El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-12
A BEAUTIFUL SOUVENIR.

A BEAUTIFUL SOUVENIR.
The Texas & Pacific has issued a
handsome complimentary calendar for
the new year-a Vatican scene set In a
deep violet background The 1901 cal
endar leaves are in one of the lower
corners. the T Ps. well known 10
zenge in the other, while vioiets en-
bellish the whole.
EXTRA TRAINS NOT HINDERED.
Orders cam etc the division fore
mans Office at Las Vegas Sunday af-
ternoon TO lay off all men except those
necessary to handle the passenger and
regular trains. The order was counter
handed however. before night, when
it was found that the running of extra
trains was not intertered with by the
strike.
DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS SHOT.
Matthew Hanselman, an engineer on
the Louisville. Evansville & st. Louis
road. ran his engine more than a hun
dred miles with bullet in his lungs,
which he did not know was there. He
got on his engine at st. Louis all
right and the first he knew of any
thing being wrong was at Grentry-
Vile Ind. where he remarked to his
fireman that he felt a sharp pain in
his side and he believed he was taking
cold. Occasionally he would remark to
his fireman that he felt that pain
again. More than two hours after he
felt the first pain he pulled into Evans
vile, and there he collapsed. Exam
ination showed that he had been shot
in the left side. the bullet grazing the
heart and lodging in the lungs. Physi-
clans say it is a fatal wound. Who
fired the shot and where and why is
not known. 1t is believed that he re-
ceived the bullet at Gentryville, as that
was where he first felt the pain. For
more than two hours he ran the en-
CINE at rate of fifty miles an hour
perfectly ignorant of his nearness to
death from a bullet wound and the
physicians say that his heart might
have stopped at any time. There is
no telling what would have been the
result to the train and passengers had
he dropped deaa while the train was
travelling so swiftly
CAPTAIN KENT is DEAD.
The baggageman of the G. H. re-
ported to have died suddenly in San
Antonio Monday was, as expected by
friends in Ell Paso, Captain Thomas ].
Kent His death was the result of a
peculiar circumstance. He was
drowned in a bath tub. At 1 o'clock
Monday afternoon Captain Kent called
at a bath house and asked for a bath.
A room was assigned him and he went
in and locked the door. That was the
last seen of him alive.
About o'clock some one remarked
that Captain Kent was staying in the
bath long time. Repeated knocks on
the door receiving no response, a man
climbed up and looked over the parti-
ton He saw that Captain Kent'S
head was under the water and he
climbed in and unlocked the door. The
coroner was called and il was decid-
ed that the captain had tainted and
being a man of low stature he slipped
down in the tub until he was sub
merged
Captain Kent had been baggage
agent for the C. H. & S. a. railroad at
San Antonio for sixteen years. Pre-
yious to that he was general baggage
agent of the Texas & New Orleans road |
but when the Southern Pacific absorb |
ed that road he went to San Antonio. |
Before his connection with the T. q |
N O., he had been agent for the Nor
gan steamship line at Galveston.
Captain Kent was sixty-one years
old, an ex-confederate soldier and had
his clothing when he died were s16S
in money. a fine watch and valuable
pin His body was shipped
yesterday to New Orleans where re-
sides a nephew of the deceased, the
only known relative of Captain Kent.
a,ORGAN JONES BACK AGAIN.
Morgan Jones, general manager of
The Fort Worth and Denver railroad,
md ID. A. Chappepll, president of the
Victor Coal and Coke company of Den
Ter, arrived in Ell Paso in Mr.. Jones's
private car Texas last night accom-
he Mexican Central for Mexico this
d,
Mr.. Jones said he was not looking =
or coal mines this trip but was just q
,oing down to the city on a pleasure 7
rip. He might look for coal in Mexico 1
lily, but that was not the object of E
lis trip. While Mr.. Jones .disclaims
my connection with prospecting this
ime it is claimed by some who have
lad a tip that he is going on business
with a railroad and coal {
cheme. t
Last winter Mr. Jones spent several !
EeeSs in the Sierra Madre country,
looking for coal, but it was J
,nown at the time that he was pros
ecting for new line of railroad. He !
as been with the TT. Worth and Den \
er and could not give his attentions \
D the new enterprise and nothing has \
cen said OF it for many months. 1t
) now reported, however, that he has
esigned his position with the Fort
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