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ET3 1 u II f NOTE The type used in this heading is from the old plant of the Cimarron News and Press and was used for a heading for the paper in the seventies. Estab. 1872 Nev Vol. I. CIMARRON, fciEW MEXICO, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1907 NO. 17 n n n if ' fiuu 1 1 1 In 1 I í NEWS NOTES FROM SPRINGER STOCKMAN The first crop of alfalfa is going to be a hummer. James Howe came down from Ra ton yesterday. Robert Hern went up to Dawson the first of the week. Mrs. Rosendo Gonzales was in Mound. You know it without anyone tell ing you, that the grass is growing nicely. Happy beyond, comparison should now be the stockman and the farmer. The Springer public schools will close next Friday until sometime in September. The man with the garden is pleas ed that the all-seeing Providence has come to his assistance. James H. Taylor wTs in Springer from his home at Raton Tuesday on business, returning home the follow ing day. Tuesday A. J . Hern received a sub stantial iron fence which he has plac ed around his block in the cemetery in which lies his wife and child. . Peter Larson went up to Raton last Sunday on business, returning home Monday afternoon. I. C. Floersheim, of the Roy Spanish-American, made this office a pleasant call yesterday morning. James R. Gillespié is movilig his family out to. the ranch, Mrs. Gilits pie having been residing in town for several months to give her little boys the benefit of the schools. J. H. Higgins and son John went down to Mora Sunday where they are in attendance at district court of Mo ra county which convened Monday with Chief Justice Mills on the bench. Dr. J. G. Hopkins returned Thurs day from his visit of over a week in Denver and Pueblo. Some had sup posed the Doctor would bring the lady home with him, but they were disappointed probably he was too. Douglas Wright went over to Mora Tuesday at the request of the sheriff of our neighboring county to testify before the grand jury as to the facts in a certain case that happened at Roy last year. He returned home Thursday night.. The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church gave a free social at the parsonage Thursday evening which a large number of people at tended and very highly enjoyed. Ice cream and cake were served by .th ladies to their guests' Frank A. Roy, A. S. Bushkevitz, Blaz Sanchez, M. Trobaugh, Ed, Pritchard and Irwin C. Floersheim (f Roy, all came up Sunday evening and Monday left for Mora where they are witnesses before the grand jury jn the case of The Territory vs. Leandro Archuleta, charged with assault with a deadly weapon- on the person of M. Trobaugh, a special deputy sheriff, on'-, election day. last November for which Archuleta . was placed under $4,000 bond by the jus tice of the peace for his appearance at the next session "6 f the Mora coun ty district court. This trouble grew out of a heated argument near-the polling place in the town of Roy, and was urged on through the over-indulgence of whiskey, when officers endeavored to quell the disturbance and the assault on Officer Trobaugh occurred. Both sides are fighting the case hard and both have friends in the eastern part of the county who are watching the proceedings with much interest. Archuleta plead guil ty 0 the charge. The party returned to this city Thursday and left for their home yesterday morning. John C. Taylor is placing at his ranch, six miles southeast of town, a sure thing-irrigation plant. It con sists of a centrifugal pump with a capacity of 500 or 600 gallons a min ute which wil irrigate about 120 acres of land, most of which will be put in alfalfa. The pump is to be placed on the bank of the river and water raised to a ditch. The pump he received a couple of weeks ago and the engine and boiler a-rived this week. The outfit is a fine lot of ma chinery in every particular. Mr. Taylor has the land rich enough to raise anything, and he pro poses to put some' of it in use through this practical method of irri gation. V The Cimarron & Northwestern are running their telephone Hue through so that tbn engineering camps can cornmuticatej during construction. The li te will be completed about June 1 and the railroad dump about Sep tember l. , : COHEN GETS BACK TO RATON Case Was One of the Saddest Ever to Come to the Attention of the Albuquerque Police and Charitable Insti tutions. . Fulfilling what seemed to be the dearest wish, the Non-Sectarian Be nevolent society and the police de partment bought Mrs. Margerite Co hen a ticket last night and sent her back to Raton , from whence she came to this city last Friday a week ago. Mrs. Cohen was comfortably fixed in her little tent at the corner of West Tijeras avenue and North Twelfth street, but she was not con tent. She told the police that she thought that the climate at Raton would do her more good than the olimate here, and the mayor of Raton had been so kind to her, she wanted to go back to him. So yesterday Mrs. Cohen, on being promised a ticket to Raton, sold her tent and the bedding and housekeeping arti cles she had been given by the good people of the city and prepared to leave. She began making ready for the journey yesterday morning. It was quite an ordeal, but she com pleted it about 3 o'clock in the after noon, and with the