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EL PASO HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1905. EL PASO HERALD MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. Enforcement of Existing Laws and Ordinances is the First Step Toward Betterment. Entered at the El Paso PostofTlce for Transmission at Second Class Rates. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily Herald, per weeK .15 Daily Herald, per month ..............................60 Weekly Herald, per 2.00 The Daily Heraid is delivered by carrier In El Paso, East El Paso, Fori Bliss, and Towne, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, at 15 cents a week, or 60 cents a month.

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All complaints will receive prompt attention. HERALD TELEPHONES: Business rings Editorial Rooms rings GUARANTEED CIRCULATION. Among newspapers that are distinctive in their respective fields for known circulation, Ink of New York gives The Herald prominent position on Its of Daily average for June, 1905.. 5,080 BETTER PREPARE TO JOLLY THE NORTHWESTERNERS. Private letters received here state pretty plainly that opposition has developed among irrigation enthusiasts in certain northwestern states, to permitting Texas to share any further in the benefits of the national reclamation act than existing laws provide.

At 'the meeting in this city of the National Irrigation congress, a resolution was passed favoring national appropriations for continuing irrigation surveys in Texas. It now develops that northwestern interests, anxious to secure all they can from the government in aid of tfceir own irrigation enterprises, are resenting the inclusion of Texas in any manner, on the ground that this state has no public lands. Some of the newspapers and speakers at conventions in the northwest have taken occasion to criticize adversely the action of the irrigation congress here in putting itself on record in favor of granting any special consideration to Texas in irrigation matters. It is even hinted now that an effort will be made at the Portland meeting this month to set the congress on the matter, and take a stand against this state. 'Now it is perfectly true that the laws of congress provide for the inclusion, on certain conditions, of the El Paso valley in one of the national reclamation projects.

It is also true that the national government is spending some money, through both the agricultural department and the geological survey, in exploring Texas water resources. But the fact remains, and should not be ignored, that the Engle project is not yet so far advanced that we are beyond all the rapids, and it will never do at this stage of the game to have an adverse sentiment start in the northwest. Such a movement might gather to itself enough influence to interpose ugly obstacles in our way at Washington, either in the departments or in the senate. We need friends now, all the friends we can get. and not enemies.

Moreover, both congressman Smith and congressman Stephens are planning to push in congress this winter a measure to the operations of the reclamation act as it stands, to all of Texas. There are certain streams, such as the Colorado and the Brazos, which now annually carry destructive and useless floods, which might be made to irrigate thousands of acres of the richest upland. Private enterprise unaided cannot accomplish it, but a national reclamation project on those rivers would receive immediate and cordial cooperation from the landowners, and no one would be deprived of water while supplying the stored water to farm lands. We are interested in these projects, and in the movement to enlarge the scope of the act. All of which is preliminary to urging that a large delegation go from here to the National Irrigation congress at Portland.

Delegates will have to leave here not later than next Wednesday or Thursday. If El Paso sends a big delegation of well informed and active men, the Texans will be in position to head off any possible adverse movement, and to boom the Rio Grande project. Moreover, it would look mighty bad to have El Paso and Texas practically without representation, after all that took place here last year. El Paso received a benefit from the session of the congress, that cannot be measured in money, not even in millions. It would look ungracious for us to let the congress drop as soon as we get what we have been clamoring for.

Other states and other munities have pet projects, that need our support and encouragement. play fair. And there is another thing: a great quantity of the published proceedings of the El Paso congress remain on hand undistributed. These books cannot be used to better advantage than to distribute them at Portland. The book is exceedingly creditaible to the city and to the congress.

It contains no advertising, and it is prepared in attractive and permanent shape. If 20 El Pasoans were there to distribute these books and talk El Paso and the Rio Grande valley, and finally, boom the American Mining congress for El Paso in November next, the results would more than compensate for the cost of the pilgrimage, and our city would have the satisfaction of knowing it was properly represented at the congress. Let every man who can arrange to leave for Portland next Wednesday or Thursday, give his name to the chamber of commerce as soon as possible. Credentials as a delegate will be given him, and he will be with literature for distribution. For those who go it will be a great pleasure, and it is a duty El Paso oja.n ill afford to shirk.

