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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
The Bacon Accident.

Conductor Farnham who arrived this
morning over the Texas & Pacific gives
u further account of the sad accident
| to Fcank Bacon.
Mr.. Farnnam says Messrs. Ba .ou and
Birdwell were returning to Big Springs
in d two wheeled cart with their guns
under them and pointing to the rear.
When about four miles from town they
saw Il couple of doves on a fence not far
distant, aud young Bacon thought he
would take shot at them.
The cart was stopped, aud Bacon who
was on the left side OF the seat, put bis
left foot on the back step, and swung
his right leg over the seat in getting
out. AS it CHANGED, Birdwell;s gun
was pointing right at MIN, and the
young mans foot struck the gun.
Birdwe.l was look NJ in another direc-
t on when suddenly the gun was dis
charged, and Bird well looked around
20 see his companion fall to the grou I'd .
Burdwell called out. are you shOt?''
Young Bacon replied, yes, and with
your gum
MIR. Birdwell Immediately jumped
out and lifted the young man 10 the
cart and 1se1 ding aheadsa young man
who CHANGED near on hors back TO
call u doctor, he drove back to the
springs as fast as was possible under
the circumstances. Bacon Glanced to
have small bottle OF choroform in
his pocket, aud on Birdwell's atten ton
being called to that fact, he admiuis-
tered enough to dull the sense of pain,
and when town was reached, the il iur
ed man was largely under the intiu-
ence OF the drug. All he sa d en- route
was, How badly they will feel at
home over this"
The physician pumped morphine in
TO the sufferer who shortly became IN
conscious, and not with anding every
thing was done that medical skill
| cou 40. he died twenty-five minutes
after reaching the springs. The
wound was not large, owing to the
muzzle of the gun being so near the
young mans body, but the shot tore
him all out within, and internal hem
orrhage som did It's work. An en-
banner was sent for from Abilene, so
| that the body was soon IN condi-
tion to ship. The remains go on today
to Greencastle, Ind, for lnterment.
Conductor Bacon is in great distrees
over the loss of his only 500, for the
young man was his favori.e, and gave
indications of promising future
Mrs. Bacon and the Remaining child, u
daughter, await the sorrowing fathec
and The body at GreencaStle.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
A. II. WHITMER. o. D. S.
Dentistry in sll its branches.
ohaoe Over Santa Fe Ttckat OfEce
Irrigation Congress.


The sixth annual sess on of the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress will be held
at Lincoln, Nebraska, Septem Der 2S.h,
10Th ard Both, 1897.
To open and secure arid America for
settlement means homes for severity
millions of people where here are now
only six millions in district compris-
ing in area One-half of the United
States. To devise means and to enact
proper laws for the protection of the
forests of this region means a saving of
millions of dollars that nov annually
90 up In fire and smoke through raplne
and plumber. To conserve the flcod-
waters of the Mississippi and its tribu-
taries, aud of the other large rivers of
arid Amer lea means an annual saving
TO the government of more than i've
millions Of dollars, ard to the inhabi-
-ants of the flooded districts of more
than three times as many millions of
dollars, besides opening homes for
thousands by the use of these conserved
waters. To devise just and equable
laws for the cOntr OF and distribut on of
water and on the spportionment of II e
land in arid districts. These, and
many other gu. stioDs of interest tn t
should comm ana the earnest support { f
all, rOrh, south and east, as well as
the west, will come before the con.
gress for Cal eful attention and consider.
alton.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

The morning papers seem deter
mined to make out that a killing and
a cutting scrape occurred at San Lo-
reno during the festas. There is no
foundation whatever for this report.
The criminal judge and chief of police
in Juarez both say that no rows or cut
ting scrapes occurred and that no dis
orders were committed during the
fiesta. The foreign and Mexican resi-
beats of Juarez are offended at these
reports being persi>tently published
and say that reporters should call at
the proper sources for such informa-
ton before they publish such reports
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
played on the Old Man {"

Editor A. B. McKie of the FL Paso
Morn ng Telegraph has a letter in the
Las Vegas Optic in which he warns
Las Yeas against u young man named
Ross claiming to be from Mexico
City. McKie says:
Il gave him some soliciting to Go
for my paper, promising TO pay him 30
per cent. L paid him his percentage
yet after this, he stole blank bills
from my desk and made out two bills
Tor the wrlte-ups he had solicited snd
collected the full amounts, in addition
10 the percentage L had paid him. In
addition to this, he asked me to en-
dorae two drafts for him, on the Tv O
Republics of Mexico, which | did-one
for SO and the other for $15-and bo1 b
were returned, no value" He swind-
led number OF other people in the
same way"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
PrnpOsed New Road.

