The Jacksboro News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 1905 Page: 3 of 9
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P&uy to sell its Dallas-Sabine Pass
line.
S. B. 91.—Permitting the formation
of corporations for growing, purchas-
ing and selling sugar cane and the
manufacturing of all of its by-products.
S. B. 123.—Raising the salary of the
members of the Board of Pardons from
$1,200 to $2,000 a year each.
S. B. 14C.—Fixing the fees of sher-
iffs for summoning Jurors.
S. B. 211.—Providing for the com-
pensation of County Commissioners as
ex-officio road commissioners.
S. B. 293.—Authorizing the forma-
tion of corporations to construct, own
and operate causeways across lagoons,
bays, etc., intended primarily to facili-
tate the building of a bridge or cause-
way from the mainland to Galveston
Island.
S. B. 17.—Prohibiting minors from
entering billiard, pool and bowling
rooms.
S. B. 37.—Providing for amend-
ments to motions for new trials.
S. B. 46.—Amending the statutes re-
lating to partition of estate so as to
make it the duty of the court to
ascertain by proof whether the prop-
erty is capable of division, thus ob-
viating the necessity of appointing
commissioners where property is not
divisible. Amends different sections
of statues from S. B. 45 on the same
subject.
Substitute for 8. Bs. 5 and 79.—
Amending the law relating to deposi-
tions so as to require that five days’
notice shall be given- to each party
of the time and place where the depo-
sition will be taken. This is intended
to prevent the taking of “Cooked”
depositions.
S. B. 86.—Providing for monthly
meetings of the boards of trustees of
State asylumns and the Confederate
Home and fixing the pay thereof.
H. B. 333.—Authorizing the State to
condemn property for the purpose of
erecting a mausoleum for the remains
of Dawson’s men and the Mier pris-
oners.
H. B. 419.—Permitting the owners of
property sold to the State or to any
city or town for taxes to redeem
same within two years.
H. B. 50.—Increasing the fees
charged for filing charters for do-
mestic corporations and granting per-
mits to foreign corporations.
H. B. 55.—Providing for the regu-
lation of the charges of water, light
and sewer companies by District
Courts.
H. B. 201.—Prohibiting rebating of
Insurance premiums.
H. B. 210.—Providing for the sub-
division of counties into school dis-
tricts where such counties have not
already been divided.
H. B. 399.—Giving the Railroad
Commission authority to require a rail-
road company to construct sidings or
spur tracks to private industries; auth-
orizing railroads to connect where
their tracks come within one mile of
each other and require them to con-
nect, upon order of the Railroad Com-
mission, where they come within one
half mile of each other.
H. B. 480.—Reorganizing the Texas
National Guard.
8. B. 43.—Providing for a system of
State, county and city depositories.
S. B. 63.—Requiring railroad com-
panies to maintain water closets at
passenger stations.
8. B. 69.—Repuiring County Clerks
to keep records open for inspection of
the public and giving any citizen the
right to make copies of same.
S. B. 89.—Authorizing private weigh-
ers to act where no Public Weighers
have been elected.
8. B. 124.—Providing for holding
epeclal terms of District Courts.
8. B. 142.—Authorizing the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Com-
pany to purchase the Jasper and East-
ern railroad.
S. B. 176.—The enjoin the use of
buildings for gambling.
S. B. 183.—To more clearly define
what is sufficient evidence of title to
enable owners of land to redeem same
under sales for taxes.
8. B. 218.—Act revising and codify-
ing the school laws of the State.
8. B. 258.—Providing for the office
of County Auditor in counties con-
taining cities of 25,000 or more inhabi-
tants.
8. B. 286.—Providing for probation
of Juvenile offenders; familiarly refer-
red to as the juvenile court bill.
8. B. 296.—Appropriating $3,700 for
Improvements at the Confederate
Home.
H. B. 588.—Authorizing the exten-
sion of the United States reclamation
act to territory in Texas In the Rio
Grande and Pecos valleys
8. B. 66.—Giving terminal compan-
ies the same rights as railroad com
panies, subjecting them to the regu-
lation of the Railroad Commission and
to the stock and bond law, and pro-
viding that they shall have no one
track more than twenty miles in
length.
S. B. 84.—Providng for the licensing
of dentists, and creating a State board
of examiners.
fl. B. 119.—Providing additional pro-
tection for the oyster beds of the
State.
H. B. 361.—The Kennedy omnibus
gross receipt tax bill.
