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Real Estate, Classified and Too-Late-to-Olassify Ads. on Pages 14 and 15. FT ,U 1? A Real Estate, Classified and Too-Late-to-Classify Ads. on Pages 14 and 15. . . Building, Rebuilding and Changing of Fronts Keep Business District in Turmoil. BHUTY 10 li Working all night Thursday to pour the concrete floor of the new Sheldon, the-concrete crew across the plaza ran an opposition business to the men on the Anson Mills building, where the 'concrete for the seventh floor was run. The lobby of the Sheldon is now being prepared for the finishers, the two main stairways completed and the bat tery of Otis elevators installed. The El Paso Bank and Trust company's rooms are also being completed in the rough. White House Improvements. As soon as Krause & Reeser com plete the plans for the Coles building charges, the "White House will extend the glass front of the Oregon and San Antonio street corner around Oregon street for a number of new display windows. Other improvements will, be made on the interior of the "White House store. Three Cars of Glass. Three cars of glass have been receiv ed by the L. "W. Hofficker Plate Glass company for the new skyscrapers. One car will be used in the American Bank building and will be set as soon as the window frames 'are in place. Each of the cars contain 36,000 pounds of the glass, making 108,000 pounds, and it will be used in the different build ings now in process of construction. The brick work on the American build ing has been stopped because of the failure of the brick shipments to ar rive. A fire at the factory caused the delay and it is expected to complete the building as soo'n ' as the material ar rives. The metal entrances to the banking rooms are being set. They have an eagle -with outstretched wings over the door and the name of the bank in raised letters. Another store front is to be built on Texas street above Stanton by M. ilel vin for rental purposes. Preparing: for Calisher Buildings The old Laurie hardware store has been -wrecked for the new Calisher building, the plans of which have been completed, and the contract will be awarded next -week. The J. Calisher company is remodeling the north room of the "Welch building, on Stanton Stanton street, for use as Santa Claus' headquarters during the holidays. The first floor "rooms of the Buckler building are being plastered and the interior woodwork added. The stair way to the second floor is also being built and the new entrance on Tobin arcade, which connects Mesa and Or egon street on the north side of the building, is being cut. Plans Drawn for New Hotel. A drawing of the proposed new El Paso hotel is on display in the Blumen thal Bros, window on San Antonio street. It was drawn by Krause & Beeser and will be submitted as one of the designs for the new hotel. The rathskeller and restaurant in the basement of the Roberts-Banner build ing will be opened next -week with the Scottish Rite and Shriner banquet. The eighth floor of the Anson Mills building was poured Friday night by arc light. The Kress building is being repainted. El Paso's buildings are not only ar chitecturally beautiful, imt from an in terior artistic point of view they are the equal of anything to be seen in the eastern cities. The high standard of art is to be maintained in those that are being completed, including the American National bank building, the Anson Mills building, the new Sheldon, the Calisher department store and the new postoffice. All are to be deco rated in the same good taste which has been used in the decoration of the. buildings already completed. George Hodel, secretary of the firm of Mitchell & Halbach company of Chi cago, is here to design the decorations i for the new Sheldon hotel and the American Bank building. The big sky scraper bank structure is to be finish ed in i'ory and gold tints, the gold leaf effect being carried out in the panel and ornamental designs. -The scheme for the Sheldon has not yet been com pleted, but the lobby and parlors are to be done in rich colors. The same firm that will decorate these buildings had charge of the interior adornment of the Toltec club, the Country club, the Rio Grande Bank building and the Gadsden hotel in Douglas. - Li oil US! fSSJSifl 11! S 1 HI lli LSilH ! IB I i 1 1 1 X 1 911 kill yi!eUi!J0 OllIMl Ul UslULL UHIfi ifiUlliJl U Uii American Money to Be Put in Forty Room Building on Mexican Side. FALL BUILDING- 0 OTHER SIDE ACTIVE Many Home Buyers Are In cluded in the List of New comers to Pass City. HOME BUILDING-IS AN AUTUMN FEATUEE Fall building activities have begun over the river in Ciudad Juarez. Largest of the proposed structures are the new sausage factory plant south of the city, and a 40-room hotel, to be lo cated near the race track. Lack of nearby lodging room will lead to the erection of a rooming and boarding house near the Jocky club grounds. American money -will build the structure. It will be of 40 rooms, two stories high, and