El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. NINTH YEAR, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1889 Page: 3 of 8
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El Paso Times, Thursday, February 21 188c.
HE DESERTED HER.
1-noKKSSIONAl,.
ANTS
EATING
And "he Killed II1111 In a, Saloon
DR. MACDONALD,
1«>9 Magoffin A venae.
urrn* Hocks—9 to 12; 8 to 4; , toS
ery, University uf
Doctor of Mtdiclne and Sure
llraMelt, Belgium (Hononra.)
Fellow of rtie Itoyal College of Surgeona. Edln
bnreh, Scotland.
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_ 'ember of the Royal College of Surgeons. Lon
d°Ucem?tate of Medicine and Midlveiferry, Roysl
College of Physicians, Edmborgb, Scotland
Telephone No. 4.
AliLKN BLACKER ' -ENO B. * LARDY
pU'.'KBU & CLAW'V
ATTORN'KYB AT law
Office. Wells Fargo Building
*L TEX^
^'Gri'^STKH.
attorney at law and notary
PUBLIC,
K(>OM «fl, BRONSON BL'OCK.
El Paw, Texas.
£AW OFFICE OF
MERCHANT TKE1. A VILCOX.
Sheldoi. Uulldiiih,
K! Paso, Tesas.
KNEKZKLL & VERMEHREN,
Architects and Superintendents
Room No. 40, Sheldon Block,
TEXAS
IL PASO,
QK. 0. W. DENQLER,
DENTIST.
Dental rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Blnghairi,
over Irvin's drug *tore.
th PASO, TEXAS
J Y CROSBY, PFSTON F.EDWAHDS
CROSBY * E iWARDS,
Attorneys at Law.
WUlfrnctlce In the Courts of Texas New Mexico
and Arizona.
JULIO A. BICE,
GENERAL AGENCY,
Local, National, International.
Orrics: EI. PASO, TEXAS.
Sheldon Block, Second Floor, No. 16,
jyjILLEK & RICK,
ROOFING AND PAVING.
EL PASO, TEXAS.
Sheldon Block, ScJond Floor, No. 16.
dr.
ALWARD WHITE.
DISEASES OF
THROAT AND EAR A SPECIALTY.
Rooms 4 and 6 Jos. Scbuti Block.
Diamonds, Jewelry,
Watches.
A, G, V, LEBRETON •
All My
LATE OF PARIS.
230 El Paso Street.
Work Guaranteed.
Ada Humes, who about a week ago en-
tertained the patrons of the Bacchus with
her tine soprano voire, is now in prison
at Silver City for murder. Las' Wednes-
day week she left El Paso to go to Las
Ciuecs, where she remained but two or
three days and then went to Silver City,
where shu heard that a former lover,
Jack Brown, was living, <(nd doing
line liquor business. But on arriving at
Silver City Ad t Humes discovered that
Brown had told his saloou. She secur-
ed quarter# and on Tuesday evening
wrote a note to her former lover, asking
hiui to call and see her. He re-
plied that he would not come,
and at the simetime wrote to a young
lady boarding at the same hotel with
Miss Humes, asking to be allowed to call
on her. Woman like, the woman re-
ceiving Brown's request to be allowed to
call, showed the note to Miss Humes,
knowing that Drown had at one rime
been her lover. This made Ada Humes
furious, and in a mad rage she rushed to
her room, armed herself with a 45 Colt's
and started out in search of Jac'; Brown
who she found in a saloon. When she
entered Brown saw the gun and attempt-
ed to escape by running behind the stove,
but the woman was too quick for him.
She fired and Brow n fell forward on his
face a dead man. The ball entered un-
der the right arm and passing through
him and found lodgment in the heart.The
murderess rushed to the rear of the
saloon and locked herself in a water
closet. But the door of the closet was
battered down and Ada Humes was
taken out and placed in jail, charged
with murder in the first degree,
Arrested for Receiving Bribes.
San Fhancisco, Feb. 20.—Sergeant
Gario, of ihe.Chinatown squad and three
of the policemen under his command,
were arrested late hfst night on indict
ments found hv the grand jury charging
them with bribes from keepers of Chi-
nese gambling dens.
Attempted Murder and Suicide.
Sax Frakcisco, Feb. 20,—This after-
noon Emma Bennett, employed »s a
saleswoman in a store handling Japanese
gni'tis, shot Ema-juil Davis twice and
then either cunun tt< <1 Miieideby sb'oniimr
herst lf through the head or was shot by
D'lvii. She died two hours later. Davis
is dangerously wounded. The cause of
the sbootinsr is unknown.
A Uenteuulal Celebration.
Washington, Fib. 20,-Centennial
celebration of the Georgetown "Jesuit"
University, for which arrangement has
been in preparation many weeks, began
this morning with bishops and priests
present from almost every state in tiie
union. The university buildings were
elaborately and tastefully decorated with
flowers, thus and. banners bearing appro
priate legends. »
They Are Salil to lie ax Good a* Pickle*.
