Arizona republican., 1911-07-08

captions given them thus far enrOute. i (SigneO DE SOUZA.
 | The above is the very latest bulletin. What happened before that is best told ! by Archibald Reginald Cater. general agent of the Arizona Eastern who un- dertOok to personally conduct the Ari- Zona excursion to Atlantic City, but who was ditched in Fl Paso and re- turned home yesterday morning. It wasn't Caters fault. He had trans iprtation and spending money and wouldn't have missed the trip for a farm, but received a wire from
 San Francisco advising him to be
 in readiness to go there in a day or so : if needed on a matter of official rail road business. That settled Cater for the joy ride. but he insists that he had a royal time as long as it lasted and i the way they do things in Fl PasO is worth going to see. With tears in his eyes Cater turned the train oyer to w. c
 Mccormick. general agent of the c. H.
 & s. A, with the injunction to look af- ter things just as we'll as though he Cater, was sti'l on the job.
 Many Arizonians from eastern terri
 tOrial points joined the excursion at Fl Paso and when the train left there were eighty-siX jubilant passengers on board, all making faces at Cater who stood in the railroad yards and wept
 Dr. Vickers and Frank DeSouza were on the rear platform swinging their
 hats and giving the Arizona yell. The train got into Fl Paso at O. ] clock in the afternoon and was met by
 a large delegation of the Fl Paso EIks who loaded the visitors on . special train of three electric cars and took
 them to the Elks club where light re- | treatments were served to all. both la dies and gentlemen, including those who were not EIls but who were tray cling on the Elks train. Then all
 boarded the cars again for visit to Juarez. under the guidance of Dr. Jos.
 eph w. Lord, exalted ruler of the Fl
 PasO lodge
 Arriving in Juarez the party was met
 by General Blanco who is in command
 of the city and by Colonel Wilson. an American soldier fortune, wlio is the physician in charge of the hospital in
 Juarez. Cater says the docto. looked
 as though he had just dropped out of
 one of Richard Harding Davis novels.
 He has prematurely gray hair. wears a broad StetsOn hat. khaki riding suit
 and high tan boots.
 The doctor picked out one of the fin
 est looking Phoenix ladies in the party and with her headed a sidewalk process sion to the various places of interest 1 in the city. stopping here and there to inspect the bullet riddled buildings. They visited the jail, the old mission.
 the customs house, the old market and
 big gambling hall where they were introduced to the mysteries of the game of electric keno.
 Returning to Fl Paso and the EIks club. magnificent banquet was served
 Tn the evening where felicitous speech
 es were made, Judge Kibbey responding
 for the Phoenix contingent and being introduced as the father of irrigation. The Fl Paso people all yelled them selves hoarse for statehood for Arizo- ma. This banquet like the luncheon was enjoyed by the women of the party
 as well as the men.
 At the conclusion of the banquet the visitors, women and all. marched through the streets to the depot. es- corted by an army of the Fl Paso peo- pie. More hospitable treatment could
 not have been accorded the visitors
 had every Fl Paso Elk been million aire. nor could a more appreciative par ty of visitors be found than the tour
 ists who are travelling on the EIks spec ial
 As souvenirs MT. Cater brought back two documents he will frame and hang
 in the Ells lodge room. One is the per
 init written by General Blanco to the Fl PasO Elks, promising safe escort to
 the Arizona party in it's visit to Juar-
 ez, properly signed in his own hand
 writing. The other is a copy of tel
 egram that had been found by some
 one after the capture of Juarez by the
 insurrectos and kept as a curiosity It
 is dated January 23, 1894. in Mexico