El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-13

Loyal l.. oiluOru, Gue COH-
ductor of the Santa Fe, has been
changed to Albuquerque, where be
will remove with his family on Satur-
day. We hope it will not be long until
he can again make his home in Ell
Paso.
Rs pid transit is coming to a climax
when passengers at the upper end of
Brooklyn can take train and finally
bowl into the terminus at the New Y ork
end of the high bridge, and all for one
fare. The metropolis is mad after ra-
pid transit.
A bill has been introduced in the
Missouri legislature and there is an in
dicaton that it will become law which
makes it misdemeanor for a gripman,
a mOtorman or a conductor to flirt with
any of the feminine passengers on or off
car he is operating.
If the U. P. Denver & FIT. W. rail-
road should extend ten miles further
toward the Costello and Red River
country, which would take it to the
VermeJo, it would secure the freight
and passenger traffic of the great gold
fields. most of which now 60 over the
Atchison, via Springer.
The Mexican Railway will be pleas
ed to answer all inquiries concerning
coffee, sugar. tobacco and fruit lands
along the line of its road, as well as to
give information concerning oppOrtu-
mites for investment in both agricul-
tural and Industrial lines. Address
Dept of Information, Mexican R'y,
Buenavista, Mexico.
William Corbett, night station mast
err at the local depot in Albuquerque.
found in one of the coaches of No. 2
from the south, a certified sight draft
for 1888. 20. dateu January 10th. 1t had
been issued by the La Junta Milling
and Elevator company. B. w. Spald-
ing, manager. aud was made payable
to Creighton & Graves, of Magdalena.
The supreme court of the United
States has created tremendous furry
among railroad, express, telegraph,
telephone and other corporations doing
business in and through different states
b. deciding, in some Ohio and Indiana
cases, that Estates nave the couStitu-
tiOnal right to tax the entire capital
stock of Interstate corporations doing
business within their limits" Justices
Field, Harlan and White dissented.
The Missouri senate has passed house
bill No. 81, which requires railroads to
attach 'peddling cars" to their fruit
ira ms. 1t provides that shippers of
watermelons, canteloupes. raw berries,
fruits, shipping on local or way freight
trains, shall be allowed to peddle such
products at such points as they may de-
sire: and that the freight rate upon
''peddliug cars" shall be the same as on
cars 1t is also provided, no
extra charge for peddling,
Conductor A. P. Martin, of the G.. H,
running between Del RIO and Sander ,
son, was very seriously hurt while set |
ting out car at Comstock the other
night. 1t seems that he undertook to
an air hose between two cars
that were in motion, when his foot
slipped and he fell, but still held on
with one hand to some part of the car ,
and was dragged some distance. a |
large portion of the flesh and sinews
were torn from one leg, besides other
injuries. He was taken to the hospital
in San Antonio on the passenger train
and at the time he left Comstock it was
thought that be would die.
President-elect Mckinley will go
from Canton to Washington in re-
markable car. 1t is private car with :
out name, save that it is known all
over the Panhandle system as No. SO. (
The walls of it are white oak, planked
solid instead of the usual studding. If
it should roll down an EN- nkment the
sides would not break and it would re-
slSt a most any kind of shock in a col
lisiou. The top is double framework
of steel, and the ceiling is thoroughly
The floors are four thick
nesses of white oak. The entire car is
a huge safety box. The chief luxury
of the Interior is perfect arrangement |
Of everything pertaining to human COM
fort. 1t has an Oldfae hiOned log fire.
place and two palatial bedroom apart
nents, and a bath opening from each
chamber There is a magni fcent sill
YER service and large collection of
rare china.
The Southwestern Ira ffic associa-
lion hts issued a tariff effe tive the
10th inst, changing the north bound
Try lie of St. Louis and Kansas City
territory betw' en- st Joseph and Cam
erOn, Mo, from the present lire of the :.
Hannibal & ST. Joseph railroad to the |,
inc of the Ch cage, ROCK Island &
oac fc. from Cameron to St. oo-eph ;
va AltamOnt.
Effective Feb. Is, exceptions to west
srn cIassiicntiOns applica BILE on bust
less to texas aud Mexico will be
amended as 10 straight or mixed car
Dads on dried beans, pc ;. Sauer kraut