El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-20


most direct route to any place a man
would want to go and for that reason
the company adopted that trade mark
The arrow will be printed on all the
| folders and stationery of the road and
every car owned by the company will
| carry the trade mark.
WE ARE GROWING.
| There's a new house. and there's a
new house. and there's another new
| house. and I saw several others as
came IN. and I'll declare / believe they
were built since | passed through here
| two weeks ago" saI0 an excursion
agent at the depot this morning.
This town grows the fastest of any
town I ever saw and is sure To be
town of 100, OOC inhabitants in a few
years" continued the agent: they
are talking about FL Paso back east.
Wherever | go l hear people talking
about Ell Paso. They all say Ell Paso
is a great place and is going to be
greater then they look down ct the
ground end sadly shake their heads.
| But that water. my. my. but that is
bad: # Ell Paso would just get good
drinking water it would son be town
of 10O. 900 people. Say, what are they
going to do about it? Is this place
going to continue keeping people away
from it by giving them water that eats
out their insides? They are going to
get some better water soon. aren't
they?" He was told that they were.
but the man that said it looked like
the man who wrote to his friend back
east that we had electric cars and then
the friend gave him a surprise by max
ing him q visit and the first thing he
wanted tC do was to go over to Juarez
on the electric cars. We'll. it is like
this" stammered the liar. Il thought
we would have them before you came"
DID COOK DO 1T?
do you know that excursion agent
named Cook that comes through here
with a Cincinnati carr" asked an S. |
p. conductor of an excursion agent this |
morning.
"Archie Cook? Well. l should say |
do know him. answered the agent. |
well. that fellow did me the mean !
est trick that I ever had done to me-"
said the conductor: Il am from Old |
Kaintuck and l have some friends back |
there who would not think anything |
of making me a present of a gallon of
good old sour mash. l gave this man |
Cook a letter of introduction to one |
of them and told the friend to send |
me a gallon of the best mountain dew !
he could get Cook found my friend |
who said he was glad to be able TO do |
such a small favor. Then what do you
think that man Cook did? He let one
of his passengers get ffand get snake
bit and had to pour the last drop of my |
liquor down his throat to save his life
He didn't do it, said the agent |
Il know he didn't do it.
Archie Cook is the best man in the
perfesh and I'll champion him against
any such accusation any time. He
didn't do it,
CONTRACTOR DEAD.
Eugene Courtney. railroad con-
struction contractor aged about So.
died on North Stanton street this NOR
ming at o'clock after an illness of
two days. He was taken down with
which resulted in heart
causing his death. He had re-
sided in FL Paso two years and 1T is
said that he lost his wife within the
last year. 1t is also said that he had
a contract to construct portion OF the
E. p & n. E. extension Relatives will
arrive tonight and make preparations
'or the disposal of the body, which will
be shipped TO San Antonio for
nterment-
GIVE FOR WHAT 1T IS WORTH.
A persistent rumor is current on the i
streets that the Rock Island and Mex
can Central railway officials are hold
ng a conference today at Mexico City.
There is no way at hand to confirm I
his rumor, but it is given for what it t
S worth.
If the report is true it bears out The .
Ierald's published statement that the ;
sock Island and Mexican Central in C
end to consolidate. For such a con- S
erence between officials would be c
eld for no other purpose. .
PARKS FROM THE ENGINE. C
Sunset" Hunt came il home last
igft from a successful forage for bus $
ness in Arizona.
S HILL the day caller at the G. H.
ound house, is again at work after
few days sickness, though not yet T!
ully recovered.
George Thompson, a New Orleans C
'ullman conductor. passed through :,
his morning on his first through trip
D San Francisco. r
Robert hammers. yard clerk ut the
!. H. local freight house. has been I'M
BILE to work the past few days on ac- n
cunt of being sick.
Billy Truscott. who had his foot
mashed while at work in the round