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The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-10-11

a zTEC POST no. IS, @. A. R.-Meets AZ
"a oaN of Post Commander. Aztec, Now
Mexico. ~. III. WILLIAMS. Post Comman-
dor G.. " MCCOY, Adiutant.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-10-11
a LOVELY LAND.
Color. Form and Startling Beauty
New Mexican Landscape
Leaders.

The editor Of an eastern paper who
recently visited New Mexico writes this
rather hattering sketch Of the sunny
southwest as he observed &c.
"New Mexico ie the Ia id Of color, the
land Of form, the land Of startling nov
city. Monotony Is an unknown quantity.
beauty is present everywhere. while
grandeur greets the revorent eyes Of all
who traverse the fastnesses Of her Rocky
mountains, those everlasting hills that
tower, snow-crowned. as if TO pierce the
bright and stainless blue Of the sun
ilumined sky.
"hvery variety of scenery can be found
in Colorado and New Mexico. from tho
magnitude Of the Lowell plain. extending
to the Far horizons rim, to the vastnesa
Of the mountains, climbing ia splintered
pinnacles 20 the very zenith. Canyons
whose abysmal depths awe the soul.
valleys whose Arcadian lovelinoss do.
light the heart rivers whose rushing
waters thrill with their tumultuous
sweep, mountains whose serfied ranks
terrify with their stupendous magnih-
eence, forests whose frost touched foliage
glows with tints Of fire or is gloom with
with the dark beauty Of basamic piues,
brooks crystal in their clearness. einging
sylvan songs over golien gravel. water
falls like festoUns Of flmy lace orna-
meuted with a fretwork Of diamond
waterdrops, flowers that paint the
meadows wilh delight, or bloom amidst
eternal snow, all these are found iu this
land aud form symphony whose
hauLting beauty, once having been ex-
perienced, can never be forgotten
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-10-11
DIRECTORY.

DREsBYTERIAN CHURCH - Morning SER
vices on the first and third Sundays II
each month at eleven o'clock Evening SER
vices every sunday night at eight o'clock
SUNDAY school at 80 %. M. Prayer meeting
on Wednesday evening &C 90 p. M. J. IL
COOPER, Pastor.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-10-11

From the New Mexicau In the dist
rict court for San Juan county, Mrs.
Mary j Greaves has filed a petition
asking that she be granted the right to
quit claim to her three minor children
the right and title Of property left by her
late husband, VIM. G, Markley Of Farm
ingtopr
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-10-11

Look out for the big sale week after next Of
stock hay, farming machinery and tools
furniture and household goods, beds and bed
ding and general assortment of traps and
trinkets OF twenty years gathering. See hand
bills for particulars
JOHN A. BOONTZ.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06
4ERMANY'S ARMOR PLATE PROB
= LEM

The developments in the reichstag with
reference to armor plate for the new
German navy are of sufficiently start
ling nature to greatly excite the Berlin
press The report on this subject showed
that the German government was paying
the two firms holding the armor plate
contracts, Krupp and Stumm, 400 marks
more per ton than the United States is
paying. Notwithstanding the fact that the
American manufacturers are paying out
142 marks ton for use of the krupp pa
tents. The report, which was carried in
the committee by a vote of so to 4, es-
Inmates that the difference in price costs
the German government 100000 marks
a year and as it will require twenty
years to complete the fleet authorized,
the total loss aggregates 60,000,00 marks.
The committee, impressed with the fac.
that our own government secures an
armor plate at least equal to the German
product at 400 marks per ton less than
Germany pays, exclusive of the 142 marks
royalty. favors a radical step. as indicat-
ed by the following conclusion to the re-
port:
In view Of this monstrous extortion on
the part of the two firms which have Sc.
cured a monopoly in the manufacture Of
these plates, it is thought necessary either
to encourage foreign competition or to
esta blish government works for the man
ufacture of nickel steel armor plates.
Such a resolution has been carried in the
committee by vote of so to 1.
1t is quite evident from this report and
the feeling created by its exposures that
the government of the United States has
apretty good thing in it's armor plate con.
tracts. 1t is doubtless true that the plate
Is produced more cheaply by our manr-
facturers than by the German. Yet that
can hardly account for net differences
of SAP marks per ton in the price actually
received by the iron masters of the two
countries.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06
A NOVEL QUESTION DECIDED.

