The fort Sumner Review
VOL. 3.
FORT SUMNER, GUADALUPE COUNTY, N. M., JANUARY 21, 1911.
NO 28.
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PROCLAMATION
BY THE GOVERNOR.
To the People of New Mexico:
WHEREAS, the Congress of
the United States during the
month of June, A. D. 1910. pass
ed an enabling act which was
duly signed by the President,
and became a law; and,
WHEREAS, the Constitutional
Convention which was provided
for in said enabling act has met
and has framed a Constitution
for the State of New Mexico; and.
WHEREAS, said Constitution
al Convention ordered that an
election be held on the twenty
first day of January, A. D. 1911,
so that the qualified electors of
New Mexico might vote and de
termine whether or not they
would adopt said Constitution;
and,
WHEREAS, this is the most
important election which has ever
been held in the Territory of New
Mexico, and it is desirable that
every citizen have the opportuni
ty to cast his vote at said elec
tion: NOW THEREFORE, I, WIL
LIAM J. MILLS, Governor of the
Territory of New Mexico, do
hereby declare,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21st,
A. D. 1911,
to be a Legal Holiday, and I
hereby order all territorial and
county offices to be closed on said
day, and request that business be
suspended until after the close
of the polls on said day.
Done at the Executive Office
this the 11th Day of January,
A. D. 1911.
WITNESS My hand and the
Great Seal of . the-Territory, of
New Mexico. '
WILLIAM J. MILLS,
By the Governor:
NATHAN JAFFA,
Secretary of New Mexico.
Snow Blockades Cana
dian Road$
While the snow blockade is re
lieved in British Columbia, the
Canadian Pacific is having great
trouble in the mountains The
best snow fighters in the Canadi
an Pacific service are on the
ground trying to get through
traffic moving but efforts so far
are unavailing.
The temperature at Field last
night was 42 below with a bitter
wind blowing and snow falling.
Fined For Giving
Rebates
Judge Holand in- the United
States district court, fined the
Philadelphia & Reading and the
Lehigh Valley railroad companies
and the Bethlehem Steel com
pany $40,000 each on the charges
of unlawful rebating. The gov
ernment was prosecutor.
The draft of a proposed law
permitting the secretary of the
interior to sell or lease water
from irrigation projects to com
mercial mannfacturing plants
was offered in the house today
by Representative Reader.
The bill provides that "such
waters as can be spared" may be
thus disposed of, when no other
source of water supply is to be
found.
E. J. Mattock paid us a visit
last week and says he has just
finished sinking a well north of
town, the well is 200 feet deep
and has 75 feet of water. Mr.
Mattook has a large experience
in well drilling through this part
of the country.
New Rules Of Practice Be
fore United States Land
Offices.
Department of the Interior Un
ited States Land Office Fort Sum
ner New Mexico, January 9, 1911.
On December 9, 1910 the Sec
retary of the Interior approved
a new set of Rules of Practice in
cases before United States Dis
trict Land Offices, the General
Land Office and the Department
of the Interior. These rules will
be in force and effect on Febru
ary 1, 1911.
A great many changes have
been made in the proceedure with
regard to contests, and no con
test affidavits will be accepted on
or after February 1, which are
made under the forms in present
use. The new contest affidavit
must contain the following:
(a) Name and residence of
each party adversely' interested,
including the age of each heir of
any deceased entrymen.
(b) Description and character
of the land involved.
(c) Reference, so far as
known to the applicant, to any
proceedings pending for the ac
quisition of title to or the use of
such lands.
(d) Statement, in ordinary
and concise language, of the facts
constituting the grounds of con
test. (e) Statement, of the law un
der which applicant intends to
acquire title and facts showing
that he is qualified to do so.
(f) That the proceedingis not
collusive or speculative, but is in
stituted and will be diligently
pursued in good faith.
(g) Application that affiant
be allowed to prove said allega
tions and that the entry, filing,
or other claim be canceled.
(h) Address to which papers
shall be sent for service on, such
applicant.
