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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-12

esses and vii, guarantee you q permanent cure
az moderate cost. He has cured Thousands who
thought their cases hopeless. All letters private
Write for question blank. Consultation tree
Medicines sent free from observation.
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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-12
A GOOD SCHOOL LAW
(Chama Tribune.)

a
With a public school building in every
school district in this territory an meal
culable stride has been made in her flu
ture prosperity. That is a good law
which compels the erection .. school
houses.
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Deficiency Claim Holders, Attention

To holders of deficiency claims against
the Territory of New Mexico:
The undersigned were designated in
an act of the 33d legislative assembly Of
the Territory of New Mexico, approved
March is, 1899, to examine and pass
upon such deficiency claims against the
Territory Of New Mexico as are men
toned in said act as valid, legal, out
standing indebtedness of the Territory
at that time, and to issue 1ve-year 6
per cent certificates therefor. Notice
is hereby given that all persons holding
claims exchangable for such certif1-
Gates should file the same with the
territorial auditor on or before Monday,
the first day of May, 1899, or which day
the undersigned will meet at such Of
flee for the purpose of examining and
passing upon such claims and issuing
certificates in lieu thereof, and will con-
tinue in session for that purpose until
all of such claims so filed are passed
upon.
EDWARD L. BARTLETT,
Solicitor General.
MARCHING GARCIA,
Auditor.
SAMUEL ELDoDT.
Treasurer.
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EXCELLENT SELECTIONS.
albuquerque CitiZen.)


The territorial bureau of immigration
made good choice of officers yesterday.
With Ex-Governor l.. B.. Prince as pres
ident, Colonel Max. Frost as secretary,
and Ferd. Lowenthal as treasurer, the
bureau is in a position to be of great
benefit to the territory the ensuing two
years. The principal work Of the bu-
reau of immigration falls on the secre-
tary, and it gives the Citizen pleasure
to testify to the faithful service of Lor-
ion Miller, the retiring secretary. He is
succeeded by Colonel Frost, the able
editor of the Santa Fee New Mexican,
who has heretofore filled the position
and gave excellent service. He will do
all in his power to bring the
of New Mexico prominently before the
neonlp seeking homes in the west.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09
EXTREME CARE FOR DOGS.
a Hospital for ovcr-Fedi Pcts-VapoI
Baths for Them.-setting Gutta'
Pereha Eye.

London, Paris, and Berlin each have "A
''canine cemsteryi and New York is fol.
lowing in their lead. zach Of these cities
has likewise its dog hospitals; the best
known one in this city is on a side street
near Sixth Avenue. This establishment
is devoted in great part to the cure of all
diseases inherent to dogs; to the setting
of broken limbs, and caring for animals
while their owners are away.
"Do you give the animals anaesthetios
in setting the liinbss' the superintendent
was asked.
ooh. yes Everything is done with
the greatest care and attention to medical
detail. 1t is very difficult TO keep dog
quiet during an operation, AMI even after
the broken rarts are in casts the animals
have to lie handled with mu3h tact
The department deyoted TO noD-contag-
ious diseass is entirely cut of from the
other parts; one ward is confined to the
smaller breeds and To such complaints as
Indigestion. while the larger dogs occupy
"a separate ward, whore skin troubles are
also treated. When asked what he consid-
cred the most prevalent cause of sickness
in dogs, the superintendent said: AL
most ell cur cases, apart from injuries,
are subjects for treatment simply because
they are over-fed and mt given exercise
enough; we have TO put them on regular
Giet, give them vapor baths, and exercise
them several times every day"
Everything in the hospital, which &C
commodities about seventy dogs, Is kept
serupuiuusly clean. the bedding is changed
each morning, and all the cages washe d
out with IN antiseutic solution.
do YOU have other small animals
heres'
yes; we've had monkeys and parrots
and cats but not in large number.
THE Canine Cemetery is in Harris
dale, about thirty mikes from here. 1t
is plot of about three acres, aud there
are about sixty-nve dogs, and number
of cats buried there. Every dog that any
one wants buried has to come here first;
we prepare the body, embalm it, practi-
cally, put it in box, which | marked
with a number, and ship IL by express.
We never keep 1t here, when people wish
to see the burial, the dog is held at the
cemetery.
1.-THE plot is going to be laid out in
walks this spring; l believe several own
ers ara TO erect pretty tombstones there;
at present there is merely wooden slab.
inscribed with a lumber over each grave
1t costs from s. to SI5 to bury dog, in
elusive OF express charges.
'By the way, l have pug upstairs
for which I've just Ixsd a gutto percha
eye "
lis that tha Gng bowling so much:"
NO, that's "a Japanese spaniel; l'yo got
to send IL home; us homesick and won t
eat.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09