of the or dinary adobe construction. The facto ry foundations are being laid. Another of the week's developments is the purchase of land on Lerdo ave nue by F. Mateus, mayor of Casas Grandes. Mayor Mateus -will build a home in the border city, and his family will reside there for a few months of the year so that his children may at tend school in El Paso. Improvements on the George Sauer properties on Calle Comercio, made necessary by fire and wrecking, still are being postponed. " Mr. Sauer has announced himself as favoring the one story adobe store site. "They -will not walk up stairs," he says. Demanded "Wide Open19 Town and Burned Their Fingers Seattle Voters Deceived Themselves and Now Demand Their Mayor's Head. BRISK DEMAND FOR UPPER VALLEY LAND But one big sale was made In the lower valley. This was the one in which Felix Martinez and Silberberg Bros, transferred to L W. Hoenes 43 and a fraction acres, eight miles below El Paso. This was not an important deal in itself, for the money consider ation was not as large as many others which had been closed during the month. But Me, Hoenes is a practical irrigationist. To prove this he is not going to sit down and wait for the wa ter to come down the ditches when the big dam is completed. Instead, he is arranging to instal a pumping plant system by which water can be put on his land when water is needed and not -when a weather prophet wills it, as has been the case in the "past. Upper valley land had the call thi3 -week, there being- three important deals closed in the lower Mesilla val ley district. R. X. Reagan, of Willard, N. M-, bought 40 acres from E. B. Boy er, of El Paso, in the famous La Mesa district of the lower Mesilla valley for $2400. Charles Post, of Las Cruces, aiso sold to E. W. Parker, of El Paso, 48 acres in the La Union district of the upper valley and James Hinhcliffe, of Oananea, Mex., sold to Mr. "Versteinger 30 acres near La Mesa. These sales -were made by the B. C. Bailey agency. National Bank for Ha;rtl. Port Au Prince, Hayti, Oct. 32. The senate has Voted authorization for a new bank which -will act as a treasury for the loan of $13,000,000 recently is sued at Paris at 71 percent, the pro ceeds of which will serve for the re demption of the interior debt and the retirement of parer money. W T VTS&-J m.JHAMi 9.1 depends upon proper nourish ment a .balanced ration. The most frequent lack is bone-forming material, causing soft, weak, diseased, crooked bones. Scoffs Emulsion supplies every element needed. It's a balanced ration for bone as well as flesh. Every child should have a small dose daily. ALL, DRUGGfSTS (By G. A. Martin.) Seattle, "Wash., Oct. 22. Seattle is in a terrible mess. Seattle wanted a "wide open town" and got it, and now i Seattle wants a closed town and may not get it. Seattle is -worked up to a frenzy over it and there is no telling what is going to happen. Just now a petition is going the round for the re call of mayor Hiram C. Gill, who gave them just the sort of a government they asked for and is now getting the hook from the very men who put him in office to give it to them. It all happened because the business men of Seattle thought they wanted a lawless town, when they didn't. They used to have a lawless town. Every- tning -was wide open. Gambling was! rampant and virtue -was at a premium when Seattle was a little place where shipping steamers from the oriejpt stopped, adn started, and when gold was found in Alaska, Seattle became the jnecca for the men who acquired wealth in the frozen north. Seattle grew like a mushroom and was soon a city, a big city, and it got too big to stand for the vice that had in its early days helped to make it grow. " They shut up .gambling, put the lid on the saloons and made the scarlet women take to -the back streets, or at least the back rooms In the hotels. The Rush Slows Dovrn. By this time, However, the wild rush from the Klondike had settled down and the money spending delirium was about over. Seattle felt it. There were many who blamed Seattle's sudden stagnation at least it seemed like stagnation to merchants who had been i used to selling -big bills of goods to the gamblers who had fleeced the min ers who had dug the wealth and brought it south on the enforcement of the law and there came a cry for a wide open town again. They failed to realize that Alaskan conditions had changed. They blamed it all on "the lid." Mayor Gill ran on a ticket which promised them what they wanted. He kept his promise after he was elected. The man with the red nose and the red vest voted alongside the man with the silk hat and the kid gloves, all for GilL Seattle united save for a few upon a mayor who -would restore the conditions of old and as they believed turn back the big end of the cornuco pia of plenty into their harbor. Sa loons disregarded the closing regula tions; private games and games not private weie opened in back rooms of the places where men leaned against the mahogany with feet on