El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

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Jake Catlin has taken the trouble to
tell a weakly paper, for the benefit OF
the HER AID, that he is not police
man. The HERALD has always been
of the opinion that there was too much
work in the policeman's job for Jake.
The BLOW Fly on the Aching Void
grew green with envy at Round About
Sunday morning. L had probably
been out to an ice cream parlor with
beer on the side and an opium joint an
mex.
The chief of police gave orders yes
terday morning to all the policemen to
arrest all unhitched horses found on
the streets. Officer Archer was the
first to make an arrest. He tagged a
lonely milk wagon.
The J. B. Miller trial at Eastland,
on the charge OF killing
Bud Frazier, is dragging along slowly
on account of the innumerable witness
es in the case. Many witnesses were
four hundred miles of Pecos during
their existence. Witnesses just re-
turned from Eastland say the crowd
is liable to cause trouble at any time
The Ell Paso witnesses were anx Gus to
get away from the trouble. The Ell
Paso man is anxious to get away from
trouble at all times but when cOrnered
always turns and gives his aggressor
hot reception.
The Eastland correspondent of the
HERALD gets OF the folio wing joke at
the expense of Night Captain Tom
Bendy, the pride of Ell Paso's police
:Orce. The correspondent says: This
is theu land of postoaks, string beans
aid buxom girls. At an ice cream
church supper q few evenings ago,
Capt. Tom Bsndy met one of the fair
daughters of Eastland, whose charms
caused his heart to go pit-a-pat to such
an extent that the gallant captain
thought to continue the acquaintance
and pass away the time by taking a
a buggy ride with the young LADY.
He wrote note to The effect to which
she replied favOrably, setting six
o'clock as the time for starting out.
Now some of the boys, in a spirit OF
| fun, iptimated to the fair damsel' 5
mother that Thomas was married
man with house full of freckeled chill
aren. So when Thomas drove up to
the gate, instead of the fair angel the
old lady met him with a countenance
like a Texas cyclone, armed with a
| broom, and the captain was unable to
say whether she addressed him in
Toltec, Arabic or Tomachic, but he
inferred from her deme4nor and the
| way she handled the broom that she
wished him to get large siz9d move
on himself and he moved. Tom says
when he finds the man that reported
| him as married that there will be a
funeral and that the party in the box
will very much resemble a pOtatOe
CRATER"
1t was reported that an American
| was with the man that was killed at
| the Mexican end of the Santa Fe street
| bridge last Thursday night, but on il.
quiry at the Juarez jail This morning.
the report was found to be only d
rumor without foundation. There are
a numbe of Americans in the Juarez
Jail, but none of them are 10 for any
thing except common drunks or for
fighting. There are one hundred and
thirty prisoners in the jail at present.
There were number of men from
chihuahua this morning who came up
and brought their families so they
could draw ratiODS from the free grub
store run by Uncle Sam. inspector
Dryer turned back twelve before 10
O'Clock this morning. The flood suffer
ers are inviting all their cousins, aunts
and other kiufolks up to visit them
while the free grub lasts.
Mr.. Majors felt around to see just
what the Tree grub establishment
had suffered from the flood and all that
was offered him was weeks rations.
Mr.. Majors declined the ratiOnS, saying
he hadn't drawn ratiOns since he Il it
| the confederate army in '65 and he
| didn't have TO draw IA ions now.
IF
A flood sufferer, who has been a pa
| iron of the free grub store for the past
week, dropped match in an empty
| whiskey barrel in the Palace salo IN
| last evening at 80 and the was an
explosion that shoOkall the buildings in
| that vicinity. The ire departm Ell t
| turned out, but the free gruo patron
| continued his irrigating exer. Use at the
ratlons this morning.
The police run in quite string OF
DRINKS last night. Inc wa;chmau In
the Santa Fee yards is also kept very
| busy keeping DRINKS from going to
sleep on the tracks. If the United
States can furnish the grub the Mexi-
can men can always get the tequila.
Nearly all the men from the Corral
ifOS rn11to have returned tn town from
the front and are now looking around
for work. If work should begin on the
proposed levee plenty OF experienced
men could now be secured. On a few
men are now at the front to do surface
ing and such work as is necessary for
the completion of the road to Casas
Grandes.
William Marritt the man killed ON