Image 3 of The Houston daily post (Houston, Tex.), March 17, 1899, (Mailable Edition)
author: Anonymous
source date: 1899
availability: public_domain

U ft il tjf THE NEW STATE SCHEME Two Conventions Neither Well Attended Were Held at El Paso ONE WAS FAVORABLE THE OTHER AGAINST rlie IMnn to Carre Off Piece of Tciiik In Order o 3Ilike n roll Gronn State of Jen Mexico El Paso Texas March 17 An unsuc cessful effort as tonic to squelch In lis inciplency the movement to carve a now State out of portions of West Texas New Mexico and Arizona The delecatlon ap pointed to represent El laso county and city was composed almost entirely of men vho were known to be onposod to the scheme and who could be denended on to fight the project to the last Ultch As soon its the appointments were given out It precipitated a big row in the camp and Major 13111 Lowell published a letter as serting that the mayor and county Judge had acted unfairly in selecting delegates and had appointed only tvo of the many persons who had signed the call for the convention Not satisfied with this Major Pevrell nnd Colonel Bob Campbell quietly ar ranged a little surprise for the opponents of the scheme and when the morning trains nrrlrcd they wcro