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ANTA FE NEW
MEXICAN
VOL. 44.
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, THURSDAY OCTOBER 3, 1907.
NO. US
ROOSEVELT FAVORS
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1 NEW MEXICO
Result of Interview With President By
Governor Curry on Trip Down
Mississippi
l BE 6LAD TO ASSIST III
PASSAGE OF All ENABLING ACT
Long Cherished Hope of Sunshine Territory Now Almost
Within Grasp-News Will Be Heralded With
Glad Acclaim.
CARIO. ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 3.
"WE HAVE WON OUR FIGHT FOR SINGLE STATEHOOD," SAID
GOVERNOR CURRY TO YOUR CORRESPONDENT.
"I HAD A MOST SATISFACTORY INTERVIEW. WITH. THE. PRESI
DENT AND HE NOT ONLY FEELS A DEEP INTEREST IN NEW MEXI
CO BUT HE WILI ASSIST US IN GETTING SINGLE STATEHOOD."
GOVERNOR CURRY WAS HERE TODAY AS A MEMBER OF THE PAR
TY OF GOVERNORS AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED STATESMEN AC
COMPANYING PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ON HIS TRIP DOWN. THE
MISSISSIPPI TO MEMPHIS.
JOHN C. FISHER,
" ' EDITOR CARIO EVENING CITIZEN.
STATEHOOD FIGHT WILL BE TAKEN
UP NOW WITH RENEWED ACTIVITY
' The above dispatches which were received simultaneously this afternoon
by the Las Vegas Optic and the Santa Fe New Mexican, a3 specials from
Cairo, Illinois, sent'by John C. Fisher, City Editor of the Evening Citizen in
that city, is the most important news item to the people or New Mexico that
has come over the wires in many a year. The news came too late to al
low extended discussion in this issue.
SIX CONVICTED
IN GRANT COUNTY
At Recent Term of District Court in
Silver City Now in Territorial
Penitentiary.
During the recent term of the dis
trict court of Grant county, which was
'held at Silver City, the county seat,
convictions were found in six criminal
cases, and the prisoners are now In
the territorial penitentiary, serving
out their sentences. They were
brought here and turned over to the
prison authorities by Sheriff C. D.
Nelson of Grant county, who was ac
companied by three of his deputies,
John Shelley, J. M. Montes and C. 0.
Frizzel.
The following are the names of the
prisoners, the crimes of which they
were found guilty, and the sentences
imposed by the court:
Miles Adams, second degree murder,
twenty years.
Santiago Chavez, assault with a
deadly weapon, one year.
Juan Macias, assault with a deadly
weapon, one year. ,
Jesus Herrera, unlwafully discharg
ing deadly weapons, one year.
Jesus Lercero, unlawfully flourish
ing deadly weapon, one year.
Andreas Marcia, attempt to commit
rape, three years. '
Joseh J. Malloy who is held in cus
tody pending trial in Grant county was
placed in the penitentiary for saje
keeping.
FAKE INTERVIEW
ON LAND FRAUDS
E. Peyton Gordon Denies Statement
Credited to Him While in National
Capital.
COAL PRICES NEED
LOOKING INTO
Special assistant to the at
torney general of the United
States, E. Peyton Gordon, who
returned to Santa Fe yesterday
from Washington, D. C, said
today he did not talk with any
newspaper men while in the na
tional capital relative to the
federal investigations now in
progress in New Mexico. This
statement gives the lie to the
assertion credited to him in a
fake interview published in
one of the Washington newspa
pers, that gigantic land frauds
had been unearthed in New
Mexico. Mr. Gordon was quot
ed as saying that the alleged il
legal land transactions in
volved 500,000 acres when as
& matter' of fact the entire
amount of territorial land actu
ally disposed of is less than
75,000 acres.
Bernalillo County Grand Jury Believes
Matter Should Be Brought Before
Interstate Commission.
Albuquerque, N. M., Oct. 3. The
Bernalillo county grand jury which,
for several days past has been investi
gating the alleged coal trust in New
Mexico, made its report last evening.
