Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-28
CONDENSED NEWS.

CONDENSED NEWS.
The second trial of Plenty Horses has
begin at Sioux Falls, S. D.
Ex-Governor Butler dropped dead at
his home in Pawnee City, Neb. |
The annual meeting Of the American
Peace society was held at Boston Tues
day.
The National Lead Trust declared a
quarterly dividend Of one-half Of per
cent.
Col. Henry Lane Kendrick, who was
Grants instructor at West Point, died in
New York.
The Lutherans are holding very sue
cessful synod at Lebanon, Pa. A steady
growth of the church is reported.
John Ryan's Sons, Of Atlanta, Ga,
the largest dry goods house in the South
Atlantic states, was closed by the sheriff.
A dispatch from Houston Texas, says
Officer Thomas Sarsby, who was shot by
F. l.. Hunter while trying to save Mrs.
Stone from murder by Hunter, has since
died of his wounds.
1t is reported that Jay Gould, during
his coming visit to Helena, will look into
the matter of extending the Union Pacific
system so as to give it a direct entrance
into Helena over it's own lines.
Nay Smith, of Toronto, broke the record
for road races from Queen City to King
ston, 1873 miles in fifteen hours and fity-
five minutes. The previous record was
sixteen hours and forty seconds. A
safety machine was used.
The suit instituted at Chicago by Corri-
gan against the Western Union Telegraph
company to compel that company to sup
ply racing news at his track for $40 day,
was decided by Judge Blodgett in favor of
the company.
Judge Peterson, OF the New York su-
preme court, has Just handed down an
important decision, in which he holds
that an illegitimate child can inherit its
mothers property regardless of will
executed before its birth and admitted to
probate.
At Axtell, Texas, John Morgan, large
cattle raiser, got into dispute about cattle
with Doc Barnes, another cattle raiser,
and the two fought with fists, Morgan get
ting the worst OF 1t. Later they met and
foug int with knives, and this time Barnes
was fatally cut.
Advices per steamer City Of Peking
from China and Japan state that nineteen
Chinese were beheaded by order of the
authorities Kowloon City, April II, and
that nine of them are known to have par
ticipated in the Namoa piracy tragedy.
Modern VS.. Ancient New Mexico.
To the Editor of the New Mexican.
SANTA FE, May PA correspondent
of the st. Louis Republic does Santa Fe
the unkindness to write it up after the
manner of those who nose out musty
relics and revel in the remains of old time
barbarism. The "oldest house" comes in
for the usual fattering mention, and is
companied by the time-worn sketch OF
wars between the Spaniards and Indians.
Worse still, in speaking Of the mud houses
he says: "These houses have no en-
frances on the ground and the terraces
are reached by ladders" This probably
refers to the old pueblo Of Taos, but there
is nothing in the article to show the
unfamiliar reader that it does not
refer to Santa Fe. After comparison with
the mound builders he speaks of the
"weird attraction" this ancient architec'
ture has for the tourist, and asserts that
in years to come the New Mexico His
torical society will become mecca fol
students of science.
No one thing is doing New Mexico
more harm than this style OF advertising
1t invites the tourists who are looking fol
"weird attraction" but is apt to make
the cold chill run down the spinal column
of the man who thinks OF investing in
New Mexico under the impression that i
not modern the territory bids fair to be
come so soon enough to promise goot
return for money put here. The electric
light, the Catron and Webber blocks, tn
st. Vincent's hospital, new Indial
schools, the modern structures, and in
corporation, if we ever get it, are wort
more to Santa Fe than all that is ancien
: within it's limits. If Santa Fe is ever t.
become q commercial or manufacturln
CITY it must give notice to the world G
t something else than "weird attractions.
, Newspaper correspondents ought to b
chaperoned by somebody who will induc
t them to see and write about the moder
7 side of life here, and, to desist from ez
t panding and emphasizing, at least wins
i pertains to the dark ages Of the histories
Q life of New Mexico. Let the skeleto
Q dance be forgotten, and the dead Of tn
: past rest in peace. b.