El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-12
IN Ell PASO.
A Tucson Restaurant Keeper Who got
into Trouble is in this city.

There is weeping, waiIing and gnash-
ing of teeth in Tu rson over the depart
ure of the proprietor of new restaur-
ant on Congress street, says the Star.
A notice. put on the door Tuesday
evening. says repairs are being made
in the kitchen and business will be
resumed in the morning. This is
Thursday and"the morning is not yet,
that is for the restaurant. Conflicting @
stories float around on the gentle
zephyrs that play with ones whiskers,
the substance of which are about as
follows: Mr.. Wallace came here from
Albuquerque and on last Sunday morn
ing opened a nicely and newly fitted
restaurant for the public patronage, a
goodly share of which he received.
Everything seemed lovely for his VEN
ture until Tuesday evening, when the
aforementioned notice was posted on
the door. Since then nothing has been
served to the hungry patrons, and thus
it is explained TO Star man by one
who is supposed to know: You see
all the arrangements were made
for Wallace and he opened up with
very promising prospects last Sun
day. as you know. He left his wife in
Ell Paso, and after getting things 60
ing he wrote or wired her to get some
money out of the bank in Ell Paso and
come here. He cid not hear from her
and decided to go to Ell Paso Tuesday
night. He did so and said he would
send money by telegraph to pay the
bills that were pressing. His wife came
the night he left and is here now with
out funds, having only gotte- small
amount ort of the bank, large portion
of which she used on visit just prior
to coming here. He continued to Ell
Paso and nothing has been heard from
him since, aud he has told so many
conflicting tales one is puzzled which
to believe" Don't he know his wife is
here and her circumstances" ask the
Star reporter. "Yes, he ought to surely
by this time" was the answer. Anoth
er man says that he has only gone
after additional fixtures. a range, etc,
and will return and open up again. The
latter lacks any idea of confirmation
from the manner in which the closing
was done. Which is correct and what
are exactly the facts cannot now be
said. but a heavy, murky air of suspi-
cion hangs over the entirety that makes
it look smokey.
A passenger leaving by the T. Il z.
the other afternoon asked the conductor
if he had any rooms on the train where
a feller could 90 to bed when he wanted
to- The conductor said there was the
Pullman: there were rooms in that
where the man light have the sought
for seclusion. whats a Pullman?''
asked the passenger. This took the
conduc 5or's breath away. But after
! looking the granger carefully over
said he guessed the tourist sleeper was
about his size, and he had better go
there. The passenger went and ap-
| pelr cd TO be satisfied.
| Conductor NJ" Hugh, of the Santa Fe
| had a close call the other day. He
! was sanding on the track at the A. x
p. Junction when he CHANGED to look
up-just in time to see the back end Of
the A. * p, switch engines tender
bearing down on him Mr.. McHugh
does not think it was over two feet
away. He had presence of mind tC
step back just as the tender 2razed
him. A second more, and ne would
| have been run over and cut all to
pieces.
! Conductor McHugh, of the Santa Fe
exchanged with Farnsworth yesterday Y
and came down from the Silver City
run. He says there is not house to
rent in Silver City.