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EL PASO. TEXAS." THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1916

SINGLE COPT FIVE CENT&

DELTVF.RKD AMTWnERB CO CENTS A MONTH.

TWELVE PAGES TODAY.

PASO HAS 70,712 POPULATION

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Tk 7 mm F i I

President Declares the Long

Coastline Makes Big Navy

a Prime Essential.

TRAIN MEN FOR

WAR SERVICE

Wilson Cites Ravages Of

Disease in Spanish War as

Evidence of Ignorance.

LoUia Mo., Feb. J. President

IVilson today told an audience of

15,000. cheering; tumultuously at

. m feet, that the United State should

h-ita the greatest navy In' the world.

I believe the navy of the United

st-ite should be unconquerable," he

-ai'l. "the greatest In the world."

The president declared that sub

inii rino commanders abroad have in-stnu-fiona

which for the must part

n form with International law, but

that the act of one commander might

" the world afire, including America.

I'pon the ocean there are hundreds

of cargoes of American goods." he said.

oicon, cram and all the bountiful

m'P!is America is sending out to the

n oi o -and any one of those cargoes,

.my one of those ships, may be the

point of contact that wni bring

i-oerirsa into toe war."

IVould Mite To A!d Trnlona.

Tor the first time during the tour

tu- president tew of hew one set ofl

i euigerents was cut oft from the

tv oi Id. He said this kept the United

JM.ttea from helping thorn as It would

like lie made the statement in trying

to show that the United States was

re .illy neutral"

There was an overflow of 10.000 per-

ns on the outside while the presi

dent spoke in the CoiseUm.

Speaks At Business Men's Ilrenkfant.

I JL The president spoke at a breakfast

Vf tho St. Louis Business Men's league

Tore going to the Coliseum for his

man address.

There are many things I would like

1- peak of. but now I am talking of

' tional defence," said president Wll-

n "Not only Is It necessary to

Mobilize the military forces of the

onion, but also the economic forces of

lie nation.

., ' I am not looking forward to war,

Ti'ut to times of peace. Peoples do not

ute each other and therefore they

iv ill do business again together"

He explained that the United States

must keep out or war if possible In or

!'' to help In the "healing processes."

War Helps Toward Universal Teace.

The president declared that such a

'r can never come again and that

the war will put forward the time of

universal peace better than anything

lse could.

The president opened with the state

ment that he had "come seeking some

thing In the middle west and found it"

ne said ho had been told the middle

west was against preparedness but did

tot believe It.

America la Friend Of Vorld.

' America is at peace with all the

world because she Is the friend of all

the world. Friendship Is genuine. Wo

are tho friend of all the world because

we are made up or all the world and

mderstand all the world. It would

(.ear the heartstrings of America to be

.if war with any other nation.

"We bellevo we can show our friend

ly Mp for the world better by keeping

1 ou o this struggle than by getting

ii, to it I do not mlsrsad the spirit -f

America."

Mint Have Army or Disaster.

Appealing, In Mb coliseum speech,

for an enlarged army, the president de

clared -

'Tou have, cither got to get the men

'r this nation ready to withstand the

Tirsi onslaught or you have got to bo

ready to suffer from the first disaster "

vVhen the president said he was onlv

askmir for a trained ritiT,n,ii;n t.n

J -heered. He eaid he did not want

'to command a great army, but to com

mand the support and confidence of his

fellow citizens.

"The plans now before congress sre

.merely plans to save the lives of Amer

ican youths." he said. "And those plans

will go through.

ETery Ship Must llnve Hxpertn.

The modern fighting ship, subma

rine every instrument of modern

warfares must be handled bv experts.

Ml we are asking for now is a suffi

cient number of experts and a suffi

cient number of vessels. There is not

a better service In the world than the

service of the United States navy. But

the navy must have more ships and we

arc going to give the navy the ships It

needs We must have a program and

'hen stt'k to It. The navy has a great

task, No other navy has such a task.

"We ought to have the greatest navy

In the world," he declared, amid great

applause He explained that the coast

'tie of the United States was so long

that many ships were needed.

Faces Away From Washington.

The president emphatically reiterated

he believed mat the United States was

with Mm. He said the living rooms of

"he white house do not face toward the

city of ashlngton, but toward Vir

ginia and the open spaces.

