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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1894,
A. IT. BELO 4 CO., POBT.TSHISBS.
Also of Thb Dallas Uoiniko Nkw», Dallai,
Tex.
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class mattor. .
Office of Publication, Not 2108 and 2110 Mo-
cbanic Street, Galveston.
Eastern office, 00 Tribune Building, New York.
THURSDAY. JANUARY <1. 1894.
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Galveston, Tex., December 1.
TEACHING OF OUR RECENT ECO-
NOMIC EXPERIENCES.
Harper's Weekly has a timely article
regarding the great army of unemployed
people for whom the citizens of New
York are trying earnestly to provide. It
says:
The churches of New York, as a rule,
were not decorated on Christmas day; more
frequently than not the Sunday school
children were dismissed without the usual
gifts. This was that the money might be
given where li was so badly needed. All
this is well, but it is not enough. Each
person should give to the full measure of
his ability. The condition of one trade
will give some idea of the distress in New
Tork city. The men, women and children
engaged in making clothing under the
sweating system number about 30,000.
Twenty thousand of these are unemployed,
and on an average at least one other per-
son is dependent on each of such wage-
earners. That means that In this one
trade 40,000 persons are without the means
of subsistence. When these wretched peo-
ple were as busy as they could be we
pitied them because of the starvation
rates of compensation. Now they are
entirely without means.
It will bo remembered that The News
warned the demagogues and agitators
when they began their crusade against
what they found it to their own inter-
est to call the "sweating system" that
the result would be to break down the
establishments In which many thou
sand poor women were earning a living
and to leave them in absolute want.
There, are some lines of business in this
country and In every country that can
not be expected to pay high wages.
When attacked by labor regulating cru-
saders who demand impossible hours and
wages such institutions fail, or the capi-
tal invested in them is withdrawn for
use in some business beyond the reach
of demagogues end their greedy con-
stituents. The result of such exploits
of intolerance and disturbance may be
seen to-day in New Y'ork and in other
cities of this country. The so-called
"sweating system" had its hardships
and its low wages, but it had some re-
deeming attributes that are now sadly
anissed by at least forty thousand wo-
men and children in New Y'ork. Who
has profited in any degree by chasing
them out of employment? But the ef-
fects of the blind crusades into which
some of the trades unions of the coun-
try have permitted extremists of their
organizations to lead them do not stop
With any one instance; with any one vic-
tory they may hava gained; with any
single battle they may have lost. The
uncertainty of the growing demands of
some labor organizations undoubtedly
rendered the investment of capital in
the lines most affected uncertain and
hazardous. When this was done of
course investors were warned away from
such lines. The capital used in making
cheap clothing at the homes of sewing
women is not the only money that grew
timid and left the dangerous precincts
of industrial politics. Mr. David A
Wells lias an interesting article in the
current Forum on "The Teaching of
Recent Economic Experiences." He
says: "These experiences may be briefly
summed up by saying that probably no
other country has ever ine.urred in so
short a time such an amount of financial
and industrial disturbance and disaster
the effect of which, expressed in terms
of money loss, aggregates hundreds of
millions of dollars, and finds illustration
in part In the following particulars.'
The writer then proceeds to give some
alarming estimates of the losses from
which the country has suffered, and says
Finally, In order to make this summar
complete, there must be added the loss,
incurred by the owners of the shops and
factories who were obliged to suspend oper
ations; und, above all, by the thousands o
men and women, representing every form
and grade of labor, who, by reason of
widespread limitations of their usual o|
portunities for employment, were unable
for considerable periods to earn wage!-
To state specifically in terms of money
how great these losses have been in the
aggregate is not possible; but lew who
have made the matter a subject of in-
vestigation will doubt that a thousand
millions of dollars, or more than one-third
of the amount of the national debt at the
close of the war, would be an under
lather than an overestimate. But, be this
as it may, it is at least certain that the
aggregate of these losses, by whatever
method measured or expressed, was very
great; and, further, that their burden tell
most grievously and disproportionately
upon that portion of the population of the
United States which was least able to
bear It—namely, those who depend upon
each day's earnings to meet each day's
needs.
Mr. Wells then proceeds to cite the
causes of all these failures and losses.
He traces them to, first, distrust in an
unsound and unstable currency; lack of
education; delays In legislative reme-
dies; prejudices against banking institu-
tions, etc. It is a curiosity of intellec-
tual rnyoipy- that this great iialiticul
economist should have (stopped short
after having cited the unsettled condi-
tion of money, of capital' and of banking
ns a chief cause of the shrinkage front
whiieh the country suffers. Why not go
a step further and cite another great
cause of the trouble—the uncertainty
of the demands and threats of labor.
Intelligent laboring men throughout this
great country of ours are beginning to
open their eyes. They aro strong enough
and fair enough to hear the truth. Led
and encouraged by self-seeking dema-
gogues in and out of their own ranks,
they have in hundreds of instances turned
the fat into the lire. They contributed
as much as any one force to stop rail-
road building. They broke the backs of
thousands of factories and mills. They
combined against infantile institutions,
Wholly unable to meet their demands,
and pulled them up by the roots. They
grew able finally to use city councils,
legislatures and even the congress of the
country in their business of exacting
more in many Instances than capital
could pay. They broke up the "sweat-
ng system." They pulled many Indus-
lal institutions of the country down
upon their own heads. The wisest of
hem know that this is true. The con-
ervative men with families to support
listed the radical policy that spread
like a contagious disease and locked up
commerce and industries of the
ountry until capital began to flow out
i great golden river. The disastrous
eononilc experiences of the country are
raceable to Inordinate ventures of spec-
ulation, to the selfish waywardness of
protected monopolies, to uncertainties
f capital and to the unstable monetary
system of the country; but less than half
s told in this. They are quite as clearly
aceable to the disturbing methods and
impossible requirements of organized
ibor, that did not hesitate for years to
im deadly blows at every investment
and every industry it could not control.
