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ALD EI Paso, Texas, Wednesday Evening, February 18, 1910-16 Pages AH the News Herald Prints It nrst While It's Fresh. Lin awson e I Snow Blocks D I Only Tuesday Herald Men Placed Two Bets at Apex Bar on Races Over River. OTHER SALOONS HAVE SOLD ODDS Practice Stopped at Lobby Last Saturday, -After The Herald's Gambling Story. Race track gambling in El Paso! It is not just a belief. It is a fact and The Herald has the proof. Race track gambling is against the laws of nearly every state. But es pecially is it against the laws of Texas, i strong, plainly worded laws. It was said that the Juarez race track would not affect El Paso; that it was none of El Paso's business anyway. But apparently it is El Paso's business ; when a youth can place a bet in an El Paso saioon on a horse at that -moment running in Juarez. Two HeraQd reporters violated the Texas law and placed two separate bets at the Apex Bar5 218 St. Louis street. on two separate horses on the Juarez track. The money was taken by the bar tender over the bar shortly after 3 oclock Tuesday afternoon by Johnny Pruitt, the bartender. One reporter bet on Lady Esther and the other on Gipsy King. They got odds of 2 to 1 on each horse. "What horses look good to you to day?" asked the man of the apron as if Inviting an offer. Perhaps one of the reporters appeared to be feelingi his liquor only appeared and for that I reason looked "easy" to the bartender. "'Can I place a bet here on the fourth race? the booze dispenser was asked. "Sure thing," he said, 'what're you, playin'?" A $1 bet was placed by each of the reporters at the Apex bar on. the same afternoon, and receipts bearing the name of the two horses played were made out by the bartender and are now at The Herald, office. And that is not all. Until Saturday more than one El Paso saloon was re ceiving race returns by phone and any body knows what that means. Also until Saturday bets could be placed at the Lobby bar any loafer in a pool room will tell you and the Lobby bar is located in the heart of El Paso on the Little Plaza next to a bank. A man could cash his check at the bank and then,' after a few steps, his cash could be gambled off at a sa loon. But since the race association "cut out" the telephoning of returns, the Lobby bartender will not receive bets. But the bartender at the Apex will or he would Tuesday and that gladly. The Juarez race track men are said to have ordered all telephone returns cut out after The Herald printed its gambling story last week. Then the Lobby quit. In both saloons all entries for the day are posted on the walls. It reminds the old timers of the days when El Paso ..streets were lined with gambling house saloons, when robbery and murder reigned- Now the race track evil has been found, rooted in El Paso. For many months many persons have suspected It. But now The Herald has proved it What Is El Paso going to do about it? AGED CHIEF ARRESTS AN INDIAN MURDERER Globe, Ariz., Feb. 10. After a chase of 10 days, Tom Hansen, the murder as Apache Indian, who terrorized the northern part of the county, and who escaped from officers t.vo weeks ago after murdering two Indians and seriously wounding three others, was captured Tuesday by chief Chilchnuna, aged 70 years. He was brought to Globe last night. The last GO miles were mnde on horseback by Chllchanna and his two. sons in 12 hours. It was feared that Hansen would be killed by Chllchauna and tribe before taken into custody. Kansas City, Mo, Feb. 10. Mis Agnes Elkins, niece of United States senator Elkias, of "West Virginia, shot herself today in her room in a local hoteL The bullet passed below her heart. Physicians believe she has-a chance for recovery. She left a note on her dressing table, which said: "I am tired of life, SBd have no home nor friends.' Miss Elkins was 25 years of age, and had ambitions to become an actress. FAST SCHEDULES, CHICAGO TO COAST UNCLE SAM'S MAIL Los Angeles, JaL, Feb. 1G. Ohc of the fastest trains in the world will he IHt into transcontinental service Sunday by the Santa Fe. The new flyer, the "California Limited," will cut seven and a half hours off the xhhhIbjc time between Lot Anprdes and Chicago. The new schedule will be sixty-fonr and a half hours. , On the same