El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-20
Sparks From the Enqine.

The E. P. & N. E. are to have thirty
freight cars built at the Buffalo Car
| works.
G. 81. engine No. $50 was yesterday
placed in the back shop to receive a
general over hauling.
The Texas & Pacific are having two
six wheel connected engines built at
| the Rogers Locomotive works.
G. n. caboose No. was ordered into
The repair shop yesterday. 1t will tax e
40 ut two weeks to put it in first-class
shape.
Joe Grant, the popular G. 81. macbi-
mist, is taking lay off until after the
democratic convention which conveues
Monday.
Eight cars of cattle were turned
over TO the Santa Fee yesterday even
ing from the r. G. S. NJ. & P. and
went north today.
An engineer and conductor on the
Las Vegas division of the Santa Fe
have been suspended ten days for run
ming through a split switch.
E. c. HouRh,on, foreman of the Ser
"a Madre cattle company, was in the
city yesterday. He is looking after
rates on cattle shipments out of this
point.
Engineer Hammer. of the 5. P, has
returned from q ten months visit in
the east and reported for duty. He
had many friends here to welcome him
home.
Carl Eunis, the Santa Fe ticket agent;
was showing some of his friends yester-
day What Happened To Jones"
They ali agreed that Jones had
kick" coming.
The twin tanks recently constructed
by the G. n. are being connected with
the group OF wells recently sunk by
that company. By the use of these
tanks il is Intended 10 purify the Wa
ter used on this end of the line.
Five car loads of Mexican oranges
came in over the Central last nig b I
aud were shipped to various points out
of here. These oranges are said TO be
anger than usual and plenty of them
10 central Mexico.
The ladies of the Brotherhood of Lo-
conceive Engineers of Albuquer que
re working hard to make their com
i ne bail and supper a success on Octo-
Der 26. 1t is sure to be a very pleas
ant affair, for the ladies never do any
thing by halves.
A Gutierrez, a prominent orange
shipper of Mexico, was in the city yes
te rday for a short time and went north |
over the Santa Fe to Chicago. He
says there is @ great demsnd for Mex |
can oranges in this country and that |
the object of his visit to Chicago is pos
ii ole to Increase the demand. He will |
return in about two weeks.
The Santa Fe depot at Hoenes.
Colo, a small station near Trinity, |
was broken into and the safe blown |
open ard robbed, som time Friday |
night. Special Agent Frank III srris |
and Auditor Conrad went north on |
No. - Saturday morning, to investi- |
gate the matter and take steps to bring |
the guilty parties to justice.-Las We
gas Optic.
Yesterday was a severe day in the |
yards. The wind carried al |
most everything through the air that |
loose on both ends and the faces of |
the boys last night looked very much |
as if they had enjoyed pay day. To |
-ay it. was bad day would not express |
il severe enough and to cay that the !
day WAS simply horrible comes but !
very little closer to expressing the ex-
act conditions.
. Track Boss Johns, OF the Santa E'e, |
has received orders not to send any
moro laborers out along the Santa Fe !
line from this point. 1t was Mr..
Johns's desire to employ American
Ia borers and send them to any point
where the company needed them, but
the buns smelled the pie, and received |
res transportation on a pretense of
going to work, but when the work was
re ached the buns keep on going and,
Of soarss. poor Johns was 70 blame