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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
TRIPLE TRAGEDY
IN MINING CAMP
Mexican Shoots Two Wom-
en- and Himself at Metcalf
Jealousy Caused 1t.

Travellers coming IN from Clifton
and Metcalf, Arizona, are talking OF
triple tragedy in the latter place which
has kept the populace talking for sew
eral days.
Gregorio villarea1 shot two women
down in cold blood while they were
walking on the street, and, hurrying
back into his house, sent a bullet
through his own head in an attempt
to commit suicide.
Deputy sheriff Arnett was among the
first to reach the scene Of the murder
One of the victims, Anna Estrada, VINO
had her baby in her arms when she
was shot, lay with her limbs doubled
under her, face downward. having
neither moved or spoken after the bull
let that had ended her life crashed
through her brain
Her mother, susanna Sanchez (known
as Yepez), was still conscious at the
time the officer arrived she died
later in the hospital
The man who committed the double
crime was found lying on a cot in his
room with a bullet hole in his temple
and .3S Smith & Wesson revolver by
his side, still alive but unconscious
The motive for this extraordinary
crime is>believed to have been jeal-
ousy. Villerea1 had lived with the
girl he killed for the past two years.
She left him about two months ago
and went to live with her mother.
After trying to persuade her to come
back to him he left the country, sup
posedly for Mexico. but turned back
from Lordsburg with the avowed pur-
pose of killing both women. He be-
lieved that the girls mother had in
fIuenced her.
On the morning of the killing he
had gone to the home where the
mother and girl resided and had tried
to effect a reconciliation, but was
driven away.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
ABOUT YELLOW KITTENS
By WINIFRED BLACK.

Sights and halfveiled insults and
scarcely yelled insolences of conde-
scension, one ride in the car, and II
broke down at that, and back seat
In the box at silly play, and the
back view Of your hostess's beautifully
groomed head for the evening. and the
heartache and the headache, and the
miserable hour of reckoning when you
looked yourself in the face in the glass
and said: You're a snob, and not a
successful snob at that"
Kittens-why, kittens are worth
something, anyhow, to one who loves
them. But what you gotf
The man you love, the man who
works and plans and thinks for you
day and night, are you risking his
happiness just for nestful Of little
yawling kittens?
Do you race to bridge clubs and art
clubs and small and earlies, and leave
him and his comfort to the servants?
The little girl who ought to be the
pride of your life. do you neglect her
and let her run the streets while you
assist at this reception and pour"
at that tea?
Yellow kittens! Nothing but yellow
kittens. You'll see it all when you
come out of the spell and get chance
to rub your eyes and think 1t over.
Let's not laugh at the poor woman
out there In Los Angeles. Let's be
sorry for her, and, quite incidentally,
ourselves.
We are all a good deal alike, after
all, come TO think Of it-aren't we?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
ARE YOU FREE
FROM

Headaches. Colds. Indigestion.
Pains, Constipation, Sour Stomach,
Dizzinessa Ifyou are not the most
effective. prompt and pleasant
method Of getting nd Of them is to
take. now and then. a desertspoon-
full Of the ever refreshing and truly
beneficial laxative remedy-Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA. 1t is
wei known throughout the world
as the best of family laxative rene
dies. because it acts so gently and
strengthens naturally without nm,
tating the system IN any way.
To get its beneficial effects it i.
always necessary to buy the genu.
me. manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co.. bearing the name
of the Company. plainly printed or
The front Of every package.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
DR.. arkhurstssss.asssss. s sss s.i 5s.'
Is Splendid Military
Power for Purely Defensive Purposes

