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.1 1 it you to see the new " Queen Quality - shoes we are now showing. Never ct-t.:- .Unna nrnjlnrfi. Never have fihfq hnndsomer. Never were ocrar uuu ou.-j. n ! 8 at their prices to compare with them for real value. Dgi that "Queen Quality" shoes outsell all other women's shoes in the world, ite nt public is looking more and more to big trademark names for security. "ten Quality" for instance. The reputation oi mat name Dk Can the makers afford to stamp it on any shoe that would discredit Clhey afford to sacrifice quality? You know it stanaa mi v w that every dollar of this is oenina your am&- AFOYA & LAWSON eln will contain leipita than ever 115 itc it it has ever icf the News to or business law, the evil as if th the lawmaker who ra,lrrios on ts provisions, and the effect l)e discernable. verdict of the ! cco that gambl : such a aw has ,D) lould be enforc s be unwise then it iforce the law. oot '.eiieve Tu- cumcari will witness anv violations of the gambling act as we have the most law abiding class of sa loon men of any hamlet, city or town in the territory and many of them are glad to see the gambling stopped, as it is to them a nuisance in many ways and an expensive luxury as well. The News was among a conservative class of journals that did not cry from the house tops for a legislative bill to stop gambling in New Mexico, until we understood how the school fund was to receive its revenues, but since the bill was satisfactori ly arranged and met the approval of both houses of the Assembly and became a law it is up to the ofiicials of New Mexico to see that it is enforced, and the schools must depend on taxation tor main tenance. In a new country where there is little patented lands and taxation is necessarily high and the people struggling for a lively hood in the improvement and de velopment of the country it has been the custom in many of the new states and territories to license gambling, the funds going to the support of a public school system, but as settlement is had and the country develops and revenues are available from orher sources the practice is abandoned. So in New Mexico we must now look to other sources for funds to run our public school system. Quay coun ty has done nobly in the matter and in Tucumcari today we have a fifteen mill levy for school purpos es, voted unanimously, but in other districts of the country the schools will necessarily be cut short unless large special levies are voted. We believe the people will, how ever, gladly carry the additional burden of taxation in order to sup press the evil of gambling. The national convention for the nomination of republican candi dates for president and vice-president is called to meet in Chicago on June i6th, 1908. Denver and Kansas City were the competitors for this honor. NOTICE. An act passed by the last legis lative assembly prohibits a 1 I gambling in the territory of Now Mexico on and after January 1, 1908, and all parties conducting any kind of a gambling game in Quay county are hereby notified that they had better find other em ployment as gambling must cer tainly stop. All paraphanalia in any gambling game if found in use will be connscated ana used as evidence against both owners and operators. Slot machines are con sidered gambling devices under the act prohibiting gambling and will also if found in use be confis cated and used as evidence against owners of the machines the same as other gambling devices. J, A. Street, Sheriff of Quay County, N, M, I r, I