El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-19

Constructed the A. & 5. NJ. road to
Cloudcroft. another piece of mountain
climbing. In speaking of the Rock Is
land extensions on which he is work
ing Mr.. Sumner told a Herald report
| er this morning that the road is over
a rough and hard piece of ground
which would make it expensive con-
| structiOn. Where it was not rock it
was hard cement substance and con-
siderable shooting or blasting would be
required. 1t would be necessary to rise
about 1900 feet over the White Oaks
range and then drop 21OO feet to the
| Pecos river. Mr.. Sumner said the work
| was being pushed as rapidly as it was
possible to work the men. Several
gangs of over 900 men were at work
and he believed that the road would
| be put through according to schedule
about the first OF next September.
JUST PLAIN PITTSBURGERS.
A party of Pittsburg. Pa people
came in this morning on the G. III. in
the Pullman car Convoy and are spend
| ing today in the Pass City.
The party consists of Mr.. and Mrs.
X. Is. Mellon and their son, Master
Richard Mellon. Mrs. Alexander King
and her son, r. b. King. Dewaldt
Hicks and Mrs. Kleinfelter.
When questioned in regard to their
| business connections at home and the
objects OF their trip. member of the
party said. "Oh. we are just plain Pitts
| burgers And indeed they are. when
the word plain" is used synonymous
/ ~ with the terms frank. sincere and
unreserved.' and If they are typical
Pittsburgers the Smoky City must be
one of the most pleasant and hOspi-
table places on earth.
r. B. Mellon is of the firm of r. Mel
Ion and Sons. bankers. of Pittsburg.
being one of the sons.
These plain Pittsburgers are viewing
the plain Pass City and contiguous
places of interest today and when they
are through it will be plain to them
that they made no mistake in spending
a day here.
They will leave tomorrow morning
for Coronado Beach. Cal, and from
there they will go to other California
points. after which they will return
home by a northern route.
SUB.CoNTRACTOR SKIPPED.
c. G. Harwell. who had a sub-con-
tract on the Southwestern railway. now
being constructed in Sonora. under the
railroad contractors. Robinson &
Toohey. was fitted up with merchan-
and started to the scene of his work,
but instead of stopping where he was
to go to work. he took all he could
with him and started for New Mexico.
Mr.. Robinson was notified that Har-
well was making tracks for the land of
the stars and stripes with all the stuff
he could haul in a big wagon pulled by
six horses and he gave chase accom-
panied by deputy sheriff. He came in
sight of the runaway within nine
miles of the border line. but Harwell
cut loose one of the teams and escaped
into New Mexico. leaving the provis-
ions and other teams to be captured
by his pursuers.
The grade of the Southwestern line
has been completed into Mexico thirty
five miles and rails are laid a distance
of fifteen miles. and is progressing at a
rate of a mile a day.
TOOK OFF HIS FOOT.
Walter Graham the Ell Paso boy,
who was brought in from Sanderson
Sunday morning with a crushed foot,
was too weak to have an operation per-
formed until this morning when Dr.
Horsley, of St. Luke's hospital. to
which place he was taken. amputated
the foot.
Walter used to drive a wagon for
the Welis-Fargo Express company in
this city. but few weeks ago he left
for San Antonio. Not being satisfied at
that place he started to return home
and was riding a freight train. which
he attempted to jump from at San
derson while it was in motion. His
foot slipped and was caught by a car
wheel and run over.
The right foot was taken off short
distance below the knee and DR.. Hors-
ley says the patient is getting along
as well as could be expected, with
hopes for his recovery.
In the report of the accident Sat
urday it was said that he was work
ing for the G. H. railroad company, but
it has since developed that he was
not an emp1oye of the company, but
was just coming home from San An
tonic on that road when the accident
occurred
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.
Charles Scheidenmantle. stock and
land claim agent for the G. H.. is in
this city on business today.
Luke DeYoung. a former employee in
the G. Fl. car shops, left this morning
to go to work on the A. & N. NJ road
in Arizona.
H. s. Van Slyck. live stock agent of
the Santa Fee. left this morning over
the S. p. to go and mingle with the
stockmen of Arizona a few days.