El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-23


II wish to refute some statements
made by Coons and published in the
Times this morning" said A s. Nc
Religion. clerk of the G.. II. master me-
cbanic's office. to Link and Pin" this
morning.
Il se-e that ne says I made threats
against his life" said Mr.. McKelligon,
'.and IL is not true. All that | SAID 10
him was that he had to fight me |
think that he took advantage or my
brother and | went down to the no
near grocery yesterday afternoon anu
asked him out in the street to hght
me Ne would not come and | went
away Soon after | was arrested py
a constable and taken before Judge
Spencer. | learned that he had sworn
out a warrant for me. l was placed
under a bond to appear before Judge
Spencer next Tuesday to show cause
why ] should not be placed under
bond 10 keep the peace
Yesterday evening | met him on the
street nv the Lowdon bank He says
that he did not know / was there and
that. the first thing he knew about
INV presence was when L hit him
That Is not true. for / approached MN
face 10 face in the light and SAID:
Now you've got to iht.' He made
a motion as if to draw n gun and
hit him in the jaw. He fell Nat on his
hack on the walk and l waited mo-
ment for him to get up. Instead or DO
ing 50 he drew his gun l jumped on
MIN and attempted to wrench 1t from
him. Luckily / caught the gun in such
a way that my hand was between the
the hammer and the cylinder. for he
commenced swapping it, Every time
he snapped it the hammer cut into my
hand in the fleshy part between the
bases of the thumb and foreinger. IL
seemed that the bystanderS were AFRAID
to Interfere for fear of getting shot.
but Captain Ten Eyck soon came and
arrested US. We were taken to the po-
lice station and after 1 promised to ap-
pear before Recorder Patterson this
afternoon at O'Clock ! was released
al want it understood clearly that
have never made any threats against
his life and that he knew / was there
before / hit him yesterday evening be-
cause when I told him that he had to
fight he started to draw his gun before
I hit him"
Mr. McKelligon is laying off from his
work today to appear for trial
MILK IN THE LOCOMOTIVE BOIL
Err.
The Cortlandt correspondent of
Syracuse newspaper writes:
THAT mix is not equal to water as
a eam-producing agent was demon
strateG ON Tuesday morning on the
Erie and Central New York Railroad
by passenger train No z, winch leIt
Cincinattus at 7:30 o'clock and was
due in this city at 8. m. The train
stopped the water pump in Cincfn-
natus for supply of water for the
run to this city The water is pumped
from a creek through milk depot
by the same pump that forces milk
through large pipes into the watts. The
fireman. a new employee. started the
pump working. and after taking
aboard a sufficient quantity stopped
the pump and the tram started on its
run
seThe steam dropped rapidly and
such suffering about the guage took
place that the engineer became fright
ened. and at Freetown notified the dis
hatcher in this city that his engine had
gone wrong mad requested that an ex-
ire be sent to haul his train to the end
of its run. This was done, and the en-
CINE on its arrival here was sent to
the Yards for inspection. when it was
discovered that the boiler was filled
with milk instead of water.
"The fireman explains the mistake
by the fact that, owing to the peculiar
arrangements by which the water is
emptied into the tank he could not see
the liquid flowing and had no sus-
picion that he was filling the tank
with anything but water"
wHITCoMB EXCUR-
SIONS.
There were 145 people on the two
hitcomb excursion trains
that arrived over the G. H. yester-
day and forty-one on the one which
came in on the Mexican Central. 77
The Raymond Whitcomb excursions
are started from Boston and the ma
jority of these passengers are from
Boston and New York. but passengers !
are picked up at all eastern cities |
through which the specials pass.
The section which came in from |
had preceded the others west |
ward and went to the City of Mexico !
via Eagle Pass. 1t was absorbed by |
sections one and two at this place and |
al 1.-The Raymond-Whitcomb cars went !
west in two sections last evening at !
S: 80 and 6: 40. rr- - /
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.