El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-30
Pay Car Coming

Pay Car Coming
The G. n. pay car is scheduled 10
arrive 10 FL Paso tomorrow afternoon.
Under the new rule of paying Oh mere
on the 2Ssh of each month the car Is
two days late.
Big Ore Shipment.
The Guggenheim Smelling company
10 again dividing its business with the
q. q. 81 ). A. railroad, q shipment oil
twenty cars came over from the Sierra
Msdre last night, consigned 10 the
Mon serey -melLer via Eagle Pass
Shipping Native Grapes.
The Wells-Fargo Express company
s. doing a good business with the local
rrucz farmers this week. About Two
huadrsd boxes OF grapes go east from
here every night and the snip
nnsnts are oaily Increasing. Last hight
over four hundred boxes OF the fruit
we're :. tipped to the Houston and Cal
weston markets.
Shipping Commercial Coal.
The Colorado Fuel md Iron com
pany, VINO are operating the Captain
coal ,niues are fiuding markets other
rban among railroads for their product
The company Is now shipping from
FIVE to eight care per day over the
Southern Pacific to the trade In Ari-
iona. The G.. II. is taxing only about
f ve cara per day ss present, but It 10
said that under the late arrangements
made with the G. 81. that company will
take the entire output OF the mines.
Donned the ShirtwaIst.
All eyes were turned toward w. w.
Adams, the clever CLERK In the q. II.
freight Offices this morning, and for q
reason, too, for he was 'diked OUT In
q shirEwaist. A friend in New York
- responsible for the affair and Mr.
Adams's good nature Is responsible Tor
tne flashing touches. The New York
friend sent Mr.. Adams three OF the
"shings" and he said that he was "al
ways willing to do anything once" and
put one of them on.
Not Going to Houston.
The dispatches sent out from Hous-
ton and San Antonio about the changes
soon to occur In the local offices of the
southern Pacific are firmly denied by
=. z. Hunt, the commercial agent
here. Mr.. Hunt says the stories are
entirely without foundation In so far
as his work IL concerned. 81 will re-
tain my former position with the
company he said this morning,
and would not GO To Houston
under any circumstances. There will
De a division In she offices here aud the
passenger department. will likely be
put q the hands of Mr.. Speliicy, but
some OF the responsibility of my
hands"
The report IL curren. that Harry
Turner will be transferred, but this IL
also denied Harry ha. been With the
Southern Pacific for bout twelve years
and 81 Is said that II any change Is
made in his position Is will be promo
tioD.
The Show In Trouble.
Campbell Brothers Eshow IL not
likely to get ous OF Ell Paso for some
time 80 come. The show travels on Its
own cars and after their rounds
through tue west, they have landed In
FL Psso in bad condition. The cars
are old and are almost wrecked and IL
was stated this morning that they
could not make another trip without
repairs.
The Santa Fe shops here cannot
handle such heavy work as is needed
on the cars and It Is announced
that the Texas and Pacific
viii not receive the cars until they
are re paired. The T. & P. shops are
also unable to do the WORK, which
means that arrangements will have to
be made with thee. 81. shops. This
will require some two weeks, IL Is can |
Re done at all, and the probabilities |
are that the show will remain here
several weeks.
A Short Lived Fire.
At about FIVE minutes past five
7 yesterday evening the whole sowD
vas thrown into excitement by the G.
q. whistle blowing In short toot,.
Within q minute the fire bell and
y thistle were also trying TO see which
could make the most noise. The gen
sral i'm preston down town was that
he u. q. shops. which are the pride of
3. Pasr. were about to be consumed by
ire, and thousands of people started
or the scene q, once only to find that
: was Only wood pile in the q. 81.
arcs.
Some people questioned whether .
he department should have been ,
allied out but the great danger was {
.ot 80 much from the wood pile as it ;
vas that II the coal In the yards were
nee TO catch on fire enough water
ould not be had to put the fire out /
nc IT would mean big loss 20 the .
Dad. {
The fire was within one hundred ,
ards Of me one on the day before and
,as put on. IN novel way. There I
ras an engine in the coal yard and as .
Don as the fire was discovered the
ostler ran the engine to the fire and
pened the blow of cock and the steam
hecked the fire while the shop tire :
oys were coming out with sheir
Is bcock The city fire department
o; to the scene In . hurry and soon I
.sd a stream of water on the wood aud
oil Tho fun Haa over | 1