El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-15

| q Mexican legation in Holland. Lie.
Jesus Zenil Is spoken of as the first in
cumbent of the new legation.-Ex.
The electric light company has suf-
fered heavily from the recent heavy
| thunderstorms in Merida which play
ed havoc with the installstion.-Ex.
A number of mules have been re-
t:eived in Merida for the government.
They are destined for service with the
expedition against the rebel Indians
Monterey News.
The Ward line steamer did not ar
rive at ProgresO on her last trip owing
to the heavy weather she encountered.
It is feared in Merida that the same
misfortune has happened to the Segur
anca.-Ex.
The corner stone of the new Guiana
juato bridge was laid last Saturday.
Engineer Holly, in charge of the work,
is pushing things at his usual rapid
rate, and the work will be completed
In few months.-Chihuahua Enter
prise.
Celeva, Iraouato and Penjamo are
all making the necessary arrangements
for the Installation of electric light
plants. and contracts have been made
with the Siemens and Halske company
to put in the desired plants.--Two Re-
publics.
While Merida has no good theatre,
there are at present two companies, one
/ to renOvate and enlarge the Peon Gen.
treras theatre and the other to con-
struct q large new building on the site
of the old San Benito citadel.-Mex-
lean Berald.
Next week the president of the Re-
public, Gen. Diaz, and the secretary OF
war, Gen. Berrtozabsl, will visit the
powder factory at Santa Fe, which is
in charge of Col. Enrique Mondragon.
brother of the inventor and artillery
iexpert.-Ex.
| The college for girls was opened in
lIguala recently with the following staff:
lCliotilde Vega, principal; julia Ochoa,
first teacher, and Maria de Jesus Sa-
, linas. The boys school was also open
ed with Prof. Rafael Cruz ManjarreZ
, as principal, and Isidro r. Corfa as
|, lteacher.-Ex.
II A commission has been appointed to
, study the various plans for the drain
age of the city of Merida which have
been presented by several foreign
companies, and also to prepare q
: sch eme by which the cost of the work
may be easiest met without pressing
, too heavily on the taxpayers.-Ex.
The school ship of Zaragoza has been
ordered by the government to go from
Tampico to Progreso, Yucatan, con-
veving troops and ammunition for the
18th military zone which are going to
fight the Maya Indians near the
frontier of the British Honduras, or
properly speaking, Belize.-Ex.
A car load of glassware for use by
assayers and in laboratories arrived In
the city yesterday from Germany, con-
signed to the Mexico Mine and Smell :
ter Supply company. This company is
rspidly becong settled in their new
story at the corner of San Francisco
and San Juan de Letran and have one
IOf the largest and finest stocks OF the
kind in the republic.-Ex.
The authorities of Pspantla have
asked authority to establish q sanitary
Gordon and q ten days quarantine In
order to prevent the spread of yellow
fever, but the competent authorities
decided that it would be better to es-
tablish sanitary station where all
lpersons entering the district could be
texamined and all baggage and person.
al effects disfnfected.-Two Republics.
A detachment of troops from Jschi-
tan to Oaxacs has been stopped and
Iput In quarantine on a hacienda, it be-
ing suspected that there are incipien,
cases of yellow fever among the sol
diers. A dispatch from the city of Te-
ibauntepec is to the effect that almost
all foreigners arriving there have been
taken down with the disease, the NOR
TALLY being great.-T0mbstone Pros
pector.
A baseball club of about forty mem
bers has been organized in chihuahua
From these forty will be selected MIN
cracks to play the circuit teams which
t~lII take In Ell Pas0, Torreop. Aguas
Icalientes, Mexico, and Monterey. An,
of the reserved 80 who distinguishe
himself as an acrobat will be promoted
from the reserves to the crack-a-jacks
Get move, therefore. boys. There
n glory as we'll as gore ahead.-Ex.
The latest estimates of the valuation
of property in the republic is as follows
lCitysproperties, S29S. 254. 292. 43; rura
e properties, $62 ,O68, 671.37; Etotal. $500,
n Districts in chihuahua aud in Veracru
k have not been received: hence it i
|. estimated with complete accounts, th'
j, total value of the city and rural proper
: ties in the republic is over seven hun
: idred millions of dollars.-Chihuahu
- Enterprise,
d The estimate approved by the legis
b lature for the state of Guanajuato am
d cunt to 81 ,259, 1894, So which is devidet
d as follows:
IS Legislature ....... 49,. 8 40'697 sc
IJuolclary .lo1 ,S62. IL
= !GAeCutIVe .Ill,lIo.5s
a Public instruction. .279, 1856. 81
q Public Oimprovements... $500. so, 214 81
g State government. los. 4O1 AZ
d Civil register. SO. 215. 3;
;. war ............ ....... .lSS, 1851;
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