El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-28
MGARRY, CONKEIN & DREHNER.

Piper worked on this division of the
Santa Fee for ten years and has many
friends to make visits very pleas
ant.
The Santa Fe company has moved q
rail-sawing machine from N-wton,
Kan, to this city and is now having 1t
erected in the yards south of the new
ice house. 1t covers q space OF 45xSO
feet and looks like q bridge on
stills. It's purpose is to saw of the bat
tered ends of old rails and make them
good as new, or almost that good
| Optic.
| The Santa Fe Railroad mana cement
are making arrangements for COM
mencing work on their Cimarron
branch. This is starter for the SAINTS
Fe into the rich mining country around
Elizabethtown, project they have
been considering for years. Great In
ducements have been held out to them
| to build this branch, which will event.
ually go on to the mining districts and
open up the rich Taos valley.-New
Mexican Miner.
A car containing 5000 pounds of hay,
empty and was handled by two conduc
tors. "In this case' says
q Santa Santa Fe bulle-
tin, 1.-THE agent at the forwarding
point was negligent in telling conduc-
tor that the car was empty. The train
crew was also negligent in failing to
examine car carefully. Both conduc-
tors and agent have been suspended for
fifteen days."
An inspection party consisting of J.
J. Ryan, superintendent OF motive
G. II. & s. A.; J. r. Code, master car
builder of the Atlantic system, and
E. E. Cooper, chief clerk to the master
mechanic at San Antonio, arrived
over the G. H. yesterday on No. 20.
The party at once proceeded to the
shops and q careful inspectio of the
company followed. They returned to
Houston today.
Passengers on the train from Pnebla
on the Mexican railroad 1.-THE Queens
own), were considerably scared by two
| at the train as it was leaving Apam
station. One of the windows of coach
was broken and lady slightly cut by
the broken glass. At first it was
thought that a hold-up was attempted,
but that idea was soon dispelled. The
authorities are looking for the men
who did the shooting. mexican Her
aid.
The annual passes issued by the San
Ia Fe, Prescott & Phoenix railroad
company are very neat and attractive
and carefully designed. On one corner
colored the rich hue of the orange. On
another place is q miner at under
ground work and close to him is in
scribed: "Silver, gold and "copper""
each in their respective colors. Other
wise the engraving carries with 1t the
work of an expert, and those who have
heen fortunate enough to receive them
at this point take great pleasure in
showing them to their friends.
There is man in the service of the
Santa Fe company on this end of the
line, who was trumpeter with Gen,
George A. Forsyth during the Apache
raid. He promises some time in the
near future to give the HERALD the
story OF the battle in Doubtful canon,
which he contends was the most in
terestinR event in the history of the
fight with the Apaches. He says that
the canon was named "the Doubtful
canon" because it was situated in the
Apach stronghold and when the United
States troops went in there it was very
doubtful, whether they would leave
1t alive. He says that Gen. Forsyth's
story is correct in every particular.
J. w. Eckmsn, who met with an &C.
cident while in the service of the Mex
lean Central railroad company several
weeks ago which deprived him of his
left arm and left leg, yesterday drop
ped note to the HERALD office say
ing that he was the happiest man in
town. It sounded very strange to hear
man afflicted as is Mr.. Eckman ay
that he was the happiest man in city
the size of Ell Paso. but when the re-
porter called on him yesterday after.
noon he was almost convinced that his
assertion was correct. He had a new
artificial lower limb and could walk
around with comparative ease without
the assistance of q cane. He walked
content playing about his mouth and
chatted with those around him and
expressed perfect satisfaction with his
condition in this life.
Wednesday night at 9:2O O'Clock
Thomas Bsgley, brakeman on the Pc
cos Valley railroad, was crushed to
death at the depot in Pecos. He was
conscious enough to tell his rescuers
that. in attempting to step on the wa
ter tank, his foot slipped and that was
all he could remember, He then be-
came unconscious and died in about
twenty minutes. Drs. McKenny and
McGinis were called, and on examina-
ton found one leg crushed from the
knee to the ankle, the other
leg fractured above and below the
knee, and one arm badly crushed.
He was dragged some forty feet, but
no other bruises of note were found on
the body. BsRley's run was from
PecOs to Roswell, and the other en-