Tt declares that the recent increase in
coal prices is extraordinary and un
warranted, that the prices are exo"b
itant and that the people have a griev
ance. The report closes by asking the
district attorney to take steps to place
the matter before the Interstate Com
merce commission for speedy investi
gation.' ' y
The grand jury was in session fif
teen days and returned a total of forty
two Indictments.
TAFT AND PARTY
DEPART FOR MANILA
Secretary of War Accorded a Cordial
Reception at Every Place He
Stopped in Japanese Empire.
Kobe, Japan, Oct., 3. Secretary W.
H. Taft and party arrived at Kyote
ithis morning. The approach of the
train was greeted by a salute of aerial
'bombs, General Kurkl entertained, the
(the party while here. They proceeded
jto Kobe this evening, where they went
aboard the Minnesota to proceed to
Nagsaki and Manila.
TO AID FISH IN
FIGHT ON HARRIMAN.
Hartford, Conn., Oct., 3. At a meet
ing of the stockholders of the Illinois
Central Railroad held here today, they
unanimously voted to have all the
proxies of the stockholders present
turned over to Charles M. Beach of
this city, who is a director of the Il
linois Central Railroad company and
a supporter of Fish In his fight with
the Harriman Interests. Those who
J have sent their proxies to Harriman,
J will cancel them,
THIRD TRIAL
BY CONSENT
To Establish Absolute Validity of
Claims Against Santa Fe
County.
Judge Ira A. Abbott, of Albuquer
que, arrived on this forenoon's train
from the south, and this afternoon pre
sided over the sessions of the dis
trict court for Santa Fe county in
stead of Judge John R. McFio. The
case on trial Is No. 4300 on tho dock
et of Santa Fe county, namely the
County of Santa Fe, complainant, ver
sus Max. Frost, defendant. In it the
county asks for judgment in tho sum
of a little over $1,200 which had been
paid by it to the defendant some time
ago on a judgment obtained by the
latter on certificates of indebtedness
issued to the Santa Fo Water and
Light Company a number of years ago
and upon which suit was brought by
the said water and light company Rev
en years ago.
Colonel Frost became the substi
tute plaintiff for tho water and light
company, the claim having been
transferred to him, and obtained
judgment in the case for the sum rep
resented by tnese claims and inter
est twice after due hearing and trial.
A question having arisen and asser
tion having been made by some inter
ested parties that the claims had been
once paid to the water and light com
pany by tho company, Colonel Frost
consented to having the first
judgment set aside and the case re
tried. After a second exhaustive trial
another judgment was obtained and
upon this second judgment part pay
nient was made which now the coun
ty seeks to recover upon the grounds
that tho claims have been paid and
satisfied by the county many years
ago.
In order to have an absolute clear
understanding and determination of
the case Colonel Frost consented to a
second reopening and to the setting
aside of the second judgment. As the
case has been before Judge McFie
twice the defendant considered it
best to ask for another trial judge,
hence Judge Abbott's appearance on
the bench.
A jury was empanneled this after
noon to try the case. District At tor
ney R. C. Gortner appears for the
county, and Attorney A. B. Renehan
is counsel for the defendant.
CIVIL CASES IN
DISTRICT COURT
COTTON GROWERS
IN CONVENTION
Over Two Hundred Delegates Gather
' Iri National Capital in Annual '
Meeting. .
Washington, Oct. 3. The National
Association of Cotton Manufacturers,
convened here today in semi-annual
session. Two hundred delegates rep
resenting every section in this coun
try and over a hundred cotton mer
chants from England, Germany, Italy,
France, Portugal and Belgium were In
attendance. The convention here is
preparatory to an International con
ference of cotton growers, spinners
and manumacturers, at Atlanta, Geor
gia, next. week. Secretary of Agricul
ture Wilson opened the convention
with an address in which he said "The
problem presented to our cotton grow
ers is not so much the cost of labor
as the intelligence with wi.ich the
crop is grown."
He added that by better farming the
pioduction of cotton on the acreage
now under tillage could be doubled.
THREE PRISONERS
FROM OTERO COUNTY
Qne Convicted of Second Degree Mur
der Other Two Found Guilty
of Killing Neat Cattle.
Deputy Sheriff Charles H. Haynes
of Otero County and Officer W. E.
