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Almost One Out of Every 200 People in the Two Cities Is a Victim. Helps to Make Negro Temporary Chairman of National Convention. THE MARIHUANA OF THE MEXICAN DEFEAT FOR PRESIDENCY Is Worse Than the Other Drugs, but All of Them Wreck and Ruin Life. U. R.

rtlcLreesit.) OP, dope and driiiis amoiiir (Jriiu aud facts are the foundations for the statement of iliis article. It will help you to the sitiuition in Juarez and K1 Ta.so's Chinatown, the former phice beinir much wor.se than tUe larger citie.s of America, and tlie latter, in consequence, almost bad. When you have read it you will see ho-w close the thinjr has come to K1 Paso man or woman. An.d after you have finislied readinir it, you can read the statistics on which it is based. There is an underirround room, under an adobe house, within 100 yards of tlie bull rin" at Juarez, to wliich at least one ot your acquaintances in destined to iro.

Tire Juarez The adobe hole in question is a square compartment, its dimensions about 30x20 feet. It is damp, dirty and dark. I'he floor is earth. Sometimes it is crowded with a dozen victims, al- thoujih there have been more than that number within at one time. The liixht is dim and the of these human beinjis are o-bscured.

fact is ciful to the observer, for to look upon these faces by day would sicken most men. Putty colored skins, drawn over their bones; lines of friirht and despair and pain, so deep that the seem to have been out by fine chisels; protrudiniT eyes that srlare from the shadows; yellow hands like elayvs, that are hideous. And that is enouiih to tell. It is not all by any means. When new arrivals entei the room, these creatures, once walked in sunlisrht, and snarl, as doijs would not.

These are the far who cannot care for themselves like other milder victims, for rea-son of their loathsomeness. And there are in Paso today more than 200 men and w'omen afflicted with the hrulnt, which may ultimately brinij them to this state. Out of that number nearly one third come from the upper set of £1 Paso citizens. One Fiend Out of 200. In El Paso and Juarez it is estimated that there is one druir user out of 200 souls.

Count your acquaintances and you will find that the list numbers far more than this. As for the facts, I know' that the El Paso police officers detailed on this work, and physicians experience is wide, unite in ffivinsr this rule: The confirmed drug user is hopeless. There are exceptions; there have been cures. But the num'her is small. To "et back to.

fiirures: Two hundred is in all prbbabilitv too small a I asked detective Ciiarles Henderson and police captain D. iireet. w'ho have been workinj? the federal detectives in their fijrht for figures. Both are encefl officers; they have both ffrown necustome-d to handlini; facts, and take facts as they come, with no emotion on their part to color them. When asked reirardinir how- manv victims of ocaine, opium and morphine take daily oxciursions to the six opium joints in Juarez, they said: Then th.ey paused.

that is too easy, More than When asked for the proportion of that armv which come from decent homes in El professional men, wives and other re- said: traffic is "ettinir less than it used to be, althouirh it is hard to oret Pressed for ini based amonsT number i anmno fiends, thev declared: fifty are Opium and the Law. The it unlawful for one to have in his sinolcin.i? opium, but the restriction in this case opplics more quantity than oi.se. One to use of the may visit a Chinese dive in ICl and purchase from Chicago M. Sal)in, of of the na- were some administra- camp, the stories that the is called a take it to home, and there smoke the to liis heart's content, without any fear of moleste 1 the police or secret servicemen. of the homes in this city are nothina- but roTidezvous for Chinese and tlie o))ium mav be i)urcliased at some.

The law prohibitinir in possession anv opium v.ent into effect about a vear and a half ajro, but the opium which bears llrj revenue stamp of a prior date mav be k'cpt with All o))ium wliicJi is obtain- al)le in El is reported 1o smuGf' across from tiie oilier side, with tiie exception, probably, of a snuill lot which beirs the stamp T'laced thereon before the enactment of the recent law. Paying Opium to Smoke. Where opium is in small lois. bein" on a ci.rd and pared for immediate and taken hoTue to the room of the purchaser, it ean be smoked without feir of inter- fercMK-e, the officers up Ihc siiuill and tlie for (Continued on Next (By Fred'eric J. Hn.skin.) Washinijton, June thoug-h tile Democrats were successful in electing Grover Cleveland president in 18S4, their first victory since the Civil wur, it was the Jlepublican convention that year that was most interesting.