There is scheme on foot to build a
newaline from Swe etwater on the Texas
81 Pacific road, All miles from this city
south ito San Angelo the termin Al of the
San Angelo branch of the Santa Fe.
Whether the projectors are Santa Fe
people or some one else can not now be
said, but t. e idea seems to be to give
the Santa Fee an opening into rth-
western Trxes and up towards southern
Kansas. This will enable the Santa
Fee to haul crops from THAI country di-
rectly to the gulf. The link will be
about 70 miles long.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

up. He richly deserves to be pensioned
for the past services he has performed.
X
L. B. Sexton, railroad man, tried
to run a muck last evening in the Link
restaurant. He ran into the kitchen
and grabbed long knife aud ran the
Cinnamon out of the place and then
started IN to carve his way out OF the
front door. Officer Barrett met him,
however, and a physical argument be-
gan as to who should possess the knife
but Barrett won the argument, and
after getting the knife the officer threw
Sexton in jail where he languished all
night and this morning Recorder Pat
terson put the screws on Sexton to the
tune of S15 and he was also compelled
to pay Pee MicberO for damages to
his restaurant. Sexton paid up and
t:ahe station thinking hunk on the
| hardness of the officers of Ell Paso.
ROUND BOUT.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

| "That new wheel club, the Mud
Guards, had a century plant yester-
day."
| "a WHAT"
ga century plant. They buried a
| fellow member who dropped dead after
making his first hundred.
LIFE IN CREEDE.
a thousand burdered burros filled
| The narrow, winding, wriggiing
trail,
a hundred settlers came to build,
| Each day new houses in the vale;
| A hundred gam blers came to fe-
| Ga these same settlers. Inls was
| Creole.
Slanting Annie, Gambler Joe,
And Robert Ford; old OHIO
Or SOapy Smith, as he was better
| Ran games peculiarly their own,
| And every hing was open wide;
Aud men drank absiuLne on the side.
And now t;,e Faro bank is closed,
And Mr.. Faro's gone away
To seek lew fields il is supposed,
More verdant fields. Toe gamblers
The man who worked the shell and
ball
Has gone back to the capital
The winter winds blow bleak and chill
The quakIng, qutvering a-pen waves
a bout the summit of the hill
Above the unrecorded g, ayes,
Where halt, abandoned burrOs feed
And coyotes cali-a- d this is Crede.
Lone Graves. whose headboards bear no
Name,
Whose silent owners lived like
brutc5,
Aud died as dOggedly, but game;
And most of them died in their
boots.
We mind among the unwrit names
The man who murd cred Jesse James.
We saw him murdered: saw him fall,
And saw his mad ASSASSIN 6 Loaf
A bOve him, heard his means and all,
And saw the shot holes In his
throat
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
Found So,

A gentleman stepped into the West
Texas Saddlery Co. store at the corner
of Oregon and East Overland streets
yesterday afternoon and after buying a
bill of goods remarked that he had
found Is by coming in there, as he just
saved that sum by purchasing his goods
of that company. A word to the wise
- sufficient.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

The Postal Telegraph Gable Com
pany's Office will be op, for bushes
tomorrow. The plant Will be CONFLICT
" installed next week. when Mexican
Central will move into new Office with
Postal At pres Mt the Postal is opera
tive two circuits between this ty and
Denver from which pc Mt business be
sent ali over country.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
Bucklen's Arnica Saliva.

