El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-28
Indians ''WOrk" The Court
Involve Themselves in Liquor Cases
TO Get Free Trips to Phoenix;
Little Interviews
81" HILE at Phoenix attending
wv the federal court discnr-
cred a crafty indian scheme


cred a crafty indian scheme
! for getting a free trip TO the state
capital" E. NJ Blanford said Monday.
after his return from Phoenix. The
! federal law makes it a penalty to sell
liquor to the indians. The indians on
the various Arizona reservations try
to become involved in at least one
| sale each year, so that they may at
! tend court as witnesses at the ex
/ pense OF the government. In looking
! over the docket at Phoenix there were
! more than 100 such cases, mostly
/ against Mexicans who were charged
| with selling bad booze to the abort
gines- The indians brought their fam
mes along with them and made fed
| eral court a holiday while il lasted -
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How many feather beds do you
| suppose there are in Ell Paso?" Capt.
| W d. Greet, of the police force asked
| Monday afternoon. Back where (
/ came from every house had at least
two. and maybe more feather beds,
bed was trash. indeed. When 1 was
| home the last time my mother wanted
me to bring one of her spare feather
| beds out here with me- and when 7
\ told her that there were not half
| dozen feather beds in FL Paso she
: wanted to know what kind of an IN
Heve am right in saying that there
are not more than a half dozen deep.
downy featherbeds in the city, and 1
VIII venture that they were brought
here from some back home state where
the feather bed is as staple as the
| telt boot and quill toothpick."
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Frank G. Kaerwer a mining man,
range, Mexico, says: Il was driven
out of Velardena about rive months
ago The smelter there closed down
and I had no place to take nv ore
After untold h1rdShinG cd tn
reach Torreon with my wife and chill
dren, after which began a more ter
riole journey, 10 the coast by way of
Monterey and Tampico, and thence to
Galveston There were $50 American
refugees on the train and we were
% days making the trip from Torreon
70 Iamplco. We were detained five
days at San Pedro. where the rebels
destroyed the track to prevent the
federal general, Trucy ALBERT reach
ing Torreon with reinforcements, mer-
chandise and 100000 in cash
The. rebel general Robes told me
that the rebels would capture Mon
terey by November 1. after which Villa, ]
Robes. Carranza- Contreras. Pereyra,
Urbina, Natera and Arteaga will join !
FORCES in sufficient number TO take I
all of Chihuahu including JuareZ
The people Of the United States do !
not realize the terrible state of affairs
that exists in Mexico. The barbara I
ties have never been fully described. !
Over 500 Americans had been ruth /
lessly murdered before I left I am 1
leaving for Clifton. Ariz to look for /
work, as having lost everything I had /
to begin life again.
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"a horse has trotted a mile in 1:541s /
and the world notes the feat with f!
Col Joseph Bailey, who has num-
Der of race horses that viii be en-
tered in the meet at Juarez.
The old horseman took a record book I
out OF MS pocket while SITTING in the J
lobby of the Paso del Norte hotel. and
continued his conversation. The rea-
son is. possibly. because the horse has
IN great measure been eclipsed by
the automobile and the bicycle or be
cause the devices or windshield, run
ming mate and improved sulky, detract !
from the merit of the performance, or
because the sport of horse racing it.
self is, or has been, under more or
less suspicion, or that the two minute
morse has long ago appeared and the
climax of interest was then reached
and passed
Whatever is the matter. there has
been curious psychological change
in the public attitude toward the fast
horse, and the sport of kings is now
left largely to breeders, fanciers and
oId-time sporting men.
Men now living recall the time
when the speed of Flora Temple ca
mile in .2:19&) was the marvel of all
(2:17A), and the beautiful Goldsmith
Maid, who in 1871 smashed the record
of the invincible Dexter and in 1874
f6 6f10gea The time d9wn to ia Then
period of glory, and St. Julien (2:12%)
IN 1879. who yielded the crown in, 1880
to wonderful Maud S. (2:11%).
But St Julien came back with an
other world record (2:11A), and in
1880 Maud s. again cut down the time
ssnother half second (2;10%l, Jay Eye
more swift Maud s. again grabbed the
record in 1884, making the mile in
2:Os%, and in 1885 in 2:0S%. Sunol
in 2:0SH, but in 1892 gave
way to Nancy Hanks (2:04).
BY this time there were hundreds
of horses faster than Dexter and now
there are scores that can go faster | I
than Maud S. or Nancy Hanks. Then !
came along champions Alix The Abb |
bott. Crescens in quick succession, and |
the two minute horse arrived in 1903
in Lou Dillon and later the same year
in Major Delmar. Both Crescens and ! ,
Lou Dillon trotted later in less than :
holds the championship.
We have had the two minute horse
for 10 years." concluded Col Bailey
and in that time six and a half sec
ord. As I sit around the hotel lob
oles or Ell Paso, occasionally meeting
4 horseman of the old school I often
express the wonder. Is the minute
and a half horse probable%"
"Iu is my intention to prosecute an
Of the illegal drug sale law
to a finish" says chief of police I N
Davis. THE use of cocaine and NOR
phine is the cause Of people commit
ting crime more than any other agen-
cies, with the exception of alcoholic
liquors. The use of cocaine and NOR
phine not only leads men. and women
to crime, but it is a source of menacei
TO the public health and morals of the
city. The police department viii make
every effort possible to apprehend the
guilty parties caught selling these
1rugs and they will be prosecuted"
The little group at the club was
talking about nerve in its various
manifestations Il have heard of