The photograph recently figured in
howell suit, and came out of the action
triumphant. The authors of two popular
copyrighted songs brought action to en-
join a maker of Photographic wax cylin-
ders from selling such cylinders by
means of which the songs could be re-
produced. The case was decided by the
court of appeals of the District of Co.
lumbia. At the hearing. the maker of
the cylinders showed that he had the
songs played into the monograph
through magaphone producing what
are technically known as master rec
ords." From there. large numbers of
primary records were produced and 5000
of them were sold.
The owners of the songs argued that
this act constituted publishing and copy
ing their published, copyrighted property.
In refusing to grant an injunction the
court said that as the marks on the cyl
inders could not be made out by the eye.
and as the cylinder could not be used
save as parts of the Photographic ma
chine, the cylinders We're not substitutes
OF the copyright sheets. This phono-
graphic use of the songs was analogous,
the court said, to the act of one who
having purchased the sheet music of
the publisher proceeds to perform it con-
tinually in public for his own profit"
This decision is in line with decisions
sustaining the somewhat similar use Of
songs in music boxes and othe: instru-
ments.
The decision may be sound in law. and
doubtless is. inasmuch as it follows pre-
cedent. 1t is recognized, however, that
there are two kinds of law, and when the
use of the photograph becomes we'll nigh
universal, as it doubtless soon will, the
value of a copyright on songs will be Of
little account under this decision.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06

The completion of the record require,
however. another interesting citation
which Is to be made from the files or
the Tribune itself. 1t was in 1864 tina,
Thomas Balch of Philadelphia, after per-
sonally witnessing the destruction of the
Alabama by the Kearsarge, began his
propaganda for settlement by arbitration
of the claims arising from the depre;a-
tons Of the famous privateer. He men,
toned the idea to Lincoln, who thought
a court Of arbitration was hardly posi-
bile at that time but added: start your
idea. 1t may make it's way in time. as
it is a good one." Mr.. Balch then to ~
his scheme to London, where 1t met with
little favor. He then sought to make 1t
public through the newspaper press
Several parties declined to breach it,
But the Tribunegave Mr. Balch a hear
ing on May Is. 1865, when it printed con-
spicuously detailed letter from him.
addressed to it's Paris correspondent
arguing with some elaboration in favor
Of submitting the Alabama and other
such claims to a court Of arbitration.
each of the nations selecting some COM
petent jurist to serve thereon and those
two selecting a third. who should be the
umpire between Them and 1.-The claims
to be presented. proved and argued be-
fore this court whose decisions should be
final and without appeal"
This letter was not regarded with
much popular favor in the United States.
But it was reprinted in Great Britain
and attracted much attention there ami
on the continent. being noticed by ST"
Stafford Northcote. John Stuart Mill.
Edouafd Laboulaye and Henry Moreau.
Precisely how great a part this publica
ton of .Ir. Balch's proposal by the Trib-
une played in bringing about the treaty
of Washington six years later. is not 70
be estimated with accuracy But 1t ,s
unbeatable that, as Professor Lorimer CT
the University of Edinburgh has poi4lt-
ed out, the letter was a remarkable an
ticipation of the treaty; and we shall
probably not greatly err if we consider
it to have been. at least so far as publ,
knowledge and consideration We're con-
cerned. the starting point of the inter-
national arbitration which is now a thing
of unchallenged and worldwide estab-
ishment.-New YorkTribune.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06
Is ELEcTRoCUT1oN PAINLESS.

