El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-12
A WARM MEETING.
The City Council stirred Over the White
Oaks Road and Church Row.

The City Council stirred Over the White
Oaks Road and a Church Row.
The little matter of spur TO" the
White Oaks road to the Refrigerator
comp-nv which excited the informal
council meeting yesterday noon, prov
ed something of d FIRE brand last night
when it was brought up again.
The mayor and Alderman Robinson
were absent, and Alderman w h1tmore
was chosen mayor protein. Ire gas
burned 50 dimly that the clerks eye S
threatened to drop tut If lie made any
serious attempt T. t reading the minutes
of the previous M Getting, so his visual
powers were reserved for tickling the
regular ORD er of business. Some of the
council thought the lights too dim to
hold any meeting at all by. The Jet at
the south side of the O,m was turned
on in full by which III clerk read the
resitions and communications. The
first OK of spice OF the evening was
The following petition:
Ell PASO, Texas, Nov. 9, 1897.
To the Honorable Mayor and Board OF
Aldermen, City of FL Paso:
AS the right OF petition is under our
form OF gov rnmens guara oteed to the
hum b est cit zen for the redress OF
grievances, the undersigned citizens OF
the city of Ell Paso here resort to that
means, to humbiy make known their
wrongs and tt ask Of you that Il you
cannot redress them, that you will 40
what is in your power to remove the
cause, that no such turtle abuse may
arise or be oc"asioned by any act of
yours Or any officer connected with our
fair city, and so petitiOning they rep
re sent the cOmmuniDg members OF the
Mexican church of the Home Mission
h. ard of no Southern RantlSt
ton, and are possessed of lots No. I,
8. 9 and 10, block sc, of the city of Ell
Paso, aud the church building situated
thereon. That on the It'll day of Nov
embe-, 1897, and for long Tina prior
thereto, they as member OF the con-
greg alton of said church as AZORES d I,
were in the peaceaole posse ssion OF
said property a1d church, using aud
enjoying the sane apd continually
hOlCing religious serves and meet
ings in said church house as aforesaid.
That On the moroiug of said 9TH day of
Novemb Der, A. D., 1897, they with their
acting preacher, J. NJ. Martinez, held
the morning service in said hou e,
ard upon aijOurnn 1T ct laid service
carefully clio Ell the windows to said
house, and close1. fastened and locked
the dc or5 til ereto, leaving the key to
the same in the possession OF Santiago
Hernia 1deZ, the care taker selec Jed oy
the said members of sid c:pgte ga-
ton.
Thai upon the afternoon of said day
one @. K. Lockhart, who had been here
tOfora brou9 ht from Central Texas and
recently clothed with the ihOrity of
chief of police OF tbe city of Ell Paso
and charged with the duties of said Of
flee because SIS petitioners are inform
ed aud believe, and so state upon IL
form "a ion and belief, there Was not
81 fficlaDt material to be found In Ell
Paso), took with him one George Her
old, aud without any authority in law
except the baton and star with which
you have co he'd him, and went to
sa church house and property AMI
maliciously broke and entered toto the
church building afOre sail and put one
A. Marchand in possession the reof
and thereupOn at that hour OF three or
halt past three O'Clock p. m. stationed
po' ic man on guard to guard said A.
Marchand and said building and pre-
vent our PIT .tioners, tt g rightful pos
tt cir said building and place of wor-
ship, and holding their religious ex-
erciseS therein.
Petit 'ne,s charge that by said act
sa d G. K. Lockhart willfully violated
the penal and civil laws of this stat..
That being a law bre aker he is unfit
for The p sision h. occupies.
That as said G.. K. Lockhart has
b en- imported from a distant CON-
munity to supply and fill a long
fe!t want in Ell Paso-i. e., an honest,
cara Die, intelligent, thoroughly post
ed and law abiding chief of pOlice-we
feal that this wi lTul infraction of the
law cemon5trates that though viii e
with us to paraphrase the popular say
ing, "He is the only pebble on the
be ach," yet this act and infraction OF
law should be inve stigated, and if l. be
found to be true as petitioners charge
i Is then violate d law declares him to
be unworthy of the trust imposed and
duties requir. of him, aGd that he
should be tried ami dismissed from the
office he holds md told to dep .rt to that
more copgenial section from which he
was Drawn. And so petitioniDg pc
Il loners pray that your honorable |
booy take such act on iu this case rs
will remove from the force this man,
u the Chief of poll e should be con-
'ervatoT and not the breaker Of the |
pub lc peace, AID humby prayi' g for |
ief we respectfully submit this com
paint, trust ne it may be heard and
,Onside"ed.
We would also sta tie that this would |,
lot at this time and in this manner
ave been brought to Your. consider