El Paso Daily Herald. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 285, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 1, 1897 Page: 3 of 4
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& Commencing Today 16th inst.- 5
We wi;l 811 at a ramTkbly heavy discount a'l pup
'97 WHEELS.'oethf r with a fi- e lne f SUNDRIES
in order to make room for our constantly arriving : : :
I'98
WHEELS
1 McCiitclieon Payne & Col
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Washington
209 il PASO STREET
BEST RESTAURANT IN CITY.
ALL THE DELICACIES OF THE SEASON.
RBJOUIjAR. diknei fs. is to q i m.
open day and n'gh t"
y H1NO 3a OO.PR.OP3
Star Livery Feed
Corner West Overland
THE ONLY MORGUE IN THE CITY.
HOUCK & DEITER
IMPORTERS and. JOBBERS
FINE WINES AND WHISKIES
A J.I?XrnPQ T J WILLIAM J. LEMP BREWING CO.. St. Louis. Moj
Hill -L O lUi J pA.BST BEE WIN Q CO.. Milwaukee. Wis.
220 El Paso St. ' El Paso. Texas.
Fine Merchant Tailoring
And Gents' Furnishing Goods.
104 TEL. PASO STREET.
SHELTON
Gives the Highest Price
FOR HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND
SELLS AT THE LOWEST.
Try Him - - - 116 Oregon Street
J. K McGIBBON
808 El Paao Street Opera House Block.
2STew and. Second-hand Furniture
STOVES ST. CLAIR STEEL RANGES CROCKERY LAMPS.
GLASSWARE ETC.
Refrigerators Cheap in Order to Close Out.
EMERSON & BERRIEN
Undertakers
m and SM E Pano St.
Phone T1
Link Restaurant
215 Ell Paso Street.
A First-Glass Short Order House.
ODen Dav and TTiorht.
Christian
Morelein
Cincinnati
PHIL YOUNG'S.
3E3 JzU JcL- Jzr
Strictly
Up-to-Late.
We ere headqva-ters for eve-ything in rur
l?e. Skilled work in il e Uepaik Depart-
ment wbich is a special feature with us.
Dining Hall.
EL PASO THIS.
"WOO MOO SI MO MCrR.
and Sale Stables
and Santa Fe Street
Phone 92. J. CALDWELL Prop
Caldwell Undertaking Co.
305 S. El Paso Street
The Leading Undertakers
Phones 197 and 92.
CALLS ANSWERED DAY OR NIGHT
J. E. NAG LEY. Manager.
8TL PASO TEXAS
THE REMINGTON
Standard Typewriter
MERCHANT & MANNING
State Agents E alias Texas.
M. I McKELLIGON LOCAL AGENT.
Room 12 Sheldon Block El Paso Texas.
EI Paso Lime Works.
A. COTTRCHESNE Prop.
A CAPlvJiTT 01? 501) BUSHELS PER DlY.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Hydraulic White Lime
Correspondence Solicited.
tlan.a for el
om
Typewriter paper at tbe HKULD 0!
floe.
Who
"Shanghi" Pierce of Texas'
Started Ojt as a Cowboj-.
'Way back before the war there
came to Texas from the wee state of
Rhole Island a tall r iw b iced jouth
wno waited so make his for une. He
was not yet of ana h s t-t ;tur was
so unusual that it was not miny days
before he became known by the sobri-
quet of 'Shangfci." The youth was
earnest painstaking' and willing to
wortr. He had nothing- in the world
bnt Tg.od health a fair amount of
strength 8 common education and the
c'otbes that he wore. Todav that tall
rw boned youth from little Rhody is
pnrr ap the richest man in Texas and
th3 best known staknan in thw wrrld.
The sobriquet of the early days has
stuck to him ard although he eigns
his name "A. H. Pi ire ." nobody in
Texas ever refers to him except as
"Sh9ogli" PiTic S'xty-three win-
ter? have come and gone since "Shang-
1 i" first eaw the li?ht of dav but be is
as hearty and vigorous now and as ear-
nest in pursuing his work as if he were
under ths twescore mark.
Tbt re is not a town of any account
in Texa in which "Sharghi" Pierce
i not known. The same may be sid
of the Indian territory and Oklahoma
while as for Karsa City Ss. Ljuisand
Chicago the stockmen of those cities
are as well acquainted with him as if
he had been born and raised among
them. He it a miffhty traveler and
by reason of bis unusual size he is
markf d amon? mn. A man who has
never feen rim but has heard him de-
scribed will unconsciously recognize
bim.
