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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-19
DEBATING SOCIETIES
ADD NEW MEMBERS
Both Hold business Meetings, Their
Programs Including Declarations
and Criticisms.

Both Hold business Meetings, Their
Programs Including Declarations
and Criticisms
Four new members and an honorary
member were elected into the high
school forum society at its last bust
ness meeting. The new members are
John Savage. Eugene Smith, Robert
Hare and Ellis Stevens, active, and R.
B. Mediation, honorary member. The
forum is beginning plans for an open
program to be given on January 80,
to which the entire school viii be in
vited.
Following the transaction Of bust
ness at the meeting. declarations were
spoken by Alfred Black, Idus Lambert
and Erwin Schwartz. r. P Mediation
made a brief speech and Allen o.
Sayles, the faculty critic of the So
ciety, gave the members a short talk
on public speaking and critifzed the
various speakers Manuel Schwartz.
president of the forum, presided.
New Sam Houston Members
The sam Houston Debating society
at its last regular meeting elected For
tunatus McGruder and Earl Johnson
new members. The program consisted
Of defamation by Harry shannon
and a speech by Fred Hunter Tt was
concluded by a speech on Scientific
Debating" by S. o. Welday, of the
faculty
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-19
Dat OF Town Visitors

William J. Neal of the -Four Bar
ranch, near Tombstone, Ariz, was here
Saturday on business.
=
J. NJ Rooney, mayor of Fort Stock
ton, Texas, is here on q business trip.
He is staying at the Sheldon hotel
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-19

Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ Dudley, Miss Ivah
Cool and Frank MurchisOn went to
Fabens hunting on Sunday, and stopped
at the Valley Inn for dinner.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-19
Cards

Mrs. Carl S. Mckinney viii enter
tain on Friday afternoon, Jan. %. at .
o'clock, with bride party in honor of
Mrs. Marion Letcher, wife of the
American consul in Chihuahua, and
Mrs. W. NJ. Fink.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-19
About FL Pasoans

Mrs. Ewing Taylor, who will be re-
membered as Miss Pauline Townsend
is here now with her mother. Mrs. G. Is.
Townsend. Mrs. Taylor has had the
pathetic experience Of being a widow
in less than a month, her husband hav-
ing been drowned in the Alabama
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30

pass upon litigation arising out of that contract
 "The fact is that the contract un- der discussion was made long before MT. Sloan was appointed Territorial Governor He, therefore, could not as Governor have been a party to the contract Nor is there any evidence that he used his official position in any way in behalf of the contract or of any interests behind it Neither did he during his service as counsel for the Water Users Association have any occasion to pass upon Che con- tract or advise regarding lt
 "It has been the custom and the pride of Eyerybodys to go after any thing we believe to be wrong, in a whole-hearted, two-hsted way We have done that in the past We are doing 1t in the present. and we shall do it in the future It is our purpose always to deal in truth; but we have at times in the past made our percent age of human error and We shall probably do so again. When we dis cover that we have done SO, we shall as in the past, make frank aclmow.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
JUDGE SLOAN'S MERIT FULLY ATTESTED BY
 ERRING MAGAZINE
EverybOdyS Admits the Injustice
 of Its Article Concerning Dis tlnguiShed ArizOnan and Salt River Valley Proiect-RegretS

In the current issue of Everybody's Magazine appears the following state ment which will be of interest to the many friends of Judge Richard F.. Sloan throughout Arizona:
 "Everybody's Magazine has made an error and done an injustice.
 Tn the issue for April, 1913, we published an extended article entitled Uncle Sam. Lawbreaker.' It was an account of the circumstances under which the United States Reclamation Service has been developing the irri- gation of arid districts in tbe South. west with particular attention to the Salt River Valley project in Arizona, and the distribution of power and wa ter from the great Roosevelt Dam The contract between the Reclama. ton Service and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. by which electric ity was sold for distribution in Phoe nix. was the subject of severe com ment
 Tn certain paragraphs Of this artl cle Hon Richard E. Sloan was criu cized in the statement of facts and in deductions therefrom It was sug gested that as Territorial Governor of Arizona Mir Sloan had an influential part in sancuoning the contract in question: that as counsel for the Salt River Valley Water Users Assocla ton he had failed 10 render undivided and faithful service in passing upon the contract; and that later as Feeder al judge of that district Ca position which he held by appointment of Pres ident TafD he might have occasion tC
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
System Awakens
 With Pure Blood
In Mind and Body the
 Change is Wonderful.

