El Paso Daily Herald. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-FIRST YEAR, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 27, 1901 Page: 4 of 8
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EL PASO DAILY . HERALD WEDNESDAY MARCH 27 J901.
PAGE FOUR.
THEIR RELEASE SECURED.
Th local lodge of the Order of Rail-
May Conductors met this morning at
10 o'clock for the purpose or making
arrangements to tecure the release of
i heir fellow trainmen. Conductor Kel-
lv and Brakernen Anderson and Mea-
gher who were imprisoned in Juarez.
Th" result of the meeting was the rais-
ins of th-i $"00 cash bond demanded by
the Mexican government for the re-
lease of Conductor Kelly. The money
for his release was taken from the
treasury of the order while the con-
ductors as individuals contributed to a
.fund to secure the release of Barkeman
Anderson. The -amount demanded for
his release was $300 and it was readily
raise. -
The l'.iotherhood of Railway Train-
men met and decided to take from the
treasury of this order the $500 demand-
ed for the releaso of Brakcman Mea-
gher. The committees from these or-
ders then went to Juarez and fixed up
the neoessary papers to secure the re-
lease of the imprisond trainmen and
they are free this evening.
The fight for the repeal of the Mex-
ican law wnlch imprisons railroad men
will be carried to the general offices of
both the O. R. C. and B. R. T. as rapid-
ly as possible and at the same time
these orders expect to secure the ser-
vice of United States Consul Kindrick
at Juarez in their behalf. They think I
that the consul considers the ''case a
matter to be handled by treaty 1etween
the two governments and they believe
that he will use his influence in bring-
ing the subject up between the two re-
publics. PROMINENT MEXICANS. f
A party of prominent Mexicans 'came
in over the S. P. last night in the
private car Francisco of General Man-
ager Naugle of the Sonora road and
left this morning for the City of Mex-
ico. The members of the party whose
r.ames could ne learned are Amparo E.
tie Corral wife of Ramon Corral. go-
rnor of the federal district of Mexico;
Francisco Esc-alante secretary to the
governor of Sonora: Senora Alejandra
.V. de Redo y Meta: there were four
children in the party but to whom
they belong could not be learned h ;
Senora Corral has been visiting' in
Kennosillo and is on her way to her
home in the City of Mexico accompan-
ied bv the friends' above named. The
ear Francisro was turned back from
this city.
A TRAIN HELD UP IN JUAREZ.'- '"
On Monday the Mexican . Central
train known as No. 2. from the Uni-
ted States to the City of Mexico was
reld at Juarez by the customs depart-
ntnt of Mexico. The officials who
boarded the train found a quantity of
canned goods in the buffet of the Pull-
man car which they considered duti-
able and accordingly detained-ihe Jr.
Yesterday however the matter was
investigated by the officials and as a
result the car was released together
with the canned goods. Permission
was also given to the Pullman com
pany to carry this form of provisions
on the cars for use in the buffet. Senor
Ogarrio was seen this morning by a
Herald reporter and said that . the
-whole affair was a mistake and that
the matter had been satisfactorily ad-
Justed and everything released.
Pawnbroker's Fine Remitted.
Abe Silberberg. the well known tick
enrl nawnhroker. was fined $25 Mon
day -by Justice Spencer for neglecting
to make his report of unredeemed
nieriews sold as reauired by law. He
was fined $25. but on motion of de
fendant's attorney. Judge Burns was
ganted a new trial and at the second
hearing yesterday was discharged witn
out fine.
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE:
The east bound Sunset Limited was
six hours late today. The cause couia
not be learned.
J. S. Autonelle a sub-contractor on
the A. & N. M.. railroad is in the city
on business today.
John DeCourcey roadmaster of the
Houston division of the G. H- Is at-
tending court In El Paso.
Two new engines for the A. & N. M.
passed through to Lordsburg yesterday.
They are numbered 17 and 18.