The opposition to electrocution, as
means for carrying out the death PEN
atty. which was so strong a few years
ego. has just been revived. and with
such strength that it bids fair to do
sway with the practice. At first the
objections of the electricians appeared
to be based upon the ground that such
executions detracted from the dignity Of
their profession. Being challenged to
take stand against electrocution on
the ground that it is not a humane
method. they have quickly returned to
, tie charge. presenting conclusions that
are sensational. The Electrical Review,
the champion Of the opposition, formally
eeclares that instead Of being painless
/ and instantaneous, death by electricity
Is really most brutal. In most cases, it
asserts. the condemned men are not dead
until the current has been finally turned
/. IT and they are taken from the chair,
md in many instances 1t charges that
eeath has occurred, not by electric
aaock. but under the surgeons knife a,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06

The Kansas courts have another one
of those peculiar cases up for determine
rion. One law of that state provides
that when the personal property of any
description Of deceased person is not
claimed by relatives, it shall be sold
10y the authorities at auction. Another
law absolutely prohibits the sale of
liquor. Some time ago a man was
tkoughtless enough to die. leaving be-
Hind him, among other effects. some
first-class old rye whisky. He has no
relatives, and the authorities are tryine
20 make up their minds which law to
obey, and the courts have taken the
matter under advisement." They will
probably keep it there for some time.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06
STArEPE.SS coMMEN
FIGHT WITH A GRAY WOLF.

Malta Enterprise: A short time ago,
Alexander Davidson. prominent sheep
man who resides near Dodson. small
town 16 miles west'of Malta, was Irving
to the ranch of a neighbor. with his hay
wagon He had only gone about two
miles from his ranch. when he met a
large wolf in the road. -
The came UP to within fighting dis,
lance of the team and began to dispute
his right to the road. The horses were
somewhat frightened and SHE'D to one
side. Mr. Davidson being a venture
some sort of fellow, concluded he would
test the VOLTS courage. He stopped his
horses. grabbed his pitchfork, and made
a ruch at the wolf. who also showed no
signs of backing down, but on the con-
trary urched at his adversary with
terrific snarls. showing his white teeth
and the foam bursting from his mouth.
Mr.. Davidson made a quick lunge at him
and damned the pitchfork clear through
the wolf in the region Of the heart and
back. This SO frightened the wolf that
he broke and ran away. taking the fork
with him. and leaving a trail of blood
that could be easily traced on the ligin
snow as he made his way toward the
hills.
lowed the wolf for about three miles
when he came to a little creek with high
cut banks and some trees growing along
in the bottom, when to his amazement
he discovered that the wolf had jumped
over the bank. and in falling down
| through a large tree. the fork handle
had caught in the limbs and held the
! wolf suspended in the air.
Needless to say. the wolf was dead.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06

An English officer who has sa,,.aa
through the Boer war. through the col
"i'ps OF an English journal expresses the
opinion that the day Of the beau sabeur"
Is over and the cavalry in the future will
be nothing but mounted infantry The
long range magazine rifles and magazine
guns have made the old cavalry tactics
impossible in modern war, The lesson for
soldiers to learn in future, this writer de-
clares, Is the development Of his powers
as an Individual, because every sort of
masslnS and rallying movements mean
obstruction. 1t is in that very respect
initiative-that the American soldier, ac-
co!dlng to the testimony Of foreign mill
tary experts who have seen him under
fire, excells every other fighting man in
the world today.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06