After the depression, the stagnaton, the despair over some blood disorder. it is fine to wake mp to what s. s. S. has accom- pllshed for you after a few days. use. It puts the nerves and blood iu harmony; it arOuses the cellular activity of the liver, Kidneys, lungs, and other cxcretory organs t0 remove from the blood the body wastes that cause nearly all sickness.
 This means that an decay, an breaking down of the tissues, is checked and repair work begins. s. 8. 8. has such Influence on nl local cells as to preserve their mutual welfare and afford proper relative assist ance to each other. More attention is being given to catalytlc medicine than ever before and S &. B. is one of the highest achieve ments in this line. For many years people relied upon mercury, iodide of potash, ar- senic cathartics and dope as remedies for blood sickness, but now the pure vegetable s. s. S is their safeguard.
 You can get s. &. S. in any drug store, but insist upon having it. The great Swift Laboratory ln Atlanta, Ga, prepares this famous blood purifier, and you should take no chance by permitting anyone GO recom- mend a substitute. And if your blood con- dtion ls such that you would like to cOn- sult a specialist without charge, address Medical Dept, The Swift specihc Co.,. 58T Swift Bldgi Atlanta, Ga.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN

LONDON. Aug 29-A Reuter- des patch from st Petersburg says.
 The Zeppelin dirigibie which bonn barded a railway station at Mlawa just oyer the border of Russian Polan was brought down by the Russian fire There were eight soldiers In the car with quick f.rers and eyplo sives"
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
WARING POWERS HAVE RICH POSSESSIONS
 AT STAKE IN AFRICA
France Holds Largest Territory and England Is Next, the Lat
 ter Having More Than Forty
 Nine Million People in Domain

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-The Afri- can ossessions iand protectorates Of the European powers now at war are more than three times as large as con tinental United States. They are more than three times as large as all Of Europe now plunged in war, and arc eleven times hfee than England, France, Germany and Belgium, which control them, says the National Geo. graphic Society. at Washington, D. C.. lin % statement issued today. They oc- cupy 966753l of Africa's 11,513,OOO square miles.
 "The largest individual holder of Al. ricln territory is France, with 3,S12,- 900 square miles. more than a million and half of which is the Sahara Der. ert" says the Soclety's statement. England controls 3,618,245 square miles, Belgium with Belgian Kongo as its sole possession, S02.O0O square miles. and Germany 1,O35, ,OS6 square miles These figures make surprising contrasts with those of the European holdings of these countries. European France consists of 2O7O54 square miles; England. l21391 square miles; |Degium. 11372 square miles, and Ger many. 20S,-SO square miles.
 England leads in the population of 1 her African dependencies, with a total of 49,45S,5O0 inhabitants. more than two million of whom are Europeans. The bulk of her white population is ia l the Union ol South Africa, which con sists or Good Hope, Natal the Trans |vaal and Orange Free State, and in which dwell 100000 'foreigners' 1 There are approximately 4OOOO.OOO people living in French African pos, sessions. more than a million of whom are white. The center of France's white population is Algeria, where nearly 500 OOO Europeans and 5000, 1 900 natives live. There are 15,00O,OOu
 people in Belgium Kongo 5,465 of l,yhom are white, and 12.265,500 Ger man subjects in her dependencies, of
 whom nearly 10000 are Europeans i Thirteen thousand of these live in lGerman Southwest Africa
 "The natural resources of many of Ithese African possessions are among nc richest in the world The Union of South Africa, under British control
 exported in 1910 $1545O3. GOO in gold and S4O1g9,O0O in diamonds. The i'm ports and exports of Algeria. a French l possession, exceeded s233,OOO.OOO fir I1912. Belgian Kongo's exports now
 pass fine S15,O0O,OOO mark annually I while Cermanys colonies are sending
 to other countries about $25.OOO, ,O0C
 worth of produce annually.
 "The principal British possession.
 ln Africa are East Africa Protector
 ate. Bechuanaland. Rhodesia, tho
 Union of South Africa. Northern and
 Southern Nigeria, Gold Coast, Ugan
 da Prctectorate, somalnand, and Ny
 ashland. France numbers among hel
 possessions Algeria, Tunic. Ivorl
 Coast. Dahomey Congo Madagascar
 Senegal and tbe somali Coast Ger
 many controls Togo, Kamerun, Ger
 man South-West Africa and German
 East Africa"
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
TEETHING BABIES SUFFER lH HOT WEATHER
 USE
 Mrs. .WinSlOW'S Soothing Syrup A SPLENDID REGULATOR PURELY VEGETABLE NOT NARCOTIC

ledgement of the fact, as earnestly as we may have made the statement in the first instance.
 'ln associating Governor Sloan with this contract and in drawing the de- auctions therefrom, We made one Of those errors and We are sincerely sorry for it There was no basis for identifying Governor Sloan with this contract in any way nor for the inc ference that his association with the contract would have any influence whatever upon his acts on the Federal bench. We extend to him our sim cere regrets
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
rAMnAInM Enn nrcHuIra