"That li where I listen for the voice

pr Ameii a," he declared. "I think I

h a v. heard that voice sat that we

roust let n0 one Invade the rights of

An.erl. "

The president ended his speech amid

(Continued ou page 3, col. 1), .

b Fay One Cent To Colombia or

U. S.

The War At a Glance

EXPECTATION of another Ger

man attempt to blast a way to

Calais, using masses of Infan-'

try and artillery. Is Indicated by the

London press comment

Intense artillery activity along

the Franco-Belgian front, reported

in today's German official state

ment, may pressage another Impor

tant offensive movement in this

field by one side or the other.

French Fire 1m Heavy

Berlin Indicates that the French

may have a plan In view to recoup

their losses of territory near Neu

ville. which they sustained recent

ly, as theNr artillery fire in this

sector is reported as increasingly

heavy.

Dutch VckkcI Torpedoed

The Germans are continuing their

submarine activities in the North

sea. according to a dispatch from

The Netherlands recording tho tor

pedoing of the Dutch motor vessel

Artemis near the lightship Noord

hlnder. The Artemis arrived at the

Hook of Holland today leaking.

German Paper Condemns

Utterances in Berlin Re

garding Lansing's Plan.

Frankfort on the Main. Germany,

Feb. 3. The Frankfurter Zeitung,

whose utterances n certain subjects

are believed torbe inspired, published

todav an article In -which viKOWus ob

jection is expressed to .the tone adopted

l?W t Wfa. 1 tirvm nf Berlin -in dlsdusSiniT

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secreiary oi hub idbijib b uw " -

fcusmarine warinre;

. '3t is a gross offense, not only

against Internftttdtiel law, out ns&lnst

tlie most elementary conception of

good . morals, to charge openly that

the United State, with which Germany

not at enmity, is putting forth

euons in uie spnere oi iniernaiio.iai

law merely with tho perfidious pur-

pose of helping England.

Condeninn CeneTallzatluni.

The newspaper also condemns sweep

ing generalizations drawn from the

Baralong affair and regards it as dis

gusting to make capital out of the In

cident as if it were typical of Great

Britain's method of making war, or as

If the British government caused all

German seamen who were captured to

be murdered.

HopeM Fur Pence "Willi V. S.

Turning to the present status of the

Laaitarrix case, the Zeltung says

"W

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not to mention something worse may

follow between Germany and the

T'nlted States, but if the unexpected

should happen, Germany will confront

her new foe as stoutly as she did the

old. But we do not want to be lulled

by certain jingo heroes of the writing

desk into the illusion that this foe Is

not dangerous."

BATTLE SIBIL

I

Washington, T. C, N Feb. 3. Navy

officials frankly admit they are

alarmed at the mysterious disappear

ance of the battle signal book from

the destroyer Hull of the Pacific fleet

Admiral Winslow today reported that

all efforts to find the highly confi

dential code have been unavailing and

navy officers said it probably would

at once be replaced by another to make

useless the one which has disappeared

and which, they admit, they fear may

fall into the hands of some foreign

government

The battle signal book contains the

secret code used In war and in battle

practice In times of peace. Tho copy

on tne huh was in possession z Ucut.

H. A. Jones, commander of the Pacific

reserve torpedo flotilla, and ensign

Robert D. Klrkpatrlclc Both officers

have been ordered courtmartialed at

Mare Island navy yard.

Washington, n. a, Feb. 3. Former

Adjt. Gen. Pearson, of the Massachu

setts national guard, told the house

militarr committee todav that tt,,. nni i

nn.lt'lnr. In .rf..,nfl -"'." ""' . !

tional guard has come from the war

department and not from the militia.

Pearson said he personally favored

conscription on the theory that ".behind

every ballot should be a bullet" There

was Just three solutions to the na

tional army problem, he added, first

and most effective, conscription- sec

ond, a paid national guard, and third,

the continental army which was "to

tally Impractical," he said

Adjt Gen. Tlllison, of the Vermont

national guard, argued that the guards

men had a vested right In any national

army that might be formed.

Before the naval committee, rear ad

miral Strauss continued his explana-

, -,..,ib vu urunance.

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Ill FAVORS

FEBEBJLIZJTII

PROBES

ZEPPELINS KILL

IB INJURE 21 S

Great Britain Eemoves Re

strictions Upon Sending

News of Enemy Raid.