Two new cabooses came in for the
(i. H. yesterday. They are numbered
112 and 119 and are to take the place of
two caliooses which have been destroy-
ed. .. i .
W. G. Gilbert traveling fireman of
the S. P.. is here from Tucson attend-
ing to business for the' company. Mr.
Gilbert's territory is from EI Paso to
Yuma on the main line and to No-
gales on the Nogales branch.
The annual inventory of stock is now
being taken by the G. H. and the 'em-
ployes at this place have their hands
full of work for a few days. The re-
port of the inventory is sent into head
M 1 11 I 1Mb XrWXrXrOKrt
' jjjj
PRICE BROTHERS
GROCERS
105 El Paso Street. Phone 353.
f "PkT
quarters at Houston on April 1st of ev
ery year.
Fireman Gale of the G. H. has been
transferred temporarily to the S. P. to
fill a vacancy.
S. M. Carley. superintendent of the
Pullman service at this place has gone
down to Chihuahua to look after the
case in which the Mexican government
had confiscated some canned goods
from a Pullman buffet car.
John Brown a flue setter in the
boiler department of the G. H. shops.
has ab adly mashed thumb which he re
ceived in an accident while at work
Monday. He has had to give up his
regular work for awhile but has been
given the job of attending to the tool
room of that department until his
thumb gets well.
After April 1st there will be only
one Sunset Limited train each way
per week and they will pass through
this place on Fridays. The east bound
will pass in the morning and the west
bound. at night at the same time at
which they now pass. .The season will
close April 26. and the limited which
pass through on that day will be the
last until next season opens.
W. T. Warren the night hostler at
Sanderson exchanged places with
Fireman Ward of the G. H. so that he
could come into El Paso and attend to
somo business. He fired out on pas-
senger train No. 10 last night.
George McCulan. aged 59. a railroad
man whe came here from St Louis
died at the county hospital yesterday
afternoon. His body has been embalm
ed and is being held for orders from a
sister of the deceased in St. Louis.
Walter Bowers a G. n. car repairer
has been sick since yesterday morning.
' Roadmaster C. A. Montcastle of the
S P. and C. C. Sroufe. a civil engineer
who has charge of the bridges and
tracks of the company west of this
place left this morning after attend-
ing to business here several days. They
will go to Afton. N. M.. on the passen-
ger train and at that place will take
Mr. Montcastle's autocar from the train
and go the rest of the way to Tucson
on it. in order to look more closely af-
ter the condition of the track.
MANAGER OF THE CHICAGO ELE-
VATOR COMPANY RELEASED
- FROM CUSTODY.
CHICAGO. March 27 Manager of the
Chicago' Elevator company. Lloyd J.
Smith was released from custody to-
day. He was charged with manipu-
lating grain to the disadvantage of all
dealers and for his own personal gain.
PASSENGER TRAIN ON THE LACK-
AWANNA RUNS INTO RIVER
: AND LIVES ARE LOST.
BINGHAMPTON. March 27 While
running at a high rate of speed this
morning a passenger train on the Del-
aware. Lackawanna and Western rail-
road dashed into the Chemango river.
The engineer fireman and two pass-
engers were lost'.
Rain and high water had under-
mined the tracks causing the accident.
FIVE RING LEADERS OF FILIPINO
BANDITS WILL BE HANGED AT
r . MANILA.
' MANILA. March 27 There is to be
a hanging here shortly. General Mac-
Arthur today approved the sentence of
the military commission which sen-
tenced five ring leaders of a Philippine
band of bandits who have terrorized
the country to be executed.
The event will come off in the near
future.
THE PROPOSAL TO ERECT A STAT-
UE TO CARNEGIA IN NEW YORK
' FAILS.
NEW. YORK March 27 The pro-
posed statue of Andrew Carnegie to be
putt up in this city will probably not
materialize.
A resolution favoring it was present-
ed to the city council but opposition be-
ing manifested it was withdrawn.
