El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-03

Company F, of the 25th regiment,
stationed at Fort Bsyard, is to 60 to
the Philippines with the regiment in
the middle of June.-Exchange.
John Griffin, a we'll known citizen of
Gallup, committed suicide in his room
last Saturday morning by cutting his
throat with q razor.-New Mexican.
O. p. McMains who died at Stone
wall, Colorado, was the owner and
editor of the first paper published at
Ration, "The Ration Guard. "-Ex-
change.
A lime and cement company has
been organized at Las Vegas with
and Charles Trombley secretary.-Ex-
1ange.
All delinquent taxes for 1895 and
1897, paid after March 10th, 1899, go to
the county funds, and one-half to the
general school fund.-Albu
Citizen.
The Alamogordo Improvement Com
pany will erect q summer kitchen on
the summit of the mountain and will
run q stage line from Toboggan to the
hotel.-Exchange
The Las Vegas military band has
ty-foot American flag by the employees
of the superintendent's, train masters,
and dispatcher's Offices of the Santa Fe
Ry, at that place.-Roswell Record.
Hillsboro offers a free site for the
home for old and disabled miners
which the Western Federation of min
ers proposes to build. Sites for the in
stitution have also been offered in
Utah, Colorado and Nevada.-San Mar
cial Bee.
At q. recent meeting of the county
commissioners of Lincoln county, the
county's finances were gone over aud
total Indebtedness of S67 900 was as
certained, for which the counties of
Chaves and Otero will have to bear
their pro rate.-EXchange.
Burglars broke into q blacksmith
shop at Gallup on Wednesday of last
week, securing drills and hammers,
after which they entered q grocery
store but secured no booty. They then
entered the saloon OF MOrelo Bros,
broke open the safe and escaped with
So ,O0O.- Citizen.
Several farmers from Greeley, Colo,
have gone to Alamogordo to establish
stock, agricultural implements and
seed potatoes. They have been en-
gagged in this branch of farming in
Colorado. The soil of the Sacramento
mountain farms yields q large tonnage
of potatoes per acre, 1900 pounds be-
ing the estim ate.-San Marcial Bee.
Mexico.
American drummers, who have
visited the chief cities of Mexico, re-
port having received larger orders for
summer goods than during any pre-
vious spring month--The Oasis.
A cave has been discovered in the
state of Sinaloa filed with bones sup
posed to be the remains of Spanish re-
fugees during the war of independence.
The authorities are taking steps to
give them q decent burial.-Exchange
The Mexican government has issued
its first agricultural report. Wheat,
corn, rice and barley in the order
named are the principal products. The
total value of all four in 1897. the year
covered by the report, was $113, $780,
S51.-Exch.
Demetrio Meta, q youth barely 81
years of age, has been sentenced to
death for murder. Evidence at the
trial showed that the accused had
taken six lives, during his short
| career, before the one for which he
was tried.
At Torreon a new cotton mill has
been put up. The company has $500,
900 capital. The mill has 500 looms
and employees some 800 or 200 opera
tives. 1t is lighted by electricity.
lights.
Minister of war, Gen. Felipe B. Ber-
riozabal, will order in q few days three
brigades of the Mexican army into the
country and practice some maneuvres.
The brigades will be commanded by
Gems. Eugenio Rascon. Jose B. Cueto
and Col. Lauro Villar.-Monterey
Globe.
Mexico. An agency is being establish
ed for the purpose of furnishing relia-
BILE servant girls from the interior, il
being q notorious fact that the average
householder is afraid to trust the ser.
wants. male or female, raised in this
city.-Two Republics.
| Wednesday evening last as nearly
as can be judged, about half past six,
Professor p. A. Borge. the we'll known
musician, committed suicide in the
American Hotel on the corner of Gante
and San Francisco streets by shooting
himself in the right temple with q
pistol.-Mexican Herald.
Trusts have not yet reached Mexico,
but we shall probably not be long be-
hind the procession. There are now
several Americans at work on a scheme
that promises to make a combine OF
one of our most important industries.
The government has yet time to inter-
fere and should do so.--Exchauge.
At Pilares de Teras a man tried to
get his children from his wife on &C.
count of unfaithfulness. Going tic