El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-13
The Spectator.

1t is said that when Silver City turn
ed on her new electric lights Chinese
restaurant keeper lit all the lamps in
his dining room so as to see the new
lights.
''Those alligators in the plaza" said
lady visitor. ''need washing badly,
and it would considerably improve
their appearance to paint them this
spring."
All incoming trains were late arriv-
ing today on account of the blizzard.
The Santa Fe was forty minutes late
this morning and the G. 81. due at 2:45
p. m. is reported delayed ten hours.
The New Mexico papers are still
agitating the Rough Riders reunion to
be held next summer and attended by
Governor Roosevelt. Ell Paso is the
proper place for the reunion and ca n
get it without half trying.
Recently the school board agreed to
permit Prof. Lopez to open q night
school in his school room for the pur-
pose Of instructing both children and
grown persons in the arts of reading
and speaking the English language.
The board was perfectly willing to let
Prof. Lopez have the use of the room
provided he pays for the coal consum-
ed.
incident happened to Gov. Sayers yes
terday morning. He had bought
pair of horses at San Antonio and they
having just arrived he went out to his
stable early yesterday morning to see
them, says the Dallas News.
He noticed ragged, woe
begone looking negro crouched
up by the fence as he went in the lot,
but paid no particular attention to him
started out of the lot, the crineing
creature approached him, saying:
"Please, governor, won't you pardc n
me?" Gov. Sayers, astonished, asked
him what he meant and he said that
he was an escaped con-
vict and had come to Austir,
hoping to get to see him and ask him
to pardon him. His clothes were in
tatters and he was broken down from
his tramp. His story was that he had
been convicted of assault with intent
to murder at Brennan several years
ago, he having shot another negro. He
was taken to convict farm, where
he was badly treated and
made his escape. Finally, after skulk-
ing around for long time he returned
to- the farm and surrendered. His
eyes failed him and be went almost
blind. Ill treatment was dealt out to
him and one morning before day he
jumped out of sugar house and again
made his escape. Living in the
woods or on the move at
all times and fearing every minute
that he would be taken and placed
back in the farm and its punishments
he had made up his mind to come to
Austin and see the governor himself.
He had crouehed and skulked about
the premises hoping to sea the COVER
nor as he came out of the house, being
afraid to ask ad mission to the house.
Sayers asked him why he had come to
him and be said. 81 did NOT have ne
other place on this earth to go.' Tho
governor told him to call at the Office
in the capitol, where he would inquire
into his story. | saw him there this
morning waiting for the word whether
he was to go back to his punishment or
back to his family. He said he had
wife and two small children. She was
hired out in B-enham for enough
to feed the children which were sepa-
rated, each with a different negro
family. The governor says he will in
quire into the truth of the story and if
he finds it true he will pardon the poor
wretch. In the meantime he is out on
his word and shows no disposition to
run away.
Since the discovery of a large and
valuable deposit of tin ore near this
city on land belonging to @. r. More
head, Captain Charles Davis, and 7. II.
Conklin, those gentlemen have been
recipients of many letters of inquiry
from all parts of the United States.
Eastern capitalists seem to realize that
If the ledge of tin ore, now being up
covered out near Mount Franklin, is
Of any consequence the mine will be
worth millions and they are anxious to
take stock. A man in Ell Paso
who has looked up all
facts worth knowing concerning
tin handed in the following:
"The tin used in the tin plate indus
try comes from several sources. The
bsst of these are found in Australia and
the Straits Settlements. The latter
furnish the most desirable tin, known
as Banca tin. This is regarded as the
purest, and is in consequence more
sought after by he manufacture rs of
tin plate. The Cornwall
mines we're discovered about
IS B. c., and for twelve centuries were
the one source of the mineral. In 1240
tin was found in Bohemia. Five hun
dred years later, in 1850, the Bsnca
mines were opened, In the following
century Australia became producer of
block tin on q large scale. From 1872
tin has been found in comm rcisl guam
titles in New South Wales Queensland,
and Tasmania. The United States has
not been so fortunate, although many
attempts have been made from time to
time to find tin. Tin was discovered
in California as early as 1910, but there
was no mining done until 1868. Only
for a short time were the mines opera
ted: they were then closed down, and
remained so until 1888. In