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Vol. VI., No. 7.
NOGALKS, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1905.
Whole No. 658.
SATURDAY MEETING
LARGE AUDIENCE GATHERS AT TUCSON
TO HEAR APOSTLE OF STATE-HOOD--B.
S. RODEY.
NEW MEXICO DELEGATION
Brings Greetings from Eastern Section
of the Future State, Arizona
the Great--Some Good
Gospel Preached.
The meeting at Tucson last Sat
urday in the interest of the move
ment of statehood was all that its
sponsors and supporters antici
pated. There were present repre
sentative gentlemen from Maricopa,
Cochise, Santa Cruz counties, and
messages from friends to trie move
ment in the more remote counties
of Mohave, Apache, Gila and
Yavapai. ,
In the evening there gathered in
the opera house an audience of
some 600 people by actual count
who gave deep and profound at
tention to speeches from Hons. B.
S. Rodey, W. B. Childera and E. A.
Miera of New Mexico; and Hon. C.
F. Ainsworth of Maricopa county.
The addresses of all the gentlemen
named were, received with most
hearty applause.
Hon. C. I Schumacher of Tuc
son, head of the Arizona Statehood
Association of Pima county, pre
sided, and Dr. Mark A. Rodgers
was secretary.
The first speaker was Mr. E. A.
Miera, who for the edification and
instruction of the Spanish speak
ing portion of the audience, made
a short and telling adtlress. in
Spanish, which aroused his audi
tors to the highest pitch of enthusi
asm; and then the gentleman made
a short and effective speech in
English "just to show there are
those among the native population
of New Mexico who can sneak
English and need not the services!
of an interpreter to he understood
in either language." But the most
significant utterance in the speech
of the gentleman was that "it is
not the native, Spanish speaking
population of New Mexico that the
great corporations fear; but it is
the American population, who
know their iniquities and will
stand for their correction." Touch
ing upon the great bugbear of the
alleged raid that would be made
upon the public institutions of
Arizona by the people of New
Mexico, Mr. Miera pointed out the
well known hostility between vari
ous localities in that part of the
coming state which would always
prevent any such proposition.
(The gentleman took exactly the
same ground upon that subject
heretofore taken by The Oasis).
Hon. B. A. Itodey, ex delegate to
Congress from New Mexico, was
the next speaker. The gentleman
outlined the strenuous work he
had done for separate statehood for
his territory through two terms in
Congress, and how he had been
forced to accept joint-statehood or
none; and had unwillingly ac
cepted jointure as the only possi
ble alternative. He paid a high
compliment to the University of
Arizona at Tucson, which admir
able institution he had visited dur
ing the day, and he maintained
that the people in the eastern part
of the new state will feel as much
pride in the University as do the
people of the present territory of
Arizona feel therein. He held that
there would be no disposition to
abolish either the University of
Arizona or the University of New
Mexico; but that both would be
continued as parts of the great
University of Arizona.
Hon. C. F. Ainsworth of Phoenix,
was the third to address the meet
ing. Mr. Ainsworth related how
he had aided in the work done
last winter to head off jointure at
at Washington, which was accom
plished only by the failure of
the house and senate to agree upon
one or two minor amendments to
the bill, affixed in the senate,
which the house would not ac
cept, and from which the senate
had not time to recede before ad
journment; and how he had then
reached a conclusion that jointure
is the only possible way for se
curing statehood and had returned
home to announce to his friends
and neighbors his conversion to
the cause. The gentleman assert
ed that the principal ground for
hostility to the proposition in Mari
copa county arises from the loss
of the capital, and stated that a
proposition is now under consider
ation for creation of a dual capital
in the new state one at Phoenix,
the other at Santa Fe as was
formerly the case in both Connec
ticut and Rhode Island, which
he said would remove most of the
hostility-in Maricopa county, lie
pointed out that the real issue is
that of curbing the corporations, to
do which Arizona will need the
help of New Mexico.
Hon. W. B. Ohilders was the
final speaker. The gentleman paid
a high tribute to the University at
Tucson, and assured his hearers
that the people of what is now
New Mexico will take as much
pride in that institution as the
people of Arizona and stand with
them to foster and perpetuate it.
Other speakers had been an
nounced, but the hour was late,
and they waived the floor, content
with the good seed that had been
sowed already.
In the foregoing brief resume is
given but a meagre outline of a
part of what was said. But the
force and effect of it all is that the
meeting has served to emphasize
the contention maintained by The
Oasis that there is in Arizona a
pronounced division in public
opinion upon the question of
jointure.
Died Monday.
Guadalupe Saberdra died at the
Arizona hotel Monday morning
and was buried Monday afternoon.
She was twenty-two years old and
came here from La Colorada, So
nora, for medical treatment. Death
was caused by catarrh of the
stomach.
HOTTER A SUICIDE
WITH BULLET HE QUITS HIMSELF OF
WORLDLY TROUBLES.
Commits Rash Act at Los Angeles
While Wife Is Out Driving
with a Friend.
