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Faso Fair October 29th To Nov. 6ifc, 1910 EL AlAJ El Paso, Texas, Monday Evening, October 24, 1910 10 Pages FILL LEADS WOULD TRADE WITH TEXAS FOR EL PASO THE KING OF SIAM IS DEAD Isidoro Armijo Wants to Settle Boundary Dispute on East Side of New Mexico by Accepting El Paso County as Part of His El Paso Would Be Glad of tho Trade. Will Go to Senate With Gov. Mills, the Belief of Those Who Seem to Know. DEMOCRATS MAKE- SOME CHARGES Three Interpreters on the Floor Convention Appears Representative One.

(By G. A. Martin.) Santa Fe, N. Oct. initiative is a dead letter in iNew Mexico.

The referendum will go into the constitution, but even the administration people admit that has its teeth and that it is not radical legislation. There are those who charge that the granting of the referendum and denial of the initiatiA'e is but a sop to the people who favor both and that it will be of little worth to anybody. the corporations can control the declared one man, can prevent the passage of laws inimical to themselves and they will not care for the power given the people to revoke laws; they will see that laws unharmful to them are enacted and the people will have nothing to undo with their referenudm. But if the people were given the initiative, they would then have the power to inaugurate laws which the legislature failed to pass. Without it, the corporations have things From This is not spoken with regard to New Mexico conditions any more any otiler state.

The arguments are used in a general sense, the advocates of the initiative declare. They say that it is the only protection in any state against a corrupt legislature. The referendum, they admit, is good to hold as a club to prevent the passage of or repeal drastic legislation of which the people do not approve, but the initiative, they declare, is much more dangerous to interests." There are those who will openly assert that the New Mexico legislature lias been dominated in the past by go so far as to sa that the Santa Ife railroad is the dominant they admit that in this, New Mexico is no worse than other states where legislatures have sold themselves on almost every question of vital importance to the people. in the Past. Mexico has had to go often to congress for the repeal of certain laws passed by the territorial declared E.

S. Stover, of Albuquerque, chairman of the Republican contingent In the convention who favor the initiative and referendum and former lieutenant governor of Kansas, if we have to appeal to congress now for protection from our legislature when the lawmakers know that their acts can thus be reviewed, what will happen if we have no referendum or initiative after a state? The right of appeal that we now have is our referendum. If we are deprived of this right after we become a state, we will be at the mercy of our legislators, who have not in the past in all things so conducted themselves that we can trust The Purchasable Vote. Major Fred Muller, of the United States land office at Santa Fe, a Democrat, a former Rough Rider, but not a delegate, speaking as a citizen says: I am in favor of the initiative and ref- Santa Fe, Oet. Mexico may make an effort to get Texas to trade El Pnso county in lieu of tlie strip of territory in dispute west of the parallel.

Isidoro Armijo, chairman of the committee nboundories of the constitutional convention, who proposed that the convention make claim to the territory in dispute, announced today that he would, when the proper time comes, make the proposal that New Mexico accept El Paso county in lieu of the disputed territory. Speaking of the matter, he said that El Paso had been talking of rebelling from the state of Texas and tbut this would Rive the El Pasoans a chance to become a part of the new state of New Mexico, with which territory the people of El Paso have more common ideas Ilian with lie said today that he believed the rest of the state would be Kind to surrender El Paso county ia settlement of a boundary dispute of standing and that he believed El Pasoans would be to come into New Mexico instead of remaining iu Texas. The constitutional convention has no power in the matter, but Armijo says he intends to press his suggestion when the matter comes before the national congress for final adjudication. Many Cattle Too Weak to Stand the Loner Haul to Get to the Grass. LOADING MANY CARS AT KENT Initiative and Referendum Cat Show Is Incorporated as to Be Taken Up Wednes-i Kens to day at Santa Fe.

Open the Big Fair. CAUCUS OF THE BABY SHOWTO LEADERS SCHEDULED BE A FEATURE KING OF TIAM AND HIS THREE Ilanukok, Siam, Oct. death of king Cituulalongkong, which occurred at r.n early hour Sunday, was due to uraemic poisoning. The hail suffered for from nephritis. Uraemia developed on Saturday and the king lapsed i3to unconsciousness, dying a few hours later.

The crown prince Chowfa Maim Va.jlraxudh was proclaimed He was born January 1, 1SSO, and was proclaimed crown prince January 17, BALLOONISTS MAY PERISH IN COLD (Continued on Last Page.) Santa Fe, X. Oct. the convention does not convene late this afternoon, it is certain that the legislaive initiative and referendum reports will not be taken up until Wednesday. Tonight the most important Republican caucus of the session will be held at which it will probably be determined to adjourn on November 15. The ground was cleared for the convention to go into committee of the whole today to take up proposition ter proposition without delay, so that final adjournment can bo taken before the middle of November.

