El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-13

one Thousand trees for both blocks.
These are the first fruit trees to be set
out in Alamogordo.-Sacra
Chief.
The receipts of the Ration postoffice
for the fiscal year ending March 31st,
foot up S6,O11 20, against IS, 81 last
year, an increase of $670.40. Money
order business is not included in the
of 500 in the postmaster's salary, who
will hereafter receive 81. 800 year and
money order commissions.
The saw mill at Alamogordo is run
ming full time. and the machinery is
arriving daily for the one now in
| course of construction, which will have
the same capacity, 100000 feet daily,
as the one now in operation. During
| the past month ffteeo carloads of logs
way and were dumped into the big
mill pond and f1oated to the elevator at
the foot of the saws.-Excnange.
| There is such q demand for new
buildings at Roswell that architects
are kept on the jump. Among the
more notable structures in prospect ia
one with an iron and glass front of
Jaffa & Prayer. The fire department
has a new "a by SO foot iron clad en-
/
ner. Another structure is two story
brick apartment house. 30 by 80 feet,
for eastern parties, and then a 16 room
restaurant building is going up near
the depot. The Hammett hotel will
be ready for occupancy by the 18th
Observation-Disclosures.
Arizona.
The Texans of the Salt River valley
| will hold their second annual picnic In
Phoenix in San Jacinto day, April
81.
The last seen of Jim Daniels, who
killed man at Cave Creek. he was
headed towards his home in the Mo-
COLON mountains.-JournalM Miner.
The epidemic of measles which has
visited nearly every nook and corner of
Graham county during the last three
: months, has spent its force, and only q
are of very mild tOrm.-Bisbee Orb.
Ed. Bent, an old time miner of Pres
colt, has returned from South Africa,
where he has been engaged in his call
ing for some time. He is here in the
interests of English capitalists, who
are looking for opportunities for in
vestment.-Journal
The time of meeting of the annual
encsmpment of the Grand Army of the
Republic department of Arizona, has
beea fixed by the council of admins
tration and sanctioned by Dept. Com
mander James Finley fol-: Tuesday,
April Is, 1899, in Phoenix.-Bisbee
Orb.
G. L. Ainsworth, brother of Attor-
ney General Ainswortd, was shot and
mountains on Thursday night. he was
q deputy sheriff of Cochise county and
was attempting to arrest q man named
Haldeman, the latter resisting arrest
and killing him,-Journal-Min
Instructions have been received at
the land Office to cancel thirty-five de-
sert land entries which were made I'M
der the proposed Rio Verde canal near
Phoenix. Hundreds of people were in
duced to locate land under this canal
with the assurance that water would
be provided for them SO that they
might prove up before the time expir-
ed which the government allowed,
There Ia no sign CT water being secur-
ed as the company was unable to float
its bonds.-Tucson Star.
The indiscriminate cutting of timber
from government land Is becoming
quite an alarming thing in this section.
Acres upon acres of land have been de.
nuded of timber and the work still
are reported to respect neither the 10
cations of mining claims nor even Of
,. lands to VIII ich patent has been obtain
ed. The evils of this wholesale de-
struction, which even now are appar-
emit, is bound to be felt seriously before
n many years go by. -Journal-Miner.
General F.. Wilson, delegate in con
ress from Arizona, writes that he will bt
It in Florence on the 25th inst, accompa
l. MED by Chief Justice Street and judge
l. William 81. Barnes, for the purpose o
personally inspecting the site of tn
70 Buttes reservoir, in order that he cal
y more effectively urge further sppro
y. priatiOus from congress for its com
= pletion. Our people will take pleasur
in entertaining these distinguish,
pentlemen, and will doubtless max
t. their visit both pleasant and profitable
Of Florence Tribune.
h Mexico,
A fire at the American hospital re
h GENTLY destroyed the stables and out
D. houses, and with difficulty the mai
A building was saved.-Mexican Herald
l. Thieves broke into the school nous
y at Candelaria near Coyoacan and tw
clocks, some stamps and some none
n. which they discovered in q drawer i
"a one of the desks was stolen.-Two Re
t. publics.
10 During the month of March, IA, 10
B persons visited the National museum
- or these 1,O15 were foreigners. TIL
principal departments of the museum
80 will be shortly LIGHTED with electricitx