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Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27
IHE CABRESTO LAKE
IRRIGATION COMPANY.

On February 18, the Cabresto
Lake Irrigation Company filed in.
corporation papers with the Secre-
taiy of the Territory, The incor-
porators and directors are Melqui-
ades Rael, Benito Luis Ortiz, Eu-
lojia Rael, Francisco Borya Rael
ard Jose Maria Clsneros Of Questa.
Taos county The company in
tends to take canal out of Ca
bresto creek, six and half mile
miles above Questa and extending
two and a half miles west Of Ques-
ia, to use the waters of the creek
and of Cabres.o lake. The capi-
tai is $4,000, divided into IS
shares. The headquarters of the
company are at Questa.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

President Roosevelt who has
reviewed the evidence in the Schly
case has decided that the naval
battle off Santiago, was won by
the captains. One more decision
is now in order and that is that it
was won by the men at the guns,
then everyoneought to be satisfied.
1t matters little to the general
public who should have the honor
of that great victory but every true
American citizen loves to boast
that the Yankies"licked"the proud
Costilian to finish.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

The bill to repeal the 'war tax"
received the undivided support of
the House last week. This will
reduce the revenue $4o,ooo,ooo.
No other nation has ever passed
through a war and SO soon repeal
ed its war tax. This proves con
clusively that our country is pros
porous and those who have had
charge Of public affairs should
have great credit for guiding our
nation through the war crisis 50
successfully.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27
NOTICE.
To Whome 1t May Concern,

To Whome 1t May Concern.
The Annual work AMI proof Of
labor having been made on the
Comaseri No. 1. and 2 and the
Garabaldi No. claims and COUP
ed for the year 1901. All pros
pectors and others, that wish to de-
vellope their muscles Or study the
Geological formation of the above
properties, can do SO ly applying
to the undersigned, otherwise they
will be trespassing ard will be liza
ble to PROSECUTION under the law as
provided by statute.
Respectfully,
JnoConley.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

Attorney General Knox at the
request of President Roosevelt, will
bring suit to test the validity Of
the merger by which the Northern
Security company was formed to
unite the interest Of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific
railroad companies. Thepresideut
action will meet the hearty approx
al Of the people. The Denver
Republican in an editorial Of the
%, has. this to say, "rhe chief
matter of interest, however, is not
so much the issue in the particu
lar case that will be begun by the
attorney general as the fact that
President Rooevelt has thrown
aside all the influences that would
have restrained him from adopting
tins course and thar he is not to
be stopped BY the pleading Or the
tia'tery Of the financial kings and
inagnates OF New York "
the president has taken stand
which sentiment everywhere will
approve. He is on the side OF the
people and Of the interests Of the
whole country lie is not blind
to the fact that great industrial
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27
RAILROADS NEWS.

The Colorado and Southern rail
road company has two or three
surveying partie in Ponil Park
country to find rout to unite their
road at Trinidad with the Rock
Island branch at Dawson. That
will bring that road within less
than 25 miles of Red River. A
report is also being circulated that
the Rock Island is anxious to
build into the San Luis and Taos
vallies. Red River will then be
on the proposed line.
Itis reported that the Cimarron
and Taos vally Railroad company
will begin throwing dirt next
month and the road will be com
pleted into Elizabethtown before
fall.
Those who clair TO be in the
secret Of the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad company smiles at the
idea of that company building
into Taos from Tres Pictlras. The
most practical rout and one that
will be of greater benefit to Taos
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

combinations are in a measure an
outgrouth Of economic conditions,
and, therefore, he is not disposed
to subject them to oppressive treat
ment or anything going beyond
the law and the interests of the
country But if railroad kings dc.
sire to enter into combinations
they must comply strictly with the
law, and to this obligation they
will be held by the president"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27
STATEHOOD FOR NEW MEXICO
WINS FIRST BATTLE
IN IIlE COMMITTEE.


