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EL PASO HERALD
Editorial and Magazine Page
THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Superior exclusive features and complete news report by Associated Press Leased Wire and
2M Special Correspondents covering Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas. Mexico. Wh-
Publ"h?'mValddXeew Conine.: H. D. Slater (owner of 55 percent) President: J. C.
Wiimarfh (owner of 20 percent) Manager; the remaining 25 percent is owned among
IS sToekholders who treu follows: H. L. CapelL H. B. Stevens. J. A. Smith, J. J.
Mundv Waters Ds.H. A. Tree. McGlennon estate. W. F. Payne, R. C. Canby, G. A.
ffij WeHx XartTntz. A L. Sharpe. and John P. Ramsey.
Friday, May. Ninth. 1913.
AN INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER -
DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE, THAT NO GOOD CAUSE SHALL
LACK A CHAMPION, AND THAT EVIL SHALL NOT THRIVE UNOPPOSED.
H. D. Slater, Editor-in-Chief and controlling owner, has directed Tbe Herald for 15 Years;
G. A. Martin is News Editor.
How About That
ONE BIG probiest before tbe people of El Paso that so far has received no
attention is the matter of the proposed school of mines here. The legisla
ture enacted, and the governor approved, the bill providing for tie estab
lishing of the state school of mines at El Paso, as a branch of the university, on
condition that the buildings and grounds of the El Paso Military institute be do
nated to tbe state. The proposal is fair asd reasonable. It is El Paso's next move.
Such a school would mean the attendance of a large student body, the employ
ing cf a considerable number of instructors, and the disbursing in El Paso of large
sums annually. It would be a strong factor in centralising the southwestern
mining industry here. It would increase interest in mining topics, and hasten the
development of southwestern mineral resources, especially the resources of west
Texas.
Illustrating how the work of the El Paso school of mines would in time be
come widely serviceable and would center mining interest here, reference may be
made to the Arizona bureau of mines just established in connection with the uni
varsity of Arizona at Tucson. The bureau, under direction of the mining de
partment of the university, will deal with the mining, smelting, and geological
problems of the state.
Mining machinery companies have donated $8000 worth of special machinery
to equip the laboratories of the school, and the school has promise from tbe com
panies that plenty of machinery will be added from time to time without cost to
the state, to enable the bureau to carry on special tests, experiments, and demon
strations. The testing work will be especially along the lines of more economical
concentration of ores of all kinds.
The Arizona bureau of mines will collect and publish authentic mining sta
tistics and varied information on every phase of mining and ore reduction. A
complete collection will be made of all literature bearing on Arizona mines and
geology. The bureau will offer to prospectors practical and scientific advice and
instruction, and will assist them in finding unfamiliar minerals and determining
their value.
As interesting detail of the work of the bureau will be the educational ex
tension work to be taken to the miner and prospector wherever they may be. For
those who cannot attend the school, there will be series of lectures, with illustra
tions and laboratory demonstrations; articles in the state press and in technical
papers; and intimate personal correspondence. Mine operators and employers are
invited to send their problems ts tbe state bureau of mines for study and report.
"The bureau of mines will be to the mining public what the agricultural
experiment station is to the farmer." Furthermore every opportunity will
seized to advertise the state's mineral resources abroad and to encourage capital
and development.
This summary outlines some of tbe ways in which the El Paso school of mines,
as an important branch or Department of the university of Texas, might become
immensely serviceable and profitable to the people of the Rocky Mountain South
west, especially those of west Texas and this immediate vicinity where such
facilities are sot, bow available.
The question of establishing the school rests with the people of this city. It is
a financial problem, but it is probable that the terms upon which tbe necessary
funds must be raised can be so arranged as to minimize tbe burden. The El Paso
Military institute retires from the field in favor of the proposed state school of'
mines; yet it is probable that the military feature might be retained in the state
school, with the added advantages of such an organization.
The problem is one that we must face squarely. There can be nothing gained
by merely postponing consideration of it. A considerable sum of money must
be raised to establish the school, but it is probable that many of the stockholders
cf the Military institute will be whling to donate part of their holdings, so that
the total amount remaining to be raised may thus be largely reduced.
Nobody is going to try to force this institution upon El Paso. The state has
taken a most commendable progressive step in authorizing the establishing of the
school, for it win mean a continuing expense out of the state treasury and an
implied contract to maintain and build up the school adequately to the increasing
aced. El Paso may "take it or leave it" The terms are very definite and it ought
not to take very long to find out the temper and will of the people of this com.
munity regarding acceptance of the offer.
