El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-06

Gone to Tucson
Jim Hudson, brakeman of the S. P,
has gone TO Tucson, Arizona.
Fireman to Marry
will marry Miss Mollie Hudson Of Gal
weston, next mouth.
Agent Hunt Leaves Us.
T. E. Hunt, commercial agent of the
S. P, left for q business trip through
Arizona yesterday.
To Wed At Lordsburg.
Henry Hardy, engineer OF the Santa
Fe, will wed Mrs. Anna OWnly OF
Lords burg, N. Mex. July Is.
A Visit To Chicago.
F E Culleton. passenger brakeman
of the Santa Fee, and his handsome
wife have gone to Chicago for q brief
visit.
Pay Car Turned Back.
The boys of the 8. P. are Worried
because the pay car OF the s. Z. has
been turned back at Strauss on &C
count of the quarantine.
New Ball player.
H.H. Williams, formerly of Deming,
Is braking between Ell Paso and
Lordsburg. Mr.. Williams is a ball
player of ability and will assist the G.
ii. team in their next effort to down
she Colts.
Chas A Higgins Dead.
The many friends of Chas. A. Hig-|
gins, will regret to hear OF his sudden
death in Chicago yesterday. Mr.. Htg-
gins was assistant general passenger
agent of the system, and was we'll and
fayorably known all over the entire
country.
Scalped Tickets.
Special Agent Rush of the S. P. took
up fourteen scslped tickets last night. |
Among them was one belonging to A.
Crane who only remembered the fret
part of his name. Mr.. Crane, Tor his |
repr esentative) WAS fred off at Valen- |
sine. And all because he had forgot |
zen his own name.
"A Spanking Extraordinary
After Engine Driver Harry Mckee,
of the West Pennsylvania Express, had |
stopped his train last night near Van
dergrift, within a yard of q Hungarian |
baby, which had fallen asleep on the |
track, the only emotion that the babes |
mother showed WAS of veXation at its |
innocence. Snstching it up in her arms,
she spanked It until the infants cries |
were heard ell through the train, and |
then, " it'll a stolid grunt, she threw it
over the fence into the yard OF her
home Philadelphia North American.
Charged With Theft.
Tomas Romero was arrested last |
night charged with theft from person.
II seems that Romero, who was car
cleaner at the G. H, picked up purse
filed with money and railroad tickets,
belonging to woman passenger on the
car.
Instead Of returning it to the owner,
Romero, 1t is said, confiscated the pro-
perty for himself, for which offense he
was arrested upon complaint of the
owner.
He disgorged this afternoon in
Judge Spencer's court, two railroad |
He was turned over to Sheriff Boone,
and will enjoy the hospitality of the
Lyons hotel for some little time.
Texas Leads
The Railway Age, in its review of
the track laid in the first half of 1900,
credits Texas with 1644 miles of track
laid from Jan. 1 to June 30. This con-
ssrnction is by nine different lines.
The Railway Age ssys:
Texas, where legislation has retard
years, stands first in the list of States,
with 1644 miles Of new road to her Gre
dit Before the close of the year these
figures will be materially increased, as
at the present time work Ia In progress
On over 300 miles of additional line in
shat state, much of which will be
completed before Jan. l next. This
revival in railway building in Texas is
due chiefly to the. more liberal attitude
IN permitting parent companies to
absorb lines already owned thus doing
away with the expense OF maintaining
organizations"
Self Ope ming Car Windows
Self opening car windows have ap-
pesred at last, and fierce struggles
with window frames swollen and
warped into immobility by a Winters
storms and months of disuse seen on
railroad trains during these early
Summer days are thing of the past
On one favored line. 1t Is on one of
Ia roads running to Asbury Park and
Long Branch that this old-time dream
of the summer traveller has become q
reality. The device works by q simple
system of springs. On the center of
every windowsil1 of the cars equipped
with it ia little brass catch, and just
gentle pressure of the finger upon it
STARTS 1t going.
With n steady, even motion the win
dow rises and keeps on ascending as il |
By magic until either the pressure Is
relaxed or it reaches the top of the
frame, to the great establishment OF all
W no see it for the first time. 1t has