S. B. 184.—To remit cvertain penal-
ties on land patents imposed by the
alienation act.
S. B. 185.—Providing for the sale of
mineral land belonging to the State
school fund, the price to be fixed by
the land commissioner at not less than
$25 per acre, to be payable at the rate
of $5 per acre per annum; no one to
be permitted to locate more than five
claims of twenty-one acres within a
radius of five miles.
8. B. 197.—Examining the property
of charitable instiutions for taxation.
S. B. 244.—Providing for the assess-
ment and collection of taxes or the
payment of debts due by defunct muni-
cipal corporations.
8. B. 9.—Extending the duties of
Jury commissioners and limiting the
number of times which any citizen
may be compelled to answer sum-
mons to a special venire facias.
S. B. 150.—To exempt graduates of
the law department of the University
of Texas from examination by the
State board of legal examiners
S. B. 67.—The Griggs bill, provid-
ing for drainage districts, passed in
pursuance of the Consttutlonal amend-
ment adopted last year.
S. B. 76.—Requiring notice of pend-
ing suits against real estate to be filed
with ths County Clerk, and defining
the effect of such notice.
S. B. 159.—The pure food bill. Pro-
vides for purity and full weight of mill
products.
S. B. 164.—Requiring County Treas-
urers to furnish detailed statements
on demand of Commissioners’ Court.
S. B. 210.—Providing that Jurors in
civil cases may be selected without
reference to poll tax payment.
H. B. 12.—The Bowser Insurance
bill. Taxes the gross premiums of all
insurance companies.
H. B. 441.—The general land bill.
The principal change is in the method
of filing applications for purchase,
which must be filed at the general
land office.
H. B. 563.—Providing for the incor-
poration and supervision of State
banks and trust companies.
H. B. 116.—Prohibiting the selling
of pools of horse races, except within
the inclosure where the horse race is
run and upon the day of the race.
H. B. 96.—Increasing the salaries of
district judges from $2,500 to $3,000
per annum.
H. B. 267.—Regulating C. O. D. Ship-
ments of liquor into local option pre-
cincts. Requires packages to be mark-
ed showing the contents. If packages
remain uncalled for for seven days it
must be returned to point of ship-
ment.
H. B. 387.—Appropriating $10,000 for
the maintenance of a home for the
widows of Confederate veterans and
the wives of Confederate veterans, to
be established at Austin.
H. B. 472.—Prescribing penalties for
diversion of electric current, water or
gas from meters.
H. B. 533.—The Hoskins delinquent
fax bill. Provides for the reassess-
ment of property, for the assessment
of property ■which has escaped assess-
ment in the past, and the enforcement
of collection of delinquent taxes. To
operate back to 1884.
H. B. 543.—Prohibiting the solicita-
tion of orders for liquor in local option
precincts.
Thos. B. Love of Dallas.
S. B. 40.—Providing for return of
inventory, list of claims due to and
by community estates.
H. B. 65—Amending the law relating
to mutual accident Insurance compan-
ies, so as to recognize the Internation-
al Travelers’ Association as such.
H. B. 241.—Authorizing Incorporated
towns and cities and counties to issue
bonds to discharge floating indebted-
ness.
H. B. 287.—Authorizing sheriffs to
make arrests upon warrants of Justices
ot the peace.
H. B. 320.—Amending the fraternal
insurance law so as to add the Nation-
al Railway Mail Clerk’s Association to
the lists of societies exemtp from the
operations of the law
H. B. 428.—Making it the duty of
tax collectors to seize property owned
by delinquent taxpayers in other coun-
ties to discharge the amounts due for
taxes and in the cunoty of the collec-
tor’s Jurisdiction; provided further
that no collector shall be allowed cred-
it for delinquencies unless he makes
oath that he has exhausted all the
means provided by law for the collec-
tion of the taxes.
H. B. 466.—Levying an annual occu-
pation tax of $5,000 upon persons who
make a business of loaning money up-
on the assignment of future wages.
The purpose of it is to put the "Shy-
locks” out of business.
H. B. 485.—Providing for the incor
poratlon of printers’ mutual fire in
surance companies.
H. B. 332.—Providing for the listing
of automobiles for taxing.
8. B. 71.—Prohibiting any Insurance
company from doing busines in this
State without permit from the Com-
missioner of Insurance, and providing
that if they remove any suit frpm thd
courts of this State to Federal Courts
they shall forfet their permit and not
be allowed to do business in this State
for a period of three years.