That all members are determined to get the constitution to Washington by early next February was manifest from the unanimous adoption of a resolution limiting the debate on the initiative and referendum to three hours and the debate on the entire report of the committee on legislative department to eight hours including the three hours to be given the initiative and referendum. Committees Must Report Wednesday. The committee submitted its entire report. It declared against the initiative and provides for a modified, mura circumscribed referendum on laws passed by the legislature. Another resolution unanimously adoupted was that all committees must make full reports by Wednesday.

The committee on corporations has decided in favor of an appointive state corporation commission to be bipartisan, each commissioner to serve six years and to be paid $3000 annually. The commission shall have rate making powers for common carriers and full inquisitory powers as to books and records of corporations. Valentine, Texas, Oct. an affray in Bell saloon here, Tom Bybee, a prominent ranchman, was tehot and killed. Joel Finley, who owns a ranch adjoining that of Bybee, 12 miles from Valentine, in the Holland! mountain range, admitted the The men, it is stated, had been per- sonal enemies for years.

Neither knew of presence in town, it is said, and the meeting which resulted in tragedy was accidental. Both men were deputy sheriffs and both were I arirred. Tom Bybee entered the saloon first, He was then unarmed, and asked thej bartender, Jake Schorbach, for a pistol, as it was his custom to go armed in! town. Schorbach gave him the pistol, which he placed in his hip pocket. Standing behind the counter, looking into the mirror, with his back to the door, he saw Finley enter.

As he turned around, Bybee, it is said, drew his pistol and started to fire. Finley was the quicker and fired the first shot, the bullet striking the trigger of gun and catching his finger, passing on into bis right lung and dis- abling him. Another bullet pieced his left shoulder and a third entered above the right hip. Not a shot was firmed by By bee. it is said.

Finley summoned officers, W. A. Foley, justice of the peace, and R. D. McAnelly.

deputy sheriff, and waited beside his victim until they arrived. He gave himself up to the officers, saying he killed Bybee in self defence. When the officers arrived Bybee, who died instantly, was lying on the floor face upward with his gun across his breast, his finger being caught under the trigger. Finley was placed in custody under deputy sheriff McAnelly until sheriff Davis and deputy Howell King arrived from Ft. Davis.

Finley will be in jail at Ft. Davis until bond can be raised. Bybee has a brother. Ellis Bybee, at Brownsville, Texas, and a nephew at Dublin, Texas. Bunting is being hung at the park fair grounds, the colonnades painted and decorated and all of the buildings prepared for the reception of the ex- i hibits which are already arriving for the big fair next weelc.

The main col- onnades is now completed and is being Strung With flags, bunting and stream- I ers of small variegated The Overland trail colonnade is also com- 1 pleted and the work of decorating the amusement street is now in progress. The fair grounds re rapidly being! converted into a white city. White to be the color at the fair and every-! thing, even the tree trunks, is being decorated with pure white. The fenee around the half mile track, the pedrome enclosure and every buildin-r, fence or post on the grounds is to be painted pure white. The effect is pleasing against the background of green of the park proper and the fair will have a setting as attractive is the exhibits which are to make ip I the different.

departments. Every building on the grounds is to be label- ed plainly in order that the outoftown visitors may find their way about the grounds without difficulty. The walks and drives are also to be marked and everything arranged for the eonven- ience of the fair goers next week. Ha by Show. A baby show is to be made a feature of the fair next week.

The baby show is to be held on school day, Saturday, Nov 5, and will be held in a large tent erected especially for I the purpose and in charge of trained nurses from the local hospitals. Dr. I A. Edmunds will be the judge. Prizes i consisting of cups, gocarts, baby pins and everything else cherished by mothers will be offered.

A fat Show. I lie demands made upon secertary Rich by the cat fanciers for a cat show I has caused the1 secretary to arrange for a special exhibit of felines at the i fair. These will be shown separate from the other pet exhibits and ribbons i will be awarded. The weight clause has been eliminat- by the Poultry association in the I judging of young birds at the poultry show. This means that the entries in the various classes will be doubled, for a number of breeders have withheld their entries because their young birds, fine specimens in every way except that they are not mature, would have been cut several points.

The weight clause was removed to give these young: birds a chance. To Receive Kone. Judge Ed. R. Kone, state agricultural commissioner, who will formally 1 open the fair, will arrive here on the morning of Oct.

