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FORT SUMNER REVIEW FORT SUMNER - NEW MEXICO The man who feels like 30 of the new Lincoln pennies Is not badly oil. West Point cadets must realize that they are there for business, and not to cut monkey shines. The Ben Davis apple crop Is twice as big as it was last year, and the consumers are beginning to groan. We are Informed that all is' quiet In Honduras. Subject to change with out notice if the army can find his musket before we go to press. The amateur aeronaut continues to come back to earth sometimes with only a dull thud, sometimes with only a few bones broken, but generally the other way. Of course, more women attend church than men. Men haven't any peachbasket hats to exhibit, and are not even allowed to wear In church auch bats as they have. In England what we name a "grouch" is known as a "hump." To "get a hump on yourself" In the Unit ed States is quite different from get ting a "hump" in England. The news Is borne out to the entire civilized world that King Alfonso of Spain Is growing side whiskers. The ulterior motive may be to disguise himself so the anarchists will not rec ognize him. The mayor of Tokyo will send 20,000 cherry trees to President Taft at Washington. This Is a sort of mani fold repetition of history, since It was one cherry tree which originally made Washington famous. In the city of Washington it is the custom of society women to ring for a messenger boy and have htm button their waists up the back. And this, too, at the very center of agitation against cruel and unusual labor for children. A medical journal In London de clares that school children under eight in that city are habitual drink ers. If this is true, and the nation drinks in proportion to the Infant tip plers, it is no wonder that the coun try is on the verge of panic from see ing phantom invasions. A New York boy was lock.-.d up for two weeks in jail awaiting trial for the-larceny of two cents. It must be impressed on the rising generation that stealing on so small a scale must be discouraged by all the drastic means possible. Then they will grow up free and untrammeled to become frenzied financiers. The comptroller of the currency re ports another batch of new national banks, with capital ranging from J25. 000 to $50,000. These comparatively small Institutions are started in lo calities where they meet real busi ness needs, and hence illustrate the successful working of a policy adopt ed by congress with that end in view. Isn't It about time for a new term inology of power? , Measurement by borse power has existed from time im memorial, and still serves its purpose. But for power upon the water a query of fitness arises, and as to airships in an element where no horse could pos sibly draw anything the use of the term horse power makes for humor when you come to think of it. The story from Washington that a British royal commission has reversed Dr. Wiley in arriving at a decision as to what constitutes genuine whis ky is worthy of note because of the fact that there are expert testers not only In England but also In Scotland and in Ireland. There is no denying the fact that many residents of these countries know whereof they speak when they express their opinion on the subject of whisky. A sharp Bummer gale caught the fleet of the New Tork Yacht club dur ing Its run of 152 miles from Vineyard Haven to Portland, and as a result only about six stanch yachts out of more than, a scare reached the port of destination. The others were driven to shelter with the loss of spars and canvas; but the fact that no serious casualties have been reported is evi dence that the New York yachtsmen are something more than "carpet sail ors." It has been decided in Washington that boys who play marbles "for keeps" are gamblers In the meaning of the law and liable to arrest and punishment for so heinous an offense. It is cheering to the law-abiding of the nation to know that In Its capital the gambling law are so strictly en forced, though as the particular boys In question were released with a lec ture, there Is grave doubt about the propriety of letting loose such dan gerous criminals on the community. A curious case Is that of the Wis consin judge who has abandoned the practice of law and taken up work In a factory. From time to time this Jurist has felt the Impulse to manual labor, and has wandered off and gratified his ' inclinations. He seemed to have a dual person ality, one of which leads him to learning In the law and active participation In legal pursuits, the other finding pleasure only in toiling with his hands. And yet there are persons not Inclined to work witb either band or brain. NEW MEXICO TERRITORIAL NEWS Anton J. Meloche, one of the oldest ettlers In Colfax county, died this week at his home fifteen miles east of Raton. Rev. Charles Maltas of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal church at Ro well, has resigned to accept a charge at Dodge City, Kansas. Green Watson, a colored barber of Albuquerque, has been elected janitor and Jailor of the the new police head quarters of the Duke City. Antonio Ortiz of near Las Vegas, and a relative, were