Il e autopsy. It cites the recovery of
c ,rrents and who have been apparently
dead, to prove how unreliable the cleo
trio current really is. Physical charac-
taristics, too, are different, and what
may be instant death to one may be a
lingering death to another. In arguing
This point the writer cites the cases of
iilemen who have fallen against live
wires. Some die Instantly, while others
are shocked into irsensibility and die
from continuous transmission of the cur
tent through the body.
Discussing the question raised. the
New York Times says the people Of that
STATE adopted the electrical system of
execution because they believed it to be
quick humane and as free as possible
from repulsive features But the Times
states that the people of New York
certainly do not want even the worst
AIRY Inconsistencies and then cut up
alive by inquisitive surgeons.
Referring to the declaration of the
editor of the Electrical Review. the Co.
lumbus Dispatch comes back in this
Use:
Having delivered himself of this dec
iaItiOn. the writer proceeds to state that
shooting. hanging, sarroting. the guiilo-
tine and the sword are all more certain
and humane than the electrical chair.
He might have added the Moorish bow
string, Chinese neck-twisting and other
humane forms of getting rid of muir
derers and others deemed worthy OF
oeath. 1t is strange how some people
cling to the idea that hanging is a hu-
I. ane and speedy method of infictng
the death penalty. Such believers in the
halter should have stood in the Ohio
fenitentiary annex and at other scaffo.ds
in Ohio and elsewhere and watched a
! condemned man Stransle for ten or fif-
| teen minutes. writing in horrlnle con-
| tortions. drawing up the legs and strug-
| cling to free the hands. If that is a
hEmane punishment, heaven save the
| mark. And what of the cases. by nc
| reans rare where the rope has broken
! lowing the victim TO fall to the ground
| alive and fully conscious of what was
| going on? What of the bungling jobs
| OF modifying, the minutes that seem
sFes while the victim is bound and the
| lope adjusted? Has the writer ever wit
| II sSed any of these sicker.ing, marrow
t.eeZlng scenes in the death chamber:
| He admits that many !inemer are killed
| instantly by the application of a curren,
| II some parts of the body, while. Others
| are rendered insensible If a man is
| instantly rendered nsensible when the
| C'Irrnt is turned on, does he suffer? And
| Is the continuous application of the cur
| rent inhumane? AS an electrocutior
! IS conducted at the Ohio periientiary
| it only requires seconds to secure the
| prisoner in the death-chair. where nv
or er modes 1t takes minutes
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06
ANNOYED THE "ANTIs."

Billings Gazette: The fact that among
the papers secured when Aguinaldo was
captured were some going to prove that
he had declared himself dictator Of the
Philippines must be annoying to those
who have been holding him up as the
Washington of his country. On the
other hand it only supports the cinten-
ton of those who have been on the side
of the administration since the trouble
in the islands began and shows him up
as he really is.a man prompted by per-
sonal ambition and desire for power ana
without one of the noble motives which
actuated the patriot with whom the antis
have been comparing him. III
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06
FRANCIS NEW HERO.

Now, sing no song of the shining sword,
And Tilt no lay Of the lance.
But paean pipe to the pistol ball
OF Castellane of France.
To the pistol ball that slowly curved,
In the swerving scheme of chance,
Till it came to rest with a wicked zest,
And tore de Rodays' pants.
For years and years have the duelists.
In the land of fleur de lis
From shocks and Jars, and battle scars,
And wounds, been strangely free.
But Castellane. with his mighty arm.
And, too, with his trembling knee,
Broke through the mold of the Gus tom old,
And shot most wickedly.
So. a glad refrain to the Castellane,
Whose rage no words could stem
With his coronet all proudly set,
With ire in each bright gem.
And some words of praise for poor de
Rodays,
Who has sore need of them.
Il am shot," cried he, Just between the
knee.
And 6 o'clock a. M"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06

IN response to request from the Lon
der Guildhall authorities for his ia
nous Fortuny painting to be displayed
at the forthcoming Fortuny exhibition.
senator Clark this week sent the pic
ture to London Others who have loaned
Paintings for the display are King Ed
ward, Emperor William and the oueer
Of Spain. The Fortuny owned nv OH,
t"wnsman, however, Selection of tbs
Model" is one of the very finest exam
Piles of his art. and is one of the hight,
pilzed treasures of Senator Clark's col.
lection. Fortuny was born in 1888 an6
c;ed IN 1874. His father-in-law was alsc
celebrated artist. Madrazo. For man,
- ars he resided at Rome,
Speaking Of Senator C!ark's naint;np
Dlfector Iemple, of the Guildhall re-
marked that without it the Fortunv die
llay would not be Fortuny
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06