It was most interesting at the time because of the fear of a bolt if Blaine were nominated, most interesting now' because it marks the first appearance in the national arena of Theodore lioosevelt. From lS-14 to IStiO Uie real issue in every election slavery. From 18G4 to ihe real issue was reconstruction. In 1S80 the only issue was patronage. The had the offices and the wanted them.

of course there were always fiscal issues. But from 18-16 until the time of the w'ar the tariff was stable at a low gage, during the war all fiscal questions were subordinated, and while there was a green- backer movement and a hard money movement, the resumption of specie payments in the Hayes administration liad practically settled all live (lues- tions. it was that when Garfield defeated Hancock the offices were the w'hole stake. Garfield being elected, he took Blaine into his cabinet and made W. H.

llob- ertson collector of the port at New York. That appointment so angered Conkling and Platt, otth then senators and claims on the New York patronage, that they resigned and appealed to the New York le.i;islatnre for a vindication tnat tliey get. Garfield wa.s assassinated, but Arthur, although a Conkling man, kept IJobert- son in The New Y'ork collector was not to Arthur for his retention, but was true to Blaine, who had forced his appointment. "When the pre-convention campaign opened the were for Arthur, the for Blaine, being led by Robertson, although he was Many men who had supported Greeley in and young men who had come up snice the for Edmunds and rivil service reform. 1 John Sherman and John A.

Logan Avere favorite sons and (ien. was a. dark horse war hero. The convention met in June 3. Senator Dwight Minnesota, was chairman tional com.mittee.

There startling defections from tion forces to the Blaine newspapers being full of collector Kobertson had persuaded the southern delegates to desert the administration and rally under the gonfalon of the plumed knight. As to Arkansas, the story w'as doubtless true, for the Blaine men controled the national committee and it recommended (ren. Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, for temporary chairman. This, the Blaine men thought, meant sure, victory for them. The convention met next day and senator Sabin presented Gen.

Clayton as temporary chairman. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, thereupon arose and nominated John R. Lynch of Mississippi, a negro who had served several terms in congress. William W. Morrow', of California pleaded with the delegates to stand by the committee.

George William Curtis spoke for Lynch. Roosevelt Makes Advent. Theodore Roosevelt, 26 years old and already a leader in his state, spoke for Lynch. He said in substance, that the national committee ought not to be permitted to control a national convention; that the committee had only two or three delegates in its ship; that the delegates sent by the people to act as the supreme party pow'er; and that the national committee ought to be taught its proper sphere. Then he closed a tribute to Lynch and an appeal for recognition of the negro brother.

halrmanHliIp. The unit rule had been so definitely defeated in the conventions of 1876 and 1880 that the vote on the temporary chairman was had by calling the roil of the individual delegates. In the New' York delegation and Robertson voted for Clayton, Curtis and Roosevelt for Lynch. In Ohio, William McKinley voted for Clayton, Joseph B. Foraker for Lynch.

In Illinois, Shelby M. Cullom, captain of the Logan booixi, voted for Lynch. Lynch won by a vota of 4 31 to 389. The anti-Blaine forces had won the first test of strength, but they were not able to keep up that compact organization that had nominated Hayes eight years before. Their desperation extreme.

There were repeated suggestions of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman as a w'ar hero, there being no less than 420 Union soldiers among the delegates. But this Gen. Sherman stojiped by declaring that he would not accept the nojnination and would not serve if elected. lllaine Is Xominated.

