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El Paso Heraldi
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EL PASO DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1899. 3 80S El Pio Street, Opera House Block. and Second-hand Furnitixre STOVES ST CLAIR STEEL RANGES, CROCKERY, LAMPS. GLASSWARE, ETC. RefHseratois Cheap The Star Livery, Feed Sale Stables, corner Wtrt Overland and Santa Wfi Pbone 82.

0. CALDWELL, Proo. -THE ONLk MORGUE IN THE CITY. Link Restaurant, SIB ESI Street. A First-Class Short Order House.

Ooen Dav and ISTight. HOUSE BEST OF SHORT ORDER AT ALL HOURS. For Ladles and Geatlemen. Family Patronage Solicited. Turkey or Chicken Dinner Every Sunday Cr REGULAR MEALS Board by the week $3.

Commutation Tickets $5 25 for $5.00. Corner of San Antonio and CJtah sts. PSVCP, Emerson 26 El Paso St. Hearse and Carriages The Most Direet Line to Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver St.

Paul, Omaha, Boston, New York and Philadelphia, Through Trains. Smooth Track. Fast Time. Elegant Pullman Pallace Sleepers on all through trains. Dally Tourist SHept cars to Denver, Kansas Olty and Chicago.

Tourist Sleeping cars seml-weeiciy to St. Pa and Minneapolis and once each week to 8 Iiouls Boston. All trains not having dining cars stop for meals at the famous Santa Fe Bout Harvey Bouses. Full information cheerfully furnished upon application to J. 8.

MOBRISSON, F. B. HOUGHTON. City Ticket Agent. General Agent.

Office, Fargo Building, Corner El Paso and San Antonio Streets a-. SUNSET lO! PA RSSE hS DOUBLE DAILY TRAIN SERVICE WITH BUFFET SLEEPERS Only Standard Guage Line RunningJThrough Sleepers to the City of Mexico. Night and Morning Connections at New Orleans With Lines to NEW YORK, PHILUiELPHIA, WASHINGTON, ATLANTA, CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS, MEMPHIS. AND CHICAGO.

For further Information call on Local Agent, or address W. BEIN. L. J. PARKS, Traffic Manager, Houston, Tex.

G. P. T. Houston, Tex mTJp 7kM A 0k MEX1CO wU1 tel1 yu tnat a11 impor- J--A tont jn Mexico are reaehed by or via Mexican Central Ry. By this route you travel COMMODIOUSLY, QUICKLY, CHEAPLY AND SAFELY.

Pullman Palace Sleepers are run between El Paso, Mexico Guadalajara and Tamplco. For rates and other Information, apply to B. KUHN, Commercial Agent, El Paso, Texas. Railway, This great system is one of the most noted railways of this country, reaching from the Mississippi river to the Potomac. The superior facilities of the Southern railway are especially conspicuous, operating solid vestibuled trains, superior dining cars, with fast schedules over stone ballasted road bed, with-Pull-man vestibuled sleeping cars from both New Orleans and Memphis to Washington and New York without change.

From New Orleans to Washington only 34 hours, and 40 hours to New York. From Memphis to Washington only 33 hours and 39 hours to New York. A stop over of tea days is allowed at Washington city on New York tickets. J. C.

Andrews, S. P. Agent, Houston, Texas. Weekly Herald $2.00 per year. THE REMINGTON Standard Typewriter.

MERCHANT MANNING, State Dealers. Dallas, Texas. MH. irfjcal ueaier. H.

mUKKAI. 113 Oregon St, McGIBBON in Order to Close Out. Caldwell Undertaking 'o. 305 8. El Paso Street, The Leading undertakers Phones 197 ana 92.

CALLS ANSWERED DAY OR Niat J. NAG LEY, Manager. RESTAURANT 8c Berrien, Phones 71, 196. AID A PTE? Liu IS! 1 nun New Orleans and Galveston San Antonio and Galveston Texas and Pacific Excursions. To Detroit, Mich and return: For annual convention United Society of Christian Endeavor, July 6th, to S52.80 for the round trip.