-o- This man Jerome, district attorney of New York, seems to be a sort of political Tesla; always promising great things, occasionally doing them and more than occasionally not. It would look as if officially he and none other was the man to ventilate the Equitable scandal, and if there has been criminal grafting, to punish it. Investigation and prosecution are what the district attorney of New York city draws his salary for. But he has contented himself for many months with posing as a funnel shaped cloud in the Equitable background, omitting vaporings but doing nothing else. ------------o---------- Chile proposes to build four big battleships to have them ready against the next war; some other war.

Experience shows that a combatant in a hurry is willing to pay long pricey and good profits. -----------o----------Marie Corelli is abusing Adam; that is unfilial of her and also bad form; it shows she does not take a proper pride in her ancestry. Russia is making too many faces over the pipe of peace. -------------o-----------Manila dispatches say that Taft deeply at the ardor of his reception. He had to be moved 12,000 miles.

And he is no lightweight to move, either. ------------o------------Two New Yorkers have caught 30 days in jail for robbing a nest in Central park and killing the mother; and they express themselves as feeling in luck that the emotional Manhattaners lynch them. Hereafter they will confine themselves to wife beating as a safer sport. ------------Fifteen per cent of the Nebraska churches are without preachers, and they do say that Nebraska never noticed it till the religious papers got to compiling statistics. -o- Another reason for fixing the peace location up on the edge of Maine is that tnat state has a whole lot of names like Memphremagog and Chesuncook and Androscoggin, harsh enough to make both Russ and Jap feel perfectly at home.

------------Six hundred employes of the Philadelphia mint were fired yesterday. Now let the postmasters throughout the country demand their reinstatement, declare a sympathetic strike, and see what happens. ------------------New Orleans is willing to swap yellow perils with Russia. -------------o------------The pleasing information comes from the press bureaus that J. P.

Morgan has come back from Europe with 127 suits of clothes. So he need not go to bed now when the tailor is darning his best trousers. o-----------SANITARY REFORM IN CHIHUAHUITA AND ITS NEED The question of enforcing proper sanitary regulations for Chihuahuita, with compulsory connection with the sewer system, interests every resident of El Paso. It is shameful that conditions should have been allowed to rule down there that would disgrace an African bush village. The death rate among the Mexican population is enormous.

The loss cf lives especially is greater than many a historic epidemic has caused in the cities of the world. Certainly a responsibility attaches to the administration and to the people generally to care for the lives and health of the people by enforcing certain fundamental rules of sanitation. But if the perennial sacrifice of human life among the Mexican population does not shock and shame the community to action, the menace such a condition holds over the life and health of the American born population should goad those who are responsible for the gross neglect. Out of the homes of the poor and sickly, where in the past there have been no modern conveniences whatever, and where all the surroundings are In favor of infection, come servants and washerwomen, and laborers of all grades. These people, ignorant and careless, enter our homes and offices, and handle our food and clothing.

It was proved that the presence of licensed open gambling in El Paso meant a money loss to every legitimate business interest. In the same way. the presence of such an unsanitary area as Chihuahuita has been, means a money loss to the entire community. It means weakness and sickness, loss of time and loss of health, loss of life, and therefore loss of uncounted units in the sum of the power to create wealth. There is no excuse for permitting such conditions to persist.

Therefore the more foolish and the more deserving of censure if we fail to bring aoout a reform. Mark Twain is reviving that old sehq.ne of his for erecting a monument to Adam. Certainly there was never anyone who did more for the human race than he; unless perhaps it was Eve. -----------o-----------Linevitch is making a glorious success of his Manchurian campaign as long as Oyama keeps quiet. Jerome had it in mind to compliment Dave Hill, retired statesman, and he alleged that of all the millions of sordid graft1 imoney which had gone through hands, not a penny stuck.

am made of says La Follette, just in time to prevent somebody stealing him under the impression that he was mostly brass. wheat crop will be 60,000.000 bushels short. The empire is certainly playing in tough luck this year. --------------o--------------Gallant auto driver; tie calls himself in his best Jersey City French; came across a woman in distress on a country road; nobly devoted his time and tools to tinkering up her machine; intense gratitude; better acquaintance; now he has married her maid; romance is not dead these days. ------------Newcastle, has a jailor who 5s in pecks of trouble with the authorities for letting his prisoners beg on the streets and in the markets.