The statements in the applica
tion must be coraoborated by the
affidavit of at least one witness.
It will be seen that any person
filing a contest affidavit, must
show his qualifications to enter
the land which is tobe contested.
The United States Commission
ers, Court Commissioners, Pro
bate Judges and Probate Clerks
have all been furnished with
copies of the new Rules of Prac
tice, as have the attorneys and
agents admitted to practice before
this office.
Arthur E. Curren, Register.
Enrique H. Salazar, Receiver.
"All things come to him who waits,"
But here's a rule thats slicker;
"The man who goes for what he wants,
Will get there all thequicker."
Pointers.
George Merrell, Jew.el and Spot
paid us a visit this week and le
ports the jack rabbits are eating
up the fences, but thanks to Mr.
T. T. Haack's dog that recently
broke the worlds record eating
jack rabbits, now the farmers
can rest easy.
We hear the rumor that R. C.
McHenry one of the land office
men will resign his position with
Uncle Sam and will establish a
law office in the prosperous city
of Ft. Sumner.
Hon. E. H. Salazar will leave
today for Las Vegas, to visit his
family. The stork arrived at his
home and brought a big fat boy.
G. F. Humbert has rented the
house west of Mr. Reeling's resi
dence and expects his wife and
little boy in the near future.
Mr. and Mrs. II. R. Parons en
tertained a crowd at their home
Wednesday evening, 500 was the
principle amusement.
B, B. Palmer will sell at a bar
gain about 80 assorted fruit trees,
call and see him.
freedom, progress
LOCALETTS.
Hot and cold baths at the
Palace Barber Shop.
For sale 2 room house at a bar
gain by W. F. Mclntyre.
Domingo Swabecher made a
quick trip to Puerto De Luna this
week.
All kinds of fresh Booth's fish
at Wright and Hurd's Cafe.
Now is the time for every New
Mexican to show whether he is a
true American citizen or not.
L.fJ.aiSl'llO Will illCCb J-llUlO-
day evening at the A .T .fe S. F.
Restaurant.
For sale one lot near the lake,
12 lots with large trees on them.
W.F. Mc Intyre.
Today is the time for every
American citizen to go to the poler,
and cast his vote for the consti
tution. Oranges, Lemons, Bananas and
Apples at Wright and Hurd's
Cafe.
Judge Mann of Albuquerque,
and George Sena of Santa Rosa,
are among the lot owners of Ft.
Sumner.
LAND SCRIPT-Baker and Par
due can sell you 160 acres of
Land Scrip, cheap.
Oysters; New York Counts
and New York selects. At
Wright and Hurd Cafe.
The Ft. Sumner Jewelers repair
watches, clocks, jewelry and bar
retts, also guns sewing machines,
toys and all immaginary small
and fancy machinery. Satisfac
tion guaranteed.
"Don't go home in the dark"
but buy a new "Cold Blast"
lantern at fiarickson's.
Weather Report
Jan. Maximum Minimum
13 65 deg. 35deg
14 72 24
15 77 25
16 77 24
17 78 ;, - 30
18 68 19
19 70 ,, 20
Precipitation
.15
We have a full and complete
line Of samples from M. Bon
& Co., Chicago. Come and or
der a spring suit, prices are
right and style, quality and
measure guaranteed at Earick
son's. Notice. I will sell at public
sale on Saturday, January 21st
at 2 P.M. in front of A. T. & S.
F. Restaurant one organ in good
shape, and a host of other things
too numerous to mention. La
dies are especially invited to
attend the sale.
S. D. Hamilton.
$1.00 reward for the return
of a pair of spurs lost in front of
the Santa Fe Restaurant.
R. O, Burt,
Take the territorial
hand-cuffs off of your
wrists and vote for
STATEHOOD. It
means self government,
and prosperity.
R. O. Burt is now sole propri
etor of the A. T. & S. F. Res-"
taurant, and it looks as though he
is favored with good luck. Tues
day evening he gave supper to
about 170 section men.
