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EL PASO MORNING TIMES. TI’ESOAY, AVGUST Id, t'JOI
EL PASO TIMES
Ev.ry Day tn lb* Year
BV THE TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY.
highest possible character and quail- j
fioatlon of Its members.
Of these three great questions. Irri-
gation, If not of the highest import-
NEWS {™;:-
anee. Is by no means the least.
There are millions of acres of land :
In Texas, as there are In many other
Sections of the trans-Mississippi ter-
ritory, which are of remarkable fertil-
ity, but the constituent elements of
the soil are such that without -water
supply they are nonproductive, but
given a regular or even irregular Irri-
railroad shops and sec for themselves
the character of the work this com-
pany is turning out and the class of
men they have doing It.
ALAMOGORDO.
A baby girl was born yesterday to
Mr. “and Mrs. Semites.
Mr. and Mrs. George Weigel are do-
gation will produce abundantly every j lighted over the arrival of a fine gir!
variety of product known to this lat- i baby.
HlU|«. ! jnHn* Mann returned today from
| Judge Mann returned today
Without water these lands are a Ttfeiimcari, where he lias been on
desert.- With it they can be converted
into an Eden.
The idea entertained by many that
the treeless and in many places al-
most absolutely grawdess lands of the
west and southwest will not produce
is must Incorrect
official business.
Thirty families of shop men will ar-
rive here from Philadelphia within
the next few days.
Major Gillette
Cera, returned
and daughter, Miss
today from Weed,
Ware# has uponl^T ""'y ,m.VP i,‘"'n at,<m,llnK ,ho
iBaptist convention,
them the same.i'ffeet that it baa upon |
j the California deserts, which are ah-
Leslie Fields died at. Ids home to-
Pimue-ATIGN OKEU'K
fUllS BlJiLIGNli. S!1 )l SOl.Til OKKG'IN NT
, , , . . , , ... . .diay of paralysis. He is a well-known
' “olutelv devoid of a solitary sprig dJzftn_'hftvini, a rf.H|(|(.nt of this
OFFICIAL PAPER OF I HE COUNTY.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THU CITY.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
By Mail in Advance.
I vegetation, not even a blade of grass, j^uy for over thirty years. He will bo
j yet. as soon as water from the irriga- j burled tomorrow.
' """ t,m<lh ,hiK 1:111,1 vegetation | The school census of the town has
springs up in tropical luxuriance. just been completed and It. shows
He who formed and spread out in j that, out of a population of 400 peo-
undularlng beauty the fertile plains or I'1'-'. Alamogordo has ISO children
... , , _ “ ’ , within the scholastic age.
West, and Southwest lexas never In-i
tended them to tie Idle for all time, j Mrs. E. H. Claypooi and Miss Min-
line McElroy left this evening for
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feeding ground of
Waco, Tex ..where they go to join Prof,
cattle. | Cla.vpool, who is one of the principals
As population increases and the ad o| Baylor college, located at Waco.
By Carrier.
I Hilly atiJ Sunday, ono month....
KabtfrilMirR who fail to receive thofr paper rot'i-
lariy nru reQtu-.«U»i to notif> lliu bnslriBHi oHIfo to
Umt Otlor t
Wlv* poHudiftk fttMron* in full. Including county
and Mato Komii hjr money order, draft or r«gl«
t*r*i letter.
Addicts all communications tn
TMK TIMES. RL PASO. TEXAS.
Entered m the I *b* (office at K! i'aro, Texas. an
second rittkm mail matter.
! van'"‘ lin,‘ ,,r civlllxa- Chgr|eg Cumin#ford( wh0 wail ,n.
tion. ied by Hie man with the hoe, jn a wreck on the Capitan
gioves forward these lands will he j branch several days ago, and who
subjected to the purposes of agricub : *il*,l<’1 e\peete-1 to live, is much tiet-
ture The water suiiply lies under-
neath them, and man lots hut to tap
Nature's reservoir and draw an alum-
dan supply.
For the people of this progressive,
adventurous and Indomitable age tn
sit Idly down and allow oceans of
ter today and there
for his recovery.
is some chance
Fred H. Bowman, late chief clerk in
'the office of <1. 0. Miliett. engineer of
i maintenance of way, left today for 151
! I'a so, where he goes to accept u po-
sition as rate clerk in the olflee of A.
I N. Brown, general freight and passen-
ger agent of the road.
-
served, and areas of fertile lands, lar- I Today was pay day with the 15. P.
