El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-26
PASS LIMIT EXTENDED.
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.

| Engineer Wolfe fthe G. H.. is off
sick and has been for the past few days.
| c. R. Nelson, a tinsmith in the G. H.
shops, has returned to work after be-
ing off sick about week.
Rudolph Hudepohl. blacksmith in
the G. H. shops, has returned to work
after being off sick several days.
Engineer DeCourcey. of the G.. H.,
who came in from Valentine sick Sat
urday. is still unable to return to work.
| The boiler of engine 9O5 of the G. H.,
was loaded on a car this morning for
shipment to Houston where it will re-
ceive a new firebox.
P. ]. Breen of the G. H., shops, who
has been sick with typhoid fever at
ST. Luke's hospital for several weeks,
has returned to work.
Engineers Banes and Halle. of the
G.. H., took a short lay off in order to
spend Christmas day at home in Ell
Paso with their families.
| F. Il. Houghton, division passenger
| agent of the A. t. & S. F., left last
night for different points in New Mex
| leo on business for the road
c. V. Light, of Guayamas. chief
clerk to General Manager Naugle of
the Sonora road. left for the east this
morning on the Sunset Limited after
spending Christmas in Ell Paso.
1t is reported that r. E. Twitchell.
assistant attorney for the Santa Fe, is
a candidate for the office of United
States attorney for New Mexico and a
petition to that effect has been sent to
Washington.
a. Mum. foreman of the round
house. and J. w. Lucas. foreman of
the blacksmith shop of the G. H., re-
turned Monday night from their visit
to their timber claim in the Sacrament
to mountains.
James Schofield has come from Hous-
ton and accepted the position of fore
man of the G. H., boiler shops in this
city. His father occupies the same po-
sition with the S. A. & A. P, at Yoa-
KUN.
Harry Edwards, the G. H. stenciller
who also keeps a record of all passing
passenger cars and any defects they
may have, is sick and the latter part of
his work is being done by Clarence Nc
kfe, OF the master mechanics Office.
r. D. Moore. Robert Sykes and John
Scott. machinistS. have come from
Houston to work for the G. H. in this
city. The former is working in the
back shop and the other two in the
round house.
Fireman Morton. of the G. H., went
to Valentine last night to take the
place of Fireman Gilbert, who took the
place of Hostler Welsh. the man who
held al cannon cracker in his hand
till IL exploded. thinking it was Ro-
man candle.
Mickie Welsh. the G. II. hostler at
Valentine, came in yesterday morning
and went to Hotel Dieu to have a hand
treated. At Valentine on Monday night
he thought he was firing a Roman can
die but it was a cannon firecracker that
he was holding and when the explosion
came it carried away his thumb and
the two fingers next to it.
A. l.. Burkholder, the pleasant news
agent and lunch man at the S. p. depot
is more pleasant than usual this morn
ing. The cause is the arrival at his
house last night of a fine boy baby.
Burk says other people may brag of
their Christmas presents, but it is few
II any, that can boast of one as va1u- |
able as his.
Tourist Agents Cook and McIlroy
passed through yesterday with well !
filed cars. McIlroy, the Minneapolis
man, arrived at Flatonia on the S. A. |
& A. p. road three hours late and the |
6. Fl. train was gone. He was taken |
to San Antonio by a special engine |
and the G. HI. passenger train waited |
for his car at that place.
The railroad shipments club had a |
great time at their turkey shoot yes
,erday. One of the party said that the /
BULLS eye, a four inch black spot, was
annihilated at the end of
he fourth round and in order to con-
.inue the fun it was necessary to sew
IN a new bulls eye to the target This
1t distance of 200 yards and on
Christmas besides is remarkably good
shooting