LONDON tsmday) Aug 30 Field Marshal Roberts while ad dfessIus a meeting lost night Co ob. tain recruits for Che British army dc. carad One country was in great dam aor
 "Thero is no use mincing words ho said defeat by Germany would mean ruin shame and slavery"
 "Our soldiers are fighting bravely.' .' said Lord Roberts, "but they are la. mentally few It is the duty of every able-bodied man to see that Che army Is maintained at its full strength Women must not stand in Che light of thoir sons and husbands duty
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
Rnsn rnMARn nRuselA

LONDON Aug 2s-A hundred and sixty railway trains loaded with Ger man troops have passed through Bel sium from the southwest toward the northeast according Co an Antwerp dispatch to Reuters. This. it Is add ed indicates that the Germans are sending troops back on account Of the Russian advance.
 The German force at Brussels has been reduced to a minimum. These 16O trains which passed through last night the dispatch continues. are transporting one army corps with fun equipments The report adds
 "It would appear that the rapid ad- vance of Russians is compelling the Germans to withdraw troops from the line at Mouse"
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
MAYTORENA IS NOW
 SUPREME ''ROMBREv
 IN STATE OF SONORA
Recognized As Supreme Civil and Military Governor Following the Conference Between Villa, 0bregOn and the COmbatants

MORALES, Aug Ex-Governor Maytorena is recognized as supreme civil and military ruler of Sonora to- night following an an day conference between Villa and Obregon and rep resentatives Of the warning factions in the state.
 Villa and Obregon will escort May. torena to Hermossillo and install him in office
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
GERMAN AMBASSADOR SAYS ENGLISH SHIPS
 VICTORY NOT GREAT
Has Not Received Confirmation of Newspaper Accounts of the
 Naval Engagement in Which
 Several German Ships Sunk

NEW YORK, Aug 29-Count yon Bernstorn the German ambassador to the United States announced he had received no confirmation from his gov ernment of the destruction of German cruisers in the North Sea by the Brit ish fleet but he assumed the uewspa- per accounts are correct
 "I do not account 1t in any sense a great naval battle" be said "It seems that the entire British fleet at. tackled and sunk a few German ships doing outpost duty"
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
BEloIANs srNp MlNlsrrRs

LONDON Aug -Adespatch Co tbe Reuter- Telegram from Ostend says a commission of ministers has left for the United States The min isters are charged with a mission to Wilson. to whom they win deliver a document from the Belgian govern ment relating to alleged violations of international law conventions by Germany, and solicit action by the American government
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
SWEDISH MINISTER SAYS HIS COUNTRY
 IS NOT MODELLING
Has Received No Official Word
 of Any Activities of the Army May Be Preparing To Main
 tain Peace Admits As Opinion

BAR HARBOR. Me, Aug 29.-W. F. A. Ekegren, Swedish minister to the United States says tonight that he has not heard officially of an or der to mobolize the Swedish army reported from New York He said he knew of ao grave political move ment in Sweden ndleXpressed the opinion that if the army has been or dered to mobolize. it is 10 preserve neutrality
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
pEsTRoY-rHE RRlpeEs

ANSTERDAN. Sunday Aue 3O- A despatch to the AHegimeine Hand eslhut from Turnhout Belgium, says: 'rhe Germans have blown up the railway bridges on the line between MolI a village 31 miles east of Ant werp and Municheu-Gladbuch iu BheiDish Prussia"
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
ISNNlS S sJglE EISlS

"famo today us lt was yesterday The telegram adds tho Germans seem Co have slackened ber march and from Che evidence Of Che German prisoners gravity their losses are confirmed
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
REFusEs JAP OFFER

PEKIN, Aug 29-It is understood the Chinese government will refuse Japan's offer to suppress any dis orders that may occur in China dur ing the European war. The govern ment 1t is said believes itself capa ble Of putting down any purely inter nal uprising
 The cable between Shanghai and Tsing Tau has been cut and 1t is stat ed the entire German far eastern fleet is inside the harbor at Tsina Tau and that Germans are placing floating mines outside the harbor en- trance
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
GERMANS IN ruRKEY

LONDON Aug 29.-A correspon- dent Of the Reuter- Telegram at Ath- ems says. According to semi-offi- cial statements news has been re ceived from trustworthy sources at Constantinople that 200 German of- fcers and sailors. as we'll as a quan- tity Of ammunition. passed through Bulgaria Friday in a special train on tue way Co Constantinople"
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
EMPERoR MOI ILL

