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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1912.
FRANKING PKIVILEGK
Git AFT
Second Volume of Leading Facts of New Mexican History Is to Be
Profusely Illustrated The Author, Colonel Ralph E. Twitchell,
Has Established a Reputation as a Man Whose Writings
Are Destined to Occupy a High Rank in the Literary and His
torical Productions of the United States
The reception accorded the first , 15. Portrait James S. CalUoi'i.,
volume of Colonel R. E. Twitchell's j first civil governor of New Mexico un
monumental work "leading Facts of I der the act of March 3, 1851.
New Mexican History" by the ne- 16. The caravan in sight of Santa
viewers !u the principal metroplitan Fe.
In the interests of postal economy,
Third Assistant Postmaster James G.
Britt suggests that postage stamps be
issued to senators and representatives
and executive officials of the govern
ment, instead of permitting the con
gressional frank and penalty etn
lope. This is not altogether a new
1 roposal, by all means. For many
trs there has been a demand that
:iie abuses of the congressional (rank
; J done away with, as well as the big
! oiitical grafts connected with the
imreau of public printing.
If the reformers in congress were
?utirely sincere in their expressed
ies$r fo wipe out government abuses
they would not hesitate to stop the
unlimited Impositions of the frank
ing privilege. But as these reform
ers are themselves beneficiaries of
the graft, they are dumb and blind
to all righteous protests. And it is
doubtful if in all the long list of
government special privileges there
Is one that is so costly and so gen
erally practiced a3 this. It Is no
secret that the heavy deficits charged
to the postoffice department would
have been changed to a substantial
credit long ago if the congressmen
and senators had acted in good faith.
Mr. Britt does not tell the public
how many thousands of pounds of
mail matter was carried last year
without charge because it was sub
ject to the congressional frank. Nor
does the public printer tell us how
much money was spent by the gov
ernment In printing speeches of sen
ator and Iepresentat4vas and Jn
sending out public documents to the
onstituents of the members. The
public printing graft Is similar in
some respects to the seed distribu
tion graft, only much greater. It
affords an opportunity for the poll
iclans in Washington to "keep in
touch" with their constituents with
out cost to themselves. The gov
ernment paid private secretaries pre
pare the lists of constitutents in each
district, and other government paid
clerks send out copies of the Con
gressional 'Record, speeches printed
by the government that were never
delivered, special documents and re
ports on every conceivable subject
and the people pay the bills. Most
of the rampant reformers are the
worst offenders.
Perhaps it is fear of the full expo
sure of this enromous political graft,
that makes congress chary of a scien
tific investigation of governmental
methods. For if the people were once
brought to a realization of how many
millions of dollars they are called up
on to pay every year to advance the
political ambitions of members of con
gress, there would be an upheaval.
o
HOW MANY TIMES
Have you wished you had a good
likeness of some near dear relative
a portrait that was a true likeness
with very characteristic line and a
tiarural expression. In our po-tral
work we atndy our subject, t the
proper pose and light, that's why our
worfc Is artistic Waterman's Portrait
Studio on the Plasa.
journals and magazines of the coun
try has demonstrated that New Mex
ico can claim an author and historian
whose writings are destined to occupy
a high rank in the literary and his
torical productions of the United
States.
The Outlook for December, In its
review of the volume, pronounces it
to be a work of "scholarly research."
That magazine declares that it is in
a high degree creditable to the
new state that it should have in it
a citizen able and willing to add io
the sum of productive scholarship of
our country as Mr. Twitchell has ad
ded. Too often historical societies
amount to little more than gatherings
of rather inefficient antiquarians, and
the New Mexico Hisiorlcaal society
is to be congratulated on having sueli
a vice president. The enormous
amount of material which he has gone
over has been thoroughly digested,
and in accuracy and interest the re
sult is most heartily to be commend
ed. Mr. Twitchell must have devot
ed a considerable part of a lifetime
to gathering the material for r.his
history and the result Is a work of
high scholarly value which no serious
library in the United States can afford
to be without."
