El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-11
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he dvy Freight Traffic.

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Heavy Freight Traffic.
Eve long freight trains went through
Oh .ae S. P. yesterday evening witnll
five hours This will give an ioea o.
the amount of west bound freight IRA
file being handled by the southern
rac!nc system:
Another Candidate.
Some of the G 81 employees are yak.
Ing OF circulating petIIlon ~ ne
city conncil to elect w w Anoerson,
night freight a gent OF that compan 20
fill the va ancy csueed by the oeatn OF
Alderman Whitmore. 1t 10 their IN
tentiou To start the petition tooay. JUG
Grant is the favorite In the betting.
Conductors Change
Conductor Graham, OF the White
O.s- route, who las been SICK, OUT
recently reported for duty, was opllg-
ed =, t.ke another rest after one run
ana his place wa taken this morning
BY Conductor Jones. Conductor
Gr.tam expects 20 take the place OF
Cogductor Poll ck, Monday. Mr..
Pollock will take 8 vacation, commence
Ing Monday.
The Last Bridges Being Finished.
spe,ia. Correspond ace of the HERALD
SAN ANTONIO Aug 1O.-The South
ern Pacific Is jueL nov replacing with
iron the last of tie temporary wooden
bridges between here and Ell Paso
erected last yeYr just after the big
flood, which Wa 1eo the country 20
pieces, inundatlIg Brackettville and
cutting out rsilr, I'D traffic for weeks.
Machinery For Hawaii.
Twenty-nine cars of heavy mschtn-
cry passed through over the S. T. yes
terday enroute from Cleveland, Ohio.
to the Hawaiian Islands. The mach1n-
cry is TO be used in the equipment OF
sugar mills and come of the pieces will
weigh thousands of pounds The aver
age weight of each car load was 3d.
one train load from Cleveland to San
Francisco was over "a 900.
Tired OF Mexico
L. P. Maynard, freight conductor.
who Sc peen working on the Mexican
Central the past months. came up from
chihuahua last night. He says he
quit the company on account OF It's I'M
satisfactory accommodation to emplo-
yes.
"And the mosquitoes down there
come around in the evening and size
you ny 70 see if you'll make good
meal add then look over the register
TO see where you are going to Sleep"
Coal Found At Stockddle.
spscial correspondence of the HERALD.
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Aug 1O.-A
coal Ve'a ns- oeen unesrthed at STOCK.
dale, the present terminus OF the Gulf
Shore railway, 80 miles east of here
and the coal has been tested and found
10 De a first-class article. It IL an ex-
ira fuel article of Ignite aud stock
company is soon to be organized for
mining 1t. A party visited It this
week with such plan in view. The
coal lie said to be much better article
than tina. nov Drought here from the
Lyle mines and it IL believed that II 1t
was mined il would pay well.
Slowly Recovering From Flood
Damage.
Special Correspondence OF the HERALD.
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Aug 1O.-The
Aran-as Paes railroad has just about
gotten matters Strengthened out on it,
Kerrville branch 20 that trains can
again make regular Time, after an in
terruptiou of month or over on &C.
count Of the floods. So violent was the
rush of the waters that mammoth
iron bridge was lifted from it's founds-
tion and twisted shapeless. Above
kerrville the people suffered worse
than between here and there and
private letter to the HERALD CORE
spondent says that the people 30 miles
from Kerrville in the Pipe Crock set
Element, in many instances lost every
thing and have already written the
governor for aid.
Fair Warning.
There is q gang of kids that hang
around the Oregon street crossing of
sne S. P. track and jump on the pass
ing trains, especially the evening pas-
,enger from the west. They run Q
AND should they do so there would be
30 hope for the bereaved parents to
ge, any financial consolation from the
company. The company is not respon-
'ible and have always done all in their
power TO prevent this. Parents should :
nves,i ate aad see If their boys are
rain jumpers. Car wheels are no res
'ecters of persons and would grind the
ese or dead off Of your boy as quick as
my body else's. 1
A GOOD Move.
Realizing the danger to life that ,
.xists at the crossings of the Southern
Pacific railroad in Ell Psso, citizens
y circulating petition asking the
.ity council to require the Southern
Pacific 10 place autom attic gates at all
ne crossin gs on Main street between
Il Paso street aud Cotton avenue.
One man when asked to sign this
petition said, 81 Am glad to get the {
opportunity TO sign such q petition. 1t {
hould have been circu ated long ago.
Il toe parents of those little children,
Who live on the north side of the 8. P. {,