Dudley, of the Territorial Mounted
Police, 'arrived in the city last even
ing, bringing three prisoners sent
enced to the territorial penitentiary
at the term just closed of the district
court of Otero Couny.
Two of the prisoners were father
and son, Robert Leslie, Sr., and Rob
ert Leslie, Jr., who were tried and
found guilty of unlawfully killing neat
cattle. The former was sentenced to
four years imprisonment and the lat
ter was given a term of two and one
half years. The other was Silderio
Duran, who was convicted of murder
in the second degree and sentenced to
twenty years in prison.
Mr. Dudley who is grand chancel
lor of New Mexico of the grand lodge
of Knights of Pythias will attend the
meeting of that body next week in
Albuquerque.
WOULD MAKE TRAVELING
PUBLIC BUY MILEAGE.
Topeka, Kans., Oct., 3. Representa
tives of all the leading railways in
Kansas .appeared before the state
board of railway commissioners today
here and asked permission to charge
three cents a mile on passenger fares
after October 5, where the passenger
boarded the train without a mileage
book. In other words the roads want
all the passengers to have mileage
books If they would take advantage of
the two-cent fare. The matter was
taken under advisement. '
Several Takes Up Yesterday After
noon and This Morning, Some
Being Dismissed.
Several civil cases were disposed of
at. the morning session today of the
district court of Santa Fe county pre
sided over by Judgo John R. McFie.
On motion of Judge N. B. Laughlin,
attorney for the plaintiff in the eject
ment case of Jesusita Archuleta ver
sus Encarnacion Tufoya, taken on a
change of venue from Rio Arriba
county, the cause was dismissed at
plaintiff's costs.
The cases of Martin Sena et al ver
sus Francisco Mondragon et al., John
N. Tholl versus Pablo Arauda et al.,
and Leo Hersch versus Nicholas BIck
worth et al., were ordered dismissed
for want of prosecution.
The case of Marcellno Garcia, et al.,
versus Joso G. Sanchez, was dismissed
by consent of the litigants.
The case of B. B. Crosby versus
tho Pennsylvania Development Com
pany was continued for the purpose
of taking depositions.
Yesterday afternoon tho court sot
aside its former ruling over-ruling the
motion to quash the writ of attach
ment In the case of H. E, Astler ver
sus W. F. Astler and sustained the mo
tion in part and leave was granted to
filo a new bond within ten days.
Judge McFie yesterday also over
ruled a demurrer interposed by the
defendant In the case of Thomas 13.
Catron versus Ransom B. Thomas and
leave was given to the defendant to
plead within twenty days.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
FAVORS WATERWAY
GOVERNMENT
MUST
C
L
Big Railway System to Use Its Influ
ence to Secure Improvement of
Great River.
Chicago, Oct., 3. The management
of the Illinois Central Railroad com
pany has decided to throw its influ
ence in favor of the deep waterway
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. This
became apparent yesterday when J. T.
Harahan, president of tho road, stated
he would make an address in favor of
the project of the Deep Waterways
convention at Memphis Friday.
The management of the Illinois Cen
tral believes the deep waterway pro
posed will develop the south rapidly
and such development will make in
creased tonnage for the Illinois Cen
tral and the Yazoo and Mississippi
galley lines.
President Haraliau said' in his judg
ment the railroads would be unable in
many years to come as they are now to
handle the tremendous traffic offer
ed, so it will not hurt by reason of the
tonnage taken from them by the waterway.
GOULD
E
PAY GIG FINE
Astounding Wealth
of Standard is
Revealed
PROFITS ARE ENORMOUS
Resources of Oil Octopus
Have Never Been Overestimated.
GREAT CQflPORATIDNS OF COUNTRY
Declares President Roosevelt in Speech
at Cairo, Illinois.
Individual States Unable to Cope With Problems of Such
Magnitude, Hence Federal Supervision is Necessary.
New York, Oct., 3. For the first
time there has just been made public
the iucome- account and balance sheet
of the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey, which is the parent of all the
Standard Oil companies in the world.
The report shows that the wealth of
the company has, at not time, been
overestimated.