Tickets on sale July 1st. and 2nd, good to return leaving Detroit July 15th. The Santa Fe Route May, 21st, and 22nd, account National Baptist anniversary, at San Francisco, May 25th, will sell round trip tickets El Paso to San at rate of $15.00. Tickets will be continuous passage west bound, but stop overs will be allowed eat bound within final limit, upon application at San Francisco offices of the Santa Fe Route. ITJnal return limit June 20tb.

May 16th. and 17th. the Santa Fe route will sell round trip tickets to Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver at one fare plus $2 00 for the round trip, continuous passage in each direction, final limit June 15th. Take Your Choice from our delicious assortment of line confectionery they will be found dainty and tempting. Our chocolates and caramels, nutcandles, bon-bons, mrsh-mallows and taffys will be found especially toothsome.

Our confections are all made from the purest inpredltnts and are concocted by artists in their trade. At ROGER'S, NEXT TO POST-OO'IUIS. PHONE 347- Protect Your Woolen Gar ments from the insidious moth during the Spring and Summer months by using tar paper. We have everything that is used for the purpose in gum camphor, camphor balls, but you will find nothing to compare witn our tar paper for effectually routing the enemy, and prevent them laying their eggB. FRED.

SCHAEFER, The Druggist. A full line of A A 0 All colors and sizes. Prices to suit all. AT M. H.

WEBB'S 220 San Antonio St. 1:30 ORIENTCHAINLESS AT THE Pi PlQA PViIi.1 P. it mu Avenutf, Vendome Hotel, El Paso, Tex. GUNS AND BICYCLES FOR RENT. We do Repairing.

T. CHARLES Cor. El Paso W. Overland Sts. Strictly first-class.

Special monthly rates during summer months. Mrs. J. H. LomaxProp.

City Upholstering AND Carpet Cleaning Establishment. Curtain Shades and Mattresses made. All finds of Furniture repaired. Satisfactory work guaranteed. ERNST BESSELM ANN.

Pron. 306 E. Overland near new Fire Dept. HOTEL HLKNMQKE. Large Elegant Rooms All Newly Furnished, Mrs.

R. J. OWfcN, Prop'tress 400 EL PASO STREET. CHAS. DREHNER, DEALER IN Boots and Shoes Repairing Done Neatly and Promptly.

Charges Reasonable. 216 El Paso St. El Paso, Texas Fresh Goods at Lowest Prices. Prompt and Careful Delivery. MAESE CANDELARIA, 113 f.

Oregon Street, El Paso. Tex. El Paso Towel Supply, Sewing Machines and Bicycles. J. J.

SPIER, 321 El Paso St Neighbor- hood Rotes. Texas. Waxahachie's water mains are being extended. Abbott is working for a bank and an artesian well. There is tome talk of building a cotton seed mill at Gonzalez.

The house passes resolution reducing contract rate of interest to 8 per cent. Texas legislature by joint resolution approves and encourages the St. Louis Centennial. Waco is taking great Interest just now in the improvement of dirt roads of the county. The anti-trust measure passed in the house late Saturday evening by 101 ayes to 4 nays.

The trouble between the American Brewery and its employes at Houston has been settled. Claude Hollas, aged 13 years, of Fort Worth, was drowned in the Trinity river while bathing. The cameron saw mill at Rockland has a capacity of one hundred and fifty thousand feet per day. After adjournment of the Texas Grain Dealers association at Fort Worth they will take a trip to Mexi co. Tha Tpt9 Dinnpean council which iria in n.t.

wann has adiourned to meet at Austin the second week in May 1900. A water spout burst at Benjamin, Knox county, and Geo. Humphrey and family of four perished in the flood thus created. Sherman's bid for the Trans-Missis- sipDi Theological seminary went to the chairman of the sycodical committee on location. Houston Times.

