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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
n Years Ago To day
From The Herald This Date 1893.

". J. Cox went to La Junta, Colo,
today
Lee Kayser went to Kansas City on
the Santa Fe today
Miss Bessie Johnson came up from
Fort Hancock, Tex. this morning
II. c. Myles returned from a short
trip west this morning over the 7.
& P
Mrs. NJ B. Page and daughter. Miss
Fern. left for Los Angeles today to
spend the summer
Mrs. HOrner. who has been visiting
Mrs. E B. Smith, left for her home in
Fort Worth yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ". NJ Price are now
located at their new home, corner
Boulevard and OchOa streets
Phil c. Boiler and wife went east to-
day to spend the summer in Afilwau-
kee and other points on the lakes
Cattle shipments on all roads leading
into FL PaSO are very light when COM
pared with the shipments of last year.
The Santa Fe is placing a 90 foot eZ-
tension TO its freight depot platform,
and it is now the length Of eight box
cars.
A NJ Austin. a brother OF r. s.
Austin. of this city, arrived in the city
this afternoon and will visit for sew
eral days.
/ A Monroe. a merchant Of lower Fl
PasO street, has been absent from the
city for nearly a month and his friends
do not know his present address
T. H Springer, Capt John Julian Z.
c. Kiefer and c. ". Fassett have re-
turned from Paris, Tex, where they
have been attending the state firemen's
convention.
Train robber Keeton is still in jail
in JuaTez, but Will be jerked out in a
day or two. as steps to eNtradite him
have already been taken and are pro-
crossing favOrably.
The beautiful grove on the river
bank opposite the dam was the scene
yesterday of a large gathering Of
beaux and bellies from Juarez and the
surrounding country.
The bandstand in the new city park,
north of the track (present Carnegie
square) which was erected at cOnsid-
cradle cost, and is a very handsome
structure, is being defaced by bad
boys.
At the graduating exercises at
Ysleta Miss Ellie Burnham deserves
special mention for the manner in
which she recited. She formerly re-
sided in FL PasO and attended the
Mesa school
Miss Martha Wagner left this after
noon over the Southern Pacific for
Tucson, Ariz., where on tomorrow aft
ernOOn she will wed Lew Gasser, for
merly of this place. The contracting
parties have many friends here
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
PROGRESSIVES WIN
IN SAN ANTONIO
Reactionaries Are Defeated and Clinton
Brown, a Young Man, IS the
New MAYOR.

San Antonio, Tex, May 14.-Clinton
G.. Brown. a young attorney, Just turned
80. was elected mayor OF San ANTONIO
bv a vote of 7l75 to 1876.
Brown represents the progressive ele-
ment of the community and was backed
bv the Citizens league. Ryan, also an
attorney. was backed by the former sup
porters of the late Bryan Callaghan, the
people who controlled the city Tor almost
a quarter Of a century, and never made
any showing of progress
San AntOniO's streets are about the
worst in the state, and it Is behind IN
MANY WAYS. Notwithstanding a heavy
tax rate. The new administration IS
pledged to inaugurate civic improvements
and a business administration. 1t prom
ises TO put forward the commission form
of government for the adoption Of the
people The Callaghan administration
defeated such a proposition a couple Of
years ago.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
SECOND CAVALRY
CONCERT ENJOYED

Second cavalry band concerts prom
Use to be as pleasing a feature Of sum-
meT life in Ell FasO this year as have
been the military band concerts IL the
past The Second cavalry band gave its
first concert in Cleveland Square Tues
day evening, by courtesy OF Col Frank
West, commanding the Second cavalry
Programs Of the concert were dist-ib-
uted to the large crowd by uniformed
men Of the Second cavalry, the program
having been printed on the regimentaI
press at the post
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
ALBUQUERQUE AGAINST PUR-
CHASE OF THE ELKS' BUILDING
Aldermen Turn Down Plan to Convert
Lodge Rooms Into City Halle En-
inEeer's Specifications Read.