« N. 15. and the lumber company. The
get- tliau many states, to he Idle when Conner |>;,|,| 0„| between eighteen and
ibey can by energy and skill and | twenty thousand dollars and the lat-
Brunch Offices.
l£&*t*rn Hii.hIubhm Office. 1'i 11 4b 40 17 4K-4U Ul,
' The Tribune Building.’’ Now York City.
We*t<■»r11 ItuMiiiiivK office. bln 11 12 "Tribune
Building.' < ‘hiciigo
Thu K Mnrkwlih special Agency, Hole j
Age rite Foreign Advertising,
TELHPHONRS
Business Olflr-n..............2fi—J ringN
Editorial Booms.............20—3 rings
m iney lie made to blossom like a gar-
den is worse than folly.
To provide means of irrigation.
elLIiei- by artesian wells or by reser-
voirs, Is a work worthy to he under-
taken by a great stale, and Is oho that
cannot lie begun too soon.
Irrigation should be employed not
ter about $5,000. This is the smallest,
pay roll the lumber company hits ever
had. but the railroad's disbursement is
about, up to the average.
D. Sullivan, general superintendent
of Hie 15, P. & N. 15,, has extended an
invitation to the business men and
citizens of Alamogordo to visit the
The announcement that the railroad
company would erect houses for its
employes has considerably encour-
aged local business men. This evi-
dence on the part of the railroad of
faith In the future of the town Is a big
advertisement for the city, A promi-
nent merchant, stated to The Times
man today that he would leave In a
few days for the east to lay in a big
stock of fall and winter goods, as he
felt now that the hard 'imes in Ala-
mogordo were over.
The E, P. & N. E. railroad has com-
menced work on the plans for the
erection of fifty residences. Thirty
of these houses will be built at once.
These houses are being built to ac-
commodate the men who are em-
ployed in the shops here and who
want to make this place their home.
Every vacant house in Alamogordo
has been rented and tie- railroad com-
pany is rendering the men a great
service in this enterprise The houses
will contain from four to seven rooms
each and will be sold to the shop men
on the Installment plan They will
cost from $700 to $1,500 and will he
fitted up with all modern conveni-
ences. General Manager Martin
states that it is the policy of his road
to pay the very best wages and that
by this means they secure the best
element of skilled workmen, and that
the payment of good wages will also
enable the men to purchase and pay
for homes here In a short time.
candidate for delegate to represent
New Mexico in the Fifty-ninth con-
gress of the i'nited States.
Douglas and Naco are making a
fight for the county democratic con-
vention.
P. 8. Lady, a pioneer merchant of
Globe, will stop in El Paso this week
on his way to the St. Louis Exposi-
tion.
The big $125,000 reservoir at Sulli-
van, built five years ago, has never
had a drop of water in it until now.
It is full and carries a two years’ sup-
ply for that section.
M. J. Moody of Douglas writes the
Times that John Eiiaml, who left
there about August 1st for Sonora,
Mex.. was captured there by outlaws
and held tor ransom.
GENERAL.
The Otero County - Normal Institute
opened today with a .mil attendance.
Albuquerque parties are building
large lime kilns at Grants, near Blue-
water.
The Demlng public schools will open
on the morning of the hi t Monday in
September .
The output of the Kelly mine, near
Socorro, lias been increased to eighty-
five tons of high-grade P-a l-zinc ore a
day. A force of 125 men is employed.
Another large sanitarium is to be
erected in Albuquerqu as soon as
plans now nearly flubbed become
fully matured. The project is fully
financed by reliable parlies, the
ground had linen pnrclia -i'd and with-
in a very short time tie buildings will
be commenced.
_A,TT £^8
^ MEXICO
Stiver (local quotation), 57 7-8c.
Mexican pesos (local quotation),
4Ce to 4C l-2c.
New York exchange (Mexican gov-
ernment quotation), 2.15.
Two Americans have bought a great
ink timber tract close to Tampico.
The Consulado river recently over-
flowed and caused damage in Mexico
City.
The Swiss in Mexico flity are pre-
paring to Celebrate the 613th anniver-
sary of the foundation of their repub-
lic.
A project is on foot, to colonize Por-
to Ricans in the state of Tabasco.
They will raise principally, pepper and
bananas.
A convention of the demnerat.lc rep-
resentatives of the voters of the ter-
ritory of New Mexico Is-railed to meet
at Las Vegas, N. M.,:-at lb o'clock in
the forenoon on Thursday. August 25,
1904, for the purpose of nominating a
General Jose M. de ta Vega, com-
mander of the Chihuahua and Duran-
go military zones, is now reviewing
Die (Loops in the' two states.
