El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-08
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Daily Mail Service.

Daily Mail Service.
A daily mail service on the FL Paso
ana Northeastern railroad between Ell
Paso and Captain, N. M. has been
started Ezekiel ] Fowler and Her
bart q Hart have been appoin ted
clerks at S240 year.
The Fourth Damage Suit.
The fourth suit in two days was filed
today against the Mexican Central
railway, by r. G. Walker, former
ages for INJURIES received while cOupl-
ing cars on the 18th of March, 1900, at
Noe, Durango, Mexico, ten miles north
OF Torreon.
New Mexican Central Wells.
Heretofore the Mexican Central has
been running short OF water at Juarez
but they don't intend to let it happen
any more Several wells ara being
sunk at the north end of the round
hous yards and Mr. Ogden says he is
confident that they will keep good
supply of water even in the dryest
weather.
Santa Fe Prosperity
The report of the expenses and re-
ceipts Of the Atchison Topeka & Santa
for the fiscal year just closed, shows
that there was q decrease In operating
expenses of SS5 ISL and an increase In
net earnings of IS, 300. 76l.
Engine Overhauled.
Passenger enpine No. l of the Sierra
Madre line has just been given a gen.
reZ, receiving new tank. new hrebox
and other improvements, and made it's
first trip out this. morning. Master
Mechanic Ste wart says that No. l Is
one Of the best and swiftest little
engines In the country, being capable
Ct N AKIN 2 even y miles an hour.
They Obeyed Orders
Geo gs Gould, while In attendance
at a meeting Of the Union Pacific rail-
road directors, lighted a cigarette. |
"Drop that cigaret e." said Chairman |
Harrlmau. 81 have issued an order |
for bidd ing EN- oloyes to smoke oigaret- |
tes. You ara an employee; you get
$40 for attending one of these meet
ings. You too, Mr.. Schiff," address,
ing another millionaire director who |
was toying with a lighted perfecto. |
I'VE directors must not make rules |
for employees and then break them |
ourselves" The distinguished en-
ployes quietly obeyed orders.
West Texas Moving On.
c. A. Waterman, commercial agent |
of the Iron Noun tain route, has return
ed to Dallas from q trip through west |
Texas and makes q glowing report of
the prosperous condition of the country
between Fl Worth and Ell Paso on T.
& P. and all along the Denver road in
the panhandle, according to the Dallas
News. He says that Texas has never !
before been in such fac circumstances
aud prospects for the welfare OF the
people and the railroads were never
better. He says everybody in west
every pa: ssnger train on west Texas
roads Is loaded down with Texas peo-
pie attending to business and having .
good time.
Engineer Rollins Dead.
A W Rollins, the Mexican Central
engineer. who was brought to Ell Paso
about week ago and placed in Hotel
Dieu. died yesterday morning. He
cancer when he was brought here and
WAS uot expected to live long.
Fhe Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers have taken the body
n charge and have had Nag
ey 81 Lyons prepare it for burial. De-
ceased said he bad sister and daughter
q DeKalb, Illinois, but although the
broth hood have telegraphed to the
addresses he left for Instructions in
'egard to the disposal of the body, they
lave received no reply and II they do
lot by tomorrow they will bury the
'emains here.
jen. Grant In a Wreck. +,
Though IL is true that many q life !
las been saved by jumping from ,
-ehicles that are being run away with /,
md trains that are being wrecked IL
3 held by many who have studied on
he matter that 1t is the safer to stay q
18th The vehicle or train. To illustrate =
at theory the following story is told q
bout GeEersl Grant and his GOODNESS a
q the time of q wreck. He was in a :,
a!lway car which went off the track 4
rain went over he called 10 his fellow
asseugers, Hold fast to your seats" r
Whether or not anyone profsed by his a
dvice is not told, but the general h
eeced his own advice and emerged =
ON the car still chewing the cigar a
htch he haG ia his mouth when the a
,cident occurred. =
. D. Shepard Here. ]
a D Shepard, of San Francisco, Il
eneral freight agent of the Southern
aci 6c, arrived in Ell Paso yesterday q
d Is private car, ''Sunset,'' on his C
.turn home from New Orleans. He is r
bending today in this city at the re- +
lest Of his old friends. Mr. Shepard f
as citizen of Ell Paso in the sos, be- O
lg station agent for the P and serv- O
e term as city alderman. He is p
cry popular in Ell Paso, as when q Citizen y
2 proved himself to be an excellent b