Albuquerque. \. NJ, May 1.-THE
council last night did not regard IA
yorably plan proposed by alderman
John Lee Clarke, TO buy the ElkS' build
ing and convert it into city hall
The Elks Lease Holding company
had appointed a COMMITTEES to confer
with a committee to be appointed by
mayor Sellers, Mr. Clarke said,
We've all heard about this Elks'
proposition" said Mr. Scheer, and
I should like to find out how the cOun-
Gil feels without delay
4 wouldn't want to consider it,
said councilman Skinner.
Pm the same way said Dr..
Reidy.
Councilman Gunsfeld said there was
no use of allowing the Elks to go to
the expense of having architects draw
plans.
Mr. Clarke said the cost. Of remodel
ing the building would be from $4,000
to $4,000. City engineer Gladding.
who inspected the building. estimated
that the cost would be greater.
The city hall according to the
specifications. will be built Of rein
forced concrete, with maple floors and
oak doors The specifications provide
for either a tin or gravel roof
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
PRISONER. GIVEN KNIFE BY
GIRL. ASSAULTS DETECTIVE

Chicago ILL.,, May 14.-When Harry
Evans had been convicted of burglary
in the municipal court. Garrett Fair
field, a cabaret singer, his sweetheart,
passed him her handkerchief. Evans ex-
traeted an open knife from the handker-
cief and started to carve his way to
freedom Detective BOschUlte was badly
cut in the neck and deputy BOhaber was
stabbed in the chest before Evans was
OverpOwered- The girl was arrested.
Miss Fairfield had introduced herself
as Evans's sister and managed to give
him the knife in her handkerchief when
she approached him by permission of the
court. Ostensibly to kiss the prisoner
goodbye
Evans, after being taken to iaI. de
clared he had tried to kill detective
Boschulte because he said the policeman
had beaten him at the police station
while seeking to extract a confession
of guilt.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
SOUTHERN BAPTIST DELEGATES
N Session At ST TOT H.

St Louis. No. May FIFTEEN hun
bred delegates are present at the first
synod of the southern Baptist confer
ence. which includes the states OF
Texas and New Mexico. opening here to-
day. 1t is probable that the president.
Or. Lansing Burrows, of Georgia, will
be reelected
Thirty-eight men and omen are de
voting their entire time 20 sunday
school work in the 16 states covered
by the Southern Baptist church 1t
was reported today at the annual meet
ing Of the Sunday school workers of
the Southern Baptist convention. Twelve
years ago there were none
Six hundred persons are expected to
attend a banquet Friday night to be
given for the Kings teachers. Only
those holding teachers training di-
plOmas of the Sunday school board
viii be permitted to attend
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS
GATHERING IN WASHINGTON.

Washington. d. c.. May IA dele
cation, 40 strong. arrived here today
in two special sleeping cars from the
headquarters of the Southwestern
Union conference of Seventh Day Ad-
ventists in Keene. Texas. to attend the
QuadrenniaI session Of the general con-
ference which begins tomorrow and
continues until June s. The delega-
ton. which was headed by elder Geo.
=. Watson. president Of the Union, left
Keene on Monday, where it was formed.
the members having come from various
parts Of Texas. Arkansas, New Mexico
and Oklahoma. which states comprise
the Union conference territory.
The New Mexico conference is repre-
scented by president V. 3. Watts and
Miss Carrie Belle Watts.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
THE NAMING BROTHERS.