One of the most encouraging symptoms
of returning confidence and prosperity
is found in the willingness of intelligent
members and leaders of labor organiza-
tions to see and to admit the disastrous
and suicidal folly of such a course and
to free themselves of designing dema-
gogues and reckless adventurers who
have brought to them and to their fami-
es so much privation of normal and
ightful opportunity and so much moral
or physical distress.
attention of the representatives of the
people, from senators and congressmen
down to aldermen of one-horse towns,
lb' says: "The people will demand that
their representatives practice economy
in the public expenditures which neces-
sity enforces upon them in their private
expenditures. A short session and but
little legislation would be appreciated at
a time like this."
negligent homicide and wounding. Peo-
pie are entirely too careless of the live;
and UmbB of others.
The Herald says of the Santa Tnmas
plantation:
This beautiful plantation was opened up
by Messrs. Prank Kabb and Fred I',.
Starck, jr., two energetic young men, In
J890, under the firm name of Habb &
Starck. It comprises over :!0,G00 acres
fronting on the river six miles from this
city. About 500 acres of it is Irrigated by
means of pumping machinery. Although
It is generally understood that the last | so lately started, San Tooias is one of the
before i lm>st highly Improved plantations In tills
tomes, otioic Kection, i|k> energetic young owners hav-
always
i
severe norther
Easter.
What this country needs is a great
machine that will pump the fog out of
the heads of so-called statesmen.
The Rocky Mountain News uses Gov-
ernor Waite in another striking cartoon.
It has him seated upon a wet rock,
vainly fishing for indifferent and dis-
gusted populists, democrats and repub-
Do not make the condition of the
hronlc indolent easier and better than
the condition of worthy people in your
midst who toil and economize continually
in order to make ends meet.
Ing erected o very handsome residence,
tine stables, barns and ether outhouses.
Sugar ea.ne and corn are so far the princi-
pal crops grown, but arrangements are be-
ing made to cultivate fruits, such as or-
anges, grapes, bananas, etc..on a large
scale. Two crops of corn of Co to GO bush-
els per acre are gathered yearly, and the
yield of cane is enormous, a market for It
being at hand in the sugar mill of Mr.
George Brulay of the Rio Grande planta-
tion. The Homevllle plantation Is one of
the prettiest and most highly improved
plantations in Cameron county, it Is lo-
cated at Santa. Maria, twenty-eight indies
Allegations of Illegal Sale of Franchises,
Etc., to the Katy in Violation of
Charter Prerogatives.
Means. Ills bait is an enormous sinker ... ... .
k ..in v (!,„ la "Pa v till rlplits with I "bove Brownsville, and comprises about
bearing the woids lay all debts wttn | ^ acreH fron.tlng on rlver. This
57 cent dollars." The governor has by | property belongs to .Mr. ~ ' ""
him a basket filled with such bait as
"Mexican dollars," "Repudiation," etc.
Tt is raining on the angler and he is
catching no fish. This cartoon teaches
that the Rocky Mountain News and
others have tried tills same bait on the
country and have discovered that it Is
no good. _________
SNAP SHOTS.
The cost should always be counted in
advance.
One's awkwardness is sometimes his
strong point.
Some weak mortals are too sentimen-
tal to be just.
If you have a bad record break it.
The exceptions sometimes multiply
until they make a new rule.
Do not depend upon somebody else for
your independence.
When the funny man gets out of
humor he gets out of bread.
STATE PRESS.
TEXAS SUGAR LANDS.
An enterprising Texas firm imports su-
gar from Cuba and refines it, and it is
not located near the wharves, but away
up the breadth of a county from the
coast and in the woods. Yet all around
the location of that firm and in fact
across the state there are sugar lands
the praise of which could not well be
exaggerated in level comparison with the
best elsewhere in the world. The manu-
facturing enterprise did not start with
importing or get its location from the
Idea of importing. It started with raising
sugar in Fort Bend county and grew.
The capital of the firm became sufficient
to manufacture more than their produc-
tion of raw material and hence the de-
velopment above referred to. Now what
are the obstacles in the way of producing
sugar in Texas to keep that and other
sugar houses going and supply a good
share of an unfailing market? Both the
land and climate are all right. There is
some difficulty as yet about getting the
necessary labor. There is no real or per-
manent necessity for such difficulty and
no one with his eyes open to the condi-
tion of northern and European farm-
ers will doubt that it requires simply
good management to bring the labor and
the land together; provided, however,
there can be a stop put to further un-
certainty about the conditions which are
to govern that and other industries. A
tariff settlement is needed, uncertainty
being the worst of all conditions to act
as a deterrent in business forecasts. If
tariff reform even acts adversely upon
some manufacturing interests it will pre-
sumably turn more attention to such as
have a connection with the natural fer-
tility of the country. At present, how-
ever, some industries are in the plight
that they can neither get protection nor
free trade. Protection would apparent!}'
do something for American sugar pro-
duction, but it is doomed by the Wilson
bill. Meanwhile the anti-immigration
and contract labor laws "protect" would-
be enterprises adversely—Into (nothing-
ness before tlipy are instinct even with
embryonic life. There is no real free
trade where there Is no free movement
of labor, and this it Is pretty well deter-
mined there shall not be. To render the
ca.se still worse for American sugar lands
and production that might come to con-
vert them into a source of vast content
and well earned wealth, some citizens
want to go off and annex foreign parts.
