El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-07

ter and as fast as the police would ar
rest him and remove his gun he would
} put up cash bond and buy another
gun. He kept this up as long as his
money lasted and then skipped out.
This morning at O'Clock "Mitch"
was on watch at the fire department
and was reading when some one came
in and said: What is the HI are
you do.ng?" Mitch answered:
swered: 'Probably you don't know
me. I used to have a rep here. My
names Charley Green. I want to break
into Jail" "Well, go next door," an
swered Mitch. So Green wandered
over to the calaboose door and sue
ceeded in waking Dick Blacker, the
jailor. Dick asked him what he want
ed: 81 want to break into jail'' said
Green. 'Well, go down town and do
som ething and the police will run you
in," answered Blacker. "But 1 want
to get in now," was the reply. After
while Dick got tired and opened the
| door and Green was kept in his old
lodging house until late this morning.
Ii Green has any money he will keep
the police chasing him as long as the
dough lasts.
Mr.. Kitchens has been employed by
City Attorney Kemp to index the city
ordinances SO that the latter can find
out Just what laws the city has and
| what it hasn't got. There doesn't
seem to be living man, unless it Is
Mr.. Kitchens, who knows where the
city ordinances are or on what subjects
been run without law, and only such
law is enforced by the police depart
ment as the mayor sees fit to enforce.
The police are not TO blame for this,
because they are not furnished with =
copy of the ordinances ard of course
there is nothing more to guide them
than the orders of the mayor. A GER
tain prominent lawyer of Ell PasO says
be can break any penal ordinance of
the city by taking the case to higher
court.
An artist named De Coute has died
in San Francisco from starvation. He
is said to have been an excellent artist,
but was one of those men who thought
that art was above newspaper work.
He tried to make living by the blend
ing of colors, but the multitude didn't
want tha,.kind ofwork and he starved to
death. The Stockton Mail thus com
ments on De Coute. "You were very,
very foolish, De Coute. You might
have clustered and Dragged, you might
have speered at other mems work.
There are mediocres in art and itera-
'ure wearing laurel leaves got by that
trick. You might have hired claquers
and tickled the vanity of parvenus and
been free of the Bohemian club-in
which Bohemians are not-and had
money and q fat belly. There are we'll
fed fakirs in literature, journalism,
preaching and picture making, De
Coute. But you-you chose to remain
an artist and high souled gentleman.
You were out of place, De Coute. Be-
cause you were neither Quack nor bragg
CART nor hard of heart, nor careful of
gain, nor desperate enough to rob, nor
mean enough tc beg, you died like q
rat in hOle.'
Last week the Times in giving no
tice of the parade that was to occur
last Saturday evening, said it was
gotten up by ''Grand Pa Smith" AT
ter an accident had occurred and the
old man had met with misfortune, the
same sheet referred to him as dad"
Smith. The Times in no place refer
Whitmore in the presence of little
girls.
DIR. YandelI has taken to parting his
hair right square in the middle. Doc.
says that for long time he has notic-
ed that the split haired dudes got all
the best things in this world and that
if it just requires parting the hair in
the middle to get some of the good
things then he is going after them.
The Doc. says that all this talk about
parting the hair in the middle being
sure sign for other wicked habits is all
bosh: that the accusation is rot and
without foundation. Yandell says that
a man who wants to go to the legisla-
ture or congress should not part his
hair in the middle, but that long since
he has gotten over the legislative itch
and thinks the time is now ripe for
for him to 60 after the good things of
this world.
Ex-Alderman sKachler said this
"All the city ordinances
have been codified and are ready to be
reviewed by the aldermen and passed
On so they can be printed. The last
council had this work down and every
ordinance is now in manuscript and
ready for the printer. The old council
reviewed most of the ordinances and
passed on them, but the job was ted
Ous one and before the work was fin
shed they were pigeOn-holed and there
they have remained ever since. II the
new council wants nice, pleasant job
hey should take up the work where
,he old council left off and finish up
The work and then have the ordinances
printed in pamphlet form, which would
prove of great benefit to the city. The
I'D council should have done this, but
or some reason 1 could never UNDER
tand they never wOuld.'