FL PasO, Texas, May Il, 1913
Editor Ii PasO Herald:
On page three, of your issue Of May
IS, 1913, there is again reference 10
the Manning boys" / cannot believe
that Mr. Look has been correctly
quoted / was here during all the times
mentioned by Mr.. Look, whereas, he,
though a pioneer, came later, and as to
the events of the early part of 1881, has
only hearsay knowledge. The Man
ming boys were not outlaws or har-
BOrers OF outlaws, or sinister charac-
teTs of any sort one Of them was a
salOOnkeeper; another was physician
d highly educated man, an ex-Officer
of Confederate artillery, and perhaps
the best informed and most courteous
man who ever resided in FL PasO; a
third was ranger, miner ana pros
pccCOr, the youngest who was not IN
FL FasO in 1881. was for years val
ia bic officer whose single handed bat
tie with convicted outlaws attempt
ing to escape while on a railroad train,
has become legendary
The article IN question is a strange
confusion Of events occurring at diff
ferent times There is scarcely any
thing accurate in it, except the main
fact, that in April. 1881. there was a
general slaughter IN 'front.' OF what IS
now the PasO del NOrte hotel
With that slaughter none OF the
Mannings had anything 20 do Indirect
", I did As city attorney Of FL PaSOs
to whom the mayor and city council, IN
peril Of their lives at the hands OF
GeSperadOCS. had entrusted the matter,
two hours before. / caused Dallas stu
deumire 10 be sworn IN as city marshal,
had handed him his commission and in
struSled him as to his duties, the SUM
of which was that he was to free the
city from the domination Of despera-
does. In two hours ne did. He him
self survived his usefulness, perhaps.
but save his own later days and some
eScaDades of little moment. 10 or Il
years afterwsrd, on the part Of John
wesley Hardin. FL PasO has never
since covered in the presence OF the
gun man"
1 write this solely to defend the
character of my friend, DR.. @ T. Man
ming and that of his brothers I was
as little inclined to associate with a
thug in 1881 as in 1913.
W N COldWelI
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.

tChlcagO NeWS-)
true friend neither bores nor Dor
rows
The mother tongue frequently runs
to baby talk.
Old bachelors either dodge women or
are lodged by them
But you can't always get inside in
formation from a middleman.
In the human race the fat man has
more than a slim chance
To the right young man a girPs
plain red hair looks like a golden halo.
Some women are so changea bic they
never wear the same complexion
twice.
There is no rose strewn path for
the coward who cannot hide his yei-
low streak
His Satanic majesty never begs any
body 70 give him his due. Neverthe-
less he gets it
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
NEW JERSEY SENATE DEFEATS
WILSON'S Jury REFORM Bill

Trenton. y. J.. Nav 1.-THE senate
defeated the jury reform bill passed BY
the house Attached to it was an amend
ment providing referendum and the
statement was made that the bill as
amended had been approved by JOS P
TumUlty, president Wilson's private sec
rotary.
The Democrats could muster only 10
votes in its favor, II being necessary to
pass the measure. Beth houses have adj
iOurned for a week and the prospect of
the passage of jury reform LEGISLATION
at the extraordinary session of tn elegis-
latUre is not bright
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
IMPORTING MANY
CATTLE FROM MEXICO

Franklin & Rush imported about 500
head of Mexican cattle at LajitOs. Tex,
today The Cameron Cattle company
Will bring in about 1900 head at the
same point today or tomorrow
NJ F. Ascarate brought in p head
from Chihuahua City through the local
port Tuesday. They are to be slaught-
cred in Fl PasO.
The Pitman Cattle company has ship
ped 22O head of Mexican stuff to P. 3.
Carter, at Florence. Colo
Alberto MaderO has shipped 345 head
to A, Johnson at Grin Junction, Wyo.
They were recently brought in from
Chihuahua
J. 2. Odeu has gone to Chihuahua
City to attend to the purchase and
loading OF. some cattle for the FL PasO
market
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
DAUGHTERS REFUSE TO GIVE
Up THEIR ROOM IN CAPTION

Austin. Tex, Nay 14--Despite the
fact that the superintendent Of public
buildings and grounds. acting under in
structiOns from the governor. has nOti-
fled the Daughters of the COnfederacy
that the room now occupied by the
Daughters on the ground floor of the
capitol viii be needed sometime before
July I, no effort has as yet been made
to comply with the request
Supt. COnley says that as soon IS he
receives Instructions from the governor
to take posse ssiOn of the room he viii
do So
The Daughters have not indicated
their exact position only that they do
not intend to relinQuish their quarters
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(Atchison Gobel

