El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-09

900 year.
Two car loads of cattle arrived over
the Santa Fe yesterday for j. j. Mundy
of this city. They were shipped from
Elgin, Illinois.
Engineer Geo. Stead, who has been
enjoying q vacation for The past few
DAYS, returned to work this morning
feeling much better.
Mrs. w. w. Deaton wife of the T. P.
br akemsn, will leave tomorrow for
Bryan, Texas, where she will visit re-
Iatives for the next few months.
Tom Williams, of the Santa Fe
shops, left yesterday for Santa ROsalia
health. He will be gone about q
month.
~The San ia Fe depot at this point is
badly in n eed of several coats of paint.
1t is beginning to look more like land
mark than passenger depot of first
class road. COR
The gross receipts of the interoceau-
ic for the week ending October 18th,
1898, were S62, $50. 80 against s55, 2l5. 10
for the corresponding week in 1897.
Increase, S7,337.11. -
Fireman Will Dullnie, of the South
for several months with injuries sus-
tanned in a wreck at LanRtry, expects
to resume his run this week, SAYS the
San Antonio Light. lsir
The Santa Fe flyer reaches Albuquer-
! que, going east, Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays, and going west Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays. These
flyers leave Chicago and Los Angeles
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Satur-
days. 7sa3
The approximate earnings of the
! Mexican Central, whole system, for the
4th quarter of October were $40. 6S5. 90
| against $3.50: 6l9 90 for the correspond
| ing period of 1897, making an increase
! of So, OS6 90. The total increase for
the month amount to $40, $4,000.
The passenger department of the
Cotton Belt has issued the following:
"All quarantine regulations have been
raised at all points except Pollock,
La. and Shreveport, La, which points
have quarantined against infected
points in Louisiana and Mississippi.
D. A. Keller, whose duty it is to look
after the heating stoves of the Santa
Fe, was in the city yesterday. The
boys in the depot greeted him with
loud applause as it has been uncomfort-
ably chilly these mornings without a
fire. He will fix up all the stoves on
this end of the line.
G. Peterson, G. II. carpenter, be-
came tired of landlords some time ago
and concluded that he'would buy a lot
and build a house of his own. This he
did and yesterday he had the extreme
pleasure OF moving his family and fur
niture into his own building. He built
handsome cottage on ST Vrain street
and the landlords can no longer bother
him.
The rev passenger track which is
being constructed by the G. II. along
their line from the depot one mile
west. Is fast nearing completion: Yes
terday q force was busy connecting the
new line With the main line short dis
lance east of Oregon street. This track
is to be used exclusively for passenger
trains.
The E. P. & N. E. mountain climber
was placed in the G. b. repair chop
yesterday again. An attempt was made
to take her to the front Monday, but,
they had gone but short ways when |
they became convinced that she was
still unfit for service at the front She |
was placed in the shop yesterday and |
workmen began at once to entirely |
change the form of her tank truck.
The new schedule for the California |
flyer has been put into effect and is the |
fastest long distance schedule ever at |
tempted by any railroad in the west,
and the road is being put in shape to
make this fast time with perfect safe
ty. The stockholders of the Santa Fe
are to be congratulated on the fact
that these vast improvements are be-
ing paid for out of the earnings of the
company. Democrat.
President E. P. Ripley and Vice
President Paul Morton, of the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe, came in from Cali
forpia last night, where they had been
the past few weeks on very important
railroad deals which have already been
published in The Citizen. These two
distinguished railway officials were
met here last night by J. J. Frey, gen.
eral manager; II. U. Nudge, general
superintendent, and J. E. Hurley, divi-
sion superintendent, who came in from
the north. The whole party continued
north last night. -Albuquerque Citi-
zen.
An ). z. brakeman on the incoming
passenger train monday, fell from the
platform of one of the coaches when
the train was near the smelter and was
compelled to walk to town. Just how
he happened to fall he himself is not
able to tell. Sam Galladay, a G. II.
switchman, says that there was very
strong wind blowing Monday, and that
it Is altogether probable that the
brakeman was not heavy enough to
withstand it's force, and in consequence
was blown off the platform into the
ditch.
There will be q big crowd to attend
the ball game at AlamOgordo on
| Thanksgiving day between the Ell
Psso and Alamogordo teams. Sam
l Bridgers, acting agent ct the E. p. &
N. E. depot is making an effort to have
the road run An excursion to Alamo
gordO on that day. Mr.. Bridgers, who