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THE GALVESTON DAILY NOTS, SATURDAY, 5EPTEMBEE24, 1897.
TJUc gaily items
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Oilier- of Publication, New. 2108 and S1W Me-
chanic Street, Galveston.
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class matter.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1892.
THE NEWS' TRAVELING AGENTS.
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tives of The (tat vestun News and The Dal-
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H. Cox, Walter Woods and Frank Andrews.
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Galveston, Tex., September 14, 1892.
SENATOR HILL'S PLATFORM.
No one knows better than Senator Hill that
the two formulas, tariff for revenue only and
tiiritF for revenue with incidental protection,
have distinct meanings. There was a long dis-
cussion and contest in the democratic party
about ten years ago and later, as to which
doctrine the party should espouse. This alone
would show to any fairly informed person
that the plank of 1884 and that of 1892 can
not be used interchangeably or indifforontly
to mean the same thing. But if the senator's
memory wore very short ho might at least ro-
call what transpired at the democratic na-
tional convention last June. The majority re-
port was rejected and tho minority report
substituted as to tho tariff, tho difference turn-
ing upon the tariff for revenue only. Senator
Hill has rather boldly ignored tho important
incident. He has further done violence to
language as well as logic. The word "for"
indicates purpose or destination. Tariff for
revenue does not exclude some other
purpose but what is the word "only"
put thoro to signify? It simply argues bad
faith to deny that word its force and meaning.
Senator Hill is not content with casually in-
cidental protection, but would have tho tariff
adjusted so as to produce protection, he says
as plainly as language can convey. The de-
parture which he makes from the republican
position 18 that the piling on of a tariff shall
be limited by the needs of govomment.
Within that limit he would strive by selection
to make it protective. His purpose could as
well be expressed in tho formula tariff for
protection provided the amount does not
range beyond tho necessities of government.
But there are ways of making duties little
productive of rovenuo and largely productive
of protective effect. Senator Hill .has repu-
diated the democratic platform because ho is
not for a tariff for revenue only, in that he
offers to care for protected interests in the ad-
justment of duties. Would he try to make
the citizens believe that the democratic party
views with regret the moral unconstitution-
ality of protection and that it purposes to dis-
tinguish itself in finding ways of getting around
the intent of the constitution and providing
a system of tariff protection, after all, on the
excuse ot a revenue tariff? Ho seemed to be
making such a bid when at Brooklyn he spoko
approvingly of the "benefit" to be obtained
by preventing foreign competition. The whole
question lies there. The "benefit" to tho pro-
tected interest, of course, consists in a price
opposed to the interest of tho consumer. If
the latter has a right to exchange his labor
products in the markets of the world and buy
without paying tribute to private interests, tho
"benefit" alluded to is not a public benefit
but is precisely what tho democrats call
robbery of tho consumer to foster special
interests in production. Mr. Hill openly pro-
fosses to cherish this "benefit." His support
of tho national ticket seems to bo afteral'iek
wickian fashion, as much as to promise that
there will be a democratic faction looking to
it that the party shall not carry out its danger-
ous tariff reform professions. Thesenator's ref
erence to absolute free trade for purposes of
denial was puerile. Absolute froo trade has a
distinct meaning, viz., no custom houses. No
denial of that is necessary for the democratic
party. The proposal to levy a tariff for reve
nue stands as a sufficient denial but does not
alter the fact that the party is aligned in oppo-
sition to a protective tariff. Without the word
absolute it is, by the common meaning of
English words, the free trade party. Com-
parison is the basis of explanation of every
practicable expression of policy, and free trade
simply means no protection by a tariff, no
purposed or reasonably avoidable hindrance
to freedom of trade.
fined to vote for Ross with such indorsement
upon him, then think how much more appro-
priate and felicitous such indorsement must
bo when the business anil industrial interests
of Texas suggest and absolutely demand it as
a measure of self defense. Nobody scratched
Governor Ross because ho had this indorse-
ment. Nobody scratched Attorney General
Hogg because the republicans decided not to
nominate a candidate against him. Yet the
friends of Governor Hogg in their inconsis-
tency and rage would mislead tho peoplo and
porsuade them to butcher Judge Clark be-
cause the republicans have indorsed him.
Conservative and patriotic citizens of Texas
aro not going to help along any such injustice.
They will welcome the help of the republicans
in their effort to redeem Texas.
If it is necessary for public men to appeal
to tho meanest traits of human nature in
order to get office, the people can not be ex-
pected to have much confidence in the gov
ernment.
REPUBLICAN INDORSEMENT OF ROSS
AND CLARK.
The News is glad to see tho Post and othor
organs of Governor Hogg that began with
feeble attempts to deny that a republican
state convention indorsed Governor Ross four
years ago moved at length by a remorseful
touch of candor so far as to correct at least
one of their campaign denials. In accounting
for the serene complacency of Judge Clark's
adherents the Post says:
This astounding complacency is supposed to be
fortified by tho fact that a republican convention
once indorsed Governor Hoss when ho was a
candidate for re-election. * * * Governor Ross
had many personal friends among the republi-
cans, who, finding it Useless to oppose him, ob-
tained from tho convention a mild indorsement.
How different are affairs now.
An honest confession, however painful to
make, is good for the soul. The News ad-
mits the point and force of the last little sen-
tence quoted from tho Post. "How different
are affairs now." The business and industrial
interests of Texas wero prosperous and safe
at the time the Texas republicans indorsed
Governor Ross and decided not to nomiuate
candidates against him and Attorney General
Hogg. There was much less urgency for an
indorsement of Ross in 1888 than there is for
an indorsement of Clark in 1892 by Texas re-
publicans, acting now as they did then, "as
citizens of this great state, the mutual wel-
fare of which is paramount to every partisan
consideration." In fact it has boconio tho
supreme duty of all citizens of Texas ade-
quately informed of the mortal peril of the
state's internal situation to unite in resolute
efforts to rescue it from this peril and re-
store the credit and prosperity which have
been lost during the ambitious and tumultu-
ous mismanagement of the present adminis
tration. "How different are affairs now."