The dandeliOn works nearer home
than the other perils-
Something more than eyeglasses are
needed to develop a 40-h. -. dignity.
A good many think the grape fruit
superior to the orange because it costs
more.
An amatueI IS also the sort who will
work harder for a medal than for real
money.
A limited vocabulary, unfortunately,
has nc tendency to abbreviate the con-
versatiOn.
Every loyal citizen feels that there
IS boy in his home town who ought
TO be playing big league ball.
While the children are young, active
and aggressive, all the furniture in the
home IS apt TO look sufficiently
antique.
Contrary to the general impression,
man sometimes RECEIVERS in the hos
pital without falling in love with the
trained nurse.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
POssEssIoN ne PnINTs

(FrOm Los Angeles, Cal, Times.)
A New York prOspector says that he
owns the old COrtez claim in Mexico.
Well, MaderO recenUy owned It
Huerta has it now. and both Diaz and
Carranza expect to get it soon Per
haps our New York friend should wait
until things settle down a bit before
becoming too insistent.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
ADVANCE OIL RATE
TO ARIZONA STAYED

Washington. D. c.. May 1.-THE in
terState commerce commission TODAY
suspended the proposed substitution Of
class rates for the present commodity
rates on the transportation Of petrO-
leum and its products from Beaumont
and other Texas cities TO Clifton and
AIOrenci. Ariz- The substitution would
have greatly increased the rates. The
present rate from Beaumont TO Clifton
is 60 cents per 100. The proposed rate
Sl5I per 100. and an even higher rate
was proposed to MOrenci
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
EOTRNAL ENTRTEs-

topeka journal
People who get tired Of life have
been living the wrong way.
Altogether too many persons are OF
the penny-wise and pOund-foolish
variety.
Still another reason for protest is
that increase in quality does not 20
along with increase in prices
If everybody owned a valuable gold
minse, most Of them would find plenty
Of other things to worry and fuss
about.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
Letters to The Herald.

IAN communications must bear the
signature Of the writer, but the name
VIII be withheld If requested
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
ARBTTR ALTON tribunal TO SETTLE
rL-ALl-. OF l. s AND ENEL.ANn ID.

washington. D. @. Nav 14.-With sir
SpriuS-RiCe, the British ambassador
and John Bassett Moore. counsellor OF
the state department. present to rep
resent their respective governments,
the international tribunal for the arbi-
tratiOn of outstanding pecuniary claims
between the United States and Great
Britain. is in session here
Efforts viii be made TO settle one
case a day There are more than 500
cases on what is known as the first
schedule" cases. which both govern
ments have agreed viii be submitted
to this judicial arbitration
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
What A Seed viii Do

T,ARmNe little of the the
s. beginning to learn how
farm Savage" heathen barbaHc'
know how farm but the present day representatives OF these
races have large forgotten
Necessity good farmers Every little
patch earth in populated country was faed to the limit OF pro
ducy Every and made to yield
wheat Every inch Of arabic land IN such country
China for instance tangible
separately handled pver cultivated with
practically laboratory methods to make yield its maximum product
Today densey pOpu-
thinking that
civilized world and it not tend
life 200 farms In China
large plots Paris
% ~ y are m to three ar forr acTg and AVERAGING less than one acre Dr
afarm not only supply vegetables city
100000 people, ship London An production
Of $1,000 5000 m acre from these Paris gardens
Did YOU ever stop power reproduction
grain wheat barley, Philip Miller
experimental gardens "A months
later single
In FTenchnan BHenOuz planted square
At intervals of about two months he separated and ~ the
the At the 10 months each
OF his grains produced grains
contrast average in
lowest the
they Briefly,
following the Chinese hO which has been followed Of necessity by the
off
applied wonderful cultivation
roughly
individual culta
ton of the soil anything like practical scientific scale The Chnama
contrary prepares carefully propagate
cumbing
the sofia
In few weeks the seeds terminate and each seed forms SEPARATE D
stalks system Ong
produced
or grains
accomplished separating tIanspantng
process reproduction indefinitely
multiplication
with its Ouet and after tanspng them the
grains
100 bushels EXpenentaly yield has been equaled g
exceeded
/ in yield
is ften noto o.
planting in
years. application
constantly stirring destroying parasites
crops
Of neighbours
pounds of oats and 500 Of wheat" French bulletin
agricultural
already
capital responds instantly generously
equally n garden and
strikers uragets ought
10 havea feeling
you fly breeding going on right
close by and that
public
rightly Stunned by careful people pests
Of them public
folks
fly
a thing o
Jainto plaza night Said one hat do you
pole for with pole"
Of said manw tho t all
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14

