El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-15

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''Everything is lovely out on the Cor
-alitos road, "said 0. +. Dix this morn
ing. THE we l-borers stuck vein OF
fresh water at the first well twenty
four miles out of Juarez. Seeking
water at that point has been a costly
with the railroad company,
but now everything promises to be sat.
isfactory in that line. The drilling OF
the above mentioned well has been de-
layed for one cause or another for sew
eral months, but since Mr.. Frank Nc
Daniel has been employed as driller,
the right man has been found for the
place. He knows all about that job.
and has had considerable experlesce
IN boring wells in New Mexico and the
panhandle of Texas. Practically the
we'll that has just proved success was
a abandoned, because a stralner had
been lost at the bottom, but Mr.. Nc
Daniel knew what to do in that emer-
gency and drilled it out, then, after
sinking a caseing forty feet deeper
went through a tough. sticky clay to
were the water was found at depth Of
235 feet. There is now about seventy
feet of water standing in the well that
mas the appearance and taste OF the
Fort Bliss water. Mr.. McC.ane is
about fifty or seventytive miles
further out on the line sinking the
second we'll in what is known as the
Barreal, and the prospects are pro-
missing for plenty of good water there"
Final arrane ements have been made
with George Look and the construction
company of the CorralitOs road will do
their own track laying in the future.
1.-THE Rio Grande, Sierra Madre and
Pacific railroad grade is now complet-
ed to Corralitos and beyond that point,
with the exception of two rock cuts, !"
said railroad man just in from the
front this morning. There will be
some little time in getting through
those rock cuts, but the delay will only
De short. Track is now laid out fifty
seven miles, but track laying has been
for couple of days, await
my some bridge work, but will be re-
-umed and pushed anead shortly.
Trains Will certainly be running into
Corralitos by the first of June and the
traffic of the road will then begin. The
road will prove beneficial to Ell Paso
aud Juarez just as soon as regular
trains begin running
Mr. Louis James will appear at the
opera house next Friday and Saturday
evenings. The leading play will be
'.Spartacus the Gladiator" 1t Is to be
hoped that when it Comes to the broad
word ~ l between Spartac 10 and his
[, low gladiator that they will put
more vim in the act than Robert
Downing did when here two years ago.
If the sword act is too dangerous they
had better cut it out and let the two
ounce gloves.
Mr.. Louis James will be seen here on
March 10 and 20, opening in a superb
scenic production of DR.. Baird's great
classic masterpiece 'Spartacus the
The version used by Mr.
James is the same one in which Forrest
and Mccullough appeared in former
times, and 1t will find in Mr.. James an
interpreter worthy to succeed the great
opponents it has had in the past. Mr..
James is less subject to limitations in
his art than any great actor OF the past
score of years, and he eXcels in the por-
trayal of those rolls that require
heroic treatment, massive and liOnlne
N presence, graceful and scholarly,
and with rare vocal gifts he cannot fail
TO realize the ideal of the old Thracian
Messrs. " agenhals & Kemp
er will continue as in the past to man
age Mr.. James tour, and have provd-
I'd him with wealth of scenery which
will eclipse any former product on of
,he play. The scenes in and about
Rome, the camps of the two hostile
armies, the Campania, with MOuut We
,uvlus rising CD the distant horizon,
Ind the Arena, are all wonderful eX-
implies of the scene painters art. The
support of Mr.. James this season will
De strOngt T. than ever, Mr.. Guy Linds-
ey the excellent leading man of last
'ear. has been retained and Miss Alma
Kruger and Florence Everett will also
appear tt is season with Mr.. James.
Some of the lawyers suggested to the
county Judge this morning that it would
De good thing to djOurn court We'd
lesday so that the lawyers and the jury
.Ould have a good chance scan the bull
etins from the orbett-Fltzsimmons
,rize fight. If a case were on trial
day and the bulletins should show
bat the fight was ''hOt stuff" they
nj Il let their ardor over their favor
tie prize fighter loose case for their
llent.
Politics are quiet and candidates
carce. Notwithstanding this fact the
um Der of MeXicals that congregate
ally at the corner of Oregon and San
Antonio streets looks like there is bug
nder the chip.
Johnny Connors has placed a neat
nd strong bicycle stand in front of the
curt house where those who have
us ness there can safely leavy bicycle. |
'erlly, the days If the horse are num-
cred. In former days the hitching |
ost was always placed IN front of Tex
S courthouse, but now even that has
one and the bicycle rack has taken Its
lace.
In two more days either titzsimmons
+ Corbett will be champion of the