The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-23
ITEMS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY
CosIPTRoLLER's RULING AS TO THE
DRAWING OF PENSIONS.
Widow Can Not secure Husbands
Money, but May Make Application
on Her own Behn4f.

Austin, Texas, December 22.-Comp.
troller Finley today gave out the follow
ing;
My attention has been called to the
following. In The Houston Post. from
Fort Worth under date of the 10th in
stant
"A ruling has been made by the
State comptroller on pension matters
which is OF considerable interest Some
time ago the pension OF w. r. Wealth
ers, from this county, was approved
by the comptroller. but the pcnsioner
died before he could make affidavit of
his identity and before he could draw
1851 for the first quarter. His widow
made affidavit of his death reciting
tnat she was the widow of the PEN
sioner. and this affidavit was accom-
panied by a witness as in ordinary
cases. She asked for the allowance
for the first quarter as It had already
been approved and set aside. Comm
troller Finley In replying to the ap-
plicaton says that the pension law
makes no provision for the widow
making quarterly affidavit for pension
due her husband. Comptroller Finley
holds that the pensioner himself must
appear and make affidavit, and he
having died before doing SO the
amount can not be drawn by his
widow.
This is correct so far as 1t relates
to quarterly pension accrued prior to
death of pensioner. The law expressly
provides that the affidavit must be made
by the person to whom a pension has
been granted, and it further provides how
a widow may obtain a pension. She
must Ale her application with the county
tndre and ba ~,
him and the commissioners court, at a
regular term, and forward to this office
for approval. When finally approved. hei
name will be enrolled and she will begin
TO draw pension from the first of the
quarter under the next apportionment,
following the approval OF her application.
appointments are made on the first
days of April and October and applica-
lions approved prior to either date will
participate in such apportionment An
applicant whose application was approved
at the November term of the commission
ers court can not begin to draw a pension
until April l. 1900"
Adjutant General Scurry has gone to
Orange to ascertain the facts in con-
nectlon with the killing % Oscar Poole
by Ranger Fuller
Hon. Ben Rogers of Brennan. accom-
panied by Sheriff league of Washington
COuuly, Was mere tOudS Ou pusiutSS VIII
the governor.
Captain John B. Armstrong, ranchero
and capitalist. arrived in town today with
bunch of long-legged, blanket-eared and
1.-the bodied hounds to get in the pam
Their chase booked for next Wednesday
in the cedar brakes OF the wild Colorado
above Austin. Captain Armstrong will
bet his last "yaller boy on the PROPOSE
ton that, when his beauties open up or
the trail of the flying panther, no other
pack of loud -mouthed yelpers will be in
at the finish.
Captain Armstrong brought these
hounds from his ranch to Alice across
country in wagon, and thence by rail
to Austin merely as a compliment t.
William JENNINGS Bryan, who is to be
the chief fugleman Of the panther chase.
and to show him what Texas hounds
trained to die in the death struggle with
the bobtail cat of the Rio Grande can
yons or to drag the huge lobo wolf from
his lair can do when unleashed GU the
trek" OF the ferocious panther.