London, Eng., Feb. J. Revised

casualties In the Zeppelin raid over

England, Jan. 31, show that a number

of cases df injury have been reported

since the original figures were given

out. and there have been seeral more

deaths.

The figures now stand:

"Killed, men, 33; women, 20; children,

G; total, 59.

"Injured, men, 51: women, 48; chil

dren, 2; total, 101, making the total of

killed and injured: Men, 81; women, C8;

children. 8: total of 100."

Staffordshire Suffers Most.

The removal by - the government of

most of the restrictions on tne publi

cation of news about the raidTtas re

leased a flood of accounts of the latest

visit of the Zeppelins.

A part df Staffordshire was the only

place In which material damage was

done. The towns in this district were

fully lighted when the Zeppelins ap

peared. The deaths and Injuries in this

district, were, in many cases, attended

by harrowing circumstances, as, for

instance, the killing of a woman mis

sionary with a bible In her hand: of a

baby in its mother's arms, as she sat

nursing it; of a whole family as it sat

around the fire place; as also the de

capitation of a workman and the cut

ting off of a woman's legs. Workmen's

houses were blown to atoms, churches

were destroyed, buildings were un

roofed. Panls in Mission Meetings

Not far from the center of one town

Is the church, separated by a short dis

tance from tho chapel In which a mis

sion meeting for women and girls was

in progress. The woman. missionary

waB addressing an audience -of 90

i juusu,

when a bomb dropped

etwee

inurch and 'the mission

chapel. There was a blinding flash.

Then all was darkness. The woman

missionary was struek by a huge frag

ment of shell and killed instantly. An

other woman and a young girl also

were killed. The screams of the Injured

arose in the darkness and many persons

wer6 trampiea In the confusion and

anI .,., ,,.iM tnT - f( mo.

panic which prevailed for a few mo

menls.

Many worked heroically at the task

of rescue, and as fast as the sufferers

were dragged out from under the

debris, there were removed to the local

hospitals.

Honilm Come Crashing Down.

The noise of the Zeppelin engines was

heard shortly after the warning was

received and three minutes later the

first bomb fell in the yard and wrecked

buildings In the neighborhood, smash

ing every window for a radius of 300

feet A second bomb fell In the center

LWK. A OCUUUU Will U 1CII 111 LUC WBlCr

? main t-eet. killing a bride walk-

lng with her husband and injuring the

latter so badly he died in a short time.

A woman shopkeeper also was killed

and a young woman found, wounded,

died before reaching a hospital.

A third bomb fell a few minutes later

wrecking two houses, blowing In shop

fronts and killing three members of one

family who were watching the airship

near their home. A shopkeeper and an

employe were killed in front of their

shop.

Altogether, there were 10 deaths in

the town and a considerable number of

persons injured.

Lincolnshire Tonn AaitncKed.

From atown In Lincolnshire: A raider

passed over the town at 11 p. m., drop

ping about 50 bombs, for the most part

of an incendiary character. The ma

terial damage done was insignificant

Three pedestrians were killed and seveht

Blightly injured.

BRITISH NAVAL OFFICERS

OPPOSE U. S. PROPOSALS

London, Eng., Feb. 3. British naval

officials are outspoken In their opposi

tion to the American proposals to all

belligerent nations for a modification

of the rules of naval warfare so as to

provide for the submarine being used

with less harm to neutral commerce

and life. They say there Is not the

slightest chance of the proposal being

found .acceptable to Great Britain.

Thai. ia( .f An 4 tiqi.il nn tftit r,r,

vlslon that merchant vessels be not

armed.

LUSITANIA PROPOSAL IS

ON WAYFROM BERLIN

Washington, D. C, Feb. 3 Count von

Ttortmtni.fr tIia Germnn nmhassftjlnr. in. i

day received a brief message from the

Berlin foreign office dispatched on I

January 31, Informing mm mat nisi

latest instructions on the Lusitania

caso would go forward immediately

Tho ambassador expects to receive

them probably tomorrow.

