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The Spanish American Iiued an Saturday of aten Week. Published by Mora County Publiahlni Company. subscription mica I One Taar , $1.01 Biz Moat ha 1.04 Slnda Copy N Batarad at Roy, N. M., poatofflee fot tranamlealon through tba mails aa aaa nd-elaaa matter. SOME GOOD HOME REMEDIES. Hot Water Clotha at a Poultice Proper Treatment of Burns. Cloths dipped In hot water readily act as a poultice and have few equals In reducing pain. Cloths which have been dipped in hot water and then are wrapped around a hot water bottle will have all the efficacy of those freshly dipped and rung out, and will retain their heat and moisture for hours. This is a good thing to bear in mind when it is difficult to change cloths every few minutes, as when one is taken suddenly ill In a boarding house or wherever attendants are hard to find. One of the most healing of applica tions in the case of bad burns Is made from raw potato without adding any thing to it Grate It freshly every time the poultice is to be changed, and, after putting it thickly on a cloth, lay over the burns. The heat of the burn will yield like magic to its dripping coolness, which, however, dries rapid ly. It should be renewed as fast as me juice oí tne vegeiaoie evapórate. ' Burns treated In this way rarely leave a scar, no matter how severe they have been. As usually made, the flaxseed poul tice is all that it should not be a wet mass which none can welcome. One way of making them is to scald the meal with boiling water, allow to swell, and then heat to the boiling point again. This Is used where something gentle is required. To strengthen the poultice mustard in small proportions may be added. The well made poul tice should be soft and moist, but not wet and hot TIME FOR LIGHTER FOODS. With the Warmer Weather Put Away the Winter Dishes. When children are dull in the morning, and no one feels like break fast and all complain of "spring fever," it Is a sign that It is time to draw a line on the winter foods. Put on your thinking cap. Pqt aside every possible article of diet that was on the table of yesterday and begin afresh on lighter foods. If it has been oat meal porridge, sausage, eggs, pancakes and toast, forget them and begin somewhat after this fashion: Grape fruit or fresh rhubarb sauce, crisp, thin toast and pop-overs, with perhaps ribbons of very thinly sliced bacon. Let the breakfast food go for awhile, and do not mix sour grape fruit or rheubarb with fresh milk. Young radishes and young green on ions are in the market, and a plate of lettuce sandwiches, with coffee, will spur the lagging appetite. Use for Dried Bread. Dried bread will accumulate in spite of the best efforts of the housewife. Bread pudding, varied with dressings, raisins, currants and bits of citron, is welcome at every table. When a lack of tact permits soggy, uninter esting and tasteless bread pudding coming on the table, its good quali ties and possibilities are lost eight of. Soak a cup of bread crumbs in two cups of milk until soft, beat it smooth, add a tablespoonful of sugar, the beat en yolks of two eggs, a little salt .and a half teaspoonful of vanilla. Choose a tin mold and butter slightly, and stick raisins on the butter; fill the mold and put It in the oven in a pan of water and bake 20 minutes. Turn out and surround with spoonfuls of whipped cream. Pineapple Muffins. To two well beaten eggs add gradu ally one teacup of sweet milk and one-third cup of melted butter. Thick en this with one (sifted) quart of flour in which has ben mixed three teaspoons of baking powder, a heap ing tablespoon of sugar and a tea spoon of salt. When thoroughly beat en add one cup of grated pineapple and bake until quite done (which will be In about half an hour) in hot, greased muffin rings a little more than half full. Protecting Greenhouse Plants. Plants in a greenhouse should be shaded in some way. Some apply lime wash to the glass. This can be thrown on well with a sprinkler, and it an swers all purposes, but it Is quite dif ficult to remove it when there is no longer need of shading. Cheesecloth fastened to wires with rings which may be slipped up and down the wire will be found to cost but little, r,nd will prove very satisfactory. TO EDIT IRRIGATED FARMS. Movement Is On Foot to Colonize Newspaper Men in Routt County. A colony of newspaper men is to be established in the Little Snake River valley, in Routt county, Colorado, where the fctate of Colorado will throw 50,000 acres of land, under the Little Snake river canal system, open for set tlement, under the Carey act, this sum mer. This is not to be a Western Uto pia or Rocky Mountain Helicon hall, but an up-to-date farming community, where