El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-11
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also there They met in Phoenix an,
| were well entertained by the citizens
Where the Denver e. FIT. Worth roaC
will be crossed by the Rock Island ex
tension has heretofore been Gale,
Twist. but the name will be changed
cured, union depot will be erected
and quite little town is expected t,
| grow up at the crossing.
| An S. p. conductor says that a Gil;
monster stopped freight train in Ari
IONA one day last week. 1t was mashed
on the track, making the rail so slicl
/ that the engine wheels slipped. bu
after a liberal sanding of the rail the
| train was enabled to proceed without
damage.
| The east bound Sunset Limited ar.
| rived yesterday morning about two
| hours and a half late and was held
here over half an hour to get a draw
head fixed. Chief Car Repairer Bor-
cherding and force are said to have
done some remarkably quick work in
getting the repairs made.
Engineer Hammer. who for several
years ran an engine out of this city
and later out of Tucson on the S. P.
left Saturday night for Kansas to set
tie dow non his farm and retire from
railroad life. In point of service he
was one of the oldest engineers on the
S. p. but preferred a freight to a pas
senger engine and refused all offers of
a change.
G. V. Martin, government inspector
of car couplers. came in from the west
one night the latter part of last week
and is spending several days in Ell
Paso inspecting cars of the several
roads running into this city. He was
formally in the train service of the S.
P. at this place and is popular among
both railroad men and citizens gener-
ally.
Frank Lucas and Tom Williams. who
was employed in the G. H. shops at
this place for several years. but who
left about two weeks ago for Chihua-
hua to work in the Central shops. re-
turned Saturday night. They say they
came home to get something to eat.
The work is all right. they say. but
the stuff they were given to eat was
simply awful. They expect to go to
Tucson to work in the S. p. shops at
that place.
The Pullman car Pilgrim. contain
ing a party of prominent people from
Pittsburg. Pa, came in on the Next
can Central last night and left for the
west over the s. p. this morning. In
the car are General G. L. Fitzhugh and
wife. their son, Carroll Fitzhugh. and
wife. A. w. Painter and wife, G. l..
Painter and Jack Painter. the three
1aScrc painfnr hoin0 hrnfh Thav
are on pleasure trip, having sojourn-
ed awhile at Palm Beach. Fla. then in
the City of Mexico and are now going
to points in California.
An excursion agent. who passed
going east last night. left for
The Herald the good news that Tom
Dickson. the Washington agent who
married in San Francisco recently.
married charming young widow and
received to boot a thousand acres of
fine farming land and five hundred
head of thoroughbred horses and cat
tie 1t is also pleasant news that Tom
will not give up his job as tourist
agent.
C. C. Gibbs. of San Antonio. general
land commissioner of the S. p. and
H. & T. c.. came in yesterday morn
ing on the G. H. in his private car
and left this morning over the T. &
p. for Pecos, from which place he will
take the Pecos Valley road for the pan
handle country to inspect the lands of
the S. P. there. He is accompanied by
jeff N Miller of Houston, chief clerk
to G. A. Quinlan, vice president and
general manager of the H. & T. c.. F.
Cargill, a cotton merchant of Houston,
and DR.. Alfred G. Mcdaniel of San An
tonic.
Over thousand men are employed
on the Rock Island extension south of
Kan. Trains are now running
over the extension from Liberal to
Buffalo. /. T., a distance of thirty miles.
The first hundred miles will be COM
pleted by June 1 and the entire extern
sion to the E. p. & n. E. is expected to
be complete when the leaves commence
to fall again. There is a rumor of an
extension west from Enid. o. T., to
with the new Ell Paso-Rock
Island road. which would be great
thing for stock raisers of western Ok
and New Mexico.
A. l.. Burkholder the s. =. depot
lunch and news man. who was one of
the committee appointed by the FL
Paso chess club to invite Champion
Pillsbury to come to this city, has re-
ceived word that Mr.. Pillsbury to come
to this city. has received word that
MIR. Pillsbury has changed his route
and gone to Denver by way of FIT.
Worth. At San Antonio Friday night
he played simultaneously fourteen
games of chess and one of checkers.