They are so different that the one bugle call
of patriotism throughout tho state is for all
hands, regardless of party lines and past party
contentions, to come together and save the
Btate. If a republican indorsement of Gov-
ernor Ross was admissible during years of
development and prosperity, so satisfactory in
fact that it was cited with eminent gratifica-
tion by Senator Coke in a speech in the senate,
so satisfactory that no democrat in Texas re-
The platform of the Texas republicans of
1888, in which tlioy resolved that no can-
didate should be nominated against Gov-
ernor Ross, tho democratic nouiinoe, Btates
that they agreed upon this course "as Jciti-
zens of this great state, tiio mutual welfaro of
which is to us paramount to every partisan
consideration." This sentiment was repeated
with the emphasis of hard times by the recent
republican convontion, which also doelined to
nominate a candidate, but resolvod "that the
present deplorablo condition of the affairs of
our state is such that tho general welfare do-
lnnnds at our hands as patriotic citizens tho
dofeat of James S. Ilogg and the election in
his stead of somo one who will givo to Texas
a liberal and progressive administration."
It is now contended that Sullivan was
boaten by Corbett because his heroic trainer
trained all the vitality out of him.
If Sonator Coke is sincere in his statement
that he cannot detect any difference in the sil-
ver planks of the Hogg and tho Cleveland
platforms, he tiad better conio down into tho
audience and lot his hearers teach him.
Misery loves company. Judge Reagan is
trying to drag the Old Alcalde into his income
tax trap,
The old party riders in Texas havo fared
presumptuously every day for forty years.
They have pulled all the mane off the old
horse in their efforts to cling to him.
Hill is for Cleveland and the only daggers
now fretting him aro thoso of tho Hogg de-
mocracy of Texas.
All tho people sympathize deeply with Mrs.
Harrison in her long-continued sickness and
with President Harrison and others, upon
whom her suffering has borne so sadly.
Deny everything is now understood by tho
people and has lost its enticemont.
Hon. Web Fint.f.y, in taking tho gavol at
Houston, hoped that there was no Bcnodict.
Arnold in the democratic ranks. He then
ruled all the Clark men out of order and
turned the gavel of authority over according
to a pre-arranged Hogg programme.
SNAP SHOTS.
There are a groat many young ladies on the
fonce. _____
Many a recalcitrant maid has been brought
around with sweetmeats.
There is just enough difference m people to
mako theui interesting.
There is no doubt that the skirt dance crazo
has run many a baldheaded man crazy.
Consistency is a jewel that ono can never
reach by following crooked paths.
Man is a great germ.
THE STATE PWESS.
What the Papers Throuihout the State
Are Talking About.
Tho Fort Worth Mail says:
The republicans began doing good work in
Texas whon they allied themselves with tho
democrats and saved Tarrant county from
the dark lanternites, and they propose to keep
it up by holping democrats, savo tho wholo
state from Hoggiam, a twin brother of tho
ovil spoken of. Slave driver Coke will crack
his bull whip in vain this yoar. He can not
drive human beings into a Hogg poll with his
bombastes furioso bluster, and ho will soon
find it out. Two years ago when the German
democrats of Texas, at San Antonio, asked
for a minor placo on tho state ticket for a
cultured gentleman, they were answered with:
"D—n tho Dutch; there is no place on the
ticket for them." In August when the Hon.
Gustavo Slier:her, a polished Gorman- Ameri-
can, hacked by the entire German vote of
Texas, asked for a minor place on the Hogg
ticket, the same answer was given: "D—n
the Dutch; we must give that place to Mc-
Gaughey."
The El Paso Herald, a republican paper,
gives one roason why republicans do not sup-
port Hogg;
It is true that during his four years as at-
torney general and his two years as governor,
Mr. Hogg has never benefited Texas by one
dollar. It is truth that by his refusal to ac-
cept tho sugar bounty he has cost tho state
$4U,000 annually. The democrats should print
his veto of the sugar bounty bill and scatter it
far and wide. Every sensible man who rends
it would count one against him. 'The
United States has placed sugar upon tho
free list and obligated itsolf to pay a bounty
of 2 cents per pound upon ail sugar pro-
duced in the country. Through recent dis-
bursements by tho treasury department* indi-
vidual producers in Kansas receive $22,177 28;
in Nebraska, $54,690; in Utah, $28,898; in
Texas, $196,301 7:"), and in Louisiana, $0,882,-
986 83. The state of Texas owns a sugar farm
which is tilled by convicts. It has an over-
seer and other salaried officers. The farm is
good land and grows good sugar. Its pro-
duets deserve the United States bounty.
Governor Hogg refuses to allow the money to
entor the state treasury boeause he does not
believe in bounties. There is no reason why
the state of Texas, as a sugar producer, should
not receive the compensation paid to the in-
dividual producer. The salaried servant of
the state has no right to rob the state. Ho lias
no right to lock tho vaults against thousands
in order to make himself solid with ignorant
voters. Ho has no right to play tho dema-
gogue for $1000 a year and house rent free.
The people—who employ aud pay him—expect
him,to apply a sound brnin to tiio study of a
business matter. They do not want verbose
denunciations of the untenable desire of the
general government to invado the state and
crush us all bencatli its iron heoi.
The Beeville Picayune says;
All fair mindod Hogg men of Beeville con-
demn Senator Coke's abuBive speech at Hills-
boro.
The molaneholy days have come whon the
Corpus Christi Caller indulges no longer in
spring poetry or midsummor night dreams of
mooulight, music, love and flowers, Editor
McLemoro muses like this:
As the season drops into tho sere and yellow
loaf the swoot summer girl hies hor from tho
seaside and no more is hor sylph-like form, en-
veloped in a "plump bathing suit," seen dis-
porting in the waves of Corpus Christi bay.
Truly aro these tho melancholy days to us
poor mortals who dwell here by the sea, and
all that we can do to while away tho time is
to live in memory of the days that wore and
wait till nummer comes again.