the rails and blew off the foam; women with more clothes than virtue, and more jewelry than good breeding, scattered over the city again, and Seattle was "wide open." . But the gold did not flow back; the gamblers did not buy the furlmed over coats as of old; miners drunk with sudden fortune did not buy out a cafe for a night so that a company of wo men could dance on the tables. The old spirit of he earlier "wide open" period was dead. It had gone never to return. Home Folks Gambled. The business men who voted for a wide open town, found only that their working men were spendingvtheir mon ey on the fickle goddess of chance and that grocery bills were unpaid and families were left unshod and uncloth ed. it was the same condition that faced El Paso before the good people arose in their might and demanded law enforcement. The people of Seattle re alized their mistake and they began to seek a remedy. They saw that it was not morality that had caused their ap parent stagnation; they realized that the boom days had passed and that a "clean town" was best. The mayor they had elected on a promise to open, the town was told that it was a mistake and that he must remedy the matter. He did, partly, but now he is charged with all manner of things and a peti tion is in circulation to oust him from office because he was elected on a plat form that was a mistake and because the men who elected him have discov ered it. Want to Ount Their Mayor. The saloon men, like El Paso reac tionaries, still bawl out for the "wide open town," but the business men re alize that they want anything else but a wide open town; that the games of chance are not luring the reckless min er any longer and that the only man's money they are getting is the working man's. The result: His family spends j less than ever and the gambler and his consort of the peroxide locks and gaudy clothes have not enough profits to make them the princely spenders of the long ago, hence the general dis satisfaction. Voters Discover 3Iistakc. The recall petition explains the rea son for the recall in the following charges, and none of them charge any thing that the majority of voters of the city need not have expected when they voted for a "wide open" town they were just mistaken in what they thought they wanted: Charces Against Mayor. "(1) That during the time the said Hiram C. Gill has been mayor of the city of Seattle he has shown himself to be incompetent and unfit for the po sition he occupies. "(2) That he has abused the ap pointive power by selecting for person-. al and political reasons, men personally unfit for the office for which they were appointed. "(3) That said mayor has wholly fialed, refused and neglected to per form his official duty as mayor by enforcing the criminal laws of the city of Seattle. "(4) That he has permitted said city to become a home and refuge for the criminal classes. "(5) That he has failed to enforce impartially the laws and ordinances of the city of Seattle. "(6) That continuance in office of sai Hiram C. Gill as mayor of the cily of Seattle is a menace to the business enterprises and v moral welfare of said city." Homecoming and home building week in El Paso included the formal opening and housewarming of the new Y. W. C. A. boarding home on West Missouri street and progress on a num ber of homes in different parts of the city. Is Sold Before Started. The Mayfield Realty company is building a five room cottage on Bliss road in East El Paso, which was sold before it was started. The same com pany is also building a. two story , eight room house on Arizona street in. the 1400 block, which will cost 4250 .when completed. Sells Two Homes. J. C. Bennett has bought a frame cottage in Moeller's addition from the Rio Grande Realty company, consider ation, $1000. The Rio Grande company has sold a brick cottage in East El Paso,, on Douglas street, to A H. Mc- Veagh, for $1500. Bujn Ili&rltlancl Park Home. Dr. Eugene Statelman. of El Oro. Will Send a Commission to Conduct the First Honest Election There. Managua, Nicaragua, Oct. 22. Hon duras, in the light of recent develop ments, is playing the same game as did Nicaragua, and it is expected here that the firm hand of the United States will be felt in the nortn Central Ameri can republic within sixty days. Too many American interests are at stake to let the threats of Spanish rulers go unheeded, say Managua officials. One by one as these troubles arise through out Central America, it is the intention of president Taft and his subordinates to force a lastiner Deace. It hasn't been long since United States minister Merry through the streets of Managua by the soldiers of president Zelaya, but condi tions in these three years have won derfully changed. Perhaps no man saw farther into the future of these Latin-American republics than did min- Mexico, has bought a home in Highland t ,. -' Ve ci,iam n a CI"C pari- fr-n.Tr, rr,o v-t,, T.,.f Mai1 lmer, he became a student of the Park from the Newman Investment