BUI Goodman is in the hospital at Galveston, having been shot twice, and the party who did the deed a Btoctc-man is in jail awaiting further action. Rev. W. D. Reverly, Daator of Hyde Park Baptist church, Austin, is dead.

or over thirty years ne preacnea tne gospel in various cities in Texas. Ex change. General Secretary Sloan of the Paris Y. M. A.

has tendered his resigna tion to the board of directors, and will go to Port Arthur for evangelistic work. Exchange. A labdrer in a ditch at Austin turn ed ud a couple of Mexican silver dol lars, and the work done by the ditch cane that day was the biggest on rec ord. Fort Worth Telegram. The Johnson county grand jury adjourned till Mav 29.

It returned 133 true bills, of which 121 were misde meanors and 12 felonies. One bill for murder was returned Exchange. Superintendent W. A. Palmer of the Bastrop city school has been notified of bla election to serve as assistant conductor in the state summer normal to be held In Austin in July.

Exchange. Efforts are being made io various parts of Texa9 to start yarn mills in connection witn gins to save compression charge? and get better prices for the partly manufactured cotton. Ex change. The Houston and Texas Central peo pie are now getting in the machinery for the new shops at Ennis, which are nearing completion. The shops will soon be ready for operation.

Ex- cnange. W. R. Butler of Temple has been appointed by Governor Savers as spe cial judge for the June term of county court to try those cases in which Judge D. R.

Pendleton is disqualified. Houston Post. Engineer Henry Pattie, of Ennie, who recently got his leg cut off In a railway accident, is in a critical condition. Blood poison has set in and recovery seems almost impossible. Houston Post.

The election of teachers for the Hutto school resulted as follows: Mr, tdgar McMullen of Elgin, principal; Miss Mary Davenport of Hutto, Miss Whitehand of Austin, with one other to he supplied. Exch During a thunder storm lightning strung a narness and poultrv house of Lute Martin, near Massey, Hill county Three hens were killed and the leathers stripped as smoothly and nicely as if shaved, Houston Times. Col. John W. Hall is arranging for the meeting of the Mexican war which will take place at Waco on the 23d instant.

The Old Settlers' association of McGlennan -county willen-tertain the veterans. It will be a well attended affair. Ex. The cornerstone of the proposed Christian church at Piano was laid with imposing ceremonies. Delegations from other places were present.

The cornerstone wa9 laid by the Masons. Hon. John Church of McKinney was the orator. Ex. At the election of school trustees for the city schools at San Antonio the following were elected.

President board of 6chool trustees, George W. Brackenridge; trustees, B. E. Hadra, F. Groes, M.

Goggan, F. A. Chaoa, W. W. Sloan and Louis Oge.

Ex. The Agricultural and Mechanical college X-ray machine, operated bv J. C. Nagle. was used in locating a needle in the hand of a lady who resides in Bryan.

It was plainly revealed and photographed and the photograph will be used in the operation removing it. Ex. Galveston is trying to raise a fund of 830,000 by popular subscription for a public park and movement is also in progress at Houston. As these cities grow they begin to realize the necessity for breathing spots as a matter of utility as well as of ornament. San Antonio Express.

A Sherman glnner who attended the state association at Galveston says that one thing is inevitable; and that is that the Texas ginners have got to put up a better 6haped bale than in the past, hut that he don't think they will ever use the round bale until they can buy the machinery outright. fc'ort vvortn Telegram. The Bell Water company has closed a deal by which that company acquires the Waco Artesian Water company's plant for which is paid $100,000. The Artesian Water company was the rival company and the plant was the first one established in Waco. The plants will be run separately, one of tnem ror domestic consumers and the other for sprinkling and fighting fires.

Houston Post. An itinerant negro preacher named Smith is creating consternation among the negroes of Houston. He claims to be a prophet Jbut refuses to reveal his identity. The superstitious were thrown into convulsions oi terror when he declared Houston would be destroyed by a flood of hot water. Smith collected a large sum oi momey and is now In Galveston.

Ft. Worth Telegram. New Mexico. The measles are prevalent at Dem- ing. The public schools at Roswell close next Friday.

The ruling local price for wool at San Marcial 1b said to eight cents per pound. It is reported that George Cross no longer holds his editorial position on the J-as Vegas uptic. Sam Burbank well known throughout southwestern New Mexico, died recently In Prescott Arizona. New Mexico furnished one million of the seven million head of live stock handled at Kansas City last year. Salado postoffice in Guadalupe coun ty has been discontinued.

