El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

of the tunnel. The offer OF the reOr-
ganization committee was to guarantee
the Busk tunnel owners 4 per cent. on
the 81, $50, 900 worth of bonds, Or $50, 900
per year, as against the previous al
lowance Of per cent, and in considera-
ton of the reduced rate they were to
be given 1925, 600 in preferred stock of
the new company, the bondholders of
the Colorado Midland accepting for
themselves per cent. for three years
on the bonds of the Colorado Midland
railroad.
The London Mail gives the following
acc unit of the dangers and difficulties
of railroad building in South Africa.
The Beira railway in South Africa is
completed as far as the terrible belt of
tsetse fly country is concerned, a stretch
of something like 40 miles of line, and
the empire is infinitely the richer for
the achievement. But it has cost five
years of time; it has cost an enormous
sum of money, and it has cost in human
life more than all the fighting. For
every mile Of the Beira railway has
been built at the cost of two English
mems lives. 1t is one of the most I'M
healthy parts to which the adventurous
British err, carrying his life in his hand,
has penetrated. That was only one
more reason why railway should be
built across it, and built the railway
has been. Mr.. Pauling and Mr.. Law
ley, respectively the contractor aud
engineer, survive, and that it was
which they celebrated yesterday. OF
friends and comrades who set out with
| them in the great undertaking few
have come back. They re beneath
the mounds that serve as half-mile
stones along the line of the Beira rail
way. 1t is not only in war that tn .
price of empire is paid or that heroism
| is displayed After five years in the
land of fever, Mr.. Lawley might have
considered himself entitled to rest on
his laurels at home. But in a few
weeks he returns to his duty.
The raill DAD men of the country who
stood like a stone wall in favor of sound
money in the last election without re-
ference to their former utilization are
| now reaping the reward of that action.
says an exchange. Railroad earnings
are increasing in all parts of the count
ry, large additions have been made to
the working force, better hours are
given, and as consequence more
earnings and steady employment. The
July earnings of lis railroads operat-
ing nearly 100, 900 miles of road aggre-
gate IL per cent higher than in July,
1894. In spite of Candidate Bryan and
his 6eluded followers, prosperity has
come by rail, and by water, and by
bountiful nature in the rich fields wav-
ing with golden grain.-N. o. Plea
yune.
Proceedings for damages in the sum
of $40, 900 have been instituted in the
district court at San Antonio, by Mrs.
Harriet Heyne, joined by her husband,
r. w. Heyne. against the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio railroad
company. The amount sued for is
claimed as compensation for the death
of Mrs. Keynes son by a former mar
rage Albert Edward Lane, who re-
ceived fatal injuries in d collision of
two freight trains between there aud
Ell Paso on April Ii of this year. Lane
was a fireman on one of the trains, and
it is alleged in the plaintiffs petition
that the train crew were following Or
ders and that the collision occurred on
account of the negligence of officials in
the employ of the company.