El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-20

FOUND-A lady's sun shade; call at
HERALD office, prove property and pay
for this ad.
Furnished rooms for rent; also furn-
ished rooms for light housekeeping.
Address, XZ, HERALD.
The Matthews shooting case was to
have come up this morning before
Justice McKie, but was postponed until
Monday.
The McGinty club ordered three more
mellophones today of Conn, which with
the one now on hand Will make q fine
quartette.
Street Commissioner Wales is clean
ing up South Ell Paso street in good
shape, just as he cleaned up San An
tonic street.
Preciliano Moreno and Miss Adella
Stevenson of Las Cruces, were married
the other day, and passed through this
city en- route to Washington.
James V. Dignowitty, of Bexar coun-
ty, deeds to A. V. Jillings, of Harris
county, HIP acres in La Prleta grant
in this county for SO and other con-
sideratiOns.
Perry Heath, assistant postmaster
general, Was severely Injured at Union
City, Ipd., on Saturday Iast by falling
and being dragged while attempting
to board train at that place. Mr..
Heath is well known to many of our
citizens.
The following are candidates for the
position of school teachers in this coun-
ty, and are now being examined at the
Central school building: Miss Bessie
johnson, Miss Margaret O'Keetfe, Mrs.
f. M. Phelan of Ell Paso; James E..
Robertson aud Miss Gertrude Robinson
of Las Cruces.
The representative of the Denver
Republican who is canvaSslng the town
in the interest of his paper has secured
over seventy. five subscriptions, and
will run the number to 100 ere leaving
here the day following its publication,
thus beating all other papers expect
the Dallas News.
There is rumor out to the effect
that Mr.. Jefferson Reynolds will soon
become a permanent resident of Las
Vegas again. He has been absent
about year. Mr.. Reynolds was an
enterprising and loyal citlzen during
his residence here, fully alive to the
needs of the city and always ready to
put shoulder to the wheel for her ad-
vat cemeut.-Opt1c.
The HERALD is in receipt of q fine
basket of peaches, plums and crab ap-
pies from the orchards of S. q. Suther-
land of La Luz. Thanks pardner, they
are just immense. This fruit beats
any thing California has been sending
here, and it is more evident than ever
that with the White Oaks road built,
a great fruit country will be opened to
an immediate market.
Frank P. Clark, ex-collector of Gus
toms at Ell PaSo, later on merchant
and post master at Tularosa, is candi-
date for appointment as U. S. Indian
agent at the MescaIero agency and has
gone to Washington to secure the APP
pointment. 1t is not believed that he
will succeed, as it is understood that it
is the policy of the interior department
Mescalero and Santa Fe Indian agen-
cies.-New Mexican.
The Mexican Ceatral train of day
before yesterday, is now slated to ar
rive day after tOmOrrOw-nO postpone
which is not likely. That country
down around Ensanillas Is great
water depository, and four years ago,
after a big rainfall the country was
under water for thirty miles.
Mr.. Comfort had to crib up his
track uuder four feet of water, and
was successful. The passengers who
were in that passenger train that turn
ed over on it's side, have plenty OF
opportunity to write long essays on
Thoughts upon ones past nfe' and
then com init TO memory the surrounding
topogi Apply,