If the first volume of the work is
entitled to the praise which seems to
have been Colonel Twitchell's reward,
the second, which is now in press and
which brings the history of the new
state down to the date of the inaugu
ration of Governor-elect McDonald,
wil attract even wider attention from
reviewers, students and historians. A
reading of the manuscript of the sec
ond and concluding volume discloses
the fact that New Mexico has an his
torian whose works are hceafter to
be regarded as the standard in the
historical productions of the southwest
The illustrations are most interest
ing and instructive and lend rnu'h to
the value and all absorbing interest
cf the work. Each chapter has sev
eral, the entire volume containing
about one hundred full pat,e plates,
groups and valuable maps.
This (journal deems this feature
worth while and takes pleasure In
giving to Its readers the full list, as ! uapelle, Peter
follows: lavaL
17. A new Mexican threshing ma
chine. 18. The end of the old Santa Fe
trail The fonda prior to the era of
the railways.
19. Portraits- 0(flcers in the army
of the west, 1846 Governor William
Gilpin, Colonel J. W. Reid, Dr. Da
vid Waldo, General Sterling Price
and Major H. L. Kendrick.
19. Portraits Representative New
Mexican of the American occupation
period. Don Pedro Jose Perea, Don
Antonio Jose Luna, Colonel Manuel A.
Chaves, Rev. Antonio Jose Martinez,
Don Nazario Gallegos.
20. Portraits Representee New
Mexicans of the American occupation
period. General Jose Maria Chaves,
Jon Ramon Luna, General Nicolas
Pino, General Diego Archuleta aad
Don Manuel S. Salazar.
:j Fac-aimUe of ballot cast at
last election under the Mexican gov
ernment. Fac-simile of ballot cast at
first election under the American
government.
22. Portraits Prominent Indian
chiefs, Narbona, Navajo, Asa Havi,
Comanche, Scabby Bull, Arapaho,
Augustin Vigil, Jicarilla, Apache.
23. Portaits Delegates in congress
W. S. Messervy, R. H. Weightman,
J. M. Gallegos, Miguel A. Otero, J.
Francisco Chavez, Francisco Perea,
Stephen B. Elkins. Trinidad Romero,
Francisco A. Manzanares.
24. Governors of New Mexico un
der the act of March 3, 1851 William
Carr Lane, David Merriwether, Abra
ham Rencher, Henry Connelly, Rob
ert B. Mitchell, William A. Pile, Marsh
Giddings, Samuel B. Axtell, Lew Wal
lace. 25. Freighters on the old Santa fe
trail with Kiowa scouts Photograph
of Bernard Seligman, Zadoc Staab and
Lehman Spiegel-berg taken in the fif
ties. 26. Portraits Attorneys General
or New .Mexico Merrill Ashurstj Tho
mas F. Conway, William Breeden,
Edward L. Barlett, John P. Victory,
W illiam C. Keid, George W. Pritchard, j New Mexico
Hudson, Dr. McKee, Captain Donacla
no Montoya.
40. Fao-simile of oath of allegiance
administered to Captain Solomon
Splegelberg by Chief Justice Kirhy
Benedict.
41. Fac-simile of passport given to
Lehman Splegelberg by General H. H.
Sibley, C S. A.
42. Union and confederate soldiers
in New Mexico, 1861-1866. Captain
A. Mennet, Colonel J. F. Bennett, Ma
jor Irving W- Stanton, Colonel Cyrus
H. DeForrest, Major D. L. Hunting
ton, Major Eugene Van Peten, Colonel
J. A. LaRue, Colonel E. B. Willis, Ma
jor Jose D. Sena
1". Portraits Group, Splegelberg
brothers, Will, Lehman, Jacob S. Le
vi and Emmanuel.
44. Portaits Merchants and freight
ers of the Santa Fe trail period. Louis
Robidoux, Abraham Staab, Juan Cris
tobal Armijo. Bernard Seligman, Nes
tor Armljo, Cbar'es Ilfeld, James L.
Johnson, Herman Ilfeld, Solomon
Splegelberg, W. Ellsberg.
45. Lucien B. Maxwell's mansion
on the Cimarron.
46. The government distributing
rations to the Indians.
47. Portrait Henry L. Waldo, chief
justice, 1S76-187S, attorney general,
1878- 80.
