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SANTA FJS NEW MEXICAN.
THE NEW MEXICAN PRINTING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
MAX. FROST, Editor. JOHN K. STAUFFER, Sec'y-Treas.
EDWIN F. COARD, City Editor.
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF SANTA FE COUNTY.
The New Mexican Is the oldest n ewspaper in New Mexico. It Is sent to
every postofflce in the Territory, an d has a large and growing circulation
among the Intelligent and progresslv e people of the Southwest.
, s&fib .
THE DONIPHAN iEXPEDITION.
What Xenophon's Anabasis is to
the Greek that Connelley's account
of the Expedition of Colonel Alexand
er W. Doniphan and of the Conquest
of New Mexico and California
thould be to every citizen of this Na
tion. Beautifully printed, superbly il
lustrated, this volume of almos: 700
iage.i is just from the pi ess and id
though in part a reprint and compila
tion, is cnc of the most valuable con
tribution's to American history made
in recent years. The author says in
his. preface. "This book is an accou.it
of the nicst remarkable military cam
jii!gn In American history. In many
respects, Doniphan's Expedition was
the inr.st wonderful of which hhtury
tells. And it was not only marvelous
It accomplished much, few cam
paigns having ever accomplished
more. For one thing, it saved Buena
Vista and averted disaster to Ani3,i
can arms on that bloody field. The
battle of Sacramento was tha most
wonderful ever fought by American
arms. Dewey's battle in Man'.'a Bay
may be set down as its only rivnl. The
only land battle at all approaching it
was that of New Orleans; but In that
battle the Americans fought at home,
on their own soil, behind fortifica
tions. The battle of Sacramento far
outranks it. Colonel Doniphan's men
attacked a fortified position held by
troops outnumbering them near I v five
to one. They were In a strange hnd,
thousands of miles from home. They
vere in rags, suffering from starva
tion. They were seemingly abandoned
by their government and left to their
fate. In case of defeat there was no
hope of succor, no help nothing but.
inevitable destruction. That charge
was as gallant and heroic as any ever
made in the world. It was as resist
less as the avalanche, grim as death,
inexorable as fate. It has never been
equalled in all the annals of the
world's warfare."
From these -words it may be sur
mised that the narrative is a thrilling
one, such as will make the school boy
shout with patriotism and will hoia
the school girl breathless with atten
tion. For the mature student of history
it throws light upon a strangely un
' known phase of National history, one
much neglected by text books and
larger histories. But to the citizens of
this Territory it has more than a
general interest. It was through New
Mexico that General Kearny and his
Missourians made their march and
fought the preliminary skirmishes; it
was from Santa Fe that Colonel Doni
phan started on the expedition to
Chihuahua which found its climax in
the battle of Sacramento so graiiic
ally described by the author and
.which he classes as unequaled in the
annals of the world's warfare.
The reprint of the story by Colonel
John T.' Hughes, who was a member
of the expedition is prefaced by a
brief diary of the latter which be
gins -with Monday, August 17, 184G,
upon the arrival of the expedition at
Pecos, twenty-five miles from Santa
Fe. It tells of the massacre by Gen
eral Salazar. the capture of his son,
the flight of Governor Armijo and the
many other events that crowded
that summer and winter and trans
formed New Mexico, from a Mexican
province into Territory of the United
States. General Kearny's entry into
, Santa Fe, his address and proclama
tion, his subsequent actions are min
utely described and at the same time
a picture Is given of local customs
and minor events that is of Intense
interest to every Santa Fe resident.
The diary concludes on March 13,
1847, a few days after the battle of
Sacramento, and from it is construct
ed the Hughes narrative. The story of
the march over the Santa Fe Trail
and t'hpn from Santa Fe down the
Rio Grande Valley, across the Jornado
del Muerto to El Paso, as well as min
or expeditions to Ablquiu and Cebol
leta, against the Navajoes, together
with incidental mention of the Taos
Rebellion and other events which
should be more generally known than
Is the case, form a narrative that is
intensely interesting on every page.