and we presume that this provision.is fol-
lowed In MIR. Gardeners bill--that there
shall be apportioned and paid by the
state from the taxes received from the
railroads, to the titles and towns in
which railroad stock is held IN amount
equal to one per cent on the value of such
stock.
This plan OF taxing railroads, it will
be seen, Is different from that applied to
property generally in this state 1t is in
effect an income tax rather than prop.
erty tax. rising or falling according to
the amount of business done by the rail-
roads. In times when business was duh
the railroads would pny under this ar
rargement less than when business was
prosperous. Assuming that the rate Is
high enough this seems to us q pretty
fair method OF taxation. What we do
not understand is why 1t should he APP
piled exclusively to railroads Why not
apply 1t to other industries. If the tax
on the railroad should go down when its
business Is dull why when farming Is
dull should not the tax on the farmer
go down. Why, when the cotton mill is
closed because there are no orders, should
10 pay any tax at ais Equitable in itself,
when applied to one kind of corporation.
or industry, and denied to others 1t be-
comes inequitable, because it creates in
capabilities. 1t seems to us that one kind
of property cannot be taxed on one plan
and another on different plan without
doing injustice. This is the fault we find
with the railroad tax plan, that though
equitable perhaps in itself. it is made
inequitable by not being generally APP
Piled. Why this method as applied to rail
roads we do not know. Perha expert
ence has shown that 1t produces better
results in practice than other methods.
Yet 1T appears obvious that it gives 20
railroads the advantage which other in
dustries do not get, of having their taxes
reduced when business is dull and times
are hard,
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09

fearless and go freely into the bush at
Right, something the other natives great
" fear 70 do. The identity In eshnologi-
cal character In language, and In Gus
toms Of these various dwarf tribes, ana
their occurrence throughout the entire
Central African basin now must clearly
show that they nre remnant OF an
aboriginal race inhabiting the country
before the great Bantu migration.
They ara thus the lowest authenticated
human beings in Africa. But / have
come across reports OF come beings even
lower. who, the natives insist, are people,
and not besst@ These are called kaieke,
and l have boy here (Antwerp) who
insists he has seen them, and they talked
to him. They are said to have very
long hair, small, keen eyes, to be very
wild, never coming into towns, and only
seen in the bush where they sometimes
try TO hold converse with the natives. 30
positive are the natives about these kaieke
that the matter Is well worth investigat-
ing. l never could get sight OF them.
The natives have some curious Ideas
bearing on the man and the monkey ques-
ton They say that q parrot Is man
because be can talk and monkey Is q
man because he can use his hands and
feet and looks like one. AS they eat men
also, their eating monkeys and parrots
proves nothing. Letter from Miss Kings
leg In London Spectator.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The Atlsntio Monthly for March is keep
ing up to its usual standard of the high
est excellence. and, as The Outlook truly
says, 1t "strikes the note of leadership.
1t has caught the National tone,
and it i 5 as force in the development of
National life that it can render its great
est service The present number opens
with an excellence and well considered
editorial article, which sets forth clearly
the international situatio on, and gives US
the hest ideas of the most thoughtful and
patriotic men of the day. There are en-
pertaining and valuable paper by d.
John Fiske upon Some Cranks and the T
Crotchets; Professor William James on
Psychology for Teachers. in which he
treats of the nature and character of u
child and MIR. William Goodall Frost,
who describes our Contemporary Ancos-
tors in the Southern Mountains, i, c. on
the Appalachian slopes. who are now, as
TO manners and customs, about wEsre our
own ancestors were two hundred yCars
ago. or especial interest is an exc, euing-
ly earnest article by President l'yee If
Bowdoin College, who discusses the
career of President Eliot OF Hlrvnrd
University and his great success In eau
catioual reforms and in advancirG the
standard of his own university.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09
RAILROAD TAXATION.

