El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-24
and IL year old whiskey at Acme.

WANTED-A good white barber
Enquire P. A. McClanahap, Palace
barber ship.
Editor George r. Stephens of Min
nesota will preach at the Baptist
church tomorrow.
The Christian church and Sunday
school will hold a picnic at Rand'e
grove on Saturday, May 1.
The Eddy party of capitalists who
have been looking over the White
Oaks country will be in town tomorrow
or next day.
Manager Walker of the Grand opera
house at San Antonio was given bene-
fit there the other night. The honEe
was crowded, aud Trilby was the play
of the evening.
Barber shop and bath house, thor
oughly first class, and by far the best
and handsomest place in Ell Paso. G.
w. Morrow, Morehouse block, Oregon
street, near postOttice.
An ex-railroad engineer OF the Cen
trail named Riley who had been OF on
a drunk. threw himself in front of q
train coming out of Vera Cruz the
other day, and was cut to pieces.
Miss Florence Beall, the Trinity
church organist, has organized the
following quartet choir, Mrs. John
Kelly, soprano, Mrs. DevOe contraltO,
Mr.. William, tenor, Mr.. Weakly,
bass.
Judge Buckler released Francisco
Jarouez yesterday on habeas corpus
proceedings brought by Judge Blacker.
it was shown by counsel that the kill
ing by young Marquee of q boy
at the smelter was entirely accidental.
John O'Rourke is in the jug on sus-
picion of being the man who knocked
a stranger down on Ell Paso street last
night and robbed him of $40. How
ever, the police say the assailed party
was drunk at the time, and may have
lost his money in one OF the saloons.
The drum major that the New Mex
leo papers have been apostrophising as
badly wanted for unpaid bills, passed
through this city the other day en-
McGinty band his drum major uniform
for S12, and then was willing to sacri-
fee it for S. But Mr.. Watts told him
the club would not take it as gift.
The show last night was good, but
the audience was small, probably on
account of a number of private enter
tainments and dances that were on in
different parts of town. However, the
show was pleasing to those who attend
ed and each act was loudly applauded.
The pictures shown by the magnescope
were excellent, especially the one
showing a stable on fire and the rescue
of the horses A "Hidden Hand" will
be given tonight with an entirely new
program of animated pictures.
Reports from the Rio Grande water
shed, from Cochiti, north to the Colo
RADIO line, indicate that an unusual
flood is in prospect for the lower valley
this season. The heaviest snowfall on
record covers the mountains from Co
chit to Tacos and Cumbres, and in the
lower canyons along the river front,
where ordinarily at this season the
grass is visible, snow Is today from to
) feet in depth. By no means as much
snow as is now visible fell in 1881 and
1886, when disastrus floods prevailed
between Albuquerque and Ell Paso.
A very enjoyable social event was
a dance given last night at old Fort
Bliss by Miss Bessie Olshansen, assist
ed by Miss O'Keeffe. Among those
present were Mesdames Escher, Simp-
SOP, Olshansen, Troyer, Candy, Amo-
Misses Papin, O'Keeffe, Oh
Lucy and Eva Kneeland, Ger
trude and Ethel Catlia, Lyons, Ed
wards and Barlow: Messrs. Escher,
Candy, Amozurrutia, Judge
and Peyton Edwards, Rand, Higgins,
Weakly, Rodgers, Bovee, Harness,
Capron, Dean, Halle, TenEyck, Cor
nell, Hay.