Mac is going to the legislature and will find
consolation in tho gay scenes of the state cap-
ital. It is no longer the place it was at first,
when Sam Houston described it as a hamlot
in the wilderness whore the voico of woman
and the sweet prattle of children were never
heard. Both are now heard there until you
can't rest.
The Fort Worth Gazette says;
Governor Throckmorton favors the re-elec-
tion of Mr. Mills, which shows that the disa-
greement between the McKinney statesman
and the administration runs froms "eend to
eend."
The Hogg and Tyler faction lias co lovo for
Mills. Tho Gazette says:
It is greatly to bo feared that Governor
Throckmorton's reference to the remarks al-
leged to have been made by Senator Coke at
Hiilsboro will tend to send this eruol war a
fow miles further into Africa.
The Fort Worth Mail says:
Tho Clark boom is growing bigger and tho
very earth is cracking as it rolls along. And
tho cry stiil comes from tho llogg camp;
"1)—n tho Dutch, d—n tho Dutch."
The Mail says;
'The public would like to know if ex-Com-
inissioners Reagan, Foster and McLean aro
still drawing salary from the stats of Toxas.
Thoy aro not oarning it.
Not oven writing opon letters.
The Columbus Citizen announces tho death
of Mr. Henry Wagenfuhr, county clerk of
Colorado county and one of the moat promi-
nent and useful citizens of Cotumbus, and
pays a fitting tribute to his memory. De-
ceased was born October 7,1848, and caino to
Texas with his parents in 1850, settling at
New Braunfels.
Excerpts from the Rockport New Era:
Do not lot politics interfere with your
friendship or business relations... .Every man
who is honest and conscientious in his politi-
cal boliof is willing to grant his neighbor the
same priviloge.. ..Local harmony is of more
importance than a victory won in partisan
strife... .On national aud state questions vote
for your party, but in county and city affairs
vote for tho best man... .Politics should not
bo allowed to mako enemies of good friends
—they can not afford it.
The Fort Worth Gazette is still supposed to
Bit upon the fence, but it says:
The Gazette did not print any gobberygosh
yesterday, but it printed Governor Throck-
morton's lettor, which was equal to a half
bushel of the average contributed literature.
The Brenham Herald says;
Hon. J. W. Throckmorton, in a letter to an
old personal friend, pronounces himsolf a
straight out democrat and in favor of Judge
Clark. He says the Hogg convention
threatens the democracy of tiio state. Will
the Hogg contingent accuso old "T'hrock" of
being a bolter and a republican, while Sena-
tor Coke would condemn his old friend to
death as a traitor? Throckmorton is one of
the oldest democrats in the state.
The Waco Day remarks;
The Houston Post says some yoars ago ex-
Governor Throckmorton was quite an influ-
ential man in Texas politics, but lias been in
private life so long that his course now will
not havo any material effect. There has never
been a day when this noble old patriot was
not revored by the people of Texas. His loy-
alty to tho state is riot doubted, but if it were
tho following paragraph in the ex-governor's
letter is sufficient to dispel the doubt: "As
to the maledictions uttered against democrats
who aro to think and act for themselves, I
console myself with the reflection that I was
with Texas in her darkest hours, when others,
who deal in such uncalled tor and hitherto
unheard of partisan slang, were enjoying
peaceful lives far removed from the scene of
our danger, and that in other and no less crit-
ical times I proved my devotion to demo-
cratic principles in a manner ^iat showed my
loyalty to country and party."
If the hackneyed phrase, courago of his
convictions, needed exemplification, Throck-
morton is a living example. There was never
a more sublime instanco than his solitary
vote of "no" whon the question of secession
was put in the convention of 1861, amid tho
hisses of tho mob, and his rebuke that fools
hissed while bravo men trembled. He knew
the tremendous consequences involved and
his part in them; accepted the verdict of tho
majority, and bore his part in tho defense of
his native south with the magnanimity of a
hero like Albert Sidney Johnson and many
others who thought socession a desperate
measure, but died for their native south.
The Two Republics prints tho message of
President Diaz of Mexico. Ho says of af-
fairs connected with this country:
The legation of the United States of America
some time sinco addressed our secretary of
foreign relations, informing him of a resolu-
tion of the congress of Hint country recom-
mending their president to enter into negoti-
ations with the government of Mexico with
regard to measures for the irrigation of arid
lands adjacent to the Rio Bravo, the frontier
dividing the two countries. This government
accepted the invitation and proposed that ne-
gotiations be opened here for a preliminary
arrangement which should servo as a basis for
a convention which would meet the views of
tho American congress and the interests of
both nations, and at the saino time protect
their respective rights as guaranteed by
treaties. In accordanco with this indication,
tho United States has given instructions to its
representatives in Moxieo, and negotiations
will soon be opened to this effect Tho
mixed commission of engineers appointed
by the governments of Mexico and the United
States, in conformity with the conventions of
July 29, 1882, and February 18, 1889, has con-
tinued the survoy of the boundary lino for the
purpose of reconstructing the monuments
dostroyed or removed from tho line. Tho con-
vention of March 1, 1889, for the appointment
of an international commission to examinennd
determine the boundary questions arising
from the alterations in the course of the Rio
Bravo and the Rio Colorado, lias not been car-
ried into effect, because the congress of tho
United States has not jot approved tho appro-
priation therefor, although the Mexican gov-
ernment, desirous of arranging tho important
objects of tho convention, has urged the mat-
ter The bands of criminals which were
marauding in the state of Texas and threat-
ening to penetrate our territory through Ta-
maulipas, have been completely disorganized
m consequence of the measures taken by our
detachments stationed near the Rio Bravo and
by the federal forces of the United States in
combination with the local forces of Texas.
Some of the men who havo formed
those bands have beon apprehended in Texas,
brought to trial and condemned to prison.
