El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-04-28

Twenty empty ore cars were
Drought down from the smelter yes
serdsy.
Eighteen cars loaded with Coxey's
cattle un.Oaded at the Santa Fe stock
yards yesterday.
Thirteen cars of cattle went north on
the Santa Fe last night and Is cars
went north this morning.
S. P. engice 1890, was brought in
from the.Ssturday night wreck with her
pi OF. boiier-front and the casing of her
cylinders badly damaged.
Work was stopped on the S. P.
round house yesterday to await the ar
fival of castings, which should have
been here several days ago.
Engine 1S43, of the S. P, was
brought from the wrecked soldier
rain in q condition much the same rs
the 1880 Machinists were busy yester-
day.
The Santa Fe railway company will
hold open jobs for all of it's employees
who enlist IN the war. An order to this
effect has been agreed upon and will be
issued at once.
L. M. Donnelly recently with the s.
p. in the capacity of fireman, left this
morning for Pueblo, Colorado. Mr.
DOnnelly has many friends in Ell Paso
who greatly regret his departure.
w. G. Nelcher, in charge of the T.
P. STOCK yards, said yesterday that the
L. T. is at present rushed with cattle,
most OF them coming from southern
Texas to be turned over to the Santa
Fe n shipment north.
The Santa Fe will shortly erect q
high pressure water tank, of 81, 900 gal
Ions Capacity. Should the necessary
material arrive for its construction, by
the lime the shutes are completed,
Mr.. Slope will superiteod the
work.
1t is stated now in railroad circles
that the soldier special III t collided
Saturday night last with the west
bound freight was really seven minutes
ahead of time, which explains the
freight's not being able to get onto the
siding before the special showed up.
D. A. Slope, with force of ten men
is putting IN six new automatic coal
shutes for the S. F. in their yards
here. They are the White & Williams
make and serve the purpose for which
they are intended, re narkably we'll.
1t will take Mr.. Slops until the mid
ole OF next week to complete the
work.
Two car loads of fine mules we're in
the s. F. stock yards yesterday. They
were transferred to the Mexican Cen
tral and taken to Chihuahua to be used
in the construction of the new c. g. P.
railroad. The mules are in the best
condition, which fact was evidenced by
the unnecessary activity of their hind
laOS which thnu froo1.,
least provocation.
President Burt has taken the Union
Paciic's hospital fund, amounting to
nearly 5000, 900, and invested the same
in United States bonds, which will be
disposed of and the proceeds used in
REIN burslng the employees. The fund
has been accommodating for the last
twenty-five years The Union Pacific
recently abandoned its assessment plan
to sustain it's hospitals.
John NJ. Hammer, boss of the COM
pressed air engine ut the Santa Fe
shops, is highly elated over the pros
poets of having q new boilers for hi
engine soon. The boilers is already in
position, and, upon the arrival OF q
larger stack, will be prepared for use.
The present boiler is Comparatively
new, but deficient in capac ty.
The t. 2. was flying flag over its
sto k yards yesterday and in answer to
a quest ion as to the cause of it being
placed there, a voice, rather stern,
said: "YOu see the cattle in the yards
under that flag. Well, that's an Amer
lean flag and hey are American cattle
They were purchased in America and
be sold in America. No Mexican
bones in that herd. Oh, no."
One OF the new strsiners for the S. P.
wells was placed at the bottom of No.
ibis morning. 1t was purchased fro m |