El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-21

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An American company has Just pur-
| chased and consolidated the street rail-
ways of Monterey, Mexico, and will
take steps to at once equip the system
with electric power. The amount of
| money involved in the transaction IS
said to be S6,000,00
! The California limited train on the
Santa Fe route will be discontinued.
| The last one of these trains westboun1
will leave Santa F'e Friday, May 81;
eastoound Wednesday, May 26. 1t is
expected that a new time card will
take effect at that time but no definite
announcement as to what changes
will be made, has as yet been receiv-
ed.
The federal court at Omaha has de-
! cided not to interfere in an order pre-
viously made, requiring the Union
Pacific and Western Union to separate
their telegraph lines. This means that
the companies must operate separate
| lines. The wires of the Western Union
will probably be taken out of the
Union Pacific offices within three
months.
Santa Fee officials are much pleased,
over fast run from La Junta to Pu-
eblo. Engine 459 left La.Junta with
three coaches and, making two stops
| for crossings, rolled into the station at
Pueblo in 65!,minutes. the distance COW
cred being sixty-three miles, with an
! ascent in that distance of l64 feet. The
| actual running speed was faster than
| mile a minute.
Both the first engine to pull a car
out of Chicago and the engineer who
opened the throttle that sent it on its
| first trip are yet alive. John Ebert,
| the engineer lives at 234 Park avenue,
says the Times-Herald, while ''Pio-
neer," the engine, is one of the treas
ures of the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway company. 1t lacks eighteen
months of being fifty years since they
made their maiden trip.
| Ex-senator George Currie OF Lincoln
county, states that Commodore Low
rey, of New York, and Lehigh Valley
and Scranton coal operators have paid
G. B. and John A. EDDY, of Colorado,
5000, 900 for the Salado coal deposits i'll
Lincoln county, This deal is believed
| to insure the early commencement of
work on the Ell Paso and White Oaks
railroad, which G. B. Eddy has long
been engaged in financiering in New
York and London. The coal deposits
are the most extensive in the south
west, and are situated 160 miles north
of Ell PaSo.
A Waco, Texas dispatch says: Tele-
| grams have been received stating that
the Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe railway
has accepted the offer of the citizens
of CleburDe, johnson county, and has
authorized the removal of all the shops
and round houses to that point. One
of the kilograms was from Col. Lucius
]. Polk, general manager, to S. E.
Moss, conirmatory of the dispatches
received by others to the same effect.
| na11 NJ of hnr
points were rivals for the shops. They
are worth S74, 900 year to town.
In case of severe storms, when in the
Judgment of santa Fe train and engine
men it may be uuwise to proceed,
ditions are favorable for the movement
of trains with absolute safety. Section
foremen must patrol the track and ex-
anime the same during storms, and re-
liable watchmen kept at dangerous
places day and night with proper sig
mails. Watchmen must have explicit
Instructions. All places likely to cause
trouble must be marked by green flags
by day and green lanterns by night,
the same being placed in both direc-
tions, the proper distance from the
place where danger is anticipated and
where watchmen are stationed.
a surveying party of the Chicago,
ST. Louis and Texas Air Line took the
field last week at San Antonio, to make
a final survey of the line from San An
tonic to Brownsville, a distance of 210
milas. Chief Engineer William Ken
nedy is in charge of the party and ezI-
poets to complete the survey within six
weeks or two months, as much of the
line is through perfectly level coun-
try. Right-of-way agents will follow
the surveying party and a. d. Gum,
president of the company, says work
will begin as soon as the, right-of-way
lagents finish their work. The road
will extend from Brownsville, Texas.
to Catfeyville, Kan, where connections
will be made with lines running to Chi
cago and ST. Louis. A party OF capt.
talists in Mexico are working and
planning to build line from Browns
Vile to the City OF Mexico via Tam
pico, making an air line from st. Louis
to the Mexican capital. The road will
pc built with English capital.
a Yorkshire farmer named Gibson
, has just died at the age of 10l years.
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