The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 1927 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XXXVII
IN BREWSTER CO. 36 YEARS
SWORN CIRCULATION 875
NUMBER 10
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El Paso Business Men Are
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REMOVAL BILL IS
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Given a Royal Welcome
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is now in readiness for a big ap-
propriation from the legislature *
friendliness
He pledged the
pastel
after-
conditions which he said were
friction
He appealed
was stored here awaiting shipment, quartet just had time for two songs.
that El Paso
opponent,
score of 25-
erence to routes other than the Mex-
ing El Paso could never hope to ob-
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talks
MICKIE SAYS-
team
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ter English week.
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of their smaller neighbors and to ex-
hibit a broader spirit in their deal-
visiting El Paso business men
at the Holland hotel Tuesday
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defeated their first
phur High school by
school
State
cause of more or less
tween the two cities.
here
eve-
support of El Paso to this section in
keeping Sul Ross at its present loca-
tion and stated that if a serious at-
tempt is made to remove the school
the people of El Paso would expect
us to call on them for their support
and assured the citizens of this sec-
tion of El Paso’s cheerful response
the
of
be
good indication of the sentiment *
which prevails at Austin rela- *
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commerce, presided over the
ing and a number of El Paso
HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
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the
and
Sul-
meet-
and
be-
the
PASSES RESOLUTION FAVORING
RESTORING FORT DAVIS; ALSO
WOULD PRESERVE OTHER HIS-
TORICAL WEST TEXAS SPOTS.
The
with
was
no
bors. |
While Perkins’ remarks carried a
the
be-
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Going on to College Station
Bucks entered the State meet
This is the first time the
here has had a team in the
contest.
Coach West accompanied the
ient of the gift, unless the other Al-
pine clubbers decide they want it
divided.
The cars will go to Carlsbad via
Fort Davis, Limpia Canyon, Balmo-
rhea, and Pecos, at each of which
towns Sul Ross boosters will dis-
tribute literature for the college.
Literature will also be distributed at
.Carlsbad.
All of the Alpine party are plan-
ning to get to their destination Sat-
urday night, so that they might go
in a body Sunday to the famous Car-
the
pre-
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e cording to the account Mrs. Calanche
* went to the home of her parents Fri-
THE KING’S ENGLISH
By Jack Ainslie
INE AVALANCI
A BOOSTER FOR BREWSTER”
Bucks Make Mark at
College Station Meet
Sheriff Sproul Takes Alleged Slayer
into Custody Following
Ranch Tragedy
Win From Sulphur Springs but Drop
Second Game to Ralls High
100 Flasks of Mercury Brought to
Alpine and Stored; Wind-
Storm Damage Repaired
These, however, were very much en-
joyed.
Davis Mountain Resort Is Attract-
ing Many Vacationists
Co-operation and Friendship is Keynote of
Stirring Addresses By Visitors and
Home Folks
Read the remarkable subscription
offer on page 5—three years for the
price of two and a Auto-Strop razor
thrown in on thedeal.
Alpine carrying Rotarians and Rot-
ary Anns bound for Carlsbad. New
Waldron Mines Brings
In First Quicksilver
Fletcher Presides
Frank Fletcher, president of
Jeff Davis Mexican
Kills Young Wife
Madera Springs Gets
In The Limelight
GREEN VALLEY OII WELL
TO BE SHOT MONDAY
The oil well which was drilled in
Green Valley south of Alpine sev-
eral months ago is to be shot Mon-
day, according to J. E. Doddridge.
Three hundred quarts' of nitro will
be touched off between the depths
of 1635 and 1660 feet. Doddridge
said.
might understand the feeling exist- the meeting that the El Paso Auto-
ing here, without which understand-' mobile club has been showing pref-
KILLED IN COMMITTEE *
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The bill providing for the re- *
moval of Sul Ross State Teach- *
to the business men of the Pass City ,
t . . : . should this occasion arise.
