El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-18


A rose by any other name would
swell just as sweet, but police force
without George Harold in it would be
curiosity.
A "Globe Trotter" don't like to be
called a fake. If they are not fake
they are certainly not curiosity in
Ell Paso. The woods are as full of them
as the bosque is of mosquitoes.
The 'tpretty" firemen are gone and
some of the school girls hearts are
terribly sore. The ways of the masher
is rocky.
IF some gay gondolier will launch
his boat on the waters in southeastern
Ell PaSO he can make fortune ferry
ing people across the streets.
The pile driver on the Texas & Pa
ci6c is playing dOleful tune to the
submerged citizens in the eastern part
of the second ward.
This is the season of the year when
the mosquito gets in his little bill.
The new park commissioner, Ed.
Wales, tried to make love to the alli-
gators yesterday, but they would not
have it and forced Ell to jump the
fence.
Some reports have it that the police
force is going to be cut down, while
other reports say the force will be in
creased.
The Ell Paso hose team would like to
get a hub and hub race out of the Fort
Bliss team. They think they can do
the soldiers with ease.
Everything is SO quiet in political
circles that even the new chief of po-
Ices whistle cannot be heard.
ga new broom sweeps clean" The
new police force are making them
selves famous by sweeping all the blind
bike riders off the streets.
The police force now think they
have the gang of burglars that have
been operating in Ell Paso for the past
winter entirely broken up.
In it's present state Rand's grove is
just now a complete failure as "a picnic
ground, but it is just lovely as a swim
ming hole.
The Ell Paso HERALD deserves
| special credit for enterprise by getting
out handsomely illustrated paper,
| giving the complete details of the
state hremen's convention in SEES
| sion in that ity.-Albuquerque Citi-
| zen.
George Herold complains that he is
greatly retarded in his work by the
jealousies of some of the policemen.
Report has it that one of the drivers
at the fire department is dreadfully liza
be to commit matrimony.
The suit of clothes that was stolen
from Britton Davis last week and was
recovered last Sunday, are now useless
| to their former owner. The coat
tail had been chopped off with an AK
and sewed up with mesquite thorn.
| Johnny Connors is slightly improved
from his late attack of the conventions.
He was able to be out the other night
on blind bike" and got pulled.
The leVee thrown up by the city
south of the canal broke last night be
tween the brick yard and the little smell
ter and by morning had cut a gap in the
sand bank about one hundred and fifty
feet wide. Luckily the break was at a
point where it relieved the strain on
| ho6 y,ly nd Of I~,e -
tie injury in the flooded district except
raise the water an inch or so, but the
people down there were scared up for
a while.
| levee in East Ell PasO are so fatigued
that they go to sleep while standing
waist deep in the water, but notwith-
standing the heavy work they are do
ing they stand by their job.
| A certain passenger conductor on the
Southern Pacific likes to tell the ladies
how smooth he is. Last week he told
his wife and some of her lady fre Dis
| that it was only a ''hay seed" that
would allow his pockets to be picked;
there was no crook in the country that
could do him. That same night he
| mlugie1 with the crowd that gathered
to watch the McGinty parade. On his
way home his wife asked him what
time it was. He reached for his 800
watch, but it was goae-chatn, charm
and all. He was paralyzed. He rushed
| to the police station and let a full de-
scription and warned the police not to
let the newspapers get onto it as it
would ruin him and they would call
him jay, AID he never would get his
watch, etc. The next day he called at
the police station and told them 20 blot
out that description as his wife had re.
| turned the time piece to him.
Another case similar to the above
occurred to O. T. DIX. He had been
telling around how quick he was to
wake up at night if anything was 60
ing wrong. Sc few mornings ago he