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The Spanish A menean
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matter.
CARE OF BLANKETS.
SPECIAL TREATMENT NECES
, SARY FOR BEST RESULTS.
Done In the Right Way, No House
keeper Need Dread the Ap
proach of the Regular Day
for Washing.
As the immortal stump orator re
marked, "We have blankets la our
cwadles, blankets in our twiba, blan
kets in our four-posters," and having
blankets so "prevalent," It behooves
us to keep them clean.
Now, many otherwise excellent
housekeepers dread the annual blan
ket washing simply because they un
derstand little or nothing of the art
of blanket scouring, as the Scotch
call It.
They usually resort to one or the
other of the two very bad methods,
and either send the blankets to a pub
lic laundry, where they may be made
white and clean, but will certainly
shrink, or they have a washerwoman
In, who upsets the whole household,
washes the poor blankets very badly,
and leaves them hard to touch, very
grimy to behold, and some sizes small
er than they ought to be.
Require Individual Care.
Now, if one lives in the country,
where a garden, or field, or good dry
ing ground is close by an excellently
appointed laundry, a big annual orgie
of blanket washing may be advan
tageous, though "I hae me doots"
about that.
To the ordinary housewife, who has
neither the space nor the appliances
nor the necessary number of servants,
it is a far wiser plan to send one blan
ket to the wash every week, or two
if the washing Is a light one, and it
is always necessary only to wash one
at a time, otherwise blankets shrink.
They cannot be treated en masse
as linen or cotton things are, but
must be done speedily and thorough
ly, and dried on a fine hot day, out of
doors, but not in the hot sun.
Right Kind of Lather.
: A warm soap lather must be pre
pared from soap jelly made the day
before, and a little ammonia, either
lump or liquiO, must be added to this,
and the blanket allowed to soak for
about a quarter of an hour to extract
the grease. Then it must be kneaded
and squeezed until the dirt is all loos
ened, and, If necessary, put though
two, and even three, fresh lathors.
The next process Is rinsing, which
must be done in warm water, and If
no soit water has been obtainable, a
little ammonia to each rinsing water
is a great advantage.
When rinsing is over It Is impor
tant that folding should be even and
exact, and then the wringing through
a machine" will act as mangling also.
Shaking well after rinsing, and then
pegging carefully to clothes lines in
the open air, and shaking occasionally
by two persons while drying, are the
final processes, except the "last and
final" stretch between two persons
after they are quite dry, in order to
keep them to their proper size.
Combining Silk and Cloth.
It is odd to notice how effective Í3
thé combining of silk and cloth. It
reminds one of the time when taffeta
gowns were trimmed with cloth, a
fashion that was smart and never be
came common. Now this reversal of
the combination,, the trimming of
cloth, with taffeta, is more popular
even than that was, and the great
danger is that it may become too pop
ular, the usual fate of a fashion that
is unusual and worth following. In
light shades as well as in dark this
stylo of trimming is much in demand.
But the great danger to the inexpert
dressmaker Is in the difficulty of get
ting a shade of silk that looks well
with the cloth. It Is a great mistake
to choose any shade that is not an
exact match. A color slightly off
completely ruins what would be oth
erwise a smart and attractive cre
ation. Remove Stains from Enameled Pans,
Fill with water and a tablespoonful
of powdered borax and let it boil well;
then scour with soap rubbed on a
coarse cloth, rinse thoroughly and dry.
Damp salt rubbed on the stains will
also remove them.
Fashion's Decree.
Lady (at bookseller's) I'm sorry
about these books. Some of them may
be masterpieces, but I really can't buy
books with bindings that won't match
the hangings of my library. Pele
Mel
ia u ..t ....
NEWSPAPERS HIT
NO MORE TRANSPORTATION FOR
ADVERTISING.
SUCH IS THE NEW RULING
Interstate Commerce Commission So
Interprets the Law Railroad Tick
ets Murt Be Paid for In Cash Not
Subject to Trade Like Merchandise.
W ashington. Under a ruling of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
transportation over railroad lines ne
longer may be given to newspaper
publishers or editor In exchange for
advertising space.
A protest against this ruling has
been received from the Massachusetts
Press Association, which says the as
sociation has voted to enter its protest
against the reported ruling in holding
that the payment for railroad trans
portation at full rates in advertising
shall be treated on any other basis
than that of transportation paid for in
cash.