to be more considerate of the rights'
PUBLISHING THIS NEWSPAPER
AIN ALL THAT GOES ON IIJ Oun
PT PLANT, MOT BY A
HULL LOT. OUR SHOP ALSO
TURKS OUT GOBS OF FUSE
PRINTING, COMBINING TIPE,
INK ALIO PAPER, wr- MAUCH
ARTISTIC ABILITY AMD PLENTY
OF SPEED. JEST TEU. us
WHAT You WANT AMD WHEN
YOU WANT IT - THAT ALL
Co-operation and friendship was
the keynote of several stirring ad-
dresses made at the banquet given
ceived and the great interest shown A1
. Alpine men made short
while he was speaking. It is felt
* be held next Monday but will
be held a week later, on the
21st, Shirley Scales, president,
* said this morning. Dr. Charles
in the valley here last night,
mountain tops also were white
snow this morning and there
some ice but it is believed that
damage was done to fruit here.
his criticisms surprise that this was not already
language.
The ability to speak correct-
ly is even more desirable than
the ability to speak fluently.
What is worth saying at all is
merits, stating that
were made in order
Big Gathering
The dining room of the Holland
roons and small candies in
shades were served.
Business Session
The business session in the
making a satisfactory adjustment of mor throughout the affair. The EL
this matter which has so long been Paso boosters rose nobly to the ava-
* On account of a number of *
* members of the chamber of com- *
* merce going to the Rotary con- *
* ference at Carlsbad the regular *
meeting of the chamber will riot *
composed of the following players,
cn the trip: Tom Skevington, Ray
Roberts, Harry Watson, Norman
Lease, Charles Treadwell, Clifton
Moss, Walter Smith, and James Fra-
zer, manager.
a sore spot to Alpine people.
unfavorable publicity that Alpine1
has received at the hands of El Paso
newspapers and urged the people of
that city to exert their influence in
sided over the part of the- program,
which the visitors presented and
with his original remarks and ready
wit kept the assembly in high hu-
By Barry Scobee
Fort Davis, Texas, March 7—Mar-
grito Calanche shot and killed his
26-year-old wife at the X Ranch Sat-
urday morning at 7 o’clock, accord-
ing to a telephone message here to
Sheriff Lee Sproul later in the day.
Sheriff Sproul went to Kent and took
Calanche into custody and took him
to the jail at Marfa.
Calanche is well known in Jeff
Davis county. His wife was the dau-
ghter of Juan Navarette. The Nav-
arettes are employed at the X Ranch.
Calanche was employed at Lobo. Ac-
ings with them. Perkins scored the El Paso chamber of commerce,
critical tone, he pointed out that the
only way the two cities could come
to an understanding and get on a
friendly basis was to get together
and thresh these unpleasant matters,
cut. That his points carried great
weight with the El Paso boosters
was indicated by the applause he re-
tain the friendly and cordial rela-ican border on which Alpine is lo-
tions striven for by good-will excur-cated when this route is both more
sions and the like. He urged them, direct and in better condition than
to apply big city ideas and tactics in any other between El Paso and San
dealing with El Paso's smaller neigh- Antonio.
Per- lanche of grievances unloaded by
being done. It was pointed out at
co-operation and
shown at all times.
*- worth saying well. One ought *
* to take as much pride in correct *
* speech as in correct manners or *
* correct dress. We are judged by *
* the manner of our speech no less *
* than by the company we keep. *
* Cur speech truly “betrayeth us." *
* Habit, environment, and care- *
* lessness contribute largely to *
* slovenly modes of speech. Prop- *
* er school and home training, to- *
* gether with a little individual *
* speech pride, would do much to- *
* ward making every week a bet- *
Tomorrow just after dinner, a
fair-sized cavaran of cars will leave
kins also landed on the proposed El Colonel Perkins and it speaks well
Paso to Carlsbad highway which the for them that they had an ever-ready
border city is advocating, stating come-back for every allegation made,
that towns in its trade territory All the El Paso men assured Alpine
would suffer as a result of the estab- I people that the matter of impartial-
lishment of such a road. He paid, ly routing tourists out of Ei Paso
the border metropolis many compli- would be attended to and expressed
day and Calanche followed later.
Shot Four Times
The sheriff said that Calanche
fired four shots into his wife’s body
and then started away in his car.
Before he made his escape young
Juan Navarette, brother of the slain
woman, fired four shots at Calanche
without hitting him.