Federal and State
FEDERAL aid for good roads is every- way desirable and right- Both the
federal government and the state governments should participate in the
cost of road building, and tbe share should be proportioned to the amount
put up by the various counties, the ability of the various counties to pay, and the
general relation of wider public service to local service.
The first federal money should be spent on trunk lines, interstate highways
connecting the most important cities across the continent by diverse routes, at least
three different trunks across the continent and three or four north and south lines.
Government appropriations, both federal and state, may properly be spent on
both construction and maintenance, though the principal maintenance cost may well
be left to the communities served.
Generally speaking, a fair division of first cost would be 50 percent by the
counties, 30 percent by the state, and 20 percent by the federal government, or 35
percent by the state and 15 percent by the federal government. The federal appro
priation should be apportioned among the various states on a basis of the road
mileage necessary to serve the population adequately, and to connect up the great
trunk lines.
Convicts should be worked en the roads everywhere; both state convicts and
local prisoners. Hue system turns the prison system to public service, utilized
labor otherwise wasted, and does not compete with free labor to any appreciable
extent.
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The Lure of Lovely Women
A BROOKLYN pastor has got his name in a lot of papers by giving some
unconventional advice to young women. "It is the fault of tbe young
women," said he, "that the churches are not filled this Sunday night. The
attractive girls of this part of Brooklyn could fill every church in the city every
Sunday night if they used their beauty and their attractiveness their lure in the
right way. There is scarcely a circle of entertainment, however flagrant, in'
Brooklyn tonight that does not contain at least one woman who has the power and
the attractiveness to transfer her whole group to the house of God. Before your
beauty leaves you, yoHng women, before your day is gene, use it to the best ad
vantage. If you do, the churches wiH be filled to the doors every Sunday evening."'
One-Sentence
GLOBE SIGIITS.
(Atchison Globe.)
It sometimes happens that a man can
bi iworn to tell toe truth without tell
ing it
A tt-w men seem to thing they can
Got be brave and firm and courteous at
Uie iuhie time.
A certain attachment to the average
typewriter has got more than one man
i .in trouble.
If the Young Things would spend
ls. time in arranging their hair and
mure to learning how to make good
ijri . marriage well, you know.
Hand the Red Badge of Courage to
the gent who tries to make last year's
straw hat do. he needs some added
decoration to improve his appearance.
JOURXAL ENTRIES.
(Topeka Journal.)
Broken matrimonial engagements are
far better than broken hearts a year or
so later.
Although prospective brides are fond
of "showers," thej don't enthuse over
lain on their wedding davs.
There wouldn't be so " many misun
derstandings if folk -were not so anx
ious to have them
Any number of men devote lots of
l.nn to hunting where there isn't any
TT-ible ( nance of finding game
Mm. peoplf would be found to have
. - - I
ks if l fTc not so i
iv mi's Uun-u to show
School of Mines?
Aid For Roads
Philosophy
rpIXTED PARAGRAPHS.
(Chicago News.)
There is no perfect woman. Isn't it
lucky? ,
Love levels all things, when love is
on the level.
A man can knock and knock and still
fail to make a hit. .
Some women look upon charity as
stepping stone to society.
When a pessimist lives well in the
present he howls about the future.
But sometimes a bore talks to us
about ourselves: that is different.
A flock of microbes may do more
damage than a flock of elephants.
Shorter engagements, if followed by
longer marriages, would help some.
Needing an audience for a job lot of
hard luck stories, misery loves com
pany. Kissing' is love's own medicine. It
stimulates love if taken In moderation,
but it is fatal if taken in overdoses.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
(Philadelphia Record.)
The least fashionable thing in the
world is common sense.
The despondent lover shouldn't lose
heart. Let the successful lover lose
his.
ine wuna is juii 01 seeKers. some i
are looking for trouble, and some are i
finding fault j
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tiffest ol'.,i ma.le 'wouldnt liable
- i in n . n tu ljo'd their h- ads up i '
No Escape From Income Tax
Levr Exempts 54808 In Every In
come Double Taxation For
Iltg Holding Companies.
Uy Frederic J. IlnsKln
w
ASHINGTON. D. C. May 9.