VIENNA (via Rome and Paris) Aug 29--lt Is learned from a reliable source that the health of Emperor Francis Joseph is perfectly sausfac- tory. and that he has been quite we'll since the war began.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
SAME AS YEsrERnAY

LONDON, Aug 29-The French embassy has received atelegram des- cribing the situation on the French front from Somme to NoTges as the
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30

Catcher Rondeau the Minneapolis backstop recently purchased by the Washington club, has a batting aver age of .295 in the American assooia- uon. nc was turned over to the Mill lera by the Detroit Tigers last season.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30

Pete Falsey the Yale outhelder has been released by the Pittsburgh Pirates Pete failed to show sufficient 5ig league stuff
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30

Prominent ufagsts from all country take part in the held of
 
 the Co satisfacto- Among the prominent speakers at the of Mrs of we o m famous naturalist writer Mrs Anna Pout press chairman Q of the Maryland Suffrage ~
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30

quantities making delicious noushng food. And advance the Grape-Nus food will
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
Cost Same As AIways-Everywhere

For years GrapNus packages have tightly sealed moisture and Proothe food always fresh and aPpezng Huge orders from Europe show that their folks Armies appreciate the sturdy value of Grape-Nuts food
Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30
" There's Q ReasOn" :"

-sold by Grocers everywhere
Evening star., 1914-05-15
LETTER CARRIERS AID
BUYING BY PARCEL POST
Distribute Illustrated Statement
About Marketing Which Ap-
peared in Sunday Star.

Letter carriers today began the distri-
button of the illustrated statement con-
cernng marketing by parcel post which
with a list of farmers and other pro-
ducers throughout the country who are
offering produce for sale and shipment to
city consumers. The list includes farmers
and producers in the District. Delaware
Maryland. Virginia. PENNSYLVANIA. F1ori-
da Mississippi. Nebraska. North Carolina.
South Carolina and Vermont.
Twenty-Five thousand circulars contain
ing the story and list are being printed,
and any person interested can get one by
sending his or her name and address to
the postmaster. or by applying to the let
ter carrier who delivers his or her mail.
The list is preceded by suggestions to
housewives as to the best method of TAX
ing up the subject with farmers, together
with the letters received from city pa
irons of the parcel post service giving
their experiences. as set forth III Inc
sunday Star The list contains the names
of Ia farmers or producers. and some OF
the things offered for sale by then are
interesting. One man offers to sell i,.le @
neck clans in hundred lots, anothef
maple sugar and srup; others oranges,
kumquats and suavas, and sun otheis
shoulders hams and bacon. Virginia IS
represented in the list by al names.
No prices are quoted in the circular, put
George f. Bowerman. librarian at tne
Public Library who Is cooperating win
the city postmaster In spreadlhs lrte 1;s.s
fits of the parcel post has some iis.s
posted at the library which gives prices
and which are examined daily py iarse
number of persons.
Evening star., 1914-05-15
STRANDED VESSEL UNDER TOW.
Schooner Longfellow Has About 10,-
900 Ties Aboard for New York.

The schooner Longfellow, which strand
ed early in the week near Cape Henlopen
and which f1oated unassisted and was
taken into Delaware breakwater has
aboard about 10000 railroad ties shipped
from the Patuxent river, Md. to New
York by r. f. Duvall of this city. The
Longfellow completed loading her cargo
about ten days ago and passed out Cape
Henry about week ago. She will be
towed from Delaware breakwater 10 her
destination.
Barge Enos Soule, which was lost on
Brigantine shoal, just north of Atlantic
City, Wednesday. has been in port here
several times with lumber and other car
goes. She was, one of the Scully fleet of
Perth Amboy, n. j.. and was originally a
clipper ship and registered 1.317 net tons
She was built at Freeport, Me-, in 1869.
and during her long career has made
many trips up and down the coast Her
crew of four men We're rescued by life
savers from the Brigantine and Atlantic
City stations.
Evening star., 1914-05-15
HELD ON ROBBERY CHARGE.
John Pierce Accused of COMMITTING
Burglary at Winchester. Va

