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The Cimarron Valley Has the Land, Climate and itcf' Wanted One Thousand Farmers
FIRST YEAR - CIMARRON, NEW MEXICO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH II, 1908 - NUMBER TWO .
OPEtl -HO CITY OF GOLFftX
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Corporation Organized and Plats Out
Vermeio.2,000 Lots fó íafcf í
i 100 Forty-Acrcí Tracts of ;3
r Lands on
One of; the largest enterprises thV
has been undertaken in Colfax coun
ty for some time, has been developed
wunin tne past monin oy wnai is
known as the New Mexico Land
Sales Co., which is now in the pro
cess of being incorporated. , -This
company !has gained control of. a
large trat of land in . and about
Vermejo, about sixteen miles east of
Cimarron', on the Si. Louis, Rocky
Mountain & Pacific railroad, and 'has
already surveyed and staked out two
thousand town lots at Vermejo Junc
tion.. The new . town, which by the
way is the only town in the county,
other than Raton, .reached by. two
-railroads, will be known as "Colfax."
ü'he lots, qs laid out, are the same
size as those in Cimarron, namely,
25 by 140 feet and the streets are of
.he same width, being 60 feet from
curb to ; curb. All of these lots,
;,ooo in number, will be placed on the
l.iarket at the price of forty dollars
and an enormous advertising scheme
r.as been inaugurated. One hundred
thousand circular letters are now
oeing prepared, giving a description
of the advantages to be gained by
utiying lots in Colfax, and living ,,in
vJolfax county, New ,. Mexico, and
these letters will be sent broadcast
throughout the United States and
Canada. The fact that the new
town is situated on hnth thp Kt Paso
& Sounthcrn and on the St. Louis,
Rocky Mountain & Pacific .roads;
that it is surrounded by a great, tract
of the richest 'land in the southwest
would seem to, make it a certainty
that Colfax will be one of the best
towns of Colfax county within a very
short time. In fact with the con
stant influx of farmers from the mid
dle ftates, who are continually pur
chasing farm lands, the new town is
bound to grow.
New Town Will Make Good.
That there is every reason to be-
WILL HAVE
DANCE HALL
CIMARRON WILL HAVE NEW
DANCE HALL ÁND SKATINK
RINK ' WITHIN A SHORT
TIME. ,
Martin S. Bigsbee has leased from
Grubbes& Fulton the three lots on
the corner of Lincoln avenue and nth
street, and will begin the construc
tion of a dance hall and skating rink
thereon withn a very short time. The
plans, for the new hall are already
drawn up and are in the hands oi
the contractor awaiting for an es
timate. The plans call for an esti
mate. The plans call for a building
50x60 feet, to be constructed of eor
rigated iron, lathed and plastered in
side. At one end of the hall a stage
will be built, which will be of ample
size to i-ccommodate quite a troupe
for any sort of entertainments, it
is thought that this hall will make
a very good place to hold public
meetings'" of every' sort! and the
acoustic properties are being well
looked into. .-, j '.'. ' '-
MELVIN, EDWARDS v
' ' IS HEAD FROM
ItlCIVlll I.MT.OIM.P, f -' V. ......
ron last, wey $vithout telling his
parents wnere ne was gomg,; nas Deen
heard from; A leUer Va. received
from the young toy stating that he
was in Dawson,, and it is likely that
he' has obtained work in our sister
city. " 1 ' 1 "''A '
AGED RESIDENT DIES
Trinidad, , Colorado, March 10.
I Mrs. Josefita Davis. vife of Cosme
Davis, died Sunday, nigljt at the fam
ily home at! ApHhaa.' 'Funeral, servi
ces will t Jield to day t ApisUpa.
the Market ;
lieve that this will be true is
evi-
denced by ..the ,way .Colfax - county
land is being snapped' tnj "Oil" evefy
hand. To ' meet this demand, ihe
New Mexico, Land' Sales Co. has de
cided to put one hundred forty acre
tracts of land in and about the new
town of, Colfax on; sale at once.,. No
one . will. 'be restricted, to, one fórty
or two forties, but it is thought, that
by,, giving he land the legal subdi
visions which 1 the government itisc,
the sale of lands will be greatly fa
cilitated, and .the small farmer wilj
also be given a chance to get in on
the ground floor with the big man.