Washington, Feb. 2l.-The
house committee on territories to-
day unanimously voted to report
bills for the admission of the terri
tories of New Mexico, Arizona and
Oklahoma. The vote was taken
upon a motion made by Mr.. Moon
of Tennessee declaring it to be the
sense of the committee that the
three territories were Untitled to
statehood and that subcommittee
be appointed to prepare the bills
The subcommittee were appoint
ed.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

Governor Otero favored this
office last week with copy Of his
annual report for 1901, to the Sec
retary Of the Interior. 1t con.
tains over 500 pages and gives
Taos county the best report of any
like documents.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27
NOTICE on PUBLIcATIoN.
Red River, Territory Of New Mex
January '22nd 1902


January '22nd 1902.
To Daniel A. Mckay, His
Heirs or Executor:
This day appeared before me, b.
T. Hatch and makes affidavit that
said Daniel A. Mckay is justly iu-
debted to him in the sum Of one
hundred dollars after allowing all
offsets and credits, and prays for
judgement and execution for same
and unless yon appear before me
on or before the 26 dav of March,
1902, and answer to said complaints.
Judgement will be rendered b
default.
w. J. Floyd, j P. for Precinct
No. Is, Taos County, Territory Of
New Mexico.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

One Of the hardest workers in
the interest Of New Mexico, is
Nathan E. Boyd, NJ. D. His ar
tiele in the Washington Post is to
the point and will make friends
for New Mexico.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

It is reported that Morgan o.
Llewellyn will probably take charge
Of the Office Of surveyor general Of
New Mexico on March L, to sue
ceed Surveyor General Qunby
Vance.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27
NOTICE

All persons are hereby warned
not 20 trespass upon the jnne Bug
placer claim, oc to remove any
wood or timber from the said
premises
June Bag NJ. & NJ. Co,
Ed HAtton, Manager.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

Il begins to look like statehood
and is it not about time for you
mossbacks to got on the train and
be in the push.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

New Mexico Demands State.
hood OF the 9th Congress.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

A real live prince is in the land.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14
REPUBLIORNlSM AND SNOB-
Berry.

The New York Tribune, whose pro-
prietor has an international reputa-
ton as a snob, and is counted among
the New York-Newport -Four Hun
dred," is excited about Henry Waiter
sons recent remarks touching that
precious aggregation of moneyed no
bodies. The Tribune expresses a fear
that Mr.. Watterson is trying to make
political capital by conveying the i'm
preston that Republican policies
have resulted in the creation of good
many millionaires and multi-million--
aires" who have organized themselves
i into smart set, fashioned like degen-
crate Rome and corrupt Babylon"
The New York Sun, organ-in-chief
of the trusts, assures its plutocratic
neighbor that it is entirely wrong. 1t
insists that the smart set" is not in
terested in politics, and that there are,
nominally, as many Democrats as Re-
publicans in it, perhaps more The
| Sun adds:
Very few Of the great "millionaires
and multi-millionaires" who are in the
trusts Colonel Watterson is said to be
hitting over the heads of the smart
set are actually in that ''set" or in
any way interested in it's doings OF
course there is a great deal of money
in it, but it is neither favored by the
captains of industry nor are they fa-
vored by it. It is sort of society
which generally bores men of that sort.
They go for their amusements and
| recreations to other fields. Colonel
| Watterson knows this too we'll to go
out of his way to make silly attempt
to give any political significance TO a
| frivolous social circle which takes
nothing seriously except the pursuit of
pleasure as a means OF relieving the
tedium of its existence.
Whatever Mr.. Watterson has in
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14
Strange Fishing Matches.

In the olden time in England lords
and ladies sometimes invented queer
amusements. They were always on
the lookout for some novelty. and one
of the strangest they discovered was
fishing by goose. A line with a baited
hook attached having been fastened to
the goose tied to its leg, she was flung
into the water from the boat in which
were all the gay lords and ladies. Then,
when q pike caught the bait, she was
sport indeed, a royal battle between
bird and fish. and all the time, between
the loud splashings. wheelings and
tiounderings, the onlookers in the boat
giving vent to their feelings in cheers,
handclappings and handkerchief way-
ing.
But the goose was usually the victor.
aud ended the struggle by landing its
prisoner on the shore, where its quack,
ouack, as it cleared itself from the line
and waddled away ended the scene.
The lake of Monteith in the southwest
of Perthshire was often the scene of
such angling matches.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14
UnsrnteeuI Queen Besa.