In response to the protest Chairman
Knapp of the commission says:
"You are, of course, aware that all
tariffs filed in compliance with the reg
ulating statute names rates in dollars
and cents and do not in any case pro
vide that transportation can be paid
for with property. It seems plain to
the commission that the law above
quoted, coupled with the fact stated,
permits the payment for services of
interstate carriers only in money.
"A contrary rule would sanction un
equal compensation by different per
sons and involve ordinarily soma de
gree of discrimination in favor ol
those permitted to exchange their
commodities for the transportation
they desire or secure. . It is the aim ot
the law to prevent every sort of favor
itism and secure equality of treatment
in all cases.
"Thi3 ruling of the commission In
no way interferes or abridges the
rights of private contracts. Newspa
pers and their advertising space may
be freely exchanged for any species ot
property upon such terms as may bo
acceptable to the parties to the tran
saction. But the facilities of the pub
lic are not private property, nor are
they subject to bargain and sale like
merchandise. The right to travel or
have property carried by railway, Ilka
the right to common highway, is not
a contract right, but a political right,
the very essence of which is equality.
"Conceding that the advertising ar
rangements in question are ordinarily
made and carried out in good faith, it
seems plain to me that these arrange
ments must involve some measure of
discrimination, and it is not easy for
mo to see how an honest newspaper
can seriously object to a ruling of the
commission which appears to be in ob
vious accord with the provisions and
the purposes of the regulating stat
ute." WOMEN FOR LOCAL OPTION.
Resolution of Woman's Home Mission
ary Society.
Colorado Springs. An active part
in politics will be taken by the Wom
an's Home Missionary Society of the
Colorado conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, which concluded its
fourteenth annual convention here
to-day.
The convention decided to issue to
all members of the Colorado confer
ence the names of the candidate for the
bixteenth General Assembly, to
gether with advices as to whether or
not each candidate has pledged himself
to vote for the local option bill, to be
introduced during the next session of
the Legislature. There are several
thousand members of the conference
in Colorado, and their vote in favor of
the local option candidates for the Leg
islature will be an important factor
in the campaign.
The state officers, all of Denver,
were re-elected, as follows:
President, Mrs. A. C. Peck; vice
president, Mrs. W. D. Phifer; record
ing secretary, Mrs. C. M. Kellogg; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. H. E. War
ner, and treasurer, Mrs. D. K. Lee.
Officers were also elected by the va
rious districts comprising the Colorado
conference.
Trinity church, Denver, was chosen
for the 1997 convention place.
POSTOFFICE ESTIMATES.
Submitted to Congress by Postmaster
General Cortelyoii.
Washington. Postmaster General
Cortelyou has submitted "to the secre
tary of the treasury for transmission
to Congress estimates for the Post
office Department and the postal ser
vice for the coming fiscal year. The
amount asked for salaries in the Post
office Department Is $1,528,920, being
a net increase of $121,530 over the ap
propriation for the current year, while
the amount asked for the mainte
nance of the postal service is $200,662,
190, net Increase over the present ap
propriation of $15,000,000. .
The estimates last year were about
$12,000,000 of the appropriations for
the year before. Tne apparently large
Increase in expenditures contemplated
by the present estimates, according to
the department, represents but a nor
mal advance over the expenditures of
last year, made necessary to meet the
constantly, growing needs of the ser
vice and the public demand for im
proved facilities.
The principle items for which in
creased appropriations were submitted
r ua folio:
PRESIDENT'S DENIAL.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Did Not Vio.
late Game Laws.
Denver. The state game commis
sioner of Colorado has issued the tol
lowing:
"To the Public:
"Having read an article in several
of our daily papers to the effect that
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., while hunting
in Colorado, did not kill any bear, but
that he did kill three deer, this articlo
seemed so ridiculous to me that I felt
It my duty to write to the President
and get the facts in regard to It. It
gives me pleasure to give my letter to
the public, also the President's reply,
in order that his son may be exoner
pted from any such ridiculous charge,
and I can not imagine where it origi
nated :
" 'Denver, Colo., Sept. 12, 1906.
" 'To His Excellency, Theodore Roose
velt, President of the United States,
Oyster Bay, New York.
" 'Dear Sir Please" pardon me for
addressing you at this time, but you,
itl note by the enclosed newspaper
clipping that your son, Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., is accused, while in Col
orado, of killing three deer, which he
could not have done without a gross
violation of our state law.
" 'Your son, while in Colorado, was
t dignified gentleman in every respect,
pnd we have not the remotest idea
that he ever attempted to violate our
law, but with your kind permission I
would be more than pleased to contra
dict this, what I believe to be a false
statement.