As soon as the first' hundred forty
acre tracts are sold another hundred
will be placed on the market, then
another hundred and still another,
until a tract of over forty thousand
acres will eventually be disposed of.
The Citizen has not been inform
ed as to what price the land will be
held at, ' but is certain that it will
be placed on the market at a very
reasonable figure, which will very in
the same ratio as the quality and
location of the land changes.
Big Thing for Cimarron.
The opening up of Colfax and the
placing of this land on the market
will be a great thing for Cimarron,
because we are in the center of what
will one day be a new county, and
the county seat will be here at Cim
arron. Colfax is less than seventeen
miles from us and much of the land
that is to be placed, oti the, market
is as near us as it is to Colfax. Ve
will naturally draw trade to a great
extent from the farmers around Col
fax, and because of our greater na
tural resources, we will always be
able to furnish Colfax with materi
als and goods of all sorts. Every
thing that helps Colfax and Colfax
county is bound to come to the aid
of Cimarron also.- Bring .on some
more new towns.
BASEBALL
LEAGUE ON
DAWSON AND CIMARRON
MAKE ALLIANCE. BASE
BALL LEAGUE FORMED
FIRST GAME APRIL 5.
Two- weeks ago last Sunday'base
ball delegates from Cimarron, Daw
son, .. Raton, Koehler and VanHou
ten met at Dawson for the purpose
of forming a baseball league for the
coming season. Rules governing the
league were framed, and the metting
was adjourned to last Saturday,
when it was called at Cimarron.
In the mean time all of the mem
bers of the league with the excep
tion of Cimarron and Dawson with
drew.. But the meeting was held as
per schedule, and it was decided that
the two teams should go ahead and
form an alliance . between the two
cities, operating under the rules
framed in the convention. Geo. Mur
dock of Dawson represented' that
city. It was decided that the two
cities would extend a cordial invita
tion to any of the teams that were
to ahve been 'represented in the
league,; to joinl- under . the existing
rules at-any time they tjnight see "fit
tO do SO. ' ) ,v
The rules 'provide that no one. is
eligible to either teifm,' uptil Jie . has
been a resident and on' the payroll of
any one etfhev cities ' represented
for. a period of thirty' days prior to
the first game, which will be held at
Dawson, Sunday, April 5th. Nortean
any man play in any subsequent
game unless he has been on the pay
roll for, a period of sixty day prior
to his first game. This will make it
impossible for any one team to hir
professional ball players, unless they
do so with great expense, but at the
same, time all ows the cities' In the
leagijic to borrw own from mjr other
POSTOFFICE
1HIEVE8
YOUNG BOYS . TAKE MONEY
; FROM . CASH DRAWER OF
DAWSON POST, OFFICE.
FOUR IMPLICATED. "'
For some little timé there has
been a series of small thefts of cash
from the money drawer, at Dawson.
All efforts to apprehetid the thieves
had failed, and 'the- mystery ' grew
deeper. Inspector Haines, at last
concealed himself in the office ' at
noontime,, and f aught a young boy
in this act of opening up one of ths
mail .boxes, reaching through and ab
stracting money from the drawer be
low. When charged with the theft,
the laóV who was only about fourteen
years old, confessed and Implicated
three other boys in the serious crime.
Because qf;he extreme youth of the
prisoners, it is thought that great
leniencv will be shown.