each man will own his own farm and Improvements, the only connection in which the community Idea will pre vail. If at all, being In regard to labor. Under the Carey act, any citizen of the United States may select 160 acres, the price of land and perpetual water right in the canal system being fixed by the state. Warren R. Given has taken options on forty selections of 160 acres each for his newspaper men friends. Mr. Given is a former newspaper man. "Every newspaper man, I think, cherishes the hope that he may some day be a land owner, own a farm where hA niBv pnracft In sericulture or stock raising profitably, either In person or by proxy, says Mr. Given, "ine au fleulty generally Is to secure good land at a cheap price, amid congenial sur roundings, In a fertile district, where values are now low, but will soon rise. "These conditions Drevail In the Lit tle Snake River valley, In Routt county, Colorado. It seems to me that tnis Is an ideal place In which to establish a colony of newspaper men. The val ley is 'beautiful for situation,' and in the heart of the rich territory to be opened by the Moffat road. The Union Pacific, it is reported, also will build into the valley." Prominent newspaper men from all parts of the country have already ex pressed their intention of locating In the Little Snake River valley. BROWN PALACE UNDER HAMMER Denver's Finest Hotel to be Sold by Sheriff to Satisfy Mortgage. Denver; The Brown Palace hotel rill be sold at auction to the highest Mdder within less than sixty days, and I lie money realised will go to the erec tion of a huge office building on five lots at Seventeenth and Stout streets, to cost about $800.000. The famous Stratton mortgage on the property, on which an option was given at a price of $650,000, has been1 transferred to investors who are not Inimical to further proceedings, and it will be foreclosed at once. Within a few days the great hotel will be advertised for sheriffs sale. At the end of thirty days, which is the time required by law for the public no tice, the purchaser will take over the property, and the famous litigation will be closed. The legal complications which have held this immensely valuable hotel in an unsettled condition date back r.early Ave years, when Wlnfleld Scott Stratton died. He held a mortgage on (Via Rrnvn Pa la hotel, and on his deathbed gave an option of purchase to Michael J. Finnerty for approxi mately $650,000. The option was later transferred to Finnerty's assigne, who has since held it. The executors of the Stratton es tate were ready to foreclose the mort gage and settle the ownership of the hotel. Finnerty's assignee thereupon began suit to act on the option, claim ing that he had $650,000 with which to make the purchase. The Stratton .executors bitterly contested the case, and won It before the Supreme Court. The plaintiff made another attempt, carried it through all the courts to the lliighest tribunal, and there received a favorable decision. Meanwhile the hotel was being leased literally by the month, on ac count of the unsettled condition of its ownership. The profits were turned over to a receiver for the creditors, from whom they secured the benefits due them. THE WAGES OF SIN. Dead Man's Finger Points to Signifi cant Passage in Bible. Trinidad, Colo. "Had Zlmrl peace who Blew his master?" With the fore finger of his right hand pointing directly at this passage In an open ' Bible that lay on his breast, the dead , body of a man be lieved to be J. E. Paddock, was found on the bed of his room at the Elmwood hotel by a chambermaid. Paddock committed suicide some time during last Sunday night by swallowing a large quantity of cyanide of potassium, because his conscience would give him no rest. Paddock came from Albany, New York, where, it Is understood, he was well connected and was formerly in the laundry business. He asked the chambermaids not to molest his room, and it went for days without being cleaned. A new girl was put to work this morning on the floor where the suicide's room is lo cated, and she forced the door to clean things up. Paddock's body lay on the bed with the open Bible on his breast, the fore finger of the right hand point ing to this passage: "Had Zlmri peace who slew his master?" During his stay in Trinidad Paddock made a confidante of a, certain man, to whom he said that he was terribly worried over something he had done years ago. "I haven't had a moment's peace of mind since that awful night," Paddock told his friend, "and some day I am going to end it all. The face of tny dead friend is always before me." NEW MEXICO NEWS SUMMARY. Santa Fe Heads List. The Santa Fe New Mexican editori ally says: From the meteorological synopsis of the