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El Paso Fair I October 2Sth To I Nov. olii, 1310 Hi HERA El Faso, Texas, Monday Evening, September 19,1910 12 Pages Parades, Dance, Banquet and Breakfast in Honor of the Visiting Officials. G-irl Is Assaulted in Colorado and Assailant May Be Headed for El Paso. Purity Workers Coming To El Paso Cj MUNICIPAL PALACE CORNERSTONE LAID New Library and Hospital Also Dedicated Many Americans Are Present. When Jose Maria Sanchez, governor of Chihuahua, pulled the rope to unveil the statue of Benito Juarez, which tops one of the most beautiful monuments of North America, only a portion of the great patriot's bronze figure was exposed and the governors tugging at the rope was of 110 avail.

Thousands of upturned faces saw the huge arm of brass and tin shoot into the air heavenward as the red, white and green veil slipped from the figure, but only half of the. figure was exposed, and it seemed that the metal man held fast the colors of his country by some strange animation of mineral, not man. And as the crowds saw, one thought flashed through hundreds of minds, Mexican minds, fraught with the stimulus of ptriotism. Juarez, patriot and reformer, so loved the tri- col orcM flag of groen, red and white, that even his bronze reproduction refuses to give it And then when at lsat the veil fell after many minutes of pulling at th rope, the statue seejji- ed to those present day take it, if you must, but guard it Fitting Finale. Ceremonies held Sunday morning in Ciudad Juarez at the unveiling of the handsome statue, and the inauguration of many centenary improvements of the bordrr city, were fitting finale of the week of festival.

With Jose Maria Sanchez, governor of Chihuahua, as chief officiant, and with him many prominent officials of the state capital, the day was noteworthy, for the city, only rivaled by the Taft-Diaz meeting. A long procession of societies, school children, and officials, handsome floats, bands and boy soldiers developed shortly after the arrival on the morning National railway train. lie was met at the Juarez station by lo- r-al officials and the Third Cavalry band, but immediately was whisked across the river in an automobile to El At the Harvey house, the governor, his staff and guests and Juarez officials, breakfasted, immediately returning to Juarez. Impressive Formation. Formation at the monument was impressive.

As the procession arrived, the various divisions formed at either of the speakers stand, where sat officials. Seats arranged between the stand and the monument on the newly laid concrete walk afforded seats for many spectators and the school children who arrived in military formation. After music by the El Paso Municipal band, led by conductor Medina of the Juarez city band, Manuel Rocho Chabre, a city of Chihuahua man. read a speech by attorney Severe T. Aguirre, representative of the state patriotic committee, who, 011 accpunt of an indisposition was unablo to accompany the governor.

Engineer Romulo Escobar, of the Juarez Agricultural college, touched many a heart string in his address which followed. passing will learn of that man, workmen will try to imitate him, and governments will learn how to (Continued on East Page. DALHART OFFICERS SEARCHING FOR HIM Little Johnny Hill Crushed; and Burned With Steam, Dying in a Few Hours. FATHER OF LAD IS ALSO INJURED Walsenburg, Sept. all work in the mines at Pictou and Midland, coal camps, 16 miles west of here, is at a standstill, while the miners are scouring the country for Henry Wortham, a half breed negro and Cherokee indian, who is charged with assault upon Anne Hawkins, tire elghteenyearold daughter of the Maitland hotel keeper, last night.

The girl was walking nome and wai choked into insensibility and left unconscious by the roadside. A rewrard of $250 has been offered. It is not believed Wortham will be taken alive. for El Pal hart, Texas. Sept.

Mc- Cantless, of Pallam county, with his. deputies, was out all night searching for a negro from Walsenburg, escaping to southwest Texas, evidently destined for El Paso. Denver trainmen, southbound, last night saw the negro at are, 14 miles north of Dalhart. The negro is large, black and heavy set. A reward of $250 is offered.