Democrats may not have the best right
to complain, but protectionists are per-
haps a trilie inconsistent when they look
to taking in Hawaii and forget that they
are leaving rich land in our own country
undeveloped. This country has got a
mixture of incongruous policies. The
result is necessarily injurious. It is only
the more so because it is frequently
changing or threatening to change. Thus
many who would undertake works re-
quiring an expenditure of considerable
capital are unwilling to do so chiefly be-
cause they do not know what they can
calculate upon. The first step to get
right in such a case Is to realize what
is wrong.
Of course young democrats of these
modern times occasionally quote Thomas
Jefferson, but they do nut consider him
in it.
If you wish to be independent keep the
bank in debt to you.
Frank Rabb.
He has 100 acres under cultivation, on
which he employs a system of Irriga-
tion, raising enormous crops of corn,
cotton, fruit, etc. Hay Is also one of the
largest and best paying crops. It can
lie cut every six weeks, and yields eight
tons per acre.
The San Jacinto Sentinel says;
The district court of Polk county has
adjourned after completing a very heavy
d..ekeL. Judge Illghtower and Attorney
Maitin will next try what virtue there
is in "rural jurisprudence," as the En-
terprise calls It. In -Montgomery county
on the second Monday in January, 1801.
Should the editor of the Enterprise have
any vague ideas that oil account of
"rural jurisprudence" crime will go un-
punished, as insinuated, let him experi-
ment with the criminal side of the docket
and he will, we 'believe, see displayed
very forcibly the motto: "The way of
the transgressor is hard."
We have on our hands no war, in our
nuidst no pestilence, over our fields no
famine. In the face of these facts, a
dangerous policy of paternalism has
taught people to depend upon the gov-
ernment or upon somebody else and to
yearn and clamor for more than they
can reasonably expect.
New methods of taxation might not
be so bad if they did not always mean
more taxes.
The following sensible sentence from
the recent message of Governor McKin-
ley to the Ohio legislature is sailed to the
What the Papers Throughout the State
Are Talking About.
Byron, with his usual egotism, said
I have not loved the world nor the world
me, but let us part fair foes, or words
to that effect. Brother McLemore of
the Corpus Christ! Caller has more of
the vanity of the great English bard,
but he takes leave of a bad year this
way:
Good bye, old year; you have been a
hard one) but we'll let by-gones be by-
gones. It Is always consoling, no mat-
ter how bad a thing, to say it might have
been worse,
This is beter than Hood's good bye to
the eleventh month in England:
This November endeth cold and moet
perverse;
But the months to follow sure will pinch
us worse.
The weather in Texas during the last
months of the past year was perfect and
there is no room now for a long win-
ter.
The Brownsville Herald thinks:
The best place to inaugurate reforms
is in the 'home. Induce the fathers and
mothers of the land to Inoculate their
children with reform laws and the legis-
lative bodies will be relieved of much
labor.
The Corpus Christ! Sun says:
The country around the beautiful little
trnvn of Portland is fast becoming popu-
lated by a thriving class of farmers....
Hon. W. H. Grain has ever been a faith-
ful and untiring advocate of the Interests
of his constituents, and the man who
expects 'to warm his 'seat In congres-
sional halls will be doomed to bitter dis-
appointment for many a long year to
come.
The Sun makes this declaration of in-
dependence:
The Sun owes allegiance to no class,
sect or creed. It is strictly an Independ-
ent democratic paper, which will always
be found in the front ranks battling for
the principles it believes to be right.
The Pearsall News says:
The "poverty party" at the residence
of Rev. W. S. Wright Friday night was
qui'te a success. A good crowd of young
people were present. The name of the
party will no doubt suggest to the read-
er the main point of the affair; it was
for the young people to dress in such a
way as to represent poverty. And some
fulfilled expectations, judging from ap-
pearance of clothing, patches, hats and
shoe.i. In the parlor music of a rather
jumbled character was indulged in. A
Ik'ht repast of crackers and water was
enjoyed.
The Houston Herald says:
The Waco Telephone should not kick
about the Waco News stealing its tele-
graph matter. Very few people see it In
the latter paper That fight between
Fly and Gresham for congress from the
(ia'.veslon district will be a 'hummer.
Gresham's name Is Holdfast* and Fly is
known to be a holy terror when he goes
after anything. Before the fun is over
hide and hair will be scattered from one
end of the district to the other.
That is not the way in this district.
Everything is done decently and in
order.
San Antonio has what seems to be re-
quired of Galveston, what the Express
calls a soup kitchen, for the benefit of
the poor. The kitchen has been open
for three weeks and during that time 988
meals have been served. A meal con-
sists of rich soup with vegetables and
meat and an abundance of bread. Only
$43 had been expended in the time
named.
The Express pays this characteristic
compliment to this paper:
The News has made all its money in
a protection country, and while it may
spurn tli,' ladder by which it climbed
from an obs aire journal with a Washing-
ton hand press, a shirt-tail full of pled
type and a weekly mail service to a po-
sition second only to that of the Ex-
press, The News does not want free trade
any more than the Express does. It is
playing to the galleries.
This is about as good as anything said
of its contemporaries by the Express.
They all seem to think a, kick is to be
expected from that quarter and take it
as a matter of course. The blows are
not as hurtful as they seem. The club
of the Express is stuffed with Brann.
Wags and wits indulge their humor at
the expense of their best friends and
the leading trait of the editor of the
Express inclines the same' way. It
must find play no matter who is the ob-
ject.
The Brownsville Herald says:
Thait to-be-eointinued series of "types
of Texas ladies" which the San Antonio
Express is running in its Sunday edi-
tions is likely to cost Colonel Grloe a
number of damage suits, we fear. Not
one of the portraits so far published has
appeared even passably handsome, and
the feelings of ill' lair originals must be
dreadfully lacerated—to say 'nothing of
the damage done to Texas' reputation for
pretty women.