Some of the pictures drawn of social
and other conditions In Santa Fe in
those days, it is true, are not very
flattering but making allowance for
the times, the circumstances and
some natural bias, they are no doubt
n,.ifA annnyata Tho mnssaere of Gov-
t p ernor Bent, the battles of Embudo,
and Taos, the massacre at Mora, the
skirmishes on the Red River and at
Lais Vegas, the attack on Cienega, the
aTopiittnn of six Drlsoners and the nar
rative of Indian outrages are describ- j
ed In the last chapters of the Hughes
reprint which is illustrated with a
map of the Southwest, dated 1848 that
in itself is a valuable historical docu
ment. The last 100 pages are given to
an invaluable roster of the regiments
forming the Army of the West and
the First Regiment of Missouri Mount
ed Volunteers. Here is also given a
map showing in detail the route taken
from Independence, Missouri, over the
Santa Fe Trail to Santa Fe and from
there to El Paso and Chihuahua, Mon
terey and Matamoras. When it is re
membered that some of those who
participated In the expedition are
still living, and that among New
Mexico's present prominent present
day citizens, there are a number of
direct descendants of the veterans of
the remarkable campaign described in
the volume, then it will be seen that
the narrative has even more than a
historical and local interest, and why
It should be on every book shelf in the
Southwest.
The illustrations and maps number
about seventy and some of them were
furnished by the Daily New Mexican,
the author making acknowledgment of
aid given him in his work, to Colonel
Max Frost, editor of tbe New Mexican
who is proud of the personal friend
ship of the author, William E. Connel
ly. The volume was printed by Crane
and Company at Topeka, Kansas, and
as has been said in previous editorial 1
mention, is a superb, almost sumptu
ous, specimen of the printer's art.
With the author's permission, the
New Mexican expects to print from
time to time extracts from the history
which relate especially to the events .
which transpired at or near Santa Fe
during the first years of the American
occupation.
hoped to profit from exploiting him
Judge Landls' course in the oil case
whether right or wrong, was in the
line of his duty, and the fine he as
sessed against the Standard Oil Com
pany was presumably based upon his
best Judgment of the case. There are
differences of opinion regarding the
reasonableness of the fine, but the fact
remains that because it was the
Standard Oil Company, Judge Landls
was immediately placed In nomination
by a lot of hair-brained enthusiasts
for the presidency. What Landis him
self thinks of this sort of tommyrot is
given in a recent Interview: "Don't
say anything more about that. It is
almost an Impeachment of my judicial
honor. To assume that I would accept
political preferment as a reward for
anything I might do on the bench is
to impeach my Integrity as a man
and my honor as a judge." Judge
Landls Is an officer of a court of jus
tlce. So was Circuit Attorney Folk.
A HALT TO SYCOPHANCY AND
PHARISAISM. j
During recent years there has ap
peared in this country a spirit of syco
phancy and Pharisaism which, if not
allayed and put aside is bound to be
come detrimental and injurious. Of
late whenever a public official has
been found to do his simple sworn
duly he has been lauded to the skies
and set up high and aloft for public
woship, for promotion and for polit
ical or official ascendency. Of course,
among eighty millions or people there
are bound to be many doctrinaires,
many cranks, and many people of a
very sanguine and optimistic tempera
ment, with whom everything Is for the
moment and who are dazzled and
greatly impressed by acts of judges
and officials, even if there is very
little to them and when they are in
the simple line of proper performance
of duty. When they are spectacular
then the matter grows worse,
The Kansas Ci'ty Journal puts this
silly phase of hero worship now ap
parent throughout this country in the
right light in a well thought out edi
torial in which it asserts that one of
the inexplicable phases of the new
school of politics is the fact that no
public official or judge upon the bench
is permitted to do what he considers
his simple duty without the cry aris
ing from the groundlings that he must
be rewarded immediately by political
promotion. It seems to be taken for
granted that the honest judge or of
ficial is the rare and radiant exception
and that when such a one is discover
ed he should be taken on the should
ers of the populace and carried in
triumph to another post. Concersely,
any judge who fails to hammer the
life out of every corporation having
business in his court is an enemy to
his country.
One of the conspicuous beneficiar
ies of this hysterical system of hero
worship is Joseph W. Folk. For doing
his plain duty, under the urging of
the newspapers, Mr. Folk was taken
from the office of circuit attorney in
St. Louis and put Into the governor's
chair at Jefferson City. His case il
lustrates perfectly the folly, of this
sort of politics. As circuit attorney,
Mr. Folk wa3 a fairly capable officer.
He did prosecute the St. Louis bood
lers, and a few of them successfully,
although he owed his own position to
corruption, the ticket on which he
was a candidate having been fraudu
lently elected. He talked a great deal
about "civic righteousness" and creat
ed the impression that honest prose
cuting attorneys are rarer than the
snows of summer. As a result, he was
chosen as governor and Missouri Is
now suffering the consequences.