The proposed income tax law
as drawn mainly by represen-
tav.ee Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, and
adopted by the ways and means com
mittee s a part of the Underwood
tariff bill, largely follows the English
Ideas of income taxation, although
there are some features of the English,
law. such as the differentiation be
tween earned and unearned incomes,
that are omitted from the Underwood
measure. The bill takes cognizance of
the recent supreme court decision ex
empting from the corporation tax cor
porations which simply hold leases on
property they have rented to other peo
ple or corporations. It also prevents
nniwiBuuns irgra counting as an ope
rating expense the taxes they will have
to pay on bonds which contain clauses
exempting the holders of the bonds
from taxes.
licuble Taxation on Trn
These two items are important more
especially the latter, because if such a
provisions were not made Mr. Carne
gie's bonds would escape taxation and
thousands of other coupon clippers
would be in the same boat. The su
preme court decision that a railroad
company merely owning a railroad
property which it leases to others is
not doing a corporate business has de
prived the treasury of nearly Sl.OOO.OM
of corporation tax a year. Still another
far reaching provision in the bill po
vides that corporations holding stock
in other corporations shall pay tax
upon the dividends from those stocks
in spite of the ract that the income cf
the corporation paying the dividend al
ready has been taxed. This is intended
to place a burden ot double taxation
upon big holding companies or trusts.
The bill makes numerous changes
from the income tax law of 1894. Under
that law, for instance, personal prop
erty inherited was rated as income; but
under the proposed law only the in
come from such property is taxed.
Likewise profits upon real estate
transactions are reckoned as they are,
and not arbitrarily. If a man bought
a farm 10 years ago for Jie.000 and
sellis it for $20,000. in fixing his profit
the average of the 19 years will be
taken and 1 his income tax upon the
transaction will be reckoned upon
51,000.
Law Kiempts $4,000 Incomes.
The law exempts $4,000 from taxa
tion in every income, so that a man
pays his tax only upon that part of
his income that is in excess of the
$4,006 exemption. This applies to
everybody except the foreigner who
lives abroad and enjoys an income
from American property; he must pay
the tax upon every cent of his income.
The committee calls the tax of one
per cent the normal rate, and this ap
plies to all incomes above $4,000. Up
on all incomes exceeding $20,000 and
not exceeding $50,000 it provides an
"additional tax" of one per cent for
that part of the Income exceeding $20,
000; between $50,000 and $100,000 the
"additional tax" becomes 2 per cent,
and for all income in excess of $100.
000 the "additional tax" is 3 per cent.
The definition of income is so com
prehensive that one can Kenrnalv fm.
j agine anything escaping under it. In
computing net incomes deductions
from gross income is made to include
the necessary expenses of a business,
but net personal, living or family ex
penses. Deduction for payable interest
is allowed, as are deductions for taxes
other than the national income taxes,
for losses in the conduct of business,
for depreciation, and for worthless
aeois.
President's Salary Kiempt.
President Wilson will get his salary
exempted because the constitution for
bids increasing or diminishing a pres
ident's salary during his term of office.
The same is true of the existing judges
of the United States courts and for
the same reason, but other government
officials are not exempted, although
the officials and employes of state and
local governments are exempt. In
drafting the bill the principle of hold-
ing immune from taxation the instrti- j
mentalities oi tne state and local gov
ernments was recognized, including
both officials and securities.
The law cannot be dodged by the
head of the family giving a portion of
his income to his wife and each of his
minor children, for it expressly pro
vides that the income of husband, wife
and minor childern. living together,
shall be reckoned as one income. A
wife permanently living apart from her
husband is entitled to a separate In
come. 3Ihj- lie Effective Thin Year.
If the bill becomes a law as drafted,
the people subject to it will have to pay
a tax upon their incomes for the cal
endar year of 1913. The question has
been raised whether or not a tax that
would be imposed upon income received
prior to the enactment of the law
might not be held unconstitutional as
being retroactive, but the ways and
means committee thinks not.
Only those persons who enjoy a net
income of $3,560 are reonirei! to make a.
return of their incomes to the collec- i
tors or the internal revenue. Those
who are required to make these re
turns must sive their gross incomes,
their deductions, and their net incomes,
making itemized statements of each.
Double taxation is avoided by a pro
vision that dividends received from
corporations and other artificial per
sons which have paid an income tax
upon their net earnings are not to be
included in returns of net income. Jt
Js provided further, however, that
where a person enjoys an income of
lees than $4,000, and part of it is made
up of income from dividends or other
profits subject to taxation at the
source, he cannct claim exemption for
this latter part of his income unless he
shall, not less than 30 days before the
return of his income is due. file witn
the person who would otherwise be re
quired to withhold and pay the tax for
him. an affidavit claiming the benefit
of such exemption.
PcnnllleM ProIdril.