A We'll dressed young man called at the
Office Of Frederick liable, a railroad
ticket broker. yesterday afternoon and
offered several mileage books for sale.
The broker recalled that tickets similar
10 those offered We're stolen from his
branch office at Winchester. Va. Wednes-
DAY night, and he had Detective Bur
lngame place the young man under ar
rest.
Inc prisoner gave his name as John
Fierce his age as twenty-one years. and
sald ne was sign painter and had
worked i'll this city. He would not give
a home address.
When searched at police Headquarters
the detective took from the prisoner two
gold watches. two ten-dollar bills and
several packages of pennies bearing Ha-
ble's name. The bills. the police were
told, answered the description of money
taken from the place of business at
Winchester
one of the watches. the police state,
was stolen from the store of c. D. Quis-
enoefry at Orange, Va, Il month ago.
bought the railroad tickets and
watches from man at Union station .
was the explanation given by the pris-
oner, "and was given the packages of
pennies in change
Policeman Michael Doran of Winches-
ter came here this morning to get the
prisoner. The latter refused TO return
with him. however, and it may become
necessary Tor the Virginia officer to OBJ
tain requisition for him
Evening star., 1914-05-15
MRS. FRANCES EWING DEAD.
Widow of Rev. Daniel B. Ewing Had
Brilliant Ancestry.

Mrs. Frances Barbour Ewing seventy
five years old. widow Of Rev. Daniel b.
Ewing and granddaughter of Philip Pen
dleton Barbour. speaker Of the Seventh
Congress and an associate justice of
the Supreme Court, died at her resi-
dcnce. 1918 11th street northwest early
yesterday morning after a serious illness
of "a week. She had been an invalid for
several years. Funeral services have not
yet been arranged. hut the interment
Will be in Old Bradford cemetery, Peters
burg, Va.
Mrs Ewing. besides her brilliant an
cestry. was Il woman of great mental
gift and as Il Young woman Was pos
sessed of great beauty. She is survived
hv Il sister. Miss Jennie Barbour OF Nir-
simia and six childreu--WilUam y EW-
ing of Fort Worth. Tex. Mrs. George
Sparrow OF Gastonia \. g. and Mrs
David f. Ward, Mrs. Edmund Symonds,
AiiSS Lucy Barbour Ewing and Miss
JEANNE pendleton Ewing of this city.
Evening star., 1914-05-15
GEORGETOWN DEBATERs LOSE.
Repeal of Canal Tolls Exemption
Question Discussed at Boston.

In recent debate with the Fulton
Society of Boston College at Boston the
team of the Phlodemc Debating Society
Of Georgetown University of this city
was defeated. Georgetowns team upheld
the affirmative Of the proposition that
the law eXempting United States coast
wise ships from the payment of tolls i'll
passing through the canal should be
Icaled.
The team from this city comprised ed
ward L. DcIyin, jr.. New York j. Francis
Ryan. New Jersey. and Rufus = l.usk.
District Of Columbia. Their opponents
were Leo NJ Murray. Edward Sullivan
and Robert +. Barry.
District Attorney Joseph c. Peletier
presided. The judges We're Judge Pat
rick NJ KeatnS of the superior court.
chairman. John X. Murphy, chairman of
the finance commission, and Judge
Charles :. sullivan Of the Charlestown
district court.
Evening star., 1914-05-15
GIVE RECITAL TONIGHT.
adison Hall Seminary Students to
Present Program

Tie students of the music department
- the Madison Hall seminary are TO give
= recital tonight at the seminary. Among
thYse who will contribute TO the program
r.c Evelyn Rosenberg, Gertrude Cole
Gertrude Stewart and Annie Allen. The
'horal class is to give two numbers and
Mss Marguerite Howard who is in
e aarge of the vocal department, will sing
an aria and a group Of songs.
The commencement exercises are to be
"eld Tuesday night at $50 O'Clock. The
lass includes Mary Gertrude Cole, West
Virginia: Curni Horn. Alabama; Dorothy
Ann Mauehs. Missouri: Sallie Douglass
i-incell. Maryland Nancy Lucille Rowan
West Virginia; Evelyn Annie Rosenberg,
South Carolina, and l.. CELESTE Vinson
Washington, ID. c.
Evening star., 1914-05-15
TO GUARD HEALTH OF CHILD.
Warning Against Causes Of Infant
Mortality Issued.

Although the Districts death records
last week showed reduction in infant
mortality, the advent of warm weather
may be expected to be followed by an
increase in the number of fatalities
among children, according to a report
issued by the health department. A
large percentage of infantile diseases. II
is pointed out. is due to Intestinal dis
turbances caused by q combination OF
i,nnroper attention or lack of attention
and injudicious feeding,
Artificial feeding is a danger that
should be guarded against except WAeh'
in rare cases, it may not be avoided the
report states y baby is not always
hungry when it cries; often II IS Simply
thirsty. say the health authorizes. \
habe esnecially in hot weather. Graves
water just as do grown people and should
have il frequently.