Some great stories are told about
this unique man. Most of them are
fanciful or have but a grain of truth
bnt the plain unvarnished facts ab.iut
Sbanghi s ' caree- if once gat here 1
would serve fo ta'es of r dvnture suffi
cient to keep a writer busy for many-a
AMERICA'S CAT 1 LE KING.
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if Mw A
A. H. PIERCE THE CATTLE KING OF AMERICA.
day. But "Sbangbi" ds chary about
tel in? the s-oy himself and few of
those who know him well are folly
cognizant of the happenings in the
days before be became recognized as
one of the characters acd one of the
big it eu of the state
His frierds say that when he came to
Texas he west to work on a farm but
left in disgust when he discovered that
a negro was worth more than a wbite
man. It seems that the farmer by
whom he was employed owned several
laves. On the plantation was a horse
that only a negro Darned Pete and
ouni Pierce could ride. The animal
was unusually f actious one day and
hrcw Pete and then fell upon hicn.
This ba ip ned near the planter's
house The planter and bis wife and
a lot of a tendan's ran to th t assistance
of Pete The nearro appeared to be
dead. The planter's wife as soon as
she saw the slave's body exclaimed:
'Oh goodness bow unfortunate!
There's en $800 nigger killed. Now
if it had only been "Sbar.ghi' it
wouldn't be so bad."
"Sbanghi" tells the s'ory himself bo
t is pro1 ably true.
The young Rhode Is'ander was a
natural horseman and his knowledge
of cattle was gcod. Wh n he in dis-
gust 1 I' the planter be naturally
drift ad into tbe cattle business. In
tho-e days this was in 185-1 th;re
was little else than cattle raised n
Texas. "Shanghi" became a cowboy
and for several years te endured all
the trials a?d hardships of that wild
life. Occasionally nowadays he te Is
of the times when he slept on the
bleak prairie in midwinter when it
S chilling s Best baking powder
that baking powder
baking powder ever
Ask your grocer.
Schilling's Best baking powder and tea are
because they are money-back.
What is the missing
powder and tea are safe.
Get Schillings Best baking powder
ticket (brown ticket in every package of baking powder; yellow ticket in tiie
tea); send a ticket with each word to address below before December 31st.
Until October 15th two words allowed
word for every ticket.
If only one person finds the word that
it $3000.00 will be equally divided among
Every one sending a brown or yellow
creeping babies at the end of the contest. Those sending three or more 111 one
envelope will receive an 1898 pocket calendar no advertising on it. These
creeping babies and pocket calendars will be different from the oues offered iti
the last contest.
Better cut these rules out.
Arrets; MONEY-BACK SAN FRANCISCO.
I was so cold that rattlesnakes crept into
' his blankets to get warm.
: It dil not take the cattlemen lone to
: discover that the lanky fellow who
I rode -o well was not only a remarkably
eood ludce of caUle but bad consider
able latent ab lity. Ther;i was a catt'e
merchant named W. B. Grioles who
set to kDow "Sbanehi" and ne em
ployed hq young man to travel through
southern and western Texas and buy
beeves for him. The c ntle bought bv
"Shing'hi" were shipped by Grimes to
New Orleans and the merchant is said
to have made bier profits owi-g to the
shrewdness displayed by the young
Yaoke?. When the war came on the
reputation of "Sheaghi" as a cowman
was so well established that a contract
was med i with bim to supply a Texas
command with b -ef. It is said h.. was
always on hand with a eood supply of
beeves pnd that he and his herd made
up the rear guard in all advances and
led the vanguard onretrtat3.
Immediately after the close of the
guard "Sbangbi" formed a connection
wi-h the great firm of Alien fe Poole
He traversed Texas Ir tnree years as
the representative of the firm bujiog
droves o'catt e and sending them to
Gfllvesfrm where they wi n shipped to
bew Orleans. In loba this farm dis
continued the nusioess. ''Shanghi
had an interest and drew out $100000
cash as his shtre of the profit'. He
pottered around f r a year buying here
and there always making- money but
in 1871 he got a cotton that a fortune
awaited him in Kansas. He moved
tce-e and erabirtea in business on a
large snle Three years' experience
in the Sunnow r ota-e convinced bim
that he Wis in the wrong pew. and it
was only by execisiog admirable busi
ness ludgm nt that he managed to
save himself from heavy loss.
