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


versatiOn ensued:
"Hello,"
Who is this?"
THE saloon"
We'll, this is A woman
armed with a Ratchet. just now got OIL
a train at the union depot She asked
a policeman the way to your saloon
and upon being told, started off in that
direction You'd better look out May
be she's Mrs Nation"
''Phewi Well, we'll be ready to re-
ceive the lady
Then the newspaper man, who was
next door to the place in question.
strolled in and wonderingly watched
the proprietor and bartender hide the
stock of liquors and, arming them
selves with six-shooters, await the ar
rival of the lady with the Ratchet OF
course she never came.
NEW INTERPRETATIONS.
The following charters were fled
in the Office of the secretary of state at
Austin Tuesday:
Sabine Development company, of
Orange Capital stock, $4,000. Pur-
pose to prospect for oil, build and OPP
crate Oil pipe lines, etc. Incorporated
by c. F. Pannewiz. c. NJ. Hunt, w. A.
Addison and others.
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Capital stock. $4,000. Incorporated
by Edward Rogers, of Alton, ILL.,: w.
F. Robinson, James H. White, b. LII
man and w. J. Harris. of Ell Paso-
The G. w. Deaton company, of Eagle
Lake, Tex.-CapItal stock, 100000 Pur-
pose to transact general mercantile
business. Incorporators. w. G. Dea-
ton, G. II. Deaton and Q. F. Walker
and others.
-,-te ion,
company. of Houston, filed an amend
ment to its charter increasing the cap
ital stock from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900.
RIP FoRD'S WIDOW DEAD.
Mrs. Addie Norton Ford, widow of
the late Col. John S. (Rip) Ford, the
celebrated Indian fighter. died in San
Antonio Tuesday. La grippe has
tened the aged lady's end, she being So
years old. She was buried by the side
of her distinguished husband, in the
Confederate cemetery. at San Antonio. |
Mrs. Ford was born in Middleholden. |
Conn, in 1888. She came of the Swift |
Strong family, being a direct descend !
ant of Dean Swift, the English satirist. |
She was a cousin of former Mayor |
Strong. of New York City. She mar |
ried Col. Ford in 1861, who was at that |
time in command of Southwest Texas
HEADQUARTERS at fOTL bTOWH- MIS-
Ford's father. Daniel Swift, was at one
time Consul from the United States to ]
Mexico.
BEATEN BY THUGS.
Kirk Bramble, a veteran newspaper
man. aged about so years., and we'll
known in nearly all the principal cities
of the South, was knocked down and
beaten to death and robbed in Texar-
kama. He was a Union soldier in the
war of secession and had received his
quarterly pension only few days ago.
OF this the robbers got about half,
a roll of bills in the vest
pocket. Bramble's head and face pre-
sent a Sickening appearance, but he
will recover.
NOMINATED.
At Houston the special primaries Sc
lected J. D. Woolford as the democratic
candidate for mayor, to succeed S H.
Brashear, resigned. Woolford was
the candidate of the faction which ex-
Mayor Brashear dominates, so there
will be no change in politics if he is
elected. II
ECHO OF THE STORM.
Rather than suffer the pangs of pow
erty, an old man about so years old
known only to his intimates as Philip,
suicide in Galveston by TAX
ing strychnine. He lost his property
in the storm and since that time has
constantly brooded over his troubles.
KILLED IN EXPLOSION
In Lufkin, the boiler of the dry kiln :
at Kurth's mill exploded at about s
o'clock this morning, instantly killing .
George Britain the fireman and caus-
ing damage to the property of $4,000.