El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-24
BRIEF LOCALS.

Conductor T. w. Woods of the S. P.
is taking twenty days lay-off for the
holidays.
Collector Davis has sold to Winfield
Scott 10000 head of long horn cattle at
Sl2 per head.
The extradition cases were postpon-
ed last evening by L. S. Commissioner
Sexton until January f.
Customs Inspector Ben Jenkins is
able to be out after weeks cOntine
ment to his house by illness.
Work still continues on the Maggie
G in the Black Mountains. A force of
men are doing development work.
There will be a neighborhood Christ
mas tree tonight at H. B. Stevens
house on the hill, for the children of
the families residing in the locality.
There will be Christmas tree to-
night at Col Campbeil's residence for
The cOlOnel's little grand child, DR..
stafford Campbell's baby. The colonel
hopes to get away in time to preside
over the city council meeting.
Undertaken Ross celebrates tomor-
row the forty-tfth anniversary of the
day when Santa Claus came swooping
down from the neither r. gions with his
rheindeer and Christmas barge of a
sleigh, and dropped the future NOR
tuary artist into the maternal lap.
The Fort Bliss band musicians have
returned from their hunt down the
raging Rio Grande, after having had,
as one OF them expresses it, bully old
time. Baudmaster Wurm shot a
grizzly bear weighing 100 pounds, and
he Will have the skin made over into
an overcOat which he is 10 wear on the
occasion of the next winter garden
concert on the plaza.
An advertiser complains that there
is not printer in town who can read
correctly the word, eclectic" He
says they will just eternally get cleo
trio, snectric, wektric. pectric, kec-
trick, wood tick and every o her kind
of tick but the right tick. 1t makes
aim 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 Chris TIM a 5
present land last evening with his four
Inland of rheindeer and deposited in
the hands Of each employe of the Gas
and Electric Light company a bOunc-
ing Zig bird of Greedom-that is, the
real genuine bird of freedom; no eagle
business. St. Nicholas Wehner ac-
tually pulled fourteen twenty pound
birds out of his capaciOus pockets in
cele bration of The occasion.
Judge Townsend, the city attorney,
takes mortal Offense at the utterances
of prominent citizens in the now famous
series of interviews on the city tax
situation in the HERALD. So he has
tiled suit for damages against U. S.
~ Ill "a IL l.,
length alleges that his name and
reputation have been greatly damaged.
The Judge intends to sue other citizens
who expressed their opinions unre
servedly in those interviews.
FL 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. L. Fleming,
venerable looking gentleman who was
formerly practicing physician, has
recently put in an appearance as a
healer and invites all who are suf-
fering from disease to come and be
made whole, without money or price
That he has effected some cures cannot
be denied, though how permanent they
will prove remains to be seen. Several
well known citizens who had become
saves TO Jhe use OF TOBACCO, now nave
no longing for the weed, and a number
of inebriates claim that through him
they have lost all desire for strong
drink. DR.. Fleming is not a Christian
Scientist, nor will he admitsthat he is
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
cases 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 not use.