El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-04-27

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Flavin Lane is engineer at tho Sierra
Madre machine shops on the oths
side.
The Mexican Northern road has just
applied the ''Chain gang" system, and
the employees are complaining.
Business is picking up on the San
ia Fe, and all available cattle cars are
being hurried south for use.
Central Pacific box car No. 1878,
which was taken from the wreck of the
Saldim train Sunday, is now in the S.
/ p. yards in q badly dilapidated condi-
ton.
Three weeks ago" said stockman
y. s.erdsy, there were $50 cattle buy
ers in Ell Paso, and now you can find
but very few.
Price, knight, and Hopkins, o. Pueb-
10, Colorado, are arranging with the
Santa Fe for large shipment Of Mex
lean stock over that line.
! Badly" character with the White
Oaks road was in town yesterday loud
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road. "Baldy" says work is being
pushed as rapidly as possible in all
departments.
The S. P. is now pumping from six
| wells, Campbell force having made
the connection this morning. Well No.
3reached a depth of 119 feet today, and
will in all probability be complet-
ed tomorrow.
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market at present, said a railroad m an
this morning, " so cheap, in fact that big
investors cannot afford to pay any price
for fatteaing them.'' They are fat
tened on the drippings OF steers.
The Southern Pacific has given no.
tice through the Southern freight
bureau at ST. Louis of its inten tion to
advance New York-Galveston and
Houston freight rates, effective May q
First class rate to Houston will be 81
cents for 100 pounds, AMI to Galveston
so cents per 100 pounds, as against 81
cents and 30 cents per 100 pounds, the
present rate. All other classes will
undergo CORES ponding increases.
The G. 81. has no railroad physician
between Ell Paso and Del Rio, dis
deplored by G. 81. employees in that
section. One of the employees, with a
badly LAGER ated hand, was compelled to
come 500 miles for treatment. There
is an individual representing the road
in this capacity at Alpine, but it is
asserted he is not thoroughly educated
in his profession, and therefore not a
safe man to trust an injury with.
! Speaking of the "chain gang" sys-
tenn, an engineer said yesterday
"The Pennsylvania roads have devised
a.
ply the ''chain gang" system
with perfect safety. The Pennsylva-
mia roads employ an inspector, whose
duty is to thoroughly inspect all en-
gines when they enter the shop. He
must test all the steam connections
and is entirely responsible for defects
on the engine when it leaves the shop
for road service. The idea is good
one and works to the satisfaction of all
concerned"
| Much has been said 10 the papers of
late regarding the construction of the
G. V, G. 81 N. (Gila Valley, Globe &
Northern) railroad in Arizona and
many doubted its completion. Never
theless, there arrived over the S. P.
i late yesterday afternoon two Baldwin
engines, Nos. and 4. for the G.. ", G.
& N. railroad: The engines, while
lightly constructed and disfigured to a
certain extent with "Mother Hubbard"
smoke stacks, are none the less service
able. They will be shipped to Arizona
tonight.
| In response to a question about the
war, a railroad man yesterday remark
ed rather emphatical y: 1--WE are al
ways at war-much worse than the
Spanish and Americans are at present.
! When we have peace declared in one
depar' ment, hostilities develop in the
other. The wounded and dead are be-
/ ing carried from our battle fields every
! day and excite but little sttentiOn-we
are slaves, they are soldiers. We are
/ fghti- battle for the existence of
our loved ones at home, while the SOL
diers are fighting for the freedom of a
less burdened class.
| Kansas newspapers are being asked
by the ma agement of The Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe to tell Of the faith
that is in them rs to the advan'as yes of
Kansas as land of promise for would
be settlers. They are each asked to g We
a column editorial telling why people
ought to locate in Kansas, what can be
done with Kansas lands, what they are
selling for approximately and what
other vOcations besides farming can be
successfully prosecuted in the town or
county where the paper is published
The management of the road, through
Vice-President Paul Morton, agrees to
take the most suitable of these editor