The best salve in the world for cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers, sBlS rheum, fever
sores, letter, chspped hands, chill.
blalns, corns, anu all skin eruptions,
and positively cures piles, or no pay re
CURED. 1t Is guaranteed to give per.
feet satisfaction or money refunded
Price 70 cents per box. For sale bv
w. A. Irwin q Co., Wholesale and Re-
tail ACTS
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
Closing Out,

The Clark-W hit=Un " Leitch Music
Co. are closing out their stock of pia
nos ana organs, ano until ali are uld,
great bargains can be had, as they
wish to close business at the earliest
posi- bic date. Sales will be made for
cash or easy payments. Come and see
for yourself. ll9. San Francisco ST.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
Off for the KlOndike.

Off for the KlOndike.
You must wake and call me early,
Gail me early, mother, dear:
At quarter after nine the ship
Is advertised to clear.
Eleven da. I've stood it off
And [ tried to keep it down;
But I'll be goshed if l remain
The only man in town.
My TEMPER allure is going up.
The fever's in my veins.
The gold cure is the thing | need;
I'll take it in large grains.
Quite long enough I've walked the
hill
To save the cable fare;
Too long The gindstone's done its
worst:
My nose won't stand the wear.
The frozen north is getting warm
With nuggets thick as flies,
A man now has a chance to win
A fortune ere he dies.
I've pan and shovel, lots of grub,
Warm clothing, rubber boots,
So wake and call me early
When the Klondike steamer tOots.
Seattle observation-disclosures
The passing of populism seems to be
| the fad this year. In all the elections
| so far held since last NOvem Der the
| pops have been showed under by big
ma j0rities. In many places where the
| issue was made squarely on the pop
listic platfor u the losses to the party
have been tremendous. Take for in
stances the election held Tuesday in the
| laLe Congressman Holman's di-trsct.
Lust year the democrats and porulists
fused aud Holman was elected by 500
majority. Tuesday the pOpulists had
a straight candidate in the fed and
the district was one which WAS strongly
impregnated with pOpulistic idiOcracles
| but the pop candidate OILY pO!led 63O
| votes. The pops have certainly bee q
Swallowed up by the new democrat C
party. Two years ago the popui1sts were
"a the zenith OF their strength. but pop
ulstic IDEAS are fass passing away and
soon the party will be only a memory.
| Advices from London say that as
the result of the Investigations of the
delegation from West Australia to the
jubilee festivities it has been decided
| to open up several immigration Off ces
| in the United States in the belief that,
considering the co :dition OF the labor
market in this country, large mum bsrs
of the unemployed can be induced to
start life over again in that colony.
AccO. ding to a statement made by Sir
John Forrest, The premier, the govern
ment is prepared to give each able
bodied immigrant one hundred acres of
land free of all charges and also to
make a loan for the purpose of improv-
ing the property. 1t is admitted that
water is scarce in some parts of the
colony. but againss this is a great area
of uudeveloped god fields. Even in a
limited district the output of gold for
the past year has exceeded ten mil
lions of dollars. The tim Der owned by
the colony and portion of which goes
with each hundred acres is valuel at
six hundred millions of dollars, while
the sixteen hundred miles OF state,
owned railways which have been in
operation out a few years not only pay
all running expenses and the interest
on their loans but contribute three
quar- tiers of a million dollars to the
exchequer of the colony thus reducing
The taxes by that amount.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
For Over Fifty Years,

Mrs. WinslOw's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething.
1t soothes the child, soitens the
gums, allays all pain, cures wind
collie, and is the best remedy for diar-
rhoea. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
Post Concert,