48. Union and Confederate officers
in New Mexico, 1862 General W. H.
Lorlng, General E. R. S. Canby, Gen
eral H. H. Sibley, Colonel J. R. Ray
lor. 49. Portrait Rev. Donato M. Gas
parri, S. J.
50. Portraits Celebrated Apache
chiefs Victorlo, Mongas Coloradas,
Natchez, Geronlmo.
it. Warehouse of the Browne and
Manzanares company, Las Vegas,
1879 Lawrence P. Browne and em
ployes. 52. Portraits -Prominent New Mex
icans and Mescalero Apache chiefs at
Fort Stanton Mescalero Apache reser
vation, 1875, Major Lawrence C. Mur
phy, Captain Chauncey McKlbben,
Colonel Em"l Fritz, Chief Domingo,
Chief Cadette and Chief Peso.
53. Portrait William F. Bonney,
"Billy the Kid."
54. Portrait Patrick F. Garret.
55. Portraits Justices of the su
preme court of New Mexico-Alfred
A. Freeman, Samuel Parks, Edward
P. Seeds, Joseph G. Palen, James
O'Brien. Thomas Smith, Hezekfah S.
Johnson, Warren Bristol.
56. Portraits Gross, Qlackwell and
company and employes, 1881.
57. Portraits Builders and opera
tors of the Atchison, Topeka and San
ta Fe railroad William B. Strong,
A. A. Robbinson, George B. Lake, W.
R. Morley and Avery Turner, the last
named the first conductor of a pas
senger train over the Raton Pass into
James M. Hervey, Frank YV. Clancy.
: i. Portraits Archbishops ot the
Koman Catholic church. Most Revs.
58. Portraits Prominent men of
New Mexico in the last half of the
nineteenth century'. Wilson Wadding
jotiu is. Lainy, J. B. Salpointe, P. L. ham, Lawrence P. Browne, Marcus
liourgaae, J. B. Pit-
In
Frontispiece Portrait frenr life
charcoal, by Clarence Batchelor
1. Portrait Don Agustln the Itur
bide, emperor of Mexico. Copy of.,j. .vienaul
painting in the Sala of the National ! j.. Portraits
Palace, City of Mexico.
2. Fac-simile of letter from Em
peror Iturblde relative to changes in
the text of thpan dc- Iguala.
3. Portrait-Doln Antonio Lopez de
Santa Ana, twice president of the re
public of Mexico; dictator in 1811 and
isr3, with the title of Serene High
ness in the last epoch of his rule.
4. Portrait Rt. Rev. Jose Antonio
Laureano dc ZnMria. bishop of Du-
rango.
5. Fac-simile of will of Don Juan
Antonio Cabeza de Baca, made in the
Canyon de Chelly shortly after re
ceiving a mortal wound in a campaign
gainst the Navajo Indians. The wit
nesses, Don Francisco barracino ana
Don Santiago Abreu, were prominent
men and Indian fighters of the period.
6. Costumes of the Ricos during
the first quarter of the nineteenth
century.
Earliest method of transporta
tion over the old Santa Fe trail.
8. Portraits of early trappers,
traders, plainsmen and mountaineers
James Magoffin, Dr. .Tosiah Gregg,
Lucien B. Maxwejl, Antoine Robi
doux, Richard Wootton, James Bridg
er, William Bent, Ceran St. Vrain and
James P. Beckwoufth.
9. Ruins of the old Pecos mission
in 1846.
10. A Santa Fe caravan crossing
the great plains.
11. Portrait Don Jose Chaves,
governor of New Mexico.
28. Portraits Early Protestant
lmasioiiares and educators. Rev. The
Oil nar wood, Kev. (J. G. Smith, Mrs.
vate land claims Wilbur F. Stone,
Henry C Schluss, Thomas C. Fuller,
Joseph R. Reed, W. W. Murray.
69. Portraits Attorney of court
of private land claims and assistants,
Matt G. Reynolds, Summers Burkhart,
Will M. Tipton and Levi A. Hughes.
70. Early bankers of New Mexico.
Portraits Jefferson Raynolds, W. W.