"Shanghi" returned to Texas and
has made. bis home here ever since
He established a ranch In Wbar'on
county go' toeether a bunch of cattle
and began raising beeves on his own
account while incidentally he did such
trading as he cjuld. He prospered
amazingly. As his capital grew larger
be purchased tracts of land or added to
his herd of cattle In those times a
yearling belonged to the man who
managed to get his brand on first and
"Shanghi" like all tbe other cattle
men was in continual warfare.
"Shanghi" got mixed up in severa1
"gun" plays but always came ou'. on
top. Toose were the days that triad
men's souls atle-ist cattlemen's souls
and there is no one but who will almit
that "Shanghi" had courage equal to
the gam est men in the state.
Bat despite feuds and petty warfares
despite "guns" and bluster "Shanghi"
attended strictly to business His
range widened his herds grew and
soon he loomed up as the biggest cat-
tleman in the stte. He a' tended to
all bis affairs himself was continually
on tbe go visited every section in
which be had cattle took his steers to
market at the right time and supervis-
ed every detiil of his scattered bus-
iness with a watchfulnej8 and care
that was surpris'nj to his competitors.
Somehow it seemed that "Shanghi"
always did get things just right
whether it was in the time for selling
cattli o the se'ection of lacd for graz
ing. His cattle wen- always as good
as the best that went to market from
Texas.
With bis continued success
"Shanghi" began to have more money
than he could conveniently handle in
hisord nary-buinss.He loaned out the
surplus at a goo 1 percentage and has
continued doing so up to the presort
time.
ooo-
is all
should be
was before.
more than
13
word? not SAFE although Schilling's Best bakine
or tea at your grocers'; take out the
for every ticket; after that only one
person gets $200000 ; if several find
them.
ticket will receive a set of cardboard
sou
What he is worth ttday neither- h
nor any living mn knows for a cer
tamiy. I saw aa inventory ft ma
belongings which was
prepared in
1804. It showed that he then owDei
182.000 acres of la d. had 43.000 head
of cattle had $200000 out at intei e
and bad property here and there
which brought his entire possession
up to $z 000000. This inventory was
ou a very conservative basis and wa
prepared under his direction. Sin
1894 he has bad three most prosperous
years in his .caree- and ha-s added
greatly to his wealth. Cattle in 1894
were cheap. To-lay they are selling
lor tne nignest price reached in thirty
years. The lands which Mr. Pierce
owned have appreciated in value. Not
only that but he has picked up a large
tract in tne inaian Territory and has
established a ranch there. JudgiDg-
by the inventory mentioned it rould
appear thtt he is worth todav at least
$4000000.
There is no doubt that "Shangbi's'
education has been more practical than
poetic. In illustration to this I may
tell a siory about tbe one vacation tbat
Mr. Pierce is known to have taken in
the sixty-three years of his life. He
went abroad. Me visited London and
Pans and Beilin and Vienna and
Florence end Milan and the deuce only
knows where. Tn Rome he stood near
the spot where Rienzi addressed tbe
multitude he rested witbin the shades
of St Pfter'' he saw tbe Va'ican ajd
the Quinoal and he gazfd out upon the
seven hills. He 8tw it all. And wben
be came back and one of bis frie ids
asked him where he had vis ted
Shanghi" told him all the places
"What did you think of Rome?" Lis
friend asked him.
1 saw some mighty fine cattle iu?t
outeiae 01 mat town" was "Sbar.gh.i a"
reply.
Mr. iT-rce is big and bluff and
hearty. The frugal tempe- ate hab ts
he learred in tbe early das in little
Rhcdy he still retains. He lives sim
ply but well. There is no ostentation
about bim. Pie drinks occasionally but
sparingly tie never uses tobacco ar-d
doesn't want anybody about him who
does. He is a curious admixture of
the Yankee and the-Texan. Seme peo
pie ao not line mm. ii ne lines any
one particularly wen 11 ne takes a
fancy to a person that person has his
utmost connaence. ttere is an exam
ple: Some years ago "Shanghi" did
his ranking business in Galveston at
the I-land City bank. In that bank
was a young man named Ed McCarthv
This young man attended to Pierce's
affairs He was polite quick accurate
and sharp. la many instances he went
out of his way to acoonmodate "Shang-
ni. Mr. fierce at tne time showed
no evidence of appreciation. Today
that young man is a member of the
big banking ho- se of Weekes. Mc
Carthy & Co. of this city. He tuds
the rankicg end of the estab ishment
exclusively. "Shanghi" is tbe "com
pany." Mr. Pierce not only provided
the capital for the bnk. but the pres
tige of his great wealth is behind it.