assistance'of a big policeman, who carried her bundles, wept to the railway station, where she was taken in charge by Depot Master Fields and finally placed aboard train No. 8. The case of Mrs. Cohen is one of the saddest to come to the attention of the charitable institutions of Al buquerque. She was dying with con sumption and had not a known friend in the world, other than those who interested themselves in her case. Albuquerque Evening Citizen. VANCE IS APPOINTED. R F. Vance was Wednesday ap pointed as a. private in the company of New Mexico Mounted Police up on the recommendation of Captain ! TrtA T-nrnnff Thic Krinfrc tw Ter ritorial ranger force to its full quota. In his behalf a very strong petition had been signed by business men, county officials and stockmen over the county and Sheriff Littrell sent in a strong endorsement in his be half which had much weTght in his favor. The new ranger will be stationed at Roy, and while he has jurisdiction over the entire Territory, his work will be mostly confined to Colfax, Mora and Union counties. He has been appointed from Dawson, Col fax county. Pheasants to be Raised in the State Of Colorado - Following the example of Illinois and Kansas, Colorado now is releas ing the pheasant, the farmer's friend, and before many years have passed the entire state will have been stock ed with them. The pheasant is the chief enemy of the insect pests which destroy grains and fruits and the worms which destroy the roots and bodies of plants. While the pheasant cannot be do mesticated like the common chicken, its eggs can be hatched successfully under the common hen. As soon as they are grown the pheasants will take readily to the fields, there to busy themselves consuming the nu merous pests that make the farmer's ife most miserable. The greatest benefits are to be derived from the propagation of these birds. They are gorgeous in plumage, the best game bird in the world, and its flesh is con sidered one of the gcratest of table delicacies. In the avaries in city park, Denver, there are several hundred pheasants, introduced by W7 F. Kendrick, a wealthy mining man, who will stock Colorado with the birds free of cost to the state. The avaries are so placed liuit thousands of visitors see the birds every day, the public thus being educated as to the value of the birds and the methods adopted in propagating them. In plumage the pheasant rivals the bird of paradise, and it probably is the only game bird that can be successfully reared in captivity. Merritt H nlry, the well known mixologist from the Palace at Raton, left here Monday morning. Mr.1 Hendrv was down to heln Durliworth I & Marling open the Oxford Saturday! evening, , . MRS. A Serious Wreck Near Maxwell City Second Section of No. 1. Westbound, Leaves the R.ails Wednesday Afternoon and Two Tourist Cars Are Overturned 5 Several Passengers Injured. The second section of Santa Fe pas senger train No. 1, westbound, was derailed near Maxwell City shortly after 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Two Pullman tourist cars left the rails and were turned partly over. Several passeDgers were injured, but it is believed not seriously. Spread ing rails are said to hare caused the accident. The engine, in charge of Engineer Norman, baggage cars and rest of the train outside of the two tourist cars, did not leave the track. The train was in charge of Conductor Snook. As soon as word of the accident was received at Baton a wrecking train was quickly dispatched to the scene, which RAILROAD IN NEW MEXICO OPENS VAST TIMBER AND COAL EÍELDS The Railway Age, in its last issue, says: "A railroad that will aid ma terially in the industrial development of the Southwest has just been com pleted , in New Mexico by the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific Railway company. The line is known locally as the "Rocky Mountain Route," or more frequently, perhaps, as the "Swastika Route." "Starting from Des Moines on the Colorado & Southern, 80 miles south east of Trinidad, Colo., the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific virtually parallels the northern boundary of New Mexico for about 100 miles west and southwest to Ute park in the Baldy mining district. A - branch seven miles long connects Clifton House, on the upper Canadian -river, with Raton, and another branch of three miles, from Koehler5'. Junction, reaches the new coal mining camp at Koehler. At Raton and Preston the Rocky Mountain line 1 coouects with the Santa Fe, and at Vermejo it inter sects the Dawson division of the El Paso& Southern system! ' 1 he length of main line and branches as now completed is 106 miles. The track of th main line is of new 80 pound steel. ' ' "The rolling stock includes new Baldwin locomotives, new passenger cars and new box cars and gondolas. Including 300 80,000-pound gondolas now under construction for delivery in May, the road has sis freight cars to the mile a very liberal allowance for a new line in the West. "The prime motive for the con Charles Lowman was over to Daw sou Sunday. Mrs. W. K. Christie relumed from Raton Friday. John Hixenbaugh, county assessor, was in town last Friday. Billy .Wbiteman, foreman of the C. R. van Houten ransh, was in town Monday. Alex Livingston has taken the posi tion of stationary engineer at the roundhouse. Fred