Griffin, Joshua S. Raynolds, Rufus J.
Palen, John W. Poe and E. A. Ca
boon. 71. Portrait Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, First Vol. Cav. U. S. A.
72. Fac simile of letter from Col
onel Roosevelt relative to the per
sonnel and efficiency of Roosevelt's
Rough Riders.
73. Portraits of Roosevelt's Rough
Riders.
74. Portraits Officers First Terri
forlal Regiment, U. S. Volunteer in
fantry.
75. Portraits Prominent New Mex
can educators Dr. W. E. Garrison,
Hiram Hadley, Dr. F. H. H. Roberts,
Brother Botulph, Dr. C. M. Light, Dr.
E. McQueen Gray, Colonel James W
Willson.
76. President Taft signing the en
abling act of 1910.
77. Portrait William J. Mills, la3t
governor of the territory of New
Mexico.
78. Fac-simile of the last page o(
the enabling act.
79. Portraits Framers of the con
stitution of 1910 W. D. Lindsay, W.
D. Murray, A. A. Sedlllo, B. F. Pan
key, John I. HInkle, H. O. Bursum,
Thomas D. Burns, Venceslao Jaramil
lo, Samuel Eldodt, Eugenlo Romero.
80. Opening session of the consti
tutional convention of 1910.
81. Fac-similes of signatures of all
members of the constitutional con
vention of 1910.
82. Portraits Prominent members
of the constitutional convention of
1910, Gregory Page, W. B. Walton,
Stephen Blernbaum, Malaquias Mar
tinez, Alexander Read, Reed Hollo
man, Herbert F. Raynolds, Stephen
B. Davis, Jr., Jose D. Sena, Solomon
Luna.
83. Portraits Prominent members i
o( the constitutional convention of
1911, H. M. Dougherty, Nestor Mon
toya, Charles Springer, Charles A.
Spless, Francis E. Wood, Granville
A. Richardson, J. M. Cunningham.
84. Portrait William C. McDonld,
first governor of the state of New
Mexico.
85. President Taft signing the pro
clamation admitting New Mexico as a
state.
Maps
1. The old Santa Fe trail and
Boone's Lick road, St. Louis to
Franklin, Mo., thence to Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
2. The western half of the United
States in 1840.
3. Boundaries of the republic of
Mexico prior to the Mexican war.
4. The Battle of La Canada
,". The Battle of Embudo.
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William i. Kich, George W. Lane,
Lorion .Miller, Benjamin M. Thomas,
J. Wallace Raynolds, Gorge Jl. Wal
lace, Nathan Jaffa.
30. Fac-simlle ot advertisement of
stage coach line to Santa Fe in IS63.
IL Portraits -Kiowa Chiefs Bed
.Moon, Powder Face, Whirlwind.
32. Portraits General "Kit" Car
son and Friends Major E H. Berg
man, Charles P. Cleaver, General Noah
H. Davis, Colonel H. M. Enos, Judge
Joab Houghton, Colonel I, C. McFer
ran. General D. H. Rucker Geneial
Criatopher Carson, General J. H. Carl-eton.
33. Portiaits .Missionary Bishop
ot tae Protestant Episcopal church, Rt
Uev. William F. Adams, Bt. Be v. J. C.
Taibott, Rt. Rev George K. Dunlop,
Rt. Rev. John Mills Kendrick.
34. Portraits Representative New
Mexicans of the last half of the nine
teenth century. Don Antonio Citiz j
Salazar, Don Francisco Antonio CLa
vez, Don Benito Baca, Colonel Max
Frost, Colonel Albert J. Fountaia, Don
Trinidad: Alarid, Major, H. R. Whiting
Horace F. Stephenson
i5, JRepresentlve New Mexicans oi
the last half of the nineteenth centry
Don Salvador Armijo, Don Jose Lean
dro Perea, Don Pedro Y. Jaramillo
Don Juan oantlstevan, Don Pedro
Sanchez, Don Tomas C. de Baca.
36. General Crlstopher Carson
12. Portraits Prominent officers r"""'' -"""
37. Group Cheyenne Indian raiders
on the Santa Fe trail captured by
government troops in 1869.
military and civil, of the American
occupation period. General Stephen
Watts Kearney, Governor Charle?