Only four i)allots were taken. The rumored combination Blaine and Logan, credited to the diplomatic skill of Tom Platt, made its appearance, the Arthur men w-ere not able to gain recruits and lilaine w'on easily. Logan was named for vice president. lOarly in the convention governor Hawkins, of Tennessee, had offered the resolution that had made its first appearance in 1880, binding all deh'gates to support the nominee. Tiie resolution did not come to a vote, being opposed by Curtis and others.

When the nomination made tile as the friendly papers called them, or as the enemy termed them, were silent A New York paper under a subhead gave this reply to a request for an opinion on the nominations: llooKevelt Hoticent. lioosevelt. of York, I have nothing to sav said now. reason is because I thought about it. It i.s a matter for grave consideration, for reflection.

Come and me a w'eek Roosevelt did one other thing in convention. He signed nn jippenl to the resolutions coniniittee to incor- (Continued on N'ixt Washington, Jefferson and Jfyckson Against It; Has Always Been a Ghost. HISTORY ON SUBJECT NOW IN FORE FRONT Chicago, 111., June the Republican political giants meet in Chicago on Tuesday to wrestle through the roll call for the selection of a fa- son to head the Republican party in its light for the presidency, is one tiling that is sure to play a large and important part in their ultimate decision, and that is third term precedent and prejudice. Cohorts of Follette and Tait rise to the occasion and hurl their oratorical broadsides against this violation of an unw'ritten law'; this defamation of precedent." And the henchmen of Mr. Roosevelt, also arising to the occasion, will refute these "broadsides with quotations from the sacred constitution itself and even from the words of Washington.

Third 'i'erm 3fot The third term ghost, like immortal shade, is no new character to Americans. Periodically politicians h.ave oiled its clanking chains and led it forth to exhibit to the voters. Four of these occasions arose toward the end of the second terms of presidents Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Grant, and in all oi them, w'itn the ex- teption of the third term waa made a bid for a ti.ird on the Republican ticket and was beaten in ISSO. The arguments for and against terms at the W'hite house, however, date back to the days of tlie flaming of the constitution, for even then the bogey of a haunted while otners held that succession to the office of the chief executive not be denied a wise and good who shall be needed by the people in time of national First of Subject. The first discussion of the subject that has officially recorded, was that which took place in Philadelphia at the constitutional convention.

Here Ec'mund Raudoli-h, a delegate from Vi'ginia, first raised the question of a practical dictatorship through the submission of a resolution providing that the president should be elected ior six years and should be ineligible for reelection. This resolution was tentatively adopted, but was later ri t)laced by the resolution of Charles Pinckney, fiom South Carolina, which provided for a four year term for the president and said notliing about his eligibility for reelection. This the resolution finally incorporated in the constitution. The next matter that will be co.n- sidered by the pro and anti-third term men on Tuesday will be administration of Gen. George Washington, the of his Wn.shinKton Dliln't Wont Second Term.

Washington was tired of the arduous duties of chief executive even before his first term elapsed and 1, through correspondence and conversa- that he w'ould not be a date for even a second election. At that time Thomas Jefferson expressed himself in thorough accord with the view's of Gen. Washington placed himself on record against tho leeligibility of a president for election. Popular opinion and pressing political reasons, liowever, prevailed aud Washington accepted a second term at the white house. Wculd Aot Consider Third Term.

At the close of his second term, Gen. Washington steadfastly refused to consider a third and retired to private life, without, however, placing himseli squarely on record as against a third term for a president, save by his physical action. In fact, he left a loophole for the present day advocates of a third term for the president by saying that could see no propriety in precluding ourselves from the services of any man who, on some great emergency shall be deemed universally most capable 6f serving the Despite this assertion, congress, taking his physical action as proof of his desire, passed a resolution expressing an earnest w'ish that his example might be a guide to his successors, Jefferson lief used. Jefferson himself w'as the next to be faced with the necessity of deciding upon the third term question. He said that a president consent to be a candidate for a third election, I trust he will be rejected on this demonstration of ambitious Jackson Opposed It.

