El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-06
SETS MAJOR CASE
FOR JANUARY TERM


AlamOgOrdo, n NJ, Nov. 6.-Judge
Edward L. Medier, Of the district OF
OterO county, has dismissed the petit
jury until Jan 5, at which time they
Werfe instructed to return for an ad-
journed session of the court. By this
act the criminal docket of the present
term continued until that time.
Most of the cases on the docket were
disposed of. The cases against H H
Majors, charged with poisoning his
daughter, and against J. H Castedine,
charged with killing Vidal Duran. both
returned by the grand jury, have at
tracted considerable attention.
The court viii continue IN session
for several days to dispose Of civil
cases.
Chas. z. Mitchell. president Of both
banks in this city accompanied BY
Mrs. Mitchell, has gone to Washington
20 look after a claim of about $4,000
against the federal government for the
returns of war taxes on cotton col
lected during the civil war The bill
for a large number of these claims has
been passed by congress and the money
is now available for their payment
These taxes were collected from Mr.
MitchelTs father who was in the cot
ton brokerage business at Charleston,
S. c., at the time
State senator John n. Bowman Of this
city, has received his commission as
district deputy grand master Of the
10th Masonic district of New Mexico
i
master Nathan Jaffa, Of Roswell The
district is composed Of OterO and Lin
coin counties
w R. Edison. manager Of the Ala
mOgOrdO Improvement company, IS on
a trip to Phoenix. Ariz-
Mrs william Holmes was in FL PasO
on business
Rev and Mrs. ". A. Cooksey, 7. A
Pace and Mrs. J. W Bennett have re-
turned from Demlngs where they at
tended the Baptist state convention
Miss Maggie Bennett. who has been
visiting relatives in FL PasO for sever
al weeks accompanied Mrs. Bennett
home.
The manual training department OF
the city High school has been fitted up
in the QUinleven building on 10th
street The equipment consists OF
benches and tools for about IL stud entS-
Mrs r. H Pierce and little Hiss
Hazel have returned from a two weeks
visit to relatives in Fl PasO. Mr..
Pierce drove down Saturday afternoon
in his Studebaker 20 and they returned
the next afternoon
Mitchell Major returned to Fl PasO
Wednesday afternoon after remaining
here with his father during the term OF
court The young man was reared
here
Mesdames J. S. Baker and T. A. Pace
entertained a host OF young people with
q delightful HallOWe' en- party at the
residence Of Mrs. Pace on Eleventh
vailed Those partaking Of the fun
weTe- Misses Jessie Pierce, Ellen
RicharCs, Eileen Hunter. LeTie AycOck,
Caroline ShOtwell. Mary MOffat, Julia
Peterson Eva MOffat, Pearl Evans. Het-
tie HlckSOn, Claudia Evans, EdWina
Moffat Mary dudman, Ollie Hudman,
Eva Miller, Iva WarnOck, Aline Whit
more, Norma WhitmOre, Lillian Shields,
billiard Blankenship, Kathleen West,
Laura Pace; Messrs. Oral Browning.
Curtis Johnson. John Tweed, Fred
Bryars, Willie Bryars, Alfred Riggs.
Joseph Miller. Reece COOksey, Jessie
Baker, Clifford Patty, Thurman Peter
son, Ivan Pace, Willie Richards. Wyatt
Richards, Joe MOffat. Bert Jackson
Lacy AGREE. Eugene Hardwick-
A. L. Browning and Oral Brown
ing mOtOTed up to TularOsa in Mr..
Browning's car
have gone TO Shamrock TO spend a few
days with friends
A Halloween party was given at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs R. s TiDtOn.
Games. music and song were diver
slons. The house and grounds were
beautiful decorated Among those
present and enjoying the event Were
Misses Pearl Frazier, Eula Perry, Mat
tie Blakely, Leona Shelton Sadie
ScipiO, Lime Rhodes, Lucille O'Reilly.
Josephine Wingfield, LYDIA Rhodes.
Mona Lee, ROzie De BOrd. Nina Sin
gleton. Alice Teed. Florence Abel. Daisy
kearney, DinOra BOuchet Opal Upton,
and Charley sutton, Forest WinEfield,
Oliver Lee, Tom Prather. Jim Warnock.
Henderson WarnOck, CLYDE Beecher.
Gilbert Gordon. George Bemis. Robert
West, Harvey Salisbury, Roscoe
Blankenship, Ed Sanders, Aubrey Tip
ton.