El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 194, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 10, 1901 Page: 5 of 8
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The Times’ Daily Story.
“A SPOTTER.”
BY WILLIAM A. MORAN.
(Copyright, 1901, by Authors’ Syn-
dicate.)
“Speaking of ‘spotters,’ ” said Ieham
Johnson to a party of railroad men,
"reminds me of an experience I had
one night last August in Colorado.”
Tsharo's fame -as “a man of odd ex-
periences,” is well known, and when-
ever he wishes to tell a story he al-
ways finds a willing audience. He
gave up the ministry to become a
sleeping car porter, which position he
still holds, although he is expecting
to lose it at any time. Not that he
fears to be discharged, however, for
he thinks that that would be too much
good luck, but he expects either to be
killed or maimed. He thinks himself
a hoodoo. Every trip he has made
in the past five years has been marked
by some unusual incident, and he be-
lieves that in some way the cause of
these affairs has been traceable direct-
ly to him.
“Black and ugly and ungainly as I
am,” he often remarks, “why wouldn’t
I be a hoodoo? Look at these eyes
red as lobsters. Look at these lips,
they look like hunks of liver. Look at
these feet—-all over the ground.” And
delivering himself thus he dove into
his story.
"Speaking of ‘spotters,’ ” he said,
“reminds me of how, one night last
August, my heart was set agoing by
a well-dressed, high-toned chap who
got aboard my car at Elborn and
bought a berth to Winston. Winston,
you know, is nothing but a telegraph
office and a water tank, at the top of
the continental divide, on the G. 0. &
T. H. railroad. Our train stops there
at half past three a. m., and there isn’t
another town, house nor sign of a
house within eighteen miles. I asked
myself: What could a delicate tender-
foot do at Winston?
“There was one of two things: ne
could go in the mountains and lose
himself, or he could wait at the sta-
tion for number six and ride back the
other way. ’He's a blooming coyote
of a “spotter,” ’ I told myself, 'and in-
tends to give the boys on number six a
write-up.’ And when I polished his
shoes I cut a notch in the soles close
up to the heels so that the other crew
would know who he .was. Something
kept telling me, however, that I’d bet-
ter search his grip and find out for
sure, if he is a ’spotter’ he would
have papers in his satchel that would
corroborate my suspicions. So I
yanked the grip from under his berth
and opened it—and—‘Good Lordy!
Good Lordy!’ I exclaimed, my eyes big
with the greatest surprise I ever had.
The grip was half full *of diamonds,
gold rings—and greenbacks!”
“Then what did you do?”
"What did I do! What did I do! I
snapped the grip shut in a hurry, and
put it back where I got it in double
quick time! The man was not a ‘spot-
ter’ at all, but a dod-jimmed robber!
“He was the fellow that had com-
mitted the Kansas City robbery! The
man for whom $5,000 reward was of-
fered!
“Now, it was clear why he wanted
to get off the train at Winston. He
actually wanted to go over the moun-
tains and hide himself!
“I made haste to the train conductor
and told him what 1 had discovered.
He advised me not to call the man
for Winston, saying that he would wire
ahead for an officer to put him under
arrest at the next stop—and that
when the robber was delivered at Kan-
sas City w’e would divide the reward.
“Well, for a few minutes i was the
happiest man in the world! Fortune
had smiled on me at last. 1 stuck my
thumbs in the armholes of my vest
and strutted down the car like a trust
official. Thoughts of the trained nurse
in Chicago came to me thick and fast.
I could tell her now how much I loved
her. Aye—I could ask her to be my
wife! And the words wouldn't clog
up my throat, either. I was a man!
1 could go right up to her, and while
looking into her soft brown eyes pour
out the very tenderest thoughts of my
soul. O, I could do it! I could do it!
Say, fellows, have you ever been there
—in love, I mean? Well, it’s the al-
firedness funniest feeling you ever had.
Little love bells, or something like
that, tingle all through every fiber of
your being. And everything in the
world looks bigger and brighter and
happier, and even the fellow that stole
your overcoat appears like an angel.
“Any way, shortly after leaving the
conductor, I coiled myself on one of
the seats and went to sleep. About
half past three I awoke with a start.