S. B. 105.—Prohibiting the future
use of the corporation name orlike sign
or advertisements of corporation
which have forfeited their charters or
permits by any member or officer
thereof.
8. B. 165.—Providing for the revoca-
tion of any doctor’s license for mal-
practice.
S. B. 265.—Providing for the ap-
pointment of district and county sur-
veyors to fill vacancies.
H. B. 49.—Providing for the com-
pensation of court stenographers by
counties.
H. B. 121.—Providng for the amend-
ment of defective bonds and recoguiz-
ances in appeal cases.
H. B. 131.—Limiting the time in
which power of sale in deeds of trust
and mortgages may be exercised to ten
years.
H. B. 164.—Provdlng for the inspec-
tion of fruit trees and nurseries so as
to prevent the introduction of certain
fruit tree diseases.
H. B. 193.—Amending the act of the
Twenty-Seventh Legislature prohibit-
ing the payment of employes in mer-
chandise checks so as to eliminate the
exceptions made in the act.
H. B. 225.—Making it the duty of
railway companies to fence their
right of way in stock law districts the
same as elsewhere.
H. B. 227.—Requiring tile controller
to furnish tax assessors with a list of
all lands not assessed in any
since 1900 and prescribing penalties
for the non-assessment of same. The
act is intended primarily to enforce
the assessment and collection of taxes
upon school lands In Ochiltree Coun-
ty, where the claim is made that such
lands are not subject to taxation until
patented.
H. B. 248.—Prescribing punishment
for persons who aid in the escape of
prisoners convicted of a misdemeanor.
H. B. 266.—The Wilson bill, provid-
ing for the organization of irrigation
districts'.
H. B. 200.—Authorizing the State
board of education to purchase State
warrants for the account of the per-
manent school fund
H. B. 347.—Providing for the eradi-
cation of scab in sheep.
H. B. 357.—Providing that corpora-
tions may convey land through their
attorneys In fact without the use of the
coporate seal where the power of at-
torney was made under seal.
H. B. 389.—Providing for deposi-
tories for cities and towns created un-
der the general law.
H. B. 410.—Providing that mill pro-
ducts shall be sold at full weights,
and regulating the marks and brands
upon same.
H. B. 411.—Providing for the refund-
ing of certain State bonds maturing
July 1, 1906.
H. B. 413.—Providing that witnesses
attending the district court and grand
jury in counties other than those of
their residence shall receive mileage
and per diem. Under the present law
they are not paid unless they give
bond.
H. B. 548.—Providing that the ques-
tion of local option shall not be sub-
mitted until two years after local op-
tion shall have become effective.
H. B. 599.—Limiting the number of
squirrels or fish which may bo taken
for market within any one week.
H. B. 617.—Regulating the drilling,
operation and abandonment of oil
wells so as to protect the oil fields
of the State from fire and salt water.
Houhe Joint Resolution No. 2.—Pro-
viding for the submission of a Consti-
tutional amendment authorizing coun
AN AUDITING WANTED.
ties to levy a tax of not exceeding 15c
ym
on the $100 for the payment of jurors.
Senate Joint Resolution No. 4.—To
amend the constitution so as to author-
ize the Legislature to exempt the en-
dowment funds of colleges and univer-
sities from taxation.
Local BHIst
The Legislature passed the follow-
local bills.
Stock laws for the following named
counties: Cooke, Coleman, Knox, Mc-
Lennan, San Patriixio, Limestone, Cor-
yell, Kaufman, Rains, Bastrop, Bee,
Camp, Caldwell, Cllhoun, Cass, Co-
manche, Erath, Hill, Harrison, Hop-
kins, Jackson, Bosque, Hill, Harrison,
HopkinB, Jackson, Bosque. Montgom-
ery, Morris, Upshur, Parker, Rusk,'
Red River, Titus, Trinity, Victoria,
Van Zandt, Wise, Walker. Wood, Wil-
son, Comal, Nueoes, Bexar, Eastland,
Cherokee, Travis, Clay.
Altering Jurisdiction of the Coun-
ty Courts of the following named coun-
ties: Gray, Hutchinson. Trinity, Shel-
by, Titus, San Angustine, Chambers,
Sabine, Dimmit, Newton.
Creating road systems for the fol-
low named counties: Cherokee, Guad-
alupe, Bee, Jackson. Johnson. Archer,
Kaufman, Smith, Comanche, Colorado,
Camp, Upshur, Lamar, Ellis, Falls,
Cass, Titus, Cooke, Morris, Henderson,
Rains, Comal, Harris, Caldwell, Dallas,
Robertson, Bastrop, Coleman, Jeffer-
son, San Saba, Bowie, Tyler, Harrison.