Eugene Fox. general passenger agent
of the FL PasO & Southwestern, went
to Chicago Wednesday morning.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14

Cincinnati with its strikers
o fellow feeling.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14

Whenever small sized fly be the breeding
by your premises every
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-14
Tax Exemptions, a Problem
Limit of $1,000 In United States VIII
Reach Enough Incomes to
Prevent Deficit.
-lH ErelerLc j. HnakIn -

ASHINGTON, d. C., May IL
The first problem in passing
an income tax is to determine
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-04-01

Commercial Congress-; Senator Gore,
of Oklahoma, Chairman of the Senate
Agricultural Committee under the
new senate organization; Congress
man Moss of Indiana, Chairman OF
the Agricultural Appropriation Gem
mittee of the house; Dr. Clarence j..
Owens, of Maryland, Managing
Direcor of the Southern Commercial
Congress and formerly president OF
the Southeastern Agricultural College
of Alabama; Kenyon L. Butterfeld,
of Massachusetts, President of Am
herst College and a leader in agri-
cultural development work; DR.. John
Lee Coulter, of Minnesota, the govern
ment's expert on agricultural statls-
tics, and Col. Harvie jordan, of
Georgia, President of the Southern
Cotton Growers Association, and
former President of the National
Farmers Congress.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-04-01
NEW POPULAR BULLETINS.

The State Agricultural Experiment
Station has just issued two new
Popular Bulletins, copies of which
can be obtained free by writing to
the Director of the Experiment Sta
ton, Pullman, Washington.
Popular Bulletin No. 80, by Paul }.
White, the Agronomist Of the Station,
on Experiments with Field Peas
and Soy Beams" gives the Tt suits OF
the experimental work with these
forage crops on the Station Farm,
during the seasons of 1911 and 1912.
These experiments are continuation
of those previously re ported in former
bulletins, and show very promising
indications for the general use OF
field peas as farm crop in all parts
of the state where the rainfall is
twenty inches or more and where the
crop can be seeded early enough to
mature before the hot weather sets
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-04-01
Publicity for Protection

In late issue of the Petaluma
Weekly Poultry Journal I note the
following communication to the editor
from one of his subscribers. [ can't
say that entirely agree as to the
efficacy of the course of actions he
proposes, but it does seem to me that
there is the germ of good idea in it
and some of our poultry raisers may
be able to extract the kernel from the
nut:
PUBLICITY FOR PROTECTION.
Editor Poultry Journal:
I have been much interested in the
articles on the egg markets and the
following may help somewhat. Some
weeks ago [ was in Stockton and there
met friend, a contractor, who has
large contract up in the Sierra Nevada
mountains. He has about 80 men in
camp. and the feeding of so many
men is quite problem and a big ex-
pense, as you may imagine. He was
down to buy supplies for his camp
and he expected to buy ten cases of
eggs and to bury them in hole and
cover with snow, that is if he could
get them cheap enough. In the even
ing I saw him at the hotel and asked
him how he got on, "Fine," he said,
''but nothing doing in eggs. l offer
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-04-01
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT SYSTEMS.

President Wilson today appointed a
commission of seven men prominent
in the agricultural field to conduct
in Europe an investigation of agri-
cultural credit systems and co-opera-
tive organizations among the farmers
of those countries.
The men appointed by President
Wilson are: Senator Fletcher of
Florida, President of the Southern
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-04-01

Popular Bulletin No. 81, entitled
Commercial Arsenates of Lime and
Lime Sulphur Solutions" written by
R. w. Thatcher, Director of the
Station, is report of a series of
analyses of samples of these CONNER
cial spray materials as they are sold
in this state. The chemistry of these
materials is discussed briefly, in order
that the reader may judge which par
tlcular brand is best suited to his.
needs