The income account shows, that
while the company paid forty million
dollars in dividends in the year end
ing December 31, last, It earned more
than eighty-three million and left a
surplus for the year of more than
$43,750,000. This, added to the previ
ous surplus and the total surplus
In profit and loss account amounts to
$261,000,000, or more than ten times
the amount of the great fine recently
imposed in the federal court by Judge
Landis. The balance sheet shows the
assets to be $371,604,532 as compared
with a capitalization of $100,000,000.
Apart from the capital stock oustand
ing and the profit and loss surplus, the
only liabilities are accounts payable to
the amount of $12,264,000.
FOUR ITALIANS ARE
HANGED FOR MURDER.
Lancaster, Pa., Oct., 3. Four Ital
ians, Antony Deloze, Stephen Caruli,
Siverie Rodelll and Joseph Celione
were hanged here today for the murd
er of Peter Albamaze last year. They
murdered Albamaze because : hr - re
sisted being robbed. .- ::
Cairo, 111., Oct. 3. When President
Roosevelt stepped ashore here at tt
o'clock this morning he manifested
every evidence of having passed a
comfortable night. He was the guest
at dinner last evening on the
steamer Alton . of tho Business
Men's Lea .gut of St. Louis and
"'.ill that entertainment, speech
making and conversation, his time un
til almost midnight was fully tak
en up. The dinner was regarded by
all as very Important and it is be
lieved that the scheme of a ship chan
nel from the gulf to the lakes re
ceived great Impetus. The President
requested that his remarks be not re
ported but he consented to the state
ment that he has announced une
quivocally his endorsement of the gen
eral principle involved in the scheme
for the creation of a ship channel up
the river to the Great Lakes. At the
same time he was most careful to say
he would not give his assent to any
particular scheme of improvement.
He also pointed out that there were
many obstacles connected with the
carrying into effect of any plan of
such vast proportions and involving
so much expense, and while promis
ing all the assistance he could give,
ho told his hearers the only way to
make success certain was to thorough
ly prepare themselves as to render
their arguments unanswerable.
His speech was greeted with pro
longed applause and this endorsement
took the shape of words when Gover
nors Folk, Deneen and Blanchard
spoke. All pledged their utmost ef
forts in furtherance of the enterprise.
The gathering at dinner was a not
able one and included tho governors
of fifteen states.
Upon the arrival of President Roose
velt and. party at tho Cairo wharf all
were Immediately conveyed in carriag
es to St. Mary's park. Governor De
neen, of Illinois, introduced the Presi
dent, who began speaking at 9:40
o'clock and continued until 10:"G0.
Then the party returned to their boat
and shortly afterward the start was
made for Memphis. Over ten thousand
people heard the President's address
in the park and the crowds would
have been larger had the arrival of
many excursion trains not been de
layed. The President spoke in part
as follows:
The President's Speech.
"Men of Illinois, and You, Men of Ken
tucky and Missouri:
"I am glad to have the chance to
speak to you today. This is the heart
of what may be called the Old West,
which we now call the Middle West,
using the term to denote that great
group of rich and powerful states
which literally forms the heart of the
country. It is a region whose people
are distinctively American in all their
thoughts, in all their ways of looking
at life; and in its past and its pres
ent alike it is typical of our country.
The oldest men present can still re
member the pioneer days, the days of
the white-tilted ox wagon, of the emi
grant, and of the log cabin in which
that emigrant first lived when he set
tled to his task as a pioneer farmer.
They were rough days, days of hard
work, and the people who did that
work seemed themselves uncouth and
forbidding to visitors who could not
look below the surface. It is curious
and amusing to think that even as
genuine a lover of his kind, a man
normally so free from national pre
judices as Charles Dickens, should
have selected the region where we
are now standing as the seat of his
forlorn 'Eden' in Martin Chuzzlewit.
