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El Paso Herald from El Paso, Texas • Page 5

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El Paso Heraldi
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El Paso, Texas
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EL PASO 1IERALT), TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, LINK AND PIN CONCESSIONS FOR MEXICAN LAD 2 ROADS GRANTED FALLS UNDER CAR Mexico Gives Permits to Jesus Espinado Loses a Foot Two Americans for Valuable Lines. A concession has been granted by the stale government of Oaxaca, Mexico, to Chas. A. Hamilton, president of the San Taviche Mining company, and work is to be started shortly on a railroad from Ocotlan to San Geronimo Taviche, a distance of about 17 miles. The road will be narrow gage and the work will be easy, as it.

passes through a level section with the exception of five miles. Surveys have all been completed. A concession has been granted by the Mexican government to John Henderson to build a railroad from Port I Lob os to the town of Caborca, in the) state of Sonora. Surveys are to be begun within six months. Six miles must be completed within 18 months, and a similar length completed each year un- 1 11 the road is finished, which will take about six years.

The office of the company will be at Nogales, which is the terminus of the Guaymas railroad. Port Lobos is south of Guaymas, and Caborca is in the southern section of the Altar district. The line will be southeast and parallel to the Guaymas Nogales road. In Mexican Central Yards. FAST SERVICE TO MEXICO BEGINS Semi Weekly St.

Louis-Mex-) ico Trains Leave Today on 59 Hour Time. The National lines of Mexico placed in service today a semi-weekly through limited train between St. Louis and the City of Mexico via Laredo, Texas, on a 59 hour schedule. The equipment is entirely new and of the best possible character. A tourist car service will be inaugurated thiS month also.

The general passenger agent of the National lines, Geo. W. Hibbard, recently with the Duluth, South Shore Atlantic railway, has initiated these new features in connection with an effort to colonize the southern part of Mexico. An advertising department has been created'and will be in charge or J. A.

Ball, for two years past assistant advertising agent of the Chicago, Burlington Quincy. UNION DEPOT MAY BE READY MARCH 1 If the union station is ready for occupancy by the first of March, it will ioe all that can be expected, according to one of the men employed on the work is progressing steadily and rapidly, but there is still much to be done before the station can be opened, and that it should be ready for use within two weeks, as contemplated by the directors at their last meeting, is said to be impossible. J. G. Fischlin is to be checked in tomorrow as agent of the Mexican Central at Juarez.

Mr. Fischlin, who has been commercial agent at different points on the Central system, will succeed agent Welch. To what point Mr. Welch will be transferred is not known. ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

STILWELL COMING HERE ON THE 23D A. E. Stilwell, president of the Orient road, and a party of capitalists accompanying him, are in Mexico City on one of the periodical pilgrimages into the sister republic conducted by tihe K. C. M.

G. Thursday the party will leave City and they are scheduled to reach Chihuahua the 20th, arriving in El Paso Tuesday, January 23, at 7 oclock in the morning. H. J. Simmons-, general manager of the Southwestern, left for the west this morning in his private car, He is expected to confer with Dr.

James Douglas, president of the Phelps-Dodge company, who is at present on the west end of the line. MARSHALL FIELD OF CHICAGO DIES No woman can be happy when her health is undermined. No woman can have good health while she suffers from female weakness, inflammation, ulceration or any disease of the delicate womanly organs. Nervous, sleepless, fretful, suffering in body and mind, she does not live but only exists. More than a half a million such women have found a perfect and permanent cure for their diseased condition in the use of Doctor Favorite Prescription.

Women cured by this remedy say it is a wonderful so perfectly does it restore them to health and comeliness. There is no alcohol in neither does it contain opium, cocaine, nor any other harmful drug. It is in the strictest sense, an honest, temperance medicine. Its ingredients are purely vegetable, and it will agree with the most delicate constitution. be hypnotized, or over persuaded, into accepting a substitute.

This medicine has a record worth far more than any difference in price. Sick and ailing women are invited to consult Dr. Pierce, either personally or by letter, absolutely without charge or fee, thus avoiding the unpleasant questionings, offensive and obnoxious local treatments necessary by many local practitioners. All correspondence treated as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Write without fear and without fee to Dr.

R. V. Pierce, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. These tinv, siigar-coalod anti-bilious granules reg- Merchant Prince Of Metropolis Of Central State, Dies, Aged 70 Years, Shortly After Marriage.

While stealing a ride on a freight car which was being switched in the Mexican Central yards this side of the river Monday afternoon, Jesus Es- pinado. aged 13 years, lost his hold and fell. One leg fell on the track and before tne lad could pull it away the wheels of the car passed over and mangled it. Captain Greet of the police department had the injured boy removed to the county hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the foot. The amputation was performed by city physician Anderson and Dr.