Others will soon be brought before the courts
and the remainder aro fugitives but actively
pursued Tho special commissions em-
ployed in preparing Moxico's exhibit in tho
Chicago exposition are-carrying on their work
with all activity, and the local commissions,
recognizing the influence of expositions as a
means to the development of our national re-
sources, are aiding the efforts of the govern-
ors of our states directed to tho samo pur-
pose Two steamship contracts have beon
made since April. One is for a lino from Mo-
bile to Tampico and the other is from Pro-
greso to New York and to Now Orleans. The
trans-Atlantic service is satisfactorily exe-
cuted by all the linos employed in it.
The Austin Evoning News does a great deal
of unprofitable boasting. It is a good and
lively paper, but gains nothing by bragging.
Power for prayer. The Brownsville Herald
says:
The republican convention, unlike that cy-
clonic assemblage at Houston, was opened
with prayer. Rev. Smkiiior Griffin opened
the convention by invoking a hoavenly bloss-
ing upon the proceedings. As a result the
republican convention was quite an orderly
affair, as conventions go. No split occurred
and everything was done by acclamation.
What a pity there wasn't a reverend sinkiller
at the democratic [Hogg] powwow.
"Bolt," damn you," was about as near a
prayer as anything uttered at tho opening of
the Hogg convention.
The Brenham Herald says:
The St. Louia Republic is taking a great
deal tnoro interest in polities in this state
than la becoming to a paper located in another
state.
The Republio is one of the prophets that
finds its honors away from home. The Re-
public is a greater paper in Texas than in
Missouri.
The Brenham Banner says:
A groat hue and cry is being raised by the
Hogg organs over tho advance in freight rates
by the railroads since the commission has
ceased to be in operation. It u likely that
rates will bo adjusted satisfactorily very soon.
Competition aud more railroads wiil reduce
rates to a fair basis, and a railroad commis-
sion established on a proper basis will most
effectively prevent extortionate rates.
The era of sectional prejudice has passed.
Politicians no longer find it profitable and
citizens generally recognizo the mutual ad-
vantages to different parts of a common
country. As tho Houston Press romarks:
That there are joint interests existing be-
tween tho people of the extreme northwest
and tho oxtremo southwest, becomes more
obvious every hour, aud it is only a question
of time whon tho inhabitants of these rospoct-
ivo countries will exchange temporary resi-
dences with each othor during some of the
seasons of the yoar for mutual benefit. Tho
Bouth will become the summer and pleasure
resort of tho north during thoir hard winters
and the north tho placo of cooling off and
recreation of the people of the south during
tho hot summers. Aud the words north and
south will havo a very different and a good
deal moro pleasant sound to the ear than they
had a fow years ago, whon the politicians
divided those countries by showing strife and
prejudice. Tho association of these people
will cement the fooling of brotherhood so os-
sontial to the existence of a free and demo-
cratic form of government.
TO ANSWER P0E HIS CRIME.
Taylor, Charged With Luring a Woman
Into a Bogus Marriage, Arrested.
Greenville, Tex., Sept. 23. — Doputy
Sheriff Louis Luttrell to-day arrested D. J.
Taylor, who about a year ago induced a lady
into a socret rnarriago in Dallas. At the time
the trouble occurred Tuii News printed tho
account in detail and there was great excite-
ment over the affair. The arrest was made
this afternoon at the Beukham hotel, where
Taylor was head waiter. Ho came here from
the Sullivan-Corbett fight, nnd has since been
employod at the Bockham house. Taylor was
under an assumed name here, but gave him-
self away to different parties, who posted tho
ollicers. To the officer who arrested hirri he
confessed his guilt as to tho marriage and
went into tho details as to how he lured
tho woman into a secret marriage, at
which a railroad man officiated, and how ho
told tho woman the next morning that tho
marriage was a false one and '&avo her money
to leave town on. He was arrested on a tele-
gram from tho sheriff' of Dallas county and
will bo taken there in tho morning.
To the jailer Taylor said the only thing he
hated about his arrest was that ho was en-
gaged to be married to a wealthy Tennessee
lady next Christmas.
(jo the night of August 11, 1891, Miss Ella
Goelson of Palmer, Ellis county, arrived in
Dallas en route to Ranger in Eastland county.
There was no night train west of Fort Worth,
so she engaged a room at the Union depot
hotel for tho night. Taylor was night clerk of
the hotel. The girl had frequently passed
through Dallas and he knew her by sight.
This night he was very attentive and finally
proposed to hor and she accepted. Taylor
secured a telegraph operator at tho depot to
act as priest mid the night watchman as boat
man, and the girl thought they were married
according to Hoyle. The next morning Tay-
lor broke down and gave the snap away aud
begged the girl to think no more about it.
She was prevailed upon to,eoritinue her jour-
ney, he promising to go to Eastland county
nnd straighten things out by a public cere-
mony.
New, of the affair leaked out and finally
reached the ears of tho police, but before
Chief Arnold could get tho girl here or her
relatives in Ellis county to make affidavit the
men were all discharged by their respectivo
employers and tied the country. Taylor was
traced to Little Itoch and then to St. Louis
and there ail trace of him was last. When
tho grand jury met in the month following
the affair alltlire® of the participants were in-
dicted.
Several attempts were made to get Miss
Goelson to Dallas. For a long time her
whereabouts were unknown till ^a Newt re-
porter went to her home in Ellis%ounty, and
following up the clue obtained there, found
tho young lady at Caddo, in Stephens county,
forty miles from a railroad, and she first told
tho story of her wrongs through The Nfavb.
It was from a desire to keep her life out of
the public mouth that she refused to come.
MARBLE FALLS.' BIG FACTORY,
TEXAS GEOLOGY.
Work Going Steadily On—Increase in
Population—Corn and Hay.
Marble Falls, Tex., Sept. 23.—Cotton is
coining at the rate of twenty to thirty bales
a day, and up to dato about 500 bales have
been shipped from here. Tlie farmers are
also saving a great doal of the Colorado grass,
which brings about $12 per ton. It is superior
to hay for all kinds of stocn.
Corn is selling at 40 and 50 cents a bushel.