Heme ax Large as Foxes.
Should a Maine lumberman find a
stump of rotten log with thousands of
big black ants in it, he scoops the torpid
insects from their winter domicile and
fills I;is dinner pail with them. When
he gets back to his camp at night he
sets the pail in a Cool place until his
supper is ready, then brings it forth,
and. while helping himself to pork and
beans, helps himself also to ants. There
is no accounting for tastes, and ho esteems
a handf ul of ants a very choice morsel.
Ants are said by those who have tasted
them to have a peculiarly agreeable,
strongly acid flavor. The woodsmen,
whose food consists largely of salted
meat, balled tieans and similar hearty
victuals, naturally have a craving for
something sour. "Ants are the very best
of pickles,'"said an old "logger," w ho
confessed to having devoured thousands
of them. "They are cleanly insects, and
there is no reason why they i.hould not
be eaten, if one can get over a little
AqueamishnesB caused by the thought of
.taking such crawling things into his
stomach. There is nothing repulsive
about them, and when a man has once
learned to cat the creatures as pickles he
I refers them to any other kind."
Ants have at various times and in dif-
ferent countries been quite extensively
used in medicine, and formic acid, which
was first obtained bv distilling the bodies
of these insects, but is"now artificially
prepared, is a well known and useful
chemical product.
Herodotus tells of anis that live in the
deserts of India which are in size "some-
what less than dogs, but larger than
foxes." These creatures, in heaping up
the earth after the manner of common
ants, were a very efficient aid to the In-
dian gold hunters. The rand which they
threw up being largely mixed w ith gold,
the Indians were accustomed to go to the
desert in the heat of the day, when the
suits were underground, load the sand
into sacks, pile the Backs upon their cam-
els, and hasten from the spot as rapidly
as possible. The ants, according to the
historian, were not only the swiftest of
animals, but were gifted with such a
sense of smell $iat they immediately be-
came aware of the presence of men in
their territory, and unless the Indians
got away while the a u s were assembling
to attack them not a u an could escape.
—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Strictly First Class!
\\m •, :%l -SI
Central
SAM ECKER, Proprietor.
S. W. POMEROY, Gen. Mgr. ADOLPH SOLOMON, Sectv, & Tns
POMEROY'S EL PASO TRANSFER CO.
El Paso
Nos 109, 111 and 113 .'ran Francisco Street.
TELEPHONE NO. 18.
Texas
Hacks Livery and Baggage,
Freight Transfers a Specialty.
Freeh Meats of every kind, Fresh Fish,
Osyterg and Sausage. Game in Season.
J. H. NATIONS Prop.
ES. C. PEJW,
105 San Antonio Street
FOR
JOB PRINTING
—Go To—
THE TIMES
Blank Rooks Made to Order.
Or, Alexanders
NATIVE WINE.
tfhe pure juire of the Grape.)
Address P. 0. Box 89. El Paso, Tkxaf.
HTSold in quantities not less I linn five
gallons
[Go To Tim Acme.
225 Han Antonio fit reel •
For California Win<=> 50
Cents per Quart Bottle-
First Class Bar.
— Railroad Kaeket.
Chicago, Feb. 20.— Appearances to-
night ire til' but decis ve that the
proposed interstate Commence Railway
Aesuiiaiion will not be organized. The
committee *pp >inted to obtain the signa-
tures ot the tive diss* nting companies re-
poried today that the .Illinois C eeiral re*
fusrs to join, and the Wisconsin Central
would join only on condition thai the
Burliugton & Northern sign. Nothing
has been heard from ihe latter company.
It was then proposed in effect to at least
make a show of perfecting an agreement
with such companies as had already
signed, This was agreed to and a com
inittee appointed ' to make such changes
of detail as might be necessary iu view of
the failure to olitain the assent
of certain companies." This committee
will n port tomorrow, meantime the erst-
while advocates of the agtcement are
busy pointing out that ns virtual failure
does not amount to so much alter all,
that the agreement of ihe Western
Freight Association c vers practically
the smte territory, is much more biudiug
and is heina lived up to.
Nkw Ywkk. Feb 20—After a lengthy
session today the directors of the Illinois
Central announced that their attorney
adviS'tl them that the teims of their
charter precluded their '"rooming a party
to the Interstate Commerce Railway
agreement, but being now, as always, in
lavor of enforcing and mdnt duintr rea-
sonable and r< mum raiive rates, and pre-
venting the rutting of gum"; the hoard is
O' ternnn d to give i<s ni iral support as
far as maybe consistent with (lie b< t
interests ol the company to the aims ><n i
<>l>j. cts of the Iuiersiate Commerce Rul
wi.y Association, ihe establishment ami
maintenance of rates. In order 10 « ai ry
out this intention the pre sident is direel-
ed lo not if y every oiHeer, agent or en>»
plove, if he willfully violates any rules,
rates or regulations established by the
hoard he will be dismissed from the
service.