FUNERAL OF R. C. GOWAN.
The funeral of R. C. Gowan (see page
6) will be held at the corner of North
Kansas t-treet and the Boulevard to
morrow morning at 9:30.
DAILY RECORD.
Filed For Record.
Mary E. and C. W. Miller to W.
Robblns IS acres In El Paso county 2V4
miles east of the city adjoining Wash-
ington park. $1300. This ranch is
known as the Jim White place.
Licensed to Wed.
Juan I Vernal. Jr.. and Miss Sara
Telles..
WHEN PREPARING
YOUR BREAKFAST
some morning we would like to .
have you try White Swan flour .
for rolls or biscuits also our
breakfast foods which are nour-
ishing try tl em at once do not
wait the best time to test them
is right now and you can enjoy
many appetizing breakfasts dur-
ing the spring.
A THRILLING TALE r
Of the Life and
Notorious Texas
From the Chicago Tribune.
It is conceded on the southern border
of Texas that the female bandit and
smuggler who was wounded and cap-
tured by Mexican rurales after a des-
perate battle a few days ago on the
Rio Grande is none other than a noted
adventuress and all-around bad woman
who is well known in the Indian Ter-
ritory and Texas as Zalia "The Devil's
Ace." She is now confined in a mil
itary hospital in Monterey and her
physicians say that she has performed
her last daring exploit and fought her
last battle.
The strange character which has ex
perienced vicissitudes of fortune in her
short career without a parallel outside
of the wildest dreams of fiction was
born In an Indian village on the west
ern plains. Her father was a myster
ious Frenchman who lived witn tne
Comanches for more than half a cen
tury. He married the daugher of Iron
Jacket and raised a large family of
children. After the Comanches set-
tled on their present reservation this
Frenchman. whom the Indians called
Heap Write from the fact that he spent
a great deal of his time in writing.
built a home of no small proportions
and devoted all of his really fine abil
ities to the education of his family. It
was said that he was a man of pro-
found erudition and an accomplished
linguist. Some of his children showed
their Indian blood in their form com
plexion and every motion while oth-
ers were fair and of such fine address
that strangers would never have sus
pected that their mother was a Com
anche.
Blue Eyes Dealt Terror.
ZliA'a eves were blue like her fath
er's when she was aflame with an-
ger but when she was mad her eyes
were any ana ail colors seemingly ca-
pable of emitting rays of terror.
Th rnrilH xhn rant nrprt her sav
that she has been well named for she
certainly fought as if she were the ace
of all outlaws inspired with the fury of
the devil.
Surprised by a shower of carbine
balls while her long train of burros
hsarlnff nnfVn of mntrahflnd firoods was
lnuf ontorlnir the waters of the Rio
Grande she rode straight toward the
soldiers lying in amousn. pouring a
blaze of fire from her Winchester as
she advanced. When her horse had
been shot from under her and one arm
i-a q hannlnar erin rtArMl lV her Kl(l h
urged her confederates forward. Swing
ing her revolver over ner neaa ana
shrieking like a wounded panther she
continued to advance nntil the. last
cartridge of the smugglers had -been
firari ami Ihpn rlrawine a stilleto. she
ordered her peons to assault the rurales
with the bowie knives a soiaicr wno
seized her by the shoulders lost one of
his fingers. She bit is off and spat it
in hfa fnro Whllo fountain Horan was
attempting' to stanch the blood flowing
from her arm sne atiacKea mm wim
her finger nails.
It u-nnlri HnnhtlesR be difficult to
make these rural guards believe that
not many years have passed since this
same incarnate fury who fought them
with such desperation was a greany aa-
mlred belle of the border who sang
the sweetest or songs ana was as geniie
as a cooing dove.
Zalia was the beauty of the family
and no one ever suspected her when
she was a young gin ot possessing me
tnrriMa imlta nf otinrnrtpr that she
afterwards displayed. She spent one
year at schooi.e ltner at jacKsonviue.
in nr n nlnce of the same name in
some other state and when she return-
ed to the territory it was easy to see
that she had mastered many little
arts that gave her considerable ad-
vantage over her sisters.