The big factory building is steadily going
up.
A great many strangers are in here buying
property and improving, consequently the
town has grown from 1200 inhabitants to 2000
in the last six months. Tho saw and hammer
aro heard on all sides.
Politics is discussed but little. The peoplo
here have not got time to devote to it.
Change of Venue Granted.
San Angelo, Tex., Sept. 23.— In the district
court at Sonora, Sutton county, yesterday, a
change of venuo was granted Thomas Adams
to Mason county, chargod with murdering an
old man named Wilson while traveling over-
land to Souora from Kerrville last year.
Wilson's remains when found wero burned
almost to a crisp and could only be recognized
by the beard undor his chin, which was pro-
tected from the flames owing to the position
of his head.
Burglars entered the liardwaro store of
Buiger & League last night and workod tho
safo combination. However, they only se-
cured a small amount of funds.
Third Annual Report of Prof.
E, T, Dumble.
AN EXCELLENT EXHIBIT.
The Wonderful Resources of the State Set
forth in De-
tail.
VALUABLE ORES ADD MINERALS.
The Goal and Lignite Deposits—'l'heir Great
Eoonomic Value—Seeking After
Artesian Water.
Jailed for Attempted Assault.
Waco. Tex., Kept. 23.—Jeff Brown, a negro,
had a preliminary trial before Justice Galla-
ger to-day, charged with entering tho bed-
room of Mrs. Douglass of Mart, McLennan
county, and attempting an assault on the lady.
Tho defendant's bail was fixed at $500, which
he could not give, and he was sent to jail.
Crime at Bailies.
Buownsvilt.b, 'l'ex., Sept. 23.—The grand
jury adjourned yesterday, having returned
nineteen true bills, ono of these for murder.
They report tlint m this county crime is on
the decrease, but nine-tenths of the crimes
committed occur at public dances or bailies,
and recommend that they be repressed.
Jim Hogg Pipe Foundry.
Rubk, Tex., Sept. 23.—The new pipe foundry
being built by the state at the penitentiary at
this place now bears the following sign on
each end ot the building in white lead letters:
"Jim Hogg Pipe Foundry." Thero iB con-
siderable comment being indulged in at this
method of advertising the govomor.
Fell Between the Cart.
Weathehford, Tex., Sept. 23.—Attt o'clock
this evening, as local freight No. 12 on the
Texas and Pacific was passing here, Brakemnn
G. VV. Bailes foil between the cars and was
instantly killed. Two trucks had jumped the
track aud Bnilos, in trying to jump, slipped.
He has a wife in Fort Worth.
Lost an Arm in a Cotton Gin.
Hempstead, Tex., Sept. 23.—A young man
named Robert Pennington had one of his
arms drawn into the saws of a cotton gin yes-
terday evening and had to suffer amputation
to savo his life. The gin is located abot six
miles oust of Hempstead.
The Kite Arrives.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 23.—The steamer
Kite, with Lieutenant Peary's Greenland party
on bonrd, arrived in this city at Boon. She
was greeted with much cheering.
The News is in receipt of the third annual
report of the geological survey of Texas for
the year 1831. The report is voluminous, con-
taining 410 pages, and several excellent maps
and charts are givon, making tho whole by
far the most valuable contribution to the
economic and scientific history of the state
evor given. Tho arrangoment of tha subject
matter is somewhat faulty. There is a want
of projier classification that detracts much
from the practical usefulness of tho report,
though this in no way affects its scientific
value, and even this defect is largely done
away with by tho admirable summary made
by State Geologist Dumble in his lettor of
transmittal. In this the various features of
tho report are given in a concise and pointed
manner. The work of tho third year, topog-
raphy, geology, lignite investigations and re-
ports of the various assistant geologists form
tho subject of Professor Dumble's report. To
tho scientific reader the report as a whole will
no doubt prove interesting and instructive,
while to the practical business man, the one
seeking investment, thero are portions of tho
report which are of the greatest value.
TEXAS LIOSITHS.
During Prof. Dumble's administration he
has made special effort to discover and bring
prominently forward the mineral aud geolog-
ical resources of the state that have commer-
cial value. In this direction he has done a
vast amount of practical and useful work. A
personal inspection of tho coal and lignite
bods in Europe aided him materially in tho
prosecution of his researches here at home and
from time to time the public has been in-
formed through special geological bulletins of
the progress of the work. In his report ho
makes a special feature of lignite investiga-
tions made under instructions given by the
Twenty-second legislature "to examine and
test the quality and value and best method of
utilizing the various kinds of lignite in this
state."
After naming the four classes of brown coal
found iu Europe—lignite, common browu-
eoal. peach coal and glanercoal—l'rof. Dum-
ble describes each and the uses to which it is
specially adapted aud states that all are found
in Texas. "1 havo compared our Texas lig-
nites with those of Germany and
Austria," says he, "and I find
that we have representatives of the
arious classes mentioned. I have personally
examined tho various classes of browncoals
an they occur in tho deposits,as they come from
the mines and as they are used in their various
applications, and I have compared them with
our Texas lignites, both in their physical char-
acter and chemical composition with the re-
sult as stated. I havo submitted average spe-
cimens of our browncoals to the highest au-
thorities on this subject iu Germany and Aus-
tria, and they, without exception, confirm my
statement and unite in pronouncing tlie Texas
browncoals of excellent quality, fully equal
to tho Bohemian and equally suitable for use
for ail domestic, industrial and metallurgical
purposes. I havo therefore the pleasure of
reitorating the statement mado several times
already, and each time supported by stronger
evidence, that Texas has in the lmmonso de-
posits of browncoal a cheap fuol which can
be used for every purposo for which tuol is
needed.
It should, however, be plainly understood
ill tho beginning that the browncoals of
Texas will be found to differ very widely in
quality, and it will require aualyses of each
deposit to tell with certainty for what purpose
it is best adapted. Deposits will bo fouml
containing too largo a percentage of ash, aud
somo, perhaps, too large a percentage of sul-
phur, to be of value as fuel, although other
uses may bo found for them. Those that aro
suited for briquettiog without bond may not
serve equally well for other purposes, and
somo of the varieties of browncoal will not
form a briquetto at all by the dry method.
