El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-14
Christian Science Church.

The first church of Christ, Scientist,
was formally dedicated at FIT Worth
last Sunday, Mrs. A. J. Roe and Mrs
w. B. Timer are the readers.
Kerosene and Death.
No less than six deaths from the
careless handling of kerosene have &C
CURED in Texas within three DAYS, and
thirty have occurred since the first OF
the year.
Texas Exports
Texas is now exporting watsrmelons,
cucumber tomatoes, roasting ears,
iessamipe buds and other delicate pro-
ducts as we'll as potatoes, wheat, cotton,
and mulee.
Dallas paVements.
Dallas alec cent q commission to
other cities 20 study the paving ques-
tion and the mayor and his party
have returned undecided between
vitrifed brick and asphalt.
ALeft Handed Compliment.
San Antonio and Waco have plenty
of hot artesian wells. We have always
coutende ed that hades wasn't over half
q mile from these towns, because they
are such warm numbers.-Austin Tri-
bune.
Hare a Type Sucker.
In these DAYS of Colonel Luther
Hare's new honors, some of his old &C
ouaintances call 10 mind the other DAYS
when he used to set type on the old
Sherman Courier. It seems to be the
opinion that he was a frst.rate printer.
Toxae DonuIafiou
A Texan In New York gave out in an
interview that the biggest surprise Of
the census would be the Texas showing.
He predicts tbat Texas will have the
greatest gain OF any state and tbst her
total will be near the four million mark.
Federal Building at Abilene.
Uncle Sam is going to put up a fine
brick building near the court house.
which will be great Improvement TO
the town and it's interests and prop
erty. Also Abilene is to have the
state epiIeptic asylum and fne
substantial building will be erected
for its purposes.
Hod Carriers at Fl North.
Gompers has been asked to go to FIT
Worth to take charge of the bod car
riere strike there. The bod carriers
want 81 per day for brick carriers,
1925 for mortar carriers and 81. ~ for
common laborers with an eight hour
day. The contractors offered Is 3D.
cents per hour for common labor, 20
cents an hour for brick carriers and %
1-2 for mortar carriers. Both sides want
ed to compromise butcould BOT agree on
q scale. TIE contractors will probably
employ non-union labor Informatio
from Dallas lie that bod carriers there
get $3.50 for their highest price for
eight and half hours work.
Counterfeit Molds Captured.
United States officers routed out q
gang of alleged counterfeiters at San
Antonio, arrested three men, @. Nc
Carthy. Ike Brown, and Doc Smart,
and captured molds, and gold and sill
yer solutions. The molds we're for five
dollar gold pieces and silver Mexican
dollars and in the several months that
the gang has been at work, 81, 600 has
been turned out. One of the gang e.
capped: of the Others, Ike Brown has
but just finished a term for counter
feitine and another Of the quartet is
said to be a veteran manufacturer of
the "queer" in Mexico.
Dead Chlnaman Mystery.
San Antonio Is myssif3ed over a |
dead Chinaman who was found in his |
room with two big gaping wounds in |
his throat. 1t is not known whether |
he committed suicide or was murder |
ed. The man died Of a broken neck |
but the question 10 did he cut his ows
throat twice first and then hang |
himself. The Cinnamon say he was |
q gambler and heavily in debt and |
dependent. They gave him a regular
Chinese funeral scattered bits of
paper, printed with scarlet hierogly- |
phics, along the route to the cemetery
to keep the demons away, put plenty |
OF food on his grave that the dead |
man might not go hungry, and burnt
incense sticks in profusion.
Texas And the Worlds Fair.
Aspeeial from Houston to the St.
Louis Globe Democrat says: The
action of Congressman Bailey, Henry.
against she appropriation for the St.
Louis Worlds Fair is not in accord
with what the people of the state of
Texas would have directed them to do
had they had the opportunity. John
Howard, the passenger and immigra-
tfon agent of the Southern Pacific sys-
tenn, is already working up interest in
having Texas properly represented in
St. Louis. He declares that the e1-
hfbit is to include the products of the
farm, orchard and garden: mines,
mills and factories of Texas-au ex-
hibit that will be credit TO the state,
to her people and to her railroads.
Ell Paso should not let the Texas
wealth be represented alone by the |
vegetable and cotton of the eastern
part. but should see that the southe /
VESTS splendid mineral resources ar
given q worthy showing.