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GaJIegos aud Meechen.
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Quay county should be very grate
ful for having had a man like Mr.
Gal legos to represent them in the
37th legislative assenibley. He
had several cousins and uncles in
the legislature, about twenty-four
in the house, seventeen of whom
were with him all the time and
sometimes as manty as wenty-one.
(applause.) The people ot this
district were surprised and also the
people of the Territory when his
third bill was passed by the House.
This bill for Quay county exten
sion passed the House eighteen to
three in about thirty-six hours.
The Union county representative
make a noble fight to defeat it, but
the odds were against him, owing
to the shrewd diplomacy of Mr.
Gallegos in organizing his forces
for the passage of the bill. Now,
many of you do not know how dif
ficult it was for Mr. Gallegos to
put this measure through as the
opposition was organized and very
determined.
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Legislative conditions were tur
bulent for weeks after the conven
ing of the session, the cause for
which it is useless to explain as the
facts are generally known until
fifty days or eight weeks of the
session had gone only three or
maybe four bills whatever charact
er had passed the House. The
House would pass a bill which
would be protested by the council;
the council would pass a bill
which would be protested by the
House etc.
Information was had that Gov
ernor Hagerman was going to op
pose in the passage of the exten
sion bill. 1 was asked to sec him,
when he informed me why he was
against the passage of this meas
ure. The reason was that we pro
posed to take away a valuable por
tion of Union county just at the
time when it was becoming a val
uable asset in defraying the ex"
penses of county government.
The bill gives us thirty-four miles
of railway, the flourishing towns
of Nara Visa and Logan, with
nearly four hundred thousand
acres of the choicest agricultural
lands of Northwest New Mexico
which is rapidly settling and de
veloping, and when next year the
Rock Island Railroad, which un
der Territorial Statute was exempt
ed for six years becomes taxable
will add to our assessed valuation
at the lowest estimate $1,000,000;
then too, we have three miles of
the Southwestern's Dawson line
which crosses the country of val
uable homes and farms ot recent
and thrifty settlers who will also
contribute much to our assessed
valuation next year. Now, you
see the torce of the argument just
as the time when this Territory was
going to be taxable property and
full of resources for the county of
Union. Quay sought to take it
from her. It is also a fact that
Union is a rich county with many
people and that their political
leaders put up five thousand or
more dollars to fight this bill, and
when the battle grew hot and vic
tory was now with the one and now
with the other it being a question
who should win it, Union demand
Win. Troup
COAL DEALER
AND
CITY TRANSFER
ed as a compromise, that they
were entitled to consideration in
the event Quay should acquire this
valuable territory. An agreement
was reached that an equitable con
clusion would be to take this Ter
ritory and return issue bonds 2
Union for the sum of $15,000.
This was done, and in justice to
Mr. Gallegos the people of Quay
county should be grateful to him
for what he has done.
A Family Fucd.
Continued from Page One.
direction of the ranch, they saw
the smoke from Hern's Winchester,
Morton's team running, and his
prostrate body lying on the prairie
and young Hern galloping away.
Briscoe did not anticipate such a
conclusion of his mission to the
Hern ranch. Horton had told him
when he served the papers that he
did not want to meet the Hern's
enroute to Tucumcari. Briscoe
suggested that he go the road east
of the Hern ranch, which he agreed
to do, but afterwards evidently
made up his mind to travel the
nearest way to town via the Hern
ranch, hence the result mortal
enemies met.
Deputy Briscoe sent a courier
to town to inform the sheriff of the
tragedy, and he himself went home
for arms. (He did not even have a
gun with him), and in the mean
time young Hern escaped.
Wednesday morning S h e r i f f
Street and posse went out to the
Hern ranch und arrested the father,
J. W. Hern and sent him in to jail,
and then surrounded the ranch
house and waited for young Hern
to return.
The latest reports we have are
that younjr Horn was discovered
Thursday evening on the plains
near tho Cap Kock of the plains
riding in the direction of the
ranch. Tom Horton, a nephew
of V. W. Horton, haul ted him at
a distance of one hundred and
fifty yards. Ho dismounted and
opened lire on tho posse, rotreat
ing into the rocks and cedar
brakes. Some fifteen to twenty
shots were exchanged. It was
getting dark and Horn made his
escape. The posse is still after
him.
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Latrk: Just as we go to press,
Deputy Sheriff .lames Bell, brings
the news that ho and his posse had
a pitched battle with Hern and his
confederates this (.Friday morn
ing), and that Williams, a confed
erate of Hern's is shot in the stom
ach and will dio, and Boll got a
30-80 bullet through the cont
sleeve of tho loft arm, just grazing
the skin. Sheriff Street and Depu
ty Frank Baker left immediately
for tho Hern runch, and it is tho
opinion of everybody that unless
Hern surrenders there will bo
more bloodshed today. Horn and
Boll talked together at a distance
of 100 yards before shots wore
exchanged yesterday morning,
und he was vehement in his dec
laration that ho would not be
taken alive.
J. E. Wright, the real estate man
of the firm of Wright & Lee, in
forms the editor that he is conduct
ing an agricultural experiment
station on the Reynolds farm two
miles east of town, and that the
government is furnishing him with
seeds of various kinds for that
purpose. There are only six var
ieties of alfalfa, and he has some
five of them on a five-acre tract on
sub-irrigated land with water at a
depth of twenty feet under the sur
face. He has also sown spring
wheat, which is now up three to
four inches and thrifty as can be,
aS'Well as other cereals, all of
which are doing well. Mr. Wright
believes this is going to be a wheat
country and that the close land
will produce well. He has also on
the Reynolds farm two miles of
locust trees, set sixteen feet apart,
which are strong and thirfty trees.
On his homestead six miles from
town, he has five or six acres set
in black locust trees, a small park,
which is a beauty. This is an en
terprise which we should appreciate
and should be emmulated.
The closing exercieses of the
District Skule at the Kourt House
Wednesday evening the 17th under
thy auspicies of thy Baptist Ladys.
& Grocery Co.
Phone No. 63.
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