Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-11-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

'Vsss$ 40 why ahN"t WV
The republican plura..ty for gov.
ernor of Colorado is 1924.
How to make the vacant town lot
pay its proportion of taxes Is vital
question In this city.
In the last fiscal year there were ST.
51S accidental deaths. and OF these Az
Ala were males and 1909 females.
The commissioners of this county
will meet next Monday and convass
the vote cast at the election last Tues
day.
1t viii take the official count and
possibly n contest In the courts to de.
eide the result on the county Offices In
Socorro county.
The revised figures for governor of
New York are as follows: Odell. 1885,
sac; Coler, l23,o3s. Odell's plurality,
1878.
The senate committee on territories
will visit New Mexico. Oklahoma and
Arizona before the converting OF con-
gress In December.
The census bureau having counted
everything else is now counting the
cost and finds that the expense of
theh census was sll,s5i,s1s.
Five times In succession New York
has elected a republican governor One
of the pleasing results is that the state
tax has almost entirely Disappeared.
The people OF San Miguel county
paid no attention whatever to the ut
terances OF the Las egas Optic and
gave increased republican majorities
The Optic as a prophet is a signal fail
ure.
Al one result of the financial man.
agement Of the republican party the
annual interest on the national debt Is
100000 less than it was before the
war with Spain, notwithstanding the
issue of war loan of 100000. 900.
The largest Office building in the
world is the Broad Exchange, on the
southeast corner OF Broad and Elk.
change Place, New York. II rises
twenty stories high over $1,000 square
feet OF ground. and cost $500 900, al
though il has no ornamentation.
The introduction of one American
spinning machine which reduces the
necessary employees by two-thirds, has
led 5000 workers In the Yorkshire
to threaten to strike unless the manu-
facturers agree not to import the Am.
erican machines.
The Bernalillo delegation in the ter.
ritorial assembly will present the
name of Nestor Montoya for speaker
Of the house. He is a native OF the
territory. is well qualified, and will
make a most excellent presiding Off.
Ger. He Is one of the best parliament
tarians In the territory, and will be fair
In his rulings.
The clean newspaper Is once more
the yellow journals usurped for awhile.
Sewer news and anatomical details
make men on the streets buy papers
for little while. but the paper that
goes into the household Is the one that
Is clean. And 1t Is in the paper that
goes to the household. that shrewd
business men advertise.
The number II is fateful In Santa Fee
county. Two years ago Thomas B.
Catron was beaten by that number and
this year J. ID. Hughes was beaten by
II votes. The singular part OF the coin.
ron WAS brought about by the friends
OF Hughes and In turn Catron's friends
scratched Hughes. In getting "even"
IN politics there are many boomerangs.
There are in the United States 1856
cities having a population Of more
than 10000. The income from proper
ty tax In these cities aggregate $780,
100000. while the income from fran
chises gives the comparatively minute
total of $2,350,000. OF these 1856 towns
only Ave have public gas works, and
but twelve own electric light plants.
The investment In public cemeteries In
$1,000 900 and In markets 5000, 900.
There Is an investment OF $50, 1000, 0vJ
In buildings for police and penal pur-
poses, and an annual expenditure Of
$50. 100000 for $4,000 police officers.
who make nearly million arrests.
This Is an "off year" for the demo
Gratis.
The socialist vote In this territory
should he referred to the referendum.
| II will take some time for the social
lists TO wipe out the democrats In this
city.
The various countries Of the world
are said to use 13.4OO Inherent kinds Of
postage stamps.
| The populists have entirely disap.
peared from the state and national Of.
fees In Kansas.
Las Vegas has nearly all the terrific.
rial officials. and yet the town IL not
politically happy.
Delegate Flynn thinks the small re-
publican vote In Oklahoma will defeat
the statehood bill.
The Santa Fe company could win
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