El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-30


Magoffiu has been setting aside space
full of dirt every day Tor words TO that
effect) towards building levee along
the river. At that rate next years
floods will be waist deep on FL Paso
street before the levee is finished.
The democratic city administration
wants to jam the city $50, 900 IN debt at
one crack Is this political move or
is it an effort to furnish jobs for those
who were faithful in the last election:
An election is on in FL paso. 1t
seems to be the intention of the ad-
ministration to use up the full limit OF
the bonded Indebtedness as quick as
possible so that in future the city will
be in crippled condition, and there
will be nothing but one school house
in the second ward to show where the
money went to.
Lake Charles, louisiana, has con-
descended to let freight trains from
the fever district pass through their
own, but they have refused to let the
train stop. Lake Charles did not con-
sent to this order OF things until they
ad burned the bridge in front OF the
train.
The yellow demon that has been rag
ing in the south for two months past Is
drawing to the end of it's career. Jack
Frost is coming and at his approach the
fever is dropping it's deadly grip. To-
DAVIS reports indicate that frost has
visited q large part of the fever striker
district, if not ali of it, and this will be
hailed by the world at large as q mes
senger of relief to the suffering south.
A foggy morning is something almost
unknown in Ell Paso, but early rissrs
were greeted by that vision today.
There are children eight years old in
Ell Paso who have heard of logs, but
they never saw one unless they arose
early.
The knights of Labor have again
obtained from the merchants q promise
to close their stores at O'Clock every
evening. This agreement to last until
Christmas week. There is no reason
| why the merchants should not live up
tn the agreement as when the people
once know that the stores will be closed
at certain hour they will make their
purchases before that time. The
clerks, also, should occupy the time
thus given them in pursuing pleasures
instead of trying to find out if COM
peting store Is violating the agreement.
The K. of L. can best attend to this
matter by appointing an Investigating
committee that are not directly in
terested in the closing OF the stores,
and then no merchant can say he is
b eipg spied supon by some sclerk from
a competing store. If the clerks will
do their part, the merchants will stand
by their agreement.
| The death of Henry George, can
didate for mayor OF Greater New York
the news of which was received yes
ter day. was. sad blow to his admir-
rers and followers in FL Paso, and he
has many. He was self made man
and his views on political economy
were original, and many thought they
were for the betterment of the cOndi-
ton of mankind. His single tax
theory has been adopted for trial in
many places of this country and the
theory is being given fair test. Those
in Ell Paso and the surrounding
country who believed in him as a
political economist, have lost a famous
leader, while those who differed with
him respected his genius and intel
lectuality.
/
j. A. Mitchell, Grant Bowen, Gus
Kline and Jim Borden, who left here
in September to go eto the Yaqui
placer gold fields. The letter was
written on the 10Th inst. aud they
were then near the crest of the Sierra
Madres, one hundred and fifty miles
west of Casas Grandes. They report
a very hard trip and say the country
is infested with renegade white men
| a n I< SI.r roI,
| the prOspectOrs they can catch. They
report having had skirmishes with the
robbers with no serious cOnsequer s,
| but as a reward for the hardshlps they
| are undergoing they hear of rich
placer gold ahead of them and are
moving steadily ahead. Away out in
the mountains they ran into three
prospectors from Chicago who were GO
ing to the placer fields, but who were