Andrew' Jackson was the third president to meet the third term ghost and he laid it effectually before congress urging the passage of a law definitely forbidding a third term. There was no attempt to break this rule till near the end of president second term, and that attempt was frustrated by a nearly unanimous vote of the house to the effect that to do so w'ould be with peril to our free Four years later, however, the third term propaganda for CJrant was revived, his backers claiming that the inhibition was only against a third consecutive term. His defeat at the Republican national convention is a matter of history. Through all this mass of testimony on the subject of a tenor of the white liouse, extending over more than two will the Republican factions trample in their battle royal for a nominee on Tuesday. And should Roosevelt triumph or sliould the Republican in be split in twain, w'ith the gallant colonel leading one branch and Mr.

Taft or some other Republican commanding the other, the third teini ghost will spend a busy season till the voters in November either lay it away for use on some future occasion or dispel it forever by overriding its seeming admonition. Ti)IiS I'lLKCTIOlJ FOlt 25KF.VI:S IWJit ASSOCIATION Texas. June the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Reeve.s County h'air association, in the rooms of the club, a board of nine directors was elected, as follows: Johnson, C. Goodeke. Will p.

Brady, Dr. R. M. Harkey. T.

Landrum, Porter A. Wiialey, j. Moore and S. The capital stock has been I'-laced at Tlie country, including the lower valle.v, was visitefl by an- light i-ain lant night. I'ht' rains lie('ii extrcituly spatted but of much good.

Tlie Pecos river is liigh. London English Hero Spain Again Madrid Cable To Be HonoredIs Land Cable Budget With MonumentOf Peace Budget Memorial to Be Erected in Memory of the George Washington of England. KILLED IN A FIGHT WITH PRINCE RUPERT I.ondon, England, June hamshire is planning to on June, 2'(, in the Vale of Aylesbury, a morial to her favorite son, John Hampden. W'ho, according to Macau M'ould have been the Ccorge Washing- toi. of his country if he had the terrible wounds which he received in a fight with prince cavalry at Chalgrove.

Posterity iias placed Hampden first among the parliamentary party Charles 1., and he the figiit in parliament as a representative of Buckingham- sl'ire. Curious Tiocumenis for Sale. Some curious old ilocuments offered for sale recently by a Loiuion piove clearly that tiie w'ild fowl which occupy the lakes In the London parks were in occupancy there in the reigi'. of James 1. Dne document is lord Rochester's bill of charges keeping the lowls and bf ast.s at the St.

and Gardens for April. -May and June. It is sogned by earl of Salisbury, aocument is for the layed on St. Janies parke and the springe for kci'pings and feed- inge iiis Majesties forrayne bestes and fow le there 611-12," and this is signed bj sir Julius Caesar. t'al) Added.

'Phe new museum has shown its enterprise b.v* adding a iimsom cab to its collection, although there are at It-ast 400 of these vehicUs still in use on the London streets. But the last maker of hansoms clased his door.s three years ago, and the museum authorities are no doubt anticipating its rapid extinction. olleetion. Tn 1905 motor taxicab.s first appeared on. the streets under the humble title cf thare being 19 of them as compared with about 7000 hansoms.

In 1910 tiie hansoms had declined to 20U3, while the taxicabs had risen to 6397. The exact figures for today have not been compiled, but it is safe to estimate that there are at least 11,000 taxicabs to 4o0 hansoms, intermittently employed. The refusal of the hansom drivers to accept the taximeter accelerated their end, for if they had accepted it they might have made a longer fight, as the Paris fiacres are doing. Decoratively, the London streets have lost by the passing of the hansom, for the tall, delicately poised carriage, shiny black, with the driver commanding cab and horse from his lofty seat and with the slander whip rising above all, was an outstanding picture of London traffic. To Help the Bii.Hy Ileen.

