El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-09


house must be twenty-five feet deep.
Spain is shrewd financier. She is
trying to sell her quicksilver mines
this summer Quicksilver always
''goes up in hot weather.
While the people of Ell Paso have
been wrestling with the flood, dam and
school questions the people of Ysleta
have been sitting back in the shade
eating peaches, plums and other good
things that are native products.
In answer TO an enthusiastic cyclist
who wants TO know if the road house
will open again this summer Round
About would like to say that it will not
open under the same name; as there is
no road left. Cyclists, on excursions
| int snt, can devote their time to trying
to climb Mt. Franklin
Monday was pay day at the smelter
but SO far no one has been reported
| killed.
| The sounds peculiar to adobe making
and the wrap ng of Irvine on sticks can
be plainly heard IN Chihuahuita. The
song of the frog has been hushed.
In another month there will be
enough boats for sale in FL Paso to fully
stock watering resort.
1t took an Ell Paso boy to make an
invention that will give the bicycle
three times its present speed. Before
the aforesaid boy came to Ell Paso he
was unknown to fame.
The attention of the Texas & Pacific
people is called to the fact that Mex
lean boys are tearing the doors off of
the cars standing in the water on Sixth
street. A grain door was wrenched
from its place in Missouri Pacific car
No. 152O2 this morning by gang of
malicious boys.
The parties who have the distribut-
ing of the funds appropriated by the
It tie and general government these
days are keeping very quiet, and it is
hard to tell just what they intend to do.
1t is 10 be hoped that they can in some
way use that fund for building levee,
} ana in thas way furnish employment to
those VINO suffer ed from the flood.
| While Round About does not expect
to please everybody, sill he does APP
preclaGe the enGorSv ment of his course
oy the general public La these articles
he has always attempted TO give the
voice of the read pg people as a whole,
and has differed With personal friends,
but as d whole heSe articles are writ
len without personal prejudice and
that the pubic endorses MN Is shown
by the following, which was handed in
TINS morning: ''RouEd ADout your
all right for roasting the author of the
article in yesterday morn ng S Times.
Perhaps he is nice, Pr city little boy,
but evidently one who has reached his
secoud 'chllahoUd.' Your scribe is
sorry for any one whose seosibilities of
holding such filthiness.''
The necessity of charity was exempli-
fed this morning at old Fort Bliss.
} Some body had sent up a number of
) cakes To the poor, and four big strap
ping bucks had a large and n.cely iced
Jelly cake In the snaue and Were max
my 1T fast disappear In their outlets.
The cake was about four inches thick
and on top in red let;ers were the
words For Cnar ity's Sake" Tue
mems families were at home eating
: frijoles.
AS yet there is no distribution OF
grub from tie ten thousand dollars sent
by the general government. When the
money arrives The quarter master al
Fort Bliss will prooaoiy b>gin issuln =
ratlons 10 those who Will not work to
cara living. Tuis funt should be
called the corruption fund aud it will
always prove an eye sore to Ell Pasc
and subject on which Ell tas oans will
! not want To talk when abr, ad. If il
cannot be used TO furnish WORK for the
, unemployed it should not be used al
all.
Mayor Magoffin has announced hi:
plans for bringing city scrip up to pal
4 by Issuing bonds and reGlring the
l water works BINDS. This plan does not
Meet with favor with the general pub
lie as they are opposed to d bond issue
on general principals, and also opposed
to the retiring of the water works
bonds. as the latter bonds are unsO 6
and there is no tax being collected for
: a sinking fund to pay them off. 1t il
g true that about $40, 900 has been col
] lected and is now lying idle in the city
2 treasury, and large amount will bs
l.. added 70 tn 5 if the tax sui S now pend
ing IN the n gder courts a won by the
= city. THIS money could be loaned &C
another fund until it was needed by
the city for Water works purposes
WuIcn Will DE necessary IN less thar
one ear. There are many objections
:. to the plan of Mayor Mag otfin made by
J the people and IL will cause much tur
moil ana strife if an attempt is made tt
carry out the policy, as the b Jnds SOC
q would run for tea years ana big d. bi
> would be added 10 the city for tina,
E time.
Alderman Clifford has plan for
bring ng C, ty scrip up to par and it i.
l nothing mo e than the Issuing of inter
5 est Bearing scrip, the same rs thai
y now issued 10 the Electric Light and
/ Gas company. The scrip would beal
ten per cent Interest but would be re-
deemable at any tine. City scrip is now
oeiug shaved from ia TO 20 per cen,
: and IN some instances the city Is losin =
their difference, AID when the city
dos not loose it the city employees
do. If all the taxes were collected
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