El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-17
NO VIOLENCE ADVOCATED

of the one theme that was uppermoss
in the minds of all. All denounced the
murder in unmeasured terms and
great deal of feeling was manifested
against the soldiers. At the same time
there was no talk of violence and not
one suggestion was heard of doing 9TH
er th An to let the court take its course.
NO REQUEST FOR REMOVAL.
A rumor was started that the mayor
was about to call special meeting of
the city council to prepare telegram
to the governor and secretary of war
demanding the immediate removal of
the negroes. This proved, however. to
be entirely without foundation.
When seen by a herald reporter
Mayor Magoffin said: mo, [ have
not called a special meeting and have
no intention of doing so. There is no
need for any thing of that kind. Th e
thing to do is to keep cool,
find out the guilty parties and
punish them. This can only
be done by the officers. Capt. Laugh bor-
ough has promised to render the chief
every assistance in his power and he
will, too. He is West Pointer aud a
strict ictdisciplinariau and will not let any
guilty man escape If he can help it.
These soldiers evidently stole the
keys of the qusrtermaster's storeroom
to get the arms and AK
COUNTY ATTORNEY TALKS.
County Attorney Edwards said: 81
was ir favor this morning of wiring the
governor and secretary of war to have
the officers at the fort render every as
sistance to the civil authorities if they
were not inclined to do so without But
I understand that the captain has pro-
missed to do everything in his power to
aid US in detecting and arrestipg the
guilty parties and that Is all we can
ask. He is very reasonable in the
matter and seems to understand the
very well.
81 have been opposed continued
MIR. Edwards, "to the policy of being
lenient with soldiers who get into
trouble in town. Many of them have
been arrested here .and turned over to
their captain whenever be asked for
them out there. That gives them tn
idea that the civil authorities have no
power over them. L gave orders some
time ego to the constables to hold for
trial every soldier arrested. If he
can get clear all right, if not, he must
take the consequences. l remember
when the Texas volunteers were here
one of them made his boast to me that
we couldn't do snything to them in
town. 1 told him just try it and see if
we could
CITY ATTORNEYS VIEWS.
City Attorney Kemp said, 9Th
primary cause of all this trouble Is th
inherent meauness of the negro. He is
not fit to be soldier and should never
be allowed to have a gun in his
hands"
FEDERAL OFFICIAT'S OPINION
Hon. Moses Dillon, collector of
customs, said: 1--WE must get those
negroes out of here. They are simply
breeders of trouble. The negro Is th he
same wherever you find him. Put
him into uniform and he thinks he
can run things to suit himself"
THE DEAD NEGRO
The name of the dead man Is James
w. Hull. He is twenty five years of
age, aud would have been in the service
5hree years in June. He was arcorp-
,rsl. He has been in the Twenty
Fifth ever since his enlistment, and
to his captain, has hitherto |
had good record. He is of tremend- |
,usly powerful physical build, with a
head like bullet.
After he was shot this morning, he |
walked, with his gun in his hand,
cooked for another shot, and with the
blood squirting from his breast in q
,reat stream, around on Kansas street,
nd there fell against the door of An
IdObe house and died.