The Fort Bliss bald will play tonight
the following Program IN regular
concert at o CLOCK, at the f0ra.
March, ''Hog Shot. Robinson.
Overture, "Pholy phone. .... Petee
Sc ection, Comic Opera Wang
Military Medley, "a day in our Gar
rison" NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .Oechste
Waltz, ''Phllomela" Petite
Iomorrow's guard mount program
will be rs follows:
March, '.Char:er Oak' ...Claus
Polouaiee, ''Itoyai degree. Swift
March, "Rough on Rats. H S Knibs
March, The Mai yr'
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
THE WEATHER
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Blank books cheap at Twins.
Go to Irwin for window glass.
Good eating at Smiths Creamery.
Fresh butter at Smiths Creamery.
Fine butter FL Paso Dairy company.
Home cooking at Smiths Creamery,
Typewriter paper at the HERALD Of
fee.
Mining Location Blanks for Sale 4
This OS@ra
For L. w. Harper whiskey-Acme
saloon.
Ell PASO STEAM LAUNDRY
Telephone No. AT.
Mining location notices for sale at
tha HERALD job Office.
Ask for "Ei PASO TRANSFER. g"
she best cent CIGAR on the market.
The best Mex, can and Havana cigars
are made by the FL Paso Cigar Mig.
Go.
The Ell Paso Dairy company are now
making fine grade of butter daily.
Ask for it.
Refrigerators. Ice cream freezers
and gasoline stoves.
MOMSEN & THORNE.
Payne. Badger Coal company, Nc
Chester, CeriIlos and anthracite coal,
lord and stove wood, yard Second and
Chihuahua streets. Telephone No IL.
Ell Paso Fuel Co., are 1.-THE" agents
'or the celebrated Cerrillos White
Ash and anthersite Goals. Successors
10 Cerrillos Coal r. r. Co. Phone
ITO
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12
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And men moved on and gave no heed
To life or death-and this is Crede.
Slanting Annie, Gam bier Joe,
And Missouri Bob are sleeping
there.
But slippery, sly cd Olio,
Who seems to shun the golden stair
Has turned his time to lOftier tricks
He's doing Denver politics.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

The police are smiling at the recent
statement in the Telegraph that the
late arrest of q man for cursiug was
the first to be made for this offense.
They say three-quarters OF the arrests
for disturbance Of the peace are fer
this specific otfense,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

Mary E. White sues in the distric
court for divcrce from James A
White on grounds OF abandonment.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

Ice cream and cake for sale from
| to 1890 on Friday night at ST. Glenn
ents' rectOry lawn.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

The Southern Pacific from TIE We
is nine hours late On account OF bi
washout near NJ tricopa.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

LOST-The rear cover to piano
box buggy. Finder will return the
same to Norton, brakes & Co., and re
ceive reward.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

Young japanese wants situation as
cook and housekeeper. Address, j. M
A., HERALD office.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

The Myrtle avenue lake has abou
dried up, and east side residents are
feeling easier
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

Nicely furnished rooms for gentle
men. with board if desired. Inquire
r. HERALD office.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

The Evergreen Cemetery company
deeds to E. S. Newman for S33, lot 30
in section 2.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

FOR SALE-Weu built four room
house in good repair. Three lots.
Furnished or unfurnished. Cheap and
on easy terms. Oil North Kansas St.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

The commissioners court will NEE
again the second Monday in Novem
Der.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

The postmaster at Albuquerque re-
ceived letter from Pueblo, asking:
DO you know of any railroad now in
operation between your town and Ell
Paso, Texas? The ignorance of Colo
RADIO people is terrible. New Mexico
ought to make an effort to send a few
missionaries up to them.-Albuquerqu
Democrat.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

Hoods Pills are easy to take, easy tt
operate. Cure Indigestion, biliousness
25c.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-12

Protect Yourselves against sickness
and So ffering by keeping your blood
rich and pure with Hoods Sarsaparllla
Weak, thin, impure blood is sure to re
suit in disease.
The times., 1897-03-22
Supar.Coated Poison.

AS long as a fighting chance exists it
the suspected hidden purposes of the ar
bitraton treaty will not cease to insist
upon an amendment clearly excepting from
its operation all questions arising under
any application of the Monroe doctrine or
affecting our ability to build and control
the Nicaragua Canal.
In its latest form, as reported by Senator
Davis some objections TO the original draft
have been removed. The proposition to
question which the Executive may desire
to present for arbitration is intrinSically
a good one. The treaty making power of
the Senate never should be abridged Be
ing as full as it is, and the Senate as full
OF patriotism and wisdom, we fail to see
the Necessity for this sentimental hit OF
International hypocrisy.
Senator Stewart was doubtless right in
the opinion that this or any other treaty
could he ignored by Great Britain when
ever imperial interests should render tina t
course profitable. If, as we presume, Sen
ator Davis and others of the Foreign Az
fairs Committee believe, the poison has
been carefully washed off from this Brit
iSh DART the instrument will then become
of small value to the other high contract
ing party, md so, having made it as harm
less as an international dove, we do not
think that the Marquis of Salisbury would
mind much if il were now appropriately
housed in n pigeon hole
Perhaps that would be the wiseSt dis
position of the matter. The London Ma
tIonal Review has frankly declared that
the treaty, with the Monroe doctrine and
the canal specifically excepted, would be
..an arbitration treaty with all the arbi-
tratiou left OUT
Statements like that ought TO serve as
warning.
The times., 1897-03-22
Shot i'm the Abdomen,

