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Go i ithly id w 5 ffueumeari Views Volume i. No. 44. TUCUHCARI, NEW MEXICO, SATURDAY. AUGUST 25, 1906. Subscription $1.50 a year. Quay 5,000 PERISH IN AWFUL VALPAR.ISO EARTHQUAKE Chillis n City Almost Wiped Off (he Map by Trcmblor. Fully 5,000 people, according to the latest dispatches from San tiago d(! Chile, lost their lives in the Valparaiso disaster. The first shock occured on the evening of the 17th about 7:30 and was followed by others throughout the night. Panic prevailed and the streets were filled with hyster ical, wailing and praying people. Half the inhabitants of Santiago stayed on the streets or lied to the country. Fire followed in Santia go, but was quickly extinguished by a providential downpour of rain. Valparaiso suffered much from lire. Many persons have left the two cities and the stream of refugees continues. It is reported from Valparaiso that 5,000 deaths resulted from the earthquake. The details are incomplete as thers is no direct communication between Valparai so and Santiago. The value of property destroyed will reach ?2,- 000,000. Fugitives from the stricken city describe a condition of horror. Al most all houses in Valparaiso are said to be down. The fugitives estimate the dead and wounded at ten thousand. Sixty thousand people have taken refuge on the hills surrounding the citv. Lack of water prevents efforts to extin guish the flames. El Paso is rapidly gaining dis tinction as a freak town. Th Evening News says a five-footed horse, a mule that gives milk, a 17-year old cat, and 14 snow white Angora kittens have already been recorded. J. M. Ramsdale of Santa Rosa, and Ezra Burnett of Paradice, Texas, are Tucumcari visitors this week. Mr. Burnett has taken a homestead several miles south cast of town and Mr. Ramsdale will locate as soon as he looks the countrv over. Miss Dot Palmer, reporting on the Amarillo Daily Paragon, is a visitor in Tucumcari this week, Miss Palmer will attend the teacher's institute while here. The Legal Tender has Sunny Brook Bourbon bottled in bond. It is the best. Try it. H. K. Grubbs. DELEGATE ANDREWS DENIES THE WRITING In a letter dated at Albuquer que and addressed to Hon. Geo. K. French, Globe, Ariz., Delegate Andrews savs: My Dear Sir: Your letter of recent date reached me some days igo. I noticed that you received some of the joint statehood bills under my frank and that penciled on one copy were the words: Send mostly to leading demo crats supporting joint statehood." I certainly never wrote it, and I do not know who could have writ ten it. It certainly was a fool thing to do. I gave orders in Washington alter the bill was passed to send copies of the joint statehood bill to all the leading attorneys and prominent people in both territo ries, irrespective of politics, so they could see what the provisions of the bill are. I want you to distinctly under stand the position of the people of New Mexico. We don't want to join with Arizona, but we do de sire to get into the union, and there is no other way to get in, as the people in the east and middle west will nr t let us in singly, and that is the reason why we are ac cepting what congress is giving us. You state Arizona don't want to come in, preferring to wait million years. I want to say With all good brotherly feeling that if we could get in alone we would be willing to let you stay out as long as you want to, even up to a million years. Yours truly, W. H. ANDREWS. Delegate from New Mexico. The time to vote" on the state hood question is rapidly drawing near and as far as New Mexico goes there is an unquestionable majority for the measure; however, the majority in this territory will be a great boost for New Mexico should Arizona vote the proposi tion down. The jointure senti ment is growing in Arizona, many influential men of that territory are taking the pro side and may carry the day, and then the sec ond greatest state in the Union will result. Should Arizona beat the measure New Mexico has a chance to be admitted as a single state at the coming meeting of congress and the bigger the major ity for joint statehood the better the chance for statehood Gallup Republican. Mrs. W. H. Oylerwentto Ala morgado Monday to visit her pa rents for a month. ARE UNDESIRABLE RESIDENTS ANYWHER.E Men and women are to be found everywhere whose great delight it is to create dissension and trouble in any town which they live. They are not contented or satisfied in an atmosphere of pleasure and good feeling; they are not happy except when raising a disturbance and distributing venomous critism of those around them. Such charac ters are undesirable in any com munity. They are to be especially feared and shunned in civic society for they ran destroy more plans for the good of the cause than all the balance of the members can think up. They can demolish more business structures than the best builders can build. Look w.w .t.wi.o ivuuov. heels are constantly raised with maliciousness and destructive pur pose even to the demolition of the habitation which covers and pro tects them. Las Vegas News. GOOD ROADS CONVENTION. While in Albuquerque Saturday Hon. L. Bradford Prince, the president of the good roads con vention held a conference with the officers of the fair association and Dr. Briggs, the chairman of the fair committee on good roads. It was decided to hold the conven tion of 1906 during the fair week, commencing on Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock at the commercial club. A few addresses will be arrang ed for, not so many as to occupy the time to the exclusion of a general discussion of the sub ject by those who attend the convention. This free and open discussion is more useful and in teresting tlian papers and address es, however carefully prepared. The formal notification of the convention will be issued by Sec retary Owen very shortly. The New Mexico Institute for the blind located at Alamogor djo will open on Monday September 10. All blind and par tially blind children of the territo ry, who are so.ind in mind and body, will be admitted as pupils of the school. The law of the ter ritory provides the age limit to be from 5 to 21 years. Chairman Bursum has called a meeting of the territorial republi can committee at Albuquerque on Wednesday, September jth. S. R. May and F. G. Queen re turned from El Paso Wednesday. LIGHTNING KILLS HORSE RIDER. IS UNINJURED Strange Freak of Electricity Re ported from Arizona. During the storms of the first part of the week lightning played numerous freak pranks at differ ent points in the territory. The most recently reported is from Globe, where last Friday a man riding a horse was struck by a bolt of lightning, the horse was killed and the man lived. The Globe Telegram tells of the oc currence as follows: Roland Jones, Frank Cloud and the father of the latter were riding norsebacK on the mesa north of town, in the vicinity of the Odel ranch, when the storm broke. To escape it they whipped up their horses to breakneck speed, trying to reach the ranch in time to avoid a drenching, when suddenly a bolt of lightning struck young J ones on the head. The bolt seemed to divide when it struck his shoulders, one streak passing off across his chest and then down his leg, and the other going down his back and then to the saddle. It passed through the saddle and struck the horse, kill ing the animal instantly. A hole an inch in diameter was burned in the saddle and blankets while another, through which one could run a hand, was burned in the hat worn by the young man, bearing evidence to the force and intensity of the stroke. Another evidence of the force of the shock is shown by the fact that the bolt knocked down the horse which young Cloud was riding.and stunned both the animal and its rider so badly that they were some moments in recovering. Jones was taken to the Odel ranch and later brought to town for medical attention. It was some time before he regained con sciousness, but when he came to he fought like a wild man. He is confined to his home here in town by the burns he received from the lightning stroke, and suffers con siderable pain. The accident is one of the most remarkable ever recorded. How the young man escaped death from the bolt which killed the horse and possessed intensity enough to burn holes in his blankets and hat, is nothing short of marvelous. By all the rules that govern such things young Jones should be in the grave yard right now,