Fixing time for holding court in the
following named Judicial Districts:
Thirty-First, Thirty-Fifth, Twelfth
Sixty-Second, First, Third, Sixty-
Third, Thirty-First.
Charters or charter amendments, for
the following named cities: Galves-
ton, Sherman, Houston, Paris, Austin,
El Paso, Marshall, Waco, Denison, Cle-
burne, Beaumont, Dallas, Fort Worth.
Amendments to hide and animal in-
spection law as concerns the follow-
ing named counties: Zavalla, Uvalde,
Runnels, Mitchell, Taylor, Deaf Smith,
Jeff Davis, Lubbock, Cochran, Hockley
and Crosby.
Reorganizing the following named
Judicial Districts: Twenty-Third,
Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth, Thirty-
Sixth, Forty-Ninth, Thirty-Second,
Twenty-Seventh, Thirty-Third, Thirty-
Fifth, Seventh, Twenty-eighth.
Creating independent school dis-
tricts for Ferris, Grand Saline, Bal-
linger, Lancaster, Hallettsville, Luf-
kin, Jacksonville, Midlothian, San An-
tonio, Itasca, Floydada, Gause, Ama-
rillo.
Granting city of Bryan right to sell
certain property.
Attaching Hockley and Cochran
Counties to Lubbock County for sur-
veying purposes.
To define boundaries of Colorado
County.
To protect Galveston seawall proper-
ty.
Requiring butchers of Kamea Coun-
ty to give bond.
Disorganizing Loving County.
An Ellis County Editor Suggests an
Examination of Records.
Recent developments at the
State capital suggest the need of a
complete accounting of the various
departments of the State govern-
ment. For thirty years the busi-
ness of the State has been conduct-
ed without an accounting bv expert
accountants. While the affairs of
State have been in democratic
hands, and generally accepted, hon-
est ones, still it is the part of wis-
dom to know that everything is
straight, and the official who lias
year | conducted his department upon the
some high plane he would conduct
his private business can not object,
if lie should object, more’s the rea-
son why an auditing should be had.
The Slate has a number of large
institutions, for the maintenance
of which vast sums are expended
each year. The heads of these de-
partments and institutions are usu-
ally changed with every incoming
administration, and it’s the merest
foolishness to shut our eyes and say
everything is all right and go
ahead without ever an accounting
other than that made by the outgo-
ing head. When a railroad changes
agents at any station, be it ever
so small, an auditor is sent to check
out the old man and cheek in the
new. This is simply business cau-
tion, vet the great State of Texas
has gone along for thirty years,
spending millions of dollars each
year, and no thorough accounting
lias ever been made. A few years
ago an Austin bank, with which an
ox-treasurer was connected, failed,
having on deposit over a quarter of
a million State money. It was re-
paid, but the fact was developed
that lliese deposits were made in
violation of law. It may be possi-
ble that other practices are in
’vogue that are inhibited by law. A
few years ago the aeounts of a cer-
tain penitentiary official came up
short, and are still short. The pres-
ent legislature owes it to itself,
owes it to the officials at the head
of the various institutions, owes it
to the democratic party, by whose
grace it is in power, to authorize
the appointment of a committee of
expert accountants to audit the
books of the State government. It
is a big task. One that will require
much time and the expenditure of
possibly $25,000, but it will be the
best investment the State ever
made.
Big business concerns often em-
ploy expert accountants to audit
their books and devise better sys-
tems for hook keeping, office man-
agement, etc. The State is transact-
ing certain business for the people
and the people are entitled to the
very best system, the most econom-
ical system that can be devised. We
should not wait until some great
scandal in State affairs makes such
an investigation necessary. This
work done now will tend more than
any other one thing to prevent any
misconduct of the State's business
in the future. While it in ay be
contended that no necessity exists
for such an examination, it cannot
he denied that it is desirable, and
that the benefit to accrue to the
Slate therefrom, if properly con-
ducted, will be of inestimable value
in the future. Such an investiga-
tion is no reflection upon any State
official, present or past, but if there
are defects in our system of carry-
ing the State business, and admit-
tedly there are, there should be no
hesitancy in searching it out and
remedying it. The sooner the bet-
ter.—Waxahachie Enterprise.
ALL BROKEN DOWN.
No Sleep—No Appetite—Just a Con*
tinual Backache.
