El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20

A little belated, but none the less TO-
teresting is this story OF banging
which Agent.Morris, of the White
Oaks, has to tell. Il read 1t all, SAID
Mr.. Morris, "but the occurrence was
like one which q friend of mine exper-
fenced. The young fellow about whom
it was told was newspaper man, OF
course, and he had an assignment from
his paper to go to q neigh boring town
to write up hanging. The execution
took place in the afternoon, as did tnls
one at Ell Paso, an his paper was an
afternoon paper with en- ardent desire
to get out the first extra that should
tell of the legal tragedy and secure a
beat on its competitors.
"The young man was told. accord
iugly. to get In as II UGH stuff in ad-
vance as he could. He was
pretty.nervous as the time drew near,
for he WAS little new in that
particular line of work. He hit on
the novel plan, however, OF writing up
the whole thing in advance. and filing
it at che telegraph Office, with instruc-
lions TO the operator to let 'er GO if
he did not hear from him at certain
hour, at time when the hanging
ought TO be over. Then he went to the
jail.
We'll, he was SO complet ely worked
up that, when he saw the condemned
man on the scaffold, he rushed wildly
forward. and, thoroughly unnerved.
cried, You shall not hang this man."
aud tainted. They carried him away
aud he didn't see the hanging. His
report fled with the operator was sent
on to his paper, WAS published actual
ly before the man had been hanged,
and was the most exact and correct
description of the scene that any paper
presented to it's readers"
d. ~ he fall O rn-
ported the PARA hanging in advance?
This story was told by Colonel Dorst,
adjutant general of the Seventh army
CORDS who served with Lawton in his
Indian campaigns in the far west, and
is, like all Lawton Stories, entertaining
to all Ell Pasoans, who once knew the
ger eral:
On one occasion, in the dead of win
ter, there was an uprising of redskins
and general mas are seemed immi-
nent in the sparsely settled region thai
friuged the outskirts of civilization q
long distance beyond the camp. The
soldiers were almost devoid OF shoes,
underwear aud Overcoats, and march
while they were in that condition WAS
impossible. Lawton was quartermas-
officer was in an awful dilemma when
Lawton came to him with a request
for q leave of absence for five days,
promising to have the supplies in camp
by that time.
His superiors ridiculed the idea, but
leave of absence was granted. Fifty
miles from the camp was the terminus
of a new railroad. that had been built
from Omaha. He travelled the fifty
miles overland aud covered the re-
maiuder of the distance to Omaha-of |
$50 miles--by rail. On the way he en-
gagged teams of oxen to wait at the ter |
minus until he returned. When he |
arrived at Omaha he found he could |
not get the overcoats there and he
promptly sent crush ord err" to Chi |
csgo for them. The underwear and |
shoes he purchaser in Omaha. Before |
the expiration of the five days he re- |
turned to camp with the supplies and |
b Il of the old army officers agreed that
it was the most remarkable feat of
equipping regiment on record.-1n-
dianapolis Press.
Across the river In Juarez we have |
had bull fighters galore, but lone of
them has shone as the subject of an in
terview.
The noted Spanish torero. Antonio
Fuenies. now IN the City OF Mexico,
has been interviewed in the Mexican
Herald in regard to HE feelings on
several matters connected with the
bull i"bt ting profession.
At the age Of fourteen, like Politien
contem plating the statues of Michael
Angelo, he felt himself strangely
moved by the sight of an illuminated
poster announcing bull fight in his
native city of Seville. He was then an
in workshop. In the
same shop there was another lad who, II
whenever he could, used to lay aside (
MS tools and, With small capOte over &;
his diminutive shoulder. used to trudge
,ff to neighboripg villages on feast
Jays to take part in the capeas. Fuentes /