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El Paso Heraldi
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THEDAILY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1896. IN THE LEAD. FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN' SICCESSIR Paid more money to claimants in Texas, during 1895, than all other accident com- paniss combined. It is hard to tell which company does the most good. Hoi B.

Agent VCI Matinee and Night Dec. 25th Matinee and Night Dec. 26th Eagiipent Etraordinary CHAS. H. FOREVER AUCTION TRULY A GREAT PERFORMANCE A The Magnificent Scenery The Gorgeous Hostumes The Dazzling Armor The Beautiful Ballet The Noted Premieres The European Specialties The Artistic Company A Mammoth Production Everything New but the Title The Advent of Spring and all the Great Features Bring the Children.

THE WEATHER. United States Weather Bureau i PASO.TexttS, December 23. 1896. Local Time 5:64 a. m.

30.37 Thermometer 24 Direction of Velocity of wind per 2 Bala 24 hourc (inchesand aighest temperature last 24 Lowest temperature last 24 What Metal Is Worth, Mexican pesos. El 65; 2 75 10 51 61 Superintendent of public instruction T. E. Dalton, of Arizona states that the total amount of school expenses in the territory for the year ending June 30, 1896, is about that the valu ation of property will be about that there are 334 school teachers, and that there are 16,930 children of school age in the territory. The number enrolled in the public schools in the past year was 12,889.

President Diaz will visit all of the prominent points in the republic. Cheap! Cheaper! Cheapest! Special holliciay sale. From now until Jan. 1st. we will sell all 1896 bicycles in our stock.

Also oicycle supplies at reduced prices. We have 4 new Snell special bicycles, black and maroon enamel, fitted with W. quick repair tires, adjustable handle oars and T. T. special saddles.

These are $75.00 wneels. ana we sell them for $40.00. No reasonable casn offer refused for 2nd hand wheels. C. H.

Fargo Co. $3.00 ladies bicycle shoes for $2.00. Globe vapor lamps $1.50, McCutcheon Payne Co. For Sale. One eight-room house in north pan of town for $2400.

One five-room house North Stanton St. for $2000. One tive-room house North Florence St. for $2100. One five-room house North Oregon St.

for $3u00. All of these properties are nice homes and will rent to pay 10 per cent net as an investment. D. Y. adley It Is Only Once a Year.

And it takes very little to show the Christmas spirit. We have never before had so many pretty things to show you, and we welcome young and old, citizen and stranger, visitor and purchaser. These suggestions may be of assistance as to what to get, at For Over Fifty Years. Mrs. Soothing Syrup has been used for children teething.

It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind cholic, and is the best remedy for rhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. ----------------------------------------------------------------To prevent the hardening of the subcutaneous tissues of the scalp and the obliteration of the hair follicles, which cause baldness, use Hair lienewer. In Trouble. The man who was placed in jail yesterday for stealing a horse blanket, arrested because of an affidavit charging him with to in depriving the horse of the covering he needed to protect himself from catching cold.

The doctors are unanimous in saying that horses have better temper, require less food and their hair has a more glossy appearance, when clothed with the West Texas Saddlery horse blankets. Go see them at corner of Overland and pregron YOUB WIFE SOW lead of all competitors. Although still early in the season, they are selling rapidly, ihe has become so well known that it is not necessary to describe it here in detail. It is a heater, an ornament to any room, and can be converted into a cook- stove. No other light is needed when an is in the room.

It is the handsomest and most popular oil heating device ever invented. Over one hundred now in use in El Paso; and they are cheap. Write for circular. A Rosting Pan for Christmas Turkey; And a Carving Knife and Fork. You may need them for New Years.

We have something new in Roasting Pans i 1 (J. Tanner HR, ID -A. IRE, 319 EXj PASO ST F. Grocers, Sole Agents. Dr.

Oscar Wilkinson, Late resident surgeon Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, New Orleans, La. SPECIALIST. Practice confined to Ear, Eye, Nose Throat Office hours, a. to 12 1 to 1 p. m.

