El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-10

e Galveston and Houston are to be con
t | nec'ed by an electric railway, and {
T company is being incorporated.
J. E. Nelson is said to have the con
tract to build the Postal Telegraph
company between albuquerque and
Ell Paso, distance of 254 miles.
G.. Copeland. the district FREIGHT and
passenger agent for the Atchlsou at Ell
Paso, Texas. has been wishing these
parts in an official capacity agaiu.-Op-
tic.
The New Hampshire courts have lust
sustained a law by which the state is
entitled to any excess of profits over
10 per cent earned by any railroad in
hat state.
Switchman M. P. Burdick of the
S anita Fee. in this city, whose leg was
badly fractured in Decent Der. has been
| discharged cured from the corpany's
hospital a Topeka.
The expect alton that this will be
ye ar of extraordinary DEVELOPMENTS in
| railway building receives confirmation
on all des. In every section of the
Union new enterprises are under way
| for the opening OF new lines or the ey-
| tension of Old ones.
julius Kruttschnitt. general mana ger
| of the S. ?. company is now director
of that corporation. He was elected at
the annual meeting of the com pany to
fill the vacancy caused By the death of
~. L. Tubbs. The remaining directors
were reelected.
A Big Four train was annihilated by
an explosion at Belt Junction recently.
The trouble probably originated in
car loaC ed with whiskey. The car had
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fire and was destroyed. The trainmen
escaped injury, but Otto Creenshaw.
who was eep1ng in one of the cars
was pinned to the burning floors and is
in serious condition.
Coils p. Huutin gton, the president
Of the Southern Pacific railroad COM
Dany, carries bis Seventy-siX years with
cas- and vigGr, and in many respects
OCks aud acts like man not over fifty.
One cf his great-grandf4thers livei to !
be over 100 years of age, grand faith er |
attained % aud his father was killed at |
IS. So he thinks that hereditary |
longevity. may reasonably give him |
twenty-five years more of active life, |
for he intends to remain in the harness |
as long as health and strength permit.
The Mexican Central railway has de-
clded to improve its water facilities bv
the ere ction of numbe of reservoirs
on its its main line and the Tampico
and San Luis POtosi branches. Work
has just been commenced on one of
thes9 reservoirs at kilometre 62S on
the Tampico branch. Jos. H. Hanp-
son is the contractor and has 30 teams
at work thereon. Another camp is al
ready on the ground near Cardenas
where fully $4,000 cubic metres of earth
will niece ssariiy be removed to make
the huge deposit OF water for train SER
vice.
A freight official offers the following
solution of the great problem: 'All
railroads should com bine in organizing
VIII 1T may be ca led the National Rail-
way company, making single corpor-
alton similar to the st indard O COM
pany. Eaca road shall exchanpe IFS
stock for stock in the Ndtiopa Railway
company. They could do b lsinsss as
one line and -om petition could be elm
rates could be kept up MANY
roads would BE- alb 4ndoned as through
freight carriers and only used loc-
ally, forces could be cut down. The
eject would be practic ally that of gov
ownership of railroads."
Last week the Liberal had an item
te ling of the capture Of a Mexican !
Ca gut in the act of thro wing switch
in the Southern Pacific yard. While
tn D per WAS being prln; e / the Mkt
can, Jesus Migu-l VoresO, was being
examined by Judge McGrath. The
evifence against him was that he was
seen by he Sw n and the switch was
cock ed" or partly turned, No one t
saw him move the switch. The de- !
iendant brought "a with SIS VINO had i
passed the switch a few moments be- u
ore, who SwOre that when he passed t
he swift h it was cooked. Judge Nc V
frtth discharged the prisoner \ b
: ain had passed over TIE switch a Il
ew moments before and it is supposed a
he ain cooked the switch. Lords c
ourg Liberal. fl
ANOTHER ROAD TO MEXICO. a
The san Antonio Express saws: For W
Ome time a number of northern @
tpitaliStS have be N at work on the h
,roj ct of building Il ra lroad from =
3r, nham through southwest Texas to @
Corpus Chris i, thence to Brownsville o
N the low + Rio Grande. from there t.
o north Eagle Pass. From Browns T
lille the llne is to rO1tinue into Mex c
c, THROUGH the rich gujf Goa t district u
If Mexico 10 Tampico, and thence to c
he City Of Mexico. The first public fl
.nnOurc ment of this project was made "
when the charter was taken out about r
month ago. This was followed by q
he anrOuncem ut of the progress Of q
he company, and now comes the in n
ormation that a concession has Just
Iepn Granted the protectors of tho