Road changes in San Saba county and state notes
A February 16 1684 session returned a law authorizing the commissioners court of San Saba county to lay out open or alter public roads to shorten travel routes. The article reports fence cutting disputes, local politics in Lampasas and Burnet, rail delays from heavy rains, and wider Texas growth including new counties, cattle grazing debates, and a national political scene with Cotton Mill labor tensions in Fall River.
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Commissionera’ Court
San Saba
Acasion
Naw Ronda
Adjournment of the Legislators in the 18th Session
The extra session expired by constitutional limit on the 6th, after Governor Ireland signed several measures including public lands regulation, county court term fixes, six month tax extension, felony for fence cutting, and tax reductions. It notes a $56,000 cost to the people and recounts a prison incident in Lockport involving a prisoner’s attempted escape and a sheriff’s response. It ends with Siftings moved to New York City per local report.
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Gov. Ireland
Varivoa
Troops Called For at Maverick County Border Incident
Telegrams from Captain Oglesby request aid from the state troop reserves to pursue American suspects in a border killing near Eagle Pass. Governor and federal authorities are alerted as hundreds of troops locally may be deployed. the incident centers on the killing of a Mexican politician and tensions rise along the Rio Grande amid Mexican accusations and cross border fears.
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Rio Grande
Texas
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Wen
Turbulent Texas Town News Crisscrosses Crime and Reforms
A fractured dispatch from Tennessee ends with oddities, crimes, and local figures. Reports mention an ordinance against Gompa and fire aria, a farmer George Remonger dying after a head injury, and a city official never accepting a salary. The piece notes a mayoral or legal twist, a mail-train romance near Texarkana, and a rattled station with a dramatic kiss incident aboard the Iron Mountain train. The overall tone mixes sensational vignettes with scattered names, places, and dates, reflecting a chaotic postwar paper.
Fighting between Creeks and Whites erupts at Fort Sur
At Fort Sur Arkansas on February 9 a clash between Creeks and whites sparked a big fight. Gunfire broke out, several men were killed or wounded, and the conflict promises continued violence as factions vow to annihilate each other.
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Fort Sur
Ark
Indus
Ceare
Fire Rouses Georgetown Convent Crowd at Oldest Establishment
A Saturday night blaze at Georgetown Convent, near Georgetown College, prompted a general alarm and forced evacuation as firemen breached doors and the crowd of Southern youths surged through halls. The fire began from a chimney and was contained by prompt firefighting.
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Washington
Georgetown
Georetown College
Superioe
Givo Us Good Roads Opinion Piece Calls For Tax Funded Road Reform
The letter argues for substantial road improvement over patchwork fixes. It asserts farmers and laborers lose days to poor roads and advocates taxing to fund roads under expert engineering guidance, criticizing current maintenance and urging a complete system overhaul.
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Lolauva
Fatal cattle disease hits cattle in county reports
A Dallas dispatch notes a strange fatal cattle disease reported in the Stiterm part of the county. Large numbers have died and treatment has failed. The Tum Green Enterprise claims the nemts boy bank et wong the akeep in that count. Man, anye Young, says radrea and re-tewleva, then dies the suze, but it isn’t so with a woman.
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Akeep
Anye Young
Radrea
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