day the Golden State Limited, oxer the Rock Island-Southern Pacific liaes, vrlll also cut its schedule coMBiucrnbly. These two roads are fight- ias: hard for the mail contract. i Commissioner Says They Evade Border Officers and G-et in at Seaports. BIG-TRAFFIC IN" . "WHITE SLAVES" Washington, D. C. Feb. 16. "Despite all that is said and all that is done, the bureau is always confident at the close of any year that many Chinese of the excluded classes have evaded the border -officers, however vigilant they mayvhave been, have smuggled them selves or been smuggled ashore in sea ports as sailors or stowaways, or havef by fraud and perjury managed to iana in-an apparently regular manner," says Daniel J. Keefe, the commissioner gen eral of immigration, in his annual re port for the fiscal year 1909. t Continuing he says: "There are doubtless now in this country at least as many Chinese not entitled to resi dence here as of the lawfully resident class, and they have entered in every way that can be Imagined." Urges Xcw Law. Not further restriction, but merely to make possible such restriction as the existing law intends but has not accomplished, is the object of a pro posed new .immigration law recom mended by Mr. Keefe. It is proposed to accomplish this by codifyin ar- ranging in logical sequence and strengthening at their weak points all existing laws on the general subject of immigration and Chinese exclusion. His Suggestions. Some of the principal suggestions are:' So defining the term "alien" as to leave no doubt that it includes all per sons not citizens; extending the con tract labor provisions to forbid and penalize the inducement of immigration J by false as well as genuine -promises of employment, penalizing an attempt to Import foreign laborers, and permit ting the importation of alien skilled laborers if labor of like kind unem ployed cannot be found here only, if the consent of the secretary of com merce and labor is obtained in ad vance; Increasing the fine against steamship companies for taking on board dangerously diseased aliens from ?100 to $200. Mr. Keefe believes the time is ripe for the adoption of even stricter meas ures and suggests that a proposal worthy of careful thought is that all male aliens between IB and 50 be re quired to pass a physical examination equal to that observed for army re cruits. "White Slave" Traffic. Touching the "white slave" traffic the reporvsets out that a "special investi gation conducted throughout the coun try and the general experience of the year, make it apparent that an enor mous business is done In importing and distributing foreign women for immoral purposes, including the seduc tion and distribution of alien women and girls who enter regularly, and also to some extent of American women and girls. "The federal officers have sot dis covered positive evidence of the ex- (Continued on Page Seven.) Unexpected Avenues of Sen sationalism Opened By Legislative Investigation G-RAFT FOUND-IN OHIO PRINTERY ,1 Albany, X. Y., Feb. 16. Senator Con ger's assertion yesteraay that the Re publican state committee got a contribu tion from the bridge companies' "legis lative protection fund," in 1902, has only strengthened the determination of Re publican leaders here to extend the bribery investigation without delay. In whatever way the circumstances of the contribution during the chalrinas- jShip of Col. G. W. Dunn may be ex plained, tne party leaders Here seem to realize that It will be suicidal to at tempt to stifle the investigation. The charges against senator Allds have all but sunk from the public at tention in the flood of more important revelations. The senate is now expected to hurry the Allds inquiry to a close and jhen proceed with the investigation along lines of Conger's testimony. Graft In Ohio. Columbus, O., Feb. 16. Chairman Rlter and expert examiner" Frank Brown announced today that they had found imore evidence in the probe for graft in the state printing department. They have found that figures on sales made and cash paid out do not 'agree with the waybills of goods actually delivered and they have gone to Cincinnati to examine j the records of deals between the Dayton agent of the Queen City Paper company and former state printer Mark Slater, for whom a warrant is out. BODY