E. E. Crutchfield and F. C.
Baker have gone into partner
ship in the general merchandise
business and will occupy the
Crutchfield building to which an
extention has been added recent-
ly.
It is beb'eved that two men
who were arrested at Ogden,
Utah and brought to Belen last
week, are the men who have been
robbing the different Post Offices,
and the John Baker store at Bel
en. Frank Manzanares returned
from Clifton Arizona Tuesday,
and on his way back stopped at
Albuquerque where Mr. Sturges,
proprietor of the Sturges Hotel,
presented him with a thorough-
( bred bull pup.
The Spanish article we have
published in this issue delivered
by Mr. Bursum, will be published
by many of the weekly papers in
the territory and will surely make
the Spanish American think
more seriously about the consti
tution and how to vote.
New Dreadnaught
Launched
Flying the white-starred ensign
of the United States navy at her
stern, the worlds biggest battle
ship, the latest arid newest pride
of the American navy, the dread
naught Arkansas, slid down the
ways into her future home, the
waters Saturday.
The waves which she kicked
up in the Deleware- river, as she
was launched, washed the stern
of her sister ship, the Wyoming,
which will within a few weeks
be launched also.
The 26,000-ton fighting seadog,
built to carry the thunder of a
dozen 12-inch guns, to be man
ned by 85 officers and 1030 Jack
tars, glided down the ways to
the strain of the "Star Spangled
Banner," while the crowd cheer
ed and the river craft tooted their
noisy welcome.
This largest, most powerful bat
tleship afloat in the waters of the
-world was christenen by Miss
Ethel Macon .daughter of Con
gressman Robert B. Macon of
Arkansas.
The Arkansas has a displace
mens of 26,000 tons, 30,000 horse
power and a deck line 554 feet
long, costing nearly $5,000,000,
which is nearly $1,000,000 less
than the Florida cost, although
the latter is much the smaller
vessel. The Florida was built by
Uncle Sam at his Brooklyn navy
yard; the Arkansas by a private
ship building compauy.
Mr. McHahon superintendent
of this division of the Santa Fe,
and Mr. McNeil road master
stopped here Tuesday, on busi
ness. .
Communication.
A short time ago I noticed that
Territorial Engineer Sullivan re
fused two companies the right to
appropriate the flood waters of
the Pecos river, for several very
important reasons this is a mis
taken policy; they refused chief
ly because Carlsbad people claim
ed that they have a right to a cer
tain amount of it. As they do
not cultivate more than twelve
to fifteen thousand acres, a large
portion of surplus water is wasted
somewhere. Taking the measur
ed waters that flow out of the
north and south spring.
At Roswell there is one hun
dred thousand acre feet during
the five months that no irriga
tion is requested. Then going
on down the Pecos river, even
passing Carlsbad. Taking these
same five months there is an
other one hundred thousand acre
feet passing Fort Sumner the
greater part of which flows on to
the gulf, besides lots of flood wat
ers during the irrigating season
flowing the same way. While
we have a sufficient number of
reservoir sites in which this
water could be stored instead of
going to waste. Then again we
have thousands of acres of fine
land on both sides of the river,
that could be easily irrigated
with this wasted water and which
these companies were desirous
of appropriating for that purpose.
The more water is taken out of
the river and spread over the
lands of the upper Pecos the more
the Carlsbad people would get
during the irrigation season. As
it is well established fact . that
forty to fifty percent of the
water flooded on the land will
seep back into the natural drain
age of the country which in this
caséis the river. Therefore it
adds to the flow of the river all
during the year. Every encour
agement should be given to all
parties who are desirous of put
ting to beneficial use each drop
of water that is not already ap
propriated, as there are plenty
of people who are willing to pay
for the water in order to improve
their surroundings.
It is a pity that so much water
should run to waste when it
could be put to such splendid
use.
I hope these companies will be
able to show those in control that
they are making a great mistake.
R. C. Nisbet.
Cut It Out
Texico N. M., Jan. 4, 1910.
