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the El Paso delegates who captured the twelfth con- 

 gress at Ogden in 1903. 



NOTES ON THE CONGRESS. 



Much dissatisfaction was expressed by visitors at 

 the rates charged by some of the hotel people. At 

 one hotel a rate of $8 a day was asked for one per- 

 son occupying room with bath. As this is so much 

 higher than the usual rate for the same room, it is 

 reasonable to suppose that those who were asked to 

 pay it will not be likely to patronize that hotel again, 

 should they visit El Paso in the future. 



his methods. The people of Arizona feel that "Ozone 

 George" should have kept his fingers out of their fight, 

 and it is said that he has made. the statement that he 

 will not mix up in any way again with Arizona or 

 its people. This statement, if true, should be exceed- 

 ingly pleasant news for the good citizens of Arizona. 



The delegates and newspaper men who visited 



We are showing in this issue, in connection with 

 our report of the irrigation congress, photos of Mr. 

 A. L. Klank, elected vice-president of the irrigation 

 congress from Illinois, and Mr. William Hale Thomp- 

 son, who is executive chairman from Illinois. Both 

 of these gentlemen are progressive and are actively in- 

 terested in irrigation and will prove efficient officers. 



BIRD'S EYE VI 



El Paso were all pleased with the kindly manner in 

 which they were treated by the local newspaper men. 

 El Paso has three good daily papers, all of them con- 

 ducted by men of ability and public spirit, and that 

 city should feel proud that she is represented to the 

 world at large by papers of such strength and attract- 

 ive appearance. Mr. Slater, editor of the El Paso 

 Herald, delivered a very pleasing addres= at one of the 

 early sessions of the congress. 



"Ozone George" Maxwell came into El Paso on 

 the second day of the congress from Arizona, where 

 he met such overwhelming defeat in his efforts to elect 

 Mr. Flower as a territorial delegate to Congress. From 

 the reports of the Arizona delegates the people of that 

 Territory are thoroughly disgusted with Maxwell and 



Mr. Klank is industrial commissioner of the Chicago & 

 Eastern Illinois Railway Company, part of the Frisco 

 system, with headquarters at Danville, 111. Mr. Thomp- 

 son is a Chicagoan of more than ordinary prominence, 

 having been at one time alderman of the. Second Ward, 

 and at the present time is county commissioner of 

 Cook County. He has been interested in the West 

 and consequently in irrigation, having been at one 

 time engaged in the cattle business in Wyoming and 

 Montana. Mr. Thompson is also president of the 

 Illinois Athletic Club and is prominent as an athlete, 

 as well as being ope of Chicago's politicians of the 

 cleaner sort. The delegates from Illinois, to whom 

 the appointment of these officers is due, are to be con- 

 gratulated on their selection. 