29 and will be met at the station by a committee and escorted to a hotel, where he will he the (Continued on Page 7) Two Men In American II. May Have Fallen Tn Deep Canadian Forests. New York, Oct. gravest fears are expressed today for the safety of Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post, who started from St.

Louis a week ago today in the balloon America II in the international balloon contest and they are thought to be lost in the wilds Quebec, far from civilization. Edmond Stratton, an intimate friend of Mr. Hawley, left for the Quebec region today and will direct a search for the missing balloonists. If America II has escaped the dangers of descending on any of the inland lakes, the aeronauts still face serious hardships of forcing their way through the pathless forests of the now freezing north, through which rovo bands of wolves and other wild animals. Searcher Is Sent.

The balloon passed over Thompson- vi.lle, Michigan, last Tuesday afternoon headed north, according to messages received in St. Louis this morning by the Aero club. It is believed by the club officials that the America TI may have landed somewhere in the Georgian bay district and this point will be searched by Lewis Spindler. who has been sent to Canada by the club to make the search. This section is the wildest kind of a wilderness and the aeronauts may have great, difficulty in getting back to civilization.

Hudson Bay company has telegraphed that all its trappers at outposts have been advised to look for the missing balloonists. El Paso's key rate for fire insurance will in all probability be reduced shortly to 34 the 10 cents reduction hrirjy due to proposed improvements in the pumping plant on the mesa. it will be changed to brick or cement, ins'. ad of ironclad. Alderman .1.

I. Hewitt said Monday morning: soon as the city takes the water plant I shall recommend that immediate be taken for tne reconstruction of this building, in order to secure the 10 cents reduction in the key rate. i cannot say when the actual trans- of the plant will occur, as we have not discussed it he said. I understand that as W. H.

Burges, attorney for the water company, lias returned, it will not be necessary to await the arrival of John Wyatt, the receiver, before taking carload of lead and another of pipe have been received, and the system will be extended. Many new fire hydrants will be installed and I believe that we will secure an appreciable reduction in our insurance W. H. Burges said: I tnink that the transfer of the water plant to the city will be made this Mr. Wyatt will return from Chicago Thu: sday.

31 Cars Shipped on Saturday and 52 on Monday, With Many to Follow. Kent, Oct. of tlie range around Kent and in west Texas are getting? dfNiierate. attie- mea are shipping everything they can to market, and those that are not in condition for market arc shipped to various points for pasturage. The old timers say this is the hardest year experienced In the last decade.

On account of the long and continued drouth, theer is no RTiisN nnrl It cattle are suffering, consequently is a rush for ears to ship osjt everything that is not too far gone Jackson and Harmon, of Alpine, p'd SI ears from here Saturday, two and three year old steers, destined to Amarillo, Texes. The agent of the T. has orders for cars to load today destined to various points foe part nra are. The cattlemen are very anxious to seccre pasturage hut it is almost impossible to find it anywhere near, and many of them are forced to sell what cattle they have, otherwise they would lose them all. The weather continues dry with little prospect of rain.

SUSPECTED OF MANY MURDERS of ORPHAN CHILD IN SEARCH OF AUNT ROOSEVELT SEES ABANDONED FARMS Former President Makes ail Automobile Trip In New York State. Ithaca, X. Oct. inspect abandoned farms in this section of the state, former president Roosevelt stopped here today, beginning his campaign through New York state which is to extend to the end of the week. Colonel Roosevelt will ride by automobile more than luO miles during the day with representative Cocks of Nassau county, and Prof.

L. 11. Bailey of Cornell, who was president of Country Life commission appointed by CONVENTION GIVES WAY TO THE CIRCUS New Propositions Offered at Phoenix Include Extension of Primary Law. Phoenix. Oct.

circus being in the city the constitutional convention adjourned this morning until tomorrow. Some committee work is going on. New propositions have been offered, one in regard to employers liability and one extending the provisions of the primary law to the nomination of congressmen. The third week of the constitutional convention opened with the introduction of seven propositions, swelling the total to 90. 4 Candy Talks Mysterious Killings and Is Arrested, East Sr.

Louis. 111., Oct. having given details of many local robberies and hinting at two murders, Lee Rhodus. who was arrested here yesterday. has been put in a cell by police with instructions that no one is to see him.

Rhodus intimated that he knew of the murder of Dr. Michaelis, a dentist in Chicago, last August, and of a captain Potter of northern Missouri. The Michaelis murder proved a mystery to the Chicago police. He was shot down at night almost at his own doorstep. Rhodus admits he is the man who has been called the because he always took candy from the stores of men he robbed.