The mayor has no such rooted objection 10 the felons being allowed to go to the theater if they pay their own way; neither does he much mind their buying their own food at restaurants. But when it comes to the city paying for provender and then the prisoners skating all around town begging for meals, he thinks the graft is a little too plain. -----------The Kansas City Journal is sponsor for a story of electrified California eggs; unsuspecting hens are given nests in the middle of a magnet coil with current flowing through it and the eggs have wonderful properties, for they retain their electricity and impart it to the consumer; act like a eyes become steps give way to and so on, like a patent medicine advertisement. devotion to the metric system leads her to put up an observatory in Algeria where everything is arranged in tens. The big astronomicil clock divides the days into tenth parts or in lieu of hours and its pendulum swings 100,000 beats per day.

And if the planner can only fix up some scheme for a decimal year to take the place of the present arbitrary and irrational 365 day scheme he will be perfectly happy. -------------------o------------------Kipling has the distinguished honor of having his included in the new Methodist hymn book. -----------o----------THE MAN AT THE TOP. From the address at Chautauqua. A vital factor in the success of any enterprise is the guiding intelligence of the man at the top, and there is need in the interest of all or us to encourage rather than to discourage the activity of the exceptional men who guide average so that their labor may result in increased production of the kind which is demanded at the time.

Normally we help the wage worker, we help man of small means, by making conditions such that the man of exceptional business ability receives an exceptional reward for that ability. Onr ideal must be the effort to com? bine all proper freedom for individual effort with some guarantee that the effort is not exercised in contravention of the eternal and immutable principles of justice. 14 Ago In From The Herald, Aug. 12, 1891. The Browns and the Eddy nine play at Sportsmen park before a large crowd.

The Browns consist of Hart. Long, M. Edwards, Julian, Dauterman P. Edwards, Herbert, Sullivan and Wood. The Browns win.

Charles Merrick leaves with his family for the east. Robert B. Casey, manager of the Champion Cattle company, of Arizona, is in town. Principal Murphy, of the colored schools, returns with his bride. Every member of chief team for the Albuquerque tournament, claiims to be able to do 100 yards in ten seconds.

Commissioner White organizes a choir among the county commissioners. J. M. Dean is in the city from his ranch. Rev.

G. H. Higgins announces special services at St. church. El Mexican citizens celebrate the feast of San Lorenzo.

W. COLLINS IS ONCE MORE IN CUSTODY. A. W. Collins, who has attracted more or less publicity in the past few weeks on account of his troubles with his wife and alleged repeated attempts to kill her, was arrested again yesterday afternoon and is now in the county jail again awaiting a hearing as to has sanity.

This latent arrest was made at the instance of his wife, who is in hourly fear of death at his hands, while he is at liberty, she says. The case will be heard Monday. It is understood that an attempt will be made to get him to leave town, which action, it is said, he is ready to take. Neceseity For Sewer Connections Apparent (Continued from Page 1.) he said. the results cannot be accomplished by giving notice and leaving it for the owners of the houses and land to adjust the expense, or by as- sessing the cost of the sewer against! the house owner with the result of influencing him to abandon the house, there is at our command the ordinance which prohibits the building of such houses as the majority of the adobe huts in Sewers Are Necessary.

health of the city demands that sewers be built with all possible said a physician who declined to permit the use of his name. is really unnecessary that my name should be he explained, all members of the medical fraternity in El Paso are united on this point, and I am only giving the views of them all. The subject has been thrashed over again and again in the medical association, and with unanimity on the essential points. fecal matter is allowed to be exposed to the air, as has 'been the almost universal rule in the southern part of the city, the menace to me public health is very real. It is only a common sense precaution against one of the great sources of danger from typhoid fever that ought to prompt the city to enforce proper sanitary requirements.

would be far less disease if better sewage conditions prevailed. Let the owners connect up, or, if need be, iorcc them to co it. would hd wt'l, too, to make inem build better he uses. The miserable shacks in which most of the Mexicans in the southern part of town live are standing as a source of disease. is a law requiring that houses be built with a certain amount of provision for ventilation, with an adequate number of doors and windows.

Many of these houses have only a door and a window', and some lack the window. The dirt floors that are the rule are another cause of illness. Disease Communicated. a family sleeps huddled together as these do without sufficient ventilation, disease is quickly communicated by any sick members of the family. every family could afford to pay several dollars a month more for rent.

