El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-15
ARIZONA.

ARIZONA.
County Treasurer Murray yesterday
turned into the territorial treasury
SO, 565 IA. the territory's share of the
taxes in this county.-PhoeniX Repub-
lican.
| Rev. Lapsley McAffee, of Parkville,
Missouri, has been appointed to take
charge of the Presbyterian churches at
Solomonville and Safford.-Phoenix
Republican.
Judge A. o. Noyes, of Prescott, died
on the LIST inst, aged seventy-twO years.
He came to Arizona in "a and brought
the first sawmill to the country
Tombstone Prospector.
On Monday articles of incorporation
were fled with the board of supervis-
ors with petition praying for q charter
for telephone line through the ella
| valley.-Phoenix Republican.
The proverbial 'tall man and short
man." disguised by handkerchiefs tied
owes their faces, hold up the FreelSil-
yer Saloon in Globe last week and es-
capped with about S6O0.-TombstOne
ProspectOr.
+ Sam Harris, conductor of the M. &
P, left last night for California on a
two months vacation. Walter Porter
will have charge of his run in his alb
sence. Phoenix Republican.
A wreck on the S. P. near Tucson
WAS the cause of the non-arrival of the
western mail July 18th. The engine
struck q cow on the track which csus-
ed general destruction of the entire
train.-Tombstone PROPRIETOR.
A Phoenix newspaper day or two
ago informed suffering and sinstrick-
en- world that General Shafter had de-
manded of General Toral, military
commandant at Santiago. IAN urcOn-
| stitutiOnal sure der.'-PhOenix Re
publican,
John Hill, Jr., of Thatcher left for
Los Angeles last Thursday on business.
alfalfa hay to a Los Angeles firm, who
had refused to receive it, making the
claim that the hay was of inferior
quality.-Phoenix Republican.
MEXICO.
The southeastern portion of the city,
the home of the very poorest classes,
is inundated by the backing up of the
sewers--Two Republics.
Escondida street is to be raised y
inches before being repaved, after the
completion of the sewer construction
in that street.-Two Republics.
July 7.-English steamer ''Vala"
cleared from Tampico with 5000 tons
cargo, received from points on the line
of the Central rs;lwsy.-Evening Tele-
| gram.
Captain R. f. Comfort of the Cuer-
navaca line, came in last night from
kilometer 81, where he has been camp
ing out with some friepds.-Two Re-
publics.
General r. Martinez, chief military
commander of the port of Veracruz,
arrived in this city last night and is
quartered at the Hotel Jardin.-Two
Republics.
Hamburg and American line steam
err Canada" arrived at Tampico with
300 tons cargo, destined to points on
the line of the Central railway
gram, Mexico City.
w. E. Sawyer, secretary of the Mex
lean Land and Coffee company, which
has recently purchased $4,000 acres of
land on the Isthmus of Tehuante-
pee, expects to leave for Milwaukee,
Wis, tomorrow to be absent for about
three months. Republics.
! President Diaz and staff, together
| with Gen. Clayton, NJ. P. Boss. T. w.
IsWampler and few others, went this
! morning to the canyon inst back on the
| MolinO del Rey, to witness the test of
| the new dynamite shell recently in
vented by Willard S. Isham, of this
!, city.
| The president and minister of war
gave approval of the test. The can
non used was an eight inch bore, old
style, charged with fifteen pounds of
powder. The dynamite shell contain
ed seventeen pounds of nitrO-glycerine
and dynamite The target was huge
pile of earth and stone, about $50 yards
distant.
| When the shell containing the high
/ explosive struck the mound of stone,
| etc, it exploded with terrific force,
demOlishing everything within a ra-
, dius of some yards. All who witnessed
the test are enthusiastic over the iu-
vention of Mr.. acknowledgement,
,, Mexico City.