The Brownsville Las Dos Republicas
(Two Republics) learns that C. L. Rog-
ers and George Bigford, who are charged
with the murder of Juan and Gabriel
Longoria, have been released at Oakville
under a $2500 bond.
Without referenoe to this case It may
be safely said that Texas is in great,
need of un example of punishment for
BELL COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Bolton, Tex., Jan. 3.—The county com-
missioners' court met Monday and was in
session until Wednesday noon. Some tax
assessments were collected and some new
paupers placed on (he list. The quarterly
report of the county clerk of warrants
issued during tlhe last quarter of 1893 was
examined and approved. The court will
receive anil open bids to do the county
practice on ithe second Monday in Feb-
ruary.
The report of Tax Collector Gully of
taxes collected during November, 1893, was
examined and approved. It shows a total
of $3258 2'S'/a collected.
The county treasurer's report for the
quarter ending December 30. 1893, was ex-
amined and approved. He has received
from all funds during the quarter $7618 70,
and paid out for all purposes $72?,0 27, and
,he has a cash balance on hand of $17,234 31.
George Wolston was appointed public
weigher for Belton and his bond fixed at
$2000.
The county attorney was Instructed to
bring suit on certain notes due the county
for school land.
Georgetown, Tex., Jan. 3.—Following is
the text of the quo warranto procedure
alnst the Taylor, Bastrop and Houston
allway, branch of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, from Taylor to Houston, which
111 come before Judge Morris for hearing
January 22:
The State of Texas, County of William-
son—In the District Court of Said County,
January Term, 1894—To Said Court: In the
name and by the authority of the state of
is comes now A. S. Burleson, of his
own accord, as district attorney of the
Twenty-sixth judicial district of the state
of Texas, and presents to and In this hon-
orable court this information in the nature
of a quo warranto against the Taylor,
Bastrop and Houston railway company and
Joins herein the Missouri, Kansas and Tex-
as hi,:!way coinnany of Texas, which Is an
association of numbers of persons acting
within this state as a corporation without
being legally incorporated: R. C. Foster,
who resides in Grayson county, acting as
director and third vice president of said
association; E. M. Iteardon, who resides in
Dallas countv; John M. Simpson, %yho re-
sides in Dallas county; J. M. Llndsey, who
resides in Cook county; O. T. Lyon, who re-
sides in Grayson county, acting as directors
of said association; N. S. Ernst, who re-
sides in Grayson county, acting as treasurer
thereof; lieber Page, who resides In Gray-
son county, acting aa auditor thereof; J.
W. Maxwell, who resides in Grayson coun-
ty acting as superintendent thereof; C.
T. Mcllvaney, who resides in Grayson coun-
tv, acting as master mechanic thereof; .1.
W. Allen, who resides in Grayson county,
a citing as general freight agent thereof,
and A. A. Allen, who resides in Grayson
county, acting as general manager thereof,
^l»onr.itnlr\ hn\Hn£r ViPPtl llt'TClO-
THE LATE GENERAL NORTON.
Veiasco, Tex., Jan. 3.—The intelligence of
General Norton's death received here yes,
terday in the Galveston News creates pro-
found sorrow. General Norton's friends
are among Brazoria- county's oldest and
most honored citizens, who, though differ-
ing from him in politics, always held him
in high esteem.
Last week the general Visited Veiasco
and Qulntana and was banqueted by the
state press association then at tills port.
A splendid photograph was taken of him
standing on the hotel gallery surrounded
by the sons of his old friends.
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LOCAL OPTION.
San Marcos, Tex., Jan. 2.—The commis-
sioners' court convened in special session
yesterday and to-day ordered an election
on local option for this precinct, to take
place on the 27th of this month. Local
option has been in force here for the last
two years, having carried by only two
votes majority, ilo.tli sides are determined
and will contest every Inch of the ground
but the pros claim that local option has
proved to be such a decided benefit to this
community that nutny heretofore opposed
to It have joined their ranks.
PORT OF VELASCC
Veiasco, Tex., Jan. 3.—Next week the
steamboat Edna, thoroughly overhauled
for accommodating passengers, will be put
in the Brazos from its mouth to the town
of Columbia. She will be run by Captains
Thomas Gove and B. G. Loving. This,
with the two running to Galveston, will
make six steamboats and two steam
launches running In the Brazos.
There Is a move on foot by a company
owning land along the San Bernard river
to put a steamboat in that stream also.
SHERIFFS' DEPARTMENT.
TNo matter accepted for this column that
does not bear the signature of a member
of the Sheriffs' association of Texas.]
[The attention of sheriffs and others en
titled to the use of this department of
The News is called to the fact that no no-
tice or communication calling for the arrest
of a person or persons by name or descrip-
tion will be published unless such notice or
communication states that the party whose
name is signed to same holds a warrant of
arrest against such person or persons for
the offense with which they may be
charged. No exception in any instance will
be made to this rule.—The News.]
BOWIE COUNTY.
Texarkana, Tex., Jan. 3.—All officers look
out for and arrest two negroes, aged 20
or 25 years, both black. Anderson Riley Is
about five feet live Inches high, weight
about 135, large eyes, a little mustache
Billy the Kid is about five feet five or
six Inches high, weighs about 145 or 150,
has a little mustache. Both dress usually
well, and wear overshoes; both gamblers
are known in most of the principal town
in Texas, r hold warrant for them, charged
with theft from the person. Arrest, hold
them and wire me at Texarkana, Texas,
C. H. Moores, sheriff Bowie county, Texas,
DALLAS COUNTY.