The bill provides that returns shall
be made under oath or affirmation by
the first of March, that assessments
must be made and the taxpayers no
tified by the first of June of the
amount of their assessments, and that
collections shall be made before the
first of Juls A penalty of 5 per cent
and interest at one per cent a month
is added for taxes not paid within 10
days of the tax collector's demand
therefor.
Any persori liable to tbe "additional
tax" is required to make a return of
his entire income, and must pay this
"additional tax" upon his corporate in
come which has already been taxed
at the normal rate before reaching his j
uanas.
While individuals are required to
make returns to cover the calendar
j ear, corporations and other artificial
persons may make returns for their
fiscal, or bookkeeping year. These
corporation returns must show the j
amount of capital stock or capital, j
the interest paid, the net income, etc. j
xne macninery lor tnc administra
tion of the income tax provided In
the proposed law is practically the
same as that provided for the corpora
tion tax enacted four years ago. The
same secrecy is enjoined that is re
quired in the case of the corporation
tax.
Low Kate In X. S. I.mv.
By placing the normal tax rate at
one per cent the United States will
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ani' f the nearly a dozen countries
haing income tax laws, and lower
have the lowest income tax rate of
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ABE MARTIN
Fm not in favor o' raisin' th wages
o' department store girls till they quit
callin' each other kid. Thers no frats
in th' school o' experience.
gress will give the United States a
higher exemption than is enjoyed in
any other country having either a na
tional or a local income tax. The
highest rate of the additional tax,
giving a total tax of four per cent
upon that part of an income in excess
of $100,000. is lower than the regular
rate in nearly all countries. The nor
mal rate is one-sixth of the normal tax
on English incomes received from in
vestments, and a shade over one
fourth of the rate provided upon in
comes from personal exertion. The
highest rate provided upon incomes in
excess of $100,000 under the proposed
law is as low as the lowest normal
rate upon earned incomes in Great
Britain.
Tomorrow: Fixing the Rates.
Coal Miners
By GEORGE FITCH,
Author of "At Good Old SInah."
A COAL miner is a brave man with
broad shoulders, who sticks a
lamp into his cap and goes down
in among the rib? of the planet in order
to excavate coal enough to keep the
world warm next winter.
Coal mining is as uncomfortable as
riding back and forth on the New York
subway. ' The coal miner does not have
to hang from a strap, but be must lie
on his side and cut out tons and tons
of coal with a pick. When he has done
this for four or five hours his com
plexion is a rich, oily black, and the
only clean thing about him is his smile,
which looks like a gash in a watermelon.
Coal miners bathe as often as the upper
classes, but put more vigor and muscle
into the job.
Coal mining is as dangerous as telling
the truth in Tennessee politics. If the
roof of tbe mine does not fall on the
miner or he is not choked by choke
damp or burned by fire damp or dedi
cated by a blast which has waited a
while to think it over before exploding,
he may live to a good old age, but this
is not customary. Coal miners work
from 100 to o00 feet under ground, and
in case of trouble they have only two
fire escapes both upward. A coal mine
ought at least to have as many exits
as a nickel theater.
"Brave man with broad shoulders."
Coal miners and New York business
men have a good deal in common. Both
work about six, hours a daj; and both
travel the last quarter of a mile to their
jobs in elevators. When the coal miner
steps into his elevator the engineer lets
him down so fast that if he were to
fall he would bang his head against the
roof of the car.
The coal miner makes from four to
six dollars a day while living, but there
he differs from the New York business
man. He makes nothing at all after he
is dead. Mining towns are full of miners'
families who are trying to exist on the
income of the $900 which the father
earned by getting under a pieee of fall
ing roof.
Mining eoal is not as hard or as dis
agreeable as running for office, but it is
wearing work, and no one should blame
the miner for striking now and then if
he can get a vacation in no other way.
(Copyrighted by George Matthew
Adams.)
SJ'IXELESS PATRIOTISM.
(From the Mexican Herald.
We quoted a Mexican writer yes
terday to the effect that "the cross
ing of the first foreign soldier into
cur territory with warlike intent,
would kindle an unextinguishable
blaze from the Bravo to the Suchiate."
With due apology for criticising
our friends in their own house we
would ask this writer the question
that we have several times propounded
in a general waj. namely: why he
lliees that foreign intervention
would arojse the fighting spirit of
those who have sat !n apathy for two
ears while throughout their coun
tiy the .nost horrible scenes of mur
der, arson, rapine, pillage and wanton
destruction have been enacted and
individual states are endeavoring to
disrupt the nation?
What kind of patriotism is it that
supinely -witnesses the destruction of
the peace and happiness, local busi
ness and foreign credit of the coun
try from tithin, without lifting a
hand, but would fl to arms and shed
its last drop of blood to resist a for
eign countrj merel bent on a mis
sion of -pacification?