OF OKLAHOMAN FOUND NEAR BAIRD, TEXAS Abilene. Texas, Feb. 1G. The body of a man identified as that of Dan Fielder of Oklahoma, was found by a party of boys late yesterday, nine miles east of Raird near the Texas & Pacific track. He, had been dead severail days. His camp fire had burned off a part of his clothing, and had charred his abdomen. A bottle which had contained whisky, was found on the body. It is believed that heart failure caused death. He was 50 years old, and worked as a carpenter at Putnam. SAVINGS BANK BILL MAY 3IEET DEFEAT "Washington, D. C, Feb. 16. Unless senator Root can be induced to with draw or materially modify his amend ment to the postal savings bank bill, requiring the 'investment of postal de posits In United States bonds, that measure probably will be defeated in the senate. Friends of the bill today practically admit that is the situation. NOT A "REFORMER" IS ELECTED I?; PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia, Pa. Feb. 16. "Reform" which has many times gone down to de feat only to come up again for another fight, received the hardest blow in the municipal election here yesterday, when the Republican organization swept the city and won everything It started out to get. Not one "reformer" was elected to the city council or to the board of magistrates. ADMINISTRATION MEASURES FOR CONSERVATION TO BE TAKEN UP "Washington. D. C, Feb. 16. All ad ministration bills providing for con servation of natural resources will be considered by a subcommittee of the senate committee on public lands, to be composed of senators Smoot, chairman; Clark, of Wyoming. Dixon, Chamberlain and Hughes. Hearings will be given. EL PASO CASE ON APPEAL. San Antonio, Texas. Feb 16. Tile fourth court of appeals today .affirmed the case of Patrick Green vs. C. R. Morehead. Austin. Texas, Feb. 16. The supreme court today reversed and rendered the case of Geo. M. Patton, vs. Thomas L. Nunar, from El Paso. - - Remember the Maine; A Cry - That Echoed Around the World Twelve Years Ago Today America Bowed Its Head For Her Murdered Sailors. 0 Remember the Maine! Twelve- years ago this morning the country was stirred from Its peace lov ing lethargy bf sordid money making by the naked fact flashed around tile world that tae United States battleship Maine had been blown up. with all hands on board. Coming like a flash of heat lightning in the summer sky the report awakened the martial spirit in every American heart. There were no details to be had at first The long prosecuted war to quell the efforts of a handful of ragged straw hatted people to gain their lib erty had embittered this country against the old world power that was turning the thumb screws of torture on &h alien people to force them to submission to a mail fisted rule. Spain was thoroughly hated by every Amer ican for these atrocities, but the hatred was an impersonal one, one that rises from righteous indignation at the Wrong's hMnp- inmmltt(i1 in the tiotvio I of war. J This" impersonality was changed io j one' of personal hatred in an instant. 1 X.Ike the electric current that sets oft rucunicardi, N. M., Feb. 16. A general storm followed by a cold wave struck here late yesterday afternoon. Three inches of snow fell during -the night and the thermometer registered one below this morning. , Railroad traffic on the Dawson line is blocked on account of the snow drifts. DIP i TO TyL Colora i IB John Chinaman Quits tne Consoling Pipe and Sweet Nuts; New Year Is Over. WORK STAEES x AT JOHN AGAIN Burning down to the bitter end, the spiral pnk sticks in the Chinese joss I house,- are oa their last smoky round. The heavy ejed celestials are rolling from their hop laden bunks In the un derground chambers of the South Ore gon street rendezvous. Tne tnatch cov- ered wine jugs are down to the dregs in the bottom. Even the 'big eyed Chi- nese lilies are beginning to droop as if drowsy with the odor of two much opium. Chinese New Year is over. In place of the roast duck feasts and intermittent prayers to the gods, the orientals, are preparing to return to their sordid every day labors in the laundries and soiled iinen restaurants. Their New Year is no longer a happy one. Like the" crying "yen pills" In their pipes, the sweet ness has gone. In its place Is only the bitter