During the past month the Guadala-
jara municipal treasury was enriched
by $Ki,4,l2.!i;! from taxes upon street
vendors and merchants, of the city
markers.
General Terrazas, the governor of
Chihuahua, and his family have gone
to spend the hot, season in the Caro-
lina hacienda, one of the properties of
the land magnate.
The Chinese minister, on his way
to the United States, stopped at
Guadalajara and was highly pleased.
He found the Pearl of the West a
most beautiful city.
The city engineers of Guadalajara
have been directed to make a careful
inspection of ail old buildings, wheth-
er public or private, and report on
those that neeil repair.
Residents of Villa Hidalgo, in the
Inde district, Durango, are planning to
Introduce into their town water from
the river that flows down the moun-
tains in the neighborhood.
The Amapa Rubber Plantation com-
pany has been incorporated under
Maine laws, with $2,000,000 capital au-
thorized, to be in a position to engage
in rubber culture in Mexico.
Government employes of Durango
are organizing a velada in honor of
Lie, Esteban Fernandez, the governor
elect, which will be given Sunday
night at the Galinero theater of that
town.
The municipal treasury of Guadala-
jara derived during the past month
$1,450.06 from water rights, $5,501.92
from taxes on cemeteries, $2,175 from
fines for offenses against the city
rules, and $2,3C8 from taxes on ve-
hicles.
The new colony of Guadalajara,
called the French colony because
numerous French residents have con-
structed there their residences, is be-
ing embellished by the planting of
numerous trees along the edge of the
sidewalks.
All
AU8TIN.
The governor has received the res-
ignation of A. M, Walthall of El Paso
as district judge of the thirty-fourth
district. It is to become effective
September 1.
Th» Texas World's Fair commission
has paid its entire indebtedness anc
at the same time it is maintaining its
exhiflit up to its former high standard
of perfection.
GENERAL.
Galveston's great seawall will he
formally dedciated Monday, August 22.
A trial will be made for artesian
water at Dalhart. A well three thou-
sand feet will be sunk under the aus-
pices of the Northwest Texas Irriga-
tion association.
Work on the depot and other ter-
minal facilities for the Lott road will
begin within a few days. Half of the
bonus subscribed by Corpus Christi
people will be demanded next week.
At Winchell, Texas, much excite-
ment has prevailed for the past few
days over the recent discovery of an
oil well found on J. N. Holland's farm
situated two miles east of that place.
Mr. Holland was boring for water and
on reaching a depth of a little over
100 feet struck a good flow of oil.
It is said that Joseph Leiter, the de-
throned wheat king, and recently a
groat coal magnate, has recently been
negotiating for the purchase of the
Sabinas coal mines, In Coahuila.
During the month of August 322
men and 280 women have received
medical treatment at the Guadalajara
civil hospital.
The experiment or importing Jap-
anese coolies into Mexico under con-
tract to work in the mines is proving
disastrous to all concerned. The lat-
est news in regard to this matter is
to the effect that forty more of the
500 Japs who v/ere contracted for to
work in the Rothschilds' Boleo mines,
on the Island of Carmen, off the coast
of Lower California, have taken the
steamer at Guaymas for San Francis-
co, from which place, it is stated, they
will re-embark for their homes in Ja-
pan.
John W. Milton, of Waco,va- stu-
dent of Baylor university, won the
gold medai in the Southern Intercol
legiate Oratorical association at Mont-
eagle, Tenn. Pheviously Mr. Milton
won at Waxahachie over ail contest-
ing universities and colleges of Tex-
as. He is a member of the junior class
and is a favorite of the football team.
A party of twelve Indianans have
arrived under the chaperonage of one
of the hustling railroad land men.
They came for business and spend
most of the time in the country look-
ing at lands, in which they were con
siderably handicapped by the recent
rains. They are much pleased, how-
ever, and it is understood that they
will invest about $50,00 in Texas lands
in Harris county.
A. M. Daniel, living two miles north
of Abilene has shipped a load of wat-
ermelons averaging over sixty pounds.
He raised seven melons on one vine
this year aggregating in weight 505
pounds or seventy-two pounds to the
melon. , The largest one weighed
eighty pounds and the smallest ,one
sixty pounds. Mr. Daniel also has
raised a imiskmClon that he says will
weigh fully forty pounds.
El Pasoans visiting the World's Fair
Will find The Times on file at the
Te^as Building on the grounds.
TUESDAY, AUG 16. 1904.
For President—
ALTON I! PARKER,
of New York.
For Vice President—
HENRY G. DAVIS,
of West Virginia.
REOUIESCAT IN PACE.
The following telegram, received
yesterday, announces a sad event, not
wholly unanticipated by thin paper:
190-1.