M- A B f'ast.ineiia and little boy.
i ins of fin North O- "on street, left
li-i i" 'liTo' i. ,t I rid."
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HEADUQARTERS TO BE
AT FORT HU ACHUCA
Gen. If. L. Scott, However, Probably
Will llcraala at Fort Bliss for
the Present.
Headquarters of the first cavalry
brigade have been changed from Fort
Bliss, at El Paso to Fort Huachuca.
Ariz. By this change Gen. Hugh I
Scott will be forced toestablish his
headquarters at Huachuca to be at the
headquarters offce of the department.
But because of the fact that El Paso
is the center of the border situation.
Gen. Scott will probably remain In
Fort Bliss for the present, at least.
The change In headquarters is made
because Texas has a brigade head
quarters at San Antonio- and the war
department is said to be a little poli
tics to lineup the Arizona vote on war
appropriation measures.
Gen. James Parker, commander of the
of the first cavalry brigade, which in
cludes the second cavalry regiment.
It ft Fort Sam Houston Friday, qjfter an
inspection of the fort and the regiment
stationed jhere.
STUDENTS PLOT
AGAINST HUERTA.
Student plots continue to be discov
ered in .Mexico City. A number of
students of the advanced academies
have been arrested and imprisoned by
the secret police, for alleged con
spiracy in plots against the life of the
president and against the government.
It connection with the student ar
rests, an engineer who piloted the run
away engine loaded with dynamite
against the fedcials at Rellano last
year for the Orozco rebels, was also
arrested. He was accused of being
in a plot to kill president Huerta.
More arrests are predicted because
of revolutionary plots in the capital.
DEATHS AKD BURIALS
GEORGE MEYSER'S FUNERAL.
The funeral of Georse Meyser. who
met an accidental death in California,
was held from the residence of his
fatherinlaw. J. I. Hewitt. Friday morn
ing. The Masonic lodges attended.
ROIiLAXD VOLLICVR,
Holland Vollmar. 20 years of ag.
died at a local sanatorium Friday
morning at 10:40. He came here eight
months ago from Marshfield, Wis., and
his mother will take the body back
there tonight for interment.
MRS. G. K. DRAKE.
The funeral of Mrs. G. E. Drake will
be held from the chapel at 508 Texas
street, Saturday morning at 9 o'clock.
Rev. P. J. Rice will officiate and the
body will be shipped on the Golden
Statt limited to Nebo, Ky, for Inter
na Bt.
MRS. T. W. TCLI.OUS.
The funeral of Mrs. T. W. Tullous
who died Thursday night, was held
from the chapel at 708 North Stanton
street at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon.
Rev. C. L. Overstreet conducted the
services and interment was made la
Evergreen cemetery.
TI3I O'KEEFE.
Tim CKeefe, special deputy collector
of customs at Yuma, Arix., and a
brother of collector Con O'Keefe. of
Nogales, Ariz., died Thursday at Yuma.
The special deputy was well known
in El Paso. He had been in Arizona
for a number of years, having been
stationed at Nogales before going to
Yuma.
HAROLD KLITSVER.
Harold Klitsner, a dry goods clerk.
21 vears old, died at his home. SIS
rorth El Paso street. Friday morning.
H had been here IS months, coming
hre from Wis-consin. He is survived
by one brother, who resides in Dallas,
ttho is exrected to arrive here Satur
day. The funeral will be held Sundty
m f-ning from the chapel at 70S North
Stanton street.
JOHN R. DAVIS.
John R. Davis, 78 years of age, died
at tht home of his daughter, Mrs. W.
P., Shea. 1209 North Kansas street, at
1:3) Friday morning. He was a na
tive cf Wales and came here from East
i Texas five years ago. Surviving him
besides his daugnier are lour sons,
one of them. James T. Davis, an en
gineer on the El Paso and Southwest
ern railroad, residing at 1209 North
Kinuii street Another. John Davis
: lives in Colorado Springs, Colo., and
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I luwe awe .nu svu ..m.
i ,,n.i win ha hAiH 3tnrriv from the
chsptl at 508 Texas stret.
THE COURTS.
34TII DISTRICT COURT.
Tinn w. JnrkiMin. Presldlnsr.
Elizabeth B. Farrell vs. Augustln ,
Domlnguez. suit for. $25,200 damages ,
for personal injuries: judgment for
plaintiff In sum or $ioou.
Joseph K. Knorr vs. A-. T. & S. F.