Charles J. Notter, until recently
office man for the Promontorio
Mining Company in Nogales, com
mitted euicide at Los Angeles Sun
day afternoon, by shooting himself
through the heart, The following
story of the tragedy U taken from
the Los Angeles Examiner of Mon
day morning:
With a ballet through his heart.
Charles J. Notter ended his life's sor
rows yesterday afternoon, lie shot
himself at Ids home, the rear of 818
West Second street. Mrs. Notter was
driving at the time with E. linker, who
had come from Nogales, Ariz., about
the same time she and her husband had,
four weeks ago.
Returning from her ride Mrs. Notter
entered the flat about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon. Her husband's '-dead body
greeted the woman's sight." Mrs. Not
ter's screams brought' Baker to the
scene of the, tragedy. "Financial
troubles," said Baker to Detectives Rich
and llawley, "caused Notter to take Ins
life." Mrs. Notter said the same.
Notter was a mining man in Nogales.
lie was rich. He lost his money only
a few months ago. Mrs. Notter and
Baker say he broot'ed.
In L Angeles Notter trot work with
j the Maier Backing Company as a clerk,
j He had several dollars in his pocket
jand a diamond was on one linger when
j the body was found,
j When Baker and Mrs. Notter went
I driving yesterday after Notter had con
J sen ted, the husband weut to the sitting
j room of their Hat. He lay down on a
'couch and smoked a corncob pipe, then
I laid it down on the window ledge. He
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j heart and pulled the trigger.
lie struggled a moment alter death,
and when the wife saw the body it was
slightly contorted. Mrs. Notter is, pros
i t rated. Baker remained with her - for a
time at Mrs. Opdyke's rooms near her
home, then he went home.
If Notter left any note it had been
taken from the room, for the oHicers
said none was there when they came.
Friends of Mr. Notter in Nogales,
while pained to learn of his self
destruction, are not greatly sur
prised thereat. It was known
among his friends here some time
that he was brooding over financial
matters and he confided to at least
one man that he had thought of
suicide as, a means of ending his
troubles.
sand. Playing tie game in sand,
in which at times they sink ankle
deep, was awkward work and some
ridiculous tumbles resulted from
the efforts of the players to move
quickly.
The Sonora people took the de
feat good naturedly, however, and
there was nothing in the capital
that was not at the disposal of the
visitors. To meet such people and
be accorded such treatment, the
Nogales boys .would enjoy visiting
Hermosillo every week, e en should
they meet defeat instead of victory.
The game put up by Sergeant
Hoover, who caught for Nogales
was exceptionally good. He won
the approval of all and even Mana
ger Smith of the Hermosillo team,
admired his work.
At the eleventh hour Saturday
night, professional duties prevent
ed Dr. Noon from accompanying
the team south, Mr. Andrews went
along ns substitute and came
back as proud as a crowing hen.
TURNED THE TRICK.
Nogales Defeats Hermosillo in Close
Game on Poor Ground.
Sunday afternoon at Hermosillo,
the Diamond N baseball team of
Nogales defeated the Hermosillo
team by a score of eight to seven.
The game was hotly contested
throughout, the bad condition of
the grounds being responsible for
the high score. Had the grounds
been in good condition neither side
would have scored more than two
or three runs.
Heavy rains had made of the
ball grounds a bed of mud, which j
the Hermosillo fans covered with
Judge Nave's Nomination;
There seems to have been t
peculiar developmentin the matter
of the nomination of Mr. F. S. Nave
of Tucson (formerly of Nogales) to
be Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court of Arizona. The
Congressional Record, December
6th, on Page 108, shows among
other nominations trarsmitted to
the senate that of Mr. Nave; but
upon Page 125 of the same num
ber of the Record it is shown that
Mr. Nave's nomination was with-'
drawn by the executive on the
same day.
When the report in the Congres
sional Record was noted at Tucson"
Monday the Citizen wired to
Washington for details, and re
ceived a special stating that Frank
.1. Heney, formerly of Tucson, who
has become famous in the success
ful prosecution of land fraud .eases
in Oregon, and on that account
stands very high with the presi
dent, had laid before the executive
some of the details of Mr. Nave's
suit against the Chenoweths for a
$2-3,000 fee in the Cerro Prieto liti
gation, and the collapsed prosecu
tion of Ben Heney before the U. S.
Court Commissioner at Tombstone
in October, which record arou-ed
in the mind of the president doubts
of Mr. Nave's fitness to wear the
judicial ermine, and caused with
drawal of the nomination. The
Citizen seems to think the disposi
tion thus made of the case is final.
A Remarkable Coin.
Doctor V. F. Chenoweth has in
his possession a Mexican dollar,
which was recently taken in the
course of trade at the Cananea
store of L. B. Fleischer, that the
latter named gentleman brought
over and gave to the doctor as a
keepsake well worthy of holding
It is the coinage of 1843, and across
the face is stencilled the name and
year "J. Chenoweth 1852," show
that in that year the piece passed
into the hands of someone of the
same name, who decorated it with
his sign manual and passed it
along. It is somewhat remark
able that after a half a century
the coin should come again into
the possession of a Chenoweth.