The crime charged is criminal assault 011 a popular wnite woman of Walsenburg. OLD SOLDIERS IN REUNION GATHER cate Mrs. Hill. G. A.

Encampment INI a Ask for Reunion of North and South. Atlantic City, N. Sept. of the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic began today when the national headquarters were formally opened on Ocean Pier at the foot of Tennessee avenue. The reunion of the Philadelphia brigade and the meeting there between Col.

Hillary A. Herbert, a member of cabinet and a Confederate officer with commander in chief 'S an Sandt and Gen. Sickels is still the talk among nundreds of veterans and jt probable that a proposition by Col. Herbert to bring about a great meeting of the Blue and the Gray will be considered during the week, w'ith the object of carrying out suggestion. LEGISLATURE STOPS RAILWAY BUILDING Citizens of AN aco to Hold Mass Meeting to Protest at New Law.

Waco. Texas, Sept. 19. in, of officials and others interested, will take place liere Thursday to discuss the issuing of $20,000,000 in 'bonds of the Texas Central railroad for the purpose of building several hundred miles exten- sion. A statement was here tins morn- ing t'hat as a result of the passage of the railroad claim bill known as the I.

G. N. measure, by the last special session of the legislature, the issue will likely be abandoned and the extension not built. GIRL DIES; MAN ARRESTED. Paris, Texas, Sept.

Wright, arrested in connection with the death of an Ellis countv girl, from premature child birth, was placed in jail here nend- ing the arrival of the officers from Waxa. hachie. Johnnie Hill, aged 4, dead. John C. Hill, cut and bruised.

Mrs. Morrow, slightly injured, B. H. Morrow, slightly injured. Mrs.

John C. Hill, suffering from nervous fright. Arthur Hill, scratched and bruised. This was the toll Sunday due to an automobile accident at on the county road. Pinned under the bonnet of a heavy Ford touring car after his father had made an heroic effort to hurl him 10 safety, little Johnnie Hill, the fouryear- old son of John C.

Hill, of the mailing division of the El Pas postoffice, was crushed and scalded at 1 1 a. m. Sunday so badly that death relieved his sufferings at 5 cl Sunday evening at Providence hospital, where he had been taken immediately after the fatal accident. John C. Hill, the father of the deceased boy, was also caught under the overturned touring car an 1 is cut about tlie face and head and bruised on the body.

B. H. Morrow, a carpenter foreman and owner of the car, was also pinned beneath the Heavy when it turtle, but was a ole to extvi- if self without seriocs in.im/. Hill, Mrs. Morrow and Arthur he sevenvo 1 sou, wore tnrown from the rear the auto but only slightly Injured.

Driver the Resulting from the failure of a Mexican to give an equal share of the road, the fatality brought to tragic end a Sunday morning pleasure ride of the Morrow and Jlill families who are neighbors on North Campbell street. 1 he native, driving a onehorse wagon, refused to turn out more than a few inches, according to Hill, and Morrow, who was driving the auto, was forced to drive to the extreme right of the road to avoid a collision. Sinking into the heavy sand the car tipped and turned turtle, pinning Hill and his small son under the bonnet and Morrow, who was driving, body. Mrs. I Morrow, Mrs.

Hill and Arthur Hill were able to jump in time to escape being 1 caught under the machine. hen he realized that the car was about to turn over, Hill, who was sitting- in the front seat with Morrow with his small son on his lap, made a desperate effort to throw the boy clear I of the machine. But before he had time to give the body sufficient impetus to hurl him out of way, the car turned over in the roadside ditch and the two men and the bov 1 w'ere pinned under it. Morrow extri- cated himself without assistance, but Hill and his son could not get free un- til some Mexican bicyclists came along and assisted Morrow in lifting the heavy steel frame from off the body SERIOUS FOB Meeting Tuesday Night at Chamber of Commerce to Arrange for More Delegates. COLORADO PREPARING TO FORCE ATTACK Asserts Reclamation Service Has No Right to Claim Any of the Rising in or Flowing Through State.

