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Newspaper
El Paso Daily Herald
Location
El Paso, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1900
Page
4
El Paso sportsmen frequent Lake Guzman with few visitors at Santa Maria which lies at the foot of rocky hills. Santa Maria is favored for cock fighting. a gun club plans a lakeside resort with trees beat houses and blinds costing several thousand dollars.
B J Mustain, once with the Santa Fe and known in El Paso, visits from Yuma Ariz and reports taking up land south of Yuma on the Colorado river. He praises the fertile, long river stretch, notes three canals along the border opening thousands of acres, and mentions a seventy million capital backing the land grant company. He holds a 140 acre claim and cites pending congressional action to permit homesteading.
Agustin Amajo died yesterday after crawling under a car in a Santa Fe yard. An engine moved the cars, crushing him while likely intoxicated. An inquest led by Justice Spencer concluded today and the remains were given to Nagley & Lyons for burial.
In the G. H. yards, switch engine crews report constant danger from children playing near open switches. They state their attention is split from duties, risking collisions and injuries as they try to keep trains moving safely.
The G. H. pay car is late this month, expected since the first. The S. P. pay car was halted and turned back at Strusa due to quarantine conditions, likely forcing workers to get pay by voucher. A. Richardson, bookkeeper for the S. W. Mercantile Co., leaves tomorrow.
The Pecos Valley and Northeastern Railway promotes a new route to Roswell to Canon City and Portalis with 120000 cattle last year rising to 200000 this year. Stations Roswell east offer 30 to 35 hours to Kansas feed lots with no unloading. Portalis Bovina Hereford Canon City handle 6000 to 10000 cattle each. Land buyers urged as settlers wanted. D H Nichols and E W Martindell brief.
Believing in top customer value the Union Clothing Co offers a full line of Sweet Orr Union made Trousers Overalls and Sack Coats. The move emphasizes quality as a selling point and aims to attract tradesmen and laborers seeking durable garments.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as suitable for teething children it claims to soothe the child soften gums relieve pain cure wind colic and treat diarrhea priced at twenty five cents per bottle.
An advertisement offers cement sidewalk work by W. S. Holtzman and promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as a remedy for torpid liver and dull digestion. Priced 25 cents with free samples at drug stores.
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