and four inefffciencies will not sum up
into one efficiency.
The theory which we have just built
up has some good timber in It, but VIII
very likely be knocked over by the
progress Of events.
Taft Looms Big I'm Giving Credd W
the Democrats.
-HE acknowledgment when Nj.
Taft has publicly made Oh n is
L Indebtedness to the ReHoei "a
party for the services iii
a. nasstns the reciprocity Dill wiz VIZ
hard,v strengthen his position win
4hasa whose business it is to arranee
Renublican programs; but IL was On
go of candor on his part and OF sta
manly breadth certain to challenge -
nasnact Of men of whatever party VIZ
make more of patriotism than
+Isanshin and who believe In franz a.
bones+ dealing under any ana al 0
cumstances- .bo Dresi-
dent,s character which Will &c. a. -,
earn him a still larger place ~
growing confidence which the p.op. -
at large have in him as a man. ~
an American instinct TO tnihA IVY
of those who try to De i1,,- IL. IF
nc nrobably reflected that ms acl
worId he the means of still Iurtner
communicating his relations Win Inc
headers of the party that elected MN
bnt the act is to be interpreted as a.
exnression of the fact tnat one nc
be a good party man and stiii pe -
prehensiye enough to TRANSCEND p~-
limitations, and also an exp
the fact that a chief executive mas ne
right to allow himself to be manaseu
by the organization to whlcn ne
his official position, and no risnl -
let himself be handicapped by VIVA.
he may consider to be the mls.aAef
and inadequate convictions Oh tna' "a
ganization. 49,
That that is Mr.. Taft's view OF the
matter is indicated by his whole Dear
ing I'm this reciprocity question, ques-
ton distinctly uncongenial to RepuDh-
ca nism.
His attitude was an announcement OF
his opinion that while as an inolVluue'
he is a. Republican, as president ne Is
something more. and that his owner
shin nv his party must be held under
rigid subsection to the larger owner
ship under which he Is held py MS
country.
He Is the Chief Executive OF the
Whole People.
Though elected by Republicans, that
fact does not justify his being a Re-
publican president. He is chief execu-
tive of the entire population, not
merely of small majority of it, He
has been put in charge of the interests
of the country at large, not of any sin
gle section Of It.
Whether or not / voted for him he
is my president after he is elected So
far as my personality extends he be-
longs to me. The more straitened a
man is in his political partisanshir
the more holly he will resent the
views above stated.-Copyright, 1911
National News Association
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15

TN the present situation of strained
political relations in Europe IL must
have occurred to all that Germany
has not built up it's splendid military
power for purposes that are purely
defensive.
Other nations, for the most part,
have been adding to the efficiency Of
their army and navy in order to be
prepared to be assaulted. It is gener-
ally conceded that Germany, on the
contrary, has been getting ready to
Make an assault not to RECEIVE
one.
She does not expect that any power
Is going to act against her on the Of
fensive It is generally understood,
or at least assumed, that 1t is she that
is going to take the offensive in MAX
ing, somewhere or other, a larger and
wider way for herself; it may be in
the direction Of the Mediterranean or
OF the North Sea, or of one of the
states Of South America-Brazil per-
haps.
1t may be that the conference In
progress between the queen and prince
consort of Holland and the king and
queen of Belgium Is IN view OF the
covetous eye that William is supposed
to be fixing on the Netherlands.
At any rate, the German equipment
has been brought to a state of efficten-
cy unparalleled in the worlds history.
and the popular belief is that that
result has been achieved, not out OF
mere motives Of pride, or for the bare
Of fha hIIf VII an
intention. more or less detailed in
scope, TO use such equipment in break
ing through present geographical lin
itations and escaping into a larger
liberty of dominion.
Austria Would Stand BY Germany If
Any Blow Were Struck.
And such are the relations subsist-
Ing between Germany and the Teuton-
ic portion OF the dual empire of Fran
els Joseph that when Germany strikes
q blow we may at least surmise that
Austria will be found standing near
by, unless prevented by check put upon
her on the side Of Italy.
Granting the reasonableness Of the
foregoing representation, when might
1t be expected that circumstances
would be more favorable than NOW
for the dealing of any blow that Ger
many may have in contemplation?
Russia is out of commission. The
Netherlands can offer no substantial
obstruction to German ambition. what
ever Dutch chiva1ry may have been in
the days OF Philip the Second and the
duke of Alva.
France has only recently been bowled
down by Germany like a stack of
ninepins: and, as for England, her own
prophets have repeatedly advertised
her military unpreparedness, an adver-
tisement made unnecessary by the bad
display she made Of herself in the Boer
war
There are, then, four inefficiencies;
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
SAW BOTH STATE
49,. CAPITOLS STARTED
California Man Who Walked
There From Texas
Years Ago.