dross. The anniversary of the Confucian year one has passed. Lasting a full week In all well behaved Chinese homes, the local sons of the rising sun have followed the c:rtom of their ances tors to the very fag end. As the wheel of life revolves, passing from the sweet to the bitter, the Chinese New Year has been passed and now comes the endless round of ceaseless toil in the ill smelling kitchens and steam laden laundries. But it was a happy New Year for the China boys. Lots of duck, sweet poppy dreams in profusion, and nothing to do. And as surely as the t festive season has passed, just so sure ly It will return. So reasons the ori ental optimists. And it was a happy New Year, even if it was spent far from the forbidden city, where the baby emperor lives in thp pink palace. MAKES RECORD AUTO RUN TO SILVER CITY 3Inn Buys n New Car in El Paio and j Gets Home in the Machine In Rec ord Breaking Time. Silver City, N. M., Feb. 16. O. C. Hin- ninn, a prominent merchant of this city, made a record breaking run In his auto, He left El Paso at 7 a. m. and arrived at 6 p. m. here in a new car he pur chared In El Paso. He spent an hour in Deming. Chaffuer Bennett, of this city, I drove the car. & O0$- $ NAVAL TENDER IS - STILL UNACCOUNTED FOR $- Vashington. D. C, Feb. 16. $ A tug reported to have been spoken off Montauk Point Sun- & day by the steamer Bayview, - and which was thought to be & the missing United States navy. - lender Nina, was he navyrtug Apache. & The fate of the Nina Is as v. much a mystery as ever. RUN DOWN 31' AUTO. Tulsa, Okla., Feb. 16. S. E. Parker, aged 28, was run down by an automo bili owned by a millionaire oil magnate. Robert Calbreath, late last night and fatally injured. a series of high explosives, that two line cablegram from Havana that the MaintPhad been blown up in the road stead made all the country akin. Tne Maine had been blown up and hun dreds of red blooded, happy faced American boys had gone to their eter nity in the foul smelling,, waters of the Carribean bay. No more was needed to arouse a healthy race. The bravo commander's cool headed suggestion that judgment be withheld was un heeded. The Murdered Soldiers. "Wilh the keen intuition which tells a mother that her baby Is ill, tne American brothers of those 260 jackien felt knew that the boys in blue had been murdered while they slept This was the way of the Castilian, as shown, throughout history from the- imposi tion to the war of jextermination which was then in progress in Cyba. The multiple murder must be avenged. The nation's honor demanded It A principle was at stake and there was no evading the Issue. As the press reports began to tick off the wires from the little island. ado Wyoming Blizzard Of Year Ago Is Repeated Denver, Colo., Feb. 1C. Snow driven by wind of almost hurricane violence and accompanied by an extreme drop In temperature, prevailed over eastern and central Colorado and Wyoming last night and today. 4 At Denver the mercury dropped from 30 above yesterday to 2 above this morning. -At Lovciand, Colo., a drop of 50 degrees Is reported. At Greeley n number of buildings were unroofed, trees uprooted, aHd telephone and telegraph wires prostrated. At Fort Collins, plate glass wlndowa were shattered, chimneys blown down, and considerable other damage was done by the wind, which at times blew 75 miles an hour. Canon City, Steamboat Springs, Grand Junction, Buena Vista, Antonio, Central City, all report damage by high winds. A blizzard raj?ed In the mountains. , Just a year ago beginning February 21 and lasting a week the same sec tion that is now in the throes of the storm, experienced the worst cold of 14 vears for so late In the season.. It was to be duplicated. IRRIGA TION j , j . , , . . . . . .. . Jt begins to look bright for the bond issue to complete the irrigation I works 0f the United States. 1 The senate today reported favorably the bill by" senator Carter providing for a bond issue of $30,000,000 to complete all the Irrigation works now under way In the west. This information came in a private telegram to Felix Martinez, of El Paso, from -congressman "W. R. Smith, who wired: MINERS IN BUTTE MAY BE SHUT OUT Engineers Abandon Their Posts; Others May Be Forced Out. Butte, Mont., Feb. 16. A shutdown of all mining operations In the Butte district is threatened by the action of a majority of the hoisting engineers In deserting their posts this morning when concessions from the mine owners In the matter of jurisdictional disputes was not forthcoming. The men in volved are members of the Interna tional Engineers union. Onlv four of the Amalgamated mines were working this morning. All other I mines in the district are tied up. