El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-25

A W.
The boy stood on the hill of gold;
He stood there night and day:
For he was frozen stiff with cold
And couldn't get away.
The president of San Salvador, the
richest and best of the Central Amer
lean republics, has called congress to-
gether for the purpose of laying plans
for putting the republic on q gold
basis. That republic has fought the
inevitable long enough and has come
to the conclusion that it is impossible
to buck against the monetary system
of all the great nations OF the world.
A Ca binet meeting will be held this
week in the City of Mexico for the pur-
tenn of that republic. A project is on
foot for the accumulation of gold fund
for the purpose of putting that country
on a gold basis. The project is meet
ing with much favor by the CONNER
cial classes who are placed at a busl-
ness disadvantage by the continual
fluctuatiOn in the price OF silver MIR.
LmantOur, the minister OF the treas
ury, is thoroughly capable OF working
out the difficulty if any one can.
The exhibition of the magnescope
last night at the Chopin hall was
worthy of a better patronage than 1t
received. The view given are life
variety of pictures shown was enough
to satisfy the most exacting. The
Corbett-C Courtney fight was just as it
occurred in the ring and gives every
body chance to see prize fght'wlth-
out going to q prize ring. Some OF the
pictures were little blurred and were
not brought out bright, but this will
probably be arranged for the next
performance.
Some parties get arrested and are
taken to the police station and then
ask the officers not to give them away
to the newspapers. They have q moral
dread OF being published in connection
with police court row. However the
reporter does not always depend on
the officer for such news and generally
knows the proper name OF every per-
son whose name appears on the docket
When a person violates the law and
gets into the court they must expect
the facts to be published and there
is no use for them to dodge the issue.
A real newspaper does not publish such
matters through prejudice against 9
parties who may appear in court, L :
some times such cases are a matter of
newsand the newspaper Is here for the
purpose Iof publishing the news.
Mr.. Bryan has given up his trip to
Mexico and lost his Spanish speech.
IT'S we'll. 1t would look bad for the
CT 10 70 he, foil To
leans in pigeon Spanish on silver just
as that republic had decided to adopt a
gold basis.
The telegraph war is on between
the Western Union and Postal compa-
mics. A bout the time the Postal open
ed up Manager Steele, of the Western
Union, dressed all his messenger boys
uD in blue suits and brass buttons
Manager Perkins, of the Postal, not to
be outdone, diked his messengers out
Postal put in q bran new vanished
counter. The Western Union followed
suit today by putting in Vanished
counter also. Thus the telegraph war
goes on and if it keeps up each compa-
ny will soon begin the erection of sky
scraping buildings with blue euameled
signs and white letters to draw the
public into the different warning dis
per saries of bottled electricity.
Prescott, Arizona, is now testing
Henry Georges theory on single tax
and have adopted the iniative and re-
ferendum now is vogue in Switzerland.
So far it is only a test and has not been
in existence long enough for the people
to know whether they like it or not
Tue plan adopted is for a tax of 81 on
each lot in town and this does away
with every other tax except the liquor
tax which has been raised to 81 900 for
each saloon. II the plan proves sue
cessful at Prescott it will no doubt be
adopted by other communities and
Henry Georges single tax theory may
in time become part of the principles
of the United States.
Britton Davis, of the Corralitos Land
& Mining company, states that he ia
prospect for mines on the lands of his
company any where within five miles
of the smelter at San PedrOs. There
is plenty of water in that section now.
The Yellow Kid club is preparing
for grand meeting next Saturday.
The occasion of the Notification is three
birthdays and four kegs of beer. Colo
mel Mccain will preside and will be
strictly on his uppers.
Mr.. Britton Davis offer to prospect
Ors around San Pedro is very liberal,
but parties who want to 60 to that Sec
ton had atter make note of it that
the gold reca ntly found in the Escon-
dido mountains is fully twenty miles
from San Pedro and Is much nearer
the Corralitos ranch. So that pros
pectors who go to prospect in the five
mile limit around San Pedro must
expect to look over hills and valleys
where gold has not yet been fouod.
There is plenty of silver to prospect
for, however, if they are seeking that
metal.
The base ball park is no more. The
fence AMI grand stand has been sold
and will be torn down and carried
away. If an association had been Or