Editor Clovis Journal.
My subscription, that I paid on
was out three weeks ago by your
blue mark and I did not ask you
to keep sending it to me, and I
want to say now that I do not
want it to come to my house no
more. I used to think a lot of
this paper, but I can't stay with
anything that can support such a
thing as this coustitution I
want it stopped right at once. I
don't even want it as waste pa
per. I don't want my children
to read such an organ as this
here thing is. I got my constitu
tion last week" and throwed the
d d thing in the fire without
tearing the cover off of it. It is
just such rot as this stuff that is
tearing our party all up today.
If you think I owe you anything
for that paper for the three
weeks, send the bill, but send it
to me now no more.
Out of courtesy to our dear
old subscriber and out of - respect
for The Journal, we won't print
this brothers name. We will ad
mit howtívnr, that this is a hot
one. -Editor. Clovis Journal.
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AL PUEBLO DE
NUEVO MEXICO
El Hon. H. Ü. Bursum
Sale a la Palestra ecu
uno de los Mejores
Discursos que se han
Pronunciado en
Favor de la
Constitución
La Constitución fue fraguada
por cien delegados, ciudadanos
representativos, escojidos por el
pueblo de Nuevo Mexico. En
esta convención necesariamente
habia diferencias de opinion. Ne
cesariamente habia cien men
tes, cada uno honestamente y
deveras creyendo que sus ideas
deberían ser incorporadas en la
ley fundamental del Nuevo Esta
do. La Constitución representa,
tanto como es posible, el juicio y
sabiduría combinado de cien dele
gados. La prueba de esto es que
noventa y tres de los cien están
sosteniendo y peleando por el
documento sin respecto a afilia
ción política. No se redama que
la constitución es infalible o per
fecta, pero en mi juicio es una
magnifica expresión del patrio
tismo de los miembros de la con
vención Constitucional por entera
Estoy satisfecho de que compa
raría favorablemente con la con-
: , . i a 1 j i T T. :
raaá adelantado, ilusU"sdcrtvm.j t"v'iíi
gresivo. Bajo esta, se le garantiza
al pueblo que sus tasaciones no
serán mas altas, pero como mate
ria de hecho serán menos que lo
que son ahora al presente tiempo.
Al pueblo pobre se le proteje por
una excepción de cien pesos a
cada cabeza de familia. . . Todas
las leyes presentes como existen,
se llevan en fuerza en el nuavo
estado.
Sus leves se publicaron en In
gles y Español por al menos los
sigiuentes veinte anos. A los
niños que. hablan" Español se les
garantiza la mas plena protección f
y Denencios de las escuelas pu
blicas, bajo una base igual con
todos otros ciudadanos. Sus
maestros serán ensenados el
Ingles y Español a fin de que se
hagan hábiles para poder ensenar
a los niños el lenguaje del pais.
Bajo el gobierno de estado Vs. A
recibirán un patrimonio def- go
bierno federal para beneficio de
las escuelas publicas el cual habi
litara a sus niños el obtener el
beneficio de la educación sin costo
y sin tasación dentro de un peri
odo muy corto después de la or
ganización delnuevo estado. Ahora
se les tasa a Vds. para ese fin.
El derecho de sufragio, el de
recho de tener empleo, ya sea de v
condado o de precinto el derecho ,
de servir como jurados se garantía
a todo ciudadano, absolut vnentí,'
sin referencia a su habilidad de I'7"
poder leer, hablar o escribir el l !
Idioma Ingles o Español. Como V j
Territorio estamos en peligro'que
el Congreso nos quite estos dere- '
chos cuando le plazca. s -4-
Todos los derechos dados al
pueblo que habla Español bajo el
tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo, -son
preservados y reconocidos por
provistos específicos en la consti
tución. Es verdad, qua el Acta . de ha
bilitación del Congreso provee
que la habilidad de hablar y leer
el Ingles suficientemente para el
descargo de los deberes del em
pleo, se prescribe para los miem
(continua en U 8r pasipa)