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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13
Doing a Good Business.

On May q two safes were broken
open and rified at Gallup. On the 18th
the Santa Fe agent at Belen was robbed
in similar manner. On June l the
agent at Glorieta suffered the same fate
and on June 3 the postoffice at this
place was robbed Inspector Harris of
the Santa Fe is of the opinion that this
work was done by the same person or
persons, as the same instruments and
tactics were employed in breaking into
safes at all the places named, and from
the inform alton received from Trinidad
last evening it is not unlikely that the
guilty parties are not far from that
place, where they are now no dou bt
planning another hold-up.-Las Vegas
Optic.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13
Here and There.

Fresh cut flowers specially. Mrs
j. h. ComstOck.
O'Brien Coal Co. sell pitch paper,
lime, cement, plaster. etc.
When you wish the Ell Paso Dairy
| company ring up No. 1856.
Four pounds California prunes for %
cents. Ell PssO Grocery Co.
Pillsbury's Best Flour is the best in
the world. Ell Paso Grocery Co.
Ask for SGT PAsC TRANSFER"
the best s cent GIG AR on the market.
Buy your coal from "O'Brien Coal
Co.." the agents and direct shippers
from the Cerrillos mines. Phone 8.
Payne-Badger Coal company, Nc
Alester, Cerrillos and anthracite coal,
cord and stove wood, yard Second and
chihuahua streets. Tclsohone No. IL
]. A, Schear OF Sedslia, Mo-: saved
his child from death by Group by usin g
One Minute Cough Cure. Il cures
coughs, colds, pneumonia, Ia grippe
snd all throat ana lung troubles. Fred
Schaefer druggist.
There is a time fpr all things. The
time to take DeWitt's Little Early
Ri:ers is when you are suffering from
constipation, OlllcuSneSS, Slck-h cad ache,
indigestion or other stomach or liver
troubles. Fred Schaefer druggist.
w. M. Gallagher, of Bryan, Pa,
says: For forty years 1 have tried
various cough medicines. One Minute
Cough Cure is best of all.' 1t relieves
Instantly and cures all throat and lung
troubles. Fred Schaefer druggist.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure completely
digests food within the stomach and
intestines and renders all classes of
food capable of being assimilsted and
converted into strength giving ana
tissue building substances. Fred
Schaefer druggist.
What is Kodol Dyspepsia Cure? It
is the newly discovered remedy, the
most effective preparation ever de-
vised for aiding the digestion and as
similation of food, and restoring the
deranged digestive organs to d natural
condition. 1t is discovery surprising
anything yet known to the medical
profession.
3 cans Armour's lebrated Vienna
Sausage, % cents.
10 ID pail pure Leaf Lard, White
Label, 70 cents.
20 Id pail pure Leaf Lard, White
Label, 81 As.
ID pail pure Leaf Lard, White La
bel, 40 cents.
Ell PASO GROCERY Co.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13

boys the city team has been victorious
but next Sunday the result promises &c
be different. The railroad team is
practicipg for the event and they open.
ly boast that they are going TO carry of
the honors.
Engineer Sullivan, of the G. II s. S.
A., was yesterday placed on the lone
some list. His wife and two children
left on an outing to Santa Monics. Ca
lifornis. Mr.. Sullivan has plcnt y
here at present to console him, as
servi,e have sent their wives to the
sea shore to enjoy the balmy ocean
| atmoS phere.
ga ladies are not only requested
but requ. red to bring cake to the rail-
road blowout at the Mesa Gardens to-
morrow night" SAID one of the man
ayers this morning. "Theretofore
when an announcement of this kind
was made about one-half the ladies
would bring cake and the rest would
assist in devouring it, but such will not
be the case this time"
A fireman took on an extra supply of
Intoxicating fluid yesterday and, while
sleeping off the effects. some one re-
lieved him of the burden of carrying
his watch. When the fireman swoke
utSCUNeTeo UllaU Ills blHS pSdCc udu
flown he took on few more gauges
and went to police court to make
complaint. He argued too long and
boidsterous and was locked up. One
dollar settled the bill and he was al
lowed to his work.
IAN excursion was never run out of
any town where some of the passengers
did try TO show how much they knew
about railroading," said an exper-
fenced railroad man yesterday. mot
only that. They want to show how
brave they are and, in consequence of
this, someone invariably is injured be-
fore the train returns home. The men
and boys on the cupole of that combin
alton car Sunday were warned time
and again to get off, but they needed
not the warning and you see the result.
don't think the railroad company is
I any way to blame for the accident
Sundav ;,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13
The g. H. & S. A. Celebration.