It is understood that just before the
last presidential election wben mney
was fearfully tight and when banks
were threatened with disaster if Bryan
was elected Mr. Pierce sent a message
somewhat after this fashion to Mc-
Carthy: -"Eddie If you are bothered for readv
money or if you see a good chance to
place it I can let you have $700.-
000."
"Shangbi's" home when he is home.
is at Pierce Station on the Southern
Pacific roid. To the mioJs of some
people there is little to attract ap roi
at Pierre Station. The country is
bald prairie. The borne of Mr. Pierce
is plain and commodious. It is well
furnished and comfortable but there
are no gee-gaws of furbelows about the
place. Usually Mrs. Pierce has a
number of visitors. "Shanarhi" likes
company and when he carrs to can ba a
most entertaining story-teller. But he is
too busy a man to give much time to so-
cial affairs. He is traveling traveling
traveling. His business is now of such a
magnitude that he is kept almost con
stant! yon the go. Despite this fact he
writes all his own letters and attends
to every detail of his affairs just as he
did in the old days when he was strug
gling for a fortune.
The value of one "patch" of Mr.
Pierce's land will be greatly ec chanc
ed by the bui'diog of tbe Galveston
Brazoria and Western roid which is
now in course of construction. This
road will cross the "patch" south cf
Pierce Sta ion "Shanghi" has given
right of way and a bonus of $25000
besides a -half interest in two town
sites to the road to cross the track just
where he desires. The extent of this
patch" may be imagined when I -sav
it is seventeen miles across.
There are none but silver hairs on
the head or in the beard of "Shanghi'
todav. They tell the story of his age.
but he is as erect as he was when 21
yars old and. he is full of energy and
enterprise as ever. If he ever thinks
of tbe old days when he punched cattle
and slept on the frozen prairie with
rattlers for bid fellows he must marvel
et the changes -wrought by time.
"Shanehi" however is not sentimen
tal find be is rarely reminiscent. He
is a plain bluff every day.sort of a Tex-
as hustler. Sometimes he gets "gay"
and puts on a "plug-" hat b it
not often. A soft felt one suits him bet-
ter. Shanghi" has a wife and one child
a daugnte". bfce is married to a
Kansas City lawjer. Globe Demo-
crat. Tbe Greatest Discovery Yet.
W. M. R pina editor TiskLwa. 111..
"Chief" says: "We won't keep house
withcui Dr. King's New Discovery for
consumption coughs and colds. Ex
perimented with many others but
never got the true remedy until we
used Dr. King's New Discovery. No
oter remedy can take its place in our
home as in it we have a certain and
sure cur for coughs cold whoop'nsr
cough etc." It is idle to experiment
wi h other remedies even if thv are
urged on you as ju t as good as Dr.
King's New Discovery. They are not
as eood because this remedy has a r -cord
of cures acd besides is guaranteed.
it never fails to satisfy. Trial bottlts
free at W. A I via & Co's drue stor .
The Mex'can Coneregatioral cbu-ch
has j 11 t finished a small build ioir en
lower F.l Paso street with the materia'.
left from the wre ;k of th"ir ott er
-ui ding which was destrovei bv the
flood. The first service was held on
T hankgivintr eveniDg and was wr-11
attended as were all of the Sunday
services averaging about 70 at each.
There ar several memb ra soon to
be received and a growing interest i
the services.
Las Vegarf is much disturbed by the
local increase in the number of Ma'sons
de Joie. Tbe Optic in rrferrin? to th
matter sajw tbat the increase is o 't of
all proporfon to that cf any c.f te
sister evils of drinking and gambling.
It is reported from Arizona tbat Will
King of Hondo Tex. has been brutal
ly murdered by a drunken man with a
WlncbeBter asd without any just
cause
FOR SALE
FINE BUSINESS CORNER 115
rJO feet Mesa avenue and Texas streets
Right in tbe line of improvements.
S4.500 burs 15 room lodging bouse
in central part of the c'ty. Lt 102
75 feet. Room to enlarge.
