El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-19

CONRAD PROMOTED.
A. l.. Conrad. for the past eighteen
months local joint agent of the A. 7.
K s r. and Santa Fe Pacific at Aibu-
uueruue has been promoted to the gen
eraI authorship of the Southern Kan
sas division OF the Santa re. r. w.
Pate. who has been agent of the road
1t Ration for several years. viii sue
led Mr.. Conrad at Albuquerque
NEW S. p. DEPOT.
The S. r.. will soon erect new pas
senger depot at San Antonio. IL IS TO
be a modern two-story brick building
to cost between forty and fifty tnous-
and dollars IL will be used as union
depot by the NJ. X. and T.. and the 5.
A. and A. p The city council of San
Antonio has granted the company the
right to lay switches and tracks on the
new depot site.
WITHOUT \ PARALLEL.
A novel suit is up before the courts
at Austin w y. Cakes. of Lamar
county. has sued the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe railroad company for
damages which he alleges he has suf-
fered on account of the company hav-
ing planted Bermuda grass on its rail-
road bed which runs through his field.
He says the grass mas so spread into
his fields that he can not check Its
growth and cultivate the land where IL
has got start. This is the first case
of its kind and there is not a decision
on the question or parallel case on
record. \
TOUGH ON OFFICIALS.
Applicants Ter railway passes are be-
ing informed that no passes for 1901
will be issued prior to December 18th
ha ri N
the year. The sentiment of the recent
meeting of the executive officers of
the western roads at St. Louis. was in
favor of the gradual abolition of pass
es and il is expected that there will be
adopted before the end of this year a
rule TO charge one cent a mile for all
exchange transportation in 1901. A
commit ee with headquarters in Chi
cago is now working with that object
in view
ENLARGEMENT OF SHOPS.
The Santa Fe shops at Albuquerque
are TO he enlarged. Although it has
been definitely decided to enlarge them
and the plans for the new buildings are
being drawn the erection of them will
not begin until the first of next year.
The shop force is now over five hum
dred men and when the enlargement of
the shops are made the force will be
increased to over a thousand Citizens
of Albuquerque are inclined to feel
pretty big about the enlargement of
the shops. claiming that il will lead to
an increase in their population of five
thousand within two years The shop
improvements following so closely on
the new depot proposition gives the
citizens cause to hug theselves little
IMPRISONED IN A CAR. -I
Two days in a refrigerator car" is
"A song that a certain hobo is singing
through Arizona and the chances are
that he is singing it loud and long in
the Arizona back yards In Tucson
this knight of the rods. bumpers. ties
or any old thing. crawled into a re-
frigerator car and few minutes later
an attendent in the yards came along
aud locked the car. Two days later a
passerby heard his cries for help and
liberated him. There was a picture
for Judge" when that hobo came to
the door He was wrapped in rage
from head TO foo, this operation being
performed in endeavors to keep warm.
He stepped into the sunlight that
streamed in at the newly opened door,
shivered and cussed. and that man
who gave him his liberty lost for
tune by not having his kodak with him
The hobo tore off the rags and started
A FUNNY ACCIDENT.
At the White Oaks depot this morn
ing a few minutes before the train left,
there happened one of these funny
cases of bsent-mindedness which
makes the fellow. whom the joke is on,
want to go out and administer a good
kicking to himself. A man rushed in
and told Agent Morris he wanted a
ticket to Captain and threw down a
$40 bill to pay for it. He got his tick
ct and put it in his mouth for safe
keeping while he put the change in his
purse. all the while keeping a suspi
cious eye on a newspaper man who had
stepped aside to let him into the tick
ct window. When he had deposited
his money in his pocket he rushed out
like he didn't have a second to lose.
In am oment he was back and running
up to the newspaper man. he asked.
excitedly. Did | drop my ticket around
here anywhere" Morris from the tick
ct window looked like he wished he
had a brick. then he said Il guess that
Is il you have in your mouth" II
wouldn't have taken anything like
brick to knock that man down. He
took the ticket from his mouth. said.
oh. and ran out again.
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.
Three cars OF cattle for the local
market came in on the G. III. yesterday.
Ten new freight cars. a part of a
new car equipment that has been or
dered for the S. p. went through west
yesterday.
Two of the l.. K n. baggage cars in
which the baggage of the Grau opera
company was transferred to Los An