El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-04-06

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Engines Nos. and were in the
shops yesterday for repairs.
Two members Of the S. P. car de-
par.ment were busy yesterday taking
stock.
Five hundred and three pounds of
mail arrived from the north on vest r.
days Santa Fee train.
White Oaks engine No. was com
pleted yesterday, and sent to the end OF
the line with steel and ties.
bridge connecting the Santa Fe and
Corralitos railroad yesterday.
The T. &..P. irdulged in a general
cleaning up about the shops, and as a
result the place looks very clean.
Two train loads of cattle were in
Santa Fe stock yards yesterday. They
were shipped to Kansas City today.
The boiler at the S P. pump house
| is being removed today. It will be
shipped to Houston TO. a general over
hauling.
c. V. Robinson, a G. H. fireman,
says he lost nis pocket book, Tuesday
night 1t cont.ined-'sa 6Obe dollar"
No reward.
Two train loads IF ca tie came in
over the G. a. yesterday and went
north over the Santa Fe. Destination,
Kansas City.
tits foreign, not domestic ocean
freights that for the PRE- sent, the S. r
company have ceased accepting on &C
count of war risks.
Several hundred head of cattle are
| in the T. P. stock yards to be shipped
to Big Sps logs, Texas. they belong
to Newman Bros. and Nations.
Tbirty-fve cars are in the Santa Fe
| repair sh ps, and Mast-r Car Repairer
T.. Williams says the work is being
pushed as rapidly as poss BILE.
The Santa Fe employ none but
| Americans in their shops and yar1s,
most of the employees having been
with this company many years.
Engineer Taft, of the Santa Fe, who
brought in yesterday g passenger train,
says that icicles were hanging to the
cab of the engine when they reacLe d
Rincon.
Two car loads of fine mules arrived
over the Santa Fe yesterday. They
were s ippe1 TO chihuahua tod az to
be used On Iailroad work. Mr.. Nc
Grew was in charge.
Nose Harrison, q west end engineer
on the s. P, pulled q b avy train tn
Ell Paso yesterd-y morning, and saws
| he is deserving q few days lay off,
which he is now enjoying.
general passenger agent of the Central
arrived this morning from the north
| to meet his father. ere continuing
south to the City of Mexico.
John S. Chambers, engineer and
mechsnist for the E. P. & N. r. r.
said yesterday. that the road was ccm-
pleted for so miles, and composed of
| 1.-THE best stock obtainable' all the way
through.
General Manager Nickerson of the
Mexican G ntral, and party, including
E. G. Pew, We t north this morning to
Topeka, Chicago and the east in MIR.
Nickerson's private car.
The old sampling works building,
| near the Santa Fee shops. has been pur-
chased by Buchanan & Powers, and is
being torn down. The engine, from
the old building, is being placed in
Buchanan & Powers mill.
The wives of the general manager
and auditor of the Mexican Central
were held up through q misapprehen-
sion last evening at the bridge. and
searched. Nothing dutiable WAS found
and the ladies con tinued their way to
| this city.
Said Master Mechanic Tom Booth of
the Santa Fee, ''you may say thai the
that it is the only road in Ell Pas o
using compressed ar for coach-cleau-
ing pu poses. An investigation
proved his asser. iou to be true, aud
that the furnaces in the blacksmith
shop were also supplied with this
modern equipment.
In the U. S court today, the court
gave plaintiff leave to file an amended
com plant in the suit for damages of
Mitcheson VS.. the Mexican Central
railway. The defendants demurrer to
plaintiff compl amt was sustained
The damage suit of Edmundson VS..
he Pullman Car company has been
continued until the next term of court
by order of III court.
No Chinese need apply at the Santa
Fe shops for work from no on. The
| detrrmina ion tt discard them was the
Of the company. Thew had two G, ina
men employed at 81 .25 day e.ch in
The shops and, not being satisfied with
their work, discharged them and
placed one American at So day to do
the same work. The change has given
perfect satisfaction.
| Captain John w. Dillep back of bat.
terry K, first artillery, has been COZ
firm ed by the senate as M Ia jor of the
second artillery, and will be transfer
red to Newport, r. l., a much pleasant
err place during the summer season
than southern Texas.