BELIEVE GERMANS PLAN

NEW DRIVE AT CALAIS

London, Ung.. Feb. .1. The London

morning new papers express the con

Tiction that the Germans are planning

a new offensive on a large' scale

against the lelt wing or tne allies. It

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hioat u wav to Calais and Dunkirk hv

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the use of strong bodies of infantry,

supported by enormous masses of ar

ttllory. BltlTISlI 'MILITARY SKIIA ICE

ACT IS IIFFKCTIAB FKH. 10

London, Eng.. Feb. 3. King George,

at a privy council today, signed a

procalmatlon fixing Feb. 10 as the date

on which the military service act shall

be regarded as coming into force.

SHIP SUNKj IK MISSIXG.

London, Eng., Feb. 3. The British

steamship Belle of France has been

sunk. The Europeans In her crew

and 220 Lascars were landed. Nine

teen Lascars are missing.

POLL

if BE ELECT!

SCANDAL IN

EL PASD

500 Illegal Poll Taxes Said

To Have Been Paid In

El Paso County.

FEDERALOFFICERS

'WATCH TAX OFFICE

Special Investigator Leaves

After Maying Investiga

tion In County.

IS El Paso to have an election scan

dal tike Corpus Chrlati and Terre

Haute?

The County and City Democratic clnb

has authorized the statement that there

are 600 Illegal poll taxes issued in El

Paso county to Mexicans, who were not

entitled to the vote because they are

neither American citizens nor met any

of the requirements necessary to be

come American citizens; and that thero

are also between 30 and 40 American

poll tax payers who would not be In

the county sufficiently long In July

to vote though entitled to do so in the

November election.

V. S. Investigation.

The department of justice has begun

an investigation of the reported 500

illegal votes. "I do not know that

any action could be taken or woulJ

ue taKen," said It E. Crawford, assls

J n United States district attorney.

3t the fa?se swearing to2atire the

vote was prompted b? the-fEdividual

poll tax lujpr. If, however. It can be

shown that the Illegal poll taxes were

secured through a conspiracy on the

part of one man or a group of men to

Influence the elections, then the man

or men would be subject to federal

prosecution."

Special Invmtixntlon.

In the absence of the officials of the

department of justice It was not pos

sible to secure a statement Thursday

morning as to how far the Investiga

tion had gone; but before the departure

of Stephen L. Pinckney, chief of the

bureau of lnvestizatinif. left th eitv

Wednesday, be stated that the matter

was being thoroughly gone into and

that If there were developments the

facts would be announced.

Poll Tax n 3Jeal Ticket.

An interesting fact that enters into

the illegal Issuance of the poll tax,

is that many Mexicans along the bor

der have come to look upon the poll

tax as a meal ticket and, before ap

plying for a Job of a public character

draw out their white slips and say: 'I

have my poll tax now give me a job."

In view of this knowledge among them

that there Is more chance for tho man

with a vote than the man without

it is generally conceded that many of

me supposeaiy uiegai pou taxes were

issued through the misrepresentation of

the Mexicans themselves.

Similar at Corpun ChrUtl.

The federal Investigation in Corpus

Chrlsti, whore the g vernment attempt

ed to establish that there was a con

spiracy of citizens to vote Mexicans not

entitled to citizenship, was given con

siderable publicity. Tho Investigation

at that point grew out of the fact that

a number of the elective places were

federal in nature and that there had

been an abuse of the federal power.

The same would hold good on the No

vember election in El Paso' county as

a congressman is to be elected in this

district

SOO Illegal 1'ollx.

In the report ot the County and City

Democratic club. It Is stated that there

are BOO Mexicans who are not entitled

to pay poll tax as they have not es

tablished American citizenship and

that the major part of these are from

the county points. It also sets forth

that there are from 30 to 40 American

voters, not entitled to vote in the pri

maries because of brief citizenship In

the county, but entitled to vote in tho

November election.

The total voting strength of the

county, as revised, amounts to SS35 and

the total vote In the county outside

of the city is 1"18. The American vote

in the city is 5C71; and 82'J in the

county. The' Mexican vote is SS0- in

the county and 1173 In the city. The

negro vote is eight In the county and

323 in the city; while the Chinese vote

is one m tne couiilj au " " .".

