Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 34, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 18, 1899 Page: 7 of 8
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AT THE STATE CAPITAL
Ilnllrond Commission
AustinTox From tho advanco
sheets of tho railroad commission
tho following statistics havo been
gleaned Tho track mileago of
Texas railways on June 30 1838
9284 increased miloago 181gross
earnings up to Juno 30 141102
58714 earnings per milo 1135
operating oxpensos 30293749
average stocks and bonds issued
per mile 39295 total passenger
train earnings including mail
express excess baggago etc
907690809 passenger train
earnings per milo of road 957
85 total freight train earnings
3117001194 froight camiogs
per milo 329147 Tho period
embraced in all thoso totals is
from Juno 30 1897 to Juno 30
1898
Charters Filed
Austin Tox Tho following
chartors havo boon filed
N A Matthews Lumboi com
pany of YVillb Point capital stock
3000 lnhorporators N A
Matthows G S llhodes and It
Hendricks
The charter of the Acmo Tap
Railroad company was approvod
by the attorney general and fllod
with tho secretary of state This
corporation is formod for tho
building of a railroad from or
near Acmo station on tho Fort
AVorth and Denver City load in
Hardeman county to tho Gypsum
mibes quarry and comont plaster
mill of tho Saline Comont Plaster
company situated about one and
a half miles north of Acmo sta-
tion lho company hat a capital
stock of 10000 Tho principal
oflico shall bo a Quannah Tho
incorporators are Fred HQuinoy
EE Homes L L Gobhartand
others
Change Hands t
Austin Tox alio Austin Morn
Jng Statesman has boon purohased
from the present owners by a
company having at its head ox
State Troasuror W B Wortham
who announces ho will direct tho
management of tho plant It is
generally undorstood that L J
VVortham will be managing editor
and George W Macdonnoll now
of tho Tribune will bo business
managor The terms of tho ualo
are private
Bangors Report
Tho following is tho report of
tho work performed by tho differ-
ent companies of stato ranger for
the month of November
Company B Captain W J Mo
Donald Arrests for assault to
murder two arrest for aggrava-
ted assault one arrests for thoft
of horses three arrest of escaped
convict one arrests for minor of-
fenses five attendance on district
court thirteen days number of
ecouts thirteen assistance to
sheriff thirty duys stolon horses
recovered nud returned to owners
soven guarded Jail at San Saba
livo days number of miles trav-
eled 1575
Company D Capt John It
Hughes Arrests for thoft soven
arrests for burglary two arrests
for minor offonses thirteen num
bor of scouts thirteen assisted
different sheriffs sovon times at-
tended district court sovon day
at El Paso wagon and horsos re-
covered and returned to ownor
cue number of miles traveled
10G8
Company E Captain J II
Rogers Araosts for thoft two
arrests for carrying concealed
weapons four arrosts for minor
offenses four arrests for perjury
ono arrests for aggravated assault
ono assisted different shoriffs
twelve times number of scouts
twenty four itoloa horso and
buggy recovered and roturnod to
ownor one miles traveled 15G5
Company F Capt J II
Brooks Arrests for thoft of cat
tlo six arrests for minor offenses
four numbor of scouts fiftoen
assisted different shoriffs twolvo
times attended tho district court
at Cotulla twalvo diys numbor
of cattlo loeovcred and roturnod
to owner two miles travolod 1750
< Vlr Ship Intention
Tho appropriation mado by tho
war dopartmont in favor of
Prof Langloy to onablo him to
build an airship encouraged in-
ventors to prosocuto experiments
in that lino and ono result is that
W D Custcad a young man in
McLennan county has complotod
a model which soveral oxperiene
od aoronuuts beliovo to possess
romarkablo merit and originality
Mr Custoul is a railway man
and a tolograph operator Ho
was station agent at Gonova a
fow miles north of Waco Cus
tcad studied tho thcorios of tho
most famous aoiodynamists and
also mado his own observations
birds and ish and their methods
of propelling thenisolvos in thoir
respoctivo elements of air and
Water He fully believes ho has
reached tho solution of aerial nav