EVANGELIST QUITS;
NICKEL THEATERS
KILL HIS MISSION
Wabosh, Ind., March 10. Evangel
ist J. N. Reynolds opened a city mis
sion in , a big business room down
town two months ago. Today he
closed it saying, "I cannot compete
with 5 cent theaters which draw the
very men I hoped to aid by my city
mission, which was to be open day
and night."
WIMS BUYS
Norman Wilkins Buys Out J. 8. Wilson.
Transfer Made Satiirday.-Will
Run Blacksmith Business
Another of the big real estaro
transfers that Cimarron has witnessed
within the past mouth look place last
Saturday when the J. S. Wilson
blacksmith shop changed hands. Mr.
NTorman Wilkins purchased the lots
and buildings belongingjo J. S. Wil
son, the entire stock, the tools and
team. Most cordial relations be
tween Cimarron and Dawson have
been established, and the watchword
in the future is to be "Dawson and
Cimarron." ' '
SKIFF OVERTURNS AND
THREE WOMEN DROWN
Greenville, 'S..C, March to. While
boating on the Appalacholee mill
pond near Greers today a skiff car
rying ten persons capsized and three
younw women were, doomed. There
were but two men in the party and it
was only through their efforts that
the other five omen were rescued.
TO INSPECT
NEW MEXICO
SECURITIES
, Trinidad, Colorado, March 10.
William A. Track and Frederick A.
Singleton of New York, representing
the Fisk & Robinson company,
passed through Trinidad yesterday
en route to Raton, N. M., where they
are going to inspect the properties
of the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain &
Pacific. Company. ' Fisk & Robinson
is one of the large bond underwriting
firms of New York and they under
wrote some . of the bonds for. the St.
Lonis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific
company, which is constructing a
railroad Across northern New Me1
ico, building coke ovios; opening big
coal mines and prospecting, lot1 '..iron
i." This ? company . is becoming a
formidable rival of, the Cólqrado
Fuel and Iron eonrpahy and proposes
to lenter the steel business if suffic
ient iron ore can be secured. It is
also the plan of the Company to ex
tend the railroad and ultimately make
it' a transcontinental line.
.Charles M. Tones. Dresident of the
N"ew England National bank, of Bos
ton, and Charles H. Newell of Provi
dence, R. I., are accompanying the
New York parties, tt is understood
WILL BUILD
YÁPARIfóÉNTS
MRS. P. S. KEOGH WILL CON
STRUCT A TEN 'APARTMENT
FLAT OF FOUR ROOMS,.
. STEAM., HEAT. ' V V- " ' :
Mrs.'P. S. Keogh of Salt Lak
Utah, was; in Cimarron last week and
purchased; two lots upon which she
will : erect ' a modern flat building.
Mrs. iKoegh is a -sister-in-law of W.
S. McCormick of Salt Lake, one of
the best' known 'bankers in Utah, and
the wife pf Salt Lake's best known
physicians, th owner of the Keogh
Wright Hospital in that city. ' The
apartment building ' which ' Mrs.
Keogh is panning to erect in Cimar
ron will be a two story structure of
very jileasing design. It will be heat
ed by steam, fitted out with hot and
cold baths throughout, and each
apartVnent will have a suite of four
rooms.,; There will be ten apartments
,in all, making a total of forty rooms
in the building. The big structure
will practically cover both of lots 15
nnd 16 of Block 44. This will fill a
long felt need in Cimarron, and the
Citizen wishes tor Mrs. Keogh all the
returns her enterprise merits.
OFF BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
Ne York, March 10. An unknown
man committed suicide this morning
by leaping from Brooklyn bridge.
The body was not recovered.
WILSON SHOP
all fixtures which were used in the
, blacksmith shop, and will continue
the business at the old stand in the
future. Mr. Wilson will eter into
the employ of Mr. Wilkins as fore
man of the shop. It has not been
made known what th consideration
for the rale was, .but it is thought
that the price was a good one.
EXAMINE INTO
CONDITIONS.
Messrs. T. A. Schomberg and W.
