El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-17

Dallas in Mr. Thorne's private car,
where, in accordance with Mr.. Sinners
owing request, Miss AlOiae was left a.
the palacial residence IF General Man
ager Thorae. where che will parman-
emily reside amid all the luxuries that
love and wealth can provide. Mr..
Stiner made this last request as an
evidence of his high regard for the
general manager, which had been de-
veloped by % years of association. In
its account of the funeral the Daily
Texarkapa says: His worth and
standing with the road, and his BROTH
err locomotive engineers, can better be
stated by saying that fully fifty locomo-
tive engineers came here from dis
lance to attend his funeral. In add1-
ton to the engineers, many conductors
and brakemen were on hand to heap
co.'s upon the last resting place of this
good man. General Manager L. S.
Thorne of Dallas, and Superintendent
Lige Campbell of Marshall, were both
here to attest to the esteem in which
they held the dead engineer
When approached on the appoint
ment OF a supe-intendent of termina ls
yesterday r. P. official said: 81 don't
know whether the appointment will be
made tomorrow or whether it will be
made at all. One guess is just about
as safe IS the other. If the company
can see that they can abolieh the Office
no appointment will be made" 'Wbo
In your judgment will receive the ap
pointment should the company con-
clude to continue the Officer" was
asked. "You ask hard questions, he
said with q broad smile. There are
SO many after the place that it would
not be safe to even make q guess.
There is Jack Canady. He has been
with the road for 16 years and knows
every inch of it. He, I understand,
has asked for the place, but whether
he will get it or not is a question. l
will mention another aspirant for the
place, Engineer Perkins, who it is said
stands high in the estimation of Thorne
and is whispered as the next superin-
tendent of terminals should the place
be filed. Then there is Engineer
johnson. He would feel highly hon
ored over his appointment to the place
and is not losing any time in his efforts
to secure it. He is also good man
and has been with the company num-
Der of years. Then, there is Engineer
Baker of the Fort Worth division. He
has applied for the place and would
make first class man should he secure
point and the Lord only knows how
many applications have been sent in
from the east end divisions" When
asked when the appointment would be
made, he said that was another ques-
ton, hard to answer. s"The place may
be filled Saturday and it may not be
filled for ten or twelve days. There
are so many applications in that it will
be hard for Mr.. Thorne to select from
the list.''
The people of Tennessee are to be
congratulated on the fact that the
effort to make an issue between the
federal. and state courts, for political
effect, in the matter of assessments for
taxes OF corporate property has failed
most signally. The supreme court OF
the state was showed on at Nash
vile. and again at jackson, in suits
brought by private citizens, to have
the court pass upon the law and the
facts embodied in the assessments of
the railroad. telegraph and tele-
phone properties, now pending in the
United States court of appeals on sp-
peal from the lower United States
court, where the decision was favor
able to the corporation contention of
unequal assessment. At Nashville
the state supreme court refused to ad
vance the cases brought on the ground
that no public interest demanded such
a course, and at Jackson the court dis
missed similar suits on the ground
that the parties bringing them had
failed to first make complaint aud file
protest before the boards of equalizers
of their respective counties, as requir-
ed by law. The result is that the rail-
the federal court, there to be deter
mined on the questions of fact and con-
-titutional law, which have been ably
and exclusively presented by the at
tOrneys on both sides of the issue. This
is we'll. 1t is wise from every stand
point, for the cases would have gone to
their final hearing in the United States
courts, in any event, and issues be-
tween state and federal courts invol-
dangerous to the prosperity and even
he peace Of the people.-Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
A special to the New York CONNER
.ial says: The Milwaukee Electric
Railway and Light company extension
to Waukesha Beach, a distance of over
20 miles from the city limits, will be in
operation between June Is and 20.
This is the assurance of Manager
George l. Begg, who said today that
when the running of the line is begun,
cars will be sent straight through
from Kenoshs to Waukesha Beach, -
distance of over 60 miles, making this
line the longest continuous electric
line in the world. The Kenosha line is
already the longest in the United
States, being over 25 miles in length,
in a straight line. The Milwaukee,
company is now building power house
| that is to have q capacity of Is, 900
horsepower and to cost S450,0O0 The