LARGE WAREHOUSE on side
track cheap terms easy.
MYRTTiE & ST. VRAIN STREETS
two lots for $650.
NORTH OREGON STREET lot and
one half 39 feet lor $&0.
HOUSE NO. 614 NORTH OREGON
street $2000. ifiasy terms.
HOUSE NO. 311 TEXAS STREET
6 rooms $2000. Installments.
TWO LOTS for $650. Corner-of
Idaho and Florence streets.
NORTH STANTON STREET. 3 lots
just north or Montana street.
For Rent
STORE No. 109. El
Paso street.
One of the best locations
in tbe city
NEW MILLS BUILDING opposite
piaza store ana two large light base
meat
NO. 1110 SAN ANTONIO STREET
basement of three rooms.
IN "SHELDON BUILDING." best
office building in Texas store room
with bank fixtures and large vault.
s'ore room foot of Oregon street offices
and rooms with steam heat and eleva
tor 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th floors.
I represett 10 leading fire insurance
companies and write life and accident
insurance in the TRAVELER'S OF
HARTFORD CONN.
LIBERAL POLICIES LOWEST
RATES.
Property placed in my hands excluB
vely will be advertised free of coat to
owner.
Horace B. Stevens
Real Estate and Insur
ance Agent.
0 The best Bicycle Made.S
PRICE S35.00 to all alike.
Kid's Aetnas $25 00.
IL PASO CYCLE CO.
Repairing at Reasonable Prices.
Miss CONNELLY.
No IOI
Santa xr & Street
In the Rear op Grand Central
Hotel Sample Rooms.
Southern Pacific Company.
Morgan etearssbip line. Office of com- )
mercial ageut Cor. San Ah ton to and
Oregon Sis. El Paso Nov. 17 1897. )
To Patrons: We beg to announce
that quarantine regulations against
the port of New Orleans have been
withdrawn and tri-weekly service of
the Morgan Line New York to New
Orleans (Algiers) will be resumed at
once assunog quick dispatch of the
Atlantic seaboard freight to points in
New Mexico and Arizona.
Steamers will be dispatched from
New York every Tuesaay Thursday
and Saturday until further not'ee a"'d
our former excellent time of 10 and 11
days New York City to El Paso and 11
to 12 days to New Mexico and Arizona
points will again be afforded our pa-
rors. We very much deplore tbe inconven
ience to which the recent quarantine
restrictions have subjested our pa
trons and take this opportunity to
thank thm for the gece'ous indul-
gence which has been mani'es'ed to-
wards us under an exceedingly trying
unfortunate and unavoidable interrup
tioo of traffic.
When placing orders in Atlantic sea-
board territory we hope you will con-
tinue to instruct routing via Morgan
Line.
Passenger traffic has also been re-
sumed to and from New Orleans and
via that route.
M O. Bicknell. T. E. Hunt.
Traveling Freight Agt. Com'l Agt.
Sierra Madre Route to tbe Yaqul Oold
Fields.
Take the R. G. S. M. & P.
Ry for Casas Grandes -San Buena-
bentura and tbe Yaqui gold fields.
Trains leave Ciudad Juarez Mondays
Wei nesdiys and Fridays at 8:30 a. m.
Arrive Ciudad Juarez Tuesdays
Thur-day and Saturdays at 4:30 p. m.
Mexico City time. Depot opposite
Mexu an Ceatral pass nj-er depot.
J. T. Logan
Gen'l Traffic Agent.
Southern Pacific Co.
Special round trip rates for the
Houston fruit flower and vegetable
festival. Tickets will be 01 sale
December 5th to 10th inclusive. Final
limit returning Dec. 12th '97. Tbe
return portion of ticke. entitles the
bolder to free admittance to all the en-
tertainments. For further particulars call or ad-
dress F. R. Turner t. E Hunt
City Ticket Agt. Com'l Agt
Pore Ilygrla Ice
Made from distilled water. Ask
your family physiol' cor druggist as to
ourity and bealthfulneas of our ice; tel-
uhcre 14.
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Aetna.
Dressmaking
nsroTiciE;
CI an election to determine whether or not
the city of El Paso Texas shall Issue cer-
tain bonds:
MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION.
"Whereas on the 28th day or October A. D.