Vilas. Both the Santa Fe and Mexican Central railroads have been troubled by boys stealing rides on the trains for a long time and i.t is remarkable that more accidents have not occurred. Those who witnessed the accident yesterday say that young Espinado had the closest kind of a call. --------------o-------------COLONISTS ARRIVE FOR THE T. P.

Thirteen prospective colonists and prospectors arrived over the Texas Pacific this morning to leave for the City of Mexico and intermediate points on the line of the Central. The southbound Mexican Central this morning was held to make connections with the Texas Pacific, which was late. The 13 travelers were not all members of one party, ----------o---------NEW AGENT FOR MEXICAN CENTRAL jjafl H. M. Levinson, superintendent of the Sierra Madre, has left Juarez for a trip over the line.

J. P. Hallihan, chief engineer and assistant to the president of the Sierra Madre, has gone to Vasa Grandes to be absent one week. A. E.

Roome, superintendent, of telegraph of the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific, left this morning for California, traveling in the business car T. Hallihan, father of J. P. Hallihan and T. A.

Hallihan, of the Sierra Madre, is visiting the latter at Casas Grandes, accompanied by T. J. Kelly and Miss Alice Kelly, of Fond du Lac, Wis. Mr. is Mr.

fatherinlaw. W. R. Brown, district agent of the Santa Fe, if his plans did not go askew, met the Chicago business special at Las Vegas this afternoon. He will proceed with the party as long as they are in this territory.

The city office has not received any information as to whether the party will come to El Paso. VcP Because it nourishes, invigorates and tones---builds up the vital forces by promoting healthy appetite and inducing refreshing sleep. It relieves brain-fag and quiets tired nerves. Draught is brewed in the good, old-fashioned way, from rich, Malt and choice hops under conditions of immaculate cleanliness. Then aged for months to bring out the body and flavor which characterize good beer.

PHIL YOUNG, Distributor, £1 Paso, Texas. LTQH WILL DE- C1PIT11E IEE New York, Jan. Field, the merchant prince of Chicago, died at 4 oclock this afternoon as the result of a final illness of slightly more than one week. Marshall Field was born in 1835 in Conway, Mass. After a boyhood on the farm, he took a clerksmp in a dry goods store in a Massachusetts town.

From Massachusetts, young Fild made his way in 1856, the year that he attained his majority, to Chicago. Not years passed before he became partner in the then small dry store in which he found employ- eWeXs late Stomach, Liver and Bowels, cure Constipation and Bad Stomach, attended by foul breath. One or two for laxative, three or four for cathartic. This great family Doctor Book ref on receipt of 21 one-cent postage stamps to cover cost of mailing; or, in tine cloth binding 31 stamps. Address Dr.

R. V. Pierce, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. CLIFFORD BROS.

Wholesale Retail STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES General Merchandise. Mail Orders Given Pro rapt Attention. East Overland. Phone 111, many junior goods ment. The dry goods house with which he then was identified was known bv the nrm name of Field, Palmer Leiter.

It grew rapidly. Potter Palmer and Levi Leiter, the two senior members of the firm, both retired and left Marshall Field the sole proprietor of what has since become the greatest wholesale and retail dry goods establishment in the world, occupying one of the most magnificent buildings in the retail district of hicago. The Field Columbian museum of cago, founded and endowed with a gift of perpetuate his name. Among his benevolences was a gift of to L.ie of Chicago, lie was a director corporation. Mr.

Field was married Europe to a rich American was just returning from his bridal tour when he was taken with his last illness. His son, Marshall Field, died while was absent in Europe, from an accidental pistol shot, and this grieved the senior Field greatlv. He Is Said to Have the Ax Ready For Every Officeholder In Texas Who Has Ever Opposed Him. hard light and an organization is now being effected, it is stated, which will wage a tight equally as bitter as the 1 law ley-(Jreen- Lvon light. it is safe to say that the president will be besieged with friends of the present officials and his mail will be overcrowded with protests against the decapitation of the men who have been serving for the past four years.

In case they are displaced the light will be carried into the Republican primaries this summer and a strong effort will be made to displace Col. Lvon as state chairman and replace him by some other man who is opposed to his interests, according to certain sources. do those familiar with politics the action of Col. Lyon will be perfectly logical, as all of me men who are to be Additional details have been received regarding The ashington ad- vices of yesterday relative to the distribution of Texas patronage to federal oflicc holders. The information, a dispatch from San of the U.

S. steel recently in widow and Assessing Franchises. San Antonio, Jan. city board of equalization has taken up the matter of assessing franchises of corporators. The iboard proposes to make a test case of the matter and will take it up to the supreme court.

