El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-26

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Content Fur's He's Got"
Have to work for every cent,
Skimp and save to pay the rent,
Live in just a frugal way,
Glad to get three meals day
Happy when the week is through
If I've paid up every due:
still, with all it's heavy load,
Lies rather pleasant road.
Got no palace, not to keep,
But I've got a place to sleep.
Got 10 coach and pair, but gee!
Watkins good enough for me.
I've got pictures of the best
See that sunset in the west:
And I've music when l please
Hear them robins in the trees.
1 don't have to lose my health
WOrryin' about my wealth;
| don't have to fret about
Too high livin' bringin' govt,
Course [ mean some day to be
Higher up the social tree
But no matter what's my lot
I'm contented-fur's I've got.
Round About is not as ely" today as
he ought to be on account OF the han
die bars on his bike turning last night
and his coming in contact with the
hard street The fall didn't hurt but
the sudden stopping did. There was no
harm done except his knee cup was
partly torn Off, his right shoulder
sprained and his left wrist badly
wrenched, but the worse part of the
accident was that he tore his trousers.
The skin will grow back on his knee,
the sprained shoulder will get well
aud chloroform linament will stop the
pain in the wrist, but only money will
buy another pair of pants.
Round About was misinformed yes
terday in regard to the permits offered
by Mr.. Britton D avis, of the Corralitos
company. Mr.. Davis says he will give
Corralitos land grant, except within a
radius of five miles around the San
Pedro smelter. That section is reServ-
ed as the mining zone of his company.
The placer gold that has been found on
the Corralitos land grant is from
fifteen to twenty miles from the
smelter and any one may obtain per-
nit to prospect in the Escondido noun
Ia MS, provided they do not get out OF
the zone for which permit has already
been granted. Up to date three per-
mits have been granted to parties to
prospect in the Escondido mountains.
There is roar going up from citi-
zens about the street sprinklipg. Last
week the street aud grade committee
ordered that two Sprlnklers be pulled
off and the other two do all the work.
This of course neceSS tated the cutting
down of the district to be sprInkled.
One sprinkler was ordered to sprinkle
the central part of the city and the
other was put on Magotfin and Myrtle
avenues. The people living out of
those districts are the ones that are
kicking as they think that the streets
around their property should be
sprinkled as well as the avenues men,
toned. Street Commissioner Wales
has no control over the NJ ter further
than to see that the sprinkliug wagons
do their work. The street aid grade
committee has full control of the
number of wagons that shall be used
and can designate which streets shall
be sprinkled.
Street Commissioner Wales said to
Round A bout this morning in regard
to the street sprinkling that it has al
ways been the custom to pull Off two
Of the street sprinklers on the first of
Der, but this year they had
been laid off earlier on account of the
5nOrtness of funds-there being only
$1,000 in the treasury for street work
from now until next April. To make |
ends meet it will be necessary to cut
off one of the wagons engage in street |
work. The city has been put to heavy
expense this year in repairing the |
streets after the late hard ra Ms and it |
will be almost impossible to keep up |
repairs with the small amount of money
in the treasury for that purpose.
Fred Raymer, alias king" Raymer,
the crack-a-jack short stop Of last sea-
sons Browns, is in tie city on his way
to Albuquerque, where he will proba-
bly, play his position with the Albu |
luerque team in the coming tOurna-
ment at the Territorial fair. Fred has |
been playing in the Texas league all |
season and has made quite a record for |
himself He played for a time with |
Austin and finished the season with |
Dallas.
The Hook and Ladder base ball team |
want revenge from Hose team No. 2.
They intend to cha lenge the hose team |
Tor another game and they propose as |
stake to make the losing team pay for a |
Inner for all the honorary mem bers |
Of the Ell Paso fire department.
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