The car was flooded with the awfulest
sound that was ever turned loose
among passengers. Men and women
had their heads poked through the
curtains, and, talk about eloquence,
phosphorescence, yellow and red at-
mosphere! Dog my buttons, the car
was full of it. And pretty soon that
car was full of something else, too—
flying window screens, shoes, pillows
and handbags. And what do you
think was the cause of the trouble?
A deep-chested Shanghai rooster was
perched on top of the curtain rod right
over my head, bellowing like a bull.
“How did he get in the car. you
ask? Woman, of course; lady smug-
gled him in under her shawl. But
that's nothing; a woman would take
anything into a sleeping car from a
poll parrot to a horse and wagon.
“Our next stop was Winston; and,
thanks to my rooster, my robber was
up and dressed. How to get him by
the station was now a problem. The
train was on time, and no subterfuge
about being late or things like that
would do. for the fellow was remarka-
bly acquainted with the country. And
—dog my buttons!—no train ever
climbed a mountain so fast.
“And my heart got heavy as lead
as thoughts of the girl in Chicago
came back to me. Every revolution of
the wheels, instea dof bringing me
nearer, was taking me farther away
from her. Two thousand five hundred
dollars, and the girl of my choice,
slipping out of my grasp like greased
lightning. I grabbed that rooster by
the neck and fired him through a win-
dow, glass and all!
“Just then three sharp bla >ts from
the engine told me that we were near-
ing the station; the engineer applied
the air and the train slowed down.
I caught up a whish broom and was
brushing the robber to beat band
when the train conductor c . n the
scene. He said:
“We’ll not stop here, porter. We’ll
simply slow down so the engineer can
catch his orders. We’ll sent this man
back from the next stop on number
six."
“But little did he dream at that mo
ment how the next stop was to be
made.
"From Winston to the next station,
in the direction we are going, are
eighteen miles straight down. And
the road is so crooked that a black-
snake could hardly follow it. About a
mile down from Winston the engineer
lost control of the automatic air, and
—dog my buttons—talk about wild
rides, broncho bustin' and strenuous
life—there was never anything in all
this world half so strenuous as the
ride cf that night! The train stopped
running altogether and went to bug
jumping. The engine screamed and
snorted and tore round those sharp
curves like a deman. No person in
my car could stay any place! Every-
body was everywhere, hurtling and
jumping over each other like so many
kids playing leap-frog. But, of course,
the end soon came. The engine left
the track and tumbled down a hun-
dred-foot embankment, feet up, into
the river. The rest of the train fol-
lowed, and some of the cars jumped
over the river to the opposite bank.
My car was knocked into kindling
wood against a big bowWer right at
the river’s edge. Talk about scenes!
Heavens! It was the most awful
sight I ever witnessed! Ugh! I see
it now headless men and women
scattered all about—the wreck on fire
and the flames licking up the dead and
dying. Say! pour me out a drink!
That’s it—fill it up!
“Well, when I found the robber he
was deader’n er door nail, with the
grip locked tight in his right hand. I
had to cut the handle to get it loose.
"But now, fellows, I must be going
home. See this package?—it contains
a pair of shoes for my little boy. And
—dog my buttons, that trained nurse
is the mother; and she’s looking for
me right now.”
| We will have something p.
| to interest you in a few
days.
Cycle Co,
A Snap.
For a short time only we may sell
36 feet on Stanton street, just beyond
Second street, for $112 per foot. Prop-
erty adjoining held at $175 and $200
per foot. MILLICAN & SMITH,
115, Corner Mesa Ave. and Texas St.
Quick Sale.
We have two lots for $375 each,
six lots for $400 each and two lots
for $525 each near Mesa school, for
quick sale. MILLICAN & SMITH,
115, Corner Mesa Ave. and Texas St.
Pure thilk and cream served at the
Buttermilk Cafe.