igation
ohino capable of asconding with
tho weight of a man attached to
it Ho has gono north to place
his invontion beforo tho monoyed
mon and while in Washington
ho will iilo caveats in tho patent
ollico to protect his rights Mr
Custcad has not given up his rail-
way position Ho is joint agont
of tho llouton and Texas Central
and tho Missouri Kansas and
Texas Genova being tho point of
junction of thoso two routes
His omplopors havo given him
leave of absence Practical men
who have examined Mr Custeads
An Asylum Wanted
Hon J F Cunningham who
was a mombor of tho twenty
third legislature has this to say
relativo to an asylum at Abilono
Abileno intunds making a
strong fight in tho legislature for
a stato insane asylum ExSona
tor II A Tillett W J Bryan
and othors of Abilono will go to
Austin to presont the claims of
Abilono for tho location of an
asylum thoro Tho western sena-
tors and representatives in tho
legislature havo indicated their
approval and suppoit of such a
measure Wo ovpoct tho co-
operation and influence of Liout
Gov Browning and Stato Treas-
urer Robbius both of whom aro
wostorn men Tom Bledsoe and
fifteen or twoiity other citizens of
Abileno will go to the inaugural
ball and while th ro will push
tho claims of Abilene The citi-
zens of Abilono proposo to donato
160 acres of land and anything
else in roason which the stato may
require Wo have just raised our
water dam four feet and now havo
an adequato water supply equal
to any city in the stato Wo claim
to havo tho heoltl
tho stato and
in tho west now
fact wo aiy in tl
center of tho stato
In regard to nrai rip dog legishv
tion Mr Cunningh
I boliovo to go
liof in tho effectual
of prairie dogs a
anioudmcnt ia
relief along that
can be given by shriplo act of the
legislature empowering tho com
missioners couits
tion of tho goneral
each year for tho
troying tho dogs
and industries in
legislation that wi
prairio dog nuisance I favor t
constitutional convention to re
viso tho present constitution to
meet growing demands for cer-
tain legislation of tho character
indicated as well as other Hint
tirs of vitil importance to tho
stato at large
ost location in
lo regarded as
is a matter of
io geographical
mm said
adequato ro
extermination
constitutional
requisite Some
ine howovor
to use a por
revenue fund
urposo of dos
All enterprises
ho west favoi
I eradicato the
Cotton Cotgrcss
Tho low prico hf cotton
aroused tho producer and
ginnors comp
portation com
lines intimatri
cnange ot cot
Whether re
i an
has
the
agitation of the question of pro-
duction has crystallized into a
sentiment that all interests af-
fected by tho lo prico of tho
Ho has now built a staple should bo i iprosontod in a
airship model say his iffifil1
contrivance is perfect in its con-
ception and supplies tho ono mis
ing link which has baillod all
thoso who havo sought to sond
ships under complete control from
point to point suppoitad by the
air all touch with the earth sever-
ed My invention said Mr
Custcad in talking over his
invention is tho most simplo in
operation and construction that
human brain can conceive
There is nothing about it expen
sive or complicated It will bo
propelled by a carbonic acid mo-
tor weighing twenty pounds
Which will possess tho forco of
an ordinary iivohorso power en-
gine It will movo in the air liko
a steamship on tho water
cotton congress i Now Orleans
Urgent letters froi i leading cotton
producers in Loui iana Alabama
Mississippi and rl jxus havo been
recoivo I there b porsons inter-
ested and tho ned sity of a con-
vention was prcao ited tho mayor
of that city whe has joinod in
tho movement anj has issuod the
necossary call 1 lecougiess will
assomblo thoro I > b 10 immedi
oly aftor tho qarijival festivities
when low transportation rates will
lend attraction
tho planters
owners trans
d all other
ected by a
acreage
or a movement flavor of diver
sificatlon on a larje scale will be
instituted aro iuUrcsting proba >
billties
lr09iccth0U JXilir
Representative Jitizons of Fort
Worth met It KErwin of Wax
ahachio who ienre ents himself
Messrs Culbort on of Paris and
Scalos of Corsicaua cotton oii
mill oporators The object of Mr
Erwin s visit theie was to submit
