El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-20

home a week ago to go 10 81 Loui
80 bave a new artificial leg made. bu
,ctinq under the advisement OF raii
road friends he stopped of at Daiia
70 see a man there whom the boys rec
onnmended. He found the man to
as proficient in leg making as any MAJ
in the business in st. LOUIS ana ma
him take the measure for MS new ies
"a. also had him repair the old one 81
,t,.t 3, will do him until he gets tn
new one. which will be in about 1--WE
weeks Mr.. Eckman says he is gla'
IN get hack TO FL Paso. In Dalla
when he was there they were havlni
the usuaI damp. murky. cold weathe
Of eastern Texas at this time OF year
BLESSED are they who have chosen Il
Paso for their home
SANTA FEE OFFICIALS &C
THROUGH.
4 Santa Re special. bearing dis
tiueuished party of officials OF the roae
passed through FL Paso today The
train consists of two cars and has OF
hoard the following officials: IA u
Nudge. general manager: G. +. REESE
guie. general superintendent; w. h.
story. chief engineer: G. w kouns.
superintendent OF car service; j. r.
Hurley. superintendent of New Mexico
and Rio Grande division. and his as
sistant. J. r. NcNally. All members OF
the party are from Topeka except MT.
Hurley. who is from San Marcial and
Mr.. McNalIy. who is from Las Vegas
They arrived over the Santa re at
u:3O this morning and left over the
T. & p. this afternoon at O'CLOCK
They go back over the T. K +. to Pecos
from where they take the Pecos valley
road to Amarillo. this being their
shortest cut to the Panhandle division
of the Santa Fe. The party Is out
on an inspection trip of the different
lines of the Santa Fe company.
Steve Johnson. a T. & p engineer
piioted the party OF Santa Fe officials
over the T. & p. to Pecos this after
noon. .!
HE WANTED TO KEEP HIS TICKET
A travelling man at the Sheldon tells
the following story on a San Antonio
man: Until last June when | came to
vi Paso on the Teachers excursion
from San Antonio | thought that all OF
the tales told on the raw countrymen
were manufactured by the funny writ
ers. but I now understand more about
the possibilities. When We got on the
train at San Antonio the last of June
to come to FL Paso il was only an ordi-
nary looking crowd and among the
number was an old man probably sew
enty years old who planked himself
down on the seat opposite me.
After awhile the conductor came
around and asked for tickets. He had
seen mine but stopped opposite the old
gentleman. waiting patiently for some
time but my vis-avis gave no evidence
OF understanding. Finally the conduc-
tor said quietly: Tickets. Yes. / got
one said the ancient Texan Let me
have it, please. said the conductor.
What fur was the response; l amt
going TO give up no ticket till / gets
back. because this ones for Ell Paso
and comes back again. and like as not
some other Teller will be holdin' your
job by that time
1t took the conductor about ten
minutes to prevail upon the old gentle
man to produce the ticket and even
then after il was explained to him and
the going portion torn off. he took it
out of his pocket about every fifteen
minutes and read it all over. Finally
he put it back. and with a sigh looked
at me and said I reckon it's all right
but you can't always tell about these
fellers.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
The railroad commission has handed
down its decision on the application of
Weld & Neville of Houston, represent
ing the Lowry round bale presses. The
unanimously declined to
grant the application for a hearing.
rhe propositions presented to the COM
mission are:
First-To, prescribe that $4,000
pounds shall constitute the minimum
urrn IF N hn ha MI nv ha
-aiIroads in this state. and
Second-That the freight rate for the |
of cotton in round bales, |
rom common point territory IN this |
tate to Houston. Tex. shall be $1.50 |
,er car.
The commission after reviewing the |
;ase thoroughly. closes its opinion as |
olIows:
And il seems to us that the question |
or us to determine is this: Is il wise. |
s IL Just Tor this commission by it's |
oiemn act. to say that we will force |
he abrupt abandonment of a very
arge number OF gins and congresses |
n this state, and force the producers |
md dealers in cotton to adopt new ma
which now only handles one
.enth OF the three million bales pro-
iuced in this state.
We have not the charters of these
various round bale companies before
rs and are not prepared to say whether
my of them are or could become mo-
lopolies. Indeed. it is contended that
Ill Of them but one company sells their
and the right to use it. and
without contending that we should not
make rates. rules and regulations for
he transportation of all freights,
sbether produced or manufactured by
, monopoly or not. we do say that. in
,ur judgment. any order by this com
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