El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-18

Ell Pasoans are in the midst Of
Il rain of bullets whenever
there is a scrap in Juarez," says Fred
Keiffer. ..rve got relatives living east
of the Mississippi who were greatly
worried when they heard of the Juarez
battle Some of them had been plan
ming to visit here, but I know they
won't, now that Juarez has been at
tackled and captured again
Los Angeles is a pretty nice place
but give me FL Paso in preference 10
patrolman on the plaza beat, who re-
turned to work Monday after a short
visittto the coast. They were having
beautiful weather on the coast when
I was there, but weather ism [. every
thing. There's something about the
people OF. FL PasO that makes you
glad to get back here from trip, no
matter where you've been"
George P. Mason, special deputy col
lector of customs at NOgales, Arizona,
arrived in FL PasO Monday afternoon
and was a visitor at the loca custom
office I have just returned from the
meeting of the collectors OF customs
recently held in New York City" said
Mason. There were IS deputy col
lectOrs, surveyors and collectors at the
meeting and there were $50 questions
scheduled for discussion, which per-
tanned to the collections OF customs
The conference recommended the re-
vision Of the now existing laws ana
custom laws which were considered
out of date
"A thing that struck me as unusual
when I visited Juarez Sunday was the
perfect order in the town." says Dr. j.
W. Yard. 1T could not have been
better. There were fewer DRINKS on
the street than there were on sundays
when the Federals held the town And
Juarez seemed more peaceIul Jhdn II
did when MaderO took The city from
old Gen. Navarro. 1 have heard sew
eral persons remark the same thing
This rain is general clear across
New Mexico and most OF Arizona II
reaches west as far as WelltOn," said
superintendent J. H. Dyer of the Tue
son division of the Southern Pacific
during the dOwnpour Monday All
the agricultural and cattle interests
severe in many sections I nave Just
received a telegram telling me the eX-
tent of the rain"
superintendent Dyer came to FL Paso
last week on business connected with
the freight movement, ana has spent
much of his time about G. Fl & 5 y
headquarters since He returned TO
Tucson Tuesday
ct did not allow the FL Paso physi-
clans and nurses to 60 over to Juarez
to care for the injured following the
battle" said mayor c. F. Kelly, be
cause / did not think it wise for them
to do so, as there had been no request
from Juarez for such assistance. did
not think it wise to have our Amerl-
cans 'buttins in over there when we
did not know what they might be put
ting into" You mean" he was asked
If they had gone across the border
and had been injured they would have
held our government responslo Die 70
get i-femnity2' That IS exactly II
repli the mayor. and our govern
ment should not be held responsible
for people -butting in where they are
not asked to go We did everything
we could to keep our Fl Paso people
away from the border and out OF dan
ger. The battle occurred az most
fortunate hour for safety. All good
people are supposed to be In bed by
o'clock, and although q crowd came
down to the bridge, there were FORUM
ately no accidents. If the battle had
occurred in the day time, when ii Paso
people generally were stirring around
on the streets I am certain there would
have been a number hurt from the
QUANTITY Of bullets that were coming
this way. AS it was We got off with
only the accident to the little messen-
ger boy, and that happened the next
day"
These battles in Juarez come with
too short notice to suit me- said DICK
Smith, on of the bell hops Of the Paso
del Norte hotel There was I sleep
ing peacefully under a canvas covered
corner of the roof. my tent, y'knoW,
when plump, something dropped on my
head and woke me up. It was a spent
ball that had torn through the canvas,
struck the wall and dropped on me,
sleeping there nice and peaceable,
'Spose that ball had not been spent,
I'd be wearing little wings and playing
a harp by now. If they pull off these
wHae
ring a little bell first and let every
body have a chance to beat it
THE next time they stage a battle
in Juarez," said Frank Langan, 1t
ought to be in the broad daylight
where we can at least have the bene-
fit of the show Pulling off a fight
in the dark, and letting 1t be all over
but the extra Heralds' before people
are half awake is not treating US fair