El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-16
THE FORMER
CONSUL GENERAL
Of the United States to North
ern Mexico.
HE is NOW IN THIS CITY

HE is NOW IN THIS CITY
Hon. Warner P. Sutton, Of Washing
ton, A Lawyer OF National Reputa-
ton, Talks About Ell PasO And
What She Requires to Become A
Great City,
Hon. P. Warner Sutton, of Wash
ington, lawyer of national reputation
and who practices international law
exclusively, is in the city on his way
to Oakland, Cal. to confer with Mrs.
Sarah B. Cheek, whose husband was
formerly in partnership with the king
of Siam in the lumber business and
whose interest In the business was con-
fscated by his Siamese majesty.
After losing his fortune in this way,
Cheek died and his widow filed q claim
against Siam. which was pressed by
Hon. Warner P.Sutton and allowed last
year.
| The arbitrator Sir Nicholas Hammer,
her Britanic Msjesty's Chief Justice
and Consul General, heard the lawyers
argument at Shanghai in July 1898,
and month later awarded Cheeks
widow 764 900 ticals or about $3.50, 900 in
gold, seventy-:ix elephants and other
| props rty.
The cash was promptly paid through
the state department and for his ser
| 15 percent. He is now going to Cali
fornia to confer with Mrs. Cheek in re-
gard to the administration of the
estate in Siam.
| CONSUL GENERAL.
| u
Sutton was consul general of northern
Mexico with headquarters at Nuevo
Laredo and MatamOros. In those days
he was a frequent visitor to Ell Paso
and 1t was part of his duties 70 travel
ali over northern Mexico where he is
we'll known.
In 1893 Consul General Sutton form
ed partnership In Washington with
| Thomas Ryan, now assistant secretary
of the interior, Tor the practice of in
ternaoiOnal law. Ryan subsequently
retired from the firm to accept the
presidency It big corporation and
Sutton continued in the legal business
| alone and met with unprecedented sue
| cess.
He is the legal adviser of the people
of j arez and Ell Paso in the Elephant
Butte Dam controversy.
INTERVIEWED.
When seen yesterday at the Pierson
Hotel by a HERALD reporter, General
Sutton said:
Il have no idea when the supreme
court will render its decision in the
Dam case. L have been helping Max
Weber IN fighting the Elephant Butte
Dam for long time. The case WAS
decided against US by the district court
OF New Mexico and the supreme court
nj 1nA
to the United States supreme court
where the case is now pending.
THE case is celebrated one and of
vital Importance to this locality. If
the Elephant Butte dam is built it is
contended that it will injure this sec
tion materially, and that the Interna-
tional dam could not be built, rs there
would not be enough wafer for both.
1.-THE agricultural resources of this
region depend on the International
dam and there should be unity of &C
ton among the people. A committee
should be appointed and the scheme
pushed vigorously, no matter what
may be the decision of the court. A
treaty between Mexico and the United
States should be procured providing
for the building of the international
dam and a division of the waters of the
Rio Grande.
MeXico has been ready to sign this
treaty for years and if the United
States will DO its share Mexico
will OF press the claims of her city
zens against this country for damages
caused by the deficiency of water in
the Rio Grande which was tapped
above On the American side.
ABOUT Ell PASO.
Ell Psso is easily the metropolis of
the southwest. Her growth since l was
last here has been marvellous. She
began to boom when the railroads first
struck this section. Then she stood
still ten years.
"The Waite Oaks railway solves the
problem of cheap fuel and will bring
factories. The Sierra Madre has open
ed the mining region of Mexico and
now only the International dam is
needed to supply cheap water power
and render this one of the most pro-
ductive agricultural regions on earth.
Gel Paso would then have no pos
sible rival within 500 miles. She has
already got enough of start to become
the greatest city in the southwest, but
would receive q remarkable impetus
toward greatness and become an inter-
national Denver.
Agricultural lands however. are alb
solutely necessary as base"
General Sutton went to Porto Rico
during the Spanish war as legal ad-
wiser to General Miles and while there
contributed numerous articles to the
magazines. He leaves today for Cal
ifOrnia.