El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-02

and each commercial organization
should appoint five delegates to attend
this meeting in Galveston. Let all
concerned take immediate action.
There is much to gain and nothing to
| lose by prompt action. 1t would be
we'll for Ell PasO to be represented at
this convention. Now that the city Is
growing it would be we'll for the citi-
| zens to take every advantage to push
i its growth. Ell Paso wants the inter
national dam and should keep in touch
with every public move SO that when
the time comes the city will have
J friends to help it get what it wants.
| The more people Ell Paso has and the
more money that is invested here the
better chance it has of acquiring dam
! that would make it a city Of $4,000 in
ha bitants N less than four years after
the dam is completed.
The Knights of Labor in this city
have grown from a small order TO one
of strength in a very few months and
it keeps steadily growing. The order
is taking intere st in all public matters
| that benefit sworkingmen ard will
make itself felt when the time comes
for it to act. It's strength and force
will always be felt in the interest OF
humanity.
The hobo nuisance seems to be fast
regulating itself. S nee the chain
gang has been put on and the city has
mapped out street work for several
months ahead the tramps have slipped
their cables and sailed away to points
where there is less work and more hand
outs.
The report was in circulation las;
evening that Officer George HerOld
| had been killed in Mexico, but as the
port caunO: be tracked to any rella-
| BILE source, it is believed to be spurious.
The police department has heard moth
| ing about the matter and tGey would
have been notified if anything serious
had occurred. George is now some
where in Mexico and is probably de-
tanned there on account OF the washout
| on the Me Xican Central.
| The court of private land claims at
Santa Fee, n. Nj, have hand ed down a
decision in case, Pueblo of Laguna VS.
United States In this case the claim
was for about 60, 900 acres of land it,
Guiding the pueblo described by metes
and bou1 DIS, in Valencia county. The
court held that the Pueblo claims
which were confirmed by act OF con-
gress June 81, 1860, were only for lanes
purchased by the pueblo, adjoining
| the orig nal grant-hrst, on the north,
| lands of the ParjUate Rancho; and sec
ond, on the east. lands of the Ell Rito
| RanchO-and that those purchased
lands so confirmed by congress, after
wards surveyed and patented as the
Laguna purchases, were no part OF the
Leguua pueblo claim Of grant from
the king of Spain and now in the court.
The court decides that four square
leagues had been granted, VIZ: A
| league measured in each dire C tiOL
| north, nth, east and west from the
center Of tue pueblo, being an area of
about 1850 acres, justices Reed,
Sluss and Stone concurr.ng; Justices
Fuller and Murray dissenting, holding
that the grant made was only for i
square Including the pueblo.
surveying PAL ty marks a new era t.
the future prosperity of Ell Paso. 1t is
| a guarantee that the Eddy brothers
mean bushes, aDout the building OF
the new road and that the work will
begin at once. The beginning of work
will give employment to labor at d the
employment of labor means prosperity
to every branch of commerce in the
city.
The Ell PasO commercial club tha,
was talked OF sonnet me ago is alO' O
time material Zing. 1t is of the almost
importance to the city that such club
should be organized. The city is curs-
ed swith .de7, ers and bacs-capper
add only strong organization of the
BUSH ut IS men can overcome their a. t
and retard ng influences. Already
there has appeared on the surface al
animosity aeaiTst the promoters of the
White Oaks railroad. The opposition.
is weak row, it is true, but their
schemes Will grow and as thy gain
strength their work will become more
open and it may result in a serious Set
back to that road which will prove of
great Importance to the CONNER cial
growth of Ell Paso A commercial club
that would act b"avely and prom pity
could counteract the effects of all this
antagOnistic work and tia club woulr
be the means of Riding this city of ii
number of sore heads who are of tn"
rule or ruin pr; nciple and who try to
turn eve y public Improvement to
their own personal agraudizement or
wealth.
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ner," in New York City, known to |
members of the theatrical profession