Dallas, Tex„ Jan. 3.—Stolen, five head
of stock, three mules and two mares; "one
black mule 4 ye.irs old, branded DI on
right thigh, marked In both ears; one
brown mule 3 or 4 years old, branded D I
on right thigh, marked in one ear; one
small ~ mouse-colored mule, about 3 year
old, has Spanish brand on hip, but don'
remember which one; one iron-gray mare
3 years old, no i,rands; one roan mare f
years old. Addre-s Information to W. R
Dodd, Alvarado, Texas, or Ben E. Cabell,
sheriff Dallas county.
HARRIS COUNTY.
Houston, Tex., Jan. 3.—Stolen: Iron gray
stud pony, about 14% hands high, 5 or
years old, brand, I AW connected with half
circle over lit on left fore shoulder; short
mane and thin uil; had un double-rig- sad-
dle; $5 reward I .r pony to George Ellis,
shorlff; or Louis Ithod'.-s, Houston, Tex.
Strayed or stolen: Bay horse about 12
hands high, small white spot in face, one
ear cut, branded S S on rlg'ht hip. Ten
dollars reward for return of horse. George
Ellis, sheriff, or M. SCher, 1014 Preston
street, Houston.
KAUFMAN COUNTY.
Kaufman, Tex., Jan. 3.—All officers look
out for and arrest Clinton Rogers, six feet
high, very slender, about 20 years old, dark
complexion, dark hair, blue eyes; riding
light bay horse 15 bands high, white spot
on forehead, branded It K on left shoulder.
Wanted for the it of above animal, a 38
Smith & Wesson pistol, red leather saddle,
und a black vest. Ten dollars ireward. Wire
me at Kaufman. Capias in hand. Jim H.
Keller, sheriff Kauffman county.
FAYETTE COUNTY.
Lagrange, Tex., Jan. 3.—All officers look
out for and arrest one small black negro
about 21 years old, 5 feet 5 inches high,
heavy set; his name Is Jonas Laska; he
Is wanted for rape. I hold warrant for
him. Arrest and notify li. L, Zapp, iheriff
Faystte county,
B, &. H, R. R. CASE.
District Attorney Burleson's Quo
Warranto Suit for Forfeiture
of Charter,
failure to keep Its books open for the In-
spection of the officers or agents of the
state whose duty it is to Inspect them, and
by lis failure to hold annual meetings of
Its board of directors and of Its stockhold-
ers, and by Its failure to keep up a cor-
porate organization, wholly disabled Itself
from executing the fraucfilses granted to
It as a corporation and from performing
its duties to the state and the public, and
has thus been disabled from the time of
the first conveyance aforesaid continuously
to this time; and said defendant corpora-
Won wholly failed to construct or operate
the railway authorized by the said charter
anil amendment to he constructed and
operated, or any part thereof, or In any
manner to execute the franchises granted
to It; but wilfully and-wrongfully and un-
lawfully permitted sank Missouri Pacific
railway company, th»«*irl Missouri, Kan-
sas and Texas railway company, and Its
receivers, and the said defendant associa-
tion, the .Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
way company of Texas, to construct and
operate the same, which at this time ex-
tends and for a long time past has ex-
tended from Taylor, In Williamson county,
to Houston, in said Harris county, through
the said counties named In the amend-
ment of the said charter; and your inform-
ant charges that the said association of
persons under their said name have in-
truded Into and usurped the franchises of
defendant corporation, and now wrongful-
ly and unlawfully hold and exercise the
same. , „
Premises considered, your informant
prays for citation in like form as In civil
suits, commanding the defendants to ap-
pear and answer this information, and that
the said citation be made returnable on
any day of this term, not less than live
day's after this date, as shall be directed by
the court; that on final hearing hereof,
the defendants be adjudged guilty as
charged in this information, and that the
state of Texas have Judgment forfeiting
the rights, privileges and franchises and
the charter of the defendant corporntion
and dissolving said corporation, for judg-
ment ousting the defendant association
and each member thereof from the fran-
chise of operating the said railway, so
wrongfully Intruded into and usurped by
them; for tho appointment of a receiver,
or receivers, to take charge of the de-
fendant corporation, its franchises, railway
and properties; for costs of this prosecu-
Hnn nn n fnr
tlon and for general relief. mjRLES0N
District Attorney of the Twenty-sixth Ju-
dicial District of Texas.
HANCOCK ADVISED.
A News reporter yesterday asked County
Attorney Hancock if he had any consulta-
tion with the attorney general of this state
in regard to instituting quo warranto pro-
ceedings against the International and
proper'leave hereunto having been hereto- Great Xocthern previous to the filing of
^That" the Tuylor,°KaHtrop and Houston | his petition on December 27. To this quest
railway company was originally chartered
as a railway corporation in the year 1®
by the name of the Bastrop and Taylor
ri'Mway company and was authorized by
4ts charter to construct a railway irom
Bastrop In Bastrop county, to Taylor in
Williamson courwy. through the counties
of Bastrop and Williamson, and the town
of Bastrop was named in the charter as the
place whero the main office of the cor-
poration .should be established and main-
tained. A certified copy of the said char-
ter is hereto attached, marked J^xh-blt
A. B.," and made a part bereof. ahat
thereafter, in the same year, H. M. Hoxie,
acting as president and director, and J a*.
A Haker, .!. A. Hooper, G. W. Burkett,
J.' Herrin, Chester i'-rhard and W. H. New-
man, acting- as directors of the said Bas-
trop and Taylor railway company, filed
an amendment to tlie said chaiter, which
changed the name of the said corporation
to the Taylor, Bastrop and Houston 1 all-
way company, increased the capital stock
to $2,920,000, and authorized the construc-
tion Mr. Hancock replied:
"I went to Austin for the express pur-
pose of consulting the attorney general in
this matter. The attorney general talked
the matter over with me, and then he said
that seme actiom should b^ taken to insti-
tute quo warranto proceedings. And what I
have done is juat in lima with what the at-
torney general «aid, and I was prompted
to enter the suit not for the «ake of ousting
the International and Great Northern from
Galveston, but "-0 that the Galveston, Hous-
ton and Henderson ccimpany should be
compelled to operate its own road, and
afford an entrance to Galveston to all lines
which may dejslre to reach this city, as
was, to my nvlnd, intended when the Gal-
veston, Houston and Henderson was or-
ganized."