1897 tbe city council of the city of El Paso
'Texas enacted three certain ordinances au-
thorizing tbe issuance of the coupon bonds
of the said city for the purpose of borrowing
money upon the credit of said city Xor the
following purposes:
FIRST.
To erect a school bouse in th second ward
and to improve the Mesa school house In the
third ward of said city.
SECOND.
To erect a city hall lo said city.
THIRD. .
In order to fun ' the prsent outstanding
floating indebtedness of sid city which has
not been heretofore funded or bonded
Which ordinances so enacted as aforesaid
are respectively entitled: "An ordinance
firovldtng for the erection of a school bouse
n the second ward and for lnop-ovements on
the Mesa school bouse in the f.l in ward nf
the city of El Paso Texas and for issuance
of bonds for thct purpose." "An ordinance
providing for the erection of a public build-
ing tbat is to say a city hall in the city of
El Paso. Texas and for the issuance of roods
for tbat purpose." And ''An ordinance i ro-
vldlni; for the fundlnir of certain indebted
ness of tbe city of El aso and for the issu- "
arce of its bonds for that purpose "
Tbe substance of which ordinances is
shown in the hereinafter set ont copy cf an
ordinance providing for the calling and
bo'ding of an election 10 determine whether
or net said city shall issue sal 1 bonds
And. whereas on the 28th day of October
A. T) 1897. tbe said cttv council enacted an
ordinance as fol lows to-wit:
"An ordinance providing for th" calling
and holding of an election in the city of El
Paso. Texas to determine whether or not
said city sha'l issue Its bonds for the follow- -
ing purposes:
FIRST.
For the erection of a school hnnae In the
second ward and to improve the Mesa school
housein the third ward.
SECOND.
To erect a city hall
THIRD.
To fund certain of its indebtedness.
Be it ordained bv thn nAtv nntinll of tlin
city of Kl Paso:
Section 1. That whereas it was determin-
ed by the city council of raid city of El Paso -Texas
on the 28th day of October 1897 to be
expedient and necesavrv. for the welfare of
sh id city and its inhabitants to issue the
coupon bonds of said city for the following
FIRST.
To erect a school house In the aAnnd ward
of said city and to make necessary perma
nent improvements on tne inesa school
building In the third ward of said city.
SECOND. -
To erect a city hall in said city.
THIRD.
To fund the following indebtedness of said
city: That is to say the present outstanding
floating Indebtedness of said city which has
not been heretofore f anded or bonded.
And whereas on the date last mentioned
the said city council by its ordinances then
passed and which have been aDD roved did
order to be issued the coupon bonds of tbe
city.maturing in thirty years and bearing
tlx per cent per annum interest as follows:
a. For erecting said school house In the
second ward and Improving the Mesa reboot
ulldlng 820000. 15000 of which Is forerectlng
the school house in the second ward and the
balance is for Improving tbe Mesa school
bouse.
b. For erecting a city hall $30000
c. And for fundlnir tne aforesaid indebt
edness 10000 00 In which ordinances provls-
'on was made in accordance with the charter
of said city and the constitution and laws of
xexas. to provide a sinking fund lor tbe re-
demption of said bonds and payment at ma-
turity and for the payment of their Interest '
semi-annually as tbe same may become due;
and whereas according to the the term of
said ordinances and the charter of Said city
tbe said bonds cannot be issued until the ac
tion of said city council in Dassin? said or
dinances and ordering the ivsuanceof said
bonds respectively nas been ratified by a .
majority of the qualified voters of said city
who Day taxes on Drooertv In said citv as
shown by tbe last assessment roll voting at
an election held for the purpose of determin
ing whether or not sucb bonds shall be issu
ed; be it therefore and it is ordered that an
election shall ba called and held In the sail
Ity on the seventh day of December. 1897.
for the Dumose of submitting to the voters
of said city qua ified as aforesaid the prop-
ositions and questions whether or not such
bonds any or all of them ahall be issued
and of thereby ratifying or repudla'lng the
aforesaid action of said city council.
