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Show HISTORIC STUMP IS PRESERVED IN EL PASOMUSEUM EL PASO. Tex., April 21 When El Paso was an adobe frontier town and an irrigation ditch meandered through the main business street, the stump of a cottonwood tree stood at the intersection in-tersection of the two unpaved Btret bs. On this stump were posted notices for "bad men " of that day to leave town overnight or be lynched next day. The slump became historic because of the notices and is now preserved in the museum of the Pioneers' association. Recently General Anson Mills, founder foun-der of El Paso, sent the Mills His torical Circle original copies of these notices including one denouncing him: as an 'abolitionist" and his reply, both1 of which were posted on th old tump |