AFFAIRS AT HEMPSTEAD
Arrival of Rangers and Adjutant-General King — Refutation of Charges by the Sheriff.
HEMPSTEAD, Tex., May 25. — Captain McMurray, commander of a company of Texas rangers, reached here at noon with a detachment of his veterans.
Adjutant-general King of the state military forces will reach here on the morning Austin train with full instructions from Governor Rose concerning the present condition of affairs in Waller county.
The Johnston Guards are yet on duty at the court-house, where are the headquarters of Sheriff McDade with a strong posse guarding his prisoners.
Everything is quiet and few people are seen daily on the public streets.
Sheriff McDade, over his signature, gives the following explanation of the report circulated over the state that he refused to meet Adjutant-general King in consultation on Wednesday morning last, when the governor sent General King here for that purpose. A Houston paper of to-day contains a special from Austin, repeating the above report and Sheriff McDade asks THE NEWS to give him a chance to answer. He uses these words: "The dispatch in the Post is without the semblance of truth. It is not true that I refused to meet General King, but was notified by the county attorney and justice of the peace that the general would meet me at the court-house, and I remained there to see him and refute the many false rumors circulated by parties who, in my opinion, were trying to bring about a collision which he wished to avert. General King was informed by the above mentioned officers that I was not in charge of the prisoners, and as a matter of course the charges against me in the dispatch mentioned are wholly without foundation.
"L.S. (sic T.S.) McDade, Sheriff Waller Co."
Nobody here can form the least opinion what to-morrow's chapter of Waller county history may turn out, but every good citizen feels confident that everything will be transacted without serious trouble, and this unnecessary, unfortunate and deplorable controversy may be brought to a close by the strong arm of military power.
"AFFAIRS AT HEMPSTEAD." Galveston Daily News, Saturday, May 26, 1888, p. 5