El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07

site for an Indian industrial school for
the Hualapai Indians, for which pur-
pose an appropriation OF $4,000 was
made at the last session OF congress.
Indian Agent Ewing will soon be call
| ing for bids for the construction of
these buildings Wealth.
Clifton is at present over run with
mining men, who are here examining
copper properties says the Clifton cor
respondent of the Solomonville Bulle-
| tin. Among them are Senator Baker,
Geo. Elliott, Capt. Tibbey, Messrs.
Merrill, cambridge and Palmer. These
men represent the Copper King COM
pany. Also Mr.. W:sher and three
experts are here examining j. F.
Smart's copper mine with q view of
purchasing.
The Globe correspondent of the
Phoenix Herald says: "You had as
| we'll try to whistle Schubert's serenade
your coat tail, as to be a Christian in
Globe, with its ITS jackasses that toll
not; it's 1900 tomcats tina sleep not, and
it's 1000 chickens that lay not. but only
seem to be created to fill the long days
with discord, and the nights with pan
unimportant, but they do not operate
like fluid extract of celery on the
nerves of we'll regulated strangers, who
are seeking somber asylum from the
cares OF q larger CITY,"
No man need 60 unemployed in
Globe as the present time. But the
specific micrObe of common cussedness
has such hold on part of the popula-
sion, that the beer keg brigade forms
about as big a crowd as the little army
with their dinner buckets and the for
mer crowd seems to be gaining recruits
every day. Nibsey Benbrook has ham,
mered away on them in vain, and the
Salvation Army gave them up in des-
pair. Without money, without credit,
without manners. without the recollec-
tion that they were all born and raised
by ladies, they line the side walk or
cluster in the middle thereof, unmind-
full of the fact that women and chill
dren are supposed to have few rights
left.-Corresponde Phoenix Her.
aid.
The Tucson Citizen is in receipt of a
dispatch to the effect that there was
trouble with the Yuma Indians. 1t
says: THE dispatch was somewhat
obscure. 1t simply stated that there
was troub The facts are that the
Yuma Indians were dissatisfied some
what during the epidemic of measles
which broke out and spread among
the pupils of the Indian school. They
withdrew their children from the
school and sometime ago portion of
the school building was burned. The
origin of the fire WAS never discovered
and it is supposed to have been the
work of the Indians who thought the
only way to stop the disease was to
burn down the institution where it was
confined. Milford Windsor. who was
until recently editor of the Yuma Sun,
is in Tucson today and he says that
there was no trouble with the Yumas
| as far as he knew.
Mexico.
Repeated shocks of earthquake have
recently been felt at Zlhuatanejo, Cue
rrerO.
The Chihuahua and Pacific r. r. in
q few days will be running trains to Pc
dernales.
The scorpions have come out of their
winter quarters at Durango and sever
al persons have been bitten by them,
particularly children.
!: Near the United States border of
Lower California, Sr. Raile of the Ru-
rales was killed by the savage Indians.
A person who was with him succeeded
in escaping
The Two Republics SAYS that on and
after the first of April postal cards
will be sold at one cent for the federal
district and two cents for the interior
of the republic instead of two or three
cents as heretofore. Postage on letters
in the city of Mexico will be two cents
instead of four. There is also reduct-
, ion in registered letters.
American hardware is securing
foothold in Mexico of no slight i'm
portance. During the past month
orders have been placed for the first
time for St. Louis cutlery. This, iu q
country where the hardware business
' is controlled by Germans, is a distinct
! recognition of better prices and better
goods obtaiuable in the states. Elk
change.
/ A we'll known English resident of
the city of Mexico states that the Mrs.
Martin Black, who is supposed to have
i. committed suicide owing to her rela-
! tions with F. Girard Mitchell is
. niece of the duke of Portland. He
further states that she traced her des-
( Stewards. The Los Angeles papers
? stated that she had heirlooms of Mary,
9 Queen of Scots.
A party telegraphed to Mr. Agustin
rchulze, at his hacienda at Santa Ma
D STA. for 900 hectoliters of corn, G. o.
q D. The corn was shipped as per order
5 and the consignee received it and in
8 mediately proceeded to sell portion
to a man named Diaz Cont, who at
once paid for his purchase. Schulze
: appeared two days later at the house of
. his debtor, and not being able to effect
= settlement, accused him of fraud be-
= fore the judged of the Second juz-
gado, and also suspended the sshipping
| of more corn and refused to deliver the
\ amount already in the city, which re-
3 mains on deposit in the Santiago GUS
r tom house.