H. Delicker of the Continental Tic
&' Lumber Co., spent a few days in
Cimarron on business. Mr. Schomberg-took
a trip over the line of the
C'tnarron & Northwestern and exam
ined into the present -stau'tus 'of the
company's interests in the timber
regions in the Ponil, Dean and Met
calf canons, with a view of ascertain
ing if possible what could be ,done
to better the present conditions, and
get the saw mills all running.
WILL TEST
M'CLELAN'S
TITLE
Albany, N. Y., March ( 10. The
court of appeals this afternoon hand
ed down a decision reversing the or
der of the appellate division, first
department, and sustaining that of
Justice Vernon "M. David, who de
cided that Attorney General Jackson
had filed a sufficient bill of particu
lars in connection with his supple
mental complaint that illegal votes
were cast for George B. McClellan
in-the mayoralty campaign in New
York City in 1905.
' Under the decision the ballot
boxes may bé opened and the ballots
examined iii the quo warranto pro
ceedings brought to test McClcllan's
title to the office of mayor, in the jn
tcrest of William R. Hearst.
that , they will inspect the properties
of the company in '. Northern New
Mexico, with the object of taking
additional bonds if the outlook comes
up to expectation.
THE WEATHER.
Santa Fe, March 10. Fair tonight
and warmer Wednesda.' " ' :
ASSASSIN Ml OH TRIAL
t
Guiseppa Alia, Slayer of Father Leo
Faces the Bar of Justice H of j
the Jurymen : Favor; Cap- A
tal Punishment I rVi.;;
Denver, March 10. Late this after
noon a jury was secured to try Gui-seppe-Alia,
the Italian, who assassi
nated Father Leo Hendricks. All of
the jurymen are favorable to capital
punishment and none are Catholics.
Denver, Colo., March 9. Pushed
through a sullen, angry crowd, which
did not hesitate to show its hate of
the assassin, Guiseppe Alia was this
morning taken from the county jail
to the West Side courtroom, where
he was placed on trial for his life,
charged with the murder of Father
Leo Heinrich on Feb. 23,
Whether it is the stoicism of a
man who feels that he is doomed to
death or the uncomprehending dull
ness of a stunted mind, Alia shows
no emotion. He paid no attention to
the crowd, and as he entered the
courtroom seemed "to take Utile in
terest in the surroundings.
Fully 200 persons were gathered
in front of the jail when the great
door swung open shortly before 10
o'clock and Alia came out, shackled
between two deputies. It was a men
acing crowd that the prisoner faced,
but there was no demonstration, al
though there were frequent exprés
sioivs of hate. Should Alia, by any
chance, escape the full penalty of his
crime it might be a different story
were he to return through a similar
gathering.
Sheriff Nisbet had taken precatv
tiorts to avert 'any-possible-trouble.
Fifteen of his men in citizens' clothes
were scattered about through the
people, listening and watching for
any signs which would indicate any
intended attack on the prisoner.
The court room was crowded to
the doors when the trial started, al
though here, also, precautions had
been taken to prevent a demonstra
tion of any kind.
The greater part of hlne trial will be
TO FORM
GUN CLUB
PLANS BEING MADE fo FORM
GUN CLUB CIRCUIT WOULD
HOLD SHOOTING: TOURNA
MENTS. A plan is 00 foot to form a num
ber of gun clubs throughout the
towns and cities of Colfax county,
and to arrange a regular circuit lor
the holding of shooting matches. It
is thought that Colfav county has
enough shooting entlumasts to make
it well worth while to do this. The
idea is to form local clubs in the
towns in the county, and to have
each hold its own competitive shoots,
pick out their best members, and
then send them as a team to com
pete with the teams of the other
clubs. These tournaments to be
held on a regular schedule and con
ducted under regular "Circuit" rules.
Then it is planned, to hold a grcit
central tournament at given time
and let all compete for prizes or med
als.
