El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-06
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the same cause The thermometer, so
IL Is said, showed l35 on Wedn esday
which, according To Sam Jones, Is ten
degrees hotter than Sheol.-Williams
News.
The funeral of n. j. Taylor, the un.
fortunate fireman who was killed while
on duty near Benson last Sunday morn
ing, took place last evening about sun.
down. Cactus lodge Il. l.. +. turned
out "a large delegation to pay respect 10
the deceased, the members marching
to the cemetery, there performing the
last sad rites. Star.
Judge Purcell has about recovered
from the effects OF the tarantula bite in
his neck. He was bitten rather more
than three weeks ago and the neck is
somewhat sore. The bite was at no
time followed by the intense pain in
cident to scorpion sting but was more
of the numbing and weakening order
Tucson Citizen.
The readers OF the Argus will likely
remember that Valentine Nicholas was
bitten by skunk about three months
ago at his camp near Heber, and came
TO Snowflake to be treated, leaving sp-
parently well. On the Fourth, while
at Heber, he suddenly took worse, and
was brought to Snowflake Friday
serious case OF hydrophobia. -HolbroOk
Argus.
In the wreck of the pay car near Ben
SON Sunday the fireman, a. j. Taylor,
was killed instead of wounded, as re-
ported In the Prospector. The unfor-
tunate fireman was pinioned under the
wreck and burned to a crisp. Engineer
Walker was scalded and Conductor
Crowder suffered internal injuries. The
money box of the pay car containing
$4,000 was recovered before the car
burned up.-Tombstone Prospector.
On one OF /. Z. Solomon's ranches
about five miles above Solomouville,
he harvested 122 sacks of wheat from
six acres OF land. The sacks weighed
on an average 40 pounds each, a total
1850, pounds for the six acres, or
2,S46 pounds per acre. This is q
splendid yield. The land lying above
Solomonville distance OF nine miles
cannot be beat when it comes to pro-
ducing big crops.-Solomonville
News.
There was 81 700 in the till of the pay
car at the time IT was burned Sunday.
This was melted by the heat of the car.
Much of the bullion was afterwards
found by the officers of the company,
and the gold will be sent to the mint
for recoinage. That they did not find
IL all was evidenced by prisoner in
the recorders court this morning. He
had about four pounds of the melted
metal on him when arrested. 1t was
turned over to the S. L. COMPANY
Tucson Citizen.
When Attorney General Frazier was
returning from a visit to the coast last
week he rode on u train conveying the
officers and crew of the Hamburg liner
which the United States bought before
the war and which had just been de-
livered at San Francisco. The officers
were all Germans and occupied a Pull
man. The crew was an aggregation OF
representatives OF eight nationalitiss.
There were Egyptians, Turks, Mslays,
African negroes and other strange
people. The attorney general attract
ed the attention of the Turks by his
badge rs Shriner, the star and cres-
cent. They gathered in front OF him
and salaamed prodigiously until their
foreheads almost touched the floor.
They evidently mistook him for Allah
or maybe only :pasha.-Phoenix Re-
publican.