"It is impossible, with detached basins of
browncoal, formed under somewhat diverse
conditions and stretching across an area 700
miles in length, that all should be equally
good. That there is an abundance of the ma-
terial that is of a most excellent quality is
shown by tho examinations and analyses al-
ready made by the survey of deposits and
specimens from all portions of the lignite belt,
and yet other of thoso analyses ulso prove
tho existence of deposits which are compara-
tively worthless.
"Therefore, in any undertaking having
browncoal as its basis of supply, either as fuel
or raw material for manufacturing purposes,
an accurate knowledge of the material should
be obtained beforo oporations aro begun.
utilization 01' texas browncoal.
"The fact of the great fuel value of tho
browncoal having beon thus fully decided, I
havo endeavored to securo all possible in-
formation, and when practicable the detailed
drawings or plans of the various kinds of
ovens, fireboxes, grates aud appliances for
using browncoal. Some of those aro the sub-
jects of patents, and can therefore only be
used under royalty or purchase; others, and
some of these the most important, are not
patented and are free to all.
"Through the kindness of tho owners of tho
iron works and rolling mills in Bohemia and
Styria, I havo secured plans in detail of the
fireboxes, gas producers and arrangements by
means of which they use tho raw browncoal
for the purposes stated. I have also the plan
of the blast furnaces which are now in opera-
tion using a mixed fuel of coka and raw
browncoal.
"From the manufacturers of locomotives I
havo detailed plans of the fireboxes used on such
locomotives as are intended for browncoal.
All of these plans and methods are applicable
for the use of our Texas browncoal for similar
purposes.
"Tho machinery for the production of bri-
quettes by the dry method is manufactured iu
Germany, the most of it under patonts. Gen-
eral descriptions and estimates of the cost of
erection are in the offico,
' 'Presses and machinery for the production of
briquettes using pitch as a bond aro manufac-
tured in Germany, France and England. I
have plans and estimates of tho different styles
and sizes of these showing approximate cost of
erection and operation.
"Plans for the production of tar, paraffine,
oils, etc., from the browncoals are of a much
more complex nature. General plans aud es-
timates aro now in the office, and details will
bo furnished me as soon as they can be pre-
pared.
"Sonio of the principal uses of our brown-
coal will undoubtedly be in the manufacture of
brick, firebrick, drain tiles, paving tile, stone-
ware, pottery, glassware, cement and lime.
Plans for the construction of ovens especially
designed for these purposes. aud iu successful
oho in Germany with browncoal firing, aro
also being prepared.
"All of these are at the service of those in-
terested in the subject.
"It can bo stated now from experiments
and nualyses already mado, both by private
individuals and by the survey, that we know
that we havo in tho Texas browncoals certnin
varieties that aro rich in tarry matter which
wiil serve as a source of parafflne, and that
Bomo varieties can bo briquottod witli pitch as
a bond and othors by tho dry method,
"Special examinations aud tests of our
Texas browneoal by tho largest browncoal
manufacturing establishment in Europe, by
tho various methods of briquetto manufacture
in Germany and France, and by other speci-
alist aro now in progress, and as soon as their
final reports aro roceived tho results will be
published, together with tho details of tho
various plants, estimates of the cost of erec-
tion, oporation, etc."
It is liero that tho want of proper classifica-
tion shows itself. Aftor reading what Prof.
Damble says tho pructical man wants to know
where the Texas lignite can bo found. Ho
turns to tho index and is confronted with an
array of figures, ltomau and Arabic, directing
him to exactly thirty different places in tho ^re-
port, ranging from page 8 to page 358. The
information given is tho most lncagro aud
consists often of the mero statoniont that lig-
nite is to ba found in such locality.
ARTESIAN WATEli.
For the past three yeais great attention
has been paid to tho question of artesian
water by tho geological survey. The most
careful study has beon mado of certain sec-
tions and it is tho intention to mako a com-
plete and thorough survey of tho wholo state
in order to determine beyond question where
artesian water may be obtained and where it
is useless to soek it. Unfortunately tho work
has not yet progressed far enough to give defi-
nite information, even for those localities
where the greatest research has boen mado.
But sufficient advanco has beon inadotospeak
with some degree of certainty regarding lim-
ited areas, and since the question is one of
such interest the following extracts ure taken
from tho report:
"The conditions which govern the flow of
artesian water aro understood iu a general
way by a great many, but tho source of sup-
ply for any given locality is known to very
few. An erroneous idea prevails that artesian
water cun surely be obtuined anywhere, pro-
vided a well be bored to a sufficiently great
depth. It is thought ulso by sonio that if
their neighbors can procure artesian water
they can do likewise with equal facility, which
may or may not be possible. The lack of
proper knowledge of flowing wells in general
and the amount of flow, and the depth to
which wells must bo bored to obtain water in
special localities, causes much loss of both
time and money iu useless expenditure whilo
prospocting. Lack of knowledge also pre-
vents the boring of artesian wells where an
abundant supply is within easy roach.
"In tho region of the artesian water area
north of the Colorado rivor it is possible to
estimate approximate depths for flowing wells,
and closer estimates may be made upon the
Grand prairie between the upper and lower
cross timbors north of the Brazos river and in
the area of the same belt of hard limestone
between the Colorado and Brazos rivers; but
estimates aro less reliable upon tho "black
land" prairie between a line drawn through
Sherman, Dallas, Waco and Austin and tho
timber belt of the tertiary.
"The area wherein flowing wells can bo ob-
tained north of the Colorado river is estimated
to be not less than 21,000 square miles, or 13,-
440,000 acres. In this area artesian wells can
bo obtained at depths of from loss than 100 to
4000 feot.