lived the life he rep 'esents: none other
could catch it's inspiration quite so truly.
The flying reins and qui- . the 81: shooter
Tapping at the belt; tse hump in the
horses back that is unbelievable to one
who never saw the cayuse of the plains;
the dead-in-earnest expression of both
rider and horse-all are true to life. Per-
haps one who has ridden OUTLAW bron-
chos will be tempted to exaggerate the
stiffness of the animals legs: when one is
aboard one Of creatures, he feels as If a
sawbuck or an animated railroad bridge,
Would be cushioned rubber beside the
broncho. 1t does really appear as If this
were the one weak point of the work il
there be one. But the average bucking
broncho is so far from thing of beauty
-churn-legged, unkempt, raw-boned-a
so many removed from the conventional
caracolng high stepping chargers Of our
fancy, perhaps We do not wish to have
our idols of art shattered. The broncho is
not the subject for the artist Of repose.
No still life there; red, blooA-raw life,
such as Kipl.ng represents, with rough
! corners and ferocic US moods. perhaps. but
genuine life. always. The attempt to
idealize this stiff-legged. rebellious brute
| into thing of prancing beauty would be
| ridiculous, and alter all, the man who
| rides one of them, and then tries to put
| his sensations en- canvas, or into marble
or clay, ought to be the best Judge of
| what he wishes to represent. The sensa-
ton is that of an appalling stiff legged
ness: why not. therefore. represent it so.
| and everyone else who has even been
| aboard the bucker will feel in an instant
the same thrill of II wonder if my hat is
on straight" that the rightly suggests.
| At any rate, this broncho has legs as
straight as a die; and it would be bold
| critic who would try to unbend them.
The suggestion may not be out of the
| way that lovers of art call where the
statuette is on exhibition and admire I,
for themselves. Whatever else it does. II
brings with 1t the true air of the range
where it was bred: the rattle of horns
on the roundup, the smell Of the brand
ing irons, the wild, free air that blows
across q thousand miles OF herds. and nc
work of art can do more than take its
critics back to it's own birthplace and
show them the lie that made 1t what j
Ia.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06
THE RISE OF ARBITRATION.

Mr.. Cleveland's lectures before the
students Of Princeton university on tho
Venezuela boundary dispute were inter-
esting from many points of view. Not
the least valuable and inspiring Of their
suggestions is that relating to the part
the United States has played in estab!
fishing and extending the operations OF
the beneficent principles of arbitration
for the settlement Of international con-
troversies. 1t is an historical fact, rs
recited by Mr.. Cleveland. that Will.
Venezuela on more than one occasion
expressed a desire for such settlement
of her boundary dispute with Great
Britain. arbitration was not actually ef-
fected until the United States interested
itself in the matter: and 1t was directly
because of the intervention OF the
United States that the long standing dts ;
pute was finally ended in manner sat-
isfactory to both parties and by means
consonant with the most enlightened
sentiments of the world.
We may go further than this and say
that in securing arbitration in that case
the United States was not only MAIN
tanning it's own consistent policy, but
was promoting a practice of which it
had been itself the founder. The COM
mon consent of the world dates internal
tional arbitration from the treaty OF
Washington. and that treaty was in it's
original conception United States
| measure. Probably the first suggestion
| of it was made by Mr.. Adams. the Amer
lean minister to England on October %.
6lS3, when he informed Earl Russell that
| there was mo fair and equitable form
| of convention arbitrament' to which
| the United States would not be wililn s
! to submit its controversies with Great
| Britain over the alleged violation of the
neutrality laws. Two years later Earl
Russell replied. declining arbitration on
| the ground that the British government
was the sole guardian of it's own honor
and a better interpreter of it's own laws
| than any foreigner could be. In 1856 the
menace of retalatory legislation by con-
| gress and various influential public dis
cussions and appeals began to open the
way toward more hospitable reception
! of the proposal.