El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-16

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A funny tale was told Round About
yesterday about a new mode OF collect
ing costs in justices court. AS every
one with experiences knows, a person
may be fined 81 in a Justices court, but
the costs in the case runs the amount
up to from $25 to $50. This amount is
divided up between the different Off
GERS of the court. Lately restaurant
man was fined in the Justices court. the
fine was 81 and the costs were about
1913, 50 the man fined made an arrange
the court had to s'board ont" the costs
at the restaurant. This was an entire
ly new and original way to collect the
costs in q court.
The only Monday Morning paper
now left to Ell Paso thinks that a
vigilence committee should get hold
of the poet who dedicated q piece of
po try to Mr.. Bryan in the HERALD
last week. Round About does not
defend the poet nor the poetry, but
the HERALD is ready to meet the
proposed vigilence committee who
tongued demagogue and deal with
them as they should be dealt with.
1t is past the day, Brer. Bridgers,
when kuklux and vigilence commit
tees can deal out their own ideas OF
Justice over political matters in the
south. AS to amateurism the HERALD
is past that stage in which the Monday
Morning effort is now wiggllng, both
in politics and illustrations. A writer
| hot h 10 in
dom gets past the stage where he has
to start paper to work off the surplus
political bile that has accrued on his
stomach during late boyhood and early
manhood days. AS to Mr.. Bryan he is a
dead duck politically, and while 1t is
admitted that Mr.. Bryan is a silver
tongued orator his silver ideas will
never affiict the American people. He
may be able to carry the fifth ward
vote with his Spanish speech on silver
but the American vote will be against
him as it was last November. He is 8
dead duck float in stagnant water.
Saturday was pay day at the fort and
yesterday several of the blue coated
boys were in town celebrating. Along
towards evening several of them be-
came hilarious and wanted to scrap,
but the sudden appearance on the scene
of one of Ell Paso's ''foinest" put them
to flight and they decided to go out to
the post and wrestle it out.
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Officer Herold arrested three boys
yesterday morning for being drunk.
The ages of the boys ranged from thir-
teen to fifteen and while the officer did
not care especially to arrest the boys
he did want to find out who had sold or
given them liquor. tbs bad enough
| for a grown man to get under the In
huence of liquor without boys at the
sge mentioned getting that way aoC
| the party who furnished them liquor
should be severely punished under the
state law. A few fines for this Otfens.
| will make people little more particu
| lar about who they let have intoxi-
cants.
The Postal Telegraph people ar.
having considerable trouble in regu-
| lating their dynamos. Four dynamos
are used to charge the $50 cells in the
battery room, abut SO far the dynamOs
| run at such a high rate of speed that
| the wires cannot hold the charge and
the result is that all the fuses burn
out. The dynamOs are intended to run
| 23OO revolutions to the minute, but they
| have been running as high rs 10000
revolutions. This defect is being re-
NEEDED by degrees, but as the dynamOs
can only be run when the current is on
from the city wires it will take at least
a week 10 properly adjust them.
The Klondike fever is abating some
what in San Francisco, owing to the
discouraging reports received from
Dyea. Plenty of people announce
| their intention OF trying the Chilcott
| route in the spring, but of those anxious
| to go at once u large proportion seem
disposed to travel by way of ST. Mi
chael, and up the Yukon. Promoters
of expeditions by this route are ready
with prOfuse assurances that the trip
can be made before the closing of nav
cation, but, in all cases, they are cal e.
full not to bind themselv es to take pas
sengers through this fall.
The slump in silver is causing serious
hardships to the commercial interests
of Mexico. All stores Of any cOnse-
quence in the southern republic are
supplied with foreign goods ana bust
ness men have been comp .lled to ad-
vance prices SO that goods have to be
sold now at an enormously high figure.
All dry goods have been advanced 333
per cent, while hardware has advanced
from ia ca Is per cent. 1t is true that