Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-07-18
THE INCORPORATION
OF LAS CRUCES
It Has Been Frustrated for the Present but
1t Is Certain to Come Soon and Will
Bring Many Improvements
With It.
SOME POLITICAL POINTERS FROM THE
COUNTY SEAT OF D0NA ANA COUNTY

! Metcalfe will leave In few days fC
the Pecos forest reserve where the
will collect botanical specimens.
Miss Florence Foster, daughter c
President Luther Foster, is expecte
home this week from Cheyenne, Wyo
where She has been teaching school.
Judge Parker changed his mind q
to Santa Catalina Islands, Calf, as in
| tended, went this week to his old hom
in Michigan. M
Professor C. T. Hagerty and family
Miss Fannie French and Miss Helel
Macgregor are camping at Van Pat
| tens resort for few weeks. Sine
| the rains in the mountains there il
| plenty of water and many people ar
Numa Raymond sailed this week from
New York for the continent of Europe
| 1t is a general impression that Mr.
Raymond intends to reside hereafter
across the waters" Not so, however
he will be back to Uncle Sans domains
in 1904 and will thenceforth make his
home in ST. Louis, Mo-
j. o. Miller left Monday night on a
visit to his home in Colorado. He
stopped off in Albuquerque to arrange
football game with the Indian school
for the coming year. He intends going
also to Santa Fe and Las Vegas to ar
o,,fr 10 L, f,al,a
places. He hopes to have strong
team next year. &
Speaking of the offices reminds me
that Las Cruces has the best kind of
timber for Republican candidate for
delegate to the next congress and his
friends are more than likely to force
him to the front. I do not mention
names at this time for the reason that
our candidate to-be has not yet given
his consent to the presentation of his
name. However, he is just the kind of
a man to represent the territory in the
halls of congress
During the past week this town has
been blessed with two splendid rains;
these rains have made every one feel
good as they have put a new face on
the landscape; alfalfa growers are
counting with assurance on another
cutting of alfalfa; and the corn and
gardens have beef saved. Better still
the skies are daily clouded with the big
clouds that bring rain. and we are as
sured that more of the life-giving pre-
cipitation is to come shortly.
Your correspondent notices that the
Grant county politicians are busy fix
ing up a slate for the Republican NOM
nations TO the next legislature. These
gentlement should bear in mind two
things: first, that they must count up
on Dona Ana county to elect any man
they may nominate from the joint dis
tricts and, second, that they have de-
feated during late years every man
from this county for the
council. The treatment accorded to H.
B. Holt in the last election is good il
Dona Ana county has a
No man for the position Of council
man for the four counties of Dona
Ana, Otero, Luna and Grant, and it
behooves these Grant county gentlemen
to be a little modest in pushing to the
front any man from their county for
the position.
Since my last communication the
question of the corporation of the
town of Las Cruces has been decided
for the present in the negative. The
statute under which the corporation
lists" proceeded provided for the pres
to the county commissioners
Of a petition signed by not less than a
of the voters residing within
the proposed town. Such petition was
presented and laid over for three
At the end Of that time a
counter petition in the nature of al
protest was presented. These two peti-
tions raised the question before the
board of county commissioners, who
on Friday last to pass upon
the question. Every attorney in town
it appears was in favor of incorpora-
ton, so that the "antis' had to go out
side of the county for a representative.
To that end Judge II. B. Hamilton of
Ell Paso, appeared and did all that any
one could do under the circumstances.
The corporationists were represented
by r. l.. Young and Numa Frenger
among the professionals and E. E. Day
the amateurs. After two days
of earnest but good natured argument
before the commissioners touching the
qualifications of divers and sundry al
legged voters, the commissioners ended
the contest by deciding that each of
the contestants had exactly 101 votes
within the limits of the proposed in
town. This decision, of
course, was in effect decision that the
had lost their case. In
the judgment, however, of your corre-
spondent this decision does not end the
effort for an Incorporated town. APP
parently the corporationists are more
happy over the result than their oppo-
nents; exactly one-half of the voters of
the town have declared themselves in
favor of a modern town, which means
good and uniform sidewalks, electric
lights. water works system, street
car system to the Agricultural college
and, ultimately, the extension of the
La Mesa, Mesilla and Mesilla Park to
Las Cruces, and return. This Is the
stake the corporationists are playing
'or, and, having registered one-half Of
the voters of the town in favor Of the
it is not likely that the SUBJ
ect will be permitted to become DOR
nant. The prophet does not hesitate to
say that after the county offices have