Public notices from Jeff Davis and Brewster counties
The state issues two legal notices. One commands F. Morrison to answer in Jeff Davis County District Court regarding land claims in Fort Davis with publication for eight weeks. The other requires publication in Brewster County for twenty days announcing the final account of William Wagnon’s estate and the hearing in Alpine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeff Davis County
F. &. Morrison
41St Judicial District
District ‘Court
Fort Davis
A. P
C. A. Finley
F. R. Morrison
A. Finney
Texas
Texas and New Orleans Railway Company
Jas, Stewart
A. D
Stewart
State OF
Brewster County
William Wagnon
Julia E. Smith
Brewster
Alpine
M. A. Boyd
M. A
Bob
Tex
Substitute land bill advances in Public Lands committee
The House Committee on Public Lands voted 14 to 4 to report a substitute for the Tharp and Bryan bills. The substitute defines the absolute lease district as western Texas counties including El Paso Presidio Jeff Davis Pecos Val Verde Maverick Crockett and Brewster in the trans Pecos region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Tharp
Bryan
trans-Pecos
el Paso
Presidio
Jeff Davis
Pecos
Val Verde
Maverick
Crockett, Brews
Land sale plan for school and asylum lands debated
The article outlines a substitute bill to put all school and asylum lands on the market, end the lease district, and require purchases via a monthly lottery in each county with sales to be finalized within ninety days of award. It notes a favorable minority report and quotes David Davis on supporting local papers. It also mentions coyotes and jackrabbits in Montana impacting farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Appeals
Ter
Upton
Sutton
Reagan
Kinney
Commissioners’ Court
United States
David Davis
Illinois
Montana
Espy backs new eastern El Paso County in Texas House
J A Espy of Van Horn visits Austin to push creation of a new county from eastern El Paso County. The bill, introduced yesterday, would split the present county about north to south, creating a 4500 square mile region with roughly two million dollars in taxable values and Van Horn as the proposed county seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Espy
van Horn
Austin
el Paso
Espy
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Claude Hudepeth
Henri Watterson
Cleveland
Senate
Land Committee
Same
Claud Hudspeth
San Angelo
Buck’s
W. D. Kincaid Co
Orient Railroad
Laredo
International & Great Northern
Colorado
Sweetwater
Mitchell County
W. W. Turney
Texas Cattle Raisers’ Association
R. Conly
George Gould
South
Jacksonville
Savannah
California
Southern Pacific
Golden State
Neares
S. F. B. Morse
Assenger
L. RopBins
J. Anderson
Houston
Crawford
Fort Stockton, Texas
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