The country he so bitterly assailed is
now one of the most fertile and pro
ductive portions of one of the mosti
fertile and productive agricultural ter
ritories in all the world, and the
dwellers in this territory represent a
higher average of comfort, intelli
gence, and sturdy capacity for self
government than the people in any
tract of like extent in any other con
tinent. The land teems with beauty
and fertility, and but a score of years
after Dickens wrote it was shown to
be a nursery and breeding ground of
heroes, soldiers and statesmen of
the highest rank, while the rugged
worth of the rank and file of the citi
zenship rendered possible the deeds of
the mighty men who led in council
and in battle. ,This was the region
jthat brought forth mighty Abraham
Lincoln, the incarnation of all that is
best in democratic life; and from tho
loins of the same people, living only
a little, farther south, sprang another
'of: our .greatest Presidents, Andrew
'Jacksot.'.-'Qld Hickory' a man who
' made' mistakes, like most strong men,
but a man of iron will and incorrupti
ble integrity, fearless, upright, de
voted to the welfare of his country
men, bone of our bone and flesh of
our flesh, a typical American if ever
there was one.
Rules For Good Government.
"Government in its application is
ofien u complicated and delicate work
but the principles of government are.
after all, fairly simple. In a broad
general way we should apply in tho
affairs of tho national administration,
which deals with the interests of all
our eighty-odd millions of people, just
the same rules that are necessary in
getting on with our neighbors in our
several neighborhoods; and the na
tion as a whole should show substan
tially the same qualities that we
would expect an honorable man to
show in dealing with his fellows. To
illustrate this, consider for a moment
two phases of governmental action.
"First as to international affairs.
Among your own neighbors, among
your friends, what is the attitude you
like to see a man take toward his fel
lows, the attitude you wish each of
your sons to take when he goes out
into the world? Is it not a combina
tion of readiness and ability to hold
his own if anyone tries to wrong him,
while at the same time showing care
ful regard not only for the rights but
for the feelings of others? Of course
it is! Of course the type of man
whom we respect, whom we are proud
of if lin is a kinsman, whom we are
glad to have as a friend and neigh
bor, is the man who is no milksop,
who is not afraid, who will not toler
ate nor hesitate to resent insult or in
jury, but who himself never inflicts
insults or injury, is kindly, good-natured,
thoughtful of others' rights in
short, a good man to do business with
or have live in the next house or have
as a friend. On the other hand, the
man who latlw any of those qualities
is sure to be objectionable. If a man
is afraid to hold his own, if he will
submit tamely to wrongdoing, he is
contemptible. If he is a bully, an op
pressor, a man who wrongs or insults
others, he is even worse and should
be hunted out of the community. But,
on the whole, the most contemptible
position that can possibly be assumed
by any man is that of blustering, of
bragging, of insulting or wronging
other people, while yet expecting to
go through life unchallenged, and be
ing always willing to back down and
accept humiliation if readiness to
make good is demanded.
Nation Must Command Respect
"Well, all this is Just as true of a
nation as of an individual, and in deal
ing with other nations we should act
as we expect a man who is both game
and decent to act in private life. There
are few things cheaper and more ob
jectionable, whether on the part of
the public man or of the private man,
on the part of a writer or of a speak
er, an individual or a group of indi
viduals, than a course of conduct
which is insulting or hurtful, whether
in speech or act, to individuals of
another nation or to tho representa
tives of another nation or to another
nation itself. But the policy becomes
infamous from the standpoint of the
Interests of the United States when it
ia combined with the refusal to take
those measures of preparation which
can alone secure us from aggression
on the part of others. The policy of
"peace with Insult" is the very worst,
policy upon which it is possible to em
bark, whether for a nation or an indi
vidual. To be rich, unarmed, and yet
insolent and aggressive, is to court
well-nigh certain disaster. The only
safe and honorable rule of foreign pol
icy for the United States Is to show
itself courteous toward other nations,
scrupulous not to infringe upon their
rights, and yet able and ready to de
fend its own. This nation is now on ,
terms of the most cordial good will
with all other nations. Let us make
it a prime object of our policy to pre
serve these conditions. To do so it
i3 necessary on the one hand to mete
out a generous justice to all other
peoples and show them courtesy and
respect; and on the other hand, as
we are yet a good way off from the
millenium, to keep ourselves in such
shape as to make it evident to all men
that we desire peace because we
think it is Just and right and not
Rich Must Not Oppress the Weak.
"So much for foreign affairs. Now
for a matter of domestic policy. Here ;
in this country we have founded a
great federal democratic republic. It
is a government by and for the peo-
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