G. H Wetmore, formerly Of Austin,
now of San Diego, Cal, has the dis
tinction of having witnessed the lay
ing of the corner stones Of both of
the state capitols of Texas. He passed
through Ell Paso en- route to Austin
and recalled the time he first went to
California when there were no trains.
The last time I was at Austin, just
81 years ago, they were laying the cor
ner stone Of the present capitol said
Mr. Wetmore, and during the year
1854 / lived there and not only wit
messed the laying of the cornerstone
of the old temporary capitol, but saw
the building destroyed by fire later
Mr.. Wetmore declares he walked
from Austin to California and ex-
perienced all the trials that the emf
grant and the traveller went through
in the early days.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
ANNoYANCEs AT BAND CONCERTS


Editor Ell Paso Herald:
In FL Paso during the summer we
hear very little good music aside from
the band concerts. This summer we
have been unusually favored in having
two excellent bands to play for US eV-
cry week, but now one of them Is out
of the city and perhaps will not return
until the season for outdoor music Is
over.
The concerts last about an hour and
a half, but deducting the intervals be-
tween the pieces, we have not had
more than two hours of music per
week. and hereafter this time will be
cut in half
Does 1t not seem, therefore, as II
people could refrain from talking while
the bands are playing? Only one hour
in a whole week now, and the pleasure
of that hour marred, If not altogether
destroyed, by people talking. II the
people who care nothing for music
must talk, why can't they meet their
friends in the park on other evenings
of the week? The park is there, the
seats are there and they can meet and
exercise their vocal organs to their
hearts content without annoyance TO
others 1t is the height of Ill breed
ing and Of meanness to prevent 9TH
ers from enjoying the music on the
few nights when the bands play.
Last Friday evening two groups OF
women made themselves especially OF
fensive 10 those so unfortunate as TO
be sitting near them. They talked al
most continuously, laughed vociferous'
ly and showed absolute indifference to
the comfort and pleasure of those sit
ting near, some of whom finally
changed their seats to get away from
them At a concert in large city
the police would have reprimanded or
removed them.
7 was a little amused at the indigna-
ton one of these women showed when
a man sitting to windYard pulled out
an ancient pipe and began putting a
vile quality of tobacco. the smoke
blowing into her face. OF course 1t was
outrageous. but the man, a lover OF
music, was merely getting even with
her. Her loud and vapid talk inter-
fered with his pleasure, and the smoke
interfered with hers. 1 am not sure
but that I quite forgave his want of
manners.
In general however, it is hard TO
overlook the vile odors Of pipes and
cigarets from which We cannot escape.
How men can be so thoughuess or SO
Indifferent to the comfort Of others Is
to light their pipes and let the sick
ening smoke blow into their faces IS
something not easily understood 1t
seems as IL they, too, might refrain
from smoking during the brief time
the concerts continue, or If not, that
they would smoke good cigars, which
offend very few people. But they puff
away to the discomfort of perhaps a
dozen people each without even an
apology And what smells worse than
an old pipe or a cigaret? Limburger?
No!
1t is pleasant to acknowledge that
the children are behaving better than
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
A WOMAN is AS
OLD AS SHE LOOKS

Thousands of women owe their
youthful appearance to Newbro's Her
picide No matter what may be her
age, a woman with nice head Of hair,
hair that it soft, glossy and fluffy, al
ways looks younger than she Is
Herpicide makes the hair beautiful
with that sheen and simmer which IS
so attractive and always indicates a
healthy, natural growth. 1t keeps the
scalp free from dandruff and the hair
from falling out.
There are remedies said to be Just
as good" but Herpicide Is the genuine
original dandruff germ destroyer.
One dollar size bottles sold under q
guarantee by leading druggists every
where.
Recommended and applications made
by the best BARRIERS and hair dressers.
Send 10c in postage for sample and
booklet to The Herpicide Co., Dept. r.,
Detroit, Mich.
Kelly & Pollard special agents.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
CONDITIONS ARE
RESUMING NORMAL
Cattle Buyer Sees Prospect
for Substantial Peace
In Mexico.

Conditions in Mexico are rapidly re-
Stunning their normal state. according
to W. J. Cox. a cattle buyer, who has
been through the northern part of the
republic recently on business.
The reports OF uprisings in the in
terror are greatly exaggerated, or
wholly untrue"
Mr.. Cox says: II have been travelling
in the interior with perfect safety and
have found no difficulty in going
wherever I pleased. 1t Is true that
there are few marauding bands of
mounted men, but they are doing COM
paratively little damage and are not
to be counted as an uprising. I was
afraid to go to Mexico after hearing
all of the alarming reports about con-
ditions there, but I had no trouble In
going any place 1 pleased and I find
everyone optimistic about the future
Of the country"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15

