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Try Our New Flour THE EMPRESS Every Sack Guaranteed. The Kenna Lumber Co. i. i President Ripley states Santa. Fe's position on eight-hour wage law and asks an important question. The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. A. Chicago, III., September 8, 1910. To Santa Fe Employes and the Public: This is the position of The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company regarding the contro versy with its train-service employes over their de mand for increased compensation1 Congress, hastily acting under a threat of four leaders of labor oi gamzations, enacted a so-calied " eight-hour law, which is nothing more nor less than an advance of twenty to twenty-five per cent in the wages of the best paid men in railway service. . It is only fair to our employes and the public to say that The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Rail way Comp&ny does -ot intend to comply with the law exc 1 as and when ordered to do so by the court of last resort. The merits of the case have been fully explained in the last few months and need no tui ther mention. Should the courts finally decide that the increase must be paid, there will be an immediate demand from the remaining classes of labor, resulting in en entire inability to pay without heavy increases in rates to be paid by the public especially the farm ing class. , IS THE PUBLIC PREPARED TO MEET THE DEMAND? This notice is for the information of all concerned. E. P. RIPLEY. President. OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SAVING MONEY ; On Groceries. Dry Goods. Hats, Shoes, Notions, and In fact everything in the Line of Merchandise. What About You? It Pays to Look Around. Produce goes here the same as cash and always at the TOP MARKET. L. C. Denton General Merchandise 331 S33&KS&gRSt2SPKM Calves Bring Good Money Shore & Hill haye sold three hundred and fifty calves for fall delivery for 133.50. These calv es are selling for nearly half what their mothers cost last spiing. just before these calves came. They are an especially good bunch. Hereford Brand. Tiaban Ships Wheat. W. F. Miller shipped the first car of wheat out of here Wed nesday, and will ship another the latter part of this week. The most of the wheat was pur cha' ed from Boyd A Dowd, of Curry. Taiban(N. M.) Valley News. its defeat. Over two" thousand of the working women of Chicago have formed the "VViison Work ing Women's League," to work f-n1 the re-election of Wilson, because ''lie ;;laceb human val ues above property values, the coinmom people on a par with 'Big Business.' " And Still They Come. That Wilson's clear-head-itiess, courage and progressive tendencies would attract the in dependent minds of the country to his standard has been confi dently expected. Now as the issuos between the two presi dential candidates, the men and the things they stand for, are being discussed and made clear the lining up begins, Besides the large number of progressive and independent leado.s already in the Wilson ranks, in the last two weeks the following signifi cant things have co'me to pass; Thomas A. Edison comes out in a strong interview tippmving Wilson's courage, wisdom and coi'rse of action and announces t :s support of him. Roger BabBon, Boston's fam ous statistician and financial expert, a life-long Republican, comes over to Wiison. He is won to Wilson by Wilson's high conceptions and course in deal ing with great national and international problems. Luther Bui bank, the world's most distinguished scientist in plant life and development, pub licly announces adherence to Wilson, as "The greatest Pres ident America has ever had." Miss Ida M, Tarbell, one of the foremost leaders of thought in America, whose history of the Standard Oil Company was nothing less than epochal in its effect, announces her active sup port of Wilson. She 6aid: "lie is the first real progressive lead er (his decade has produced." Miss Ella Flagg Young, Sup erintendent of Chicago's schools for years, announces her sup port of Wilson and is actively at work for his re-election. Mrs. Antoinett Funk of Illi nois, one of the most distinguish ed suffragettes in the nation, and a leading Progressive, an nounces that the will support Wilso'i "Because I am a Pro gressivej'. and because Wilson's record on the suffrage question is better that Hughes'. The Springfield (Mass.) Repub lican, by many bwlieve to be the most influential papri in the United States, a paper that dur ing its existance of nearly a century has held an unwaver ing course of conscientious de votion to the right as it saw the right, arrays itself in the Wilson ranks. The rejection by the National American Women Suffrage Convention at Atlantic Citv of j Mrs. Raymond Robin's resolu tion in favor of Hughes, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the vener able pioneer leader, helping in The Revival. A great revival is being con- ducted at the