El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-03
HEARD IN
HOTEL LOBBlES,
(Continued from Ash paffe.)

BODY needing q brscing, healthful, in
vigoratiug climate, tn,) u malarial,
| sick ening region. / believe that IL will
be the means OF bringing disease here.
That dam will mean that right at Ell
Pc o's dc Dr., there will be great ex-
panse OF stagpans water which cannot
help but breed sickness. 1t Will stand
out in the hot burning sun, and fair
ly tester. Il will give off noxious gases
and VAL ours, sud l am confident that
after you have it, you will be GLAD
enough to be rid of it,
Dr.. Yair elso spoke OF the objection
able sixth clause in the prop osed treaty
between the United States ard Mexico
in regard to the construction of she
dam. and thought that the att tude of
e. Paso had been unjust heretofore.
In speaking of the opposition on the
part OF Ell Paso ID the Elephant Butte
dam, Dr.. Ysir ga id that he did nos be-
lieve that more than five percent OF
the people of this city were opposed to
the project.
81 believe that there has been q GER
tain clique here which was OF
E osed to she Elephant Butte dam, and
an confident that Ell Peso people in
general were not disposed to regard
our scheme with disfavor"
Dr.. Yair thought that 1t WAS emil
nently unfair for the people OF Ell Paso
to oppose the Elephant Butte dam, and
to take the attitude that after the in
sernational dam was provided for, some
arrangements would be made for the
New Mexico dam.
''El Paso depends as much for her
prosperity on the prosperous condition
of the valley above, as upon the valley
be to the advantage OF this city to
have the New Mexico valley IN arid
desert"
Captain Erwin S. Jewett, passenger
and ticket agent at Kansas City, Mo-,
for the Missouri Pacific railway, Is in
FL Paso for q few days, wishing his
wife And son who have been here for
the health of the latter for several
months. Captain Jewett arrived here
night from Hot Springs,
Ark, aud talked Interestingly last
night of she political outlook in that
state.
II was in bot Springs just In time
to witness one of the funniest things
have ever seen, said Captain Jewett
last night. 1T was 40 argument be.
tween Rumble, the republican candi-
date for governor, and jeff Davis, who
is running for the office on the DEM
ocratic ticket Rumble took nrst shot
in the proceedings, and roasted JEFF
Davis for an hour and ten minutes. |
Then JEFF Davis took the platform, fol-
lowed again by Rumble The way
those two men assailed each other, and |
each called the other all the various
things he could think of, was as good |
as g CIRCUS any time.
'Jeh Davis has made his campaign |
on the trust question, and against the |
railroads ana corporations. Rumble
b anded him some warm arguments. |
He accused Davis of accepting a tele- |
phone frank book from a telephone |
company. and then, after runripg up |
\ bill which he refused to pay, jump |
ing on the company for being a dan
gerous trust Davis. he said, having run |
up big bill at hotel, refused to pay
Il, and then went out among the lone
gallus" fellows of the state. waving II |
around his he ad and calling upon them
70 witness what an immense monopoly |
The hotels are.
"When Rumble had finished JEFF |
Davis stood up aud said, 'Gent'emeu,
you've heard what my friend Rumble |
aas said about me. Well I'm going to
ell you some plain truths about impe-I