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7 Vil 1L. 1 4- Volume io No 35. WHITE OAKS, NEW MEXICO, THURSDAY, AUGUST, 5th, 1901. Subscription, $1.50 a Year. FOREST PRESERVATION WHERE EORESTSARE LEFT. The Alamogordo News speaking- of the necessity of the interior department's relation to forest preservation says: "The Interior department has resolved upon a new line of policy in dealing1 with timber thieving from public lands. Heretofore, when a man was caught cutting timber from Uncle Sam's domain, he was arrested and punished, but no attempt was made to reach the parties who employed him, it being the rule that in nine cases out of ten the pilferer of public timber was hired by some firm or corporation. In future the department will go after the principals instead of the subordinates. Most of the dep redations are now committed by mining and railroad companies and other corporations which should interest themselves to protect forests. rific cyclone. The News of Aug. 10, says: One of the heaviest filings ever made in the territory took place here last Saturday, when the Al amogordo Lumber Co. filed with county recorder 489 instruments, being deeds to 26,080 of timber lands in the Sacramentos, the price paid for the land being $3 per acre, or $78,242. The fees for recording amount to $611. EL PASO & ROCK ISLAND. Progress and Distances Stations and Their Elevations on the New Line. From reliable information it is learned that the building of the El Paso & Rock Island railroad to connect with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacifflc railroad at Santa Rosa is being pushed rapidly, and that it is expected that a connection with the latter road will be made on December 1, 1901, and that through trains will then be running from Chica- instead of destroy the go to El Paso, Texas. The dis Formerly they were in- tance to Carrizozo station from different to the law and would El Paso north is 142 miles. At allow their subordinates who act- Carrizozo station the El Paso & ually did the work to be arrested, Northeastern will connect with fined and imprisoned, and paid , the El Paso & Rock Island and them well for it. But now the the distance to Santa Rosa, where Government officials are reaching j connection with the Chicago, out for the presidents and man-: Rock Island & Pacific railroad - . . . . i . agers oí sucn corporations and 1 will be made is 130 miles. Twen ty-five miles of this extension have been fully constructed and work trains are being operated over this distance. Seventy-five miles of grade have been finished and it is expected that the grade bringing them into court under indictments for offenses that are punishable by imprisonment as well as fines. For years miners and lumbermen have stripped the forests of timber without com pensation to the Government, and will reach Santa Rosa within six have not only stolen what they could use or sell, but have com mitted incalculable damage by malicious mischief and careless ness. The amount of timber burned during the last twenty years would have been sufficient to supply the entire population for almost as long a period; but this is being gradually stopped, and by the activity of the agents of the Interior department the timber thieves are being prosecut ed and the public is being taught to respect public property." It might be well for the News to investigate the condition of timber preservation in the Sacra mento Mountains. It appears to an outsider that incalculable dam age is being done to the Sacra mento forests, and at the present rate of destruction time is valu able. Two years more of lumber ing will give the southern end of the Sacramentos the appearance of having been the path of a ter- weeks and that the laying of rails will follow rapidly, so that by December 1, coming, active oper ation of the road can commence. The following are the stations to be established on the El Paso & Rock Island railroad between Car rizozo and Santa Rosa and their elevation. Feet. Corrizozo 5,438 Coyote 5,793 Ancho 6,001 Tecolote 6,531 Gallinas 6,656 Alta í,654 Chameleon 6,427 m 1 , , 1 rincnera u,zs Llano 6.050 San Pablo 5,655 Leoncita 5,400 Aragón 5,138 Pintado 4,739 Santa Rosa 4,600 The Dowager Empress of Ger many is dead. WORKOF LINCOLN COUNTY'S COMMISSIONERS. White Oaks, N. M ., Aug. 1. Editor Herald: I note an item in your issue of July 30 in regard to a representative of the county commissioners forcing the laborers of the E. P. & N. E. railroad to do their road work. That's all right as far as it goes. There are certain employees of the com pany that are residents of Lin coln county and are subject to road work. But I wish to state that the New Mexican legisla ture passes laws and certain laws, certain officers must enforce. The county commissioners have only the power to make the appoint ments of road supervisors and we must appoint same according to law. Further than that, we have no jurisdiction in the matter only to approve their reports. It is simply a case of the road su pervisor trying to enforce the law, as set down by the above legislature. The board has not had the intent to lay any stones in the way of the company to hinder them from pushing their work as fast as possible, but have tried to be a source of help to them in as many ways as possible and I will further state that we stretcneci our authority by pass ing certain resolutions to further help said company and will do all that is in our power to assist in enforcing the same. I write this for the information of those that are interested, that in the future, every move made in this part of the county must not be blamed to the commissioners as their acts. Yours very respectfully, Sol C. Wienkk, Chairman Board of County Com missioners, Lincoln County, N.M. AS SEEN BY THE ENEMY. If anybody knows what sort of a fight was put up by Admiral Schley with the Brooklyn it should be Captain Eulate of the Vizcaya, who had orders to en gage Schley's ship. Two years ago he told his story, and his high rank makes his word offset that of those who say that in turning his ship to meet the ene my, he was running away. Cap tain Eulate said: "The Brooklyn was a half mile closer to us than any other ship, and I determined to ram her, so that the Colon and Oquendo could get away, and I started, for her big broadside, and as I start ed I thought surely I would get her. But she had evidently seen us, and very quickly she turned about and, making a short circle, came at our port side, so I thought she would ram ns. I moved in toward the shore so that I could avoid her and then I saw that the Oquendo had gone ashore also, her steam pipes having evidently been severed by a shell. The maneuver of the Brooklyn was beautiful. We opened rapid fire at her with all our big guns, but she returned it with terrible effect. The Oregon also hit us several times, but the Brooklyn's broadsides crushed through our superstructure, simply terrorizing the men. She simply drove us to the shore, at one time fighting us at 1100. yards. The Brooklyn prevented me from getting away, for I could have beaten the Ore gon out, as I had a two-mile lead of her. My orders were to try and sink the Brooklyn, and I did my best to carry them out. I did not think her battery could be so terrible as it was." MANNING OUT. The Las Vegas Record of the 3rd inst contained an announce ment that J. F. Manning,, until that date editor of that paper had been removed and discharged and that C. P. Downs had succeeded him. ' Concerning the matter the Optic of the same date says: "The business management of the Las Vegas Record has again changed hands, J. F. Manning retiring and C. P. Downs taking charge. A suit to recover certain monies Was filed in the district court last evening, and it is more than likely that if settlements are not made in the near future others will follow." Ira Wetmore of Capitán, is go ing to the new railroad, Dawson, to open a livery business. OLDEST CITY. What is the oldest American city? Santa l" e and St. Augstine have had a long dispute as to pri ority. Now comes a Mr.Hil zinger, who gives the date of settlement of Tucson, Arizona, in 1555,some half a century earlier than the founding of Santa Fe or St Au gustine. He bases his claim up on authentic documents, includ ing a parchment discovered among the records of the old mis sion of San Javier, dated 1552, when the settlement was ordered to be established, and attached to which is an account of the found ing of Tucson, written in the hand of Marcus de Niza, who explored Arizona. Thirteen-thousand homesteads have been filed on in Oklahoma.