Newark, ". j., March 81 Charles Ennis,
twentyfour years old, was shot in the
abdomen and probably fatally wounded by
James Giles, a saloonkeeper, at No. "a
Shipman street, today. Giles had been
dragged from his place by Ennis and sew
eral others of the Shipman street gang, and
was being brutally kicked, when his wife
rushed in with revolver and gave it
to her husband, whereupon she was also
attacked, Knocked down and kicked. The
shooting followed. A bullet struck Ennis
in the leg and another lodged in the abdo-
men. He was taken to St Barnabas Hos
pital. Giles was locked up, as were sew
eral of the gang.
The times., 1897-03-22
HiStortcnl ReIetiIion.

Even the perfunCtory plan OF a currency
commission to consider the financial ques-
tion has been abandoned for this session
of the Congress.
That is in entire harmony with political
precedents. Mr. Mckinley, having been
elected distinctly upon the money issue,
kindly ignores it and plunges the country
into a tariff agitation. His predecessor,
elected upon the sole issue of the tariff,
suppressed that question and forced upon
the nation the silver fight, the panic OF
1893, and general disaster.
But President McKinley's advisers tell
him that to allow vent to the currency
question in any way would involve a dis
cussiOn Of our financial situation and
policy in the Senate. That might bring
embarrassment TO the tariff project. 1t is
always assumed that the opposition Sem
ators will be complacent and obliging in
allowing any kind of tariff robbery, pro-
vided they are not excited by the silver
question or other topics dangerous TO the
party in power or the trusts.
Well, we shall seei
The times., 1897-03-22


the calamtous work of the tariff agita-
ton.
The moral of the whole story is that
we must never offend our neghbors be-
cause Of any sense of our duty to hui
manity, because that would not be busi-
ness, and there would not be a dollar
in it for the trusts. 1t is all right, how
ever, to upset our own business and agri-
cultural interests, .garrote higher prices
for inferior goods out of our own peo-
pie, and spread devastation over the in
and sole purpose of fattening trusts and
monopolies, that they may have the means
and inclination to buy future elections for
the Republican party.
The times., 1897-03-22
A TRAGEDY AT DANEILLE.
Mr.. LittIejohn Dead and His Wife
and w. c. Williams Injured.

Richmond. Va. March 2l.-A Danyilje
special to the Dispatch says: A distress
ing tragedy occurred here Yesterday, is a
result of which J K. LitIlejOhn : ~ dd
and his wife has a broken arm and il
otherwise seriously injured. Littlejohn, a
middIc-aged white man, kept small gro
Gerry store on the corner of FLOYD and
Upper streets Just about noon yesterday,
without warning, he attacked his wife
with stout hickory cane, badly cutting
and bruising her about the head and body
and breaking her left arm before neigh
bors, attracted by her cries, Could in
terfere.
w. c. Williams, one OF those who came
to the unfortunate wife s rescue, volun-
teered to go for a doctor. and as he turned
to do so Littlejohn felled him with d
blow of his cudgcI, knocking him insen-
sible, and making a II ugly confusion OF
the scalp. BY this time Police Officers
williams and Hutson arrived, arrested
Little John and took him To Jail.
Three hours later he was found dead in
his cell. Investigation developed that he
had swallo WED laudanum before attacking
his wife The assault and suicide are at
tributed to sudden demcntia. Deceased
went on occasional sprees and has been
drinking heavily for several days