Wages in El Paso are as high as they are anywhere sn the southwest and work is abundant. The only question is whether this class cares for it. They have become so accustomed to their squalid habits of living that nothing short of a revolution could arouse them and impel them to bring about a Building Rules Necessary. In the enforcement of the building ordinances, lies one opportunity for a salutary reform, according to alderman W. J.

Rand. city ought never to permit the Mexicans to build their wretched jac- he declared. is a city ordinance that specifies the way in which the floors, the walls, the windows and the doors should be built. the Mexicans 'build the right kind of houses, and it will not be difficult to get them to put in sewer connections. There ought not to be a jacal within the city limits.

With a better class of houses, such as the Mexicans could readily pay for if they were obliged to do so, health would be improved throughout the Mexican quarter, and through the entire city as well. is no doubt that the sewers ought to be built, at whatever cost. It seems a shame to drive off some of the poor fellows, who have not the money to pay for the sewers, but even if it does work a hardship upon the wrong people, the work must be done. Epidemic Would Wipe All Out. do not believe it would hurt most of the Mexicans ito be obliged to hustle to pay higher rents.

They would be better off. The danger is even greater to them under present conditions than it is to others. Dr. Howard Thompson, who is probably more intimately acquainted with conditions Chihuahuita than anyone else, told me some time ago if ever an epidemic occurred there it simply wipe out the entire district. is a pity that some way cannot be found of getting directly at the land owner.

But the law is plain enough, and there is no option. believe that city attorney Burges pointed out the right way at the council meeting the other night, when he said that the method that has been in force for the last month is continued, the number of sewTer extensions will continue steadily. The land owners will be willing in the majority of instances, I am sure, to bear a share of the cost, even though the law docs not require them to do Owners Afford Expense. Discussing the matter from the standpoint of -the property owner, Chas. B.

Stevens, the real estate man, said: I do not deny -the advisability or perhaps necessity for forcing sewer connections, as the owner of a part of the property affected, our firm would give notice to the tenants to move off rather than put in the sewer connections, for we do not get rental enough for the ground to repay us for the investment for a number of years. We are simply going to leave it to the Mexican tenants themselves and if they wish to stay there and the city forces sewer connections, they will have to make them, otherwise they will have to move. We do not own the houses and the Mexicans can move them whenever they choose. Would Help Tenants. I will say this, if the city, to help these poor people along, will remit the $5 fee which it charges for every sewer connection, I will donate $10 for every connection made, to the extent of 12 connections, which would be sufficient for all the tenants on our property.

make a sewer connection, the cost would probably be $45, including the $5 to the city and the cost of the house. Now if the city would remit its $5 I will donate $iu, and tnat would reason that if 1 were to put in the connections and furnish the water for flushing them, the tenants would not take care of the places and we would have a waste of water and would have reduce the cost to the tenants to $30. I am sure that one connection would accommodate six or eight families aiul the individual expense would therefore not be great. The city physician tells me that there should not be more than three or four families for each sewer connection, however. Tenants Care For Property.

will not make the connections as I said before, for the reason that it is too expensive for the amount of rental we receive, and also for the additional PRESIDENT OF MEXI CAN CENTRAL IS HERE. A. A. Robinson, president of the Mexican Central, passed through the city this morning on his way to the city of Mexico. He has been in the east with his family, and returned over the Santa Fe today.

The Santa Fe was three hours late this morning, and a switch engine was sent over from Juarez to take the president private car across the river, the reg- ular passenger train having already departed from El Paso. District judge J. R. Harper, Dr. M.

O. Wright and Dr. Howard Thompson have returned from their hunting trip. Mrs. R.

E. Cross is in San Francisco, where she will spend a month. Thos. J. Porter of Oxford, Ohio, is at the hotel Angeles.

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They would soon save enough to more than reimburse them for the expense. I am willing to help them to put in the connections, but I wish them to have to do it themselves and on their own responsibility so that they will take proper care of them after they are Mexicans Must Go. II. R. Wood, another owner of property on which Mexicans have settled, says: the city forces sewer connections, then the Mexicans can move off my property and I will be glad of it.

They built there without my knowledge and not until after I had the property surveyed did I learn that the houses were on my property. Then I began to collect ground rent from the owners of the houses. I do not own any of the houses and any time the Mexicans move out, they can tear them dowm, in fact I would want it done and would have to have them removed myself if the Mexicans did. not do it. We do not get rent enough from these Mexicans to pay for the construction of sewer connections, and cannot afford to do it.

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