charter was issued for the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union of
Pecos City, Texas, with a capital stock
of $4,000. Trustees, Mrs. j. n. Hol-
comb, Mrs. Agnes Powers, w. ID.
Johnson j. B. Gibson, and Mrs. w.
ID. Johnson.
The Free Swedish Evangelical
church Of Williamson county was in
corporated yesterday. Trustees, G.
G.. Youngblow and j. j. Lawson OF
Georgetown and H. Boostrom of
Round Rock.
The Department of Education.
Prof. 'Prichett, superintendent of the
department of education, has gone out
into the state and is now visiting the
various summer normals.
Chief Clerk Thweatt has the depart
ment by the hind legs and is walking
it all around the field on it's hands.
He was struck in the neck early in
the day by one of the biggest lots of
mail the department has yet received.
There were 100 letters and Vulnerable
documents of various characters.
Blanks are being sent to city super
intendents giving instruction as to
city boards of examiners as follows:
Dear Sir: GA city or town with a
scholastic population of not less than
six hundred, which has assumed ex-
elusive control of it's schools, and
which levies a local tax for educa.
tional purposes, and which has EN-
ployed superintendent of city
schools, may have a city board of ex
aminers."
This department is now prepared tc
furnish blank certificates to cities
authorized to issue them. your city
is authorized to issue certificates I'M
der this law, and you will notify me
of the number of blanks required;
will forward them to you at once
Very respectfully, H. G. PR1CHETT,
State Supt. Pub. Inst"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

PRESIDENT Polk of the Farmers
Alliance says that it is not the high
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
Geological.

State Geologist f. r. Dumble, who
has been several weeks in the field
with the various state geological sur
veying parties, returned to his desk in
the geological department yesterday.
He reports considerable dry weather
and the crops suffering considerably
in a few sections. Generally, howev-
er, the prospects are excellent.
Starting out from Austin some five
weeks ago he went to COtulla where
he Joined the party working on the
artesian water of southwest Texas,
remaining with them until they
reached Uvalde, whence he proceeded
to Spofford and Joined DR.. Com
stocks party, with whom he worked
in the Nueces coal field a
week or ten days. He next
gave his attention to some special
work on the Rio Grande border. Next
he put in week with Prof. Steeru-
WITT in the Diablo mountains, when
he returned to headquarters.
The work of the survey is progress
ing very smoothly, and Prof. Dumble
appears to be verk well satisfied with
the way things are going.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

DIhBPLES black heads, red. rough, chapped
rlVl and oily skin cured by CUTICURA SOAP
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
The Railroad Commission,

On request of l.. j. Pool, general
freight agent, the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass railway was authorized
to establish II l-2 cent rate per 100
pounds to Galveston and 10 cents to
Houston on scrap iron from Eagle
Lake and intermediate stations.
A Joint request from the Gulf, Colo
RADIO and Santa Fe, the Fort Worth
and Denver City railway, was granted
fixing Joint freight tariff applying
on all classes of merchandise from
Dallas to all points on the Fort Worth
and Denver City railway, sub
iect to western classification,
with exception thereto.
Amendment No. 5, tariff No. 56S, u
classification ruling dated at Chicago,
July Is, was approved for adoption by
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe.
Assistant General Freight Agent j.
b. Bartholomew has written the COM
mission to the effect that as the Hous-
ton and Texas Central rate rate on
bagging and ties in carloads from Gal
weston to Cisco is 40 cents, and the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe rate to
Weatherford is understood to be p
cents, it was difficult to see any neces-
sity for carrying the present reduced
rate of p cents on the international
and Great Northern from Galveston
further west on the line of the Texas
and Pacific railway than Weather
ford.
He asked permission to apply the
Houston and Texas Central rate of 40
cents to Cisco to all points on the
Texas and Pacific west of Weather
ford to Cisco inclusive, and the sta
tions west of Cisco full fifth class Gal
weston rates, the rates from Houston
to the Points above named to be the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30

Miss A. Beulah left last night for a
months trip to Corpus Christi.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
AFTERMATH MOVED DOWN IN THE
DEPARTMENT sTUBBLE FIELD.
The Secretary of State and the Charters
School Matters Geological-The Com
mission Still Working on Rates
Other Department Items.

The reporter of THE STATESMAN
after carefully cleaning in the
fields which the steam reaper of Mon
days issue had shaved so smoothly,
succeeded in gathering several grains
of news which are herewith turned
over to the public to be ground.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-10-09
Hope Wheat Market.
Thefollowing are the prices for the different
grades of wheat in the Hope market to-day:
In Twenty Years.

To the citizens Of the Old World, who is OBJ
servant on his travels in the United States, this
Is country where development is marvelously
rapid. In Europe, family, town, or city
which cannot trace its history back more than
two hundred and fifty years is as hard to he
found as black swan. O!d towns have grown
but new ones have not been founded. Sixty
millions more Of people are here than hunl-
red and fifteen years ago., But if the develop
ment of a hundred or two hundred years
seems wonderful to the European, what shall
we say Of the material progress OF the last
twenty years? A single illustration is enough.
Twenty years ago this week, Chicago suffered
unparalleled loss by fire. The business district
was destroyed and thousands OF people left
shelterless in the streets. What Is Chicago
now? The second city Of tue United States.
What were the states west Of the Mississippi
| twenty years ago? What they are now can
best be ascertaihed by taking trip over the
Burlington system Of roads, which reaches all
important places in ten Western and Northern
States. For any information as to rates,
routes, and time Of trains, call on your local
agents, or write to ". j. C. Kenyon, Gen.
Pass. Agent c., B. L. N. R. R., st. Paul MINI.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-10-09

The reports of grain yields are coming in
slowly. caused by the wet weather hindering
threshing to such an extent. We have not as
yet received enough Of the reports to justify
publishing tho same, tut we are in hopes Of
having better weather sGon, giving the far
mers an opportunity for threshing, and then
we will expect their reports to roll in. As
soon as enough are received to warrant. the
result will be published, and the copies Of tie
papers containing them will be given the
widest publicity.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-10-09
T. J. Foster ,eIleves in utilizing machin-

IT. J. Foster lelieves in utilizing machin-
cry in labor saving way. Last Saturday it
was too wet TO tl,resh, and having grain to
haul to town he loaded three wagons with
wheat. about 300 bushels, and hitching his
new Rumeley thrcshing engine fn front Of
them, brought the grain TO market, distance
OF ~ miles. The ergine is but a twelve
horse one, but it walked of with the heavy
load easily, besides drawing the tank filled
will, water. 1t looked like a train of cars
pulling into town.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-10-09
Buffalo Journal: 1t is usually customary for

Buffalo Journal: 1t is usually customary for
newspapers when using others articles to give
them the proper credit, ard when such is not
the case it is, of course, considered an over
sight. Do you catch Bro. Iseminger.
No, we do not catch, Bros. Allen, and If you
will but put US on 10 regard to the time we
used anything from the Journal without the
and hu,nbly crave your forgiveness. Prove up
on your claim, and it will te adjusted salts
factorly.