Railroads in this state ara taxed on
their gross receipts, their stock being ex-
empt both from state and local taxation.
Their depots, however, and other prop
erty, including land outside their located
way, are taxable by the towns in which
they are situated like other property.
The rates of taxation depend somewhat
on the amount of their average receipts
per mile. When the average receipts per
mile do not exceed $500 the tax is one
quarter of one per cent on these receipts
when they exceed $500 and do not exceed
S2250 it is one half of one per cent, and
fol- each increase OF $3.50 in average gross
receipts per mile quarter of one per cent
is added to the rate until it reaches three
and quarter per cent which is the max
imum rate allowed. In the case of purely
freight railroads the maximum is ons and
three quarters per cent. MIR. Gardner s
bill before the committee on taxation
proposes to continue the same method of
taxation but TO double the rate,
starting with tax on receipts not exceed
ing $500 per mile of one half of one per
cent and increasing quarter of one per
cent for every $3.50 educational receipts
until it reaches four and q quarter per
cent which shall be the maximum, except
On freight roads where the maximum
shall not exceed one and three quarters.
OF course under this plan the amount of
taxes depends to great extent upon the
average receipts per mile, increasing with
the business of the road. Unquestionably
the tax IS far less than it would be il
levied upon The value of the stock of the
railroads. or at least of the lros-
porous railroads. To reooup the
towns which lose the tax which
they would receive if taxation were
upon the stock it Is provided in the law
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09
me AFRICAN pYGMIKS

l have received "a communication from
Mr. Samuel Phillips Werner, who has
| just returned from three years residence
in the region of the headqual tiers ol the
kasai branch of the Congo, and who IS At
present IN Antwerp en- route fr his
home in America. This Upper kasai
region, ! need not tell you, is one OF es.
pecial interest to ethnologists, and one
| regarding which We have extremely little
information. | need not, therefore, de-
tain you further, but will quote the words
OF his communication verbatim, merely
pointing out that now we have the bene-
tit of Major Burrows Land Of the pyg-
mics. and the report of MIR. Iloyds
meeting with them between Ugan da
and Congo. Evidence regarding tbs
southern distribution of this race is of
high value MIR Phillips Werner says he
has been dwelling among the Batwa for
two years:
These little people l found in the coun-
try of the headwaters of the kasai River
III South Central Afrca. The various
discoveries of these dwarf people show
them to he quite widely distributed. They
have been found in the Congo Francois,
in the Fan country, IN the great forests
of the Aruwimi, near Uganda, and now
can testify to their occurrence il the
whole country. from Tanganyika Ia the
Crystal Mountains in Angola. Though
bearing local names, they are all evident
ly the same people. | lived two years
near one of their settlements near the
town of Dombi in the remote Upper
Kasai country. Their characteristics are
clearly marked. They subsst solely by
the chase They never cultivate the soil
at all; those near me sold their game for
farinaceous food to the dominant tIibas.
They say that they never did dig for food.
Before the big people came they got
their food from gave and various roots,
yams. and nuts in the bush. They lived
in --the country before the big people
(BaDtu) came and destroyed most of their
forefathers. Some OF them were taken
captive by the Bantu, and kept to hunt
for them; others took refuge in the great
forests They are of very small stature,
man with family being no larger than
ten-year old boy. l knew one case
where a girls age, by incontestable record,
was nearly twenty, and l have her photo
graph, and she was positively not
more than three feet high. They have
a distinct language which is the same for
all the entire country between 1anganyika
and the Vest Coast. 1t is a very CULTURAL
tongue, and the other natives rarely speak
1t. The Batwa seem to have no regular
government as the Bantu have. nor any
chiefs of their own. They are singularly
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09

1t is announced that as soon as Gen.
Otis receives his achievements he will
begin an aggressive campaign against
Aguinaldo's forces and seek to disperse
them. The chief difficulties he is likely
to encounter are the marshy character Of
the country and the intense heat. The
lighting qualities of the Filipi nos are not
equal to standing up in face OF American
troops But the difficulties of country and
climate may prove very serious especially
If forward movement has to be delayed
until the beginning of the rainy season.
1t is very questionable If the unacclimat-
ed American soldier can long endure the
torrid heat and miasma of the interior
of Luzon. The experience of the Spaniards
in pursuing the Mindanao rebels into
the interior was very disastrous, thous-
ands of them falling victims to disease.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09
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The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09
RECENT NAVAL ORDERS.

