El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-23

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by fire at Deming belonged to the oil
ombination the people of that section
are expecting another elevation in the
price of oil.
| Bernaltllo county will hereafter re-
ceive $3.50 per annum for rent OF a
portion of the court house for the
United States district court, and for
an Office for the U. S. marshal.
The main line of the Ell Psso-Las Cru
ces Telephone company has beer tap
ped by q private wire which runs to
the office of the Rio Grande Dam & 1r-
rigatiOn company in the rear of the
bank at Las Cruces.
Arizona.
| All kinds of business in Tucson are
steadily increasing-sO say the mer-
chants.
! There ia quite real estate boom at
Tucson, principally in the locality of
the university.
Tucson's amateur talent was seen to
good advantage recently in the "Spy
OF Getty sburg."
The Arizona Sportsmen's associa-
| tion will hold it's annual meeting in
Tucson tomorrow.
There Is prospect again ofsecuring
| free mail delivery for Prescott by May
l, if the citizens do not again prevent
it.
The ST Louis Globe-Demoorat says
there is q strong probs bility that both
Arizona and New Mexico will be ad-
mitted to statehood.
Griffith was said to have hypnotized
the gamblers to the extent of about q
thousand dollars. He said it was only
couple of hundred.-Star.
The JournalMiner appears to take
stock in the statement of the weather
authorities that the barometer is fall
ing and snow is due any day.
The recent storm furnished water
supply for the Santa Fe Pacific rail-
road and the water train heretofore
run between Del Rio and Ash Fork on
the S. F., A. & P. railroad has been
taken off.
Flagstaff had Jail break on Monday
night. Eight prisoners escaped, among
| the numb Der being man named Fred
Coleman, formerly of Ysvapai county,
| who is charged with murder. Out
siders assisted in the Jail delivery by
passing tools in to them.
The Epworth League of Tucson, at
| its last meeting, elected Phil Hughes
president, George Parker secretary,
and Miss Grace Parker treasurer, and
several vice presidents. 1t is the in
| tention of the young people to make an
effort to build up the league.
The shipments of celery from Cali.
fornia for the first quarter ending Feb
| ruary l will be treble that of the like
period in previous years, Judging by
the car loads passing east through
Tucson daily. Four trains, largely of
celery and oranges, passed east Sun
day.
T. A. Dunshee, of the Buster mine,
has just obtained a patent to his acety-
| line lamp. This lamp is one that Mr..
Dunshee hopes to get before the pub
| lie particularly as mining lamp, al
| though it may be used for almost any
purpose giving beautiful clear light
at very economical cost.
Joe Mulhatton, in the Florence Tri-
bune, has revamped Pearl Hart in this
manner: "Since the advent of Pearl
Hart the number of female bandits
nae greatly increased in Pinal county
and elsewhere. 1t is no longer safe
slightly Intoxicated with any money in
his trousers pockets. Every house in
Florence seems to have a female ban
dit, and reign of terror prevails"
A. G. Oliver, the custodian of Whip
| pie barracks, has his hands full these
days. He is making an ocular survey
of the old post, sizing up the old build
ings, listing property on hand that Nc
Cords regiment didn't get away with,
and otherwise preparing report ss
long as Aguinsldo's proclamatio The
task Mr.. Oliver has to handle is in
deed heavy one, and It Is limited that
on its submission the preparatory work
of regenerating the barracks will be
| ipaugurated either at that point or a
new site will be selected near by. There
| is no doubt now but what this long an
ticipated military project is to be fully
realized and at once.-Journal-M Miner.
A peculiar accident happened to a
small Mexican boy near Tucson, the
other evening. The little fellow was
met on the San Xavier road by John
T. Etchells, whom he asked TO ride
behind on his wheel. The little fellow
was told to stand on the step and
away they went. Soon afterward TIE
boy managed to get his bare foot in
the chain which carried the foot to
the turn and there ground the big toe
and another with it. The boy cried
and Mr.. Etchells dismounted and tied
up the injured foot with handker-
chiefs, put him on the saddle and
| leading the wheel marched five miles
| to town, where the injured mem Der
was dressed.-Star.