oic Mexican government is asking the extradition of Ateca and jeo on charges that they em-ied money collected as taxes inez., II. Fryer El Paso attorney is ew York representing Ateca and jeo.eca was en route to Spain withfamily about two months ago i he was arrested. According to5 dispatches, approximately000 was found in his posses-To Be Defense Witnesses..llo, Gen. de la Vega and Revilla :o he defense witnesses. The de-e is expected to be that Ateca Maqueo are political refugees, e three witnesses said Ateca ably would be bound over for , but that he would secure hi* se on habeas corpus proceed-llo and de la Vega dairy business in y since they fled wing the collapse n.have enteredthe El Pasofrom Mexico of the revo-ly Departmentsrust Pay Board Oftain Gang Workersthe future every department ofitv government which uses chainlabor will have to pay for the i of the laborers at the city it was tentatively decided at the council Friday.lerman Oscar J. Allen, who has ;e of the police department, said jail is running about 5200 a :h behind on the grocery .bill, e budget allowed §478 a month ood at the jail. Mr. Allen said over §600 a month is beingPasoans ToHe Given RecordTests By VictorThree El Pasoans have been selected to make test records for theVictor Talking Machine company byR. S. Peer, who is in El Paso searching for local talent that may be recorded.Mr. Peer selected an old-time fiddler, a cowboy singer and a cowboy band consisting of a violin, a guitar and a harmonica.Untrained talent and old-time music—remnants of a vanishing west— are what Mr. Peer is looking for.“We want persons who have learned their songs years ago from old-timers, songs that are almost ballads,” he said.In an effort to round up talent with western color that is authentic, Mr. Peer sent out 30 telegrams to people living near El Paso asking them to try out, according to F. Luvster of the Tri-State Music com-pany.“Not all of these will make test records, but enough of them will to advertise the west and El Paso, he said.Plans are under way to have arecord featuring Gene Cunningham, a western short story writer of El Paso. Mr. Cunningham will give a western sketch, telling cowboy stories and cowboy jokes. The end of the record will be native cowboyMarin’s attorney, searched the cellfor a container in which Marin might have taken strychnine intothe jail with him.Found Under Window.Dr. Willis W. Waite, who made a chemical analysis of the contents of Marin’s stomach, found that strychnine caused his death.The tiny box was lying just under a window and it was pointed out that Marin may have made an unsuccessful attempt to throw it out the window’ after taking the poisonfrom it.The stitches had been removed from the inside of one of the cuffs of Maria’s trousers and the small box fitted in the small hole.Will Delay Recording.Coroner R. B. Rawlins is out of the city and the cause of Marin’s death probably will not be officially recorded until his return.Marin was to have gone to trial Monday for the murder of AttorneyFrank J. Lyons.Searchers found many documents in the Spaniard’s cell, hut none of them in any way referred to thefact that he may take his own life. All of the documents were a history of his relations with Mr. Lyons andhis law partner, H. D. Oppenheinver, whom Marin also shot and killed.Funeral Rites ForCruces Boy Fridayt.lin gang labor is being used ie city streets nad to cut weeds ty-owned property.I. Daniels, city auditor, said the 1 board and the waterworks i he charged for the labor of ig weeds on their property.umogordo Writerells Of U. S. Patrol:k Halliday, of Alamogordo, r of western magazine stories, old a series of 12 El Paso bor-natrol stories to the Midwest Lsman, first of which will ap-in the August number of the zine.e articles deal with the workmusic.“Old-timers from the west are principally what Mr. Peer is interested in. The Del Norte Talking Machine company, at 311 Sout^i El Paso street, is also making Mexican records. They have 50 new Mexican numbers at that store.“Juarez is responsible for a number of Mexican records. Mr. Peer listens to beggars in the streets, and sometimes asks them to play and sing for him. He has engaged performers from tlie cabarets in Juarez to make special records for sale along the border states.Funeral services for Robert Black, 8-vear-old son of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Black, of Las Cruces, N. M., who was smothered to death when a sandbank caved in upon him Wednesday night, \^rc to be held at 4 p. m.,Friday from the family home onHadley avenue, Las Cruces, with the Rev. Mr. Cooper, of the First Christian church, officiating.Burial was to he in Las Cruces Masonic cemetery.Besides his parents, the little boy is survived hv two sisters, Nina and Patsy, and two brothers, William and Jack Black.Members of the extension department of New Mexico A. and M. college, of which Dr. Black is a member, were to act as pallbearers.Neugebauer, Lozier Condon, Louise!Thieves Steal SameDeaths and Burials.4 utomohile TwiceE! Paso thieves aren’t particular as to models of cars they steal, orLa. m* tr 4 \ *•% nr ♦ lint' rl no ] ♦ *1 C O m fbIDA IRENE METCALF. )Ida Irene Metcalf, 69, of the lower valley, died Thursday. She is survived by her husband, the Rev. Ar-nrrSan Antonio,End O’Whatdress and sports\hoe manufactureor tan elk sport arhut a complete raj