bound over at Las Vegas yesterday in the sum of $1.000 on the charge of horse stealing. Harry Moslman has received a ship ment of trout fry from the U. S. fish hatcheries at Leadville, Colorado, and will stock the Sapello near Beulah, San Miguel county. Judge Frank W. Parker Is holding District Court1 this week at Silver City but owing to ebb in the court funds the term will be curtailed and no civil trials by jury will be had. Something like twenty-five dogs, some of them worthless, others valu able, have been sent to the dog heav en by strychnine and arsenic at Car rlzozo, Lincoln county, this week. The latest advices from the Zunl region are that the Black Rock dam has been badly undermined by the floods and will have to be rebuilt in great part. The Zunl bridge is badly damaged. Eight thousand feet are flowing over the Leasburg diversion dam in the Rio Orande near Engle. Sierra county, which is 1,000 feet above the highest flood stage this spring, and the river is still rising. Mrs. Bridget Keating died at Raton this week at the age of eighty years. Mrs. Keating came to Raton from Roxbury, Pa., twenty years ago. The husband and three children preceded her to the grave. In the Probate Court , at Al buquerque the report of the apprais ers of the estate of the late Mrs. Filo mena P. Otero, was approved. The value of the real estate is fixed at $60, 650 and of the personal property at 67,660. Petitions are being circulated In Al buquerque asking the City Council of the Duke City to submit to the voters the proposition of extending the city limits In time for the census of 1910. The petition Is receiving numerous sig natures. .... Mrs. B. M. Young, aged 67 years, of Spruce, Mo., died at Estancia, a few hours after her, arrival at the home of her daughters, the Misses Amead and Laura Young. Her husband, who was on his ranch near Estancia, did not get to Estancia in time to see his wife alive. The so-called Bernalillo county sal ary cases Involving the payment of 4 per cent, commissions to former Asses sor Slgfried Grunsfeld and former Treasurer John S. Beaven which were decided In favor of the latter, have been appealed by Bernalillo county to the Territorial Supreme Court. The annual meeting and election of officers of the New Mexico Bar Associ ation will be held at Albuquerque on October 14 and 15. The Albuquerque Via will nmvlla fnr anoalrara nrnirpatii and entertainment. According to cus- torn the presidency of the association ! oomes this year to the Fourth judicial district. The damage caused by the break in the Bluewater dam west of Albuquer que, was exaggerated by first reports. The dam 1b only partly damaged and farmers did not lose all their crops. The flood swept across waste lands tnat were not under cultivation. A. B. Crawford of Pennsylvania, has i At Las Vegas the following mar been assigned this district as postof- rla5e censes have been granted: An flee inspector with headquarters at!"'" Sandoval end Eloísa Baca, the Albuquerque. He has brought bis j latter 15 vears old. of Conzales; family to the Duke City and will be- Adelaida Barros and Juvencio Garcia, gin active work at once. Mr. Craw- j Chaperlto; Desiderio Montoya and ford has been In the postal service the! Antonio Armijo of East Las Vegas; past twelve years, principally In the;charles Lake and Emma Shaikley of railway mail service and comes highly recommended. Hon. E. A. Miera and Venceslao Miera of Sandoval county, appeared before the board of county commis sioners of Bernalillo county at Albu querque and made counterclaim on part of bandoval county for $4.000 back taxes as an ofiset to the claim of $9,500 Interest by the county of Ber nalillo on the unpaid Indebtedness of Sandoval county to Bernalllll county. The board of county commissioners 1 of Bernaluio county assented to a set-i uemeni oi tne nerimiiuu i-uumy i cases, Involving the payment of taxes for three year ln one instance and; two years In two other instances of j taxes levied on the banks of Albu- querque. The assessment had been on a basis of sixty per cent, which the j banks claimed was too high and the , settlemem Is on a basis of a forty per cent, assessment. Twelve year old Gregorita, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bustos, died at Las Vegas. President Taft will be accompanied if a distinguished party of celebri ties when he arrives In Albuquerque on "Taft Day" during the twenty-ninth New Mexico Fair and Resources Ex position next month, in the party will be the postmaster general, the secretary of state, the secretary of the Interior, John Hays Hammond, the noted millionaire mining engineer, Merrltt Ford of the New York Cen tral railway and other prominent men. Central Bank for Nation. The New Mexico Bankers' Associa tion opened its second annual session at Santa Fe. Mayor Jose D. Sena de livered the address of welcome and Governor Curry spoke of the financial I condition of the territory, showing ' that Its Indebtedness Is only 1,000,-. 