Easy Experiment in Chemistry.
Cut three leaves of red cabbage intc
small pieces, and, after placing them in
a basin, poura pint of boiling water over
them, letting them stand an hour; then
pour off the liquid into a decanter. It
will.l.e <|f a line Ulue color. Then take
four wine glasses—into one put nix drops
of strong vinegar; into another, nix drops;
of solution of soda; intoa third, the name
quantity of a strong solution of alum,
and let the fourth glass remain empty.
Fill up the glasses from the decanter,
end the liquid purcd into the glass con-
taining the acid will quickly change too
beautiful red; that [toured with the soda
will be a fine green; that [toured in with
the alum will turn to a pretty purple,
while that poured into the empty glass
will remain unchanged, — Practical
Teacher.
Webster's Iliac Suit,
Daniel Webster went to college in a
homespun suit, of which probably every
thread was carded, spun and woven by
his mother'^ hand front *he wool of their
own sheep. A Contributor to Wide
Awake says it was a dyed-in-the-wool
suit, and the color was indigo Hue—the
old New England color.
In t he south it is butternut; but though
our . Yankee grandmothers and great-
great-great-grandmothers knew all about
what butternut bark would do, and the
subtile power for slate color that lay in
sumach berries and bark of white maple,
and the various dytM that root and
(lower, bark mid leaf could be mado to
yield through the agency of vitriol arid
alum and copperas to "set" them fast,
the universal stand by was t4ie blue pot
—par excellence the "dye pot"—that
stood in the chimney comer of every
kitchen worth naming.
So Webster was fitted out iu indigo
blue from collar to ankle—unbecoming
for his swart skin—and set off grand
and Bophomoric. Beforo reaching Han-
over, there came on one of those drench-
ing rains which, like the Scottish mist,
wet a man to the skin. The suit held
its own—for has not indigo blue Itoon
"warranted fast" since first indigo was
hoard of?—but it had parted with enough
so that Daniel, too, was died blue from
head to foot.
Daniel Webster had a liberal stratum
of sentiment fn his make up; and for
some reason, this color of his young
manhood became his favorite wear
through life. He wore blue coats to his
dying day. If any one ever saw him in
a diu'erent one, the fact has not been put
on record.—Youth's Companion.
The oni .senate Ueslc*.
"W hat has become of the desks you
used to have in the old senate chamber?"
"They are in use now. The desks
used by Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton,
Douglas and all the fainou.s inen of years
ago are used by the present senators, but
1 uut the only man living who knows
win re those desks are. The relic hunt-
ers used to chip pie<vs and splinters off
the desks used by the most famous men,
and the senate carpenter was kept busy
repairing them, (hie day Judge John
Davis, who was comptroller of the treas-
ury under Washington in IT'Jo. 'and after-
ward president of the New England His-
torical society, told me I had better put
my private marks on those desks and
lose' them among the others. 1 followed
his advice and 1 have memoranda con-
cerning those desks locked up in my iron
Not one ot the manv senators wl;
C. R MOREIIEAD. Pres. J. MAGOFFIN. Vice Pres. J. C. LACKLAND. Cashier
State National Bank,
United States Depository
'EL PASO, TEXAS.
Coffin & Seeton
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
fLour, grain, hay, feed,
All kinds of Garden and Grass Seeds
ETC.
No. 30tj EL FA SO STREET.
McAlester Fuel Co
Wholesale Dealers In The
Celebrated McAlester Coal and Coke.
Room 3 Broneon Block,
A W SPENCER Local Manager
Telephone No 84
R. CAPELS
L. HAMMER
Capels & Hammer
Contractors and Builders,
EL PASO, TEXAS.
iDOAR B. BRONSON, Pre*
ellAS.B. EDDY, V ■
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■ l'rei>.
WM H. AUSTIN Cashier
El Paso National Bank
Capital
Surplus.
(50. 3608.)
3150,000
$37,500
Collections piomptly made and remitted'. Foreign and
nought and sold.
Domestic Exchange
Special facilities offered on Mexican Business.
^ered free our Herring's Safe Depcxit Boxes in fire proof
Customers are
vault.
I«)X.
no
nave used the desks of Welwter, Clay,
i alhouii. Ik'ntoh and Douglas ever knew
they were enjoying that honor. All I
v"Ui say is that Webster's and Douglas'
desks are oti the liepublioan side of the
chamber, anil the others on the Demo-
cratic side."-Interview with Isaac Bas-
sett.
AUVU1ICO* Ol ftCIPIlCU.
Tito "drop a nickel in the slot" fad lias
been utilized formally things, but 1 never
thought it would bo URed in the insur-
ance business. It is n fact, however, and
by dropping a nickel in the slot you can
get accident insurance for twenty-
four hours. I suppose soon a man will
be able to get a corner lot by dropping a
nickel iu tlto slot.—Buffalo Mcwa
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El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. NINTH YEAR, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1889, newspaper, February 21, 1889; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth505322/m1/3/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.