"In order that thero may bo flowing wolls
throe conditions aro necessary, viz.: 1. There
must lie a jwrous stratum, such as a pervious
sand or conglomerate. 2. Above this porous
water bearing stratum thero must bo an im-
pervious bod of rook through which tho water
can not readily pass. 3. The source of the
water supply or tho outcrop of the water bear-
ing stratum must bo higher than tlie top of
the well.
SOURCES OF ARTESIAN WATER SUPPLY.
"The water beating sands which supply the
flowing wells in this artesian area are tho
Trinity, Paluxy and Red river bods.
"Tho impervious strata above the Trinity
and Paluxy beds are the Glan Rose and Tex-
nna limestone beds respectively. The Eaglo
Ford shalo overlies the Rod rivor bed, which
is occupied by tho lower Cross Timbers, and
forms an impervious stratum.
"The Rod river satul does not occursouthof
tho Brazos river, hence it does not enter into
tho discussion of artesian water in Lampasas,
Burnet and Williamson counties. Tho Paluxy
sand is not woil developed south of the Loou
river, and it is impregnated with clay, soluble
salts and magnesia, strontia and other mineral
matter, which unfits it for a successful water-
bearing stratum. The Trinity sand remains
alone as tho source of supply for flowing wells
iu tliis region, and its extent here is not such
as would afford either an abundant supply or
a first-class quality of water, wero it not a
direct continuation of beds more favorably
situated. In tho first place its areal outcrop,
or catchment area, is small, rarely more than
a half mile iu width, and often less. In the
second placo it has a variable structure, being
composed of conglomerate with ferruginous
aud calcareous matrix, often partially in-
durated, ferrugino-calcanous sands and in-
durated arenaceous limestone which contains
in places considerable quantities of iron sul-
phide. In the southern portion of Lampasas
couuty the Trinity bed is quite thin, and in
places almost ontiroly absent, which gives
littio or no source of water for flowing wells
iu that region. Hero also the conglomorato
is so indurated that it will admit very little
passage for water.
LOCALITIES FOR FLOWING WELLS.
From tho great artesian area, wherein it is
possible to obtain a flowing well at any point,
arms of limited extent run westward up the
river and crook valleys toward the catchment
area or exposure of water-bearing stratum.
West of a lino drawn through Round Rock.
Georgetown, Corn Hill and Salado to the
Lampasas river north of Salado, it is not pos-
sible to obtain a flowing well except in tho
immediate valleys of the principal streams
and in these valleys it is possible only to a
limited extent. Along tho immediate valley
of the Lampasas river, from near tho Hamil-
ton county line southeastward tho conditions
aro suited for flowing wolls of a few thousand
gallons daily supply. Flowing water from
wolls may bo obtained in the valleys of Simms
and School creeks for nearly ten miles above
their mouths. There is no possibility of ob-
taining artesian water beyond two or three
miles above the mouth of Sulphur creek, and
there only in small flows. Smnli flows from
bored wells may bo gotten in the valleys of
Mesquite and Rocky creeks for nearly six
miles from Lampasas river. For any of the
locations above givon it will rarely be neces-
sary to excavate more than 200 feot to obtain
a flow, and often less than 200 feet will suffice,
The flow of water from wells hero will not be
great but will be ample for culinary and farm
purposes. It will not bo sufficient for irriga-
tion unless it be very limited. In tho valley
of the north fork of San Gabriel river, from
Georgetown to the Burnot county lino, flow
ing wells may be obtained at depths from
nearly 000 feet at Georgetown to less than 400
feot at the county lino. Near Georgetown the
flow will moat probably be quite abundant,
but as the valley is aseendod it will grow
weaker until tho the wator will only just reach
tho surface. Flowing wells neod not be ox-
poctod in the valley of the south fork of the
San Gabriel river above the Austin aud North-
western railway. Beginning on the Salado
creek at Florence and on Berry creek south of
Florence the conditions are suited for flowing
wells along their valleys to the Lampasas and
San Gabriel rivers. Wells of sinail flow may
be obtained in tho valloy of Brushy creak
for nearly ton miles above Round Rock. In
tho valley of Brushy oroek near Round
Rock, San Gabriel river, near Georgetown,
and Berry's and Salado creeks, north
Georgetown, weak Hows of wator may ba ex-
pected from wells at from 300 to 100 feet
depths. In these cases the su >ply will be
small, and the quality of tha wator probably-
poor and bitter from the presence of salts of
magnesia, soda, strontia, etc., in solution and
sulphurous gases. Rarely this water may bo
valuable for medicinal purposes. The source
of this supply is in the upper sandy stratum
of the Glen Hose (alternating) bed, which
contains Quantities of sulphate of magnesia.
sulphate of strontium, and probably salts ot
soda. Upon tho surface these minerals show
in well defined crystals in the bluffs of Mount
Bonnall, on tho Colorado river, In Travis
■ounty, and in the blurt's along Roeky creek,
in Burnet county.
"Immediately west of tho line drawn
through Round Reel:, Corn Hill and Salado,
which is approximately upon tho lino of tho
Balcones fault, water may bo mado to flow
from wells at depths of from 000 to 800 feet,
whilo immediately oast of this line it wiil be
'equired to bore nearly 1000 feet at Round
Rock, about 750 feot at Georgetown, and less
than tiio latter amount at Com Hill and
Salado.
"East of tho Baloonos fault line artesian
ator may bo obtained with tolerable cer-
tainty, but there may be instances where a
How can not be gotten oil account of a thin-
ning of tho porous sand and conglomerate of
tho Trinity bod, in southern Lampasas county,
resulting from a ridge like elevation of Paleo-
zoic rocks beneath tho cretacoous strata.
"Southeastward from tho Balcouos fault
line, depths to which wells will liavo to bo
bored to obtain flowing water incroases on an
avorago of nearly 100 foot per mile linear dis-
tance. Of necessity, differences iu surfaco
elovation aff'oct tho depths. Less will be re-
quired in tho valleys than upon tho adjoining
hills."