WfiSm Cm Cm Does
for Children
Children are constantly exposed to all sorts of dis-
eases. The air they breathe is filled with germs, sewer
gas and dust from the filthy streets are inhaled into the
lungs and taken into the blood. At the crowded school
rooms and other public places they come in contact
almost daily with others recovering front or in the first
stages of contagious diseases. You can’t quarantine
against the balance of the world, and the best you can
do is to keep their blood in good condition, and thus
prevent or at least mitigate the disease. You have
perhaps learned from observation or experience that
healthy, robust children (artd this means, of course,
children whose blood is pure) are not nearly so liable to
contract diseases peculiar to them, and when they do it
is generally in a tnild form. On the other hand, weak,
emaciated and sickly ones seem to catch every disease
that come9 along. This is because their blood is lack-
ing in all the elements necessary'' to sustain and build
up the body Poisons of every description accumulate
in the system, because the polluted and sluggish blood
is unable to perform its proper functions.
Such children need a blood purifier and tonic to give
Strength and vitality to their blood, and S. S. S., being a
purely vegetable remedy, makes it the safest and best for
the delicate constitutions o? children. S. S. S. is not only
a perfect blood medicine, but is pre-eminently the tonic
for children; it increases their appetites and strengthens
the digestion and assimilation of food. If your child-
ren have any hereditary or acquired taint in their blood,
gave them S. S. S. and write to our physicians for any
information or advice wanted ; this will cost you noth-
ing, and will start the little weaklings on the road to
recovery. Book on Blood and Skin Diseases free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, QA.
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GREAT MINE
IS OPENED
One of the Richest Pro-
perties in the Repub-
lic of Mexico.
Remarkab’ Feat of Engineering
by a i American—Other
Mines in the District.
It.is mainly through the skill in
engineering and mining of an Ameri-
can that one of the richest mines in
Mexico has lately been developed in
the Guanacevi district.^ in Durango.
The mine is the Santa Cruz; the man
who developed it is Mr. H. H. Hughes,
who is now stopping at the Sheldon
with his family. He is here for the
purpose of establishing a home, and
expects to return at once to Mexico
after he has seen his family comforta-
bly settled.
The Santa Cruz is a part of a big
property acquired by the three greater
banks of Mexico City, through the
failure of the Cardena company. All
of these mines, located at Guanacevi.
were thought to lie practically worth-
less in fact, when a year ago the Na-
tional Bank of Mexico placed their de-
velopment in Mr. Hughes’ hands. The
result is a present output of $60!000
a month and $4,000,000 cf ore blocked
out in sight.
“This mine,” said Mr. Hughes last
night, “while at present the richest,
in Guanacevi, has no better prospects
than a large number of others, which,
when developed, will prove the ramp
one of the richest in the world. The
Santa Cruz vein, sixty feet wide, shows
no dimipution in width or richness
down to the ninth level, or as far as
we have gone. It runs rich to the ton,
and we have about 1,000,000 cubic feet
blocked off.
“We are building at, a cost of $50,000
a railroad from the company’s fifty-
stamp bullion pan mill to the mine,
and I have just ordered the locomotive
from the Baldwin Locomotive works.
The distance is four miles, and exten-
sions will be made. Doing develop-
ment work alone we took out 1,000
tons a month. We ship our bullion to
the mint in Mexico City.
“At present, we have about seventy-
five miles of stage line out of Guan-
acevi to cover to the Mexican Central
termination at Rosario, but the Cen-
tral is even now replacing seventy
miles of rails on the main line, and
these relayers are to be used at once,
we understand, on an extension to
Guanacevi. At the same time the Mex-
ican International is coming up rap-
idly from Durango, and now has its
track graded within fifty miles of the
camp.
"The place is lively enough already,
hut it is destined, when railroads make
it easier of access to American capital,
to be a magnet for American capital,
in Mexico. The National Metal com-
pany of Mexico City has a permanent
representative, C. B. King, there, and
its purchases aggregate $60,oOo per
month.
“The other more important proper-
ties include the Nueva Australia, the
former property of Sr. Rico, which has
just been sold to an American com-
pany for $50,000. The Predilecta is
owned by Hilario Losoya, and is al-
ready a rich producer. Others of rich-
ness are the Aguaje, the property of
Ambrosius Bros., Americans, whose
homes are in Mexico City; the Santa
Helena of Saturnino, the Baradon v
Cabras, the property of Munuzuri, the
wealthy cigarette manufacturer of
Mexico City, and who also owns an in-
terest in the Predilecta. J. M. Wilson,
really the original founder of the
camp, is now the manager of the Gua-
naeevi Mining company., the Hearst
estate property, whose principal mine
is the Chamole, and who have a forty-
stamp mill in operation. Messrs. Lag-
erfeldt and Wilson of El Paso have,
I understand, an option on a very rich
continuation of the Santa Cruz lead.”