It is very evident that but few of the
G.. Fl. 81 S. A. employees will mako ar
rangements to leave town the Fourth
of July. They will remain here and
assist in hosting the new elk flag
which has been ordered. The requir-
ed amount of S1O6 has been raised aud
the new silk flag, 12x24 feet, will soon
be here and arrangements.will then be
made for the hosting. Most all of the
boys have contributed literally and
they will, no doubt, remain here on
the Fourth to assist in making the az
fair grand success.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13
Sparks From the Engine.

! 1t is very warm. Or, have you motto
ed it?
Brakeman Lynch, of the G. a., il
laying off.
Twenty-Five cars of coal were taker
across the river yesterday in the Mex
lean Central transfer.
| Cattle shipments are getting very
| scarce at present and the cattle cars
are being cleaned up for next season
The first car of watermelons of the
| season reached here yesterday over
| the G.. n. & S. A. from Southern Tex.
as.
There is nothing so badly lost, on q
| r ailroad, as a trunk when it is lost. 1t
requires the united strength and
| energy of all connected with the road
to find it.
The G. 81. now have their hose reel
in a very neat little house which was
constructed for that purpose. They
are well prepared to fight fire should
one occur.
Ten cars of hogs came in over the
Te> ss & Pacific Sunday and went west
over the Southern Pacific to Los An
geles yesterday. Four more cars ar
rived yesterday and were sent west to-
day. IL
The railroad ball team here requests
that the San Marcial shop men organ
re and come to this city on the Fourth.
There is plenty of good material up
there and they should organize by all
means.
Passenger engine No. 724, which was
sent here from Houston in exchange
for passenger engine No. 1853, made its
first trip east Yesterday afternoon at
1:50 on the G. Fl. Engineer RAIDER was
at the throttle.
Engine 727, which has, been in the
G. II. & S. A. repair shop receiving q
general overhauling, was doing the
switching in the yards yesterday.
This was done to loosen up her joints
for road service. The regular switch
engine No. 654, was in the shop receiv-
ing q few needed repairs.
There has not been any accidents on
Strauss hill of late and this is owing to
the fact that the running time. for
freight trains, has been increased from
forty minutes to fifty-minutes coming
down the hill. Prior to this change
the wrecking crew was kept very busy
clearing the track in that vicinity.
There will be q very interesting
game of ball at the Santa Fe depot
grounds next Sunday afternoon. In
the past few games with the railroad
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13

A. A. GIBSON, Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept.
Fit. Worth & Denver City Ry.,
Fit. Worth, Texas.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13
INTENSE HEAT.
Il Places an Extra Burden on Rail-
road Men-YeSterday a Very
Quiet Day in Railroad Circles.

About ali the reporter could hear
yesterday on his rounds were the ex-
tremely uninteresting words: SIT 8
hot and while he WAS not In the least
pleased by the remarks he could not
help acknowledg that they we're
riyht-
twas hot, and of such a degree that
it made q man wish that he had rich
relatives on the summit of Pixies Peak
and that he had free transportation
for himself and family.
sI'm too tired to talk" said q Santa
Fe emplo. e. looking at the thermom-
eter which registered SO in a com
parstively cool place. L have been In
both tight and hot places but this beats
anything / have ever encountered. L
was once in Yuma, Arizona. where the
intensity of the heat is the cause of
msny uprisings and where eggs are
hard boiled when they are layed, but
don't believe that l ever perspired as
freely as have today. l have moth
erin-'aw in Klondike" he continued
with visible emotion. land 1 would go
there only I'm afraid it would be much
wan than it is here"
On all other roads il was much the
same Work was made doubly burden
some by the suffocating beat which
preva led. Bau6ana handkerchiefs
were in demand and moisture flowed
freely from the feverej brows of the
workmen. Whenever an opportunity
was afforded, the small spots of shade,
which ornament the yards, were taken
advantage of.
The G.. II. 81 S. A, fortunately, have
a few of the oldest in habitants working
in their employ and during the noon
hour the time was spent in relating
their experiences. One of them re-
memoer when the heat Of the sup set
fire to corn field in Kansas, while an
other remembered when the watermei-
o,s we're all dried up by the same heat.
Many more were ready to testify, but
the blast of the l o'clock whistle put
stop to further arguments. They then
strolled off to indulge in the regular
afternoon exerciser regardless of the
unpleasant conditions.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13
nOON0 Bought
and Sold.
Circulating Library and all
the Latest Novels.
DELLQUEST & ANDREWS,
Eclectic Book Store BOB San Antonio st.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,