Tho report gives othor areas that havo boon
surveyed, but tho foregoing is sufficient to
show tho seopo and character of tha work be-
ing done in this direction. At tho time the
report was completed work on the Galveston
deep well was still going ou and therefore
nothing but the briefest mention is mado of
it. Tho forthcoming report containing a
scientific description of this remarkable well
will be awaited with interest.
Tho report embodies several instructive
liapers, among them ono on Houston county
iy W. Kennedy, section from Terrell to
Sabine Pass by W. Kennedy, Llano Estacado
or Staked Plains by W. F. Cummmgs, aud re-
ports from the assistant geologists.
AN ALARM OF FIRE.
Several Persons Crushed in tha Confusion
Which Hesulted.
New York, Sept. 23.—Four Jewish syna-
gogues in the tenement house at 27 Ludlow
street wero all crowded this morning with de-
vout Hebrews, attending festival services of
the New Yoar, whon soma person raised a
cry of fire, and immediately thoro was a panic
and everybody rushed for the doors. The
narrow stairway became packed with people.
They piled right on top of one another on the
stairway. Some person in tho street had
enough presence of mind to send in a fire
alarm, which brought the department to the
scene. The firemen succeeded in extricating
tlie people from tho building, and found that
four were dead and about a dozen injured. A
genoral alarm was sent out for ambulances,
and in the meantime the dead and injured
were laid out on the sidewalk. Ambulances
from Bellovuo and Governour hospitals were
soon on the Bcone, attending to tho wants of
the injured.
MURDERED A BRAKEMAN.
A Negro Stealing a Ride Does Fatal Work
With a Pistol.
Guthrie, Ok., Sept. 23.—Eugene Williams,
a young nogro, is in jail charged with the
murder of Charles Stafford, a freight brake-
man, at Edmond at 3 o'clock this morning.
He and three negro companions of this city
wero stealing a rido to Purcell on the south-
bound freight when Stafford, tho brakeman,
entered the enr and demanded that they pay
for their ride. Throo of them paid but
Williams refused and with an oath whipped
out a revolver and fired four bullets into
Stafford's body, producing instant death. Tho
negroes then jumped from tlie moving train,
ono of theui, John Chriss, being so badly in-
jured that it was found nooossary to amputate
his leg. Williams lied from the railway on
foot and had gone nearly twenty miles when
captured by the officers this evening. Ho con-
fessed the c.riine and it is not improbable Uiat
there may be a lynching beforo morning.
Resisted Arrest.
Richmond, Ind., Sept. 23.—[Special.]—News
reached hero to-day of the occurrence of a
terrible tragedy six miles east of Miles. Will-
iam Eubanks, a member of tho school board
in the Clark district, kept the teacher, Theo-
dore Fiiiuam, from entering tho schoolhouso
by presenting a loaded shotgun. Finnam
called in tho deputy sheriff, Eli Welker.
Eubanks was still angry and resisted arrest.
The sheriff advanced to take hold of him,
whereupon ho leveled the gun and attempted
to shoot, but was prevented. Eubanks then
drew a revolver, but the deputy was too quick
for him, shooting him through the head. A
son of Eubanks arriving, struck the officer
with a corn cutter, wounding him seriously.
Both man are in a critical condition.
Cold Watar Advocates.
Waco, Tex., Sept. 23.—Mrs. Helen M. Stod-
dard, president of tho Woman's Christian
temperance union in Texas, is on an official
visit to Waco. She held a meeting to-day at
the residence of Mrs. A. J. Drake and reor-
ganized working committees. Mrs. Stoddard
says tho union is gaining all over tiia state.
She believes the Bidwell and Cranfill national
ticket and tho Prendergast state ticket will
show material prohibition gain in tha coming
election.
0URRENT COMMENT.
It is evident that the democratic leaders
havo bocomo convinced that tho tariff plank
which they adopted at Chicago is a colossal
blunder. For they aro making frantic efforts
these days to show that the plank is not to be
regarded as meaning what it says, Bourke
Cockran, in the speech which he delivered in
Albany a few evenings ago, did his best to
make his auditors believe that the preposter-
ous declaration of the plank that protection is
unconstitutional is not to be interpreted litor-
ally. "Ho admitted," the Albany Journal re-
ports, "that the democratic platform called
protection a 'fraud' and declared it 'uncon-
stitutional,' but explained that only repub-
lican protection was to be considered fraudu-
lent, and that 'unconstitutional' did not mean
contrary to the constitution of the United
States, but at variance with some vaguo prin-
ciples which the founders of the republic seem
to have forgotten." Colonel Watterson is a
fellow-laborer with Mr. Cockran in this droll
feat of crawfishing. The Louisville Courier-
Journal protests that "there is no declaration
in the Chicago platform, printed or implied,
which suggests "a precipitate sweeping away
of the tariff." Now, these attempts to tona
down, explain away and render harmless tho
domocratie tariff plank will not succeed.
They are the outcome of cowardice, and aro
born of the consciousness of defeat. [New
York Tribune.
Ropublican organs have beon quoting an
alleged report from tho Indiana bureau of
statistics by Commissioner Peelle as showing
that tho wages of workmon in that state have
been increased under the McKinley tariff. It
is sufficient to say in this connection that no
report on that subject has been issued by Com-
missioner Peelle or any other Indiana official.
[Chicago Herald,
Colonel J ohn A. Cookerill is now a moro
assiduous republican than the tin oolonel of
the Mail and Express, He declares that tho
democratic party is ready to reopen the Afri-
can slave trade and re-establish slavery.
Colonel Cockerilf is prodigously full of
prunes, and worm oaten ones at that. [Atlanta
Constitution.
The people of Jennings, La., who eowhided
a clergyman in his pulpit on Sunday morning
doubtless had good grounds of provocation,
but all the same it was semi-barbarism. Tha
house of the Lord was not the place for such
an operation. [Now York Recorder.
Somebody wants to know where ara our
poets. They have been hiding out until tha
worship of Corbett and Sullivan shows sign*
of iutermisaion. I Msuichia Aval inch*.
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