Belle of the Frontier.
Few young girls were ever so greatly
admired as Zalia. Army officers on
duty at the frontier forts declared that
she was a strangely beautiful creature
and there were plenty of young men.
rich In cattle and lands who were
ready to lay their fortunes at her feet.
Mounted on a magnificent black horse
caparisoned with glittering trappings
she often dashed through the streets of
Chickash. followed by ten or fifteen
voune warriors riding white ponies
and carrying long bright lances and
burnished shields. After the death or
her father she began to extend her ex-
cureions to the frontier forts where
she was always a welcome visitor.. She
knew how to array herself in pictur-
esque eostinies well calculated to en-
hance her many charms of face and
form. Often she appeared on herlack
horre enveloped in a- loose spotless
white robe glittering with brllliaif jew-
els and. as she raced at furious 'speed
about the military reservations with
her long dark hair streaming In the
wind there were few officers who did
not gaze after her In admiration.
Sometimes she came to Fort Sill
when the lidlans were drawing sup
plies dressed as a Comanche maiden.
In this costume It was said that the
was lrresltible. She wore a robe lit-
erally covered with variously colored
beads and sparkling gems the making
of which had occupied the attention of
two generations of the most skilled ar-
tists of her tribe. Long chains of beads
of gold intermingled with strands of
elks' teeth that had been dipped in
molten gold were wound about her
neck and allowed to hang In loops
below her waist. Of this period of her
career she afterward said that she had
more than a hundred offers of mar-
riage. "While I was a young girl I could
easily have married any one of a dozen
rich men." she said "and at least three
men proposed to me who have since be-
come famous."
She fell in love with a private sol-
dier who was a bugler and musician.
As time passed it became evident that
the beautiful semt-clvilized child of the
forest fairly worshiped the handsome
voting soldier. She would have passed
Adventures of the
Woman Bandit.
through fire to have granted his slight-
est wish. Tne bugler's comrades be-
lieved that he was sincere in his pro-
testations of affection for the Indian
girl.
A few days before the soldier lover
was to receive an honorable discharge
from the army a pretty young girl
arived at Fort Sill who made no at-
tempt to conceal the fact that she was
to become the bride of the bugler at an
early day. Eager rivals wer not lack-
ing to carry the news quickly to Zalia.
She lost little time in consummating a
horrible revenge. The unsuspecting
and unfaithful lover was lured to a
former trysting place in a grove of
trees not far from the Indian girl's
house. There the half-frenzied . girl
met him wth a stilleto in her bosom
and after rebuking him and abusing
him with the stinging tongue of an ed-
ucated savage she threw her left arm
about his neck and drove a keen little
blade into his heart. Kissing the
blood and foam from his dying lips
as she gently let the limp form sink
upon the grass she muttered "Now the
white face woman can have you."
Escaped in Masculine Garb.
She knew well that she would be ac-
cused of the murder and she lost no
time in making her escape from the
territory. Dressed in a suit of her
brother's clothes and mounted on the
famous black horse she at once set
out in the direction cf old Mexico.
A small body of soldiers struck her
trail on the next day and they came in
sight of her just at sunset when- she
was in the act of plunging her horse
into ed river. Several whiskey ped-
dlers were encamped in a grove near
the crossing and when they saw the
soldiers they supposed that they were
about to be attacked and sprang to
their arms and poured a shower of . ri-
fle balls into the advancing dragoons.
Zalia quickly comprehended the sit-
uation and .drawing her revolver she
eagerly joined her newly discovered
allies. The soldiers were surprised and
repulsed. Zalia. while firing with rapr
idity and precision sang an Indian
war song. Galloping from one strat-
egic point to another she laughed
and sang and shouted as if she were in
toxicated with the joy of battle The
peddlers thought that she was insane.