Ry. Co., suit for $20,000 for alleged per
sonal injuries; on trial.
41ST DISTRICT COURT.
A. M. Walthall. Presiding.
H. W. Marks vs. E. Sanbrano et al,
suit for injunction: on trial.
county; COURT.
J. M. Dearer, Presiding.
Lewis Vidal. charged with knowingly
permitting a house of prostitution to
be kept; on trial.
Case Settings, Xon-Jnry Cases.
May 12:
3S28 City National bank vs. J. T.
Neason.
3379 Paulino Oruinous vs. SI Pase
Electric Railway company.
34S9 Harris Krupt vs. U. S. Fidelity
and Guaranty eompany.
3491 Jno. A. Happer vs. L. M. Craw.
ford et al.
May IS:
35S1 T. A. Manning vs. T. B. Dock
ery. 3C31 R. F. Mitchell vs. Leigh Clark.
3710 J. H. Smith vs. D. A. Evans.
3797 Jno. Itule vs. G. H. & a A.
Railway company.
May 14:
3845 Jesus Payan vs. M. A. Lopez
et al.
SS1 Hawkins Bros. vs. G. L. Thorn
ton. 38C9 Kraukauer, Zork & Moye, Sues,
vs. W. J. Cox.
3887 Leo Davedorff vs. G. H. & & A.
Railway company.
3897 Ada Sharp et al. vs. S. W. In
surance company. i
May 15:
3898 Tuttle Paint & Glaas company
vs. National Railway Company ot Mex
ico. 3900 Austin Nichols vs. Western
Grocery company.
3909 Bertie Webster vs. A. N. Harris.
3912 R. E. Christian vs. A. P. M.
Narlian.
3914 H. G. Schneider vs. T. & P.
Railway company.
May IS:
3923 Nobel Padgett vs. El Paso Mill-in-;
company.
3933 R. S. Garnett vs. J. G. Tfllar.
3957 P. B. Nixon vs. EI Paso Country
club.
3960 Rafael Delgado et al. vs. W.
Cooley. Adnx, et al.
May 17:
3971 L. V. Carroll vs. T. ft P. Rail
way company.
3981 Robert Simpson vs. CL W. Moore
et al.
3984 J. A. Escajeda vs. L. P. At
wood et al.
3991 Cefenno Tarin vs. Rio Grande
& El Paso Railway companj.
J I STICK'S CO HIT.
E. B. MeClIntnck. Presiding.
El Paso & Southwestern R. R. Co. vs.
L. P. McChesney. suit for $70- filed.
W K (rrfngton vs Wm. Van Hase
len. suit or. note fur $S1 DO. filed.
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14 Years Ago Today
From The Herald This Date ISM.
Robt. Brudon returned from Ala
mogordo last evening.
Miss Tudie Bailey came down from
Las Cruces this morning.
Lieut, ri. K. Deveraeux, of the
Rough Riders, went up to Alaroogordo
this morning.
Mrs. Shipley and her son, Tr.
have moved from the Mundy building
to 800 Mundy avenue.
There will be a meeting of the cit
izen's committee Wednesuay morning
at the office of Leigh Clark.
Col. Harvey, of Alamagordo, is in
town completing arrangements to
make his hotel ready for some tour
ists. Mrs. Page and family, who have
been spending the winter in this
city, left for their home in Kentucky
j esterdaly.
The G. H. & S. A. has reduced
eight curves in the vicinity of the Rio
Grande, which makes travel a great
deal easier.
A bouquet of roses as lovely as
ever blossomed in May came to The
Herald from Mrs. J. H. Comstock's
conservatories today.
H. J. Van Vleck has resigned his
position in the city ticket office of
the S. P. and has gone to San Antonio.
A. W. Reeves will take his place.
Frank Baley, foreman of the paint
gang of tbe Santa Fe. is here with
his force painting the new railroad
joint bridge across the Rio Grande.
The railroad boys will give a dance
at Chopin hall this evening. All ar
rangements for the occasion have
been perfected and a good time is
promised.
The Italian Grand Opera company
composed of CO people arrived over
tbe Mexican Central last night and
will sing one of its best operas, "Lu
cia de Lammermoor," at Myar's opera
house tonight. This is the first visit
of the company to this country.
The amateur billiard tournament at
the Gem parlors last evening at
tracted a number of spectators. There
were seven entries as follows: M. C.
Edwards. W. S. McCutcheon. Grant
Bovee. Frank Boss, O. H. Carson, Dr.
Taylor, and John Lohner.