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 3.—A special from
Washington says the United States su-
preme court to-day rendered a decision in
SOME TARIFF TALK.
on the Income Tax Feature
of the New
Bill.
V/ill Be Confined to About 85,000
People, According to Estimates
Furnished.
tion'of a railway from Taylor in William- yie cage 0j Angie v3. the Chicago, St. Paul,
sun county, by way of W.gin, througn t-n ,nnd Omaha, railway comnany
son county, by ~ A- n
counties of Williamson. Travis and Bas-
trop. to the town of Bastrop, a Ms.tance of
thirtv-t'wo miles, as theretofore authorized,
and 'thence through the counties of Bas-
trop, Fayette, Colorado. Austin, Waller
and Harris to the ctty of 'Houston. A cer-
titled copy or said iimendmeni is ,herfrtO
attached markedi EUilblt U D.. and
I"inde whoares&ln' Harris county,' in this I charges of fraud.
I'Ste was the las; piesident of the said I ..mounts to about
Taylor Bastrop and Houston railway com-
pany? and that George W. Gaines, who
resides In sa,id Harris county, was the last
secretary of said company.
That F. S. Heffner, who resides in Tay-
lor in Williamson county, Tex., is the local
a^ent and representative of the said asso-
ciation of persons at Taylor in sa.d county.
2 That til" said defendant corporation,
the Tavlor, Bastrop and (Houston railway
company, has done and omitted to do and
noiw omits to do act* which amount to a.
surrender and forfeiture of its right* und
privileges as a corporation In tms.
<1) The said corporation on, to-wit, July
17th, 1S8G, by its deed In writing o'f th it
date .sealed with the common seal of the
iiralion and signed, acknow.rfgedand
* i .i... >.i. at rnrrvna .1-
Minneapolis and Omaha railway company
for the plaintiff. Plaintiff, Mrs. Angle, a
widow, sued for money due her husband
for work he was ready to perform in build-
ing the Superior air line railway. The
court holds that the Oma'ha company se-
cured the land grant of 3,000,000 acres from
the superior court by misrepresentation to
the Wisconsin legislature, and sustains the
charges of fraud. Mrs. Angle's claim
amounts to about ?fi00,000. The claims of
the stockholders of the Superior air line are
yet .to be tiled. The lands secured by the
Omaha are valued at millions of dollars.
PASSENGER AGENT SELECTED.
Denver, Col., Jan. 3.—It Is stated In rail-
way circles to-day that C. S. Stebbins has
been selected to be general passenger agent
of the Denver, Texas and Gulf road and
his appointment will be announced im-
mediately after the return of Receiver
Trumbull from Texaa. Stebbins is an old-
time Union Pacific passenger agent.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC YARDS.
TO™»uv.. —-■ - „ .. - , Houston, Tex., Jan. 3.-<Work leading
delivered by the president of saMcoriwia: ^ extengii0n o{ th„ Sou,them Pa-
Lained sold and conveyed 'unto the Ml*- cillc yards Is being vigorously pushed at
* - "" 1 present. A large force ot men is busily en-
gaged in grading the ground and fixing
the drainage and the scene presented is one
of lively activity.
'iiporai
divered
..on, t
oourif^PaJctttc railway company and its as-
signs all of the property ot sa'tl corpora-
tion, real, personal and mixed, its fran-
eliisEis right-of-way. rights of action,
chose* in action, su'tocriptlons, real and per-
sonal, Its' appurtenances and all of the
rights and privileges 'to it belonging or In
any wise incident or appertaining, and
thereby consolidated with the said M1b-
sourt Pacific railway company; and your
informant charges that the said Missouri
Pacific railway company at the time of
such sale anid consolidation was a private
railroad corporation, organized under the
laws of another state, to^wlt, the .state of
Missouri; and your informant further
charge1, that such sale and consolidation
was unauthorized by the chapter of defend-
ant corporation or of any law of this state
and was a positive violation o'f section 0,
article 10, of the constitution of the state.
(2.) The 31 ild corporation on, to-wi't, De-
cember Z, 138*1, by Us deed in writing of
that date, sealed with the common stall
of ithe corp >ration, and signed, acknowl-
edged and delivered by the vice president
of said corporation, to-wit, James A. Baker,
merged itself Into the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway company under the prop-
er and corporate name of that company,
a,nd granted, bargained, sold, aliened, re-
leaseu, assigned, transferred, conveyed and
confirmed unito the sjald Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway company, Its successors
ami assigns, all its franchises, corporate
rights and privileges, together with its
tracks, roadbeds, railroad buildings, rolling
stock, engines, tolls, bonds, stocks, grants,
privileges, property, real and personal, and
every rlg'ht, title and Interest in or to any
franchises, real or personal, and all rights
of every kind which it possessed or in
■which it had amy rigtht, privilege or Inter-
est, situated and being in the state o'f
Texas or elsewhere; the object and intent
of such conveyance being to so merge the
■rights, powers and privileges of the. defend-
ant corporation Into the said Missouri, Kan-
Kan and Texas railway company as that
that company under its own charter, cor-
porate name and organization should, with-
out Impairing any existing right, exercise,
in addition thereto, all the powers, privi-
leges and franchises, and should own and
control all the railroads and properties thia't
the said defendant corporation at that time
exercised or owned or by its charter or
the laws of this state had the right to own,
exercise or control, and defendant corpora-
tion by such saile consolidated with tile
said Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway
company; and your Informant charges that
ait the time of such sale and consolidation
the said Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
way company was a private railroad cor
pnraitton, organized under the laws of an-
other state, to-wit, the state of Kansas;
and your informant further charges that
such sale and consolidation was unauthor-
ized by the charter of defendant corporation
or of any law of this .state and was a Posi-
tive violation of section 6, article 10, of the
constitution of this state.