Sec ion 2 Tbat the polls shall be opened
and the election held in the several wards of
the citv. and It shall be holden conduced.
and the votes shall be counted and the re- -turns
shall be made and canvassed and the
resu't declared in like manner as is provid-
ed bv the citv charter and' the law. for the
holding of other city elections In said city-
Sec ion ii. That all qualified voters of said
city who pay taes on property In did city
as shown by tbe last assessment roll are en-
ltiea to vote at saia e'ecuon ana none out
ers can vote
Section 4. That tbe ballots to be used at
said election shall contain substantially the
following words according to the voter's
expression of will on tbe questions voted on:
"lorthe issuance 1 ti raso city ootids In
the sum of S20.000.00 for the erection of a
school house In the second ward and to im-
prove the Me-a school house in the third
ward of said city and ft r the ratification of
the ordinance of October 27 1897. authorizing
the issuance of the same "
Or "Against the issuance of El Paso city
bonds in the sum of 820 0U0.O0 for the erection
of a school bouse in the second ward aud to
Improve tbe Mesa school bouse in tbe third
ward of said city sod against tbe ratification
of the ordinance authorizing the issuance of
the same."
For the Issuance of El Paso citv bonds In
the sum of $30000 00 to erect a city hall In
said cl y and for the ratification of the ordi-
nance of October 28th. 1897. authorizing the
issuance of the same "
Or "Against tbe issuance of El Paso city
bonds In the sum of &0.000.00 to erect a city
ball in said citv. and against the ratification
of the ordinance authorizing the Issuance of
tbe same."
For the issuance or Kl Paso city bonds In
the sum of $30000.00. to fund its indebtedness
and for the ratiticatlotCof the ordinance of
October 2-th. 1897 authorizing the Issuance
of the same "
Or "Against the issuance 01 ca Paso city
bonds in tbe sum of 330.000 00 to fund Its In-
debtedness and against the ordinance au-
thorizing tbe issuance of the same."
Ab of said ballots shall be written or print-
ed on n aln white paper and comply In form
substantially with the laws of Texas re at-
mg to ballots.
Upon the ascertaining of the result of said
elecion the action of the city council In or
dering the Issuance of raid bonds and in
pawing the ordinances aforesaid shall be
declared ratified or not ratined. as to any or
all of said bonds according to the result of
said election and the bonds shall be Issued
or not issued as may be determined by said
lection.
Section 5. Tbat tbe mayor Shall forthwith
issue a proclamation to the voters of said
city calling Bald election. In accordance with
the provisions of this ordinance. In which
proclamation shall be set forth the substance
of this ordinance. Said proclamation shall
be published in at least one of the dally
newsnaDers Dublished in sa'd cttv for a Deri-
od of thirty days prior to the day of holding
said election. Said proclamation shall state
the places at which said election vhall be :
held in each ward and the name of the pre-
siding officer who shall preside at said
election In the several wards and election
preints of the city bald election shall be
held at the following places to-wit: In the
first ward at the city ball : in the second
ward at the hose bouse on Kansas street; in
the third ward at Chas Purteil's shoo on
North Stanton street and in the fourth ward
at the street commissioner's office on North
Oregon street.
Section 6. This ordinance sball take effect
aud be in force from and after its Dassajre
and approval."
Approved novemper 1. isvr.
JOSEPH MAGOFFIN
Mayor of the City of El Paso Texas.
Attest: B. S Catlin
Citv Clerk of the itv of Kl Paso. Texas.
Now. therefore. I. Joseph Magofttn. mayor
of the city of El Paso Texas In pursuance of
said ordinance and by virtue of the powers
vested in me by law do hereby give notice
that an election will be held in each and all
of the wards of tbe city of El Paso Texas
between the hours or eight in tbe morning
na six in tne aiterncon on Tuesday the itn
av of December. A. D IH97. for the purpose
of determining the quest inns in said ordi
nance propoea ana suomittea at wnicn
election qualified voters of the city of El
raw wno pay taxes on property in saia city
as shown by the last assessment roll and
none other areqoallfied to vote
In the first ward the election will beheld at
the cly hall and A Lamour is hereby ap-
pointed presiding officer.
Tn the second w ird the election will be
held at the hose house on Kansas street and
w. Fasaett is hereby apcoiuten presiding
officer.
In the third ward the election will he held
at Chas. Purteil's shop on North Stanton
street and M. t Ed wards Is hereby appoint-
ed presiding officer.
In the fourth ward tbe ejection will be held
at the street commissioner's office on North
Oregon street and Adolph Polomon is here-
by appointed presiding otneer.
oignea tnis 1st aay 01 iNovemoer a. u. iwj
Joseph Magoffin
Mayor of the City of El Pao Texas
ttest: R. S. Catlin.
sPlvi Clerk of tha city ( ftl Pas
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