El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-07
ARIZONA.
CARNIVAL CAR AT PHOENIX.

| Mr.. j. A. Graham advertising man.
| ager of the Ell Paso Midwinter Carni-
val. arrived in the city yesterday NOR
| ming in a special car. in which he is
| in the interestsof the Carnival. Speak
ing of some of the features of the COM
ing five days of feStivity. Mr.. Graham
said last night: lei Paso is making
the greatest preparations for the Mid
winter Carnival ever made for an en-
tertainment in the west. Those who
attend will not be disappointed in the
number of unique attractions. Not
able among them is the bull fights in
Juarez. just across the river from Ell
PaSo. from four to six bulls will be
killed daily during the Carnival week.
On the top of Mount Franklin. over
looking the city. will be placed So
600 pounds of liquid fire. which will
burn for six hours and will be seen for
two hundred miles away. The contract
has been closed with the Pain Fire
Works company and men are at work
now packing the chemicals on burros
to the top of the mountain. The two
city plaZaS have been turned over to
the Carnival for the European and
Or ntal midways. which will be illum-
mated with numerous colored electric
lights. The Carnival will end with a
brilliant ball. President Diaz of Mex
leo will be in attendance with his Of
fetal band from the Paris exposition"
Republican.
MADE A BOLD DASH.
Matt Burts, the train robber who
was sent from Cochise county to the
penitentiary at Yuma, made a break
for liberty in the Southern Pacific no.
tel at Yuma just after the officers ar
rived there with him. Deputy Sheriffs
John White and A. V. Lewis. the latter
the sheriff-elect of Cochise county. had
charge or BurtS and another prisoner
named Sid Page, who had been senten-
ced to twenty years for murder The !,
two convicts were chained together |
and were sitting at the lunch counter
in the hotel when Burts got down from
ms stool and tried to take one of the
officers gun from him. There was a
icuffle but the sheriff-elect is a big
strong man and when he got hold of
burts' arm the latter quickly decided
hat he was bested and gave I'D the
contest. 1t was an exceedingly SEN
'ational occurrence and had the des-
'erado secured the gun there would
lave been bloodshed enough to satisfy
ne most excitement-loving onlooker.
he newly elected sheriff of Cochise is
redited with a great deal of courage
displayed in this incident and has
1Ven the citizens of that county reason
o congratula themselves upon hay-
ng elected him. q
| GAMBLERS TROUBLES. I
Robert Lilly. a Tucson gambler. is v
4 trouble. He put diamond in soak f
nth Tucson pawnbroker for $40. +
alter he returned and said he wanted n
Is diamond. as he could get more for a
from another broker n town. but f
had lost the $50 gambling and could
OF redeem it. He said he could get
lie money on it from the other fellow
nd pay the first one out of the money
sceived and the broker agreed. pro-
lded Lilly would leave his trunk.
his clothing. with the bro "
n. This arrangement was made. but a
lily soon returned and demanded the W
sliverance of his trunk and clothing. s.
ne broker refused to give them I'D
It'll he had received the $40. where
'on Lilly is alleged to have pulled a ;,
x-shooter and shot at the broker p
rec times. when the latter pulled a d
IT file from his stove and gave his W
sa1lant several wounds which need III
the care of a doctor at once and Y,
lily went to find one The broker
As not hit