The third report of the board of agriculture on the Isle of Wight bee disease, eagerly anticipated by bee- men and orchardists Avho are threatened W'ith ruin by a present epidemic of the disease among British bees, does not inspire them w'ith much hope. Discussing remedies for the mysterious malady, the report concludes that is exceedinly improbable that any of the drugs in use will be found to be of value in combating the The disease has been clearly traced to that ancient foe of the beekeeper, Nosema apis, is also known as the May sickness, often epidemic among bees in other The report advises the removal of healthy stocks from their present locations, for the germs evidently remain the ground, and, although a hive may be itself, it can transmH the disease. The only safety, therefore, is an entirely new start for the beekeeper. Ul All, HOI Ti: IS ll5.ISIIi:i) Al.K Texas. 1 rural devilery of mail, route No 1, has been inaugurated out of Plainview.

It IS miles in length and Happy communiUt s. li'is is tlie first rural route to he es- ti'blislied in Hale county, although several others are pending. THINKS ORIENT WILL REACH ALPINE JAN. 1 Alpine, Texas, June countv commissioners, -sitting as a board of equalisation, are in sessio i this week. Among others to appear before the board was W.

Barnhart, in charge of tne Right-Of-Way department of the Kansas City, Mexico tSb Orient railway company, of Kansas City. Mr. Barnhart is very optimistic in regard to the future progress and construction of the Orient, and is of the opinion from what he learns in Kansas City, from which city he comes direct to Alpine that the road will build to this city at once. He stated that the contract of the Orient with ort Stockton that the railroad company shall have in operation place not later than October 1st, Of this year, and that in all probability tne road will be in operation here by tne first of next year. King Terry ana Charles Browm w'ho have been attendini; the Southwestern unversity at Georgetown, are at home lor their vacations.

Hr. W. p. Woodall and family, of iirownsville. Texas, have arrived in Al- PiTie will make this eitv their future home.

Dr. Woodall has rented the residence of Mr. W. F. W'hite.

A. Starr, of Marixthon, formerly Al))ine, was a visitor here. Harry of Baylor uni- Waco. Texas, accompanied little child, are here to a parents, Mr and Mrs. J.

R. Holland. of the church met with Mrs. H. M.

Smith, wore served. Eailroad Man AVho Travels Tells of Growth Section. W. E. Barnes, traveling freight and passenger agent of the Southern cific company, at Tucson, is paying HI Paso a brief business visit.

Mr, Barnes was formerly located in El and w'as transferred from here to Mexico City, where for several years he held the pcGition of general agent for the Harriman lines. He was later transferred to Torreon, Mex. On leaving he was given very extended and favorable notice by the newspapers of that country. Mr. Barnes is just wdnding up a trip over the Southern Pacific lines in Arizona and New Mexico, He is a close observer and (iualified to discuss conditions prevailing in the territory named.

He reports great progress and prosperity throughout the tv.o states. at said JMr. Baines, inding the journey at El Paso, the metropolis of the great' the traveler cannot fail to be greatly impressed at the rapid and remarkable and development of the country traversed by the Southern Pacific and to feel a thrill of pride that he is a citizen of the great country which has produced wooden nutmegs and Imilt the Panama canal. every hand scattereil along the route are manifestations of the wonderful resourcefulness, indomitable energy and tireless industry of these latter day pioneers, reclaiming the desert; whose ancestors conquered the wilderness. Yuma the will celebrate in November next the eomi)letion of the great which nth inis upwards of 100.000 acres and gives an abundant supply of w'ater forever.