CEMENT RATE REDUCED AND

MINIMUM WEIGHT INCREASED

Austin, Tex., Feb. 3. Bates on ce

ment In' carload lots were today re

duced two cents per 100 pounds, or from

25 to 23 cents, based on Galveston,

by tho railroad commission. While the

rate was reduced the minimum weight

was increased from 30,000 to 34,000

pounds per car. This change in the

tariff on cement is the result of the

advanced freight hearing. The in

crease in the minimum weight practl

cally equalizes the reduction made in

the rato

TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER

FOR TEXAS NAVAL MILITIA

Austin, Tex., Feb. 3. At the request

of governor Ferguson, the navy de

partment has detailed a torpedo boat

destroyer for the use and instruction

of the Texas naval mllltla. The militia

is under the command of Lieut Com.

Harry G. Black, at Galveston. The

destroyer will have its own crew and

set of nffii-ers and will remain in Gal

veston waters for the use of the state

naval mllltla.

Express Regret Would Be Grossly Indecent

TAX

ALL APPB1 CAPTIVES TD BE FBEE;

PRIZE CREW ILL BDLD VESSEL

i

Two Hundred Forty-five Are First Released and 200 De

tained; Later it is Decided That Gun Pointers Also

Are to be Given Liberty; U. S. Considers Appam

Prize of War But Disposition Not Certain.

N"

EWPOItT NEWS, Va., Feb. 3.

Every one aboard the Appam

Trnt the prize officer and

members of the prize crew will be per

mitted to land whenever they desire,

it was decided late today.

Included in those to be released are

the 12 British subjects whom the Ger

man commander sought to hold ns

military prisoners because they had

been gun pointers on British merchant

men taken by the raiders.

24.1 Are First Landed.

Earlier in the day the Appam moved

from Old Point Comfort, anchored off

vio nnrt anil discharged the S15 per

sons on board, given liberty to land In

the United States.

Lieut Berg, the German officer, moves

his craft only on oraers inrougu cui

lector Hamilton.

Some of those who were passengers

on the Appam when she was captured

by a German raider, variously described

as the Ponga or Moewe, landed here,

but most of them will be transferred to

Norfolk, there to board a steamer to

New Tork on their way to England.

Sir Edward Merrlwether and other

British colonial officers on the Appam

have arranged to place their property

in customs bond here and proceed di

rectly to New Tork to take the first

available ship for home.

Ilerg Keep 200 oh Hoard.

Lieut. Heine Berg maintains his de

termination to permit no one on board

the liner save on official business. He

Insists upon recognition of his absolute

authority over the ship. He Is holding

more titan 240. people aboardincluding

his own prise crew ot3 men. some 29

Germans who wore prisoners of war on

the Appam. Capt. Harrison and the en

tire crew of 156 of the Appam and 12

of her passengers whom he claims be

long to the British army and navy

1S Call for Ifroteetlon.

A passenger who spoke as the repre

sentative of 12 men asked collector

Hamilton Wednesday .whether they

would havt the protection of the United

States government while the ship was

in ' American territorial waters. Lieut

Berg spoke to the passenger using the

term "American protection," reminding

him that he was aboard a ship flying

the German flag which was equivalent

to being on German aoil. The collector

intervened for the man.

"You have sought asvlum in a port

of the United States." said Mr Hamil

EI. SAVED

FBOiORSIINC

i

Little Rock, Arls.. Feb. ". Three

hundred negro convicts, who were I

threatened with drowning for two days

and three nights on the crumbling

levees of the state penal farm at Cum

mins, were rescued today.

Efforts to get a launch from Grady,

Ark., to Gould had proved futile up to

noon today and the situation at Gould

was critical. Unless boats reach that

city at once grave loss of life is feared.

Currents of water too strong to be

braved by row boats are surging

through the streets of the town.

According to advices received at

Helena today, the levee at New Au

gusta, on the White river, went out

Wednesday night, inundating a large

section. .

With the crost of the Arkansas river

flood In the lower reaches of the stream

today, continued calls for relief from

stricken and threatened villages are

being received there. The crest of the

L.TCaters are between Little Rock and

Pine Bluff today. .

KENTUCKY ASKS AID

FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS

Washington. D. ('.. Feb. 3. Appeals

lor assistance for 3000 flood sufferes

in the Mississippi valley were made to

the war department today by senator

Ollie James and representative Barkley,

of Kentucky. The senator said the peo

plo were destitute.