1 A I TI KSI)A MGHT A mass meeting is called at the chamber of commerce Tuesday night at o'clock, with a' view to informing our people uj on the very serious movement in Colorado intended to interfere with the Uio Grande reclamation project, and in order to arrange for or 10 more active and public-sniri ted citizens to go to Pueblo for the National irrigation congress where the fight will break loose. A large attendance is ur.ro 1. Will Make Tour of Country in Interest of Suppressing White Slave Traffic. Chicago, 111 most important the suppression Sept. 1 of the top nnd from his hips call was tele- the sufferer of the prostrate man.

Fittber Forgets Own Injuries. Unmindful of nis own injuries, Hit. hurried to a nearby ranchhouse with his son and immediately bathed him in machine oil from the engine. The almost boiling water from the radiator of the engine had slopped out had immersed the boy down. An ambulance phoned to the city anc brougnt to the Providence hospital, where lie was given emergency relief treatment.

In addition to his 11 Hi s', he was bruised on the back and other parts of the body. His death occurred at 5 lock, six hours after the accident. Hill has been connected with the carrier service of the postoffice in the business district for the past three years. He came here from Chicago, where he was a carrier postoffice. Mo Bean, Simmons lad's funeral in charge.

in ne Chicago Carr have the Guthrie, Sept. of a criminal assault on a young white girl and the atrocious murder of her father and uncle by a negro, who was said to have escaped, was found to be vagaries of the mind of a girl mentally deranged, when Ebby vSheppard, aged 16, confessed to the Kay county authorities that she manufactured the tale, alter having killed her relatives herself. She says she committed the crime with an ax while thev slept. She declares the 5 cruelly beat her. She told the authorities where to find the ax.

A search resulted in the discovery of £he showed blood stains and hair. The crime was committed in Newkirk, Friday morning. The community was shocked and roused to a fury when the alarm spread. Questioned closely, Ebby Sheppard said a negro criminallv assaulted her after having killed T. Sheppard, her father, and Taylor Sneppard, her uncle.

The girl was placed under the care of doctors and a man hunt begun, but no traces of the negro were found. The confession tins morning followed an examination by physicians. I Kh THItKE PEOIM.K HE A Chicago, 111., Sept. Anna Belioa, of Chicago I -O a suburb, tried to start a fire with kerosene this morning. As a result Mrs.

Belica and two children were burned to death and two other children were fntallv burned. AX FliKOR CORRECTED HEA VY FLOODS IN TEXAS Vo Person tlte of Navarete Arrested Cnnnnea, Naeo, Sept. 17,. Editor El Paso Herald: A dispatch in your paper of Sept. 1 stated that A.

Navarete had been arrested in Cananea. Tnat Is ineorrfeet. In the first place there is no such per- co, son as A. Navarete, and there was no person by the name of Navarete arrived in town the night of the fire. And there has been no person by the name of Navarete arrested in Cananea.

Kindly rectify that mistake. X. D. Navarete. One of the movements looking to of the 1 traffic on the North American continent will be inaugurated 011 Sept.

29, when I twenty of the leading reformers in this 1 country will start from this city 011 a tour of western United States and Can! ada. The trip will be conducted under 1 the auspices of the (American Purity i Federation and the itinerary includes fifteen of the largest cities in the die west, on the coast and in Canada. I At each stopping place meetings wriil be conducted for two or three days, 1 when every phase of the subject will be discussed, and the best methods of bating the evil in the various sections I considered. The campaigners are expected to arrive in Chicago on October 31, and next spring a similar tour will be conducted through the eastern sections, which it is hoped will result in an unprecedented attendance at the convention of the I American Purity federation to be held in 1 it 11. I The idea of the proposed movement i was conceived by B.

S. Steadwell, pres- I ident of the American Purity federation, and among the leading workers w'ho will make up the party are: Ernest Bell and Arthur Burrage Far- well, of Chicago: Rev. .1. d. Shearer.