Consultation free to poor from 8 to 9:30 a. m. ROOM 6, MOREHOUSE uLOCK. DR. C.

0. BKOWN, DENTIST. Rooms 2 and 4. Mundy Block WE AiiE WITH I CHRISTMAS PRESENTS! I are a few suitable goods we have for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS -A-t From "25c to S3- Sterlirg Silver and Silver Mounted. Belts, Salve Boxes, Garters Jewel Nah Shoe Horns, Hat Brushes, Bonnet Brushes, Purges, Vinaigrettes, Hat Pins, Cutters, Tags, Si-issors.

Whisk Brooms, Olive Forks, Card Cases, Match Safes, jtt Stick 2, Glove Hooks, Button Hooks, Tea Be1 Is, Stamp Boxes, Pipes. 4 An elegant stock of genuine Libbey Cut Glass and genuine Lyons Um- brellas just received. W. HICKOX I TheJewelers, Bronson Block, III San Antonio Street, El Paso, Texas BRIEF LOCALS. Conductor T.

W. Woods of the S. P. is taking a twenty days lay-off for the holidays. Collector Davis has sold to Winfield Scott 10,000 head of iong horn cattle at $12 per head.

The extradition cases were postponed last evening by U. S. Commissioner Sexton until January 4. Customs Inspector Ben Jenkins is able to be out aftQ.r a confinement to his house by iiiness. Work still continues on the Maggie in tne Black Mountains.

A force of men are doing development work. There will be a neighborhood Christmas tree tonight at H. B. house on the hill, for the children of the families residing in the locality. There will be a Christmas tree tonight at Col.

residence for the little grand child, Dr. -Stafford baby. The colonel uopes to get away in time to preside over the city council meeting. Undertaker Ross celebrates tomorrow the forty-fifth anniversary of the day when Santa Claus came swooping uown from the nether rt gions with his rheindeer and Christmas barge of a sleigh, and dropped the future mortuary artist into the maternal lap. The Fort Bliss band musicians have returned from their hunt down the Rio Grande, after having had, as one of them expresses it, a bully old time.

Bandmaster Wurm shot a grizzly bear weighing 700 pounds, and he will have the made over into an overcoat which he is to wear on the occasion of the next winter-garden concert on the plaza. An advertiser complains that there is not a printer in town who can read correctly the word, He says they will just eternally get electric, snectrie, wektric, pectrie, kec- irick, wood tick and every her kind of tick but the right tick. It makes nirn excessively weary, and he wishes the dictionary was consulted more in newspaper composing rooms. Peter Wehner makes the boss Santa Claus. He drove down from Christmas present land last evening with his four- in-hand of rheindeer and deposited in the hands of each employe of.

the Gas and Electric Light company a bouncing tic bird of is, the real genuine bird of freedom; no eagle business. St. Nicholas Wehner actually pulled fourteen twenty pound birds out of his capacious pockets in celebration of the occasion. Judge Townsend, the city attorney, takes mortal ofTense at the utterances of prominent citizens in the now famous series of interviews on the city tax situation in the erald So he has tiled suit for damages against U. Goin? to Las Cruces.

The following foot ball eleven will leave in the morning for I.as Cruces to nlay the Agricultural college team tomorrow afternoon on their gridiron at Mesilla Park: Zuehlke, F. Smith, D. Smith, captain; D. F. McCarthy, H.

Gough, Pauncho, E. Morris, P. Neilson, M. McLachlen, Sweeny, with Colonel James Thornton as manager. This is the same team that did the High School boys up so brown last Sunday by a score of 10 to 6: and the boys say they will do the Las Cruces team the same way.