A LOS ANGELES woman rushed
~ into a burning building to save
y her babies" The wall fell and
the woman died there in the flames
and the horror, and 1t turned out that
.the babies" she lost her life for
weren't babies at all They were just
a nest full of scrawny, mewling, spit
ting yellow kittens
And everybody stood around and
wondered about IL.
1 don't see anything SO odd in this
affair.
I've done it a thousand times, haven't
you? Rushed into danger just for.
nest of miserable kittens. or something
not half so lovable and cuddy?
There was the fight at the Ladies
Aid society. I rushed into that 1
knew better all the time, but IN L
went head first-and came out-be-
draggled, half dead and wholly
ashamed of myself.
For what? Just because I was mad
and wouldn't stop to think.
And now the minister's wife doesn't
speak to me and the elders wife is a
good deal too friendly, and-Oh! 1 wish
I'd never heard of those kittens.
Never do such things.
How about that time you went to
visit some people you couldn't bear
Just because they invited you. and you
kept thinking of their lovely new mo-
tor and their box at the theater and
their dinners? You went, didn't you?
Well, what did you get out Of the
visit?
A brand new crop of snubs and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
Lafayette's Last Visit to
the United States
August is, 1924.
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

and true, without one grain Of pretense
or deception.
Perhaps the two most memorable in
cidents in the course of that never to
be forgotten visit were Lafayette's visit
to the tomb Of Washington at Mount
Vernon and his appearance at the lay
ing of the cornerstone Of. the Bunker
Hill monument.
The blessed aftermath Of that visit
to Washington's grave still abides
with us. The solitary descent into the
tomb. the silent prayer beside the cas-
ket Of the illustrious man he had loved
and trusted-can we ever forget it all.
can we ever cease to be immensely In
spired by the thought of 1t?
And that scene on Bunker HiI1-the
magnitude and perfection of the ar
rangements, the vast numbers assem-
bled, the presence of the venerable La
fayette and his brother veterans. the
great Webster with his unparalleled
eloquence, conspired to make it one of
the grandest and most imposing occas-
ions ever to be witnessed In our coun-
try
1t must have been an intensely
thrilling moment when Webster turn
ing upon Lafayette his magnetic front,
exclaimed:
ed with both hemispheres and with two
generations. Heaven saw fit to ordain
that the electric spark of liberty should
be conducted, through you, from the
new world to the old; and we who are
now here to perform this duty OF pa
triotism have all of us long ago re-
ceived it in charge from our fathers to
cherish your name and your virtues.
Behold! They now stretch forth their
public hands to embrace you Behold!
They raise their trembling voice to
invoke the blessing Of God on you and
yours forever!".
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
NEW LAW LIMITS
SALOONS TO TEN
Tucumcari Is to Have Bet
ter Saloon Regulations
Hereafter.

Tucumcari, n. NJ, Aug. ia new
saloon ordinance. limiting the number
of saloons in this city and regulating
their Management has been passed by
the city council The number VIII De
limited to ten, the present number op-
Grating here. Hereafter no music or
singing will be allowed and no indie
cent pictures or paintings may be dis
played AS a rule, the saloon men or
the city are supporting any measure
which map tend to improve the pres
ent condition of affairs.
Notice Of an application for dissolu-
ton of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Choctaw Railway company before the
district Judge at Alamogordo on Oc-
tober has been given here This
company under whose name the Tu-
cumcari and Memphis road was sbuilt
has since become a part or the chi
cago. Rock Island & FL Paso system.
The Progressive broom manufactorp
has sold a third interest in its concern
to A A Harvey, Of this city. The new
company will make an especial effort
TO produce in carload lots. A new
hinder and one additional bander
were added this week and other ma
chinery will be added as soon as sales
warrant The company Is getting
ready for the shipment of its first
carload order.
The uptown office of the Western
Union Telegraph company has been
opened in the chamber Of commerce
quarters. on South' Second street mss
Grace NJ Jackson is in charge
workman is here finishing the instala-
ton this week This office Is the re-
suit of continued effort on the part OF
the chamber of commerce and the mer-
chants Of the city.
George Ealy of Dalhart, Tex, has
purchased the cafe formerly conduct
ed by Frank Record. on Second street,
and will take charge al once. Jack
Ryan and Jack Hansford, also OF Dali
hart, have leased the old Coney Island
place, which has been closed for sew
eraI months, and will open 1T Il the
public this week. Many business men
are moving TO this city from border
Texas towns on account Of the better
business conditions here.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
TV7WEN PA calm hoam last mite
w he was vary late. This is the
first time that Pa has been

