El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-12
Special Correspondence

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES S
gists, has given notice of dissolution
the former partner retiring from the
business, which will be hereafter con-
Quoted by firm known as Warning &
Johnson.
DR.. Hinch, with his wife and daught-
er and his wife's mother and brother,
Mrs. and Theodore Douglass, have left
for St. Louis, where they will remain
for some months, after which they will
return to Gallup, where the doctor
will again take up his extensive prac-
tice of medicine.
The Crescent Coal company are re-
ceivinR come newup to date Office fur
niture for their new building in which
they have recently removed. The
adjoining the postoffice is being re.
modelled and we understand is to be
occupied by three saloons. This will
make twenty-four saloons in the
town oil told, a saloon to about every
80 Inhabitants, including men, women
and children. l1ei
n. S. Snyder, the old time cashier at
the depot, is back again at his old
trade after a month or SO absence in
Arizona.
Rev. w E. .Foulks, of the M. E.
church south. and Rev. P. A. Simp-
kins, of the Congregational, both re-
turned Saturday morning from 4 two
weeks absence, the former having
been in attendance upon the annual
conference at Albuquerque, the latter
upon the international council at Bos-
ton, Mass. Both report having had o
pleasant time.
Mrs. Edward Hart and children left
few days ago for Liverpool, England.
her former home, where they will
spend some months, Mrs. Hart's health
necessitating a change of climate for q
short time.
The Congregational church is now
equipped with new seats, long oak
benches nicely and tastely Vanished,
and the congregation can now sit with
much more ease and listen to the elo-
quent sermon, of their Pastor P. A.
Simpkins.
Among the many relics and curios
brought home by our soldiers boys
from the battle fields of Cuba and the
Philippines, perhaps the most, or at
any rate one of the most interesting
and historical. is in the possession A.
81. Barnes, of st. Louis, Missouri, who
is now visiting relatives at Holbrook,
Ariz.
It is nothing more or less than an
old rusty door key about six inches in
length and weighing nearly half a
pound, but is historical and valuable
to it's owner from the fact that it is the
key to one of the main cells of Moro
Castle, Santiago De- Cuba. and the self
same cell in which the Z brave and
plucky followers of Lieut. Hobson were
confined on the first night of their cap
tivity.
Mr.. Barnes took the key from the
door of the prison with his own hands
on the first day after the entrance into
the city by the American army only a
short time after the release of Hob
sons, men, and 1t Is without doubt the
very one which turned the lock upon
those iron-nerved men and made them
prisoners of war with, little expectA-
ton of ever breathing free air again.
He also brought home with him
several other curios of more or less
value as historical relics, among which
we're Spanish officers machete, a
large Spanish coin and buttons of diff
ferent degrees of denomination and
rank.
The ensign he has presented to his
son, who is in business in St. Louis, and
the machete to his nephew, Mr.. w. B.
court of Navajo county at Holbrook,
Ariz. The key, however, he vows new
err to part with and has on several &C.
cas1ons refused large sums of money
for it. He has it at present hanging
on the wall in his sisters parlor atHol-
brook secured to small "trip of Span
ish flag, at the other end of which is a
small piece of wood cut from the fore
mast of the collier Merrimac which all
the world remembers was sunk in the
Har Dor at Santiago by Lieut.. Hobson
OF the United States navy and seven
tars from SIMPSONS fleet during the
Spanish war to prevent the escape of
Cervera's fleet.
Mr.. Barnes served in the pack train
service during the war and in the
three months that he was o. the island
saw some stirring times. He is also a
veteran of the civil war, having served
in the navy, n the Mississippi squad
ron under Admiral Porter, who has
since been retired rear admiral, his
father also having been retired rear
admiral, living at present in Washing
ton, D. c., and is Sc years old. This is
the only case recorded in the history of
the United States navv where fathe r
and son are both living and both re-
tired rear admirals.