El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-04

For sALE-Cheap. A good top bug
gy, 3I6 Leon st.
For RENT Furnished front room,
GIL North Oregon St.
ROsEs-At Weston's Rose garden,
San Antonio street. soc per doz.
Fred H. Logan deeds to Richard Fit
sworth, lots 10 and 90 block 20, north
Ell Paso, for $40.
Newman & Nations brought over to-
day SOL cattle, mostly COWS for range
feeding at Odessa.
The Myrtle avenue Catholic choir
gave Rosewig's mass in f last Sunday
with .'Saucta Maria" as the hymn.
W. J. Montgomery was given a
Judgment against Pete Machero today
in the district court for $500 on rent
account.
The Juarez authorities have enclosed
the plaza in a wire fence and locked
the public out until the grass and flower
seeds have grown.
Prof. Pitzer has leased the Golden
Eagle garden for summer concert pur-
poses and will increase his orchestra
to ten instruments.
The Southern Pacific railroad will
make a $1,000 round trip rate to the
Christian Endeavor gathering at San
Francisco during July.
New flooring is teing laid in the
horse stalls at the city hall, new carpets
are going down up stairs, and things
are being slickee up generally.
Reports came over the river that a
man had been murdered there Sunday
afternoon. Investigation shows that
nothing of the kind has happened.
The Waters Pierce Oil company's
offices in this city will shortly be NOV
ed to the City of Mexico, leaving Mr..
Millspaugh to attend to the com pany's
interests here.
Minister Powell Clayton, did not
come this way en- route to the Mexican
ca pital. but has gone via Eagle Pass
aud Monterey. He has recovered from
his late illness.
Barber shop and bath house, thor
oughly first class, and by far the best
and handsomest place in Ell Pa5o. @.
w. Morrow, Morehouse block, Oregon
street, near pOstotfice.
Workmen have begun cleaning out
the north side cellar in the ruins OF the
Grand Central on n North Oregon street,
preparatory to erecting for Colonel Mills
a new business block there.
A young man from this side went
swimming in the river Sunday, and be-
ing unable to get back to the Amer1-
can shore had to strike out for the
south bank which he reached in safety.
His friends came to his rescue finally
with boat, and got him back to where
his clothes were.
The big seventyfive car shipment
from the G.. Fl. yards this afternoon to
the Corralitos yards over the river, re-
quired four engines, and attracted the
attention of several hundred people
along the line of transfer. The en-
gines were two from the G. H., the
Santa Fe and Mexican Central switch
erS.
Ell Nacional complains that not only
were the school children of Ell PasO
given a holiday on the anniversary of
the battle of San Jacinto but that their
teachers brought them over to the
Mexican side for a jaunt. This Ell Ma
cional thinks was adding insult to in
jury, and is stigmatised by that paper
as conducta incorrecta.
Five more big Shanghai engines
have been ordered for the Southern
Pacific and will be stringing along
presently. These engines while they
sit very high, are hung below their
frames, and the enginemen say they
ride very easily. The ash pans will
have to be lowered, however, as they
are too near the rear axle which gets
heated up.