The Yuma project to date has cost the government over $5,000,000. every hand one can see from the swiftly moving train indications of great activity, well rigs in operation, reaching down in the sun caressed soil for the store of w'ater just beneath the surface. Where yesterday there was a barren plain, growing cactus, mesquite jack rabbits, today are emerald fields of alfalfa and grain. Surely the tide of immigration is setting to the southw'cst. Land is advancing in value and agriculture is keeping even pace with the development of w'ater.

rapid development at Deming, largely due to the cooperation of the Paso Herald, has been an inspiration to the country west of that city. At San Simon, they have very recently brought in the Hfteenth artesian well. W'ells are now being drilled in the Sulphur Springs val' ley. The tendenc'y is towaixls cooperation pumping for irrigation. various points along the Southern Pacific, notably at Casa Grande and Tucson, organized capital has acquired large tracts of land, water is being developed, central power plants w'ill be installed and the land parceled out and sold to settlers on easy terms.

in importance to agriculture in Arizona and New Mexico is the mining industry. The strong, steady advance in the price of copper, with the indication pointing to 20 cent copper, is producing great results. The future is indeed OFFICIAL OF ODD FELLOWS IS SOLD Deming Bnvs New- Mexico Publication From Jones. Nara Visa, N. June New Mexico Odd Fellow, the official organ of the grand bodies of this state, has been sold by grand chaplain Arthur Jones, the editor and publisher, to E.

R. Vallandingham, of Deming, w'ho wMll issue the July number of the magazine. Charles bnd traded his blacksmith shop and cottage for real estate in Kansas and expects to leave with his family before July 1. W'. Arthur Jones has sold his home on Grand View' avenue to Clarence S.

Church, of Lackney, and will soon go with his familv to the Pacific coast. Mrs E. J. Gray has closed her bakery and moved onto her claim. Nara Visa lodge of Odtl Fellows w'lll hold memorial services in the Methodist church at three p.

m. next Sunday. Rev. George Williamson, of Amistad, will preach the sermon, after w'hich services will be held at the cemeterv. A jury case wa.s tried this week in the justice court of judge May, in which Amos Pearce sued Bringle for commission for selling his farm to Arkansas parties.

The jury greed and the case was then settled out of court. Several heavy rains during the three first days and nights of this week have placed the ranges and the crops in fnie condition. The Nara Visa Odd Fellows have this W'eek been fencing and otherwise improving their i)ublic cemetery. Cashier of the First National J. H.

Fortner is moving his family into the Jordan house, on the south side of town. Mrs. Cora W'heeler, of Tucumcari, vice president of the New' Mexico Rebekah assembly, v.as a visitor in town this w'cek. Mrs. Ell a Wilson, late chief clerk in the F.

N. Thomas company store, will l)e employed the M. Herzstein company store, beginning July ,1. A PA 111 OF ILKKKS. of Fort and of who started on May 13 to w'alk from Fort Worth to Vancouver, are in They are handing out cards informing the public that any help in the way of food will be appre- Under His G-uidance Spain Is Is Not Serious.

KING ALFONSO IS ACTIVE SPORTSMAN royal SlKllIiV liI.AXC MAX IS ixji RKn 11 FAi.i, from Sierra Blanca. Texas. June Carter fell from a hay wagon W'hile hauling hny I'tholen and sprained his w'rist. wound is painful but not serious. The members of the Home Mission society gave nn ice cream supper, which W'as well attended and a neat sum realized w'hich will be used for building a fence around the church and parsonage.

F. T. Bailey, from Arizona, is visiting friends and relatives at this place and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. X. ,1.

Hrown. Mrs. Tioss Perner are in from the ranch ne.ir mountain. Pat Polan and children, from lint, are visiting her Mr. atid i.ove.

E. E. Taylor has been from his post of lUity at the teleuraph office this Inst few days, on account of being to Paso 1o the l.edsiclc of his brothei'. who is ill. X.

.1. Brown has a shipment of jdants iind flowers for hot(d yard at the Palace hotel. Mrs. A. lluuiphries and children are renltives at Marfa.

Mrs. has i-otnrn vl frotn a few visit to relatives at Mara- tlion. Madrid, Spain, June made to the railroad strike in Andalusia, Spain, has been free of late from social, labor or politicr.l problems calculated to give rise to fears that the revolution in was having its effect ill the neighboring Latin nation. After the Portugal upheaval Europe generally thought that Spain would begin to feel the influence of what W'as called the w'orld movement in placing greater power in the hands of the masses of the people. The bloody revolt in the Catalonian several years ago w'as regarded as only the first step of a revolutionary movement which w'ould later engulf all Spain.