Toronto, Canada: Mrs. I Thompson i Lutes. Cooperstown. New York: Mrs. E.

i M. Whittemore, New York city; Mrs. M. Patten, Washington, I John Hammond and Mrs. A.

B. Sims, I Moines, Iowa; Prof. T. W. Shannon, St.

Eouis; Emma F. A. Drake, ver; Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber, Chicago; W. E. Roark, Leamington, Ontario; J.

Frank Boston; Owen O. YViard, Springboro, Pa. To Com eto FI he arrangements for the conventions in the various cities are being made by representative religious and reform workers. The church federations, ministerial associations, young and young Christian as- ons, clubs, temperance es, reform organizations, and in instances the chambers of com- are cooperating- to assure suc- the conventions in a local way, and are inviting delegates from all surround iiyg territory. The itinerary will include the follow in1-, cities rt which one and two day stops will be made: Minneapolis, NX innipeg, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, cane, Seattle, Portland, Sa .11 Franeis- Los Angeles, San Jose, Tucson, El aso, Houston, New Orleans, Memphis arriving in Chicago on Principal officers of the Purity Federation and reformers who will conduct a nation campaign ajrafnst the white slave traffic.

At the top hegrlonlnp; nt the left are: Prof. T. Shannon, of FrederieU- town, one of the best known social in the south; jtidice Ben l.ind- sny, of Denver, Ice president of the Purity Federation, nnd II. S. Steadwell, president of the ornnnlr.ntlon, head of the present movement.

Ilelow heginniui; at the left are: Emms F. A. Drake, of Denver, a known social worker in the nest; nnd rs. V. Ii.

Sims, of Des Moines, known the converted vy champion. Higher in the Sugar Frauds Also Has Fine of $5000 to Pay. U. S. RECOVERS TWO MILLIONS Effort Made by American and Peruvian to Scale Mountain, But Quit.

men soeiat socle some me ree, cess to I and St. October Kingsville, Texas, Sent. the Rio Grande is still reported rising at Brownsville and Mercedes, no material damage is expected from the additional flood. The track of the St. Louis, Brownsville Mexico railway between Mission and San is from one to four feet submerged, but tnere is no trouble on the main line between here and Temporary cribbin- is expected to be in place Tuesday afternoon, when train service will likely be resumed.

SENATOR l.OIM.h; IX HAD HFAI.Tli; CAMPAIGN MW STOP Boston, Sept. a slight collapse and fainting speh at the conclusion of a political speech at Norwood Saturday night, senator H. C. who was campaigning for reelection, may have to curtail his speech making tour. The senator has been in poor nealth i for a year.

Louis 31. Objects of the Tour. The objects of the tour, as given out by the officals of the organization, are: I' irst. To bring to those persons and organizations throughout the territory to be visited who are battling so fearlessly and nobly in the fight against White Slavery and the great evils in their midst and for a better standard of morality, the help which can only come i rom conference and personal touch with the American leaders in these tional men and en of wide and practical Xcw York, Sept. R.

lleike, former secretary treasurer of the American Sugar Kefining company, who has been called man higher in the sugar under weighing fraud cases, was sentenced today by judge Martin of the 1 nited States circuit court to serve eight months in the penitentiary 011 island and pay a fine of $5000 011 conviction of to defraud the government by the underweighing of sugar. A stay of execution was granted pending an appeal. lleike's sentence is the culminating point in the federal prosecution o'f the American Sugar Refining company officials and employes growing out of sugar underweighing frauds on the iiliamslmrg docks of the trust. Four weighers for the company and their dock boss, Oliver Snitzer, were convicted at the first trial, and the weighers are still serving their sentence. Spitzer was pardoned and turned slate's evidence, his testimony playing an important, part in the conviction of lleike and Ernest (lerbnuht, a refinery superintendent, and four minor employes.