Washington, March s. -Commander Asa
Walker has been detached from COM
mand of the Concord on the static sta.
ton and ordered home on waiting orders
Commander ii. q. Colby has been de
tached from duty at Boston as inspector
in charge OF the second light house dis
trict and ordered TO the.command of the
Concord, per steamer April 10.
Lieut.. Commander }. r. Selfridge has
been ordered to take charge OF the second
lighthouse district at Boston.
Lieut.. Commander n. n. Niles has been
detached from duty ut the torpedo stu
ton, Newport, and ordered TO the Massa-
chusetts as executive.
Lieut.. Commander 5. SohroederIh has
been detached from the Massachusetts
and ordered home ON waiting orders,
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09
CURRENT COMMENT.
TRIBU TIE TO THE SPEAKER.
(Boston Herald.

The Chicago Repub lican newspaper
will probably not acquiesce In the tribute
to Speaker Reed paid by the House. But
it is the House that makes him speaker,
ar its members are near enough to him
to ..lize how big man he Is. II there
was any feeling of resentment toward MIR.
Reed on the part of Democrats or Bepub'
lcans, it was smothered in this recol
milton. The speaker is strong figure
at time when strong figures are not
plentiful, and he looms largely above
any member of the body over whi-n be
presides who could be presented as his
competitor. There is evidence also thai
he has exerted his undoubted power in
the past winter ON the side of whole some
legislation. He will be elected easily
again in the next House. and the Eemo'
Gratis ought to congratulate Their. selves
that IL Is not in their power to defeat
him with one of their number The con.
trast would be too painful.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09

1hs farmers of this state are firmly con-
WINGED that they pay more taxes in pro-
portion to their property than any other
class, and while we do not think they
are entirely right. in this, small property
holders in the cities being burdened more
heavily than they are. 1t is doubtless true
that their taxes are pretty we'll up This,
however, is only 3 part of their difficulty.
While their taxes have been going up
their ability to pay has been going down.
During the past half dozen years the
farming industry of this state has been in
II very low state. Prices have ruled low
for products while farm labor has been MS
high as ever. The competition of the
west probably covers more articles of
produce than ever before and it is con-
SANITY growing. This condition of things
N the agricultural districts has very
much 10 do with the effort to increase the
tax ON corporations, notably railroad cor
porations Mr.. Gardner, who introduced
the bill, is suspected of some personal
spite in the matter, but the representa-
tives who rushed to his support have
no feeling of that kind. They are moved
by feeling, no doubt, that the railroads
are not bearing their share of the public
burdenS
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09
coQuELln TO PLAY "NApoLeoN.o
Crsnks Who Have Played the Emperor
ON the stage and on the streets.

(Fro:n the Courier des Etuts Unis.)
According to the gossip behind the
scenes CoqueIin Is now training fer the
role OF Napoleon in the play "Plus que
Refine" which viii shortly be brought
out at the Porte SaiDt-Martin. After the
rsincarnatlon of Cyrano dc Bergerao. the
great actor aspires TO that of Napoleon l.
But the nose presents great difficulty.
Cyranu de Bergercs' nose WAS long and
d5formed, and the way that Coquelin
managed TO reproduce it is well known.
But the nose OF the Emperor was aquiline
of purely antique beauty, and just how
Coquelin will manage to put It before the
footlights il d puzzle. Naturally he has
the nose Of his trade, well turned up ana
possessing the energetic uostrils of an
orator The trumpet shaped lose might
do very well for al ordinary warrior, but
not tor Napoleon, SO Coquelin viii lie
obliged to stick his facial appendix into
a false affair that will give MIN the profile
of the,great French Caesar delicate and
difficult piece OF work which the artist
Will doubtless bring TO perfection. After
haying sought in vain through all Paris
for an actor with head that resembied
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8.

The fact that not a single member from
Portland opened his mouth when the Eye
and Ear Inflrmary was attacked in the
House yesterday is very suggestive.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09

If the statement made in the House be
true that wild land valued at $3.50, 600,
and yielding stumpage return of $780,
900 only pays a tax of $4,000, there is
good deal more reason for revising the
method of taxing wild lands than for
altering the railr DAD tax law
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-09
FRENCH LESSONS FIRE.
WE DDINc RINGS.

One hundred of them to select from. An
styles, all weights. all prices in 10, II and ~
Kt. Gold. Largest and best stock o. rings
In the city. A thousand OF them. MckENNEf..
the Jeweler, Monument Square luneIdu