When Judge Landls, of the United
States court, ruled against the oil
trust and Imposed upon it a colossal
fine, he did wht possibly he consid
ered to be his plain duty. Yet the fac't
that It was a trust he fined and not a
wife beater, made him a hero' in the
eyes of the political dervishes who
NO "GIGANTIC" LAND FRAUDS IN
NEW MEXICO.
In the soverlgn stae of Texas there
is no land owned by the United States
except such as has been purchased
by the federal government from the
state for military reservations and
the like. The land all belonged to the
state, that is the public lands and
the acreage was enormous. This, of
course, has dwindled a great deal and
now the charge Is made that
many, many frauds have been
committed, that those who com'
mitted ' them might obtain title
to public lands in the Lone
Star state at a low cost in money but
at a high cost to their consciences
and morality.
It seems that when men can get
'titles to public lands, bo they federal,
state or territorial, by small payment
of money and a few false affidavits,
they will indulge in the practice, andd
the only comfort is that It seems to
be the same old thing all over and
that what little in that line has been
going on in New Mexico is very small
indeed when compared with what is
alleged to have occurred in many oth
er sections of the United States de
spite the lies, the slanders and the li
bels of the New Mexico false affidavit
men, of the slanders and back-biters
and of a few officials.
Considering all the circumstances,
New Mexico can show a pretty cleau
balance sheet In this alleged land
fraud business when compared with
what has been going on in some of
the great states in the Union, in Ore
gon, Washington, California, Nevada,
Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and even
in Texas. Concerning the alleged
fraudulent transactions in territorial
public lands the allegations are
dwindling right along and while there
may have been technical violations of
the letter and spirit of the statute un
der which donations of theipublic do
main were made to the territory of
New Mexico for the benefit of its ter
ritorial Institutions, yet so far no
charge of corruption or conspiracy to
defraud the territory has been prov
en. That some of the lands of the
territory have been sold on too easy
terms may have been the case, that
'the devil has been whipped around
the stump by some of the purchasers
In filing applications to purchase may
be a fact, that one territorial ex-offic-flcial
has been engaged In illegal or
improper acts in connection with the
disposition of some of the 72,000 acres
of territorial public lands disposed of
is acknowledged, but as to absolute
gigantic land frauds involving for in
stance "500,000" acres, as charged by
some federal officials, the charge is
absolutely unfounded and thoroughly
malicious, as but about 72,000 acres
of territorial public lands have been
disposed of, it is a mathematical im
possibility to make 500,000 acres out
of them even had every acre of the
72,000 acres parted with by the terri
tory been fraudulently and dishonest
ly obtained. Give the people of New
Mexico a fair chance and stop sland
ering and libeling them. They do not
deserve it, although to the shame of
some of the citizens and newspapers
of the territory be it said that they
themselves engaged in this wicked
and detrimental business and are part
ly to blame.
One by one are the newspapers of
New Mexico coming to the support of
speedy and energetic action on the
part of the people to secure the pass
age of an enabling, act for the Sun
shine Territory at the coming session
of Congress. Says the Prospector, pub
lished at the Red River mining camp
in Taos county: . -
"Single statehood is now being dis
cussed by the press and . the leading
citizens of the territory. A concerted
action In that direction is now being
made by members of both parties. It
is a pleasure to the loyal people of
New Mexico that joint statehood is
no longer a 'nightmare' to her citizens
On account of political reasons and
the great improvement going on with
in its boundaries one . ' can not
help from believing that statehood for
our territory in the near future, is al
most an assured fact."
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
attorTieys.at.law.
max. frost,
Attorney at Law.
Santa Fe New Mexico.
G. W. PRICH .;d,
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Practices la all the District Courts
and gives special attention to cases
before the Territorial Supreme Court.
Office: Laughlln Blk., Santa Fe, N. M.
BENJAMIN M. READ
Attorney at Law.
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Office: Sena Block, Palac Avenue.
WILLIAM H. H. LLEWELLYN,
Attorney at Law.
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
United States District Attorney.
A. W. POLLARD,
Attorney at Law.
District Attorney, Luna County.
Deming . New Mexico.
EDWARD C. WADE,
Attorney at Law.
Practice in the Supreme and Dis
trict Courts of the Territory, in the
Probate Courts and before the U. S.
Surveyor General and U. S. Land
Offices. Las Cruces, N. M.
E. C. ABBOTT,
Attorney at Law.
Practices in the District and Su
preme Courts. Prompt and careful
attention given to all business.
