The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-25
BUDGET FROM BEAUMONT.
What The Pockets Of the District
Court Reveal.
A PAPER MILL is IN PROSPECT
Thirteen Damage Suits Were Filed m
One Day--Officer from Ohio Is
Expected To-day.

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Beaumont, Texas April 2i-About
week since rhe Post stated that this docket
in the district court is probably the largest
of any in the State aud that instead of be- i
ing decreased on account of the bill making
this a special judicial district the eases are
multiplying faster than they can be us
posed Of. To bear out this statement Deph-
ty District Clerk league this afternoon
prepared for The Post correspondent a list
Of the cases now on the docket of the Eff
ty eighth judicial district over which Judge
j. ID. Martin presidcs.
Today Is the last day Of service for the
May term which opens up on Monday, May
3, and it is the time for closing each docket
so that the clerk may prepare for the term.
Nj. leagues report shows the following
totals of the various dockcts;
Divorce cases OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, ~
Jury civil cases OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. W
NonJury civil cases ...,............ 319
criminal cases ...,...'.' '.'.''...'.' 10
49,. %
This Is an increase OF about fifty over
the docket OF the March term, showing
now congcsted is the litigation in tins
county.
There is no denying the fact that in point
OF amounts involved IT Is considerably
ahead of any other docket in the State and
In number of cases 1t may he ahead now
( with the above list-it is certainly close
around the top.
Statement from Whitecapped Negro.
| Beaumont, Texas April 23.-On last SUI
day night colorcd man named Fletcher
richardson was ln away from Spindle
| Top by some white men The fact was
mentioned in The Post at the time, but
this afternoon Richardson is out in a signed
statement of the case as follows:
April 49, 1907, at Gladys, about $40
o'clock gang of about twenty men came
in the house Of McCauly x Miller aud
dragged me out aud carried me east Of the
| tcld. telling me that should be put t.
death. | pleaded for mercy, but 1t did no
good. On arriving at the place where i
was to he killed they allowed me TO stand
! while the gang formed a circle. Being II
| Mason, | gave the signal Of distress but
no one recognized 1t. They asked II | had
not told them that my mother was dead
and | said yes Then they told me to 90,
and told me that if ever came back that
they would kill me. | ran across the field
and up and down the oil bitches until !
was tired and stopped to rest. | saw three
or four men running as ii to head me on
and | ran over the railway track and took
to tho swamp and went until got lost.
then went up Il tree and rested about
twenty minutes when | heard Il whistle
and started for Beaumont, which reached
in about an hour
Fletcher A. Richardson"
The officials since that time have been
working on the case aud II is more than
likely that all the lawlcsspess Of Spindle
Top will be thing Of the past in week
or more.
After Paper Mill.
Beaumont. Texas April "a Mcssrs Louis
Scurock and Randall Slverman, tn con
ncction with Secretary A. u. Chlldrcss Of
the Beaumont oil exchange aud board of
trade. are working on a proposition to get
a paper mill established in this city that
will bring a plant requiring 100000 OK.
penditure in Jefferson county and also he
the means OF employing a list of aborers
that will run up the numerous pay rolls of
Recently Mr.. Scunock went to Kansas.
where there is in operation successful
plant of this kind, and where they Use nat.
ural gas for fuel, artesian well water and
wheat straw for their raw material The
plant Is In every way n success and Nh
Scurlock and Mr.. Silverman are very much
impressed with the idea that plant of
this kind here would he money making
! proposition from the start. They have here
the natural gas or crude oil for fuel ut a
! price that is practically nothing; they can
: use distilled water or arteSun water and
they have rice straw in abundance and this
Is said to be both by the Kansas manu-
faeturer and l.. u. Post, the editor Of Papel
Mills. to he the best possible material fol
making superior grade of news and writ
Ing paper, to say nothing Of the cheanel
grades Beaumont Is in a position TO So
cure this plant, and they will doubtless 20
after it In Beaumont style.
Ohio Officer Expected.
Beaumont, Texas April 81. The sherin
from Ohio is expected to arrive here to
, | urht mr. In M ,unrpiuW RI tolo hat. a..