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-Was a men’s fun-making
group that also contributed
to civic development in the
bustling frontier town of El
Paso in the “wonderful golden
days.” This convivial group of
El Paso men loved to gather

EL PASO : APRIL 1899
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co Street. The club enlisted the aid of the bandmaster from Fort Bliss, and
throughout the 1890s the McGinty marching band was a part of almost every
civic endeavor. The club later established “Fort McGinty” on a hill near the
downtown area; its booming cannon would wake the town for the next big civic event. It died out with the coming of a new and more sophisticated century.

The school was founded in 1914 as the State
School of Mines and Metallurgy. Following
a reorganization of the University of Texas
in 1920, the school was renamed the College
of Mines and Metallurgy of the University of
Texas. It became Texas Western College of the
University of Texas in 1949, and The University
cially opened on September 28, 1914, with 27
students in buildings belonging to the former El
Paso Military Institute- on a site just adjacent to

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“He threatened to use
his power to ruin the
man to whom he owed
the money, unless that
man would keep quiet
and refrain from
stirring up a hornet’s
nest.” -Original Article
To the honorable A. M.
Walthall, district judge
of El Paso county: Now
comes George A. Ducey,
professional gambler and
barkeep, proprietor of the
Ruby Saloon and Gambling Parlors, on Oregon
Street next to the Sheldon
block, and complaining of
of the City of El Paso,
Texas, respectfully represents to the court that
both plaintiff and defendant are residents of El
Paso county, Texas.” For
the rest we will drop the
formal expression of the
law court, and talk plain
who has sworn to uphold
the laws of the state of
Texas, which among other
things prohibit gaming in
any form, has been sued
in the district court for the
payment of a gambling
debt which he owed by all
the rules of honor, if not by
rules of law, and which he
positively refused to pay.
Moreover, he threatened
to use his power to ruin
the man to whom he owed
the money, unless that
man would keep quiet and
refrain from stirri