El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-04-21
BRIEF LOCALS.

| The Tucson elks are to have new
hall.
Governor Atkinson will lead the
Georgia troops himself at the front
TIE current topics club was enter
tanned yesterday by Mrs. T. j. Beall
Twenty soldiers deserted from the
Preside lately because of fear OF yell
low fever il ordered to Cuba.
The Faulkner celery farm near Eddy
produced nearly $4,000 worth of celery
last year at a net profit of $4,000.
Mrs. W. P. Inness has so far reco-
vered from her protracted illness TT at
she is able to be about once more.
British officers want to enlist in the
U. S. artillery service to give the bet
ter attention to the latest artillery in
action.
Two robbers held up the stage yes
terday between Geronimo and Globe.
They robbed the mail bags and the
passengers.
John Connors, janitor at the court
bouse. and who was JUS: recovering
from long sickspell, was taken with i
relapse yesterday afternoon.
Ben Davis, living near Hopa, Texas,
htl10u 6iAtOSu IOOO WotSco IL
one day, for which the PenascO stock
man will pay him q reward of $3.50,
they paying "a bounty of $40 co each
scalp.
The wall paper makers have
strengthened their com binatiop. If
house owners would resolve 10 have
their walls kalsomined instead of pa
pered, the trust would be broken in
six months.
In Toluca, Guadalajara and other
cities the sarcity of drinking water is
apparent as we'll as in the City of Mex
leo. In some places the water is hard
~ sufficient for the assumption of the
citizens.
Oberlin college has been compelled
to close it's doors because of financial
stringen cies. Oberlin ia one of the best
known institutions of learning in the
country, and its closing will occasion
much surprise.
The Bsisdel ranch at Yuma is one
of the finest in Arizona. Mr.. Baisdell
has thirty acres in grapes, same acre
age in apricots, 100 acres in oranges,
thirty in watermelons and much else
to make up fine ranch.
The first U. S. infautry under Col
onel Evan Miles, 500 men, left San
Francisco yesterday afternoon, amid
the che ers OF 200, 900 people, over the
Southern Pacific en- route to New Or
leans, and ought to reach FL Paso to-
morrow night.
Two troops of the 7th cavalry will be
transferred from Fort Bsyard to Fort
Duchesne in Northeastern Utah, and
one company of the 18Th Infantry will
be sent to Fort Logan to care for the
xlo% ~ 60 Z 1t
Thirty men from Fort Grant will be
sent to Fort Sill to guard the Apache
prisoners there.
The apti-cigarette crusade in the
public schools cannot be pushed with
too much vigor, says and exchange. OF
every teacher will impress upon the
boys the absolute fact that cigarette
smoking stunts the physical growth
and in a measure clouds the mind the
youngsters may see reason for quit
ting pernicious thing aside from
obeying somebody's order.
The McGinty cannon made such a
racket yesterday, that the sixth grade
school back of the independent assay
Office bad to be abandoned for the day.
Tie children could not study while the
firing was going on. The cannon loo
ate d on the east side of the hill was too
heavily loaded 10 the afternoon, for
about S12 worth of window class was
shattered in residences in tAat part Of
the town.
Editor Lightfoot of the Sacramento
Chief is in town. He reports that the
advent Of the Dew road has set every
thing to booming up in that country,
end new people are arriving daily.
The track ia laid now for sixty miles,
aud regular trains are in operation
nearly all of that distance. The new
town Of Turquoise has population of
over three hundred. Work has begun
Oh the new branch line of 25 miles into
the Sacramento mountains through the
timber