Patrons of that omce will be supplied from 1. Summer. The school board has accepted the plans of J. W. Ross, of Davenport, Iowa, with some modincations, lor the new school bouse in Raton.

Superintendent H. O. Bursum has appointed W. E. Martin, of Socorro, as his clerk and secretary at the peniten-tentiary.

Socorro Chieftain. Miss Emma Hoffman, oldest daught er oi tne pastor oi tne raetnoaist church at Raton, graduates on the 19th from the El Paso high school. There is not a town of its size in any part of the country, east or west, that has better cnurcnes or abler ministers than Albuquerque. Exchange. A formal order has been issued by the war department ordering a com pany of the 5th regiment, now station ed at Fort Bayard, tothe Philippines.

Roswell Record. Jesus Robleio, a Mexican miner at Santa Rita mining camp, sixteen miles from Silver City, killed his wile, perhaps fatally injured his daughter and then committed suicide The Deming publ'c schools will close June 2nd. ana the graduating exer cises of the close of 1399 will be held in the evening of the same day. There will be ten graduates. Exchange.

It is announced that the work of p-radinc the new Columbus Northern railroad from Silver City south, will begin during the present month. The preliminary survey has been practical ly completed. Las Vegas uptic. The buildings at Fort atanton are now being put in condition for the oc cupancy of consumptives and by autumn sick soldiers and sailors Irom all pares of the United States will begin arriv ing at the hospital. Citizen.

A meeting of the Democratic territo rial central committee held in Santa Fe on the 1st the Hon. H. B. Ferguson was chosen democratic na tional committee men in place of Hon Frank A. Manzanares, resigned White Oaks Eagle.

The county commissioners of Otero county have divided the county into eight districts as follows: First, Ala- mogordo; second La Luz; third, Tul- arosa; fourth, Three Rivers; fifth, Mee calero, sixth, Fresnal; Eeventh, Weed eighth. UDDer Penasco. Roswell Re cord. Steal i.SiT cattle and burses is becom Ing very precarious business Chaves and Eddv countiep. Tho nffinnra I have formed a habit which is discour aging to the cow rustler and horse thief: they go after 'em and get 'em.

Then the jury convicts them and they go to the pen. Roswell Register. A plumber working on the new capital building 'at Santa. Fe the other day set his stove down on a scantling and went off to work on another part of the building. The wind blew the stove over and the wood work caught fire.

A considerable blaze was in progress when another workman discovered the fire and gave the alarm. Roswell Record. Prosperity in New Mexico is attracting immigrants. Last week about forty families from Indian territory arrived at Raton, and will reside in that locality. There is room and work for many more in the mountains and valleys of the territory.

Many of the Raton settlers have already found employment in the lumber industry. Raton ba9 just decided to erect a school house on a block donated hy the Maxwell grant company. The town now has a ponulation of 4,000, and is growing rapidly. Railway business there was greatly enlarged during the last year. The Maxwell Land Grant company, by and enter prise is helping that section.

New Mexico is on laborers yet, and even a hobo can get $1.50 per day if he wi'l condescend to work. The railway being built in Otero county still calls for memat $1.75 per day, and down in Grant county there is a scarcity of laborers at mines and on railway work. New Mexican. Mexico. All the beggars in Morelia now have to take out a license.

On the 5th Inst the electric lights were inaugurated at Patzcuaro. General Clayton, S. Ambassador, has returned from his trip to the United States. Mexico bad fifty-five presidents since 1821. Of these sixteen have died violent deaths Ex.

The projected railroad from Maza- tlan to El Castillo will probably be continued as far as Rosario. There are in the schools of the city of Chihuahua 2.249 pupils, with an average attendance of "2,120 daily. On account of the demand, building materials have increased greatly in price at Hermosillov Monterey Globe. A large shield now hangs over the gate to the United States embassy in the cityr bearing the American national emblem. Ex.