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE AT DALLAS Dallas, Tex., Feb. 16. An east bound Texas and Pacific passenger train col lided with a Rock Island freight at the Dallas crossing at noon. A box car and a coal car were demolished. The Passenger engine jumped the track and nearly ran into the Trinity river. Traffic was delayed several hours. Passengers were badly shaken up. PORTO RICO ATTORNEY GENERAL TO TESTIFY "Washington, sj. C, Feb. 16. No morn ing session of the Ballinger-Pinchot committee was held today, adjournment having been taken until 2 oclock this afternoon. Henry M. Hoyt, attorney general for Porto Rico, who was consulted fre quently by Glavis when Mr. Hoyt was United States attorney at Seattle, prob ably will succeed Gkivis on the witness stand. PENITENTIARY BOARD LEASES IRON PLANT AT RUSK Austin, Tex., Feb. 16. The peniten tiary board met in governor Camp bell's office today. The board an nounced that it will approve the Rusk Iron plant lease to Jno. T. "Wortham and intimated that it likely will approve the report of the investigating com- 1 mittee. this indignation grew into a fever oi hatred over night When tht' report; of the sinking of the steel clad ship were read aloud on the street corners like the war times of '61 reciting the out rageous behavior of a cowardly, cruel ; people who jeered and shoirted as the ship was sinking into the shark in fested water there was b,ut one an swer to the call: "Reinmber the .Maine. tms was givenwith all tlnsj nonest natred of an honest race. "To Hell "With Spain" was (the answering slogan and the country tfang with these war cries. i The Spanish Trickery. Unbelievable as It wds, the press re ports of a reliable ews service told how the Spanish .nibble mocked and jeered as the splefndid fighting ship went down. "Vi-a Espana." they screamed. "There -will be. good fish ing tomorrow," thrfy cried. The "Yan kee pigs" were d:Hng and to see the innocent die has lj,een the sport of a degenerate people since the beginning of time. This sairJL rabble little knew e isl nfe rf-n (Continued Page Nina). begins to look as if the severe weather. BOND ISSUE . "Senate committee has reported fa vorably irrigation bond bill, prospects for its final passage look bright. "W. R. Smith." There will be no material opposition to the measure when it comes to the house, it is understood. Mr. Martinez is hlgMy elated at the progress of the measure, as Its passage means that work on the Elephant Butte project -will be rushed and no -man in J the Rio Grande valley has done more for this project than Mr. Martinez. SHALL MINERS JOIN LABOR FEDERATION? Western Federation of Min ers to Tote Upon the Question at Once. Denver, Colo.. Feb. 16. "Shall the "Western Federation of Miners affili ate with the American Federation of Labor?" Is the question to 'be suh- mitted to a referendum vote of the "Western Federation, probably within a week. This step is recommended by a spe cial committee appointed at the last convention of the Federation, the com mittee headed by president Charles H. I Moyer. In its report just completed the committee urges that the executive committee take immediate action- in submitting the proposition to a vote of the members. Closer affiliation with the United Mine "Workers of America is said to be the real object of the contemplated action. KAYSER QUALIFIES AS RECEIVER FOR BANKRUPT Edgar Kayser. cashier of the First National bank who was named as trus tee tor the Fasse-tt & TTrfK- v.or,t-,.T,- furnished $50,000 bond and qualified! this afternoon. t . The Fassett & Kelly creditors coul ,. .... vuui.ci.cuuc luis inurning in the office of referee C. jR. Loomis in an effort to adjust some of- the claims. TIip referee named Charles Kircher. J. Hise flyers and . H. Shftltnn nc nnnT-oicar.. and an appraisement of the stock is j now being made I Creditors will meet again on Febru ary 2S at which time action will be 'taken on the application of the truste'e to continue the business in the interests pf the creditors and also his application to sell the stock.. MEXICO CUTS THE & DUTY ON WHEAT. ' Laredo, Texas, Feb. 16. Be- cause of a shortage of wheat in & Mexico the rate of duty has been reduced by the Mexican government from three cents to one cent a kilometer. Ft. "Worth, Tex., Feb. 1G. Charles AVaymire, a brlckiaaseB, CHt his wife oa he arms, neck and side with a ka ife early today at a roemiag house -where the woman had been hiding from him. He then stabbed himself through the heart and slashed his throat. 