There will probably be no reunion
of the Rough Riders in El Paso on
July 4 as was anticipated. The reply
to the telegram sent governor Roose
velt came last night, saying that he
would not be able to attend, as im
portant business in Albany would
demand his presence in that city on
Independence day.
A new- union will soon be added to
the many labor organizations in El
Paso. The painters and decorators have
organized themselves under the
brotherhood of Painters and Decora
tors of America, and a charter has
been sent for. At a meeting held a
few days ago George G. Gillett was
elected president, O. P. Samseth sec
retary and Fred Kike treasurer.
This afternoon the petition of Dr.
Charles T. Race, formerly president
of the school board, for a writ of
mandamus to compel Messrs. Martin,
Shelton and Foster, other members of
the board, to recognize him as the
lawful president of the board instead
of Dr. S. T. Turner, came up for a
hearing. There were present Messrs.
Morehead. Pew, Foster, Putnam and
Turner and about 25 lawyers and
spectators. Attorneys Beall and
Kemp and judge Buckler represented
Dr. Race. Turney and Surges repre
sented Dr. Turner.
Vanished Things
By Walt Mason.
There are no birds in last year's Bests,
they're gone, with all their young; there
are no laughs in last year's jests, how
ever well they're sprung. There is no
news in last year's sheet; the things
that happened then and made us prance
or anxious feet, are chestnuts now to
men. There is no wheat in last year's
sheaf, it's ground and gone to dough;
there are no tears in last year's grief,
no wails in last year's woe. Some
folks are always looking back to things
that are no more; they wring their
hands and cry alack for pleasures gone
before. They don't admire the birds that
sing with ardor in the wood; they say
the birds that sung last spring were fifty
times as good. They don't enjoy the
gentle breeze that rustles to and fro;
"we had no jim crow winds like these."
they mutter, "long ago." They don't
appreciate the flowers that scent our
modern Junes; "alas," they sigh, "for by
gone hours, when everyone raised
prunes!" And if these people dwell in
bliss, when gone to Kingdom Come,
they'll sigh: "Confound a harp like this
I wish J had a drum!" The world is
brighter now, today, than e'er it was
before, and foolish is that fretful jay
who sighs for things of yore. Copyright,
1913, by George Matthew Adams.
NEW ARIZONA POSTMASTERS.
Washington. D. C, May 9. Arizona
postmasters commissioned today were:
Chester B. Campbell Adamana: Tula L.
Humphreys. Casa Grande; John E.
Owens, Cedar Spring?" Arthur W.
Ayers. Gilbert: Leon H. Austin, Mar
inette: Leopold Walloth, Octave; Frank
E. Ross, Queen Creek.
G O O P S
By GELETT BURGESS
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Sammy South;
He sticks ins pencil in his mouth;
That black yo see
upon his lips,
Hac come from sucking
pencil tip!
For Goops fike him
don't realize
How much that habit
uglifies.
Don't Be A Goofi! !
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BANKERS TO BUILD
IN ACREAGE GROVES
Bay 78 Acre Traet for Country Place;
MLisourlau Attracted by Ad la
The Herald.
Joshua S. Raynolds and James G. Mc
Nary. nave purchased 70 acres on ths
northeast corner of Borderland Acre
age, and on account of the beautiful
groves of trees, are going to beautify
the grounds and construct a country
he use there.
Frank G. Morris has purchased two
10 acre tracts in Borderland Acreage.
Frank F. Bertsca, of the Nations'
Meat & Supply Co, has purchased a
10-acre tract.
Miss Emma Barney and Miss Hattie
Oalbra.ih nave purchased a 10-acre
tract each and Jno. D. Stalker a 19
acre tract In tbe Acreage.
Herald tVd Brings Purchaser.
J. M. Richardson left Missouri two
years ago in search of a location for
a permanent home in the west. He
looted in the Salt River valley under
the Roosevelt irrigation project. Afterl
staying there a year he mowed to Cim
arron, N. M., and spent six months in
looking over the conditions there but
after reading an ad in the El Pasu
Herald decided to come to El Paso and
look over this valley and aftar an ex
haustive examination of land and con
ditions purchased a tract in Border -
, land Acreage and Is now constructing
a beautiful five room country nom
there. He is now having a deep well
installed on his land.
Avoid Friday Heedee.
Because the Phoenix-El Paso Build
ing company does not believe in start
ing work on a Friday, ground was
broken for the home of Dr. C. S
Cochrane in the 1500 block on Mon
tana street Thursday evening. The
house, with a garage in the rear, will
cost about $10,000 when completed.
To Build Bangalew.