weather In New Mexico during the month of February, Just' published by the Western Bureau, it will be seen that February weather In this terri tory, this year, was superb and that at Santa Fe It reached the point near est perfection, although in other parts of the United States the weather dur ing the month was, as usual, abomin able. Santa Fe had not a day without sunshine and 79 per cent, of the pos sible sunshine. Roswell had 77 per cent., Amarillo, Texas, had 75 per cent, of the possible sunshine. Santa Fe had sixteen days with 90 per cent, or more of sunshine, the same as El Paso, Texas, and four such days more than Roswell. Santa Fe had a maximum wind of thirty-four miles per hour; Roswell, of thirty-eight miles per hour; Mesilla Park, thirty-six miles per hour; Amarillo, forty miles' per hour; El Paso, forty-four miles per hour. But it is In the range of temperature that the final test of climate lies, for the less the range, the more comfortable and healthful it may be considered when other factors are equal. At Santa Fe, the extreme range In temperature was between 19 and 67 degrees or 33 degrees; at Albuquerque It was 48 de grees; at Las Vegas It was 58 degrees; at Roswell it was between 19 and 77 degrees or 58 degrees; at El Paso, Texas, it was 47 degrees, and thus at every station in the Southwest, in fact throughout the country, the daily, the average and extreme range in tempera ture, was far greater than at Santa Fe, and this is not only the case in February, the most trying month of the year, elsewhere, but during every month, year In and year out, a fact which establishes Santa at the head of the list of climate resorts in the United States. May Remove Governor Hagerman. Albuquerque, N. M. Telegrams re ceived indicate that H. J. Hagerman is to be removed as governor of New Mexico. These telegrams emanated from Washington and from sources that are considered reliable. Governor Hagerman, with his recent appointee as territorial treasurer, Levi Hughes, has been In Washington the last week and was a frequent visi tor at the Vhite House. W. H. An drews, delegate to Congress,' wfcpm' Ha german fought during the campaign of last November, has also been a fre quent visitor at the White House re cently. Charges of attempting to dis organize the Republican party of New Mexico, which were filed some time gey are said to, be the ground for Governor Hagerman's removal. With the rumor of the removal of Governor Hagerman also come reports as to who the new governors will be. Among those mentioned are United States Attorney W. H. H. Llewellyn, Captain Clark M. Carr, Attorney E. L. Medler and Judge J. R. McFle of the First Judicial district. The appoint ment of Mr. Medler Is thought to be most probable. Mr. Medler refuses to discuss the matter. It is known that he spent several weeks in Washington during February and called on the president. Fight a Duel. Albuquerque, N. M. A pitched bat tle was fought Tuesday twenty miles east of , Tucumcari, northeast New Mexico, between a detachment of the New Mexico mounted police and Elmer Hern and two companions who are re sisting arrest. John Wilson of the out law party was shot to aeath by the posse and his body left on the field when the outlaws fled. Hern, last autumn, shot and killed his father-in-law at Tucumcari as the result of an old family feud. He made his escape and has since succeeded In resisting arrest, having had three battles with the several posses pursuing him. Three sympathizers of Hern have joined him and they have sent word to Ihe rangers that they will not be taken alive. Fur ther fighting is expected. Sawmill Resumea Operation. Alamogordo, N. M. The Alamogordo Lumber Company's sawmill plant has resumed work after two weeks spent in repairs and installing a new Corlis engine. The increase of the power will increase the dally capacity of the plant materially, the exact amount be ing yet conjecture. The new engine room will be completed this week. The management of the American Co-operative Sanltorium Company has an agent in the eastern markets pur chasing equipment for the institution, which it is hoped will be ready for the reception of patients in about thirty days. It will require three large fur niture cars to transport the equipment. Good to Look At. Orogrande, N. M.