El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-11

telephones out rather than pay the
increased rates demanded b. the com
pany. These rates are defended by the
Telephone company under the plea that
they are the rates called for by the
franchise given the company by the
town OF Las Cruces; but the Mesilla
Park citizens contend that no munich
body in Las Cruces has any legal au-
thOrity TO fix the rates to be paid out
side of the city limits Of that town.
The committee also entered a strong
complaint against the alleged methods
Of the Telephone company in not ad-
justing complaints for bad service and
in ordering out telephones where a
bill is in dispute, and insisting upon
payment by the subscriber for the
period during which the telephone has
been ordered out. The Telephone COM
pany was represented at the hearing
by Dean Clark, general manager OF II
Paso; manager BelOud, of the Deming
office, and manager Reiff, of the local
office. The Mesilla Park citizens com
m1ttee asked for a ruling upon two
points: Can a telephone company in
sist upon and collect charges from It's
subscribers for the time that a tele-
phone is out Of commission and the
service not rendered. and as to Wheth-
er or not the present telephone rates
for Mesilla Park subscribers are IN
just, exorbitant and excessive? rul-
ing on both these points viii be made
by the commission in the near future
In the afternoon the corporation
who brought various matters of i'm
pOrtance to its attention One Of these
which was presented by Joseph W.
Taylor of DOna Ana was the urgent
need for better protection for passen-
gers who wait for trains at the DOna
Ana switch, where no suitable building
is available.
Good Roads Workers.
The executive committeeman OF the
new Dona Ana County Good Roads as
ISOLATION, appointed from the various
precincts. are as follows:
Precinct No. 1-R. Walters, l. B.
Bentley, a. l. Hurley.
No. John Barncastle, John steuart,
J. ". Taylor.
No. so. H Brown. E H. Alton, R.
No ERoman Bermudez. Val Gloria,
H. S. Parks.
No. SO, c. Snow. A J. Fountain.
A s Robertson
No. 6-M Mcdowell, P. ". Barker,
No. 7@Peter c. Lopez, John COnett.
No. -. L o'shea, C. D. casad. Di-
No. 16EW. o. McNary. o. B Wood.
E. ". NevilL
No. 12-J. F. Findlay. Gabino Carrie
ras John Z. Bonar.
No. I'D. E Rodriguez Romulo Mar
tinez, Lee Harlan.
No. 16-Antonio Silva y Abeyta, &C.
clio Lucero, Jesus Silva.
NJ. -o--AN. - NFelA 4 cit N~4ie~S. -AlA4CIs
Joe Bennett.
No. 81. F. Elliott. J. L shriner, Pc
dro Serna, ST.
No. 20-Jas. S Quesenberry, Jeff D.
Isaacs, L. z. Ruhie.
DruuShtsman Changes Field.
H A Douglas, a draughtsman of the
reclamation service, has arrived here
from Salem where he has for some
time been engaged at work with engi-
neer B. 5. Thayer, who has charge of
the topographic survey of the Rincon
valley. Mr. Douglas will spend several
weeks here and in the reclamation
camps of the Mesilla valley, engaged in
similar work to that in which he was
engaged at Salem.
W. J. Jones of 81 Paso, who has been
here several days, has gone to La
Mesa
J. T. Murphy, Of Steubenville, Ohio,
is the guest of his brother. W. B.
Murphy of Main street. Mr.. Murphy
has been here a number of times pre-
viously
Mrs. W. S Martin is i'll at her home
in the Hinton addition to Las Cruces
The new house being erected by
Dallas Reeves in West Las Cruces
VIII be ready for occupancy in a few
weeks.
Merrill Irwin has returned to his