The sugar oompair- meanwhile has paid the government $2,000.000 out of which it, shown that the government was detruded. AIR CURRENTS ARE TOO STRONG Brig, Switzerland, Sept. the weather was unfavorable for the bold undertaking, Mr. Weyman, American, and George Chauvez, a Peruvian, attempted their across-the-Alps plane flight today. Both failed but not until they had given pretty exhibitions of flying that promised success in fair weather.

Chauvez ascended in great spirals to a height of 7,561 feet, within 850 feet of nis world's record, when he caught a violent wind at the summit of Simplon Pass. Obscured by heavy clouds he decided to return rather than chance a landing among the rocks. Weyman ascended about 1,700 feet, where he encountered baffling winds, and he, too, descended. To clear Simplon Pass it essary for the aviators an altitude of 7,000 feet first half hour The distance mi les. will be nec- to maintain during the of the flight, to be covered is 75 Colorado is preparing to mal.e a tremendous fight at Pueblo before the Irrigation congress, the primary object being to get the storage capacity of the Engle dam cut down from 2,200.000 acre feet to only 460,000 acre feet, or only one-fifth the storage deemed imperatively necessary by the engineers of trie reclamation service.

Strong Delegation, The Colorado delegation includes senators and ex-senators, leading lawyers and prominent representatives of the state of Colorado, the cities, the i chambers of commerce, real estate ex- I changes the societies of civil en- gineers and the irrigation corporations 1 and railroads interested in defeating project for reclaiming the lands in I lit is lower valey. For a long time Colorado fought the whole project, but since the Washing- ton government passed emphatic ap- cproval upon the project and since the 1 treaty with Mexico became a law, the opponents have confined themselves mainly to efforts to discredit the reclamation service engineers, to force the removal of all restrictions upon the upper stream, to compel a cutting of the storage capacity of the big reservoir and to reduce tne acreage to be reclaimed in this part of the valley. Colorado's Contention. waters of the Rio in I Colorado belong primarily to Colorado." is the declaration resolutions passed last Friday night by the Colorado delegation in caucus at Denver. This in the face of the fact that the Stales government many years ago appropriated all the ed waters of the river for the benefit of the Engle project, and in face of the fact that prior rights by appropriation and use exist in hundreds of cases along this part of the stream, paramount, to any claims late applicants In I Colorado may have.

1 ni eiled Hostility Other points brought out in the resolutions of the Colorado delegation, which will fight along the lines of this radical program at Pueblo next week, are as follows: The government has no authority to take away hte waters of the Rio Grande river in Colorado and give them to New Mexico and Texas, depriving the residents of the San Luis val- I ley of water that is absolutely necessary for the reclamation of this district. permitting the residents of the San Iaiis valey to use water from the Rio Grande for irrigation purposes, the I supply needed to irrigate the 160.000 acres in New Mexico and Texas would not be materially reduced, as much of it would be recovered through seepage. 2,000,000 acre feet of water to 1 be appropriated by the Engle project (Continued on Page Eleven.) na- wo inexperience (Continued on Pa: 2.) TWO DEATHS FROM A DUEL WEAR TEXAS. Paris, Texas. Sept.

19. The second death as a result of athree cornered shooting affray Saturday at Oak Grove, Bowie ccuntv. occurred late night, when M. succumbed to his wounds. Mart Rosser has lveen placed in jaiil charged with having killed and his son.

Sheriff F. Rochelle is at DeKalb for a further investigation of the affair, which is the culmination of a family of loip' standing. New Haven, Sept. Taft and Col. Roosevelt will hold a conference here this afternoon, presumably on the New York political situation.

1 he conference arranged at the request of Col. Roosevelt, w'ho is coming from Oyster Bay on a fast motor car. President laft came to New Haven today to attend the fall meeting of the Yale corporation. It is expected that arrangements will be made whereby president Arthur Hadley of the university will be able to devote a portion of his time to the railroad bonding commission, to which he v.vs recently appointed by president Taft. Ihe question of raising the salaries of the professors will also be considered..