company. The house is located on Nashville street and will cost $2500. Plans New Residence. The plans for the new residence of. Mrs. A. M. Howland, which is being drawn by Trost & Trost, will be com pleted next week and the contractors will be given the plans to figure. Archbishop Is Teaching Farming VALLEY TRACT HAS CHANGED OWNERS Felix Martinez and the Silberberg brothers have sold 43 1-3 acres of land eight miles from El Paso, in the lower valley, to Ernest Gnauck and I. W. Hoenes, who are planning to install a big pumping plant to irrigate the land. The price paid for the land was $6097, which is $142 an acre The sale was made through the Mayfield Realty company. mKSssssmL . '-& m& ljlllif P mm native and his country. He probably knew better than any other diplomatic official that, left alone, they would never cease fighting. Virtually a Protectorate. As the result of his work in the ser vice, the United States has virtually established a protectorate over Nicara gua. At all times an American war ship is within four hours call by the wireless. An American postage stamp is as good in Nicaragua as it is is in Louisiana? Mail for the United States goes through the American consulates and is carried in sealed sacks to New I Orleans and Mobile, or to a port on the Pacific coast in another. It is not han dled by natives. There is no opening of mail addressed to the subjects of the United States these Hays, as was common in the past. That Is one result of minister Mer ry's work and today he is In the diplo matic service in Costa Rica, watching his labor bear fruit. President Estrada is a good fellow as Nicaraguans go but he couldn't last 20 1 minutes as the head of a people who love to fight, if the United States de partment at Washington wasn't hold ing his hand over the rough places. They are going to send a commission down here in a short time to straighten out affairs and conduct the first honest election the country ever had. Then J. P. Morgan & company will handle- the refunding of the $20,000,000 bonded debt. By that time the United States will be well in charge, probably with consul Moffat as minister and real head of the government. Dlakin? Nicaragua Good. Just as rapidly as possible Nicaragua is being made a good place in which to abide. American capitalists and in vestors are crowding into the country With rapidity. Now that the days of the revolution are ended the machet time this -week by the Pan-American company a --Kansas City and Sti Louis concern. There are half a dozen small companies beginning operations and within six months fully 200,000 to 300, 000 acres of bananas will have been planted along that river, which is said to be the best for the culture of this particular fruit of any in the republic. The bananas about 3000 stems ship ped this week, were the finest taken into the port of New Orleans. Fruit Pays Best. Mining throughout the country, while being pushed, is not bringing the money returns of fruit. Many men, however, have struck it rich in the mining region. A Canadian by the name of McGinnis, a carpenter by trade, located in the north of the re public and founded the Lone Star mine. Today he is several times over a mil lionaire. Joe LaPere, a French Cana- was chased an discovered the Bonanza mine. ii uuj tuucii iiiuiiuus in guiu na.ve ueeu taken. The Topaz Mining company is another paying venture. The chief dif ficulty with the mining is the matter of transportation. "While the earnings of the various mines have proven satisfactory, yet it is In the banana business that the fig ures presented by American experts prove amazing; they show payment for land, cost of clearing, planting and harvesting at the end of the second year, with an additional profit of 50 percent on the investment. They are indeed startling, but the mef who make them point to the United Fruit company, having started business on a shoestring, so to speak, a few years ago, and being worth a few dozen mil lions today. EVENT ' Is the First in the South west to be Held by Electric Arc Lights: FAIR WEEK WILL BE CONVENTION PERIOD Dan Patch, the greatest horse of his tory, and his stablemates fronr the world famous Savage stable 'of Minne apolis, will be at the El Paso Fair and Exposition. Dan Patch, the king of sallions; Mi nor Heir, holder of the world's pacing record without a wind shield; Hedge wood Boy and Lady Maud C, who hold the record for double harness events; George Gano, another record holder, accompanied by trainer and driver Her sey, will arrive from Dallas after the close of the Dallas State fair and will appear as the feature of the El Paso Fair racing program. To Hold Record CoHtests. Dan Patch will not appear in har ness, but will be on exhibition, daily? at the fair grounds. But Minor Heir, Lady Maud C.t Hedgewood Boy and George Gano will go against each oth er and against time on the fair grounds half mile track In an effort to establish world's records on a lialf ThoT hwa tn vi,vv.n nn.n i, 1 Tn?7f track. TTersv