El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-13
MEXICO.
ENGLISH Owners OF Mexican Street

The Mexico Electric Tramways
Limited, is an English company. Inc
annual board meetings to discuss the
City of Mexico's street railway affairs
are held in London. The DOM pany''
terminal date is set at 1882.
The Yaqul War.
The fertile valley of the Ysqui will
yield no hsrvests and crops this year
The settlers have abandoned their
farms and even the peaceable aquls
have given up any hopes of pursuing
their ordinary pastoral duties. Gen
eral Torres continues to advance with
his troops but the Indians contin ue
guerrilla tactics and the war drags
on.
The Iron Wealth OF Durango.
An engineer who has been inspect
ing the Cerro del Mercado, says that
| there Is iron enough in sight to keeL
highlands shelters going for 800
years.
Chicago Buys A Tropical Plantation
The Vista Hernosa plantation, seven
thousand acres on the Tonic River,
sixty miles from the gulf, was sold for
$50. 900 silver to q Chicago firm. It is
intended to raise cane, coffee, rubber
|
scale.
A Priest in Conflict with the State.
The district Judge of Oaxaca has re-
quested the arrest OF q parish priest
| on the charge that he has interfered
| with the government in the Indian vii
lagos, TecOmatlan and Tepiltepsc. The
two Indians who were elected to be
mayors of these villages went to the
| n a nj q ~ 4
of Office as the law requires them to,
In the presence of the governor. While
| they were gone the priest confiscated
some of their household goods, and on
their return rebuked them for leaving
the village without his permission and
babe them resign their office and pay
a fine. The Indians complained to the
governor but the priest had fed and so
far has not been arrested.
PAN American Politics
Mexico watches politics in South
America and in the United States
| with always keen eye to the mean
| ing for the safety of her own institu-
| tions. The successes of the conserva-
tive parties in Chile, Peru and Colon
bia and the frequent, declarations of
Organism that imperialism is waxing
great In the United States, worries q
portion of Mexico greatly.
Mexican CoIonlsls In Mexico.
The government is granting one
hundred hecatre land concessions In
BalleZa, Chihuahua, on the Tecorachic
river, to encourage cOlonisss to 60
there. After five successive years OF
residence on the land and cultivation
of it, the colonist will receive q full
title. Colonists are not allowed to sell
or dispose of their lots during the five
years.
The Yellow Fever Serum.
DR.. David Bellinzsghi has gone to
| Vera Cruz TO experiment with his
yellow fever serum, on the many
Victims of the disease there. David
Fitzpatrick, the man in the City of
Mexico who WAS in the last stages of
the fever when inoculated, Is con-
valescing rapidly and the success of
the serum in this case is considered as
particularly gratifying because DIR.
Bellirzsght does not claim tor his
serum that it arrests the disease in its
later stages, but was emily willing y to at y
that 1t would oe effective at the begin
ming OF the disease. Fifty cases will
have to be successfully treated before
the government can feel auth orized to
endorse the serum at all but President
| DisZ watched Kllpatrick's case with
| great interest and has congratulated
DR.. Bellinzag CHI heartily and given him
letters to the governor of Vera Cruz.
A New Rubber Producing Plant.
The manufacture of rubber from the
| bark of Mexican weed which grows
throughout central Mexico and is
known by its Indian name, "Yule," Is
approaching a commercial certainty.
| The gummy matter Is extracted from
the plant by the use of benzine or
gasoline. A plant for the manufacture
of rubber from this plant, is being
erected at San Luis Potosi.
Rich Placer Geld Field.
Martin Hulen of Aspen, Colorado, T.
Il. Gedins, of San Francisco, and
James Crawford of Benson, Arizona
Territory, have returned from prospec-
ting in the placer gold fields of lower
California with $500, 900 worth of gold.
They say that the fnd covers q gravel
tract of 225, 600 acres.
Land Of TheSky"
In Western North Carolina, be-
tween the Blue Ridge on the east and