El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-12

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Worth & Denver and has cast his lot
with either the Rock Island or the
Choctaw. 1t is further stated that ne
has been working on scheme to buy
the Sierra Madre and extend it under
the directions of some other road to
the coast.
Mr.. Jones is an expert railroad build
er and not an operator and has been
watching Mexico for many years.
Jones is up to some scheme" said a
local railroader this morning, land
you can depend on it that he is not
going to Mexico for pleasure. He new
er had a days pleasure and never look
ed for it. He is a business man and
everything he does is along some bus
mess scheme"
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.
Switchman Ives. of the G. H., went
to work this morning after a three-day
lay-otf.
Eighteen people boarded the east
bound Sunset Limited this morning 1T
this place.
John and Will Jackson. G. H. fire
men, who have been spending a week
with relatives at Alpine. returned
home this morning.
WI al Z III tic StICo
at Oregon and Stanton streets and
Mesa avenue on the Southern Pacific
as ordered by the council several
months ago.
w. S. Rue, the T. G P. hostler who
has been off the past few days on ac-
count of being sick has returned. He
was very sick for awhile and an opera
ton was necessary to relieve him.
W. B. Gilman, a G. H. switchman,
left this morning for Benson, Arizona,
to look over the field with a view to
accepting a position as yardmaster for
the S. p. at that place.
Dick Turner, a well known railroad
man formerly of Ell Paso, is in the
city from Mexico where he is a con-
tractor on the Mexican Central. Dick
is now building a dam for the Central
at Lermo.
On account of the rush of freight
business over the T. & L., two extra
crews have been put on and another
will be put on soon. Two extra
brakemen, John Marquis and Ed
Halves were added today.
Sam Carter. passenger engineer of
the G. H.. returned this morning from
Houston where he has been attending
as chairman of the grievance commit
tee of the b. of l.. E. of this city.
A. c. Wright, a brakeman on the
Santa Fe running out of Ration, n. NJ,
died of typhoid fever in the railroaL
hospital at Las Vegas Sunday night.
Deceased's father, an engineer from
n. Y. was with him when
he died and took the body home with
him.
Charles B. Sloat, general passenger
agent of the Chicago. Rock Island az
Texas railroad. came in from Fort
Worth last night and left for Los An
geles this morning. -dr. Sloat's family
are spending the winter in Los An
geles for the benefit of Mrs. Sloat's
health and he was on his way to pay
them a visit.
F. B. Houghton of the Santa Fe and
agent Brown of the same
company. returned last night from
weeks trip to Guaymas and Hermo-
sillo, Sonora. Mr.. Houghton says bust
ness is very good in that section and
new mines and other enterprises are
being opened up every week. He pre-
1icts a great future for that section
and says Guaymas will some day be
IN important harbor.
The orange shipments over the S. P.
10 this place and over the T. & P, east
ward are still on the increase. The |
T. & p, is now putting on double |
leaders to pull the long train of cars |
oaded with oranges. between a.
n, and p. m, yesterday ITO cars of |
oranges went east over the T. e p,
md the shipments between this morn
ng and tomorrow morning will |
mount to 135 cars.