will h un ir hen and made a failure, cocoanut planta- great harness events and it will mean tions bring forth fruit slowly, pineap pies grow large, as do grape fruit and oranges, but they ripen so quickly and the Import duty is so heavy that expor tation under present conditions is hard ly to be considered. Rice does fairly the biggest single feature of the big fair. Horse Show by Arc Light. Opening with the third annual so ciety horse show, the first to be held in the southwest by arc light at night. well, while coffee on the west coast I the h.i ?a.so Jb air wm be a veritable reaches a hiprh erade of Derfection. The I nine days and night wonder. Every coffee, diplomatic and other officials assert, is the finest in the -world. The chief trouble. The chief trouble on the east coast I is finding a hillside level enough to stand on and cultivate the product. The labor question in Nicaragua has the servant girl issue in the Uniteft States beaten a nautical mile. One man will tell you he has no trouble in j getting labor. If he means real work j there is plenty to be done, but from j tHe standpoint of the employer, the : task is no easy one. Money means nothing to the average native. One plantation manager told your corres pondent he had 60 men working for him and that he transacted business on 500 sols monkey money they call it a year. This plantation conducts a J store, as do the majority. The men are paid in the national currency which just as steadily comes back into the store. Paying off labor in Nicaragua is much like taking a dollar from one pocket and putting it into the other. equipage in El -Paso, as well as many from the surrounding cities of the southwest, will be seen in the moving show on Monday evening. Every class of equine kingdom will be seen at the (Continued on next page.) JOSEPH BENE YLLATTE made an implement of agriculture in-J That's all right, so far as it goes, but stead of war the future of the little republic looms bright. Mines are being developed, forests cleared, lagoons drained and homes built. Men -from the north and middle western states are causing the hustle. There are men from St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago and from numerous smaller cities who are interested financially in agriculture and mining work. Many are already realizing on their investments. Along the Rio Grande river there is a wide stretch of territory covered with bamboo, some of which is planted in bananas. Shipments of bananas were taken out of that section for the first Down the National railway .f Mxi- co, 50 miles south of El Paso, in north ern Chihuahua, an archbishop of the Orthodox Catholic church is working out a solution jf the "back to the soil" problem which has been bothering social workers for years. At Candelaria, a way station on the National lines, archbishop Joseph Rene Yilatte, head of the orthodox, or old Catholic church in' America, is estab lishing a colony where the population of the foreign quarters of the largo cities of the United States and the im migrants from foreign countries may find a home, ten acres of land and a chance to be something more than a charwoman, a fruit peddler or a day laborer. Through archbishop Vilatte the orthodox church has purchased 50, 000 acres of land surrounding the Can delaria settlement in northern Chihua hua and there the archbishop has es tablished a town, laid the cornerstone for an orthodox clu'rch and established a school for the colonists who are to settle the land and cultivate the soil. Makes Visit to Europe. Father Vilatte sailed for Europe on October 1 to arrange for the pilgrim age of colonists from Europe for the new Mexican settlement. Although he is being backed in his venture by the church of which he is at the head in America, father Vilatte does not intend to confine the colonization scheme to tli mfmhfr5 tf Iii rhiirfh hut )in3 in vited the people of all cities and coun- j tries to come and settle on the land. Artesian wells have been sunk in dif ferent parts of the district and each rancher -will have a 10 acre tract upon which he can raise his crops and also an acre of ground in the town of Vi latteville, where he will erect his home and live as a part of the com munity. Conceives Idea in Chicago. Archbishop Vilatte conveived the idea of establishing his "back to the soil" colony while a social worker among the foreign population of Chi cago and at Green Bay, Wis., wherej he "was a missionary for seven years. Seeing the natives of France, his na tive home, working at the most menial tasks, when they had been accustomed to cultivating the vineyards of the French districts, father Vilatte started on a search for a tract of land where these people and the members of other foreign colonies similarly located, could be taken and where they could till the soil and earn their living under better conditions than those of the city tene ment districts. The tract of 50,000 acres was pur chased by the archbishop after he had visited