3. The said corporation has wholly IViiled
since its creation and now falls to estab-
lish and maintain its principal office at
Bastrop, Bastrop county, as required In the
saild charter, or at any other point on the
saf.d line of railway, or elsewhere in this
state, and wholly failed and now falls to
■have run auditor, treasurer, general .traffic
manager and generai superintendent of its
paid railway, or an agent duly authorized
■to adius-'t and settle all claims against it
for damages, or to keep Its books open to
the inspection of the officers or agents or
the state whose duty it might be to in-
spect 'the -same.
4. The said corporation has wholly failed
since its creation to hold a meeting of
its board of directors once In each year,
as required by law, and a meeting of its
stockholders once in each year as required
by law. within tills state; and has wholly
failed to have or maintain any corporate
organization, save and except for the pur-
pose of unlawfully conveying Its franchises
and properties, as aforesaid, which was of
a purely temporary nature.
5. The said corporation, by the convey-
ances aforesaid, and by Its failure to main-
tain a general office at the town of Bas-
trop Bastrop county, or at any other
point on its line of railway, or anywhere
else within this state, and to have an
auditor, treasurer, general traffic manager,
and general superintendent, or any agent
duly authorized to adjust and settle all
olaims against It fur damag«a, and it*
ILL FROM OVERWORK.
San Francisco, Cal„ Jan. 3.—The Chron-
cle says that General Manager Shwerin of
the Pacilic Mail company Is 111 from over-
work and will be succeeded by Alexander
Center, ait present an official of t'he com-
pany at this point.
PANAMA RAILROAD SUIT.
New York, Jan. 3.—The Panama rail-
road company (has brought suit against the
state of New York to recover 194,025 8o
of its capital stock on the grounds that
Its entire capital was invested In the Isth-
mus of Pftnama and not here,
HEADLIGHT FLASHES.
Houston, Tex., Jan. 3.—T. M. Dunlap of
the Houston and Texas Central and Sou'th
erui Pacitic traffic department returned to
the cl'y to-day, after a month's visit to
Mineral Wells, very much improved in
health.
General Manager Charles B. Peck of the
Texas car service associaitloin leaves to-
night for Beaumont and Orange on business
relating to the association.
R. F. Beasley, passenger agent of the
Louisville and Nashville road, with head-
quarters at Montgomery, Ala, was looking
over Che city to-day.
Wm. Edmonds, personal claim agent of
the Houston and Texas Central, with head
quarters at Waco, spent to-day in the
city.
The force employed in 'the local freight
offices of the Southern Pacltlc at this point
was cut to-day, live men being laid off,
James Beaumon't, live atock agent ot the
Southern Pacific, with headquarters at
Victoria, is in the city to-day.
Annual and time passes for 1893 over the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas will be hon-
ored until January 15,
Ned Winstead of the Texas car service
association left to-night for Hun'tsville on
a brief business trip.
A. M. York, president of the La Porte,
Houston and Northern railroad, was in
the city to-day.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Generail Manager Yoakum of the Santa.
Fe has gone to north Texas.
Mr. P. H. Coom'bs, commercial agent of
the Cotton Belt, spent the day yesterday
in this olty,
Mr. Hiram O. Johnson lias resumed the
position of city ticket agent for t'he Mis-
souri, Kansas und Texas at Galveston.
There is a general Impression in business
circles tlhat the Katy will be running trains,
passenger and freight, Into Galveston by
March.
Mr. Gus Oppermann, who has been act-
ing as assistant ticket agent for the Mis-
souri. Kansas and Texas at this point, will
go ito Hlllaboro on special duty in a few
days.
o
A ROBBERS' ROOST DISCOVERED.
Ohioago, 111., Jan. 3.—A veritable rob'
bens' roost, rltfli with plunder, has been
found iK'nea.th the floor of the great agri
cultural touiiding at the world's fair
ground's. The thieves escaped, but much
valuable stolen property was recovered
The den wais sumptuously furnished with
Turkish rugs, fabrics from foreign looms,
rich tapestries and comfortable divans. Fine
brandies, high-priced wines and imported
cigars were scattered about the place In
great profusion.
Three men were seen; stealing whisky
bottles, and, fokl.iwlng them, officers found
the den. The men dropped through a hole
in the floor, and the officers in pursuit
found a .well-beaten path under the build-
ing leading .to the den. It is provable that
the thieving has been going on ever since
t'he closing of the fair, as articles ihave
bean missing from the 'building for many
weekti.
Washington, Jan. 3.—Chairman McMlIlln
of the subcommittee In charge of the in-
ternal revenue feature of the tariff bill,
outlined to an Associated Press reporter
to-day tho salient features of the Income
tax measure he expects to complete in a
day or two. He said;
"The corporation part of the measure
will not require an inquisition on every
Individual to determine what amount of
corporative stock he holds, but the assess-
ment wdll be made against and paid by
the corporations In the first instance, and
hence a man, owning corporate stock will
not be worried by assessors unless he Is
subject to an Individual Income tax. The
corporation will pay the tax of each of Its
Incorporators and will ill turn charge It
up against them. But, to prevent taxing
a man twice, If a corporation pays for an
Incorporator on the dividends he would de-
rive, he, in turn, is credited with the
amount in assessing his general Income
for taxation. As to foreigners and foreign
associations holding Interest bearing secu-
rities in this country, they will be assessed
the name as our own citizens.
