El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-27

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The glazier anG plumber work be-
gins, while the cltthier Is hanging out
overcoats and pacing away grass linen
suits.
Frost is coming on but the theatre
hat keeps growing.
The pretty sumner girl is gone, but
the winter girl is here wrapped up in
furs and furbelOws,
The White Oaks road should hurry
on to the coal fields. Cheap coal is in
demand in this market.
The talk of jockey club and race
horses has caused many men to turn
gentlemen Jockeys and these mornings
it is not uncommon to see a horse com
ing up the street with martlngales on.
The election OF mayor of Greater New
York creates as much interest through
out the country as the election of
president The distribution of $780,
600, OO0 year is graft not to be
sneezed at, even in New York.
Chief LOckhart seems to have sized
up the tramp situation and solved the
problem. The iron jewelry with which
he decOTates the buns has caused Ell
Paso to get hard name among the sons
of rest. They now turn their marble
he art and CLASSY eye against the gem
of the southwest.
Chief Lockhart does not only make
the transient hoboes leary OF Ell Paso
| but he is also making the local buns
| feel the weight of the balls and chains.
| There are several local buns and hood
| lums yet uncaught, but the police are
on their trail and it will not be long
before their easy going life in Ell Paso
Will be turned into q burden and q
sham, and many of them, even some
who have grown up in hOOdlunlsm IN
| this city, will be compelled to seek
pastures new and a more congenlal
clime-9sG the winter is ovsr-,-Con
Lockhart is making q conscientiou.
chief and is receiving the backing OF
the good citizens of the town.
The police are now lying low 50 they
can catch a gang of young boodlums
who have lately began to 1nfest the
dance halls and some parents are gong
to wake up some morning and ma that
their dear boys are not taking thelf
morning snooze in their little couch.
Later in the day they will hrd them
working on the street in the chain
gang. For lone ''re the police man
aged to keep the boys awly from the
| dance halls, but I->eiy gang nave
formed who say they will defy the
police; but they always make mem
selves scarce when the officers are
| around. Night Captain Bendy Is lay :
ing trap to bag the whole gang at
once.
| The citizens should not be pulling
| their hair because the police are not
| making arrest. The evil doors know
what is ahead of them if they keep on
have been doing their duty ana tnls
has brought about quietus In mis-
demeanor cases. The same thing can
be said about the fremen. 1t Is far
better to keep the firemen at the oe-
part ment than it is to have them run
ming to a fire every day ana pc
cause a fire does not occur every day
| is no reason why the fire department
should be cut down.
Eumor states that Col. r. F. Camp
bell has been assured of his appoint
ment as collector of customs st u,
Paso, and that Major McGlennon Will
be appointed posmaster.-El Paso
Times Democratic.)
Ex-Mayor Campbell, in an Interview
with n St. Louis Republic reporter,
makes the following statement about
things in Ell Paso: The Mexican
town of Juarez. just across the Rio
Grande from Ell Paso, is a place OF r.
600 inha bitants, although a good many
years ago it was far more populcus,'
remarked Colonel Robert Campbell.
well known Texas republican. "oLc-
cessive droughts are the reputed cause
Of the exodus of the people. Today
the bulk of the population, as well as
the business, is on the American side
Juarez, however, has the advantage OF
being in the yona libra, or free zone