El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-10

" ranches that affect the Wom-
emp Mrs. R. c. Love, OF Sierra Blanca,
who has been spending a few days at
the New Zeiger hotel. stopped a mo-
| ment while drawing on glove. ''Why
| everything is more modern in every
| way Almost all the ranches down our
! way have all the cOnVenlenceS of the
| city, excepting electric lights. We have
| hot and cold water in our homes, and
! acetylene gas lights are used in very
many of the houses: All the conven-
| fences make it easier for the ranch
woman. There have been many other
| changes. We are about % miles south
| of Sierra Blanca When we first set
! tied there, Sierra Blanca was little
more than a wide place on the road,
now it is quite a settlement About
/ so acres of our land are on the river
| front and like many other rancherS
down our way, We are going into hog
| raising in addition to our cattle raIs
ing The hogs feed on the tOrnillO and
mesquite beans through the bOsque, eat
| the fish in the river and then we fat
/ ten them on corn later. We have put
| a big number of acres into alfalfa for
/ them, and will put in more this year.
| Everything IS fine below Sierra Blanca.
| the grass is good, as we had plenty Of
| rain and the cattle are all fat Perhaps
| the most important change in all the
ranches is that the cOwmen are taking
more to agriculture with their stock
| raising, and irrigation is playing an
4 4. a
| on the river bank, and have had all the
/ water we needed all season, even when
the river was dry
There is much activity in the cattle
! lins around Silver City at present, says
Henry Gardner, of the Gardner Cattle
company. Mr. Gardner returned Thurs
I day morning from New Mexico, where
( he has been attending to the Transport
! tation of large number of cattle. It
! judge that between 5000 and 5000 head
will be handled through Silver City in
the next few days. Stock in that sec
ion is in good condition and business
is lively"
'WelI, you couldn't fall into the Rio
Grande today and break your ARM
said facetiOuS passenger on a Mexico
| car as it crossed the river Thursday
morning. After several months of idle
ness, the river is working again. Water
began trickling down past the interna-
I tional bridges Wednesday night and
Thursday morning il had covered most
Of the bed The government gage west
of the smelter registered 1914 feet at
sunrise-an average actual depth of
eminent gage is anchored several feet
below the river bed:
DEMONSTRATION has been completed
for sure" z. L. Cobb, collector of Gus
toms, said Thursday as he looked at
fine picture Of his father, Col. Howell
Cobb and his grandfather, Gen Howell
Cobb. 7 just learned today that Sergt.
c. H Cole, of the 2Sth Pennsylvania
regiment, 10th corps and second divis-
ion OF the union army, who is employed
at the customs house. fought against
my father and grandfather at Column
bus, Ca Here am the son and grand
son of Confederate officer as collec-
tor of customs under the Stars and
Stripes with man who fought against
my father and grandfather employed
Vrrfr no
of my most faithful employees Out in
the elevator is Capt. Frank Tusten, a
G. A r. veteran, who is another of
our most efficient and best liked men
and I am going to appoint a Confed-
crate veteran to assist him as soon as
the service demands it. If that is not
the reunited American spirit persona
fled, have missed my guess"
There is man down city hall way
VINO gets results and gets them with
out the usual red tape delays" a prop
erty owner said Thursday, after coun-
ell meeting. He is Walter S. CLAYTON,
commissioner. I have been trying to
get sidewalk laid to connect my walk
with the next street having a walk, so
that II would not be necessary to get
out IN a canoe when 1t rains. I spoke
to Mr. Clayton Thursday morning and
ne was not five minutes looking I'D
the record and in ordering the walk
built at once, or directing suit brought
against the owners of the property for
failure to comply with the city Ordi-
nance That is what I call efficiency
in city affairs"
1t was Peanut Jfms" birthday ami
versary. He sat in front of his big
rooster at the elbow of death and
gave an unusually cheerful good morn
ing to everyone who passed, waving to
his friends on the Mexico car, handing
out samples copies of his peanuts and
dlf1uslng sunshine, peanuts and pop
corn prOmiscOusly. a little girl came
past the stand with a big white rose
She slipped up to the big mans side
timidly and laid the white rose in his
hand, vanishing so quickly that he did
of dulces. How the little girl knew
that it was his birthday anniversary
was more than he could guess, but he
wore the big rose all day in his coat
ure to his regular customers out of
sheer happiness.
Don II. Kedzie, of Lordsburg, N NJ,
IS in Ell Paso for a day, shaking hands
with his old time friends and remin-
lscing about FL Paso of the years agone,
When ne used to run down here and
swap stories with the pioneers. The
Don is still youthful in appearance
and action. but he has been a long time
In the southwest and has managed to
accumulate more friends than any
other man in the whole section and
t.t-9 OIuAAAuAeAtGu SOluGlHiuS OIL OlneE
things of life.
Besides being editor Of the Lordsburg !
Liberal, which is his most famous con- |
nectiOn, he is postmaster of LOrdsburg, !
United States commissioner for the 4
town. a notary public and-hold your /
breath and HSten-he is a director in 1
the Southern Pacific railroad He is 4
also director in the Arizona and New /
Mexico road, but since that road is 1
only little over hundred miles long, /
he doesn't count that for much, but /
being a director in the Arizona East 4
ern gives him affiliation with the great /
Southern Pacific, and he, an editor. re- |
CARELESS of interstate commerce laws,
rides on a paSSi Thus, Don Kedzie is |
the only newspaper man in New Mex
leo who rides on this railroad without !
paying fare. But that is not all The /
other day there was a meeting of di-
rectors of the Arizona and New Mexico 4
over at Clifton and they needed the
Don so badly that they sent him back
home in a special traini He told them
when they summoned him to Clifton
from Lordsburg, that he could not stay
the full p hours to wait for the next
train to come back. so they said that /
would be all right; they could fix that, !
and they sent the Don back special /
when the meeting was over at Clifton.
Still, Don H. Kedzie is Just a common.
ordinary man to his friends; he likes
eli IN, H. .