Pie says he expects to be hanged. MrA Rhodus, who married Rhodus last July, says she and her husband were in Chicago in July and August, Says one night her husband came home with his coat spotted jyith blood. le told me he had been shot in the shoulder while robbing a drug she said. he told me he had held up and shot a As Mrs. Rhodus was leaving the station, her husband called to herr "If anything happens to me, you kill NO NAVAL BASE FOR NEW ORLEANS Fails to Locate Relatives of Mother, Who Died on the Train.

Clayton, N. Oct. Roberts, nine years of age, fatherless, motherless, and seemingly nameless, reached Clayton, to which place she was ticketed over a week ago. She i was to mail a letter to an aunt near Passemonte. The letter was pinned to her dress and was mailed ien days ago, but no aunt has appeared.

The child says her mother died on the train over a month ago and was taken off and buried at Wichita, I and that her stepfather, Ed Roberts, sent her from Bijr Heart, Oklahoma, to her aunt, Mrs. Minnie Thompson, near Passa monte. Authorities are caring for the child. She will be turned over to Dr. Lukens, of the Albuquerque home, if relatives fail to claim the little girl.

The trip is to where colonel a speech this Aaginst Mix. his trip, Col. crowd 'n front president Roosevelt end at Binghampton, Roosevelt make evening. Charge Before starting on Roosevelt addressed a of the hotel, reiterating his charge that A. Dix, the Pemocratic candidate for governor, was a director in a corporation, (Standard Wail Paper company), which was a component part of the socalled Paper which was characterized in a decision by Judge Lurton of the supreme court as one of the most oppressive monopolies ever created.

Ar 4' 4, PLAYElt IS KILI KT): FOOTBAM, I'MIRR St. Louis, Oct. the death yesterday of Ralph Wilson, right half back of the Wabash, college eleven, it was announced today that football will be discontinued by Wabash college. A Secretary of Navy Says Fortifications Must Be Xear Panama Canal. New Orleans.

Oct. movement for a big naval base at New Orleans was discouraged today by secretary of the navy Meyer, who is here cn a tour of inspection. "If there is ever to be any fighting, ii will not be in the Gulf of said the secretary, around the entrance of the Panama canal. I do not think the Mississippi valley is in any particular danger of Although it is thought the secretary favors Guantanamo bay, Cuba, as a raval base for the gulf, a strong effort will be made to have the naval ba-e row here retained. 4 REI.JKVKI) LOST MAKKS POUT IN New Orleans, Oct.

2 The Norweigian steamer Bluefields, which was believed lost in the recent hurricane, arrived safely from Havana this morning. CRiPPEN TO DIE NOV. 8 London, Oct. 4 Or. Hnwley Crippen, who has heen convicted of the murder of his wife, ilcllc Elmore, will he on November S.

The dnte originally announced was November 15, hut today the nheriff advanced the day one week. Phoenix, Oct. nn almost an strong voice which summoned Mm to his wife's grave, E. E. Ilridgemnn alicsrs in ji Kenftatlonal damage suit, in the district court, that he discovered on diggtrg up his remains that a local undertaking firm had sub- sittuted a plain pine box for a metal lined wealed box in which the remains wore shipped from t-os io Phoenix for interment.

Bridgeman claims that on account of the he suffered illness and dlsircss fill he was unable to work and prays for ifoOSH) damages. OIL AT FORT STOCKTON N. Oct. preacher-marshal, who was given the position when he complained of Ihe former enforcement of law and order, has graded the principal streets, killed off the stray dogs to 50 or more and keeps guard at night equal to a forest An inebriated man is not seen on the streets. One man tried it the other night and the minister-marshal marched the big fellow to the saloon that sold him too much and ordered the saloon man to shelter him till sober.

The new Bank of Commerce will open Nov. 1. The vault is built and a manganese safe has been received. This makes three bunks for Clayton. Ira Wolff, of Garrett, Oklahoma, marketed his large wool crop here.

He came in an auto and the wool was hauled in wagons and was sold to Boston buyers. The El E'aso Herald reaps subscriptions here because it puts Clayton on the map and the Clayton people are pleased with their treatment. Ft. Stockton. Oct.

24 excite meat is caused over the report of oil having been discovered about tlO miles from here in the Tom Klggn pasture. XAhllc the reports are meager, it is considered that there is oil there beyond Those In possession of die facts are not sufficiently skilled to tell what the result will be. Experts will be on the ground within the next few days and make 4.