H T. Bowie is having plans drawn
by O. H. Thorman & Cot, for a six
room bungalow in olock M Grand View
add'tirn to cost about $4,000.
H. F. McKenney has sold Jas. T.
Smith a ranch of 12.8 acres in the
Ysleta grant one-half mile north cf
town for $4,200.
Sell French Addition Lots.
Alderete Bros, have sold lots 19. 20
and 21, in block 22. French addition,
to Enrique Valle, for $450.
NE:"W YORK POLICEMEN
SENTENCED TO PRISON
Four Inspectors Convicted of Obstruct
ing Justice are Given One Year
Each aad Fined $606.
New York. May 9. Dennis Sweeney,
John J. Murtha, James E. Hussey and
James F. Thompson, former police In
spectors, convicted of conspiring to
obstruct justice to check grafting rev -elatlons
involving them, were sen
tenced today to serve one year in the
penitentiary and pay a fine of $500
each. This is the maximum sentence.
Up to the moment that sentence
was pronounced, the belief prevailed
that one of the four would "squeal" to
the district attorney on "the man
higher up." If any of them had enter
tained such intention, he masked it
under a stolid front of calmness as
he faced the bar.
v Reports that one of the four was
bargaining with Mr. Whitman for a
suspension of sentence and that th
long sought guiding genius of the sys
tem would be .brought to justice
through; a confession were sttU preva
lent bout the criminal. Court before
a sentence had been pronounced. It
is not yet too late for one of the in
spectors to save himself by an eleventh
hour statement.
AVIATOR KILLED BY
FALLING 15 PEET
Los Angeles. Califs May 9. Lieut J
D. Park, a military aviator, who
started from San Diego this morning
on a flight to Los Angeles, was Wiled
at Olive, nine miles north of Santa
Ana, about ? o'clock.
Lieut Park met his death in a fall
of less, than li feet. He had alighted
a quarter of a mile from the Olive
school house, on account of heavy mist
that confused him as to his bearings,
and after giving a message to a little
girl to telephone to Glenn Martin in
Los Angeles, he rose again. Then he
swooped over a low hill and crashed
into a tree. He was dead when the
little girl and her father reached his
side.
With his death, army aviation has
exacted a toll of nine lives, seven com
missioned officers and two instructors.
CASEY TRIAL SET
FOR HEARING MAY 21
The case of J. P. Casey, Jr charged
with killing his brotherinlaw, W. J. Am
berson. has been set for trial in the 34th
district court on May 21. At the lass
trial the iurv disagreed. Casey was re
leased on bond and went to Mexico.
From there a letter reporting that he
had been drowned was received by his
sister, Mrs. C. F. Hunt.
THROUGH SCHEDULE TO
CL0TTOCR0FT AFTER MONDAY
Commencing next Monday it will be
possbile to leave El Paso at 7:45 a. m.
and get to Cloudcroft the same day.
This service will be in effect on Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays during
the summer sasou. Since last summer
season it has been necessary to lay over
one night at AJamogordo. but for the
accommodation of the residents of the
mountain resort the Southwestern has
inaugurated this new service. The $5
excursion rate will also be in effect next
Mondav.
FOUR TO BE m RACE FOR
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
There are four candidates for tbe po
sition of superintendent of the city
schools. Prof. Xonnan R. Crozier, the
present superintendent, is a candidate tor
reelection, and three leading educators ot
the east are expected to come here to
make application in person for the posi
tion as head of the city schools. The
school board will have a meeting Mon
day to decide upon the man to fill t&a
position.
TWO VICE PRESIDENTS
TO BE HERE SATURDAY
Two vice presidents of the Southwest
ern system will be here Saturday. T.
M. Schumacher, vice president of opera,
tion, and A. C. James, also a vce presi
dent, will arrive in El Paso Saturday on
a special train, and will make an inspec
tion of the railroad between Tucumcarf
and Tucson. H. J. Simmons, general
manager oi the system, went to Tucuni
cari Friday to meet the officials.
XRXICAX COMMENT.
(From the Mexican Herald.)
Somehow we doubt whether allow
ing the federal soldiers to escape
across the border and be given sa.fe
passage to return to Mexico to fight.
.adds to the consideration Sonora reb
els give to American property
-Jf
"This is a time for deeds. not
words,- sajs president Huerta. Write
it in letters of fire, rapid-fire pre
ferred. Mexico i! . ttins re,id to colib- -1
bin il Th- finest itiebrntion v
.r iniim't' o jll b" t' gi o ;
(.' ub,'; u. .luni.e to go to work.