They are all in good condition, having practiced every day this week. The Fort Bliss foot ball team go up to Las Cruces tomorrow morning to make life a mockery and hope an empty dream for the Cruces Aggies. tf they win the garrison band will we come home the triumphant foot ball men with the conquering hero and the adjutant will crown the whoie outfit with appropriate laurel leaves. The Yaqui Ear Still Erect The government authorities at the City of Mexico have advices from Hermosillo, in the state of Sonora, that a large number of Yaqui Indians are asjain on the war path and that a num ber of settlers in the Yaqui river valley have been murdered and their propern destroyed. One of the hostile bands of Yaqui is in the neighborhood of Nogales, Arizona, and a raid on that town is feared.

Thos. Brown, a locomotive engineer who ran on the Southern Pacinc for many years, died at Los Angeles, on Friday night of consumption. Mr Brown was well known, ranked high in bis profession and numbered a legion of friends. Some three weeks prior to his death his twiu brother lost his life by falling down a shaft near Los Angeles. Mr.

Brown leaves a wife known in El Paso as Miss Gussie Letts. The train from the west will continue to be one hour late until the 30tb inst when the passenger will arrive according to the new G. H. schedule As this schedule lengthens out the time one hour between this city and Del Rio, the time now lost west of here is easily made up while the S. P.

continues late. The Sisters of Loretto will have a Christmas tree and entertainment folios ninos Mexicanos; and at the American Catholic church, mass will 'be sung tomorrow at 10 a. rn. The mass will be a new score being written by Rosewig. Tradesmen say that holiday business this been an improvement over that of last year.

The Pacific Express company people say business LOCAL AND GENERAL. Fresh oysters at creamery. Holiday books at Eclectic book store. Hot cakes at creamery. Go to Irvin for wrindow Juicy steaks at creamery.

Strawberries at creamery. Typewriter paper at the erald office. Mining Location Blanks for Sale at This Office. butter at Creamery. For ent Two furnished rooms.

D. Y. adley For ent Finely furnished front room, 609 N. Oregon street. Stoves and Steel Ranges; low prices.

Momsen Fine linen typewriter paper for sale at the erald office. Silver novelties in beautiful designs at a low price, at Trv the bread made by the Dickinson Home Bakery. Telephone 206 for window glass, paper hanging, signs, etc. A large shipment of decorated china suitable for Christmas gifts, at EL PASO STEAM LAUNDRY, Telephone No. 47.

Mining location notices for sale at the Herald job office. Ask tor PASO the best 5 cent CIGAR on the market. Linen typewriter paper, 500 legal size at $1.20 at erald job office. and to placards for sale at this office. For sale Handsome driving horse cheap.

Address box 379. Beautiful cottage dinner sets China Palace, 211 San Antonio St. Home made cakes, pies and doughnuts at Smith's creamery. The best Mexican and Havana cigars made by the El Paso Cigar Mfg. Co.

anted Two furnished rooms with board in private family. Address this office. Fresh Kansas eggs 25c per dozen. Best creamery butter 25c lb. at the El Paso Grocery Co 112 East Overland St.

Irvin Co. are receiving an immense stock of Holiday goods call and see them. Best creamery butter 2oc per lb. Fresh Kansas eggs 25c per dozen at the El Paso Grocery 112 East Overland St. 22i lbs.

sugar $1.00 cash. 25 lbs. sugar $1.00 with purchase of $4.00 other groceries. Pearce. 201 Stanton St.

Would you pay $40 00 fora $75.00 wheel, if so call at McCutcheon Bicycle Store. Pleasant furnished room, private family, privilege of parlor, 403 N. El Paso St. Biank leases for houses or storerooms, best form. For sale at erald job office.

224 lbs. sugar $1 00 cash. 25 lbs. sugar $1.00 with purchase of $4 00 other groceries. Pearce, 201 Stanton St.

All of our 1896 bicycles at reduced prices. No reasonable offer refused for any of our 2d hand wheels. McCutcheon, Payne Co. Fresh Kansas eggs 25c per dozen. Best creamery butter 25c per lb.

at the El Paso Grocery 112 East Overland St. Best creamery butter 25c per lb, Fresh Kansas eggs 25c per dozen at the El Paso Grocery Co 112 East Overland St. El Paso Fuel are agents for the celebrated Cerrillos White Ash and anthersite coals. Successors r.o Cerrillos Coal R. R.