Consumers’ Ice ana Cold Storage Co.,
Manufacturers of Crystal ice. With
our Increased capacity we are In po
sltion to promptly fill ah orders en
trusted to us. Ice delivered to all
Darts of the city. ’Pho:t5 No. 88
H. R. WOOD
No. 5, Little Plaza.
Real Estate,
Insurance,
Rental Agency
Improved and unimproved
property for sale in all
parts of the city.
HOUSES^FOR RENT
Represents the following first class
Fire Insurance companies:
Continental of New York.
Queen of America.
Liverpool & London & Globe of
New York.
Western Assurance of Toronto.
Orient of Hartford.
London & Lancashire of Liverpool.
Manchester of England.
MEXICAN MINES. RANCHES AND
CATTLE.
Do you use them? Of course you do. You
should patronize the only oomplete iub-
her stamp l ouse In the city Seals, sten-
cils tie. Badges made. Railroad and
corporation work a spi < laity. Estimates
furnllied; write for catalogue H. A.
ftllekel & Co., 311 N. Cregou 8t., El Paso
If you want
GOOD BREAD AND EINE CAKES
Ring up 310
BELGIAN BAKERY
210 EAST OVERLAND.
DR. BASS.
DR. MORTON.
General Practice
Diseases of Women.
Diseases of Children,
Diseases of the Ner-
vous System
OFFICE OF-
DR5. BASS & MORTON,
El Paso, Texas.
Office hours: N a. m. t■> 1 p. in.; 3 p. m. to 7 p.
rr. Sundays 9to 10. Phone313.
Don’t Buy
That new suit until you see our
line of the newest things out.
Workmanship the best. Prices
right.
SWANSON & DREHNER,
Merchant Tailors.
312 San Antonio St..
Clifford Bros.
—Dealers In—
GROCERIES AND
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
Free delivery to all
parts of the city.
222 San Antonio st. Phone III
THE WEATHEP,
U. S. WEATHER BURE
EL PASO, DEC. 9. 1901.
Reading 6. p. m., Mountain Time.
Barometer.................3o. i5
Thermometer............... 19
Direction of wind.........northwest
Velocity of wind, miles per hour 10
Weather....................‘lear
Rainfall last 24 hours........... 0
Highest temperature today...... •’■>
Lowest temperature today...... 22
Special turkey dinner Sunday. Cof-
fee like your mother made. Meals
25 cents to order. Kentucky Home
Restaurant, 208 Texas street.
The Buttermilk Cafe is where you
should go when in search of home
cooking._____
aim': iinxmm
Always Acceptable
and Useful
211 TEXAS STREET ™
him Realty go i
GENERAL
Real Estate
and
Mining Brokers
-Mills Block—
... Corner Oregon Street and St. ^
! Louis Avenue.
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. Business, Residence, Improved
'f and Unimproved Property for ^
v sale on *•’
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J Easy Terms *
We will continue to attend *
’•* to the business and collections *
•> of the Campbell Real Estate Co. ❖
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❖ Agents for Magoffin Addition. ♦>
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Artistic
Laundry
Is Our Specials,
Our new machinery Is lu a~d
are in better shape than before thr
fire. Our location le 111 to 117 Over
land street. Tele; 1. ne 278.
TROY LAUNDRY
Seamon Assay Co
San Francisco and Leon Street*.
F. O. Bos *7. Telephone, ft*
Umpire an& Mfltrol assays a so*
clalty. We act as agents for shlppen
of ore to smelters. Correspcndesw
solicited.
If You Have
Lung or Throat
You can'do no better than consult
the Vltapathic Specialists. The spe-
cialist for the c particular ailments
is lately from Chicago and has per-
fected a treatment entirely his own
and known as the Pneumochemio-
Phatotherapy Treatment.” It is rec-
ognized by leading “specialists as the
most successful treatment for con-
sumption, bronchitis, tuberculosis in
any form .catarrh and all affections
of the throat and lungs.
Consultation With This Specialist
Is Free.