" 'Thanking you for a reply, I am.
" 'Very sincerely yours,
(Signed.) " 'J. M. WOODARD,
" 'State Game and Fish Commis
sioner." " 'Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 17.
" 'My Dear Mr. Woodard By direc
tion of the President I beg to acknowl
edge the receipt of your letter of the
12th instant, and to say in reply that
the statement that his son killed deep
while in Colorado, or in any way vio,
lated the game laws, is absolutely
false. He was only after bear. He
did not see a bear and he did not fire
a shot at game while in Colorado.
The President will be glad to have you
make this public in answer to the
newspaper clipping you enclosed.
" 'Thanking you for your courtesy
in writing, I am, sincerely yours,
(Signed.) " 'WILLIAM LOEB,
" 'Secretary to the President.'
" 'Hon. J. M. Woodard, Game and Fish
Commissioner, Denver, Colo.' "
DEADLY RAILROAD WRECK.
More Than Fifty Passengers Killed
Near Atlantic City.
Atlantic City, N. J. By the wreck
ing of a three-coach electric train on
the West Jersey & Seashore railroad
Sunday afternoon at least fifty pas
sengers perished and the list may
reach the total of seventy-five when all
is known.
While crossing a drawbridge span
ning the waterway known as the
"Thoroughfare," which separates. At
lantic City from the main land, the
train left the track and plunged into
the water. The passengers in the first
two coaches, with one or two excep
tions, were drowned. Up to midnight
twenty-five bodies have been recov
ered, and it is expected that at least
twenty-five, and possibly fifty more
bodies are still in the submerged
coaches.
The disaster, the worst that has hap
pened since the terrible Meadows
wreck of July 30, 1896, occurred at
2:30 Sunday afternoon. The train,
made up of three heavy vestlbuled elec
tric coaches, which left Camden at 1
o'clock in the afternoon, carried at
least eighty-eight passengers, as that
number of tickets were held by the
conductor. That official is uncertain,
however, just how many persons were
on the train, and until all the bodies
have been taken out of the submerged
coaches it will not be possible to get
the true figures of the dead.
The cause of the wreck has not been
established. It was probably due
either to a defective rail or the break
ing of some part of the superstructure
of . the first coach. It has also been
suggested that the draw bridge, which
had just been closed after the passage
of a yacht, may not have properly
locked the rails. All theories as to
the cause of the accident, however, are
purely speculative.
A statement, however, given out by
the Pennsylvania company says not
more than fifty-seven of the eighty per
sons on the train lost their lives.
PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY
To Be Opened in Westminster Build
ing at Denver Next Year.
Denver. By the work accomplished
Friday at a meeting of the board of
directors of the new Presbyterian uni
versity project, at the Albany hotel,
Denver is assured of another great edu
cational institution- by the first of .next
September.
Rev. Edgar W. Work, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church at Colorado
Springs, was elected president of the
university, and he is now considering
whether or not he will accept the po
sition. Henry J. Mayham and N. Maxey Ta
bor, who generously donated the West
minster building and 120 acres of land
surrounding it, were present at the
meeting. The only condition named
was that the directors shall collect at
least $50,000 for the maintenance of
the university, which condition will be
complied with as soon as possible.
Mr. Mayham further offered to put
the building in perfect repair by next
June and to pay a financial secretary a
salary for two years to raise money
for the institution.
NEW MEXICO
The Las Vegas Daily Optic changed
hands October 23d, Prof. J. G. McNary
disposing of his interest to W. F. Cor
Dell of San Francisco, who assumed the
active management. Charles W. G.
Ward will be the editor.
J. F. Keyo, aged thirty-five, a tele
graph operator, was killed in the
Santa Fe yards at Rincón on the
night of October 19th by cars running
over him. The coroner's jury found
that he lost his life as a result of his
own negligence.
The trustees of the Las Vegas
grant have refused an offer from Wil
liam Brown, representing a Chicago
company, for the purchase of 150,000
acres. The board resolved that no
more land should be sold till the 50,-
000 acres now on the market should
se all disposed of.
In the District Court at Alb'iquerque
Milton Wilcox, charged with obtaining
money under false pretenses, was
found guilty by a jury. Wilcox, ac
cording to the evidence, obtained $375
Irom a clerk at the Indian govern
ment school, named Oliver, under the
assumption that they were to be part
ners in an advertising business.
