El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-20

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A young blood, in an eastern town,
who was very fond of smoking cigars,
lately bought 1000 cigars and had
them insured for their full value, smok-
ed them up and then demanded inc
insurance, claiming that they had
been destroyed by fire. The case was
taken to court and the judge decided in
favor of the young man. The insurance
company then had the young man ar
rested for setting fire to his own pro
perty and the same judge ordered that
he pay fine and go to Jail for three
months.
zone winter there was a contagion
of matrimOny in our school district"
recalls an old citizen who persisted that
he is still young at 70. 1--WE were q
merry party OF young people. had
social circle of our own and paired off
as was natural under the circumstan-
ces. I WAS the first one to give out that
I was engaged. Soon the returns be-
gan to come in from the other boys,
and within a month there were seven
of US committed to marcy. Some one
in spirit of fun suggested that we
and have a septenary wedding. The
| idea took and WAS adopted, because it
did away with the rivalry incident to
such events, and was alike satisfactory
to all parties concerned. At the ap-
pointed hour we all appeared at the
Office of an eccentric old justice of the
peace. who was jolly soul and a great
friend of the young folks. We had
given him no warning, but he accepted
1 a. 80 oh 10
made specially of uniting people in
blocks of fourteen.
| "'Stan' up there he said promptly,
AN jine hands. No titterin' or jost-
lin, now
s'Then he ratified off ceremony as
original as himself and wound up With
| That settles it, You're man an wife,
every one of YOU
| ''But it appeared in the rapid 'jinin'
of hands, two couples had become tran
sposed, and they at once explained
their dilemma.
Don't make particle of difference
in the eyes of the law chuckled the
justice. 4 married you all good an
right. If you got mixed up, that's no
fault of me or the law. Each teller
must sort out his own GIRL and that
closed the wedding"
| Ell Paso is fast becoming a great rail-
road center and has the best prospect
before it of any city in the west. Here
| it is that the Southern Pacific system
| joins hands and makes a trunk line
east and west; the Santa Fe, with its
| 5000 miles of railroad also ends here;
the Mexican Central, with it's 1900
trunk line aud numerous branches
begins here and taps every point of i'm
portance in the Southern republic.
L O. q
the Gould system-reaches its fur
therest point in the west. The r. G.,
S. M. & P.-the Corralitos route, is q
new road but it is an important venture
for the future of Ell Paso and is already
bringing to this section a wealth of
trade that has heretofore been divert
ed to other points. The proposed
White Oaks road will undoub tedly be
built as it's route is through rich
of the best feeders to the commerce of
this city of any so far built or proposed.
With all the blazes to the future path
way to prosperity it is no wonder that
Ell Paso property is sought after. Bus
mess men see its future and are taking
advantage of the opportunity.
Tomorrow night the board of health
will meet and promulgate an ordinance
"milky way" Members of the board
say that if they have to frame an ordi-
nance that will drive one dairy out of
the city all diaries will have to go and
the ordinance may go further and COW
err other matters that people complain
of. The ordinance will also probably
prob bit more than one COW in the city
limits and livery stables may be COM
PEELED to make hygenic improve
citizens were determined to compel the
board of health to act in a manner they
do not care to. The board knows that
a dairy in the city limits is no nuisance
to the health of the city and as one of
the board asserts: est has taken seve-
raj years for some parties who have
lived contiguous to diaries to find out
that they are nuisance"
There was right lively chase and
lots of fun near the city hall this morn
ing, when a boy working for the dog
catcher roped d and started for
the pound with it. The owner of the
dog was in a wagon driving two lively
burros. The owner did not like the
idea of the boy taking his dog and
started after him, SO the boy cut across
the vacant lot back of the city hall and
the man and wagon started after him
on q Iull run. w men Inc udu &OG I'd
the center of the lot he found a deep
ditch, but this did Tot deter him and
he whipped his burros across and when
the wagon struck the ditch it flew all
to pieces, but like the jointed snake,
it came together again and the chase
was continued to Chihuahua street
where the man caught up with the
boy and took the dog The boy then
went after rocks and the man was then
compelled to run again to keep out of
the way of the flying rocks. He es.
capped however, and beat q hasty re-
treat for the other side of the river.
DR.. Braden and Ed Watts took it
into their heads to play a game of
quoits on the lawn of the McGinty
garden and were getting along swim
ing'y until President Reckha-t got
wilma of the play and he went out and
promptly run the players off and
charged them with running the lawn.