Bent, Governor Donaclano VI git, Don
Miguel Romero, CoL Edwin Vose Sum
ner and General Alexander W. Doni
phan. 13. Portrait- General Manuel Ar
mijo, governor of New Mqxlco.
14. Portiaits The court appointed
by General Kearney Judges Houeh
on, lJtaW?flrtHu6tero.
38. Portraits Group of governors
of Indian pueblos who vis' ted Presi
dent Lincoln in 1862, to each of whom
he gave a silver headed1 walking stick
since that time the executive badge
of authority in the pueblos,
39. Portraits Union Officers dur
ing tha Civil war period Colonel I
6. The Battle of Taos.
7. New Mexico in 1912.
The collection of portarits and
other pictures and flraingB belonging
to Colonel Twitchell and used in Il
lustrating his second volume is un
doubtedly the best and most interest
ing of any in the west. The assist
ance rendered him In the preparation
of these illustrations for reproduction
has been accomplished entirely
through the aid of New Mexico ar
tists, notably Mr. W. R. Walton, of
Albuquerque, Mr. Clarence Batchelor
of Las Vegas, and Mr. K. M. Chapman
of the School of American Archaeol
ogy at Santa Fe, , The maps, beauti
fully executed, were drawn under
Colonel Twitchell's supervision, by
his son Waldo C. Twitchell, who is
recognized; by those competent to
judge, as a draftsman of rare accomplishments.
Brunswick, John P. Sellar, Don Loren
zo Lopez.
59. Portraits Governors of New
Mexico under the act of March 3,
1851, Lionel A. Sheldon, Edmund G.
Ross, L. Bradford Prince, William T.
Thornton. Miguel A. Otero, Herbert
J. Hagerman, George Curry,
60. PortrailsV Delegate Xa oon
gress, Thomas B. Catron, Antonio
Joseph, Harvey B. Fergusson, Mariano
Otero, Tranquilino Luna, Bernard
S. Rodev. Pedro Perea, William H.
Andrews.
61. PortraitsChief "justices and
associate justices of the supreme
court of New Mexico appointed by
Prea'dent Cleveland in 1885, E. V.
Long, W. H. Brinker, W. F. Hender
son. Reuben A. Reeves.
62A Portraits) Presijnenfts (of the
New Mexico Bar association William
A. Vincent, W. B. Childers, Neill B.
Field, A. A. Jones, James G. Fitch.
63. Portrait Frank Springer, pres
ident New Mexico Bar association.
paleontologist.
64. Portraits Justices of the su
preme court of New Mexico Need
ham C. Collier, Albert B. Fall, N. B.
Laughlin, H. E. Hamilton, William D.
Lee, J. W. Crumpacker, Benjamin 8.
Baker, Edward A. Mann.
65. Portraits Representative dele
gates to the Thirteenth National Irri
gation congrets, El Paso, Texas, No-
. . . . : . , . t
MEETING OF MERINO BREEDERS
Columbus, O., Jan. 12. Sheep breed
ers from a number of states attended
the sixth annual meeting here today
of the American and Delaine Merino
Record association. President R. D.
Williamson, of Xenia, O., presided at
the initial session this morning and
delivered his annual address.
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off. Now is the time to purchase
those pretty pieces. Creamers nd
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Special For The Month of Janviary
vember. 1904. from the republic or
Mexico, the state of Texas and the
territory of New Mexico, who pre
pared the resolution leading to the
final determination of water rights in
the Rio Grande by the governments
of the United States and Mexico.
66. Fac-simile of resolution approv
ing the construction of the Elephant
Bntte reclamation project, adopted by
dejfegates from Mexico, Texas and
New Mexico at the Thirteenth Na
tional Irrigation congress
67. Portraits Chief Justice and
associate justices of the last supreme
court of the territory of New Mexico.
Clarence J. Roberts, Ira E. Abbott, E.
R. Wright, Merrttt C. Mechem, John
R. McFie, William H. Pope, Frank
W. Parker.
68. PortraitsChief Justice and
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