But the expected revolution has not come to pass and today Spain may be said to be unusually Strike Not Dlreeted Government. The railroad strike in the Andalusian country was not directed in any w'ay against the monarchist form of government, nor was it even an attempt for w'ages. It w'as merely an effort to resist a projec of the government wheri by the employes were obliged to contribute a small part of their earnings to a mutual aid and sickness fund. Canalejas government has lasted beyond the dreams of the most enthusiastic Spanish politicians, and seems to be pleasing the country generally despite tiie fact of constant talk of a reversal of the pow'er to the conservative party. 'An Adroit Canalejas has proved himself an adroit statesman throughout many difficult moments in the last year or two, and it is gt nerally believed that w'hen he abandons office it w'ill be because he seeks a resiiite from th.e occuoyinLT duties of premier.

The are constantly plotting to return to office, and it is alleged that they w'ere responsible for a recent division in the Canalejas cabinet over an old time story of political corruption. The differences W'ere quickly smoothed over, however. The possible return of the conservatives. with former premier Maura as their leader, is viewed with considerable apprehension in some circles, as it is feared that this w'ould again excite tlije r.idical elements into new manifestations against the monarchy. Nevertheless it is openly stated in the chamber of deputies that the conservative party w'ill return to pow'er as soon as the budget is voted.

Ivinji Alfonzo a King Alphonzo is one of the most active sportsmen in Europe. He is a fine shot, but nothing pleases him more than to get on the field, astride of a fast pony, and play a good game of polo. He has just had a striking victory W'hen the polo champion cup w'as won by the king's team, the king himself taking the leading role. It was a very quick and clever contest, and it W'as only in the last few' moments of the game that his team succeeded in securing the victory by the margin of two goals. Many American tourists were present to the win.

SKXATOli FAi.I, TO FKW DWS AT Alamorgordo, H. June otates Senator A. B. Fail and Mrs. Fall passed through here on last train from El Paso to their home at Rivers.

Senator I'all will leave for Washington in a few days. Mrs. W'. I'. Hayes, of El Paso, is visiting Mrs.

A. P. Jackson. Mr. and Mr.s.

O. G. Carner. of Riverside, are visiting the families of Jackson and Mr. and Mrs.

H. Park. Miss Mae Pierce has returned from El Paso by Miss T.ela liouth. of W'inehester, Texas, a former schoolmate. Mrs.

A. Alenger has gone to El in answer to a telegram of her serious illness. J. W'inesett and Miss Leba M. Bower, of T.a Luz w'ere married here at the Grace M.

E. parsonage, Rev. Ed. Le Breton officiating. Mr.

and Mrs. George and A. W. MacDermid visited in La l.uz and while there w'ere tlie guest.c: of Charles Goldammer and C. Meyer.

A. W'. Mat Perniid. of 1 is here on a visit to Mr. and Mrs.

Geo. Weigele, Sr. Julius Krnkauer, of El Paso, was here during the week. Fur Produced in El Paso Is Superior to That of Its Native Country. THIS COUNTRY TO COMBAT WITH ASIA Now the United States Spends $14,000,000 a Year For These Furs.

Converting a domestic sheep of United State into a fur bearing animal that produces an article of the value of sealskin, and for w'hich the United States annually spends $14,000,000 in Asia, is the result that Dr. C. C. Young has accomplished in experiments conducted in the El Paso valley. So successful have his experiments proved that Dr.

Young has just sold a half interest in his flock of 64 Karakule sheep to L. M. Craw'ford, of Kansas, for $20,000 and they have established a farm for the exclusive breeding of the halfbreed in the valley of the Rio Grande. 12 miles north of El Paso. Dr.