She told them that the blood of forty
generations of warriors was boiling in
her veins.
Fearing pursuit in Texas she rode
across the state end crossed the Rio
Grande at Del Rio. Stopping at the
pretty little town of Sabinas she went
straight to a Catholic padre and. it is
presumed threw herself upon the mer-
cy of the priest of the religion of her
father. Before the day had passed she
found a home with Mamma Grande
Martinez an estimable old woman and
she resumed her proper apparel.
New Conquests in Mexico.
It was not long before she began to
ride about town on her black horse and
the fame of her great beauty soon oc-
cupied the attention of the young men
of the vicinity to the exclusion of all
other subjects. In less than a month
she had one of the wealthiest Amer-
icans in Mexico at her feet. Tom San-
some the owner of the Los Flores
ranch and the magnificent hacienda of
the roses made her the mistress of his
palatial home without asking any
questions about her past. He was a
widower more than 50 years old and
she" was a young girl.
Everything that the most exacting
spirit could wish for was placed at hir
disposal. Carriages servants musi-
cians and gold were at her command.
She visited the City of Mexico and Chi-
huahua and when the "devil" as she
says "began to possess her." an indul-
gent husband was planning to let her
enjoy the scenes pleasures and won-
ders of the old world.
When his adored wife cooly told
him that she did not love him. and
that longing for an excitement she
had determined to abandon him and go
away wiih one who" pleased her better.
Sansome fell in the dust at her feet
and implored her to kill him. Finding
that she was determined to go. he fol-
lowed after her. clinging to her skirts
hanging diamond3 about her neck end
stuffing her pockets with gold.
"Come back to me. he cried when
you are tired! You will always find a
home here."
The priest who had befriended her
remained her confessor until she was
about to quit Sansome's hacienda and
then he became a raving maniac and
was carried away in chains shrieking.
Zalia is an angel!"
Shrouded in Mystery.
For several years after she disap
peared from the Ixs Flores hacienda
her career was shrouded in mystery.
It was known that she lived in a pala
tial residence on the border of the zona
libre. which was believed to be tho
rendevous of a dasperate band of out-
laws and smugglers of whom she was
the ruling spirit.
Two years ago she was captured
while conducting a caravan of burros
packed with smuggled goods of great
value and lodged in jail at Carrizo. in
Texas. In less than a week she be
witched the wile of one of the officials
and induced the infatuated woman to
steal the keys lrom the jailer and open
her prison door. She afterward said
that she promised to meet the woman
who liberated her and make her a lov-
ing husband "but other affairs occu
pied my attention and I forgot the lit-
tle incident" she added with a wicked
smile.
She was a restless creature always
longing for excitement. "I am only
happy." she said "when in the pres-
ence of danger and happier when the
carbines rattle and the bullets whistle !
about my ears.'' Smuggling as she
managed it was a lucrative business
and it believed that she possesses im-
mense treasures in gold and jewels.
She will be treated tenderly for she
has the courage to die with clinched
teeth and sealed lips. .-
GEORGIA OWES ITS
RAILROADS TO HIM
Paine's Cel jry Compound Was a Rev-
elation to E- C. Machen.
Machen is one of the makers of the
new south. He has changed the map
Of central Georgia. ' Flourishing towns
have sprung up along the railroad lines
he has developed. .
Hon. Clark Howell in an editorial in
the Atlanta Constitution said of him:
"To the people of Georgia Machen is
known principally by the roads he has
built in the south. He has brought all
Georgia within hand-reach of Atlanta.
He is a public benefactor."