Sauta Fe New Mexico.
A. B. RENEHAN,
Practices in the Supreme and Dis
trict Courts. Mining and Land Law
a Specialty. Office in Catron Block,
Santa Fe, N. M.
CHAS. F. EASLEY,
(Late Surveyor General.)
Attorney at Law.
Santa Fe New Mexico...
Land and Mining Business a Specialty.
GEORGE B. BARBER,
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Lincoln, Lincoln County, New Mexico.
Practice in the District Court and
Supreme Courts of the Territory.
Prompt Attention Given to All
Business.
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The oldest banking Instltutio n In New Mexico. Established In 1870.
RUFUS J. PALEN, President. JOHN H. VAUGHN, Cashier.
LEVI A. HUGHES, Vice Presl dent. ALFRED H. BRODHEAD,
Assistant Cashier,
Capital Stock, $150,000.
Surplus and Undivided Profits $63,500.
Transacts a general banking business In all its branches. Loans
money on the most favorable terms on all kinds of personal and col
lateral security. Buys and sells bonds and stocks In all markets for
its customers. Buys and sells domestic and foreign exchange and
makes telegraphic transfers cf money to all ports of the civilized
world on as libera! terms as are given by any money transmitting
agency, public or private. Interest allowed on time deposits at the
rate of three per cent per annum, on six months' or year's term.
Liberal advances made on cons ignments of live stock and products.
The bank executes all orders of Its patrons in the banking line, and
aims to extend to them as liberal treatment in all respects, as It con
consistent with safety and the principles of sound banking. Safety De
posit, boxes for rent. The patronage of the public Is respectfully solicited.
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Cuisine and Table Service Unexcelled
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Santa Fc, New Mexico. - Washington Avenue
FRANK W. CLANCY,
Attorney at Law.
District Attorney for Second Judicial
District.
Practices in the District Court and
dhe Supreme Court of the Terrltorv:
also before the United States Supreme
Court in Washington.
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
H. B. HOLT,
Attorney at Law.
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Practices in the District Conrti as
well as before the SuDrem- Court nf
the Territory.
MARK B. THOMPSON
Attorney-at-Law
District Attornev. Elerhth District
Dona Ana. Lincoln and Otero Counties.
Las Cruces New Mexlnn
HARVIE DUVAL,
Attorney at Law.
Land, Mining and Corporation Law ex
clusively. Practice in all the District
Courts and Supreme Court. Sneclal
attention to perfecting titles and or
ganizing and financing land and min
ing properties.
Office, Laughlln Bldg., Santa Fe, N. M.
H. M. DOUGHERTY,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Practices in the Supreme and District
Courts of the Territory.
Office, Socorro. New Mexico.
CATRON & GORTNER.
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
Catron Block.
Santa Fe New Mexico.
JOHN K. STAUFFER,
Notary Publls.
Office with the New Mexican Print
ing Co., Santa Fe, New Mexico,
ROMAN L. BACA,
Real Estate and Mines.
Spanish Translator, Notary Public.
Office Griffin Bldg., Washington
Ave., Santa Fe, N. M.
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No charge for Consultation
Hours: 9-12 m 2-5 p. m. 'Phone 156.
President Roosevelt approved the
Oklahoma constitution because its
provisions compiled with the proviso
of the enabling act in the case. This,
despite the many nonsenlcal detri
mental and untenable provisions it
contains. Mr. Roosevelt approved the
document because, under the law
this was the proper thing to do.
He voices but the sentiment of mil
lions of people of this great country
when he remarks as a citizen and not
as a president that in. some respects
Its provisions are very bad, very un
wholesome and prejudicial to good
government.
CONY T. BROWN,
Mining Engineer.
Secretary and Treasurer New Mexico
8chool of Mines.
Socorrc . . New Mexico.
CORBET & SMYTH E,
Civil, Mining and Hydraulic Engineers.
Assaying and General Contracting.
U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyors.
East side Plaza. Santa Fe, N. M.
DAVID M. WHITE, C. E.
, (Late Territorial Engineer.)'
Irrigation, Water Supply, Railroad
and Bridge Building.
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
IT'S COLD HERE.
Our beer sales have almost doubled
since Installing a modeern sanitary j
system. Tou can always find a little
cold bottle here of either Blue Rib-;
bon, Schlitz or Lemps. Phon. 94.
The Club.
Short orders upon short no tlce. We cater to the appetites of our
customers. COME, COME, COMB.
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