Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-10-26

TOT two UT three uay6, says the Times
 of that city, El Paso has been very much
 excited over the prospects of pulling the
 big CorOett- -Fitzsimmons fight off in
 this city and just what these prospects
 amounted to not one single member of
 the different committees could explain.
 Somebody stated that Fl Paso could get
 the fight if she would subscribe SlO.OOO and forthwith a meeting was called and committees were appointed to solicit subscriptions for the big fight. But the amusing part of the whole thing YVES that nobody could explain upon what authority they even has a right to ex- peot that the fight could be pulled off here. The newspaper reporters were willing to accept as truth any kind of report that even intimated that the fight was coming to Ell Paso. Yesterday morning a number of representative citizens were out soliciting subscriptions to fund to bring the fight to Ell Paso and yet not g single man could give reason for the hope that was within him. 1t was simply case of going it blind. Each man thought his neighbor knew something.
 An Illustration of the ignorance of authoritiss(? on the border as to where the fight can take place is the following from the San Antonio Express:
 c It ino haf cfn 6u effort to get permission from President Diaz to pull the COrbett Fitzsimmons contest off at Nuevo Leon has been in progress several days. On Saturday night 8 telegram was sent from here by a prominent citizen of Mexico to gentleman directly connected with the Mexican government urging him in an argumentative way to secure the consent of President Diaz for the fight to take place at the point above mentioned, inc telegram contains about 400 words ard recItrs that the fight has been prohibited in Texas and other states whose motive W s to manufacture political capital and cam paign thunder. It means much for Mexico to have the contest there. It will be the means of carrying 50,0 people there who will spend large sums of money. It will be a splendid sdver- t;sement for the land of the Montezu- mas in the way of distributing souvenirs broadcast, etc. The answer to the tele gram is expected ton ght, and those in- terested are ID hopes ihst, ID view of ihe prominence and position of the sender of the original messGge, Dag will be favorably impressed and give his consen, It is furtuer stated that the gentleman to whom the telegram was sent strongly tavors the fight. Brady was today noti- fled that an answer would probably be received in time for him to stop the de- parture from tue city ot Corbett and party. In the meantime the cham pion and his men put in the day getting ready to leave for Hot Springs. He is thor ougnly disgusted over the turn affairs have taken and was very reluctant to leave San Antonio. The uncertainty of things IS worrying him no little, but he repeats that when everything else fails he is ready to have it out with the Kan gsroo in private, just for fun. It is re- ported here that Fritz is preparing to move his training quarters to thls city.
 Ths Two Repp plies of the City of Mexico is the organ of President Dlsz and that paper says he has not consider ed any proposition to hold the fight ip Mexico and that he will not interfere with it taking place in any state of Mexico, but will leave the matter to the governors to settle to suit themselves.
 Last night a Times reporter was shown telegram from Dan Stuart stating that he was waiting to hear positive from Ell Paso. MT. Stuart has suffered no small damages on account of the press and he is naturally very reticent when it comes to talking for publication, and for this reason very little can be learned as to his inteBtions. But it can be safely stated that El PasO | s strictly in the race for the big event. | The committeeman yesterday had some experiences trying to discover what each other knew.
 THE MONEY RAISED.
 Last night an enthusiastic meeting of | the different committees was held at the | office of H. R. Wood and when all the l reports were in it was discovered tbat | something over 5000 had been raised | md the balance was pledged by Messrs. | J. P. Dieter, A. K. Albers, Henry Pf6ff, | Max Weber, B. F. Darbyshire apd sev- ,rsl other gentlemen present. Up to this | ime the committeeman had been work pg in the dark, but when A. K. Albers made a statement to the meeting that | vas entirely satisfactory and convinced everyone that El Psso was really in it or the big event, and that Dan Stuart's representative was now in the city with | power to act, and before noon tomorrow [ will no doubt be announced to the world that the Corbett Fitzsim mons ,unohiDg match will be pulled off in the 7icinity of El Psso. The committee nen are happy because they at last Inow just what they do know.