El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-12
LtT WANT you all to get this.

LtT WANT you all to get this. 7
want you to pay your closest
Il attention. There is an item in
the disbursements Of the special fund
that reads: Special officers, $21S5.'
That item would have been omitted if
il hadn't been for the fact that the
special officers had to be hired to see
that the foreman of this present grand
jury didn't run a gambling house. You
have read the grand jury report signed
by Billy AmOnett. " ell, this same Bill
~ AmOnett, who is so anxious about
tho purity Of the city, was arrested on
March 29, 1911, and doeketed No. 5ll,
as George Blair, charged with gam
bling. And this same Billy Amonett
offered Mr.. Wood, the policeman who
arrested him, $40 TO let him go. He
put up a bond Of S25 on the charge"
Referring to what he termed docu-
mentary proof, mayor G. i. Kelly made
this charge Thursday night at mass
meeting OF the ring held at the skal-
ms rink. Every seat in the big audi
tcrium Was filled and many were com
PEELED to stand.
.sSOme" Good Men on jury.
There are some good men on that
jury, the mayor continued, there
must be good men in a collection of II.
But let me return to Billy Amonett.
The very next day, on March 80, to be
exact, he came to my office and said:
What will it cost me If 1 am caught!
and I replied, You will get the big
gest fine that the law allows and as
often as the law allows Then he said;
Don't you know that you are forcing
money adiVss the river by this% and
[ said to him: They can take all the
money across the river they want TO
to gamble, but L won't let you or any
one else, ruin people right here IN FL
PasO.'
Gentlemen. men Of his type can be
foreman of grand juries while am
mayor of FL Paso. but men of his type
cannot run a gambling house mere
while 1 am mayor Of FL Paso.
Garbage Disposal.
"A big cry has been made about the
garbage disposal of I'll Paso. IhaL IS
one of the things 1 inherited from the
former administration. The contract
was signed before I went into Once,
There had been land purchased ana
we had been threatened with lnJunc-
tiCns, but L want to say that FL Faso
is in far better sanitary condition now
than it was then If it had not oeen
for that detective plant there is no
telling what diseases might have oc-
CURED.
They say I signed a defective bond.
I have not legal mind; I'm an ordl-
nary business man. At that time had
a man that ] then, and do now, pace
every confidence in The DOnu was
turned over to him and when ne PASSED.
on it and said it was %. h L signed Il
THAT man was judge W. M. Cold
wei and 1 have never heard lawyer
in Ell Paso say judge Coldwell was not
a good lawyer. / hold statement IN
nv hand signed by judge Ccldweu IN
which he says he approved the bond
The only persons who say the bond IS
not good are those inspired by motives
of defamation.
..HeraId Gives the Faets.7
Last Saturday, The Herald of this
CITY got out a special edition hope
Won an read it. That paper is Oh
me r9ilh and am OF on thor. but It
has the faculty of giving the facts.
And i'm that special edlt.On d. STAT
+1,. Lowest fire Insurance rate and paid
less for water than any other city III
Texas. 49, .,.o
You have all read the Questohs lne
onpositfon have asked. have an
swered every one. But the flrst one
1 asked them they answered with