El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-16
|, wAXAHACHIE PARTY.

A wAXAHACHIE PARTY.
H. Holland. vice president and gen
eraI manager of the Fit. Worth. New
Orleans. Central Texas K Northwest
ern railroad with headquarters al
Waxahachie. passed through over the
:. p this morning in an Austin q
Northeastern private car. on his way
to California. He is accompanied 10y
his family and the wife and child oi
p Natzow. draughtsman for the South
ern Pacific at San Antonio. They will
stop at Los Angeles. San Francisco and
other cities of California, they being
out on an exclusive pleasure trip.
TOO MANY TRAMPS.
A prominent railroader says he has
seen more tramps in FL Paso in the
last few days than were ever in the city
in that length of time before. Big,
strong men. he says. are keeping the
women of the east end scared to death.
And vet, he says. he saw an advertise
ment that 500 men were wanted at Las
Vegas III these men wanted work they
would have no trouble in finding IL.
EI Paso should have a means of max
ing them work out their vagrancy lines.
Treat them like some towns do and
they will give Ell Paso the right OF way
when they pass thorugh this section
OWNED THE HOLE.
For months and months there has
existed in a screen in the bay window
of the G. II. passenger depot hole. a
big hole. big enough to throw Dig
dog through and never scratch him.
One day a man pointed sarcasticaily at
the hole and asked a woman, DO you
reckon the s. p. company owns this
building?" II am sure I do not know.
49, hrrf II
they own the hole of it, Well. that
old screen with the big hole in 1t has
been taken away and this morning
bran new one is in its place, adding an
improved look to- the place and even
Spellicy looks better through the good
screen than through that jagged hole.
A YARDMASTER'S ERROR. 30.
Billy Reed. the well known yardmas-
ter for the G. II. at Sanderson. made
break the other day which will require
several years to be forgotten and until
il is. Billy will be tormented into hys-
terics about it by his fellow workmen.
BiIly's wife is away from home and
between his work and other things he
had not written to her as promptly as
his conscience told him that he should.
So when he did get his pen in hand one
fine morning he thought he would
make up for his negligence by writ
ing her two letters. On his way to
mail them he met up with several rail-
readers and told them what a smart
boy he was to- write his wife two let
tiers and then passed on to find a letter
box in which to mail them. The boys.
whom he had told about writing the
letters. were incidentally looking in his
direction when they were shocked to
see him slip the letters into trash box
As he came back by the boys they told
aim that il those were really letters
that he put in that box his wife would
never see them. He became indignant
at their insinuations that he didn't
know a letter box when he saw it.
but they finally became so earnest that
ne went and got them out The boys
say that Billy has been there about
ten years and the chances are that IL
he has been writing any letters that
he has been putting them in the trash
boxes all that time.
MONEY CIRCULATING.
In paying Burkholder. agent of the
Crescent News company. at the G. III. |
depot. for a lunch last night. a man |
rendered him a half dollar which |
Burk's quick eye at once saw was not |
good money. Again this morning an |
other man in paying for his lunch Of |
fered in payment a dollar which Burk |
as bad at once and refused to |
accept ii.
II seems that because Burk would let /
a woman run him down with roller |
skates and hit himself in the head with |
a bell. he is taken for an easy mark.
There seems to be a great deal of /
spurious money in circulation in Ell
Paso and vicinity. New Mexico ex-
changes are reporting the detection of 1
many counterfeits in that territory
and James A. Walker. of the United |
States secret service. went north over |
the White Oaks route yesterday morn
ing to look for the queer that is being
pushed in that country.
Mr.. Walker found several S. bills of
spurious money in Ell Paso and at the
White Oaks depot he found a counter
felt dollar in the cash that Agent Nor
ris had taken in exchange for tickets
When you get a dollar. il you are for
innate enough to get one. give IL n
s~irl on the counter to see If IL has the
right ring If by some streak of good
luck you should receive a SIS bill ex-
anime II closely. for your streak of
good luck might turn out to be like a
pipe dream. which when you awake in
rreases your woe because OF having
ihcught that you had that which you
nave not.
BOILING OVER.
From the many remarks overheard
u the depots this morning one would
come to the conclusion that
has been done to set the
pot of wrath to boiling.
The trouble is the appointment of Ten
;yck to the night captaincy.
The railroaders have nothing per-
onal against Ten Eyck but they say