Acting secretary Breckinridge said

tho department had no right to enter

into local situations until the disaster

had become a national affair. He said

army engineer officers had been au

thorized to lend what assistance they

might without Incurring expense to the

government

M0HR CASE IS ABOUT

TO GO TO THE JURY

Providence, It. I. Feb. 3. The pre

sentation of all the evidence In the trial

of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Mohr, Cecil Brown

and Henry H. Spellman. charged with

the murder of Dr. C. Franklin Mohr,

was concluded at the forenoon session

of the superior -jourt here today. It is

expected that the case will reach the

Jury some time tomorrow.

MYSTERIOUS AIRPLANE SIIKX

HOVEUIMo OVER Ull'OXT PLAVT.

Wilmington, Del., Feb. 3. It bo

cr.me known today that a mysterious

airplane was seen hovering over the

Pupont Powder works at Carney's

I olnt. N. J., on the Delaware river last

Monday night but whence it came or

where it went has not been estab

lished. The DllTinnt cnniniinr has Mm of

1 it.- . .......... ...... ..- -

nit; reason ior Its nresence.

H

PAYING

ton. "While you are in these waters

you will be afforded protection and all

the others will be given similar pro

tection." The passengers expressed

their approval by applause.

"Very well," returned the lieutenant

Appam la Prize of War.

Washington, D. C, Feb. 3. Secre

tary of state Lansing stated today that

there was no question as to the Ap

pam's status as a prize of war, but that

the question of her disposition still In

volved further consideration of The

Hague convention and the Prussian

American treaty. Lieut Berg's refusal

to land British seamen who wero gun

pointers on British merchantmen will

he the subject of further consideration.

The British government, It Is under

stood, will hold that the Appam must

be released under clauses 21 and 22, of

The Hague convention of 1907. These

provide that a merchantman cannot be

converted into an auxiliary cruiser on

the high seas, and that a merchantman

prize can only be taken Into a port of

a neutral power under certain circum

stances of distress, injury or lack of

food, and if sbe does not depart within

a stipulated time, cannot be interned,

but must be turned over to the original

owners with all of her cargo.

According to the British contention,

under these clauses the prize crew must

be interned.

German Cruiser NcnrbyT

Possibility that a still more formid

able German sea raider than has been

reported the fast cruiser Boon is at

miK0 i(i ma Aimiiuu aim me report. .

that the Boon In fast was. nenrbv and

Alreeted the operations ot the raider

called" the 3foewo, promises to add an

other chapter to tfee yet untold story

of the daring of German sailors.

The Boon is a fast heafilv armed

cruiser of nearly 10.000 tons, with, more

than 18,000 horsepower. 4M feet long

and with both oil and soal toilers. She

was built at Kiel In 1902, has four

funnels and oxtra hlcli wireless

masts. She carries a Krupp armor

belt four torpedo tubes, which give

discharges forward, astern and broad

side and mounts 28 guns In all, four

8.2 inch; ten 5.9 inch, and fourteen 3.1

inch.

The British empassy denies It has

information that the Boon is at large

and was reported off the Canary

islands, but the story that she accom

panied the Moowo is accredited to

British peoplo aboard the Appam.

ELECTION FB

VERDICT BPHELD

.

Chicago. Ill, Feb. 3. The convictions

of Donn M. Roberts, former mayor of

Terre Haute, Ind, and ten others found

guilty with him of election fraud were

sustained bv the United States district

court of appeals here today.

In the Terre Haute election scandal,

115 men were arrested, charged with

violating the elertion law in the No

vember election in 1914. Eighty-three

pleaded guilty, five not guilty and 27,

including the 11 ruled on today, filed

demurrers which were overruled by the

lower court. Seventy-seven of the de

fendants were found gnllty and sen

tenced to the federal prison at Leaven

worth, Kas.

Appeal from the judgment of the

lower court was made by Donn M. Rob

erts, Alexander Aczel, Wm. Crockett,

George Ehrenhardt John E. Green,

Chas. Houshton, Harry Montgomery,

Hilton Redman. Eli H. Redman, Elmer

Talbot and Lewis Nunley.

in its decision the court of appeals

reviewed the charges in the first count

In the indictment of the men which

alleged that they prevented certain

men from voting. The reviewing court

held the first count was sufficient to

sustain the lower court's judgment.