'He Is dying. His wife probably will recov er. They have been seaarated. UNPRECEDENTED ACTION BY OFFICIALS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL Marfn, Tex., Feb. 1G. The county cpmmiiouera raised a constitutional questioa and declared the recent Candelarla bond Issue election unconstitutional and refused the defendants a hearing. It is nn unprecedented action nnd man damus proceedings are to follow against the commissioners. BLIZZARD Texas, and New Mexico Shiver Beneath a Heavy Blanket of Snow and Sleet ZERO TEMPERATURE IN MANY PLACES Dalhart Is Coldest Place in Texasr Train Service Is Crippled Many Places. Kansas- City, Mo., Feb." 16. An ex treme fall of temperature, ranging from" 50 degrees at Sedalia, Mo., where it was 8 above this morning,, to 22 de grees at Fort Smith, Ark., where it was 28 above, was recorded in. the southwest during the last 24 hours. In perts of Kansas, a blinding snow storm, accompanied by high winds, pre vails and in northern Oklahoma sleet and wind storms are reported. The temperature in Kansas City has fallen 46 degrees since yesterday. Texas and New Mexico. The temperature has fallen from 33 to 44 degrees since yesterday in north ern Texas and Iowa. A remarkable drop is recorded at Abilene, Texas, where the thermometer was 24 this morning, after 82 regis tered yesterday. Intensely cold weather, accompanied by a heavy wind and snow, prevails over northern and central New Mexico today. Zero temperatures are reported in a number of places. Ih Texas. The temperature dropped 56 degrees at Ft. "Worth in 12 hours, and this morning the mercury registered 20. It is expected to fall to 15 tonight. A slight snow also fell. Reports received from over north and west Texas show today the coldest of the winter. Dalhart is the coldest point in the state, where the temperature is zero. It Is three above at Channlhg and Texline and eight above at Amarillo. A heavy snow 4s falling In the upper Panhandle and deep drifts have formed. The Frisco railroad declares the In terior of Texas will experience 12 de grees weather tonight- TemperatHre Drops Qaickly. McKinney, Tex., Feb. 16. A blizzard of sleet and snow struck the city early this morning. Tne temperature dropped from 72 degrees to 25 in 12 hours. Show at "Wichita.- - "Wichita Falls, Tex.. Feb. 16. "ThV mercury dropped to 18 degrees thi3 morning, snow and sleet falling. Sleet at Deaisoa. Denison, Tex., Feb. 16. The temper- i ture dropped 50 degrees during the Kignt ana tne mercury tnis morning stands at 21. Sleet is falling. Strong winds have been blowing the last three days. Snew at Childress. Childress, Tex., Feb. 16. The mer cury dropped 51 degrees here during the night. Snow was falling this morn ing. Spriag Is Hit Hard. Tulsa, Okla., Feb. 16. Following a genuine spring day, yesterday, a bliz zard began raging here and today the tempera ture, had fallen 60 degrees in 12 hours. A heavy snow is fallinsr and train and wire service is crippled. Cold ia Oklahoma. Oklahoma City. Okla.. Feb. 16. A lleavy ""-ind, low temperature and snow PrevaHs through Oklahoma today. Tlla temperature fell 2o to 60 degrees. Severest f Year. Canyon City, Tex., Feb. 16. The se verest snowstorm of the season Is ra'g Ing here today: the temperature is S above. Sleet aad Show. Denton, Tex.. Feb. 16. Sleet and snow are falling here today. The mercury fell 45 degrees in 12 hours. Tweary Degree FalL j -Tyler, Tex.. Feb. 16. A norther struck Tyler this morning the temperature fell u degress. Cold at Ardmore. Ardmore. Okla.. Feh ifi. Tho -wm-e i blizzard of the winter gripped this sec tion today; all southern Oklahoma is suffering from a big drop in tempera