El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-18


It is proposed to erect monuments of
Juarez and Escobeda in the San Pablo
Guelataeo park in Quad alajara.-Mexi-
can Herald.
A woman named Magdalena Baque-
dano. who makes q business of kidnsp-
ping children, has been arrested and
jailed at Merida.
Two department stores are projected
for the City of Mexico. This means
heated competition in many lines of re-
tail business.-Ex.
Ground is being broken for the coz
struction of a new bull ring on the lot
across from the Indianilla track at the
capital.-Monterey Globe.
A Spanish sympathizer2 in Chihua-
hua who tore down and trampled on
the American flags with which the
plaza was adorned on the 4th, was fined
$40 for his fun.
The old wooden gas lamp posts in
Mazatlan are being removed and the
wood will be used to consume the earb-
age and dead animals that abound in
the suburbs.-Ex.
1t is reported that q company of en-
gineers have arrived at La PsZ, Lower
California, to search for q treasure said
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which is rumored to be worth SIS, 000,-
900.
The other day near Bacu birito, the
men, taking out clay for the manufac-
ture of bricks, came across the remains
of mastodon, but through ignorance
of the value of their find destroyed all
except the tusks.
On the first the Yucstan bank show
4 ho1 ~ f%,
bank-bills In circulation SO, 637, $50: and
the Mercantile bank showed assets OF
81, 733, 472. IL and had 81 ,437, 1877 of its
bank-bills in circulation.
The recent heavy rains about Ures
extinguished the fire In the brush,
which has burned over an extent of
country kilometers long. During the
recent drouth In this district over 1000
head of cattle perished for want of
water.
Governor Ahumada on behalf of the
city of chihuahua has made contract
with the Jewell Filter company of
Chicago, for the erection of q filter
plant to purify the water used here for
drinking and cooking purposes.-En-
terprise.
Tourists at Merida have been pro-
hibited from photographing the ruins
in this state without obtaining permits
sion. as In clearing the ground for
several of the views in question.-Mex-
lean Herald.
To show the progress of the country,
we reproduce the revenues os the We
racruz custom house, which are as fol-
atoms and expectations, S13, 918, 525 90:
fines 50, "a: other collections ST.
534, 6S1.19 making total In the prin-
cipal port OF the republic of S21 ,457,-
14O.-Two Republics.
There Is q project on hand in the
state Of Guanajuato to erect a monu-
ment in honor of the father of Mexican
independence, Miguel Hidslgo, at the
Vicente ranch, municipality of Abaso-
10, where the good and great priesG-
hero was born. President Disz as we'll
are willing to assist in this patriotic
movement Globe.
Several Photographic views of the
ing taken with the purpose in view of
sending them to the Paris exposition.
The handsome buildings, the elegant
departments, and the military boys
drawn up in parade style, have all been
taken and will no doubt, add greatly to
our exhibit there next year and will
show that Chapul.epec Is one of the
best military academies in the world.
Near Guadalahara. Sebastian CANA
cho, owner of tue Arenales ranch, near
Zapotlanejo, has been arrested on sus-
picion of completely in the murder of
Don Candida Flores, whose body was
found In the road near the Estancia hs-
cienda. Camacho is cattle thief and
cd hod aho ntn 1.,,jS lao
who burned the house of some protes-
tants several years ago, is also impli-
Gated and Ia being hunted down.-MeX-
lean Herald.
The department of war has accepted
the offer of the citizens of San Juan
Teot nuacan, which placed at it's dis
posal tract of land to build new bar
racks for . regiment of cavalry. Col
onels Alejandro Ordorica and Manuel
3lazqueZ, together with Lieutenant
Colonel Gonzales Susrez, were COM
They went to San Juan last Sunday
and have reported favorably on the
question OF accepting the grounds
Two Republics.
The recent growth in the collections
at the custom houses has been phenom
email and for the fiscal year which
closed or June 3Oth last, they were
several million dollars above the esti-
mates. The following table shows the
custom house collections during the
last fiscal year as compared with the
previous fiscal year and it will be seen
that the net gain Is substantially the
gain in the collections from import
duties:
lS97-1S9S 1S9S-1S99.
Import du-
ties. :. . s21 ,o33, 249.2s s26. AS, 271.s7
Export du-
ties. 1,549. 1856 1,2O3, 1893. Is
Port dues. 643, 1886 947, 9l6.O2
Arrears. 81 ,911.14 81. $50. 20