El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-01
The Spectator.

Galveston WAS completed October %.
Before the men we're mustered out
they were paid off. Between $4,000
ano $50, 900 was paid TO the regiment.
Some of the officers, who bad not re-
ceived their certif ates Of uuinde bted-
ness were not paid. Most of the
men were about two months
behind on their salaries and those who
bad not bypothecated their wages to
camp money sharks went home well
heeled. The officers who reside at
Galveston rendered the other officers
of the regiment a banquet before they
separated forever.
Col. Richie. who organized the Texas
imuunes and who commanded them,
will take his place in the regular
army. He will have charge of the
Calves ton 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
aud on being asked if he was cold or
warm be said that through the KIDD
ness OF friend of his he was we'll fixed
to tell the temperature during the
coming winter. NO" he sai6, Il WAS
given that by one of the defea' ed can
dldstes who said be was afraid to wear
| it any longer as he had had q chill
| ever since the night in the second ward
when he was showed under, and if he
wore the thermometer the mercury in
it would go down in the bulb and ex-
plOde."
| j. Fewson Smith, chief engineer OF
the r. G.. S. NJ. 81 p. railway, who will
in short time build the barrow gauge
branch line from Casas Grapdes, a
| distance of eighty miles, into the
4 IL
as railroad builder. He began build
ing railways in the spring of 1864 and
has been engaged in the same line OF
work ever si ce His first road was
| the Union Pacific, which was ALEC
| the first great transcO 1tinenral line.
He aided in constructing that lire
| from 1864 until it's completion, and
| has been eugaged in doing special
work for the road ever Il &c. Engi-
Line. The Rio Graude Yves ern
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
guage line to branch off at Cssas
Graudes will doubtless require many
difficult engineering feats in its con-
struction and will present many intri-
cate problems to be solved when it's
l
| it will climb among the mountains and
| follow the tortuOus windings of q
| mountain stream.
The amount of revenue received by
the state from the telephone compau-
| les is not lucousidersble. Accord ing to
| an Austin dispatch there are 10, 495 tel
| ephOues in use in Texas ard zach one
of them pays an annual tax OF % cents.
A VI. 81 4 L
! telephones In use in Texas upon which
taxrs are paid, is gathered from the re-
cords on file in the comptroiler's Office
| CuerO, 81; Palestine, 12S; Gatesville,
/ 80; Buffalo and Centreville, 3; Corsica.
ns, 1853; Navasota. rs: Hico, AZ; Jewett
and Leona, Z; Grapeland and Daily
Telegraph Company, =; Round Noun.
tain, 8; Gonzsles, -; Hunts
western, 1904; Palestine, 1874
! Albany, Is, Abilene, 127; Eureka Tele-
phone Company, Gonzales, 10; Leons,
Deans Store and Midway. 2: Kirver
Carter, Jr., ffalo,3; Gulf Coast Tele-
phone Company, Cuero, II: Denton, 46
BOnhsm, SO: Beaumont 80; Comanche
"a; Blanco, ~; Bosque, 81; Bryan, 179
Navasota, 100. A total of 10, 495 tele-
phones.
| Juetice MChie Was called TO Canu
tillo few days ago to marry youne
couple. He saws he has pronounced
ceremonies hundreds of times at wed
ding, but that the young girl q
CanutillO, whom his words transform
ed into bride, was the prettiest o
them all. His only regret is that tn
Jealous young husband objected whel
he proposed that in large elite
magistrates had formed til
habit of kissing the bride immediatel
after each ceremony. The young fel
low who had won the girl remarke
that he wasn't going to stand by an,