Her majesty's service was apt to be
more plentifully supplied with kicks
than ha'pence. Every one who ever
did anything for Queen Bess seems to
nave been left with bad debt ON his
BOOKS. So we find an unfortunate John
Conley writing to Sir Robert Cecil that
for the last two years he had been
suitor for E10O for 'beeves for the
army" and complaining that unless
some order be taken | shall be un-
DONE" Sir Edward Hastyngs. after
spending his life in serving the queen.
had to pawn his wife's jewels and beg
her majesty Ito bestow something upon
me in this my latter age"
SO badly was the feet that beat the
armada proyisioned that Francis
Drake had to seize at Plymouth ninety
bags of rice. and the unfortunate own
er, after ten years waiting, was re
fused payment, rice being an extraor-
binary victual not allowed for the
navy" Nor did common soldiers fare
better. The chief anxiety of all Eliza
beth's ministers ought, in her view, to
have been how to save most money
London Telegraph.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14

committee, and when it was before the
House for consideration. The Speak
er would have the appointment of the
conference committee on the part Of
the House, and it would be an easy
matter for him to stock it with en-
emies of the Territories. Stephen B.
Elkins, when Delegate to Congress
from New Mexico more than a quarter
of century ago, succeeded in having
a bill constituting New Mexico State
passed through the House. 1t passed
the Senate with slight amendment
which Elkins did not approve and
which he succeeded in inducing the
House to reject. Then the measure
was sent to committee of conference
of both Houses, and there politely
killed. This should be warning to
the friends of Statehood now. Ex-
perience ought to make them WISE
They should take no unnecessary
chances. The Omnibus bill as it
stands is all right, and only an enemy
of Statehood will suggest it's amend
ment by the Senate.
The apportionment of delegates to
the constitutional convention, which
is made an excuse for urging the
amendment of the pending bill, is in
accordance with the existing appor-
tionment of members of the Territorial
legislature. Congress can not make
an arbitrary apportionment, and Del
egate Smith is too wise and experienced
legislator to suggest anything of the
kind. If the apportionment is un-
just, the legislature of Arizona is to
blame. Certainly Congress can not go
outside the record and attempt to do
what the local legislature failed to do.
Stand pat" on the Omnibus bill.
It meets all the essential require
ments and necessities of Arizona. II
enables the people of Arizona to form
their own government, to make their
own organic law, to choose their own
officials and to be represented fully in
the Congress of the United States.
Apportionment of delegates or legisla-
tors is purely local question, with
which Congress has no right to inter-
fere, and with which it would not in
terre if it had the right.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14
EranEa OF the Tariff.

The following amusing details of the
freaks of the custom house are told in
the Munchener Zeitung: A German gen
tleman returning from southwest Afri-
ca brought with him a tiny monkey
weighing about two pounds. From
Tanga to Genoa the animal was con-
vcyed gratis. Thence to the Swiss
frontier 15d was charged on it as "a
bird.' The st. Gothard railway of
ficials. however. viewed it as "a dog, .
and charged as, while on the Eastern
Swiss railway it became mere pack
age" liable to Sd. Through Baden and
Wurttemberg the animal was passed
free, but at Stuttgart it again became
"a dog and cost another la.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14

f1agrancy in this regard But in every
community and in every class of So
ciety the cases where the child suffers
because of the incompetency of the
mother, or the wife suffers because
of the incompetency of the husband,
or possibly vice versa, are so nu-
merous that the state is surely going
to have it's hands full if it proposes to
regulate family conditions on sci
-philanthropic basis.
And who knows that the scientific
-philanthropic law-parent
is going to be any more competent?
Are better clothes a substitute for the
mother love? Is environment all?
Is the natural love of the mother for
the child and of the child for its own
mother factor of no value in child
education? Can not society do better
to aid and guide the mother in caring
for her babe than to break the mother S
heart and send a child through life
without mother simply to comply
with a sociological fad or a scientific
fancy?
But beyond and above all these con-
siderations, has a mother no rights
that society is bound to respect? Has
she no rights that motherless busy
bodies can not interfere with? If there
are primitive anT inalienab1e rights o1
any Kind or degree. what rights or in
terests stand before the right of the
rctlcr to her EabA?
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14

