El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-16

The news its suddin', ruther.
And the story's mighty short.
l jist can't tell his mother
| It'd crush her pore ole heart.
So parson L thought that you
| Would break the news to her
Milt's in the city council, but he
| Doesn't say what fur.
| THAT picture of Milt Robinson in
yesterdays HERALD was exact repre-
| sentation OF Milt as he was several
years ago." said an old friend. THE
picture was taken before M'lt was
| married and he used to take more care
about keeping his hair slick than he
does now. In those days his mustache
was younger and it was then the pride
of the neighborhoOd, but Mllt has
grown older aud of late has taken more
pains to cultivate money than mus
| tache. Milt is great on adapting him
self to situations and will scOa cul-
tivate all the requisites of an alder
man.
The city council held its last regular
meeting last night, but will meet to-
morrow night to canvas the returns of
the late city election.
The out going aldermen will be
O'Keeffe, Kachler, Stewart and Roberts.
These four, along with Mayor Camp
bell, will retire Saturday night.
"Quien sabe" seems to be in the lead
for chief of police. He has made many
friends since the HERALD sprung him
on an unsuspecting public during the
late campaign.
Willard Patterson says: 81 am not
candidate for the city attorneyship, or
for any other Office, and L do not think
1 even will be. The use of my name by
the newspaper men is entlrely I'M
authorized"
There are more loaves than fishes"
to be given out by the new administra-
ton, and some of the faithful" will
have to get along on dry bread for the
next two years.
Colonel Majors has been lying quiet
and saving wood for the past two years,
but since Tuesday his friends have had
hard work in keeping him from using
his voice against the defeated repub-
llcans. This morning as he was uriv
ing down Santa Fe street with a load
OF gravel he met republican and
stopped the wagon long enough to tell
him what he thought of the republican |
party. He said: You hain't got the |
money and you hain't got votes enough |
to run the city of Ell Paso.''
\ man from down the valley, he |
wont say what place, tells the following |
story at the expense of squad OF |
Texas rangers, of Captain Hughes COM
pany. AS every one knows the ranger
question is one that must be handled |
with gloves in the legislature, as some
of the piney woods Legislators are 'fOr-
ninst'' the rangers unless company is
placed around their cotton patches.
These circumstances has made the
friends of the ranger service in the
make haste slowly in getting
an appropriation, and the tardiness OF
the legislature has kept the rangers in
active for the last two months, so they
have been making short scouts and the
balance of the time has been occupied
10 laying around camp and wearing out
their old clothes. This became very tire
)me to the squad above referred to, so
they rode down the valley until they
came to small store which they en-
jered and were sitting around on bar
els and dry goods boxes when all of ii
sudden the queit of the situation was
disturbed by dog jumping up skunk.
The skunl. to save himself took refuge {
Q the store with the rangers, and up