Messrs. C. D. Plank and J. A. Rick-
er, both representing powder and
cartridge houses, have been in Cim
arron working on the scheme, and
they state that the idea has taken
hold in nearly every town they have
visiteo, j t ifl mpre rnan; prooanic-that-their
nouses will ofter some very
handsome trophies for the different
shoots.
IN SUICIDE PACT.
Chicago, March 10. Theodore En-
glcbeck, ?o years of age( and his wife,
Anna, 75 years' of age, were 'found
dead in their room at the home of
their' daughter, Mrs. Anna Rostrum,
479 Racine avenue, today. Death had
been caused by asphyxiation; by illu -
minating gas. The police are of the
opinion tha the couple, discouraged
by the loss of their; home by fire last
Saturday,' made a suicidal' pact.
iKtrut i
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taken up in the Seclectioh of a jury,
and it may be fully three days before
he taking of evidence is started.'
The defense will object to the "se
lection of any members of the Ro
man Catholic church as jurors, but it
realizes that it will be practically im
possible to find twelve men who:
have not heard of the crime and al
ready formed some sort of opinions'
as to the guilt of the prisoner. There
are 100 talesmen in the panel, and
it is believed that it will be neces
sary to call more before a jury sat
isfactory to both sides can be se
cured. . .
NEGRO ASKS DIVORCE,
SAYING WIFE IS WHITE
Lima, O., March 10. That the wife
's white, and not black, as he alleges
she told him she was, and for the
further reason that she did r.ot bring
him $r,r.x, as he alleges she prom
ised whc.v they were married in Lex
ington, Ky., five months ago, Henry
Edwards sued for divorce today. ?
Edwards, a negro, who is a well-to-do
storekeeper, alleges also that his
wife attacked him with a hatchet.
MEXICAN WAR FLAG FOUND
Pacific' GrovC, Cal., March lor
News has been received from Hono
lulu of a notable Californian relic.
It is the identical American flag first
hoisted- over - Monterey's ' custom
house when Mexico's flag was hauled
down. :
One of General Fremont's soldiers,
John Cook, now 84 years old, who
has lived sixty years in Honolulu,
has guarded this historic flag, to
gether with a pistol that belonged to
the Pathfinder. !
Th flag has been identified as au
thentic by Captain Alexander Mc-
Duff.
GRAND HOTEL
OPEN SOON
WILL BE READY FOR BUSIv
NESS SHORTLY. , BUILDING
ENTILELY REMODELED ANL,
RENOVATED.
Mr. Martin Bakovc, who recently
purchased the old Cimarron Cafe,
sometimes called the Hunter Room
ing house, has a big force of men
going over the entire building, tear
ing out partitions, relaying floors,
building new fronts, and doing a hun
dred and one things necessary to
remake' the building into a first class
hotel. Mr. Bokovc has already
shipped in a car load of new furni
ture and now has most of it in place
The work of repairing has gone so
far, that a large number of the
twenty rooms, which the hotel will
have, arc now ready for use.
The carpenters are busily engapeS
in rebuilding a large dining room,
and adding to the rear of the build
ing an up to date kitchen. The north
east corner of the present building is
being rebuilt and a bar room will be
installed therein. The bar room is
olaccd off in one corner of the build- .
ing, so that it may be run entirely
separate 'and distinct from- the hotel'
proper," thus making it much better
for ladies, who are guests of the ho
tel. While it is not posible to say
just when the hotel will be entirely
opened- the public, the work is
progressing so fast that it is likely
it will be opened next week.
SCORE OF FIREMEN
TTIIPT TN fHICAfin.
Chicago, Mar. 10. A score of fire
men were injured, three perhaps fa
tally, by a fire early today which de
stroyed Applo hall, a three-story
structure, at 256-363 Blue Island ave
nue. The cause of the, fire is op
k no wo' The total damage is esti
mated at 185,000.