El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-14


and the following were appointed as
rangers on the Black Mesa reserve.
about fifty miles from Holbrook, Ariz.:
George 81. Bryan, David Penrod,
Joseph Pierce and William Adams.
Mexico.
A sum has been raised by subscrip-
ton to buy San Ignacio town clock.
The American Surety bank of Mex
leo City has dropped the word ''sure-
ty" and is now known as the American
bank.
Quite fight took place last night at
Ameca between men sleeping in the
freight cars at the depot, in which two
we're wounded.
On Sunday the velodrome Chunimo-
polls was inaugurated in Merida with
fitting ceremonies. A large number
OF people attended.
Marcelino Rios, who killed q man
last year with an AK at San Pedro, Tia
quipaque, has been sentenced to 10
years in the penitentiary.
The state treasury of Puebla had q
balance on hand at the commencement
of the present month of S11, 3O4. So after
satisfying all outside claims.
Complaints are being made that the
lights in the Progreso light house are
not as effective as they should be and
that the machinery needs repair.
Noises Guzman. saddler of the
mounted state gendarmes, in .Guadsla-
jura, drew the $1,000 capital prize in
the last drawing of the state lottery.
Sr. Julio Collignon had given a gra-
% ~
and $50 to the company of firemen, who
aided In extinguishing he fire at his
warehouse the other night in Guadala-
jara.
Several of the Cuban families who
left Merida for their leland home, after
the war closed, have returned. They
think that the situation in that place
is more promising, for the present
anyway.
In the 10th section of the city of
Monterrey Sunday night Juana San
chez was found murdered in her room,
with deep stab in her heart. Her
husband, Juan Perez, was arrested as
the murderer.
The Guadalajara city council is en-
forcing the bylaw that compels prop
erty owners to repair the sidewalks.
Ii the owners will not do the work, tho
council does and collects the amount
due, plus fine by law.
At Ameca on Friday evening, all for
the love of some fair lass, two youths,
Emilio Villasenor and Jose Fariae,
went to spot near the bridge and
fought duel with pistols, the first
named having finger shot off.
The state executive of Puebla, in
view of the losses sustained by the COT
fee and vanilla planters in the state,
by the recent frosts, has issued an or
der reducing the taxes for the next two
years Oh all plantations which suffered
from the frosts.
Inc owners OF the steamers Tabas-
queno and Achuantepeo are in tromhIa
because the vessels brought more pas
sengers TO the port O. ersoruz than
were on their register, and this offence
Is severely punished under the marine
sanitary laws.
George M. Smith. q prosnector from,
Colorado, who has been prosnectino
near Bacerac, Sonora, suddenly van
1shed over six weeks ago and ia sun
posed to have been murdered for his
money, OF which be had several hun
dred dollars on his person.
A fire broke out Monday in some
warehouses in Progreso, where LARGE
quantity OF henequen Is stored ready
lor shipment: owing to the high wind
ana extreme dryness of everything the
mia bitants were afraid that the flames
would spread and destroy the entire
towp.
Wednesday night DR.. Francisco Lo-
pei Barreda arrived on the train and |
put up at the Alameda hotel. AS soon
as he had q room he shot himself in the
head and tried to jump off of the bal
'ony with suicidal intent. He was de-
aimed and sent to the hospital. The
wound in his head is not of a verv
grave character.
The governor of the state has We
uesteo the Jefe politico of the canton
II Mlnatltlan to send him as soon as
possible the plans and estimates for
he proposed lszzarette in Coatza-
oalcos, as owing to the increased traf-
&c the government deems it necessary
o have some place wherein to disinfect
he baggage and belongings of passen-l
'ers from districts where Infectious
lsesses may be prevalent.
News has reached here that Enpineerl
ID. Kehoe was killed in a wreck on the
sascon mountain in Mexico. The in
line 1s steep one and from what can
e learned the engine became uncon-
rolable and went tearing Gown the
rade at an awful rate The engine
,rned over and Engineer Kehoe was
initiated almost beyond recognition.
lie was for some time employed "a
gent for tho Continental Fruit comma ,
y in Fort Worth.
The proposed agricultural railroad
etween San Francisco del Rtncop.
ilao and other points in the state Of
alisco and Guansjuato, appears to be
q assure fact, AID preparations are ,
eng made for thu onstrnctinn IA ~