Methodist church here this week by ltev. F. M. Neal, Evangelist. The choir is being conducted by Prof. F. H. Poulter, each of whom are from Amarillo. Attendance is very grod and quite a lot of interest is manifest, audit is generally agreed that a great revival is going on. Chicago will he the seat of a thorough investigation of gov ernement ownership and control of railroads, telegraph lines, ex press companies, river and ocean trail portat'on ind other public utilities beginning !November20, Senator Newlands, of Nevada, announced to the Chicago cham ber of commerce. The investi gation will be conducted by the jtint subcommittee composed of the interstate commerce com mittees of the house and senate and will be conducted in accord ance with President Wilson's recommondations to congress. New Mexican. A number of Kenna farmers are sowing wheat for winter pasturage. We wish to call the attention of our readers to the ad of Hotel Gilder elsewhere in this ia-uie. John Minis, Otto Fanner and C. M. Barber were in Clovis on business Tuesday of this week. Thursday. Mis. J. A. Kim- ninns and children accompanied Mrs. C wgill to Elida, returning the same evening. ONE OF LIFE'S GREAT JOYS Maintenance of Relative Asylum Sad der and More Common Thn the Arr'-'si of Twine. The story of the man whose family la increased by a procession of twins and triplets will be harrowing, but it can never take the Srst prize in bard ruck story contest against the tale of the sorrows of a city man whose wife attracts country relatives Betsy comes in from Pennsylvania Corners to visit her aunt and attend a city high school. Oliver decides that he ought to have the advantages of a more famous buehkess college than Prof. Roebuck's seank-iar. Grace comes to the city to cnUiTate ker voice and take daacinx lessons. Henry "puts up" at hie aunt's house until he can find n job; then, after be finds otic, he grows homesU-k In a kail bedroom, comes back to auntie for sympathy and is advised never to leave again. Whistler's caller, who came to Btny over night and remained for two years, would not be thought to be doing anything out of ttie or dinary at one of these relative asylums. "I notice you have-another visitor," a friend remarked to the proprietor of one of the largest asylums of this sort in Kansas City. "Yes," the man answered In a life less, matter-of-fact tone. "He's here for 12 years four in hlnh school, four In college, four In medical school. My wife's se'ond cousin, you know." To Keep Lemone. LemoDa may be kept a long time, even months, unr'.er glass. If you are not going to use them Immediately lay tlrem on a flat surface and invert a goblet over each one. After all months' Imprisonment In this way they will be found to be fresh. Woman's Life. "" v i ... " er V Protection for tibz Hesse The . -tl drtire el haabaad mi wife is ike welfare ot .heir children. Th husband web hard M aronJ laf tkeas, mi would b glad to kaow bow host W saltan aid . Th wife works hud, loo in tkc In lei and m equally iomcatrd wilh ker ktstkaad sa otsad in suture protection, such m that oeVad if eke Postal Life Insurance Company Hjiimii wwrwr Tnrrrn w -rrnnrpnniiTrTiiTnneM ' NET COST LOW IN TM-T, POSTAL BECAUSE lit CalUaDii. flM wtwmHf to m mlMkmi virw frntetiei Mr aVffnU. I, tll toaaWM wrlif htM tUmr$e, to Tvai tmtatf holders the Ira for. IW. R.o.al Co sWa Ptridanoa M Olftaa Expoaae StvillNnrtl hf 9 1mtm.mi dlTlda4.ffrto t wlicyltuldrrB in uhfjiMal jwn 3rl. aWtneilnt at th rkaw ml IK avennd tat Ma1 cumUm f'i polir.4lideuU. bewwd M tfc rvdUi-e laM Mat ttk mtt atttor It will pay you k (ad out jiut w the POSTAL LIFE CM tad will do lot yea. The Coapoay mwm ell ike audard UsaT-reMm policy -Iobm: k aaeeiiBa tori raenal (nformaliaa k oil opplin i M, women ad ;onf people eed diotoao Irom Now York don not kmim. Juat wriM md mj t "Mall me life-Menu pmrticwkm 1 for my age" attd b ture to nentien this Paper. ' U yout letto: kt mm to sje . Your FmB Name, 2. Your Occupation " 3. The Exact Dale of your Blrtm The requeit lor infooiaDo nUcc yo aaoW o obligations and no aotat will k aoat U iai yea. The Portal Lile doet not oaplojr afoau km frMa m wlicjfholdeti the beBcni oi gou eonMnJooiooje --the first year and eary otkor. Postal Life InsiiTrejCoiiipSoiy (Thirty jive nlauau Seen tavrxi) I ) mm if TRADEMARKS DESIGNS. COPYRIGHTS S-n t mol ,., drawing- or-plioto. witlifcriptlon. W " 0 IS l .fora nppl7nv 'or a patent, it ivilt pat ou. Alt brjitclies o( mis taken through office advtr I lis- a fa- sale r expense. rUMMOOK on patents senltM. WORMELLF & VAN MAILK, ri.l.mbiitooriieat I Pot.Ca.taf, ASMPOltn. .TO For Partridge, Wood cock, Squirrel or Rabbit Shooting the 44 GAUGE SI.OTGU.I No. 101 IS A WONDER 2rt inch barrel, weighs 4 lb., Uk4R. For 41 XL. 4i W.C.V bhut nd 44 "Oi Geiter" Cartridifrt. ., t List Pile Onlv ftS.OO N ot her Urt or guugt of .hot- v 4 fun weflicitnt unJt.rogrtnil "nS variety of condition. 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