El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-03
IA Years Ago To day


Maury Kemp leaves for Austin to-
morrow to attend school there.
Engineer Clay Wan left this morn
ing for AlamOgOrdO TO be gone a
month. He was accompanied By his
wife
Arrangements for a grand ceIebra-
ton on the fourth Of July are now
going on among the G. II. & s. "A.
shOpmen-
G. A. Kline and wife left for New
York today Sir. Kline viii return In
80 days wnIle Mrs. Kline viii remain
all sumner.
The following viii take part in tia
Fireman's benefit to be held at Mvar's
opera house tOuight- ]. Milne Misses
Crosby and Windsor, F. J. Feldman. II
T. Walz, F. H. Irwin and Miss Bowman
By the closing down Of the large
JuareZ Smelter company, lately ac-
quired by the Guggenheims, nearly 500
men were thrown out Of work. il is
the intention Of the Guggenheims to
cease treating ore at the Juarez smell
ter and to close it down for good.
Both MAI LleWeHyn and Capt Geo
Curry are actively engaged in bring
ing the Rough Riders reunion to be
held at Las Vegas, N NJ, on June "a
to a successful termination Major
L1ewelyn is chairman Of the executive
committee and Capt Curry a member
Of the committee.
Last evening at Myar opera house
Miss Dorothy NJ, Bowman made her
ence- Miss Canady gave some selec-
tons on the violin accompanied by Miss
Wall Miss ArmijO gave a clever ex-
hibitiOn Of skirt dancing
There has been great deal OF dis
satisfaction lately among the stone
masOns Of this city, on account OF the
wages paid them. A majority Of them
are MeLicans- and they declare that
they cannot live on the salaries now
paid them Ihey have notified the cor
tractors that they viii go out Monday
Z If they do not meet their demands.
The projectors for a new smelter
have agreed upon site for the plant
about a mile from the city limits and
to the east Of Mt Franklin. The site
contains so acres and has Just been
purchased from the East Ell PasO Land
company. A party OF surveyors have
been laying off the Necessary buildings
sfble.
From the fact that several petty
rObberies have been reported to the
police during the past few days, il is
evident that a gang Of sneak thieves
with a kleptOmania. feeling, are plying
their trade Last evening a Mexican
was caught coming out Of the house Of
J. Caisher with an armful Of hats
c. W Fassets house was entered the
night before, and his methods were
identical with those Of the man caught
at Calisher's-
A short time ago Judge Harper re-
ceived letter from judge A NJ David
son, Of Fisher county, asking if 1t were
possible to lease ten acres Of the Fl
PasO county school lands, the same to
be used for a camp for the exon
federate veterans The matter was
referred to the county commissioners
at their meeting and. on motion of
commissioner Harris, IL was ordered
that the county Judge lease the ten
acres for term OF ten years, free
OF charge.
Several days ago Gen Arson Mills
bought for $4,000 j. F. Crosby's in
terest in the old Grand Central site
at the corner OF St Louis and Oregon
streets This sale has awakened the
Interest OF property owners, and rum
Ors have been current for the last few
days that a fine hotel was TO be i'm
medlaCely erected The building VIII
be two stories in height and uptodate
in every respect 1T will extend back
on Oregon street as far as. the office
Of the Industrial Record
SIX aldermen answered 20 the roll
call at last nights meeting OF the city
council Letters regarding the PUBIC
health Of the city were read. from Dr.
Race and DR.. Villas Dr. Race said
that there had been no more smallpox
in FL PasO since April 9, and that there
was no more use Tor the inspectors
DR.. Race made a strong talk in favor
Of prohibiting the diaries from doing
business in the city limits A. n
LOOmis and NJ 3. Hawkins were al
lowed to move the buildings asked for
received TO attend the Rough Riders
reunion at Las Vegas, n NJ, on June
a communication from architect
Maydel1 asking the council TO pay
contractors Buchanan and Powers $1,000
for their work on the city hail was
adopted Alderman Badger. made a mo-
ton that bids for the wiring OF the
city han be received The list Of de-
Enqueuts on occupation tax was read
by the clerk and was as follows Bal-
linger and Longweu livery stable, no
license; W B. Brack, ". H Burgess
Leigh Clark. ". ". COldWell. z b
Clardy.- Waters Davis. J. NJ Dean, p F.
Edwards. T. A. Falvey. A G. Foster
v. c. 3TcGOWOn. Dennis Storms. G. 3.
Patterson, and Geo E. Wallace attor-
neys. R. F. Burgess, jay Good, ] H.
Harper. p j. Edwards. A s. j. Eylar.
J. s MCKEE and W 3. Hawkins have
no license as lawyers; DIS. Bishop
Huffaker. Race. Merchant. Rawlings
and Villas have not paid their license
The city attorney was instructed 10
collect