"We are bound to presume that there

wns evidence to warrant the Judy's

verdict," read the decision, "and the

record disclosing 'no error, the judg

ment of the district court is affirmed."

The Herald And The

High School Orchestra

Editor El Paso Herald:

It would really be entirely discourteous and ungrateful cm nu part, as

well as that of the High School orchestra, not to addrp m The Herald a

word of thanks tor all the atvertiinjr that you were kind enough to give

the recent concert in which the High School orchestra appeared jointly with

Skovgaard and the-Metropolitan company of concert singers. To say that

The Herald was the main factor in making the concert the success it proved,

is putting it mildly. The fact of the case is that, without your hejp, the

public would have been nLle to get very little information as to the details

of the performance, and thug the management would have felt rather un

comfortably. Accept then my sincere appreciation for all you have done for us; for

the very successful result of our paid nerald advertisement; but abovenll

for your enthusiastic support of the sjmpuony orchestra project, which,

thanks to your loyal and faithful cooperation, is assuming encouraging pro

portions. .

I trust that you will not fail to lend your aid to tho" latter movement

until if, is .finally established on a firm basis.

A. O. Alexander

Conductor and Manager of High School Oriln-itra.

Others Include Temporary

Exiles From Mexico and

United Stales Troops.

INCREASE57.6 :-

PERCENT, 5 YEARS

For First Time, the Census

Shows the Proportion of

Mexican Descent.

W

ASIIIXGTOX D. C, Feb. 3-El

I'ao has a total population of

70,712. including soldiers, e-

I cording to the apeclnl federal census,

ithich uiu taken under the supertialon

of the I'. S. census bureau.

The rrnultx of the special census

1 were announced here today by director

l am L. Ilogers. of the centus bureau.

' The summary of tbe report shows 8ft

! follows:

I llonn II lie rexidents 014)02

If .tut-..., fnint U..I.II , T Ol?

i. .;. HOidlera .... 1.7CT

Total 70,712

The report of -the -'special:-' census,

which was ended January-13, 1910V and

which lvns made by order of the presi

dent, shows n total population of tll.902

permnnent residents in the corporate

limits of the city.

j KIGUIIKS FOB. 1010.

The population, on April IS. 1H10.

j was 39,279, indicating nn Increane of

i " and C-IO percent.

I The present population of the city

comprises 32,737 person of Mexican

descent, 27.359 whites other than ot

Mexican descent, 1314 negroes, 243 Chi

nese, -14 Japanese and five Indians.

11EFL-GEKS.

In nddltlon to the population shown

above there were. In the corporate lim

its of the city and -who -were not count

ed ns a part of the bona fide popula

tion. 7047 refugees, or persons tempo

rarily In El Paso awaiting, settlement

ot conditions in Mexico, and 1703 sol

diers; Ot the 7047 refugee, there were

C"4 of Mexican descent, 4S2 white,

other than Mexican descent, and 11

negroes.

- ' "MEXICAN DESCENT."

The term, "of Mexican descent" In

cludes all who have any Mexican blood

in their veins) It Includes native born

Trxans and Sew Mexicans who are de

scended, no matter bow far back, from

residents of Mexico, even before Texas

became a republic, or New Mexico be

came a part of the United States. Nat

urally the classification Includes ninny

families who would not ordinarily be

thought of ns ot Mexican descent.

It had been thoucht that the propor

tion of white persons of Mexican de

scent wns In fact very much larger

than the census shows. The last Kl

Paso MChool census showed P141 chil

dren of Mexican families. 4022 or other

American families, 297 negroes, 245 of

other nationalities. From this it bait

been concluded that the "Mexican"

population vra about two-thirds the

total, lint the national census Just com

pleted shows conclusively tlint the pro

portion t only n fraction over half the

total. It l believed that the propor

tion of "Mexican" Is less todny than

It has been In past years, and that the

proportion Is not gaining.

EL PAS0ANS COOPERATE

TO GET NEW CENSUS TAKEN

The special federal census for EI

Paso was obtained by the cooperation

of the chamber of commerce, the city

banks and business men of the city. J.

M. Wyatt took the matter of a new

census up -with U. S. senator Morris

Sheppnrd and through the efforts of

the Texas senator, the special census

was ordered for this citv,

A deposit of $2500 was made In a

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