Joseph McCauley, of 144 Sholto
6treet, Chicago. Sachem of Tecumseh
Lodge, says: “Two years ago my
health was com-
pletely broken down.
My back ached and
was so lame that at
times I was hardly
able to dress myself.
I lost my appetite
and was unable to
sleep. There seemed
to be no relief until
I took Doan's Kid-
ney Pills; but four boxes of this rem-
edy effected a complete and perma-
nent cure, if suffering humanity knew
the value of Doan’s Kidney Pills they
would use nothing else, as it ia the
only positive cure I know.”
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milhurn Co.. Buffalo. N.Y,
A Deep Lake.
In a survey of the Scottiish lakes a
depth of 1017 feet was reached In
Loch Moray. This proves to be the
deepest lake In the United Kingdom.
Only seven deeper lakes are known in
Europe, four being In Norway and
three In Italy.
The Present Rate Law.
The duties of the present Interstate
Commerce Commission are to correct
all discriminations In railroad rates.
If it finds that an unjust rate is in
effect, the railroad is notified. If it
declines to change It, the Commission
cun bring suit in Court and if the
Court decides In favor of the Com-
missioners' finding, the railroad must
obey, or its officers may be brought up
for contempt of court and summarily
oealt with.
Actions speak louder than word*
True lovo holds hands in silence.
English Gardens and Ours.
There is a fundamental difference be-
tween the English and the American
garden. The Englishman's garden is
well nigh as essential as his house. It
is like an extra room to the residence.
It is for the family rather than for the
public. lit therefore works itself into
the developing consciousness of chil-
dren, and garden love becomes as
much a part of the person as books
and furniture and music do. The
American garden is likely to be all in
the front yard. It is usually of the
look-at-me kind. It is made for the
public to see. This may contribute to
public spirit and civic betterment, but
it loses in originality and vitality.—L*
H. Bailey in Garden Magazine.
Pistol Which Killed Lincoln.
The derringer pistol used by John
Wilkes Booth in assassinating Presi-
dent Lincoln is in a safe in the office
of the Judge advocate general of the
army in Washington, having been in
the custody of the Judge advocate gen-
eral since the trial of the conspirators.
This has been brought out by the re-
cent sale in Philadelphia of a pistol
with which the crime was said to have
been committed. The purchaser wrote
on to the war department and learned
that he had been victimized
HONEST CONFESSION.
Yes, She’s Great in that Way.
Truly Dallas is getting to be a
great city. If one could tell it no
other way, they could tell by the
condition of their municipal affairs.
Every few weeks the municipal
commission has to try some of the
police department. They take tes-
timony, hear arguments, wisely de-
liberate for awhile and then acquit
the defendant. They “find no fault
in him.” Then they all 6hakc
hands, congratulate each other on
their cleanliness, and straightway
look for another job of whitewash-
ing to do; while the gambling
houses and the saloons on Sunday
run wide open, and men are sand-
bagged, robbed and often murdered
if they get from under the glare of
au electric light.—Arlington Jour-
nal.
Ever notice It—men stretch their
legs, women and trees their limbs.
A Doctor’s Talk on Food.
There are no fairer set of men on
earth than the doctors, and when they
find they have been in error they are
usually apt to make honest and> man-
ly confession of the fact.
A case in point Is that of an emi-
nent practitioner, one of the good
old school, who lives in Texas. His
plain, unvarnished tale needs no
dressing up:
“I had always had an intense preju-
dice, which I can now see was un-
warrantable and unreasonable, against
all muchly advertised foods. Hence,
I never read a line of the many ‘ads.’
of Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food till
last winter.
“While in Corpus Chrlstl for my
health, and visiting my youngest son,
who has four of the ruddiest, health-
iest little boys I ever saw. I ate my
first dish of Grape-Nuts food for
supper with my little grand-
sons. I became exceedingly fond
of it and have eaten a pack-
age of It every week since, and find it
a delicious, refreshing and strengthen-
ing food, leaving no ill effects whatever,
causing no eructations (with which I>
was formerly much troubled), no
sense of fullness, nausea, nor distress
of stomach in any way.
"There 19 no other food that agrees
with me so well, or sits as lightly or
pleasantly upon my stomach as this
does. I am stronger and more active
since I began the use of Grape-Nuts
than I have been for 10 years, and ant
no longer troubled with nausea and
Indigestion.” Name given by Postiim
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Look la each pkg. for the famone
little hook, "Tho Road to WollvUle^
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