El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-16

could be depended upon to do thei
share in assisting the Fourth of Jul
celebration They want ent rely to
much money - he said: ''One thou
sand dollars. l think, would BE- plenty
We should have some good speakers
tell the people for what purpose the
are celebrating. | should think Rand
ed I'D, for q general good time. I wan
tt see celebration on the Fourth b.
all means, AMI will do all 1 can +
I help it along"
A telegram received in this city yes
/ terday by Mrs. T. G Beck, at 72O Nortl
Campbell street, stated that her hus
band had been injured in a wreck OF
the S. P. out of Los Angeles. Fur
Their developments proved that Mr.
Beck had sustained a broken arm an(
wrist in q wreck which occurred Sun
day morning. Mr.. Beck is we'll known
| in Ell Paso, having railroaded out o
here for IL years. He is at presen
braking on an s. P. branch road out o.
Los Angeles.
When an east bound freight, il
charge of Conductor Adkins, was with
in ten miles of Ell Paso yesterday after
neon q Janney coupler pulled out Of
one of the cars and fell under. The
heavy coupler succeeded in stripping
five of the cars of their brake-rigging
but did not derail any of them. How
the cars remained on the track was
spected them in the G. H. yards. They
contend that the company would not
get off SO lucky once in thousand
times.
Master Mechanic De Young of the Ell
n ooi6. GEL Pasn
must have acelebration on the Fourth
and good one, but think the COM
mittee want too much money. 1 think
81. 900 would go long ways for q grand
celebration. 1 am heartily inefavor of q
celebration and am willing to assist
in every way possible can"
Judge Walthall refused to grant the
injunction prayed for by the G. a..
people against the E. P. & N. E. and
work on the latter's roundhouse and
turntab BILE will be resumed at once. 1t
was predicted when this trouble came
up th at the matter would result in the
G. II. paying the court costs and the E..
P. & N. E. resuming work.
Mr.. Morris, of Durango. Colorado.
has secured the tie contract on the 20
mile extension of the E. p. & N. E.
railroad into the Sacramento noun
tains and left for Alamogordo yester-
day morning. He will use Al teams
and 20 mon on the work. Mr.. Morris
was in Ell Paso Monday rustling for
men.
Tom Holland has secured the con-
tract for the erection of the new e. P.
& N. E. depot. The structure will be
built ON the northeast corner of St.
Vrain and st. Louis streets and will be
Sc by 80 feet. Work will be commence
ed as soon as the filling-in is completed
which will be some time next week.
c.. M. Robertson, of the G. H.,
suggests that good speakers should be
secured for the Fourth of July cele-
bration. GOOD takers" he said. "wi b
an old time bsrbecure would prove
much more satisfactory than to see
several hundred dollars go up in
smoke.''
Geo. Stead, who received q badly
sprained ankle twelve days ago by
falling from bis engine, reported for
work yesterday. The injury is not en-
tirely we'll but sufficiently so to allow
Mr.. Stead to return to his old post 1t
the throttle of the 767.
Freight engines coming from Lords
burg to Ell ,Paso will consume 1900
pounds of coal while engines coming
from Valentine to Ell Pa.o will con-
eume 10000 pounds. LordsburR is 148
miles from here and Valentine ISL.
The approximate earnings of the
Mexican Central, whoie system for the
lst quarter of June were S266 ,OO1 90
against S25o 500. 600 for the correspond
ing period of 1897, making an increase
of a., 10000.
The militia trains which passed
here last week are headed
east empty. A train of twelve coaches
arrived here yesterday and two more
trains were over due.
The machin1sts and boilermakers of
the G. II. have been reduced to nine
hours work . day. All other depart
ments are, as yet. working ten hours.
A party consisting of c. B. Eddy, II.
B. Simpson, and W. G. Parke will
make a tour of inspection over the E.
P. & N. E. tomorrow.
Two hundred and fifty car loads of
dirt will beSrequired to fill in for the
Of the extension to the new
T. P. coal shutes.