El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-03

} Hon. J. D. Sayers: The president ha
approved your request of Nov. IL thai
Gen. Waites be retained in the ser
vice.
(Signed) "H. G. CORBIN,
Adjutant General. F"
The press dispatches yesterday stat
ed that Private Gilbart, of Company
II, Second Arkansas, had been shot
and stabbed by negro rioters in Annis-
ton, Ala. It is thought here that the
/, man referred to is Frank Gildart, who
| is well known union printer of this
city,. and who entered the volunteer
service at the outbreak of the war.
Gildsrt went from Austin to Little
Rock and joined one of the Arks nsas
regiments. When Gildart was assault
ed he was en- route from town to his
reglmental quarters. A negro soldier
of the Third Alabama shot him in the
head and stabbed him in the back.
to get particulars.-E
The football season in Austin has
passed and Coach Edwards left at noon
today for New Orleans to visit his
brother before returning to his home
at Boston. The Varsity has been very
successful this year having an eXcep-
tionally strong team. Six games were
played and in only one were they scor-
ed against and that was with Sewanee.
Add Ran, first game, 16 to o; second. 26
to 0: Galveston, II to O; A. & M. Col
lege, 48 to O; Dallas, SO to O. Sewauee
defeated Varsity by q score of to o.
The victories were due in a lare meas
ure to Capt. Club Workman. He has
made the best captain Varsity ever
had and the captains in the future will
\ 1,.,e 10 = &c
Austin Tribune.
A Waco dispatch says: r. B. Ban
ton, deputy county clerk of McLennan
county, has been indicted for forgery.
Banton left here about two weeks age,
and about that time forged warrant
was discovered, which led to his indict-
ment. He was arrested in Denver,
Col last night, and will be brought to
Waco Immediately to answer the
charge. Since the Indictment was re-
turned the commissioners court has
discovered that there has been q reg
ular system of forgery going on for
months Banton was assigned by the
county clerk to wait upon the commits
sioner's court. He audited the bills
and drew the checks to pay them. A
number of bogus bills have been detect
ed for which checks were drawn, each
for small amount, but the whole ag-
gregating about $500.
The legislature will coon meet and
it's work in two matters is clearly de-
| fined. Both of these crying necessities
| when remedied will advance the state
| to the degree of enlightenment en-
joyed by her sister states of the union.
| First, Texas needs libel law equal
and just to the public and publ her
alike, law which does not presume
malice on the part of the publisher, no
| proof being required, but a law de-
| fuing privileged publications and
recognizing the publisher as free
citizen as other men are, responsible
for his acts and for malice if the same
be proven. Secondly, Texas wants q
law settling land titles. She wants q
law which will protect the owner of q
home who has occupied, enjoyed, used.
paid for, paid taxes on, raised, and
even buried bis flesh thereon for twen-
ty, thirty or forty years. She wants q
settlement of titles in such cases which
forever will bury deep the land shark,
clothed with his plausible and dagger
GUS technicalities.-Segu Enter
prise.