Co. Phone 110 Do you wish the best hair cut and be among those who get the very best of everything. You will be obliged to go to G. W. Morrow, 109 Oregon St Coal are agents for We sell thecelebrat- ed white ash and anthracite and make a specialty of screened lumps for domestic uses.

Phone 8. mnmwmj mmwmm vmmvwmm mm IMPORTANTI 1 We have determined to close out our RETAIL DE: PARTMENT, and now offer our entire stoek of DRY GOODS at a SACRIFICE. Our assortment is large and complete and our friends and the public are invited to inspect the stoek and buy goods to suit themseives. SPECIAL ATTENTION! Is called to the articles suitable for Holiday trade: Ladies Capes and Jackets, Silk Shawls, Woolen and Dress Goods, Handkerchiefs, Blankets, Table Covers, Damask Table Sets, Underwear, Fancy Goods, Etc. Come over and inspect our goods.

It will pay you. Bunsow 8 Co. OVER THE 5 RIVER. mm mam mmimami mmmii i miim mm frr Jm 2 Jf J. Why it Is That 1 Have Doneso Large a Business I his Season.

Guess? T. H. SPRINGER, Cor. Stanton and St, Louis Sts El Paso, Texas. The Acknowledged cherpest dealer in house furnishing in the Soutewest.

1 We have just received two cars of furniture consisting of Rattan and Upholstered Rockers, Bed Room Furniture, Side Boards, Dining Tables, Dining Chairs. here we with a larger and more complete assortment of Holiday 'Goods than ever, The prices I are right for the quality of the Goods, Come and see for yourselves. W. A. IRVIN And we are receiving daily a full stoek of China and selected by me personally, which will far this market.

Fancy goods surpass anything seen in Stewart for libel, and at this Christmas is 20 per cent length alleges that his name and better than it was in 189o at the same reputation have been greatly damaged. The judge intends to sue other citizens who expressed their opinions unreservedly in those interviews. El Paso still continues to receive good samaritans who devote their time and talent to healing the sick. Santa Teresa still continues to do business at the old stand, and Dr. J.

E. Fleming, a venerable looking gentleman who was formerly a practicing physician, has recently put in an appearance as a and invites all who are suffering from disease to come and be made whole, without money or price. That he has effected some curcs cannot time. A. F.

DeSmeth purchased the entire of Kayser Co. yesterday and will continue the business at the old stand with Geo. Parker as manager. This G. H.

is two hours late, or over, and carries a special car containing the Auction company. PI. SP RI STG-ER. Furniture, Crockery Carpets. Corner of St.

Louis and Stanton Streets, EL IP -A. £3 TT EX AS. 3l Attention to out of town trade. Particular Attention 13 it it The Weil Tailoring TO OU Line I FALL AND Of OVERCOATS, UNDERWEAR And SUITS. it, GOODS Prices.

205 El Paso St. BUILDING. The Catholic church authority have secured 100 150 feet of land at the smelter, and will erect a church there. A. Loomis has sold to M.

Ainsa for $2,000, feet on San Antonio street. Suit is entered in the district court by Bishop Dunne againso Tyrso Gibe denied, though how permanent they £uin, et al, for tresspass to try title. will prove remains to be seen. Several) -------------------------------well known citizens who had become! Bert J. Tuttle has applied in the slaves to the use of tobacco, now have I district court for removal of disabilities no longing for the weed, and a number as a minor, of inebriates claim that through him they have lost all desire for strong drink.

Dr. Fleming is not a Christian Scientist, nor will he admitjthat he is a faith doctor. As far as one can judge he seems to be a magnetic healer. That he possesses strong magnetic power cannot be denied and in some he makes use of his hypnotic power. Many unbelieving sufferers apply to him for relief and none are turned away on account of poverty.