The franchises are already on the rendered roll and the board is prepared to take the matter up in ihe courts at once. Antonio, says that now that Col. Cecil Lyon is in supreme authority in Texas, is going to repay some old scores and reward some loyal friends in the distribution of federal patronage in Texas. He has frankly announced, it is stated, that he proposes to use inlluence have decapitated practically all of the officers of the southern and western districts. This is the outgrowth of llawley-Creen-Lyon fight for control, which for six years kept the Republican party in this state in a constant of turmoil and which resulted at the last convention in a complete victory for Col.

Lyon. He was elected state chairman and member of the national Republican executive committee, a thing unprecedented in the history of Texas or almost any other state. The fact that he was honored with both offices and he is close personal friend of president Roosevelt has made him to all I intents and purposes absolute dictator 1 of federal patronage in this Letters from him are said to say that among whom he1 will not recom- menel for reappointment Henry Terrell, State's attorney at Smu Antonio; Mark C. United attorney at 1 nited I State's marshal L. San acting postmaster Sam John- i son, San Antonio; C.

11. Maris, collec- I tor customs, Brownsville; Pat bons, postmaster, Paris; llarrv Beck, I postmaster, Hillsboro, and ieorge B. postmaster, Austin. hese oflicials, however, will not ceni- (sent displaccel by personal friends i ami supporters of Col. Lyon without a piae'ed have opposed him at some time.

United States attorney 'Ferrell is to lvplaced by attorney Charles Boynton of Waco. Judge Terrell has been against Lyon in more than one political fight. Judge Terrell was always a strong supporter of ex-cem- gressman Hawley of ami in the tight was the Hawley tor chairman against (Jreen and Lvem. convention was tied up anei finally withelrew from the in fa- for of Lyon, insuring his election. This action was thought t-o have made judge Terrell solid with Lyon, but it as it has been some hitch.

United States marshal Seibreedit, postmaster Zimpelman at Austin and C. 11. Maris ot Brownsville1 all Hawlev men and their appointments were to his influence. li i'' probably that postmaster Xim- pelman will replaceel by T. L.

Wren of Austin, formerly assistant postmas- and that Capt. Seibivcht will by Eugene these are th II made post master of Galveston, a Lyon supporter. It is stated that United States shal M. Hanson of Houston, United cedlector of customs Dowe at I Eagle Pass, assistant collector of cus -1 teuns Ferguson at San Antonio and internal revenue cedlector Flanagan at Austin are to remain, as are all original Lvon men. Spare ribs at Tel.

S00. CHIEF OF BUNCO MEN MAKES ESCAPE Save the Di Pay Gas Bills ON OR BEFORE J. K. Delaney Jumps From 'Train Kn Route to Pen at Huntsville. ter, At least which i Act ing bolls ot I boro were II.

IL Green and therefore an to oet jingle bell. The of Seguin. ions Col. Lyon. Johnson, Bat Gib- aris and Harry of llills- all staunch supporters of E.

first two to replaced J. J. Dickerson, re Judge Mark ol most able by J. J. anel speetivel y.

McLemore was one ot is to be by assist- nitcd States attornev MeDanicIs When J. E. Delaney, the chief of the El Paso bunco men, left here for Reeves county, whither his case of robbery by firearms had been trans-! ferred on a change of venue, he said that in the event that he was convicted he would never be taken to the penitentiary. Delaney was convicted and given five years imprisonment. News was received here yesterday that Delaney while being taken from Reeves county escaped and at last reports was still at large.

Particulars of the escape are gre. The agent and Delaney were on a train which was running at a speed of 40 miles an hour. Delaney is said have asked his guard permission go to a loilet room. The permission was granted and as soon as the prisoner arose from his seat he made a run for the door and before the agent realized what intentions were the prisoner was on the platform and the next moment he had jumped from the train. Several shots were fired by officer but it is not known if any took effect.

A few years ago William Hadley, a convicted safe blower, while being taken 1 roni this city by an agent of penitentiary, jumped from a moving train and escaped. He was recaptured. Hadley was caught in of blowing the safe in the Oxford saloon. January 15th and get back a good part of your money. El Paso Gas Electric Co.

Guaranty Trust Bulding. Phone 98. You must have had 60 at least! What? Only 40? Then it must be your gray hair. Hair Vigor stops these frequent birthdays. It gives all the early, deep, rich color to gray hair, checks falling hair, and keeps the scalp healthy.

Jbowell, Mans LOOK OVER. The Clasified Ads and you will see how printers' ink is used by tfcall kinds and conditions of menM to dissolve and remove trouble- turn daily perplexities into content, even to resolve imaginary mountains into the mole-hills from which hev were builded. I.

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