000, while half a million dollars Is in j the territorial treasury; county debts; aggregate almost $3,000,000 but two-, thirds of this Is owed by three coun ties while the other twenty-three owe 1 only (1,000,000; that $1,300.000 cash Is In the county treasuries; that without i its vast land holdings the territory has ; buildings and grounds worth $1.400,- 000, and outside of the incorporated cit- ies there is $1,000,000 in schoolhouses against which there Is a bonded in-1 debtedness of $600,000. He also point ed to the fact that within tne last few years there has been only one bank ! failure and that was a private concern. The territory today haB forty-one ; national and thirty-eight territorial t banks, with a capitalization of $3,274,- j 000, and resources of $24,008,000. ; Major R. J. Palen, the president, de-j llvered his annual address m which he advocated a central bank for the na tion, a uniform banking law for New Mexico, as did Governor Curry; but Major Palen opposed postal Bavlngs banks and deposit guarantee laws. He advocated a more elastic currency. Repairs of Zunl Dam. Albuquerque, N. M. That the big ) Zunl dam of the government, near " Zunl, N. M., may be repaired at a cost j of Í100.000, is the statement made here today by H. F. Robinson, superlnten-. dent of irrigation for the Pueblo Indi- j ans. I Mr. Robinson says the government will rebuild the dam to its former ca- pacity. The recent flood allowed 7,000 acre feet of water to escape irom the j reservoir, 6,000 acre feet being. sttü held In storage. This Is enough for ! the irrigation of the crops under the project next spring. j Inspecting Engineer W. B. Hill and j Consulting Engineer Saunders of the j Reclamation Service were sent out from Washington to InBpect the dam age and are still at Zunl. . School Teacher Too Few. '? Santa Fe, N. M. The compulsory education law cannot be enforced In many districts on aocamit of dearth o( school teachers, according to the ter ritorial superintendent, and that de spite the fact that more certificates to teach were Issued this year than ever before. Guadaloupe county needs twenty more teachers, Union county fifteen, and Quay and other counties a large number. Faywood Hot Springs. Santa Fe, N. M. The Faywood Hot Springs Company, was incorporated, capital $100,000, and headquarters at Faywood. Grand county. The Incor porators and directors are H. H. Betts of Silver City, and Thomas D. McDer mott and Charles D. McDermott of Faywood. Forest Funds. Santa Fe, N. M. Governor Curry " .i-. . - As' culture that New Mexico s share f thp forest apportionment this year is rlved from the eleven national forests in New Mexico. The city council of Las Vegas has , elected Herbert V. Clark to succeed j H. G. Coors, Jr., as city attorney of i Las Vegas. Granby, Colorado. The first real airship ever seen In Albuquerque will tioat over the fair grounds by day and the city by night during the territorial fair next month. The ship will make three flights daily during the fair, the night flight being ! especially Interesting because the bird i like machine will be followed by a ! searchlight In Its flight through the ' heavens. I James . Downing, formerly a Las Vpírn nrlnter. has heen sentecpd tn gerve a term of five yl,arg ln , Tcxas penItentlary or perjury. Sentence was Imposed at Amarillo, Texas. , .,, h.. ,h hna , colmty commi8Hloner8 at Albuquerque an corapaln(id that the saloons in (0llr precincts did not. pay sufficient liquor licenses and that the county schools are thereby deprived of enn- slderable revenue. The board deferred action to Investigate. Edward Men for many years prom inent In Grant county politics and a resident of iteming died at Los An geles. D. H. Trent and W. ' H. Trent of Goldwalthe, Tex., paid $50,000 for the forty-acre ranch of J. C. Carrera near Las Cruces. A beautiful residence and fifteen acre orchard is Included ln the ranch. There are four cement block houses on the property for rent ing purposes. Professor Carrera and family will make their home in the future in Parla, France. The purchas ers are negotiating to buy one of the banking Institutions at Las Cruce. Burlington Buy Vast Coal Land. Recent negotiations which are known to have been In progress have revealed the fact that the Burlington railroad Is contemplating he pur chase of the vast coal properties In the old Maxwell land grant In New Mexico, owned at present by the St. Loul. Rocky Mountain & Pacific Railway & Coal Company.. The Burlington has not an acre of coal land on any of Its Western systems today, and It long has been seeking an opportunity to acquire coal properties which would i,o away with its present handicap in that department. The company which controls the Maxwell land grant fields owns 620, 000 acres of coal land, with 2,000,000, 000 tons of coal In sight. All the pro duct of the 80j coke ovens operated by the company goes to the smelters of Phelps, Dodge Co., owners of the huge smelters at Bisbee, Douglas and other Arizona towns. The company also has a contract to sell the Santa Fe railroad 3,000 tons of coal a month and uenver it at Raton, New Mexico. The railroad operated by (he St. Loui, Rocky Mountain & Pacific Com pany connects with the Colorado & Southern at Des Moines, W. M., and with the santa Fe at Raton, and the Colorado & Southern, as a Burlington property, would give that system a di rect