THE STATE OF TEXAS,
In the county court. July term A. d. 1899.
10 the Sherif or any Constable of Ell Paso
COMMUNICATING:
ing Publication of this Citation in some
newspaper published in the county of Ell
Paso, II there be a newspaper published in
said county, (but if not, then in the nearest
four weeks previous to the return day here
OF, you summon =. p. AScarate, w. K. ASca-
rate, Margarita A, Rudisill, A. Ascarate and
Juan Ascardte, who are non-residents OF the
County Court, to be holden in and for the
county of Ell Paso. at the Court House there
OF, In I'll Paso, Texas, on the Bird day of July.
1899, at ten o'clock a m. File number being
1919, then aud there to answer the Petition Of
a f. DeSmeth, filed in said court, on the
18th day of May, A: D.. 1892 against the said
3. z: Ascarate, w. r. Ascarate, Margarita A.
Rud1sill, A. AScarate, and Juan Ascarate
and alleging in substance as follows. to wit:
That pl aintif, being employed b. defendants
as their agent to sell and procure the sale of
certain cattle belonging to defendants for
which services, defendants agreed to pay
plalnt'f the sum of fifty cents per head for
each head of cattle. 50 sold, procured u be
soid, as commission, sold and procured the
SAID cattle. Plaintiff says that defendants
nave refused and do still refuse to pay said
commission or any part thereof. Wherefore,
p Iaintlf prays Judgment for S2S6O0 interest
Herein fail not, but have you then and
there before said court this writ, with your
return thereon. showing how you have ex-
{ ~ Witness. PARK w. PITMAN, Clerk
SEAL. OF the County Court Of Ell Paso.
Given under my hand and the seal OF said
court, in 81 Paso, this the 18th day of May
A. d., 1899.
PARK w. PITMAN,
CLERK Co, Court. Ell Paso 90. Texas.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13
RoundhOuse Chat-Automdtic Rail
rOadinO

what do you think of these autom
attic engine shoppers, Uncle Billy
these jiggers that set trigger on the
rail when the signals against Teller.
aud shuts the throttle, puts on the
emergency, wakes up the engineer.
sends back the hand brake with a flag
and calls out the next ststion?'
''Anything else, Jimmy"
Guess that's about all. No jokin'
though; what do you think of the
thing, anyhow, just for stoppin' the
train, without the other frills?''
''Well, Jimmy, p'raps I'm kinder old
fogyisb, but I've seen good many
autom attic things on railroads in my
time, and l can't say IN dead stuck on
'em either. Generally they don't
automat, or else autom at when you
corral.s few brains and mix with 'em
'twould be all right: but brains ain t
any too plenty, even among US engiu-
GERS. So long as we get our living by
having few brains of the right kind
for our business, it's probR bly, just as
well they don't have 'em on tap.
Take the automatic stopper you
mention. Sposen it works Have
they got an 'unstopper' that will get
the train out OF the way of the next
one, or 60 back and stop each train so
as to avoid a run-in. Then there's an
automatic damper they hitch on to the
reverse lever so as to close when you
hook her up short, and open when she's
layin' down in the corner loOkin' at
you. Praps you might save coal some
times by sppilin' part of your blast;
then again you might want that darn
ed ba- some day when the coal wasn't
burning free and nice, to keep from
getting laid out on the hill. Even if
you want such contraption, don't hook
it on to the reverse lever.
Some of these shop men and college
chaps who have railroaded on paper
mora than anywhere else, seem to think
on engineer is too ignorant or too lazy
or something else to use a good scheme
they don't have to. Well, all the
boys don't show horse-sense always,
but il most of 'em didn't they wouldn't
be running the fast trains they are to-
day.
Take compounds, and here's an
other place where they've tried the
automatic scheme to death. Rhode
Island tried it, Schenectady tried it,
and that was the only fault of the
1903 Went into compound before
the train was hardly under way, and
banked sometimes in getting q train
under way. Rest of'em tried it. too,
but they are getting down to business
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13
Carrie Springs
NERAL WATER
The Greatest Blood Purifier
in the World,