1 The saloon of Joseph Padilla, in the
timber lands of the ZunI mountains,
has been dynamited. The building
jwas wrecked and contents destroyed.
The saloon was located between the
,timber camps of Thoreau and Ketner,
land had been the scene of many
bloody, druuken brawls, in which one
man was killed and several danger
ously injured.
i A Roswell dispatch says: "Slab"
Pitts, a negro, who runs an out of
.town two weeks ago, after serving
ninety days for violation of the Ed
jmunds act, was lynched by cowboys
iat Toyah, Texas. The accessory, Eva
Ruff, a white woman, followed the ne
!gro to Toyah and they were living to
gether. The cowboys went in the
night and placed a rope around the
neck of the negro. He was dragged to
death and then hanged.
"The oil well machinery at Durango
has been purchased and paid for and
the work of taking down and packing
for shipment has now been under
way for several days. The work is
being done under the direction of
iSuperintendent A, R. Messick. It is
expected that it will be on the ground
here by November 1st, and about two
weeks will be occupied in getting it
in shape to start to drill," says the
Farmington Times-Hustler.
! An Albuquerque dispatch of October
22d says: The storm which raged here
last Saturday night, all day yesterday
and last night, closed to-day. It started
with one of the worst sandstorms for
years, then rain, hail and snow. Limbs
from trees were scattered hither and
thither and many tents on the high
iland occupied by consumptives were
blown down. Snow has all disappeared,
leaving the streets and surrounding
valley soaking wet and muddy. Stock
men here do not believe the storm
caused losses among sheep and cattle.
The storm was general throughout cen
tral and southern New Mexico.
; Incorporation papers were filed at
Santa Fe October 26th by: The Colum
bia Copper Company, of Alamogordo,
,Otero county; capital, $1,000,000; in
corporators and directors, J. A. Carrol,
C. E. Jeffries and J. W. Prude, of Moa
calero. The Farmington Oil and Gas
Companj, of Farmington, San Juan
county; capital, $100,000; incorpora
tors and directors, W. II. Irwin, W. A.
Hunter, C. E. Stivers, S. E. Blake, J.
Allen Johnson, F. M. Pierce and C. J.
Carlisle, of Farmington. The Eden
Land and Power Company, rf Aztec,
San Juan county; capital, $100,000; in
corporators and directors, Blair Black
iwell of Durango, Colorado, William E.
IWalker and W. G. Black of Aztec.
; An Albuquerque dispatch of October
26th says: Jose Domingo Padilla lies
at St. Joseph's hospital, here, in a pre
carious condition, the result of an at
tempt to assassinate him. Last Sat
urday night his . saloon in the Zunt
mountains was dynamited. Padilla
was here on trial for carrying r.on
cealed deadly weapons, and was ac
quitted. Night before last he left for
(he mountains, and just as he got off
the train, four shots from a rifle were
fired, at him from ambush. One bullet
shattered both bones in his right leg.
Enough bone has been removed to
shorten the leg two inches, but it Is
feared to-night that in order to save
the man's life the leg will have to be
amputated. Padilla has no idea who
shot him.
! Colfax County Wool Growers.
The prominent stockmen of Colfax
county met recently at Springer and
formed the Wool Growers' Association
of .Colfax County, New Mexico. It
was decided to work for three things:
For the enactment by the Legislature
of a law providing for road supervis
ors in each precinct in a county; to
Btamp out scab among sheep, and for
the killing off of all wild animals prey
ing on live stock.
Following is the executive commit
tee selected for a year's term: Oscar
Troy, H. C. Abbott, Amador Montoya,
Severino Martinez and Rocendo Gon
zales. Eighteen members were enrolled,
and the following officers were elected
to serve for one year each:
Jerome Toy, president; Teodoslo
Gonzales, Becretary, and D. J. Devine,
treasurer. It was agreed that a mem
bership fee of $1 and annual dues of
50 cents be required; also that appli
cations for membership be made to
the president or secretary or any mem
ber of the executive committee.