entrance to the vast coal fields. Word was received from J. Van Houten, general manager of the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific that he had been called to Carlsbad, Germany, to confer with Henry Koeh ler, Jr., president of the company, on the proposed sale to the Burlington. General Manager Van Houten admit ted before he left that negotiations were pending betweep the company and the Burlington and that they had reached such an advanced stage that President Koehler desired a personal conference with him on the matter. Mr. Koehler is In Germany for hi health, and before starting for Europe a few months ago, be made the state ment that he would like to Bell the company and get it off his mind, pro viding a reasonable price could be ob tained. Phelps, Dodge & Co., owners of the Arizona smelters mentioned, are also the owners of the El Paso & South western railroad, and It is understood that they have been making tentative propositions also, with regard to the purchase of the Maxwell coal fields. Flsk & Robinson, of New York were the underwriters . of the St. Louis. Rocky Mountain & Pacific Railway & Coal Company, and dispatches received from New York not long ago stated that there was said to have been some dissatisfaction among the holders of the company's preferred stock, for the reason that no dividends had been paid since the company was incorporated. It. is understood i that this dissatisfac tion furnishes another motive for the company's desire to sell, If possible, though the reason for the nondeclara tion of dividends Is said to be that all profits have been applied in improve ments and In keeping up the Interest on the bonds. When the crest of the flood in the Rio Grande, reached the Leasburg di version dam near Engle It was for a time 10,000 second feet but dropped to 9,000 second feet before evening. The accumulation of four day's mall from California and points south ar rived at toanta Fe over the Santa Fe and was delivered as much as four days late. Amado Hidalgo was arrested at Las Vegas for Kicking a boy named Rus sell Suhnea out of a butcher shop. Hidalgo was fined $25 but has appealed the case. The new smoke stask of the Santa Fe Water and Light Company has been placed In position at Santa Fe, and is attracting great attention because of lis enormous size, ihe stack is 126 feet and seven inches high. Another similar stack will shortly be placed in position, making the two largest in the county. At Vaughn, Guadalupe county a cloudburst occurred covering the sur rounding country with water. Th damage was slight. Big Fair Planned. The twenty-ninth New Mexico Fair at Albuquerque next month will be the Mecca of stockmen from all over the Southwest. The exhibits of live stock are to be on a far more pre tentious scale than ever before attempt ed and the flocks and herrts of the Southwest ranges will uo represented by the pick of the finest animals fn competition for the handsome prizes to be awarded during the exposition. The Hereford cattle displays are to be especially fine and the competi tion among the cattle raiserB will be extremely keen. , A beautiful silver cup of original de sign has been offered for the best mixed exhibit of Hereford cattle, the exhibit to consist of not less than fir teen head. The following prlzeB are also offered: For the best Hereford bull, $10; best Hereford cow, $7; best Hereford 2-year-old, $3; beBt Hereford yearling, $3; best Hereford calf, $2. Many other fine prizes will be offered in the cattle exhibits. Umbrella Causes Death of Two. Santa Fe, N. M. Rafael Herrera had his brains dashed out against an adobe wall, and his daughter Encar nación was fatally Injured, while they were driving to church M Santa Crux, northern Santa Fe county. The horse took fright when the girl opened an umbrella, and in running away threw both occupants out of the wagon. ! Henry Laumbach of Buena Vista I Mora county, is harvesting 200,000 pounds of apples from his orchard. FAIR PLAY IS ALL THEY WANT WYOMING WOOL GROWERS SAY HARDSHIPS ARE WORKED ON THEM BY RULING. NO EVIDENCE OF DISEASE CLAIM 8HEEP LEAVE RANGE FREE FROM DISEASE BUT ARE QUARANTINED. Cheyenne, Wyo. The sheepmen of central and northern Wyoming are up In arms over the action of Inspect ors of the bureau of animal industry at Omaha, and claim they are being unjustly persecuted. Shippers claim that although their sheep leave the range free from dis ease, are passed as clean at the load ing points and at the feed-in-translt stations in Nebraska they are con signed to the hog yards and quaran tine pens upon arrival at South Oma ha, because a few sore-mouthed lambs are found. The sheepmen claim that these sore-mouthed lamba are nothing new, and . scarcely a shipment has gone to market ln the last twenty-five years that has not contained some sore-mouthed lambs. . In pointing out the injustice to Wy oming sheepmen, the shippers say sore-mouthed lambs are received ln shipments from Montana, Idaho, Ore gon, Utah, Colorado and other west ern states, are passed as clean, are not placed in the hog yards or quaran tined areas, and that if those animals are free from disease and are accept ed, then the Wyoming