El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-20

Went wheel and rider and the chump
Who didn't know which way to jump.
The council wants to save the city
by putting 500 sacks on the Santa Re
levee. That's like dipping bucket of
water out of the sea to lower the ocean.
The Southern Pacific railroad com
pany put 1000 sacks of dirt in a place
forty feet wide. How does the council
expect to save the city with 500 sacks
of sand?
Senator Turney is just now between
the legislature and the deep sea. He
came up from Austin to see if he could
save some of his property from the
flood and now the senate has been
telegraphing him that he was needed
badly at Austin and if he did not re-
turn Immediately the sergeant at arms
would come after him.
The Rio Grande is now navigable
stream and Ell Paso is becoming quite
a sea port.
Here's bran new story. A man
was riding through the woods of Ar
kansas and suddenly he came to log
cabin without any roof. The owner
was sitting out in front and the rain
poured down heavily. The traveller
asked the woodsnan why he didn't put
a roof on his house. Cant, its rain
in',' was the reply. We'll, why
don't you put the roof on when its not
raining?' Don't need it, was the
reply. The city is in the same fix over
the flood as tie Arkansas back
woodsman, and is being run on the
same policy.
Last nights rain was a gutter wash
err. The water came down Ell Paso and
Oregon streets like it was RAINING
through sluice gate.
Nothing has been heard from that
bonus that was wanted for the Juvenile
Opera company to play here. Probab-
ly the citizens thought it would be bet
ter to give the amount to the McGipty
band and have sure enough concerts
in the park all summer.
The cd maids polite excuse fits the
show last night. 1T was good enough
enough of it such as it was" The
gags were a little ''rocky" and the
songs a mite cloud" The music, how
ever, was excellent
Editor Arson H. Smith, of the Mo-
have, (Ariz Miner, was the hero of
remark able incident that occurred on
the table lands near the Needles. He
came upon two MOhave squaws holding
an excited pow-wow overa big rattle
snake that lay coiled in the middle OF
the road. With due galiantry Smith
mounted and struck the reptile
deXterous blow on the head. Instead
of thanking their deliverer, the squaws
began to disrobe, and with many in
carnations throw their garments as Of
ferings to his snakeship. Inc scared
editor tried to mount his horse, but
the SO avs insisted on his presence till
the charm was broken, and it was not
broken until they had discarded all
their clothing and gone through
weird dance over the remains of the
to propitiate the gods and break the
spell that portends the death of big
chief upon the wanton slaughter OF a
venemous reptile.
The Judge.-You are charged, sir,
with being the leader of a party which
hunted down and lynched d horse
thief. The days have gone by when
citizens of this great commonwealth
can thus take the law into their own
hands, hence your arrest. What have
you to say:'
Prominent Citizen-'I amt guilty,
jedge. 1 tell you how it was. We
caught the fe'ler. and tied his hands
and feet. Nothin' wrong about that,
was there, jedge?''
mo; that was no doubt necessary"
wal, jedge, there was storm
comm up, and we couldn't spare him
an umbrella very we'll, 50 we stood him
under a tree. That was all right:
wasn't it?'
"Certainly."
"WeIl, the clouds kept gatherin' an
the wind was BLOWN pretty high, and
we didn't want him Down away. so we
tied a rope around his neck and fasten-
ed the other end to the limb above
DOT tight, jedge, jest so as to hold him
and we left him standin' solid on his
feet. Nothing wrong about that, was
THEREOF
Nothing at ALL
Then 1 kin be excused, can't T."
But the man was fourd suspended
from that tree, and stone dead the next
morning."
''None of us had anything TO do with
that, jedge. You see, we left him
standing there in good tealth and spir-
its, for we give him all he could drir k
when he said 'gOod-bye;' but, you see,
during the night rain came up an [
5 pose the rope got purity wet and
shrunk a couple o. feet. That's row
the sad accident happened, jedge."
George Herold is alone responsible
for the recovery Of Britton Davis and
Will Davis jewelry that was stolen by
who are now in jail. George
schemed around until he got one pri~-
oner to peaching on the other ana in
this way he found out where the jewel i
ry was buried. Yesterday he went !
over the river with Britton Davis /,