Calanche went toward Kent, and a
deputy sheriff there met him and
arrested him on the road without
meeting resistance. The sheriff at
Van Horn, it is understood, then
rotified Sproul of the affair.
No established reason, Sheriff
Sproul said, had been found to ex-
plain the alleged murder.
land, as chairman of the On-to-Car-!-
Isbad committee, will be the recip-
tive to the college. Everything
Isbad Cavern. All of Monday and
Monday night, and Tuesday will be
taken up with the Rotary conference.
The party plans to leave Carlsbad
some time Tuesday afternoon, driv-
ing back into Alpine Tuesday night.
At the luncheon yesterday John
Gillett had charge of a musical pro-
gram. Affairs pertaining to the
Carlsbad trip, however, took up prac-
tically the entire hour, so John’s
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* Stivers will deliver a 20-minute -
% lecture at the meeting and it is *
* hoped that there will be a large *
* attendance. *
* $
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* merce from Senator Berkeley re- *
* ceived yesterday. The bill was *
* introduced ‘last week by Repre- *
* sentative Woodruff of Wise *
* county and the fate it met in *
* the committee is considered a *
Two hundred people have made
reservations for this summer at the
new Madera Springs resort in the top
of the Davis mountains, according to
Curtis Hancock, one of the promot-
ers of the project, who was in Alpine
Monday. Mr. Hancock said that
there would be many more people at
the resort than those who had made
reservations and that it would be
hard to estimate the number but that
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FINE RAIN FALLS IN THE
DAVIS MOUNTAIN SECTION
It is estimated that there was
more than two inches of precipita-
tion in the slow, soaking rain which
fell in this section beginning last
Sunday evening and continuing al-
most constantly for twenty-four
hours. The rain was general over a
large area and ranchers are jubilant
over prospects for the best range con-
citions in years.
Following a high wind which blew
out of the southwest all day yester-
day a light rain and some snow fell
identical and that it was for
good of both cities that a spirit
ning and it is believed that the meet-
ing will result in a much better feel-
ing between the border metropolis
and the people of Alpine and this
district.
Following the invocation by the
Rev. W. Angie Smith, pastor Trinity
Methodist Church, El Paso, a mem-
ber of the Good-Will Excursion, May-
or F. E. Gillett welcomed the visit-
ors in a few words and impressed on
the El Paso folks the necessity of
their keeping in closer touch with
this section of their trade territory
which it is felt has heretofore been
neglected.
Perkins Scores
Colonel John Perkins was the
speaker for the Alpine Chamber of
commerce and cited a few prevailing
ROTARIANS GOING 10
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ]
* MEET POSTPONED WEEK CARISRAD CONFERENCE
* VANLOHU CUNI LIILNCL
* ers College from Alpine to some *
* town in the 25th senatorial dis- *
i * trict was killed in the house *
State affairs committee by vote *
1 * of 9 to 2. according to a tele-**
* gram to the chamber of com- *
ABOUT THIRTY WILL REPRE
SENT ALPINE AT DISTRICT
MEET.
With a large and enthusiastic
group of members present the West
Texas Historical and Scientific So-
ciety held its second annual meeting
at Sul Ross State Teachers college
here last Saturday afternoon and
evening. The session began with an j
inspection of the museum to which
many new and interesting speci-
mens have been added since its es-
tablishment a year ago. Many plans
for its further development have
been made, according to officers of
the society but already it is a credit
to any organization.
The informal tea which was held
in the Home Economics department
was a great success. This was given
by the wives of the historical society
directors and guests were gre
Mesdames H. T. Fletcher, H. W.
Morelock and S. M. Melton, with
Mesdames E. D. Linn and G. W.
Baines presiding over the tea and
coffee urns. The dining room was!
beautifully decorated in spring flow-
ers. Tea, coffee, sandwiches, maca-
There were 100 flasks of the precious
mercury in the initial consignment
brought out, according to Mr. Wal-
dron.
Freight wagons and trucks took
out mine and commissary supplies
Monday and Tuesday. Waldron says
that constant building and develop-
ment is going on at the mine, which
requires a great deal of time and
money. Waldron is rated as one of
the best quicksilver mining men in
the country and is fully acquainted
with all phases of mining develop-
ment.
