El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-05
The Spectator.
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The mastering out of the immunes at
Galveston YVES completed October %.
Before the men we're mustered out
they were psid Off Between $75, 900
and $50 900 as paid to the regiment.
ceived their certificates of unir debted-
ness were not paid. Most of the
men were about two months
behind on their salaries and those who
mad not bypothe Gated their wages to
camp money sharks went home well
neeled. The officers who reside a.
Galveston rendered the other officers
of the regiment banquet before they
separated forever.
Col. Richie. who organized the Texas
immunes and who commanded them,
will take his place in the regular
army. He will have charge of the
Galveston Office of the United States
engineers as he bad at the breaking
out of the war. He will rank as cap
tain in the engineering service.
One of Ell Paso's leading aldermen
is wearing buttoohOle thermometer
aud on being asked if he was cold Or
warm he SAID that through the KIDD
ness of friend of his he was we'll fixed
to tell the temperature during the
oming winter. NO" he said, II wa.
given that by one of the defea'ed can
d dates who said be was afraid to wear
it any longer as he had had chill
ever since the night in the second ward
when be was showed under, and il b.
wore the thermometer the mercury IN
il woul d go down in the bulb and ex-
plode."
J. Fewson Smith, chief engineer of
the r. G. S. M. & P. railway, who will
in short time build the barrow gauge
branch line from Casss Grandes, b
distance of eighty miles, into the
mountains, has an envis BILE repu .atioD
ing railways in the spring of 1864 and
mas been engaged in the same line of
work ever eicce His first road was
the Union Pacific, which was alsO
The first great scontinental line.
He aided in constructing that line
from 1864 until its completion, and
has been engaged in doing specia'
work for the road ever sioce. Engi-
neer Smith built the Oregon Short
and many other shorter railways.
His latest work was the Sierra
Madre road with which he is still con-
nected as chief engineer. The narrow
gusRe line to branch off at Casas
Grandes will doubtless require many
difficult engineering feats in its con-
struction and will present many intri-
cate problems to be solved when its
route is stsked out, for the reason that
il will climb among the mountains and
fol ow the tortuous windings of q
mountain stream.
The amount of revenue received by
the state from the telephone compau-
les is not uncomfortable. Accord ng to
an Austin dispatch there are 10 ,495 tel
ephooes in use in Texas ard zach one
Of them pays an annual tax OF % cents
The fol owing data rs to the number OF
telephon 10 use in Texas upon which
tax s are paid, is gathered from the re-
cords on file in the comptroiler's Office.
CuerO, 81; Palestine, 1913: Gatesvile,
60; Buffalo and Centreville, 3; Corsica
ma, 1853; Navasota, rs: Hico, AZ; Jewett
and Leona. Z; Grapeland and Daily
Telegraph Company, 2: Round Noun
sain IS Soons,ss; 49, s soass
western, 1864; Palestine, 1874:
Albany, Is, Abilene, 1871: Eureka Tele
phone Company. Con zales. 10; Leooa.
D. ans Store and Midway. 2: Kirven
Carter, Jr., Buff .lo,3; Gulf Coast Tele
phone COmpary. Cuero, II; Denton, 46;
Bonham. 88: Beaumont, SO; Comanche,
81; Blanco. IL: Bosque, q; Bryan, 179:
NAvasOta, lOO. A total OF lO, 490 tele-
phones.
Justice McKie was called to Canu-
tillO few days ago to marry ayounP
couple. He SAYS he has pronounced
ceremonies hundreds of times at we'd
ding, but that the young girl ut
Canutillo, whom bis words transform
ed into bride, was the prettiest of
them all. His only regret is that the
Jealous young husband obi cted when
he proposed that in large citie>
ma gistrates had formed the
habit of kissing the bride Immediately
after each remony. The young fell
low who had won the girl remarked
that he "wasn't going to stand by and
see no old justice of the peace kiss bis
wife. That he expected to do sll the
kissin' that was done in the family
HIMSELF