That he does much good and never any harm seems to be admitted. Drugs he does uot use, 870 for a 189(5 Rambler bicycle, at MeCutch- eon, Payne Co. Bucklervs Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, hilblains, corns and all skin eruptions, iisd positively cures piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded.

Price 35 cents per box. For sale by W. A. Irvin and wholesale and retail druggists El Paso. The banks will be closed tomorrow and the postoffice will observe Sunday hours.

A marriage license was issued today to Efisio Caboni and Ida M. A. Williams. A correspondent from Benson says that a head end collision occurred at Dragoon Summit the other morning and three locomotives and number of freight cars were wrecked. Engineer Chas.

Smith was slightly hurt. A man named Emanuel, from San Francisco, who was supposed to have been riding on the tender of one of the locomotives was found thrown outside of the telegraph poles, so severely injured that he died at Benson, he was taken, Thursday evening. His relatives were and they wired to have the remains forwarded to San Francisco which was Read and Reflect. We are the only retail grocers in El who buy in carload lots and direct from the packer, pay spot cash and for this reason we can sell you cheaper than any other house in the city. The following prices will convince you that to save money you must buy from the El Paso Grocery company: 2 Cans California table 2 pears 2 2 egg 3 3 lb 2'c 3 Standard Early June peas, standard Curtice Bros.

Blue Label Early June peas 3 lb baked Blue Label Catsup, pts 25c 2 cans early sweeteorn 25c 2 cans Golden Wax stringless (Brighton) 10 lbs Monogram leaf lard. 1 lb very best Creamery butter Sauer kraut, per 6 lbs Lion 00 3 lbs Arabian 1 00 Good Gun Powder Tea, per English Breakfast 3 cans American Sardines, with tomato 2 cans imported Plain pickles, per Mixed Chowchow, per Salmon, per can Columbia Salmon steak, per Paso Grocery Co. M2 East Over and Street tfesr" Gives the Highest Price FOR HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND SELLS AT THE LOWEST. Try Him 116 Oregon Street. HOUCK DEITER, IMPORTERS and JOBBERS FINE WLNES AND WHISKIES A 1 W1LL1AM LEMP BREWING St.

Louis, Mo BREWING Milwaukee, Wis. 220 El Paso St. El Paso, Texas. El 4.50 Mrs. BJNISG KOOt For Good Board at zprsiR, WEEK M.

Hardin, Proprietress. Owing to recent retirements the Ninth cavalry headquarters has not a single field officer serving witb it. You Can Be Well when your blood is rich, pure and nourishing. Hood I Sarsaparilla makes the blood inch and pure and cures all blood restoring health and vigor. Pills are easy to take, easy in operate.

Cure indigestion, head- agbe. JOB OFFICE: Typewriter Paper, Mining Location Notices, Blank Leases, Lein Notices, House Rent Books, V. AI. C. Gymnasium Ciass Hours 3 p.

m. every day, Dumb Bell Drill, for Business and Professional Men. X() IVVbl B'LVXTOy Street, Ginsrsoisr Liquor Dealers, Finest Kentucky Bourbon and Pennsylvania Rye Whiskies. ----Sole Agent for the Product of---The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, Of St. Louis, Mo.

The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company Of Milwaukee, Wls. Wholesale Dealers tn PureKocky Mountain Lake Ice. Families Supplied with Soda, Sarsaparilla. Vichy, Seltzer and all Forms of Mineral Water, BRANCH IN CIUDAD JUARcZ, MEXICO. THE STAR LIVERY.

FED AND SALE STABLES 4 p. m. Wednesdays 10 a. m. Saturdays Juniors 11 to years old.

4 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays. Ladies Class. Work suited to all.

7:30 p. m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, Young Class. Yearly Membership, Regular Jun- I ior Ladies tuition made known on application. Corner West Overland and Santa Fe Streets.

Phone 92. J. CALDWELL, Prop. a 1 dwell Undertaking Co, 3C5 S. Paso Street, The Leading Undertakers, Phones 197 and 183, 'ALLS ANSWERED DAY OR NIGHT C.

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