Mr. Waldron stated yesterday that
he was in receipt of a telegram star-
ing that there had been another ad-
vance in the price of quicksilver and
that the metal is now selling at
$102.50. There has been a steady
advance in the price of this product,
he said, the market having jumped
from $91.00 to $102.50 per flask
within the past few months owing to
the fact that the consumption is
greater than production.
The Alpine High school basketball
team returned Tuesday from a jaunt
which took them to Cisco and other
Texas towns, winding up by partici-
pating in the Interscholastic League
meet at College Station in which
they won from one of the best teams
in East Texas only to lose to Ralls
High in their second game.
Going into the bi-district meet at
Cisco after leaving Alpine with
Skevington, star center, unable to
play because of a "charleyhorse," the
Bucks waged a losing fight to El
Paso high school Tigers, the game
going to the Pass City boys by a lop-
sided score. Moss also suffered in-
juries before the game at Cisco and
the team was badly crippled as re-
sult of these two men being incapa-
citated.
they looked for a great number of
vacationists there this summer. The
company will build a 100 room hotel
al Madera Springs in the near future,
Mr. Hancock said. At present a
number of buildings are under con-
struction among these being some
40 or 50 cabins which will be com-
pleted in time to accommodate sum-
mer tourists.
Work will be pushed on the new
buildings and other improvements
and arrangements will be completed
by the time the tourist season opens
to care for all visitors, Mr. Han-
cock stated.
Beautifully Located
The resort is located in the top of
the beautiful Davis mountains and 13
easily accessible from either Alpine
on the Southern Pacific and Orient or
from Pecos on the T. & P. Motorists
may also reach this beauty spot from
the Mexican Border here or from
either the Old Spanish Trail or Bank-
head highways on the north. It is
approximately 75 miles from Alpine
to Madera Springs, via Fort Davis
and Toyahvale and the drive can be
made in around three hours.
There are many beautiful spots in
the Davis mountains, both north and
south of Alpine, that are destined
to become resort locations within th?
next few years, many visitors to
this district have remarked, and the
co-operative boosting and advertis-
ing of these places by the towns in
this section is all that is necessary
to sell the Davis mountains to people
not only all over Texas but through-
out the entire Southwest, it is be-
lieved.
noon was held in the spacious read-
ing room of the Sul Ross library.
I'ollowing the secretary’s report each
director of research gave an account
of his activities for the past year.
The president, H. T. Fletcher, ex-
pressed himself as being well pleased
with the work in research that had
been accomplished by each diector.
Fletcher then delivered an able ad-
dress on “A Resume of the Geology
of the Big Bend,” which proved very
interesting and instructive.
Lecture on Indian Pictographs
0. L. Sims of Paint Rock, who is
spending considerable time in this
section in the study of Indian Picto-
graphs, etc., gave a lecture on this
interesting subject as applied to
West Texas. Mr. Sims has been in-
terested in this subject since his boy-
hood days and is thoroughly conver-
sant in this field. His lecture was
illustrated with copies he has made
of actual Indian pictographs and
pectoglyphs through an original pro-
cess which he has perfected.
G. W. Baines, W. W. Jenkins and
W. E. Caldwell, all of Alpine, were
elected directors of the society at
the business session.
Pass Resolutions
The body went on record as favor-
ing the preservation and marking of
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in compiling statistics for various
stories he has written and is now
writing and some of these as reveal-
ed by him at the meeting Tuesday
were staggering.
Thomason Principal Speaker
Hon. Ewing Thomason, mayor-
elect of the city of El Paso, was in-
troduced as the principal speaker of
the evening and made one of the best
talks along the line of co-operation
that has been heard here, many peo-
ple remarked. Mr. Thomason’s ap-
peal was that the people of all thia
section pull together in developing
its latent resources, stating that the
interests of El Paso and Alpine were
“in helping make El Paso the big- ,
gest and best city in Texas if you
will treat us right.” He asked El !