NEWS"S
Inspecting
How would yoiri
ally engaged in settl'l
In doing so try to avoWf
complications? , i
This, says the Santa Fe I
can, is the job of A. F. PotterV
iugton, D. C, chief grazing ii!
and who is in charge of the o'J
i
crazine insnector of forest resi
who arrived in Santa Fe last nigh A
who will remain here for a short uV
in consultation with Forest Superviso
Leon F. Kneipp. Mr. Potter was ac
companied by J. T. Wedemeyer, a
grazing assistant, who will at once
take up work in his' department on the
Pecos river and Jemez Forest Re
serves. Before returning east Mr. Pot
ttr wlN visit the reserves In New Mex.
ico. He is an old, experienced cattle
man, having lived for eighteen years
in the Southwest, conducting cattle
ranches. His residence at present la
in Navajo county, Arizona, near Hoi
brook, where he owns a ranch. Form,
erly he lived in southern California,
Since he entered the forestry service,
ho has been for the greater part of. his
time hi Washington, except when vis
iting reserves, but says that he does
not intend to give up his residence In
the Southwest, and expects some day
to return to the cattle business, if cir
cumstances permit. Mr. Potter has
just finished an inspection of the graz
ing tracts on the Colorado forest re
serves. He also attended the Sheep
and Wool Growers' convention in Al.
buqucrque during the recent territor.
ial fair, where he met many pf his
friends of former days, including the
Honorable Solomon Luna, whom he
has known for many years. From Al
buquerque he went to Portland to at.
tend a session of forest supervisors
and other employes of the division of
forestry.
Confesses Two Murders.
An Albuquerque dispatch of Octobei
23d, says: Eliseo Valles confessed
the murder of the two Colorado mint
ers and prospectors, James Billingslea
and William McLaughlin, and impli
cates Carlos Sais. Capt. Fred Fornoff,.
of the territorial mounted police, ar
rived here late to-day and says:
"The confession of Valles was mad
to me through A. B. Baca, county as
sessor of Socorro county, who acted ai
interpreter. From the statements of
Valles the murders were among the
most unprovoked and premeditated
crimes éver committed in the terri
tory. I did not secure any statement
from Sais. Valles did all the talking
and he confessed for the other fellow.
Valles blames it all on Sals. The mo
tive, as he confessed it, was evil de
signs the natives had upon Mrs. Bil
lingslea, who was alone in the camp
while her husband and William Mc
Laughlin were prospecting with th
natives. Valles declared that Sals did
the shooting. He killed McLaughlin
first and Billingslea started to run,
when he caught him in the back with
a rifle bullet, which came out of his
mouth. It was a beautiful shot, Vallei
said. Valles said he had nothing to
do with the shooting, that Sals had
the rifle and wanted to kill the men,
thinking that he could then entice oi
force Mrs. Billingslea away with him."
Mounted Police Captures.
A Santa Fe dispatch of October 26th
snys: Dick Est.es, alias Tod Littleton,
wanted for grand larceny and jail
breaking at Lawton, Oklahoma, wai
arrested in the Hachita mountains,.
Grant county, by Territorial Mounted
Policeman Putnam, after a battle ia
which the officer shattered Estes' arm
with a bullet.
Horses stolen from ranches it
northern El Paso county and southern
New Mexico, to the number of fifty
five, are being rounded up by mountt-4
police co-operating with the Texai
Rangers, and will be restored to theii
owners. The thieves were appre
hended two months ago.
Mounted Policeman Gomez has cap
tured J. S. Baca, a notorious bad
man who has been given three peni
tentiary sentences, and escaped from
the Bernalillo county jail while await
ing a fourth sentence for cattle steal
ing. Woman and Children Drowned.
Indians from San Ildefonso brought
the news to Santa Fe of the drown
ing of Mrs. Vigil de Baros and her
two children during the snowstorm
Sunday while trying to cross the Rio
Grande river from the Rio Grande
railroad tracks to her ranch at the
Round mountain near Española.
The horses attached to her wagon
became frightened by the cold water
and upset the wagon In the irlddle of
the river. The woman's father was
driving but could not prevent the ac
cident. The woman's hospital wcrks at the
wagon, and although she struggled for
ten minutes could not be sived. The
children were carried down stream
and their bodies have no: been re
covered. The horses wer aaved.
The woman's husband wirks ata the
f-meltti at Durango, Colorado, and
was notified by wire of the accident.
GENERAL PALMER HURT.
Injuries by Fall From His Horse May
Prove Fatal.
Colorado Springs, Colo.-r-General
William Palmer, the founder of Colo
rado Springs and builder of the Denver
& Rio Grande Western railroad, sus
tained severe injuries by being thrown
from his horse on the Mesa road, in
the Garden of the Gods, near his home
at Glen Eyrie Saturday afternoon.
General Palmer was riding with his
two daughters and Míes Miller, who is
visiting them, when his horse sud
denly shied and threw him to tho
round. He struck on his head, sua-
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