El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-13
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Cheap Rate For the Carnival.

Cheap Rate For the Carnival.
Announcement has been made tina
for the mIdwinter carnival a, least
ten dollar, -ata will prevail from TeXa
poi Us, and 1t is likely that even TIL
will be .bettered before the matter 1
finally settled.
6. n. Train Delayed
Tue morning G. b. passenger dne a
$40 arrived at 1O:3 TIL,
morning. The oa1se of the
delay assigned was the heavy rains
making it caugerous to pass over the
Colu u bus bridge for q few hours.
New Engines For the T p.
0Eneineer Doyle and fireman Gray
bon u adneaded out on the passenger
thi- morning to Toyaa where they will
take charge of n bran new freight en-.
gine. This engine is one of seven ne W
freight engines that the T & P have
orc er ed and will receive this month.
Thy will be used on the division be-
tween here snd Toyah. The T & P
will also receive three new passenger
engines this mon n but they will prob
He Sees FL paso Jumping.
A u Barnum, o, Los Angeles, travel.
ing passenger .seent of the Piedmont
Air Line, is In E.Paso today, in the
int OF the ] ne. He visits this
city every sixty Days and says he can
see a change for IL q better in the town
at each visit. he says Ell Paso
has . great futu ., that her prospects
for the future re the best of any
town in the sou invest.
I'D g.. f.a fn
of The Southern railway, the Western
Of Alabama, the Louisville & Nash
vile, and the Atlanta & West Point
railroads, and it covers the entire
southeast with a mesh work of nearly
seven thousand miles of railroad. The
system has grow from seven hundred
~ seven thousand miles in ten years
and is still acquiring more lines. This
system operates more sleeping car lines
tnao aoy other On the continent. In
connection with the Southern P ,cifc
trains bstween Washington and San
Fran cisco.
The Law of Train RObb cries.
speaking of train robberies In gen.
ersi and of the recent robbery on the
U0icn Pacific near Denver in psrticu-
lar, President Huntington of the
Southern Pacific is credited with hsv-
Ing said that passengers on railway
trsios are entitled to pc te ,tiOn. 81
think" he said. that the government
should put one man, we'll armed, on
every mail train. AS to whether or
Nd: the railway companies should put
On armed guards as projection against
train rob oery. that is question for
on-id GRAFTON and not to be devided off
hand He farther said that he be-
believed that If it was known that Q
government guard was on q train the
robbers would not attack 1t.
Und the common construction of
Law rs'lroad company Is not re-pon-
sible for the death of passengers at the |
hands OF robbers 1or Liable for money |
lost IN q train hold-up. It is held |
that the railroad company is not an in |
surer aud Is Only expected to exercise |
ordinary precautiOn against rObberies, |
but If rob oers succeed in oveapowering |
the serva n % of the company TIE roads |
responsibility ends.
The DEGRADATION of the Profession.
81 see in the papers," said an old
man that Two fellows held up
, passenger train near Denver the
passene ers and killed an old Califor MAN
named Fay. They didn't get much
money for their trouble, they commit
ed murder in their attempt at rob-
oery, aud nave paid the penalty by an
awful death, They were found on .
ranch in Kansas. One of them was
shot TO pieces and the other having
AIKEN refuge in house WAS burned
Up With it. This proves What
hat the Day when train robbing was
profitable business is past. There was
! time when a man or men could hold
Up a train, get big haul of swsg and
,scape to enjoy IL, but you don't hear of
hem doing that any more. The Gums
o be captured by nold-up are no long
n large enough to make it pay even if
be road agent could escape. But the
'hole country Is getting to be too
nickly populated and the means of
apture too perfect for them to stand
my show to retire to q life of luxury
N the spoils thus acquired.
Nov and Their you hear of a dare
evil fellow who holds up train these
lays but he must do so for the sake of
he excitement and the reputation he
Y pect5 To get out of the
ct; surely he does not do
ne deed for profit. If he does he is
fool. for the day when It can be done
t profit Is no more. The receipts
'C o-Ch PioSCo os bunu1 TcCSub OK ,
erieuces To be too small and the chan
es CT detection too numerous. 1t ia
90 much like going out with $50
shing outfit and spending day catch
ng fish that the law protects. The
Expenditure is larger than the receipts
nd you run the risk of getting into
be clutches of the law to boot
"A train rObber Was once looked up
q as a sort of hero but OF late bic
rofe ssion has become contem ptible {
nd as mean as shopliftipg or pocket
OK snstcting while it lie more dam
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