Young brought 15 of these famous Asiatic sheep to the United States three years ago and his herd now totals 64 fullbloods. From these he is now breeding the priceless fur- producing animals. Dr, Young is being aided by the United States department of agriculture in his work. The department has one of his rams at W'asli- ington and is the same line of experiments as he, checking all his work. The results are to be given to the world a bulletin by the department this fall.

To Stwlv With Dr. Young does not purpose to raise his sheep for the sale of the fur, but he expects only to reiir the animals to sell to other sheep men in the United States because this is now even more profitable than selling a fur that brings $25 for a piece just large enough to make a dinary hat. more of his rams at produce, so he slaughter lambs and crow'n for an or- He can now sell $150 each than he has no desire to sell their furs at $25 until he has met the uemand for the full grow'n ones. Then he may himself enter the fur industry. But, by that time he expects thousands of sheep men to be engaged in the industry, and driving the Asiatio article completely from the American market.

To Comlmt A.siatle Trade. Dr. Young believes that the close of the next 10 years will see thousands of these fur bearing animals being reared in the United States, adding millions of dollars, at a conservative estimate, to the annual profits from the sheep industry. Dr. Young is no visionary.

He has gone into the w'ork after a careful study in Asia and has made money from the very start. did not enter this busines.s as a matter of he declares, I am sure that w'hat I have proved, will redound more largely to the wealth of the sheep industry or the United States than that has ever And Dr. Young has the proof of his experiments to back him up. He is now able to exhibit the skins of lambs that are worth $25. Even valuing the skins at no more than $25, it w'ould cost $1000 to make a coat from this very fine fur sealskin coats oftener cost below' this figure than above, which proves the real value of the fur.

To Ise Idaho Sheep. Dr. Young and Mr. have just ordered 1000 Lincoln sheep from Gov. Gooding, of Gooding, Idaho, for the purpose of crossing them w'itli the Karakule rams.

This crossing produces the halfbreed, to w'hich they look to get their returns. The females of the halfbreed species w'ill also be sold for breeding, but the rams be more w'idely distributed over the country among other sheep breeders. Dr. Young claims that these half- breed rams w'hen crossed W'ith the ordinary glossy coated Lincoln sheep will produce a fur just as fine as any now imported from Asia. Owing to the fact that they have no such glossy w'ool among the common sheep in Asia as are available in America, the results there are not as good.

Then the climatic conditions in Asia also mitigate to depreciate the value of the fur if great care is not exercised. It is the custom in Asia to kill the lambs as soon as they are born to preserve the gloss and other valuable characteristics of the fur; fit times, the breeders even kill the mother sheep to get the fur of the progeny before it is born, to keep it from exposure to the air, and sunlight. This makes tlie production of the fur very expensive as well as barbarous. In the experiments that Dr. Young has carried on in thi' El Paso valley he has learned that the young sheep can be allowed to live for a month or even more after birth, and in no w'ay harm the gloss or fur value of the coat.

lletter Than Fur. Dr. Young asserts that he can produce a better fur in the United States from one-quarter blood Karakulo sheep than Asia produces ordinarily from the full blood animal. He predicts that within the next 10 or 15 years, the I'liited States w'ill stop im- importing Karakule and Astrachan furs entirely and, instead, will be exporting the furs to the European markets in successful competition with the original home of the Karakule. At to government figures, the United States spends an- jiually $14.000,000 for these imported furs and there are hardly enough of them to the market.

There is little if any fullbrood akule fur in existence, for the full- blood rams sell for $1000 apiece; all the furs are the half-breed and the quarter breed. TreiKmeiit of the The fur of the animals has to bo treated as soon as the skins are taken off the carcass, to make them hold their color, but onee treated, they never turn. If not treated, they w'ould turn from the original black, the doctor calls it. to a brown, although the fine silky curls would remain the same originally, the wonder ot the wool and fvir of the world. 'fhere is a peculiar pigment in the blood of the Karakule that the black color of the Light the effect of fading this AContinued on next page).