Brooks Las built nr porch in front of his house. Between thp posts is fitted wire screen. One of the best dances of the sea son was given by the baseball club at Aztec hall last Saturday. Wm. Hickman, bookkeeper for the LOCALS and PERSONALS j Cimarron Lumber company, is build-was was about twenty three miles south. The train was in charge of Conductor Carmien and Dr. Shuler accompanied it to the scene of the accident. The track was cleared about 3 o'clock Thursday morning. In the meantime regular trains were delayed for about twelve hours, several of them being held at Raton. A special train carrying members of the Mystic Shrine to Los Angeles was held in the Raton yards all night and another at Dillon. Train No. 2, eastbound. due in Raton at 6:15 Wednesday evening, came in about 7 o'clock Thursday morning over the Rocky Mountain tracks. struction of this road was the hand ling of the coal output of the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific company. This company, organized in St. Louis in 11)05, and financed by Fibk'"Jt Robinson of New Ybrk, has acquired'or opeued nine drift coal mines in the Raton field, and is now producing about 70,000 tons of bitum inous steam and coking coal per month. For the calendar year 1907 an output of about 1,000,000 tons, and for 1908 an output of 1,400.000 tons, is anticipated. The company has in operation at Gardiner, three miles from Raton, 186 coke' ovens, and at Koehler by July 1 it will have in operation 200 additional ovens. These ovens all told will produce about 175,000 tons of coke annually. The company owns the coal in about 800 square miles of the Raton field aud the surface of 300 square miles. The total area is half as large'again as all the anthracite regions of Penn- sylvania. ' "Incidentally, the Rocky Mountain j Mrs. Charle? Parsons and Miss Bes route makes accessible a vast amount sie Parsons, of Raton, were the guests of timber on the eastern slopes of the of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Keep and Rocky mountains in northern New Mr. and Mrs. Ira Duckworth last Mexico. For the development of the week. timber a feeder, the Cimarron &j W. M. Winters, deputy sheriff and Northwestern railway, is now under constable, has resigned his office and construction from Cimarron north- Parted for Utah. Mr. Winters will westward 22 miles up the Ponil river. I make the trip by wagOD, taking four "1 he bt. Louis, Kocky Mountain & . f- i I ' . ' ! . . eludes $15.000,000 of 5 per cent first mortgage bonds authorized,' and $7,000,000 issued, together with $1,000,000 of preferred stock" ing a house north of the railroad sta tion. Ed Manning was in town on Sun day on bis way from the mountain ranch to the Maxwell farm. John D. Merriwether maintenance-of-way engineer on the Swastika, was in town the latter part of last week. Roy Toaie left for Cloudcroft on Wednesday to work for the Cimarron Lumber company on a contract taken at Cloudcroft. F. B. Boyd bas left here for Koeh ler as timekeeper for the Cimarron Lumber company on their contracts at that point. ' ' Duckworth & Marling opened their new hotel, the Oxford, Inst Saturday evening. v The house was crowded until a late hour." A supper and beer Berved gratis about 10 o'clock WILL IMPORT NO MORE i OUTSIDE LABOR. Santa Fe Has Concluded That Home Labor is the Best and Cheapest , In railroad circles it is reported that the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has decided to discharge all Old Mexico employes from the service of the company. The company has, after a thorough trial with this class of labor proven that it is unsatisfac tory and unreliable, and that here after they will hire only citizens of the United States, where it is possi blle to obtain them. This will be good news to the com mon laborer of this country, as the competition with the southern nation alities, which has proven a loss to the railroads, will hereafter be dispensed with. The class of laborers brought in from Old Mexico make very un desirable residents and are very dis agreeable for the American laborer to work alongside. . They appear to have little respect for the laws of our land and most of them none for decency. They have proven cheap labor in price but very expensive in every other way. Few of them bring their families to this country, they live on little, of course spend little and send or take most of their earn ings home with them, while the American laborer spends his at home, somewhere in this country. Very few of these people from our sister Re public ever become citizens of the United States. The Santa Fe company has, along with the other roads, which are lay ing new tracks, employed thousands of Old Mexico laborers on the road bed in the past few years. Now it is claimed that the American laborer will be substituted in the place of the imported laborers, and the good of the country at large will be served. In the past two or three months, many trainloads of these laborers have been shipped to their native land to the south of us, although it has not until lately been known that the company intended to dispense with this grade of labor. Exchange. The proprietors will undoubtedly do a good business. They have put up a modern hotel with every convenience that would be a credit to any town or city in the country. The Townsite