-r-Last week fires were started under the boilers at the smelter of the Southwest Smelting and Refining Company, and the machinery was started. It ran as smooth as could be. The big electrical units were put in operation, to ascertain whether there was any defect. They ran as quietly and as steadily as a hand-made watch, and with as little noise as a high grade sewing machine. At night the electric lights glowed in the plant, and the test of the ma chinery has been in every way more than satisfactory. Smoke curling from the top of the power house stacks is good to see. NEW MEXICO NEWS SUMMARY New Mexico's New Governor. Santa Fe, N. M. Captain George Curry, appointed governor of New Mexico, is a self-made man. He was born In Louisiana in 1862. After hold ing numerous public positions of more or less importance, in 1893 he was ap pointed captain of Troop T of -Roosevelt's Rough Riders. His 'troop re mained at Tampa, Florida, where it quelled a riot among the negro troops. He served on Governor Otero's staff and was president of the regents of the New Mexico Military Institute at Ros well, and was appointed by Governor Otero as sheriff of Otero county upon the formation of that county. Soon after he accepted a commission as first lieutenant In the Eleventh cav alry. He saw service In the Philip pines, resigning to accept the post of chief of police of Manila. He lately accepted the position of governor of Samar, putting down the rebellion in that province, and is now on his way home from the Philippines to accept the governorship of New Mexco. Superintendent of Irrigation, H. F. Robinson, who for some time past has been In charge of irrigation worto for the Pueblo Indians In this territory under the office of Indian af fairs, has been relieved from' this duty and will leave for Los Angeles where he will take charge of the office of Inspector Code, who Is the chief en gineer in charge of all Irrigation mat ters pertaining to thelndian ser vice In the . western states and territories. Mr. Robinson has been made superintendent of irrigation and has been detailed to the Los Angeles office until July 1st, coming. There are six Irrigation engineers connected with the Indian office of which number Mr. Code is the chief. He has also the rank of inspector which empowers him to visit the different superintendents of irriga tion and inspect the works under their charge. Buy the Tree Hermanos. It Is reported that A. P. Hunter, a Philadelphia millionaire, together with several capitalists of Las Vegas, has become the owner of the famous Tres Hermanos gold and copper properties at Golden In South Santa Fe county. It Is said that the new purchasers will at once commence the develop ment of the properties on a large scale. The purchase price has not been made public. New Mexico Will Be There. t Next month at Los Angeles, Cali fornia, extensive military maneuvers will take place. The maneuvers will be participated in by the state troops of the Southwest, including New Mex ico, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Louisi ana, and Mississippi. It is expected to be the greatest assembly of militia that has ever taken place in the South west, as 20,000 troops in all are ex pected to attend. Albuquerque Girl Secures Position. Miss Lou Hughes of Albuquerque, has accepted the position of stenog rapher in the office of Superintendent or Public Lands Robert P. Ervien and will assume her duties on or about April 28th. Miss Pruyne is at present filling the place. She will be trans ferred to the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. E. Clark. Romero Captured. After having been at large for over two months, Gabriel Romero, one of the convicts who escaped from the clayplt east of Santa Fe, has been re turned to the Territorial Penitentiary. He was recaptured by Sergeant R. W. Lewis of the New Mexico mounted po lice and was brought back to the prison by his captor. Lucky Strike at Lucky Mine. Orogrande, N. M. At the Lucky mine at a depth of 280 feet, a vein about twenty feet in width has been encountered, and it is the intention to drift on It in three directions at once. This Is the largest vein struck in that section of the district, and Its devel opment will be watched with the greatest of interest. Dan Dry Fatally Injured. Las .Vegas, N. M. Dan Dry, a line man In the employ of the Colorado Telephone Company, who came here a week ago from Albuquerque to assist in putting up new telephone poles, was perhaps fatally hurt as the result of being crushed by a falling pole. Dry's left leg and arm were broken and he was injured internally. The wool was mostly sold for ship ment to Boston. About 100,000 pounds of It went to Albuquerque, where there Is a wooden mill plant, and a little perhaps went to other points. To transport the clip, eighty-five freight cars were required, or two Immense modern day freight trains. Conspiracy Charge Sustained. Las Cruces, N. M. About midnight Saturday night In the United States, court the Jury In , the .case of the United States vs. The Santi Rita Min ing Company for conspiracy la the re straint of trade, brought in a verdict of guilty after a consideration of