This famous Mineral Water is now used and
prescribed by the best ply siciAns in the coun-
try and is pro wing itself a wonderful adiu-
want to the medical profession.
!fyou will but study and compare its anal
ysis with that of other Mineral Waters you
will observe that it is combination of the
four greatest classes of Mineral Waters
hn1wn to science. viz. SALINE, ALKALINE.
PURGATIVE and OALCIC. 1t acts upon the
stomach, Kidneys, Liver and Blood, and un-
like other waters 1T does not purge, gripe or
healing.
1t is the first and only Mineral Water ever
introduced into the Hospitals in San Antonio
where 1T is now un 'versally used,
Dr. Amos Graves, Sr., and DR.. Amos Graves
Jr., prescribe it for the Southern Pacific Hos
pital at San Antonio, Texas.
am putting this water upon the market
strictly upon its merits and in a legitimate
way through frst-class druggists and grooers
San Antonio. Texas, Oct. IS, 1897,
To whom it may concern.
This is to certify that have used and am
now using the Carrie Springs Mineral Water
FER a case of catarrh in the head of years
standing, and am receiving more beneftfro
Z than any other treatment ever used, and l
have used many. i have been right at the
wells and consider 1t the best Mineral Water
ever discovered. WE KERR
Gall on me for strictly frst-class Groceries.
We aim tc please and your pat
ronage is solicited,
The age-herald., 1899-09-10

the old stone church stood and after four hours of the beating water We began to feel our own house give way beneath us and to notice that it had changed its posi- ton, being borne along some 100 feet fur ther down the street.
 When day broke again the waters had subsded. but what a city was Ponce! Smiling. fair beautiful Ponce. Ponce the tranquil with the golden sun ever shining down from a sky so glorifed that the Spanish Saints saw there, in the days of miracles. the Golden City, through the clear ether. Ponce, once orderly and beau- tful, lay desolated and death strewn. Ponce. rich, and with store houses laden with sugar, tea and coffee was pennilesS with its stores wet and swept down into the sea.
 An awful thirst possessed us. I never felt such a thirst Before night we had drank the water from the dogs tin, and in the evening l waded a mile through the awful human debris to gather the water from filter which stood, I knew in one of the government buildings, precious wa ter which would soon evaporate and for a drop of which my youngest child was perishing. No one took drink We gave them bite of apple and carefully kept from them all sweets or such foods as would provoke thirst. They begged for the preserved fruits which stood upon the shelves for their liquid contents aggra- Vated them and made their mouths wa ter; but we hid them away knowing the awful thirst from stomach filled with sweets
 And how the others suffered! Professor Dorree, a noted chemist, spent all day striving to rid the water of it's salt and for his pains rewarded with a fortune in coffee from wealthy planter. who had saved one storehouse loaded for the fall ex- port. No one had anything, yet all gave such as they had.
 By and by relief came. A steamer came up the bay and there was carried through the streets cart loads of split peas and behind the carts came a wagon load of water of which all could take a pint
 All. Yes. but that was not many; two thousand were missing from Ponces list of citizens and of those who lived there were many who could not outlive the day. Five thousand they say now. died here and on the nearby islands, but surely no place suf- fered Ponce.
 Then all the men did yeoman duty Yet 1t was not much that could be done. The wounded were carried into temporary hos pitals, mostly churches. and rude roofs of cloth were spead over them. The dead were left in the streets and today they are covered with tree branches and all the litter and clutter of wood vegetation. Ponce's streets are gone. Ponce's fair beauty a thing of the past, and they will tell of it some day just they tell of the beauties of the Fl Dorado in Mexico, that fairest of all Fl Dorados, where the streets were of gold, and honey grew in the trees for all men. But Ponce lies deso- late. A great foundation. now, for Ameri- can enterprise to rear upon it's ruins city that shall boast a wealth and strength that will be beyond storms.
 JOHN DOREMUS SMITH
The age-herald., 1899-09-10