Bristol, Conn. Aug. 14.
Uapt Juan S, Hart,
151 Paso, Tex.:
Mrs .1. F. Wade of this city, sis-
ter of Mr, Ponder, died here on
Frldav
(Signed) H It. (’HARMAN,
Mr Ponder of The Times received
by wire notice of his sister’s danger-
ous iHie-ss last Wednesday. He left
three hours afterwards, hastening to
reach the bedside of Ills beloved sis-
ter, but hardly had he reached Kan-
sas City, when the fatal end had come.
Not knowing of such an early result,
th<* faithful brother continued his
journey, hoping, praying and trusting
that God would spare tier precious life
till at least he might give her a word
of comfort or whisper a sad good-bye.
But In His wisdom Providence had
spared her angelic soul the pain of
such a parting and her brother
reached there yesterday barely In
time to follow the remains to the
grave.
Mrs. Wade was horn in Georgia and
married a prominent manufacturer of
Bristol, who survives her with four in-
teresting children, one of whom, little
Walter, came to El Paso last winter
with his mother, Mr. Ponder has the
deep sympathy of thin community In
his bereavement and may the soul of
the departed rest In peace.
only in the arid west and southwest,
but In every part of the state. How
often is the prospect In April and May
for crops most promising, when a dry
and parching June and July follows
and blasts and curtails corn, cotton
and vegetables, and the people stand
and see the fruits of their toil con-
sumed iis by fire, because they have
permitted water enough to waste to
have saved their crops.
Then1 are thousands of places in
Eastern and Central Texas where a
reservoir which would hold ample
water to Irrigate a farm can be belli
with less labor and expense than It
takes to cultivate a crop, which, If the
season falls, will be practically lost
entirely.
The legislature should enact a gen-
eral Irrigation law. applicable to every
portion of the state, and drawn In the
light of the advice of skilled and sci-
entific engineers. The work is one of
such profound and far reaching im-
portation that it should be begun on
comprehensive lines.'
No narrow, niggardly, sectional pol-
icy should he Incorporated, It will
take time, skill and money, but for
every dollar invested there will be re-
turns an hundred fold, and where bar-
renness and desolation now is there
will lie nil the beauty of luxuriant pro-
| duotion, and the risk and uncertainty
| of sure and abundant return to the
farmer.
God has indicated the way and put
the materials at hand. In the sweat
of face man must utilize them if ho
would prosper,
DESIGNING. ENGRAVING. ILLUSTRATING
CUTS FOR ALL PRINTING PURPOSES
THE QUESTION OF IRRIGATION.
At last one of the leading daily
papers of Texas has put its soul into
the problem of irrigation. The Hous-
ton Chronicle is out championing the
cause and prints the following able
editorial. It says:
This paper has on several occasions
during the current year set forth Its
views upon the great question of good
roads, protection against floods and
irrigation anil it purposes to keep
these questions before the public.
Bach and every one is of transcend-
ant importance, and all of these great
measures should be embraced in a
gene.il and comprehensive system of
internal improvement, which should
be placed under the management of a
state board of public works, selected
without regard to politics or to any
other cous.iiUAaflb*i»o«|)t<$Uat of the
The Albuquerque Journal quotes
and endorses for New Mexico the fol-
j lowing opinion of the Arizona Star:
j The paramount interest to he ad-
vanced and developed today in Ari-
zona is the reclamation of our desert
lands. The building of reservoirs for
the purpose of conserving the flood
waters is, or should he, the great con-
cern of our people. Tills water con-
served, the reclamation of the lands
will follow, and in the wake of this
reclamation thousands of families will
plant homes, and give to Arizona thou-
.sands of prosperous and thrifty farm-
ers. And the crowning the result will
he a population which will give us
statehood without the slightest oppo-
sition. Let the people of Arizona set
their faces to accomplish this one
thing, the building of reservoirs to
conserve waters for irrigation."
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The Work
The ondoraemeuts of the Irrigation
congress iu El I’aso next November
will largely control the use of $27,000,-
0(m, federal money, which has accum-
ulated in the reclamation fund. Let
New Mexico and Arizona have full
delegations present.
Said Lackaye.
Ethel Barrymore Is responsible for
the following story Illustrating Wilton
laickaye's sardonic wit: "One day
lackaye said he had made a drama-
tization of Hugo's 'Les .Wiserabies,'
and somebody said he'd never get a
New York manager to produce It.
‘Produce ft!’ sneered Lackaye; 'why,
you'll never get a New York manager
to pronounce Jt.' ”—The Argonaut.
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