"It will not be necessary to go abroad
In order to ascertain these Investments, us
the assessment against the corporation will
cover all of its stockholders, foreign as
well as domestic.
"The collection of the tax will be in the
hands of the Internal revenue bureau. It
will not necessitate the appointment of
new tax collectors In the various states,
but additional assessors and deputies will
be required to work under the present reve-
nue collectors.
"It should bo understood that the tax
will be confined to about 85,000 people, ac-
oordlng to estimates furnished me by the
treasury department, so that no large force
will be necessary to keep track of such a
comparatively small class. The Individuals
taxed will number not more than one-third
as many as were taxed under the old in-
come tax law."
Mr. McMillan says the bill will provide
means for compelling disclosures «ts to in-
comes, somewhat similar to the methods
used by several of the etates. He says
the penalities for failing t-t) report or for
false reports 'have not yet been fixed.
Representative Jerry Simpson said that
the populist seation of congress would sol-
idly support the income tax plan. He re-
garded It as opening a way to free trade,
saying that a revenue tariff will be neces-
sary as long as revenues are not raised
from Incomes or some other source. Mr.
Simpson asserted that the plan will be Im-
mensely popular with the masses.-
Representative Tarsney. one of the mem-
bers of the ways and means committee who
voted for the income tax, to-day met the
objection that tremendous opposition would
come from the class receiving the Incomes
with the laconic remark; "There are more
men driving drays than receiving incomes."
BUSINESS MEN PROTEST.
Cincinnati. O., Jan. 3.—At a meeting of
business men held this evening at the
board of trade rooms, to take action
against the passage of the Wilson tariff
bill, Mr. Lowe Emerson presided. A form
of petition was adopted and arrangements
made for circulating It for signatures, to
be presented to representatives in both
branches of congress. Resolutions were
adopted, as representatives of the leading
industrial and commercial interests of Cin-
cinnati and the tributary region, protesting
against the adoption of so radical a meas-
ure at this critical time, and expressing the
belief that such legislation will not enlarge
American markets, but will reduce the
revenue of the government and cripple
nearly every branch of manufacturing In
the great central west, and that it would
lead to a ruinous reduction of wages.
The resolutions also declare the belief
that the sentiment of wage-earners, manu-
facturers and merchants, without regard
to party lines, la now practically unanimous
against the passage of this extreme bill,
and therefore urge giving prompt and full
expression of this sentiment to the sen-
ators and repfesentatlves In congress from
Ohio and adjoining states.
PROTEST AGAINST FREE IRON.
Cleveland, O., Jan. 3.—At a meeting of
the Cleveland vessel owners, held this
morning, it was unanimously resolved to
raise a fund to meet the expense of agita-
tion in Washington against putting iron
ore on the free list. They will pay 1
cent per ton on the net registered tonnage
of all vessels owned in order -to raise
money for this purpose. The vessel men
claim free ore would very seriously Injure
t'he lake trade.
WINDOW GLASS WORKERS PROTEST.
Anderson, Ind., Jan. 3.—The window
glass workers of this district are prepar-
ing a petition, which Is receiving many
signatures, to be forwarded to Senator
Voorhees. The petition alleges that the
proponed reduction on window glass as
contained in the Wilson bill will ruin the
window glass trade and Senator Voortiees
Is ufged to use his Influence against this
portion of the bill.
A PROTEST FROM OPERATIVES.
LaPofte, Ind., Jan. 3.—A petition bearing
the signatures of 2000 woolen mill operatives
protesting against the passage of the Wil-
son tariff bill was forwarded to Washing-
ton to-day.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
Paducah, Ky., Jan. 3.—The Evansville
and Tennessee river packet W. S. Ntebet
grounded on the bar at Panther Creek
Island in the Tennessee river, six miles
above this city, Monday morning while en
route downward. At 10 a. m. yesterday
while trying to spar oft the reef her nigger
boiler, located on the starboard side, ex-
ploded, the front end of the cabin was
wrecked, the hurricane roof demolished,
both chimneys blown off and several par-
ties who were in tlhe gentlemen's Baloon
struck by fragments of liylng metal. James
Mitchell, a prominent lawyer of Salblllo,
Tenn., had his head split wide open and
lived but a few moments. A negro fireman
was scalded and two members of the crew,
besides some passengers, were seriously it'
not fatally injured. A young man named
White Is believed to have been blown over-
board and drowned.
Assistance has been sent to the stranded
steamer. She is badly damaged but can
be rescued.
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TRAIN ROBBERS IN CUSTODY.
Carthage, Mo., Jan. 3.—On the "Frisco
train which passed here at 9 o'clook this
morning were H. D. Hygrick and Claude
Sheppard, two of the bandits who held lip
the 'Frisco train early In September. They
were in charge of officers, who got them
in Mississippi, where they had been ar-
rested for burglary. William Bartrlm and
wife, who were passengers on the robbed
train, were at the depot this morning and
identified the prisoners. Mr. Bartrlm re-
covered a fine ring from one of the men,
and also recognized in him the man who
shot and killed Express Messenger Chap-
man on the morning of the hold-up.
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TO FOREGO ITS BANQUET.
Chicago, 111., Jan. 3.—The Hamilton club,
one of the prominent social and semi-polltl*
cal organizations of Chicago, at the sug-"
gestlon of Congressman Thomas B. Reed,
decided to forego its annual banquet in;
view of the financial stringency and the
suffering among the unemployed poor and
devote to charity the amount that would
otherwise have been maised for the festive
event. Mr. Reed had been invited to be-
come a guest of the clu'b at the banquet,
and his suggestion was met with \ prompt,
wsrov&l by th* clubm»a.
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