While at work on the Covington &
Macon railroad Machen's health fail-
ed. Aftf r much useless expenditure of
time' and money he was induced by a
friend who had been cured of nervous
prostration to try Paine's Celery Com-
pound. That the remedy was a rev-
elation to him no one can doubt who
reads Machen's letter:
69 Wall Street. New York.
Gentlemen: I spent many thousands
of dollars including eight months
aoroad. for nervous prostration and
then found Paine's Celery Compound
the remedy I ought to have taken at
first. Doctors periodically tinkered
at and patched me up so that my
nerves would hold together for a short
while seemingly just long enough for
my bank account to get a respite. How-
ever your medicine has side tracked
the doctors. My nerves don't seem to
require any rest and I am in such
good spirits these days it doesn't mat-
ter much whether I have any bank ac-
count or not. I have determined on
Paine's Celery Compound as my family
remedy from now on.
E. C. MACHEN.
-A Q LANCE AT-
T Yf W JVX A Tfc OP MEXICO will a how jon that tne MIX
I rf I" lYJ AM ICAN CENTRAL RY. reaohea all of th
land of Mexico traveraeo -n m ennreiy o
Mexiean Central Ry
off era moat desirable reaorto for tho rammer (aawellaa 1 winter) notably
Guadalajara Lake Ohapala Aguasoallentea which are hleh and dry
where every day in the year la pleeaant and every night oo
Sunshine and Strawberries Every Day in the Yearv
Porratee and other lmfarmatloa. apply o
B. J. KUHN Commercial Aran Kl Paao.
Another
Railroad....
FROM
TO THE
north and east
THE
EFFEOTIVE MARCH IO. 1001
ANNOUNCES THE COMPLETION OF IT8
Red River Division
To
DENISON and SHERMAN
TEXAS.
It Shortens the Distance.
It Opens New Territory
. As a pioneer of a new system of rail-
road building in the south; Machen
knows what it is to live under intense .
nervous strain. His joy at finding in
Paine's Celery Compound . a reliable
means if restoring his nervous energy
is shown in every line of his letter to
the proprietors of this great remedy.
When thousands of men and women
in every walk of life from the hum-
blest to the most famous and honored
voluntarily gone out of the way to tell .
others the great good Paines Celery
Compound has done them; when the
ablest physician and the best informed
pharmacists not only prescribe and
recommend but themselves use and
find health in Paine's Celery Compound
the present great demand for the
spring remedy is not to be wondered
at.
Paine's Celery Compound is the one
real spring remedy known today that
never fails to benefit. It cures disease
es due to nervous weakness or a bad
state of the blood. The most.wide
awake intelligent part of every com-
munity in this country are among its
most enthxisiastic vouchers and in-
dorsers. The agreement of opinion among the
best informed and most observant class
Of people in the well-to-do homes of
our largest cities as well as In the
more frugal town communities places
Paine's Celery Compound far in ad-
vance of any spring remedy. -
It is in fact the only spring remedy
ever heard of in the homes of prac-
tising physicians.
Important points of Mexico. The tabl
Texas
Double Daily Service
18 MAINTAINED BV THS
FROM
NEW ORLEANS
TO
MEMPHIS
ST. LOUIS
EVANSVILLE
LOUISVILLE
CINCINNATI
CHICAGO
PEORIA
AND
FROM
MEMPHIS
TO
CAIRO
ST. LOUIS
CHICAGO
PEORIA
EVANSVILLE
CINCINNATI
LOUISVILLE
FROM
ST. LOUIS
TO CHICAGO
3 EXCURSION SLEEPING CARS
FROM NEW ORLEANS
lAiivinjtevarr Monitor and Thnmdny for Lorn nri He and
Oincinnuti. nntl rery Satarlayforhicatfo:tbeacara
Hrrivinit at New OrieHntt on the Southern Vacitto from
Hun fc'rauutco aud toa Ancele.
Pullman Sleeping Cars. Buffet-Llbrary-Smoklng Carf
and Dining Cars on through trains. '
Particular of airsnta of the Illinois Central and
connecting linea or br addressing
C. R. RYAN Trav. Pass'r Agent San Antonio. Texas.
A. II. II.VXSOX. ii. P. A. Chicago 111.
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