first time that Pa has Deen
late for long time, & Ma was sur
prised. Pa knew that Ma was going
to be surprised wen he got neer the
house, SO wen he CAIN in he sed, .
deer me. 0 deer me.
Ma was all reddy for to sckold him,
but Wen she seen Pa holding his he'd
she felt sorry rite away & sed, you
poor boy, have you a he'd ache?
Yes, sed Pa 1 have a he'd ache &
whatis worse 1 have a hart ache. A
hart ache is always worse, Pa toal
Ma, beekaus -moast of the times that
man has a he'd ache 1t is coming to
him, but wen a man has a hart ache 1t
is owing to circumstances, Pa sed,
oaver which he has no control.
Wen Pa toald about the hart ache
Ma dident feel so sorry, beekaus
guess that moast wimmen is like Ma
after thay git married, thay are will
ing to be nice to thare husbands wen
they have a he'd ache but thay always
look kind of funny wen thare hus-
bands has hart aches. Hart aches is
caused from so many different things.
Well, sed Ma, what about the hart
ache?
Christy Mathewson is going back, sed
Pa. he king of them all Is feeling the
waite of age, the saim as I began to
feel it q few yeers ago. & that is
why I mourn, sed Pa. Chicago beat
him the other day to 8.
How much did you have on the
gain? sed Ma. I newer bet anything,
sed Pa. 1t isent that. I only feel sad
to think that Matty is nearly all In.
That is why stayed down town 80
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15

vt was 81 years ago today-August
15, 1924, that Gen. Lafayette landed
q in New York on his memorable last
visit to the people of the United States
The old aphorism about the gratitude
Of republics finds no proof in the case
of Lafayette. The nation poured out
its gratitude upon the Frenchman who
so unselfishiy labored in behalf of their
independence. 1t is doubtful If in the
whole round of the worlds history a
man was ever given a grander recep-
ton than that which fell to the lot
of Lafayette in this country in 1924
Those who witnessed it thought
about it and talked about it as long
as they lived, and the children are
keeping up the habit of their fathers.
To this day the memory Of that visit
is cherished with peculiar veneration
by all true Americans, and will con-
tinue to be thus cherished while true
Americans live upon the soil that the
noble Frenchman helped to make free.
Every hour Of Lafayette's visit was
to our country a beatitude and
benediction. In the highest sense of
the word it was a holy season, fraught
with all that was sacredly beautiful
Everybody knew that Lafayette was
perfectly sincere, and Lafayette knew
that the mighty upwelling of joy at
his coming was straight from the heart
Of the american people.
He knew that when congress intro
duced and Immediately passed the bill
giving him $4,000 acres Of land from
the most fertile section of the public
domain, and the sum Of 100000 be-
sides, the act represented the real feel
ings Of the congress and the people
He knew, as he passed in his trium-
plant journey from New York to New
Orleans and back, receiving everywhere
the handshakes and greetings of the
people, that 1t was hearty, wholesouled
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-15
LITTLE Boobies PA B. WILLIAM F KIaK

late, Pa sed & o deer, my poor heidi
Jest wen Ma had Pas he'd all fixed
up in a nice cold cloth with Ice In 1t
& everything & wen Pa was lying on
the sofy taking a nap thare came a
ring at the door. A man NAMED Mister
Jenkins calm in & sed to Ma, l want
to have q nice visit with yure nus
band. which I have met once or twice.
I am vary sorry, sed Ma, but at pres
ent he had a bad he'd ache and he Is
reclining on the sofy. Ma always says
Pa is reclining; she newer says he Is
lying, beekaus she knows 1t.
Well. sed Mister Jenkins, If you Will
tell him, who 1t is, am sure that he
will admit me. Tell him, sed Mister
Jankins, that I am a friend of Dave
Fredericks & Billy Stevenson. He VIII
surely remember Dave, sed Mister Jen-
kins. Dave is the fellow that I In
terduced to him, the man with the big
fingers
Well, sed Ma, what do you want to
see my husband about?
wanted to tell him about how bad
all us fans feel that Matty has gone
back. sed Mister Jenkins.
Then you mite as well go away. Ma
sed. beekaus my husband Is alreddy IN
state of nervus collapse about 1t.
doant follow baseball much, Ma sed,
but I know that my husband talks this
thing vary much to hart, beekaus
he is making up verses in his de-
lirum, like
Mattys gone bad,
& am sad
& Tad is glad.
Then I guess I better go away, sed
Mister Jenkins.