mind. the impression" which the
Tribune accuses him of trying to make
is quite justified by the facts. The
smart set is one of the numerous by
products of the Republican trust fac
tory. The Republican party for
thirty years, exclusive of short in
terval, has been running the govern
ment in the interest of a few. Taxes
have been laid upon the many for their
benefit, governmental favors of all
kinds have been showered upon them,
and national legislation has been die
tated by them. The good old Demo-
cratic doctrine of equal rights to all,
special privileges to none," has been
repudiated. This policy has produced
a crop of millionaires and multi
millionaires, and a few of these ben
eficiaries of government favoritism
have organized themselves into the So
called Smart set,'' which has startled
the world by such a display of sense
less extravaganza and reckless
profigacy as no other modern nation
has witnessed.
The New York Tribune is approved
by the Smart set" and the Sun isn't.
The former holds a brief for the New
port noodles; the Sun is the exponent
of the vulgar commercialism of Wall
street and the captains of industry"
The Tribune Is certainly the better
authority on the question under con-
sideration. Its fear that the search
light that Mr.. Watterson has turned
upon the -Four Hundred" will lead to
inquiry as to the origin of that social
excrescence, and convey an ''impres-
sion' that the Republican party is
largely responsible for it's existence, is
quite warranted.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14

"Why is a crane like well known
shellfsh" Because it's an oyster" (s
hoisterl.
1t is stated that well known riddle
was written by a costermonger. The
riddle in question is a charade and
runs as follows:
My frst's little bird as ops,
My second S needful in 'ay crops.
My ole is good with mutton chops.
The answer, of course, is sparrow
grass" which the learned DR.. Parr al
ways insisted on using in preference to
the politer asparagus. Notes and
Queries.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14
STAND FOR THE OMNIBUS BILL

No true and intelligent friend of
Statehood should advocate the amend
ment of the Omnibus bill in the Sen
ate. 1t may not be fatal to the meas
ure to have it amended in the Senate,
sent back to the House, and then jug
gled with in conference committee;
but it would certainly be safer to have
the measure put through the Senate in
the identical form in which it passed
the House of, Representatives
The fact should not be lost sight of,
that Speaker Henderson and the Re-
publican leaders in the House are hos
tile to Statehood They antagonized
the measure when it was in the House
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14


Apropos of the eternal domestic ques-
tion, an Englishwoman relates this ex-
perience: Il engaged maid named
Pearl, and as l simply couldn't ask a
Pearl to fill the coal scuttle or to holy
stone the doorstep. said: Il would
rather call you by some other name.
Have you a second oneY Yes" replied
the damsel brightly, my second name
is Opal So stuck to Pearl. At one
time all but engaged maid named
Hermione. but upon asking her, Have
you a black dress, white caps and
apronsY she replied acidly: Yes, |
have; but I'm not going to wear 'em.
Ma didn't christen me 'Ermione for TO
wear a livery"
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14
RIGHTS OF MOTHER AND BRBE.