Vitapathic Specialists
Dr. O. D. Weeks, Manager.
208 Mesa Avenue.
POMEROY’S EL PASO TRANSFER CO.
328-230-838 SOUTH OREGON STREET
Feed and Livery stables- Carriages, Buggies and Busses
Supplied on short notice—Baggage handled, Phone 18
El Paso St am Laundry
001 Santa Fe Street.
Telepho, 9 47
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Hotels and Restaurants.
OUR HOBBIES; Quality Supreme! Absolute Cleanliness! Polito t»4l
Prompt Service! Dairy Lunch!
The Buttermilk Cafe
See Bill of Fare. Our Specialties: Delicious Coffee, Dairy Luxuri«%
Health Food and Drinks. Lunches for tourists. Pure "Soft” Water
Ice In Abundance. Milk and Cream from Our Own Dairy, and Eggs from
Our Own Hennery.
El Paso Dairy Company,J A S*T;^«,
Pure Milk and Cream Delivered In Clear Glass Bottles to Any Part ut
the city. Telephone 156. Postofflce Box 205. Office, 313 North Oregon Si
Occidental Restaurant
Regular Meals 25 Cents.
Short orders at all hours. Dinner from12u
8p.m. Everything brand new and strletlj
Brut olass service.
103 Utah Street.
EASTERN GRILL
First-olass restaurant In every reap *
First-class cooking, Short orders *
and night.
Dinner Dally at 3 p. in
128 El Pano St., next to Ooopere.
WUttirSlfon.'S ipfeBO&WLrtv itnaJiBSKHilr
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1 he Grand Central
European Hotel.
MRS. A. M ROUGHER, Prop.
Corner San Francisco and El Paso 8u j
Good Sample Room for Commereia j
Travelers.
El Paso, - - - Texas. ,!
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Golden Eagle
Restaurant.
Regular dinner from 12 to 7 p. m., j
35 cents. Short orders at ail hours,
day or night. We make a spricialty
of banquets and dinner parties. First
class cook. Dr. Sing. 211 San An-
tonio street.
Washington Dining Hall,
317 St. LOUIS. St.
Opened on May 15th and will serve
First-Class 25 C», Meal
| Short orders all day, Everything ueat
! and clean P R. Francis Bld’g.
Center Block
Leading European Hotel
of El Paso. Texas.
Hot and Cold Baths, Electric Light*
and Bells. Strictly First Class.
Rates, 50 cents to $2.00 per day.
J. R. FISK, Prop.
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ImJ To ladies, even if they have a box or so on band.
■ ■ The magnificent stock of "Hurd’s Holiday Stationery" and the
|J price it is being sold for at HIXSON’S JEWELRY STORE is at
SB present “the talk of the town,” but the stock won’t last very
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wij long.
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ri An Elegant Line ot Holiday Gilts Now lle-
!: ing Opened.
P w. T. hixson & co.
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Native Restaurant,
20!) Ill All STREET,
American and Chinese Style of Cook
ing. Chinese Nudel and Chop Suey.
: Meals 15 and 25c. Short Order. Open
| Day and Night.
The New Restaurant r
Is neat and clean. Positively Ameri-
can. Prices reasonable.
SHORT ORDERS ALL DAY.
A good 25c dinner from 11:45 a. m.
till 8 p. m.
THEO WILLIAMS,
Franklin and Mesa. Caterer.
MONARCH AND NATIONAL
Lead All Others. See
Y01 Wit MND
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Bronson Block.
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‘THE JEWELERS.”
111 San Antonio St. * *
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El Paso Cycle Co. for Them.
Hugh A. McLean
Sanitary plumber.
Van Blarcom Block, 108 Mesa Ave
Telephone 238.
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The finest Imported and Domestic Wines.
Liquors, Ales and Cigars. Courteous treat-
ment and a resort elegantly furnished. Coot
fresh Beer and Ale always on draught.
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GC0. OGDEN,
Proprletox
HLLIIGtR S LOIGWELLS TR1ISFEI
livery, feed ant) Sale Stables
Hacks,
Baggage,
Buss*
Biacksmlthtn# and wagon repairing. A fail
line of Rubber Tires and other rlga for MU*
or rent Telephone No, l.
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