shipments should be accorded the same treat ment. If sores on the mouths of lambs Is a disease, and It Is neces sary to quarantine the animals and the section of Wyoming from which they were received, then there is not a section of the United States where sheep are grown that Is free, argue the Wyoming shippers. The Wyoming and National Wool Growers' associations have taken the matter up with Secretary Wilson and Chief Melvin of the bureau of animal industry in the hope that 'relief will be forthcoming soon. The Wyoming sheepmen say the work of the federal Inspectors at South Omaha costs them one to two cents per pound on all mut ton marketed there. Old Comet Comes Back Chicago, For the first time in seventy-four years, Halley's comet ha been observed with the human eye. The observation was made by Profess or S. W. Burnham of the Yerkes ob servatory at Lake Geneva, early on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. last week. Two photographic nega tives were secured. The announcement of Professor Burnham's exploit was made by Pro fessor Edward B. Frost today. 'Professor Burnham was the first in America to see the comet even with the aid of a telescope," Bald Pro fessor Frost. "Heretofore it has need ed the camera to detect it. We said nothing about aeeing the visitor Wednesday, even though our photo graphic plates showed It, because it was partly obscured by a small star and we could not be certain. Thursday morning about 3 o'clock, Professor Burnham again saw the comet and again the camera manipu lated by Oliver J. Lee picked It up. This time there could be no mistake." Fast Mail to the Coast. Washington, Rival propositions to carry the mails from Chicago to Se attle In fifty-six hours have been sub mitted by the Great Northern company and by the Chicago Milwaukee ft St. Paul railroad. Such an accomplish ment as is promised would clip sixteen hours off the present schedule for the twenty-two hundred miles. The threatened speed war has for its reward the four-year contract for carrying the Overland mail from Chi cago for the Puget Sound country. Al aska and Trans-Pacific ports and 'rom Chicago to St. Paul and Minneapolis. It means nearly $7,000,000 additional revenue to the successful road during the four years following next Febru ary, when the contract is due to be awarded. Six Billion Ton of Coal. onnti Tha fulincr nf President taft in the Balllnger-Glavis contro versy does not change the title to the vast coal areas near Katalla, in Alas ka, which are claimed by several syn Hiratan Including the Cunningham combination, with headquarters in Se attle. The geologists in charge or tne united states survey oí Aiasna sum recently that six billion tons of coal A (. aUht In Alaalfo with tha nnn- try only partially explored. This coal I. 1 .1 tn ha oiinorinp in nnv fnnnil elsewhere ln North America except in Pennsylvania. Estimates of the value of the coal lands claimed by the syn dicates vary from, $75,000,000 to ooo.ouu.ouu. "Tell Them I Found Pole." On board the S. S. Oscar II., at sea, Sept. 17 (Via Marconi wireless tele graph to Cape Race. N. F.) "Tell the people of America to have the fullest confidence In my conquest of the pole. I have records of observations made by me which will prove my claim. I Bhall be glad to set my foot on Amer ican soil." This was the brief mesag Dr. Fred erick A. Cook asked the Associated Press to give to his countrymen as he nears home on the steamer Oscar II., bound for New York. LlxxvváSevuva Cteftwses xhe System Dispels cods awd Headaahes Acts wawo, acXsVrvty as aLaxaivvc. rW for MGnWemen axvdJMit 9 Vi tYko ilonmnP. manufactured by tK CALIFORNIA Fig Syrup Ca SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS one size only, rejular price 50 per bottle. FREAK IN SEQUOIA FOREST Tree Trunk That Ha Stood for Six teen Year Severed From It Base. finí r California there is a tree trunk which has Btood for the last 16 years entirely severed from its base, says the Wide World Magazine. The stump Is 15 feet In diameter, and the trunk towers 75, feet In the air. This remarkable freak is located near tne Ccmmia fnroat reserve In Tulare coun ty, California, and was sawn off by lumbermen for timber. Through some miscalculation, when the cut was fln- liheri tha tree still held its DOSltlon, and dynamite was resorted to to bring it to the ground, which accounts for tho Heen cash nn one aide. After the first charge of the explosive had been ignited the tree still remained suroo inv and It. war discovered that the entire trunk had been shattered by the discharge and was therefore use less for lumber. Accordingly, tne work was stonned and the giant has remained upright, withstanding some of the severest wind storms that the state has known, held In its natural position by Its great weight. Big Berlin Philanthropy. Mnre than 50.000 children were en abled by the authorities of Berlin to Rnenrl this summer on land within easy reach of the city limits. They were assiened Dlots where they could play and cultivate gardens profitably with the help of their famines ana tne advice of public instructors. Important to Mother. 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