loWas new law, passed by the
last legislature, at the instance of So
called advanced sociologists, to au-
thorize the taking of children from
incompetent mothers and placing them
in better homes, has just been declared
unconstitutional by the supreme court
of that State.
| The court raised two points: First,
that the act did not have proper
title; and second, that it deprived
the mothers of the right of trial by
jury, because the proceedings were al
lowed to be brought before justice of
| the peace, who was given summary
| jurisdiction. The court would doubt
less have entered into still more vital
principles involved, were it deemed
necessary.
The case on which the issue was
raised was that of poor woman with
baby less than year old. The
"philanthropic" society and club
women, the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, the Equal Suffrage
association and the petticoated busy
bodies of the town, sought to put the
child under what they considered bet
ter auspices. They secured the child
during the temporary absence of the
mother, and it had been in the custody
of the police until the supreme court
rendered it's decision last Saturday, or
for period of eight months. During
all that time the mother had been ap-
pealing to the courts to recover her
child.
Scientific sociologists everywhere
were interested in this case, and were
depending upon it for a precedent for
the advance of certain domestic ere
FORMS" the basis of which was the
substitution of the state under certain
conditions for the natural parents.
Lawyers were disposed to look upon
the proposed innovation as something
entirely new in American Jurisprudence
governing family rights, and funda-
mentally radical, if not entirely wrong,
/ The idea of the sociologist seems to
be to engraft into American law the
principle which once held in Greece
under the old Spartan code, whereby
the state was considered the real par
ent of the child, and the rights of the
natural parents were subordinate. But
American law relating to domestic
rights is derived from the old Saxon
principle, that the home is a mans
castle, and that its precincts are sa-
cred, and that the rights of mother
to her babe transcend the interests of
the public; that the home is the social
unit, and that the rights of the home
and of the family sheltered under it's
roof are primordial
Plainly there are cases where chill
dren suffer because of the neglect or
incompetency of the parents. What
parent who reads this has not at some
time felt his or her incompetency to
act wisely in governing or providing
for the little folks? Perhaps the Iowa
case may have been one Of exceptional
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14
REVISION BY FRIENDS.

a dispatch from Washington in
Inmates that President Roosevelt in his
annual message TO Congress intends to
discuss at some length the question or
trusts and their relation to the tar1n.
He will no doubt follow out the ad-
vanced Republican doctrine, that II
the tariff is to be revised it should be
done by it's friends.
It requires no particular acuteness
of vision on the part of the ordinary
plain citizen to know what the new
Republican doctrine revision of the
tariff by its friends means. It means
revision by the benefciaries-simply
that and nothing more.
1t means that the customs revenue
branch of the government revenue
system is to be reduced simply to
graft for special interests, and that the
benefited interests have in the customs
revenue vested right which not even
the people have right to disturb.
sRevision of the tariff by its friends"
means that the sugar schedule Of the
tariff shall be revised by the sugar
trust; that the coal schedule shall be
revised by the coal trust; that the
iron and steel schedule shall be revised
by the steel trust; that the lumber
schedule shall be revised by the lum-
Der trust, and so on through the tariff
and trust category.
In other words, this new-fangled
doctrine implies that the taxing power
of the government, which is SOW
ereign function of government every
where, is to be surrendered to a
special interest to be exercised for it's
own enrichment at the expense Of the
people. The price of this surrender is
simply that the beneficiary shall con-
tribute part of the plunder to the sup
port of the Republican party.
In the case of the tariff on anthracite
coal we have an example of revision
by friends-the coal trust having
smuggled into the Dingley tariff pro-
hibitive duty which even the authors
OF the bill pretended to know not of,
and which President Roosevelt de-
clared in public speech did not ex-
list. This was case of exclusive re-
vision by friends"
Passing to the proposition of reel
procity for Cuba, we have case Of
revision prohibited in the interests of
the beet sugar benefciaries. Revision
of the tariff by it's friends" therefore
means that there shall be no revision
at all except as some selfish interest
laying claim to a vested right in the
government taxing power can see
money in the proposition for itself
Revision Of the tariff by it's
friends means that the holder of a
special privilege has vested right SUI
perior to that of the people who in
their mistaken generosity granted the
privilege, and that in the regulation of
this unjust privilege the demands of
the plunderers, and never the rights of
the plundered, are to be considered.
If Roosevelt adheres to this doctrine,
there is no danger that he will make
himself obnoxious to the trusts
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14

Rather strange that Mr.. Morgan has
neglected SO far to organize turkey
trust. With merger of turkey
roosts the great financier could afford
to be more pious than usual. on
Thanksgiving Day.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-14
Am Indian suDerstitiOn.

Among the superstitions of the Sene-
ca Indians was most beautiful one
When young maiden died, they inn
prisoned a young bird until it first be
gan to try its powers of song, and then,
loading it with caresses and messages,
they looSed it's bonds over her grave in
the belief that it would not fold its
wing nor close its eye until it had
flown to the spirit land and delivered
its precious burden of affection to the
loved and lost one.