El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-16

The recent election in Yuma for the
erection of new school building re-
suited in the defeat of the proposition
by two votes.-EXchange.
If Hon. A. L. Morrison, collector OF
internal revenue, will send his Arizona
deputy, Senator McCullum, with
bundle of stamps down this way, he
will oblige all Tucson Tucson Star.
Articles of incorporation of the
Standard Quarrying and Construction
Company at Phoenix with Q capital
stock Of 81 ,0OO. 900, were filed in the
Office of the county recorder yester-
day.
Mons Ellington will SOW fifty acres
to sorghum near Temple. BE has 300
acres of q third crop of alfalfa to cut,
but can get no one to do the work on
account of the heat.-Phoenix Repub-
lican.
Court Commissioner Emanuel heard
the case of the Mexican who was ar
rested for smuggling and bound the
prisoner over te appear before the
next U. S. grand jury.-Tobstone Pros
pector.
II. L. Chandler of Mesa appeared be-
fore the council with q twenty-five
year franchise permitting him to erect
aud operate an electric light system in
the town of Tempe.-Phoenix Re-
publican.
Peaches are coming into the Phoe-
nix market in large quantities, and
local dealers report that they are be-
ing shipped all over the southwest
and make very gratifying COMPARE
son with the California fruit.-Ex-
change.
AS hitherto noted according to the
new ruling of the secretary of the in
terror, all applications for U. S. pat
ents for mining claims must be accom-
panied by an affidavit that $500 worth
of work has been expended on each
claim.-Tom bstone Prospector.
The government is reducing the GUS
toms force in all the customs districts.
In Ell Paso district they have cut the
expenses 81 600 per annum by reduc-
ing the number of employees. in No
gales district q reduction of 50, 600 has
been made Tombstone Prospector.
A magnificent new theater is to be
built at San Cristobsl de las Casas.-
Two Republics.
The program for the celebration of
the French national feast day in this
city will include bicycle races.-Two
Republics.
The large building now being erect
ed near the citadel for the use of the
medical faculty is rapidly nearing COM
pletion.-Telegram, Mexico City.
The American Surety bank has
added another prominent capitalist
and local business man to its list of
Observation-Disclosures, Mexico City.
The tax on priests, ministers, etc..
just imposed in the interior has been
collected for twenty-three years in
Tamaulipss.-Hers Mexico City.
At Monterey on Friday an unknown
American, staggering drunk through
the streets, fell and fractured his skull,
causing his death.--Herald, Mexico
City.
Last week Dona Paula Cauich of
Merida celebrated her los birthday,
Her sight Is q little dim, but otherwise
she is hale and hearty.-Herald, Next |
co City.
It is rumored that q young man en-
ployed in one of the banks at Mazatlan
in Sinaloa has absconded with IS, 900 |
of the funds of the institution..Two
Republics.
The railroad boys, ia this meek of |
the woods" have all been paid off for |
the month of June, and, in couse-
quence, are happy lot of men.-Two |
It is reported that the Masonic grand |
lodge is negotiating for an old church |
building in this city, with view to re-
modelling it into q temple.-Telegram,
Mexico City.
Feliz Anguero celebrated bandit |
iplicated in the assault on Mi
randa, who escaped with the rest of
the prisoners from the Huegotzingo
iail has been recaptured.