received a consign ment of trees last week and have al ready planted many of them in the new park. Fred Sudholder and Wm. Murphy ariived here Saturday from Musko gee, I ml., to look at some mining property just above Cimarron. A. L. Mix, of the Maxwell Supply company, was in town Saturday to consult with Henry Livran about their new building at Cimurron. neaj 0f horses with him. ... tfae nflw blacksmith ghop to sherrer & Sons. The building will be 40xliC, and situated north of the railroad. The foundations are nearly completed Dr. H. A. UiUuer was in town on Tuesday. He is ut present on the medical staff of the Swastika road Dr. Giltner was a resident of Cimarron Until last fall and has mauv friends here. Mr. aud Mrs. Eugene Keep, Mr and Mrs. John Livingston, Mr. and Mrs Jesse Littrell, Miss May Living ston and Mrs. Charles Parsons, of Raton, were on a picnic last Sunday. Tbey all drove to I'te creek an 1 re turned here in the evening. , Everyone was happy and sunburnt, and said that Ute park was perfect and they had had a most enjoyable day. List Friday evening J. C. Records gave an informal dance to a few friends. Those present were: Ira Duckworth and wife. Wm. Hickman and wife, Eugene Keep and wife, H. R. Grielwl and wife, J. A. Wander and wife, Eugene IJelton, Miss Margaret Cavaoaugb, Joe Brick and Lew Grieley. Mrs. Records is in Kansás City being treated for her eyes. The reports from thare are favorable and her many friends are looking for her return iu the near future. Mrs. Records is one of the most popular women in Cimarron. NOTES f ROM RED RIVER PROSPECTOR Ed Price has moved back up tows having finished his work with J. W. MVDonal. . Harry Brandenburg has lately lo cated a copper property that they claim shows up some fine looking ore. About 12 to 1 5 inches of snow fell in this section Saturday, Sunday and Monday but most of it has already gone except that on the north hill sides. C. II. Brigham was down from Anchor the first of this week and looked almost like a stranger as this is the first time he has been in town for two months. S. W. Thompson is helping A! Hedges cut the lead at a lower level in the Willard mining property. The owners as so m as the lead is out ex pects to start the arastra and begiu taking out the yellow gold. E. S. Myers, forest ranger and Mr. Gillette, a U. S. Mining inspector, was in camp a day or two last week to inspect placer claims in this sec tion. On account of high water and snow he did not do much inspecting. B, A. Young of Elizabethtown, was in town two or three days th past week on his way home from San ford, Colorado, where he had moveo1 a part of his family on to his farm. J. W. McDonnel is sinking on the Buffalo mining property about six miles down the river. He believes it takes depth to open up a pay mine which has been proven to be true time and again. Earl Young and sisters. Misses Murl and Mamie, of Elizabethtown, spent Tuesday night with friends. They were on their way to Sanford, Colorado, to visit their mother and other members of the family as well as to attend the closing exercises of the school at that place. J. W. Cartwright, who with his son Dave, has been carrying mail be tween Quest and Elizabethtown, has resigned and Joe Thipps, Jr., now has the position. During the six months or more they carried the mail it was n time and no one could honestly complain of the service. Folsom Notes. Miss Anna Brown, who has been at Mrs. King's, went to her home on the mesa. Jackson Talior, who has been in very poor health all winter, is some better. Mr. and Mr3. Murray were enter tained at Eagle Rock ranch Friday by Mr. and Mrs. Garni. Ben Murphy was up from Clayton and got bis stock which he had in pasture here through the winter. - Mr. Wood and family, the new pumper for the C. & 8 , is here from Santa Fe, and occupies the Preston house. M. T?. Belisle, general manager for the Johnson Mesa Telephome com pany, is very ill at his home on the mesa with appendicitis. Berry Adnrason, who had scarlet fever and was supposed to have re covered entirely and was going to school, suffered a if i I. ipse and is very sick again. Dr. Dally is in very poor health this spring. Owing to so much sickness the doctor has lieeii going day and night, and as his strength is not equal to his ambition, it ts beginning to tell ou him. . Mr. and Mrs. Fossett, of Denver, ou their way to Clayton in an automo bile to visit a brother, were overtaken by the storm, and have lieen stopping with Mr and Mr. B. F. Owen for a few days. Miss Bronson, one of our successful school teachers, went to Clayton on Friday evening, to assist in giving an entertainment for the benefit of the church. She is becoming quite popu lar as an elocutionist, Nearly every one in this vicinity lost a few head of stock during the storm last week; but nothing like what might have been expected, con sidering that hardly any one has shel ter, and we bad eighteen inches of snow and in Long canon they had four feet. One of our successful ranchmen was lying in bed late one morning, and dreading to get up. said, "Oh dear, I wish some one would get a club and make me get up," when bis bright lit tln dBiitffitr of two vears iumned ur began to hit him in the face and said . "Papa, I'll tats my fit;" and the gen tleman thinks be will ansa without assistance hereafter.