front door. Outside there were no pedes- trians, unless they could have been the shapeless things that went flying past, torn out of all semblance to human beings. .4
 One woman I did see attempt to cross the street. She was a work-maid and wished to cross to the house where she served daily Supporting herself by the tree trunks she managed to gain the middle of the street, then all support failed her. She tottered raised herself to her feet, stag gered and took wild step across. Just at this minute a great piece of zinc loosened from some roof came flying down the street. Hearing the whizzng sound she turned, strengthened and gave flying leap. But the zinc caught her. Before she could get out of it's path thegreat sharp knife-lke edge. at least ten feet broad struck her below the knees and cut oit both her legs as cleanlY as though chopped off by the guillotine. For a second the poor thing struggled on. tho stumps. half on her knees and half her hands she crawled a step, and then, before I could open the door to risk my life to bring her back she was buried, hidden three feet deep beneath a great flying avalanche or furniture, chairs, bureaus tables and over all a deposition of brick. whole house swept down upon her and mercifully crushed out her sufferings.
 By o'clock it had subsided little and people began to come forth. Scared faces peered from roofess houses and from the corners of streets where they had crouched under stone porticoes crawied wounded people whose homes had been torn down. It was an awful sight. Against the big stone church laid man. lifted him up his face was battered into a jelly. though his heart still beat. There could be no identification for him, not as much as an inch of forehead remained, nor an inch of skin to tell his color. He had been swept with the rest down the wind swept streets and had been thrown by the hurricane against the strong church.
 That afternoon we all went home early. too tired and too scared to discuss the probable casualties. All were busy taking in the homeless ones; and when the sun set on Tuesday night I. and the others in our department had aech as many as twen- ty guests. poor people whose rude houses had been torn down by the storm.
 No sooner were we in bed than we sank into deep slumber only to be awakened by shouts of "The water, the water!" Rushing to the window I saw coming up the street a great black current which rose every minute and grew broader and more angry as it advanced. "The tidal wave. the tidal wave!" some one shouted fom a nearby window. and up came the water rushing to drown his voice. He was on the first floor and was the first victim in our street. We saw him swept into the vast sweeping abyss and carried on.
 Oh, that night What the wind had not done the storm now did. The rain fell in torrents and the waters of the bay rose
The age-herald., 1899-09-10

Although 1t is a city of many inhabitants few are abroad after nightfull and it happened that under the clouds and the threa tening rain the city was asleep by Il o'clock Even the Alcalde had retired With his household and there no clerks on watch for the Alcalde that relict Of the days when Porto Rico was a Spanish island, IS lazy and will do nothing he is not com pelled to do. His clerks had all gone home and Porto Rico might as well have been an island lying unprotected in mid-ocean as part of the great possessions or the United States so far as civilization was or use to her as a warning of the impending calamity.
 Finishing up my duties which that even ing kept me until late I went to my home opposite the old gray stone church and closing the storm doors after me, iu good American fashion and barring the blinds. went to bed. That act saved my life. Had left my windows and doors open my house would have been unroofed and ana my family would have stood as others did, homeless in the streets by morning.
 It might have been midnight. 1t might have bten later when I woke to near tearing noise succeeded by a loud thud. At the same time I heard the wind howl and shriek Going to the window I looked out in time to see a sign torn off house half way down the block on the opposite side of the street and borne by the wind come flying down toward me- until 1t landed plump upon the portico of the church opposite and dashed itself to the ground.
 Other signs came ating down the street. then came chimneys and window blinds and here and there through 1t all sailed a board lifted from a pile of build ing material that had been deposited some where in the city by some enterprising American builder.
 Calling my wife we hat by the window and watched the destruction go on. How long we sat do not know. but I remern- Der my wife's telling me that it was o'clock and reminding me that l had had no sleep.
 I started for my bed when suddenly out side there rose such whrl and such swirl. such a mad rush. such a wild sough- ing that started back to see what was inc matter outside. Just then the house rocked: and far beneath us there came a singular crushing sound as though the foundation stones were being ground against each other.
 Another wild whl came, and again the house rocked. Calling my wife and telling her to dress herself and the little ones. I ran through the house closing all the doors and windows I debated as I ran whether to remain upstairs in the second story or to gather together on the ground floor; the latter plan I adopted and in five minutes we sat hudded by the front door binding our ears to the wind. ready to rush forth should the house begin to topple over us.
 Such a wild time was going on out sidei The street might have been filled with artillerymen firing their volleys,