about fifty minutes. The case has been on trial since Monday last and was conducted on behalf of the United States by Major W. H. H. Llewellyn, United States district atorney, and by Edward L. Medler, assistant United States district attorney, while W. B. Chllders of Albuquerque; A. H. Hirl lee, and R. P. Barnes, of Silver City, appeared for the defendants. The cas is a very important one and attracted much attention. It was hard fought on. both sides and the verdict of the Jury Is a great legal victory for United States District Attorney Llewellyn and Assistant United States District Attor ney Medler. The case of the Santa Rita Store Company went with , the one against the Santa Rita Mining Company and the prosecution was founded upon Section 3 of the Sherman anti-trust law. Verdicts of not guilty were re turned In the cases of the United States vs. John Deegan, superintendent- of the Santa Rita Mining Com pany, and William Young, an employ of that company against whom in dictments for conspiracy and intimi dation had been found. The principal points in the indict ments against the two companies were that their managers and employes had intimidated miners and men working for them and compelled them to pur chase goods and supplies at the min ing company's store at 8anta Rita and would not allow the men to use their own judgment in the cases and to do as they saw fit in dealing at other stores particularly at the atore of Turner ft Co., who were the, complaining witnesses and who al leged that they suffered great peeunl-l ary losses by the actions of the two companies and their managers. It is reported on reliable authority that the two corporations are sub cor-" porations of the Standard Oil Com pany and that the latter company la the actual holder of their stocks and bonds. Turner & Co. brought suit against the santa Rita Mining Company and the Santa Rita Store Com pany some time ago in the Territorial District, Court for Grant county, claiming damages in the sura of $50, 009. ' These cases were tried on a. change of venue in the Socorro County District Court and damages to the amount of $25,000 awarded. How ever, on motion of the defendant's at torneys, judgment was set aside and a new trial was granted which i&llLbe had at the next term of the District Court in Socorro county in June. , Mystery Unsolved. Albuquerque, N. M. Although local officers, assisted by special detectives of the Santa Fe Railroad Company have been working on the mysterious deaths of the men who were found dead along the right-of-way of the road nean Barr station, as yet the mystery sur rounding their deaths remains un solved. Three natives have been ar rested on the suspicion of knowing something about the deaths, but there seems to be little on which to base this suspicion. It is the general belief now that both men were murdered and their bodies thrown upon the track to cover up the crime. Robbery was probably the motive. Bell Hops Strike. Santa Rosa, N. M. A strike within a strike is on here among the call boys at .the shops , of the El Paso & Southwestern railroad. Wednesday the call boys, two night and two day boys, struck for a raise of $15 per month in wages. They have been re ceiving $37.60. The company put four more boys to work and the next mor ning these also struck. All of the boys are now awaiting the outcome. Silver City Still Booms. Silver City, N. M. The Board of Trustees of this school district will iny tbe very near future "submit to a vote of the citizens of Silver City the proposition of voting bonds for the erection of a handsome large new school building in this city. Owing to the fact increasing popula tion of Silver City a new and modern school building is very badly needed, and property owners will no doubt vote the bond issue. The wool business is over for this year, so far as this valley is concerned, and the figures have been finally se cured concerning the magnitude of it, says the Phoenix Republican. The clip shipped from the four shearing points in the valley totaled In weight 1,659,065 pounds. Averaging the clip at 17 cents a pound, its value would aggregate $282,041.05. Just what the average Is was not learned, but it Is known that some of the wool sold for considerable more than 17 cents, and some may have-been sold for less. It may be fairly Stated, though, that the value of the 'clip would aggregate somewhere In the vicinity of $300,000 WoJ Crop Clean. Albuquerque, N. M. J. A. Garcia, of Garcia Brothers, commission dealers, has Just returned from Holbrook, Ari zona, where he purchased half a mil lion pounds of wool at prices ranging from 14 to 14 cents per pound. He reports that the Arizona wool clip this year is clean and lighter than last year.