Paso to assist us in keeping Sul Ross:
college should the matter ever be i
brought to a fight and closed with [
the appeal: “Let us join hands in |
making West Texas the great coun- 1
try it is destined to be.”
Following Perkins’ address the
Rotary Cuckoo Sextet “did its stuff”
in usual good style and on being
heartily encored responded with its
famous “Cuckoo” song which went
over big.
El Paso Men Speak 1
The Rev. Angie Smith, pastor of j
Trinity Methodist church, El Paso,
was the next speaker and made a :
ALPINE. BREWSTER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927
Mexico, to attend the annual con-
ference of the 42nd Rotary district.
. Interest is keen and all are antici-
pating a great meeting at®Carlsbad
the 14th and 15th. Alpine is paired
with Las Vegas, New Mexico, in at-
tendance contest, the one having the
most members at Carlsbad to receive
a loving cup, or something, Clay Hol-
22. Their second game was with
Ralls High school and although Al-
pine boys put up a good fight, as is
evidenced by the score, lost that
game by a score of 34-24. The team
also played games with the Y. M. C.
A. five at Corsicana and the Munday
L gh school on the trip.
Jinx Hits Team
The Bucks and their coach, S. G.
West, deserve great praise for the
remarkable record they made the
past season. After having gone the
greater part of the season and taking
practically every game they played
the team suffered the loss of three
valuable players—Smith, Carter and
Knight—just before the distrist
meet here. Despite the fact they
went in against the much-touted El
Paso high school five and outfought
them, taking the game by a 22-18
score, and winning the district cham-
pionship.
The success of the Bucks is more
remarkable in the fact that players
for the greater part were young and
inexperienced.
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.sides the principal speakers of
that the leadrng busrness men of El evening.
Paso have been in ignorance of the .
641 , r 1 The excursion left Wednesday
feeling that has been created by cer-, , 0
... morning about 9 o'clock for Fort
tain thrngs that have happened ialn :
1. Davis and from there on to Marfa
the past and that the heart-to-heart . ,
1. where the members had a joint
talks made at the meetrng Tuesday. or
* .luncheon with the Marfa chamber of
night will be the means of getting
, 0 - i commerce.
these matters ironed out. Perkins’
pledged the co-operation of Alpine == “ -—---==
very interesting short talk. Rev.
Smith is one of El Paso’s livest '
wires; is a man of pleasing person- |
ality and a very fluent speaker and 1
his remarks were generously ap- ;
plauded.
Frederick Simpich, a noted writer, J
was the next member of the El Paso |
delegation to speak and he revealed j
many interesting and astonishing
statistics pertaining to Texas, and '
West Texas in particular. Mr. Sim-
uich has spent a great deal of time 1
was filled to capacity, around 100
j tickets having been sold for the
banquet, and the affair was pro-
nounced one of the biggest of its
kind ever held here. Shirley Scales,
president of the Alpine chamber of
* A few days ago, “Better Eng- *
* lish Week” was observed in the *
* public schools, with appropriate *
* programs. That is a splendid *
* idea—as far as it goes. The Eng- *
* lish language certainly suffers *
* much “in the house of its *
* friends.” Murdering the King’s *
* English is one of our national *
* sports, with no “closed season” *
% observed to protect the king’s *
* favorite means of speech. *
* No doubt its verbosity, togeth- *
* er with its complex structure, *
• renders the English language *
* difficult of mastery. Neverthe- •
* less, in the case of those possess- *
* ing even a grammar school *
* training, there is little excuse *
* for the lingual assassination that *
* usually takes place in the *
* course of the average conversa- *
* tion carried on in the English *
* which will make the school the *
* real big institution which it de- *
* serves, and is destined, to be. *
* *
The roofing and cupola which was
i torn off the furnace by a storm on
February 14 at the Waldron quick-
silver mine in southern Brewster
county has been replaced, according
to E. A. Waldron, who was here this
week. Mr. Waldron says that al-
though the big blow caused them
considerable inconvenience and dam-
aged property to the extent of sev-
eral hundred dollars, everything has
been put back in good condition and
that it appears today as nothing had
happened.
Bring in Quicksilver
Freighters brought in the first
load of quicksilver this week which
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