a number of places in the west and southwest. Because its climate was similar to that of the warmer countries of Europe and because of the fertility of the soil, the land was pur chased in northern Chihuahua and op erations started in June. A well was sunk, the ground cleared, and tempora ry houses built. Having been granted a leave of four months, father Vilatte moved to the colony and was in charge of the work of preparing for the set tlement of the immigrants who are expected to arrive from France, Italy and other countries of Europe, and also from Chicago, New York and oth er large American cities. While he is abroad father Vilatte will visit the pa triarch of the orthodox-church at An 'tioch, where he will ex-plain the colo nization plan to the head of the church and will ask for his assistance in se curing colonists for the tract. Only Actual Settlers Can Buy. The plan of colonization is not to be a money making scheme, as the land is to be sold in plots of 10 and 20 acres to the settlers at cost and no one but ac tual settlers can purchase it. While an orthodox church is to be established at Vilatteville, which is to be the cen ter of the colony, religious and politi cal toleration will be one of the cardi nal principals of the colony, and any one will be welcomed to the settlement, the only restriction being that they buy a tract of land and settle and that tlie laws of the republic of Mexico be obeyed. Archbishop Vilatte, who is at the head of the movement, is a native of France, having been born in Paris. He is a graduate of the University of Mon treal and has been decorated by the French and Belgian governments for his humanitarian work among the na tives of these countries in America. He "will havea residence at the colony and will be in charge of the church af- , fairs of the new settlement. when the laborer generally an indian i or a Jamaican thinks he has too much to do, he quits. He can live without work, and works merely to please his foreman. The foreman who can get the good will of the indian is the valuable man. The superintendent of a coffee plantation has been trj-ing to get 300 men to -work for the last two years. At one time he had 130 and he is a man the natives like, too. Laborers "Want Homes. The manager of a big banana plan tation is having the same trouble. A month or two is frequently spent get ting half a hundred men together. In dians stay close to their villages and the hope of the planter is the building of these conglomeration of huts. Give the worker a bamboo covered shed in which to live, build them a church of the same material and secure for them a preacher, even though their morals seem lax, and the natives will probably spend their lives on the plantation -working when they feel so inclined. Now and then they want to wander away and get on the outside of all fhe bad whisky they can buy but they re turn, in time, to again ''take up the machet. Good treatment appears to be the only secret, if there be any secret, of getting labor in Nicaragua. (iillllP GREAT WHITE WAY MAKING PROGRESS Mesa avenue's "great white way" will be ready for the fair opening if the progressive merchants along this street succeed in completing the plans for the street lighting and decoration for the fair week and holidays. C. J. Anstrand, of the W. T. Hixson company, is in charge of the arrange ments for lighting the retail district from Mills street to San Antonio, and ' he is conferring with the merchants along this street and also with the Electric Light company regarding the Illumination of the thoroughfare. The Tobin arcade, which opens onto Mesa between the Morgan and Buckler buildings, is also to be illuminated, making a connecting thoroughfare, well lighted and decorated, from Ore gon street to Mesa. A NICE BIG ROAST Of beef, lamb or mutton is really one of the best meats-for a Sunday din ner. IPor it is just as good cold as hot, so you can hare several meals "vvith only one cooking. TELL US TO :nd one BUILDING ANOTHER NEW RIG AT TOYAH Toyah. Texas, Oct 22 Another ro tary and also a standard rig is being built here for the W. H. Graham com pany, which is composed of Beaumont and Galveston men. The well will be sunk on section 44 and will be for the dual perpose of exploring the field for artesian water and also for oil. The No. 1 well of the Texas company, which was shot. Is now being cleaned out, according to reports from the field and the damaged casinjr removed. It I is thought that the company expects to resume operations at this well. ' For Simday dinner. Make it a big one, for our meats are so choice that only a big one will have enough left to cut up cold. Weekly Price List Lain Steak, J J JU per pound A f v Prime Rib Eoast, - 0 per pound ,..i2C Legs of Mutton, 7A, per pound A 2C Chuck Steak and Roast, c 3 lbs. for DC 5-lb. pail Pure Kettle OP Rendered Lard ,OOC 3-lb. pafl Pure Kettle rC Rendered Lard ww C i.C. Peyton SUCCESSOR TO ROBINSON'S MARKET Phones Bell 251; Auto 1234 114 N. Stanton