While at work on the grade be- ween Yurecuaro and Zamora on the M. P. R. R. one of the workmen, Isidoro Gallegos, was accidentally killed.

The Porvenir of Durango again brings the rumor that work will shortly be begun on the railroad from its city to Santiago Papasquiaro. Ex change. The owners of the big Chichorras and Santo Domingo coffee plantations in the state of Chiapas are in treaty wtth an English company who desire to buy them. Exch. The Mexican cattle exported now reach a value or $3,000,000 a year.

Eleven years ago their annual value was but little more than $100,000. Albuquerque Citizen. The committee appointed to organ ize a fruit and flower show in San Juan Bautista has issued its first circular and the people are doing their best to make the affair a success. In Guadalajara a brakeman and two firemen were arrested Sunday on suspicion of beiug implicated in the robbery of a quantity of merchandise from a Central car a few days Ex. The examinations of the cadets at the Escuela de Maestranza at Vera cruz, which is an annex to the National Arsenal, have terminated showing very good results.

The cadets will now have a holiday. Mexican Herald. The new hospital of gynecology, hich was endowed by the Mexican capitalist Sr. Gonzalez Bcheverrla waa inaugurated recently, Minister Gonza lez Cosio attending This important department is eituated next to the Hospital de San Andres Mexican Herald. The governor of the has taken steps to prevent a spread of yellow fever in case that epidemic should make its appearance in Tampico thia year.

It is also stated that the governor of Coahuaila will order a quarantine against the port if the disease ap pears. Two Ke publics. The coffee planters of Oaxaoa are abandoning large numbers of planta tions along the Pacifio coast for want of capital to continue working. The low price obtained for the berry la the cause of this and land is obtainable of one-third of the price at which it waa held two or three years ago. Two Re publics In Puebla a stone mason while plac ing the cross, as is the custom, on a building in couree oi construction, slipped and fell.

He would have doubt less been dashed to pieces on tne pavement below bad he not caught in the. cords with which the cross was fasten ed to the building, thus saving his life. Mexican Herald. Sra. Josefina Sandoval de Martinez Carrillo, daughter of the acting governor of the state of Puebla, and wife of the eminent jurisconsul Martinez Carrillo, died in Puehla Monday morning of last week.

The funeral ceremony took place Monday evening, and a large number of prominent citizens took part. Exchange. It is reported that an English syndicate has purchased the Tiburon island in the Gulf of Lower California and that English colonists will put all the available territory in cereals. Over a hundred families are reported to be already on the ground. The island in question is very rich in soil and well adapted to the purposes pf the ngw owners.

A Spaniard, who resides in this city, named Don Francisco de Asis Garcia Pelaez, has asked the Mexican government for permission toopan international exposition this country to oneU Gu December 1st, 2,003 and close the 31st of July, 2,004. It is said that the government before confer, ing the llCehe-6 on S-. PelRPZ will first ascertain whether or not there Is a likelihood that his services in opening the proposed exposition will be available one hundred and four years hence. Mexican Herald. Glorious News Comes from Dr.

D. Cargile, of Washita, T. T. He writes: "Four bottles of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula, which had caused her great suffering for years.

Terrible sores would break out on her head and face, and the best doctors could give no help; but her cure is complete and her health is excellent." This shows what thousands have prov edthat Electric Bitters is the best blood purifier known. It's the supreme remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running -sores. It stimulates liver, kidneys, and bowels, expels poisons, help digestion builds up the strength. Only 50 cents. Sold by Irvin druggist.

(Guaranteed. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts. bruises, sores, ulcers, alt rheum, ver sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded.

Price 25 cents per box, For sale by W. A. Irvin wholesale and retail agents. Payne-Badger Coal company, Mo, Alester, Cerrillos and anthracite coal- cord and stove wood, yard Second and uninuanua streets. Tienhone no, IX Buy your coal from "O'Brltn Coal the agents and direct nippers from the Cerrillos mines.

'Prone o. Your Liver Will be roused to its natural duties and your biliousness, headache and constipation be cured If you take Wood's PHIg Sold by all druggists. 25 cents..

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