a proposition to build and opcr
ote an oil mill at Fort Worth
Mr Erwius proposal was to erect
a sixtyton mill to cost 40000
Ho and his associates obligatod
themselves to take half of the
capital stock conditional jipon
local subscriptions for tho ro >
maindor Tho site upon which the
samo will bo buiihis includod in
tho cost 40000 Mr Tuck Boa
of Fort Worth wtio is interesting
himself in behalf of tho location
of tho mill lluro stated that thus
far 10000 of tile 20000 had
been subscribed and ho feels coiv
fidont that tho romaindor will bu
raised i
77
During tho yeaiv3J598 there wore
reoorded in the ccpnty clerks of-
fice of Collin county 4838 chattel
mortgages In 1 97 there wore
4515 recorded lowing an in-
crease during 189S of 323 The
marriage rouord is as follows
For 1898 numboriof liconsss is-
sued 470 for 189y 502 showing a
doerottso for 11898 of32 Nuniboi
of divorco suits filed in 1898 G2
numbor filed in 1897 59 showing
an increaso for 18 8 of 3
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Several carload of cattlo from
the west havo urrived at Bouham
to bo fed for northern markets
Sherman is LXuivea now high
school building
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JAMES F BALLARD Sole Proprietor
9D NortU Mnlu Stroe STT LOUIS M
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On Sle tU the
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EASTERN SUmSVJER RESOIRTS
Infl Cop Christi Boclport Aransas Pass an Portoi
Apply to Local Ticket A cent
S J YOUNGS
7000 BICYCLES
carried orer from lSB7mntt
be gacrlflceil now hew
lllKh Ornde all vtrles
litest equipment eruaran
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All mke > 3 to 12
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RHEUMATISM CURED
My wlfo litis used Chambcrlalas Pain
Balm for rheumatism with great re-
lief and I can recommeud It as a splen-
did liniment for rheumatism and other
household use for ivlilch we havo found
It valuable V > J Cuyler Red Greek
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Mr Cuyler Is ono of tho loading mer-
chants of this village and ono of tho
most prominent men In thl vicinity
TP a TWfjV J vSJiJM Va1 Orepk Hf i
ald For sale by all druggists
In Illi Own Intimation
First Venejjble Man Odd that one
can remembei things happening to him
when ho was about twenty better than
he can thoso that happenefl a few years
agoSecond
Second Venerable Man But > ou
must remember how much more Im-
portant he was then Indianapolis
Journal
A word to tho wise la sufficient
and a word from tho wlso should be
sufllclent but you nsk who aro the
wise TJioso who know Tho oft re-
peated experience of trustworthy per-
sons may too taken for knowledge Mr
W M Terry says Chamberlains Cough
Remedy gives better satisfaction than
auy otjher In tho market Ho baa been
In tho drug business at Elkton Ky for
twelvo years has sold Jiundreds of bot-
tles of this remedy and nearly all oth
er cough medicines manufactured
which shows conclusively that Cham-
berlains Is tho most satisfactorily to
tho people and Is the best For sale by
nil druggists
Maud They suy Cholly lives by hla
wlls
Cynlcu Then hell suffer an early
death Tho Tnbln
I was reading and advertisement of
Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diar
rhoea Romcdy In tho Worchester En-
terprise recently which leads mo to
wrlto this I can truthfully say I never
used any remedy cpual to It for colic
and diarrhoea I havo never had to
uso more than ono or two doses to euro
tho wost caso with myself or children
Vv A Stroud Popomoko CItyiJId
For salo by all druggists
In 18SS my wlfo wont East and was
attacked with rboumatlsm Sbo re-
ceived no relief until ehe tried Ciiam
berlalna Pain Balm Since that time
wo have mover been witliout It Wo
find It gives Instant relief In cass ot
for all rheumatic and neuralgic pains
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Habermacher, J. C. Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 34, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 18, 1899, newspaper, January 18, 1899; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth111390/m1/7/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .