Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-04-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

There are $500 rural delivery mail
routes in the United States.
Every one OF MS want the other fel.
low to pay more taxes.
Let's proceed with the territorial
fair preparation Marion may remain
as president II he will cultivate
cheerful disposition.
No town In tho southwest Is making
more rapid giVath than Albuquerque.
The indications are favorable that the
city viii gain about two thousand in
population this year.
President Roosevolt's western tour
will be strictly non.partlsan. The
president will side track politics. He
wants to see the country and ascertain
It's wants. and there Is nothing like
personal investigation.
With two county assessors. a trav-
cling auditor, county and territorial
boards OF equalization, and good gov
ernment league after him, it is reason.
able to suppose that no one could
eyade taxation in this county.
Since the Kloudike was discovered
It's placers have yielded $50 900 900 in
gold. Last year $4,000 000 worth OF
mining machinery was shipped to Daw-
son. which shows that the district is
ccasing TO be a poor mans camp.
George +. Albright was appointed
county assessor in conformity with
the territorial law. and he is dscharg-
ing the duty of ,he Office in legal
way. Taxpayer will make no mistake
in filing their assessment returns with
MIR Albright.
Every part OF the reception TO be
given in this city to President Roose-
Welt on May should be made public.
There will be huadreds of visitors
from all parts OF the territory on that
occasion. and they should not be ex'
cluded from any part of the ceremo
MES.
During the last five years 500 Ameri-
can locomotives have been exported to
Japan. The total number of all kinds
employed in the kingdom now Is set
down at loo. The earlier railroad
equipments were of English installa-
ton. but American locomotive manu-
facturers are overcoming this handi-
cap and taking possession of the field.
During the last half of the last cen
fury the size Of the average family In
the United States decreased little
more than one person. In 1850 the
population of the country was 1887
000 made up of 359S 600 families, Of
Sc persons each, In 1900 the entire
population was 76.S03 600. made up Of
l6 .239, 1877 families, of AZ persons each.
The largest families are now In the
southern states. where the average Is
five persons TO family. In New Eng
land the average is 4.6. and In New
York a..
FL Paso claims a population of over
$4,000.
Free garden seeds may oe had by
calling ut Citizen Office.
Kansas City is fifty years old 1t was
first called westport Landing.
The American people drank more
than $4,000 900 worth of coffee last
year, but slept fairly well in spite
OF II.
The democratic papers OF the terri
tory are devoting much of their space
just now to the giving of political ad-
vice to the people of this city and
county
When Theodore Roosevelt and Gro
yer Cleveland both hit the road at the
same time there will be something do
ing alsng the telegraph lines OF the
country
Cuba is rapidly becoming Ameri-
canized. Her leading statesmen are
already getting their Photographs and
testimonials in our patent medicine
advertisements.
Page b. Otero was appointed fish
and game warden at the unanimous re-
quest OF the territorial council, who
signed n request asking the governor
to appoint Page to the Office.
Alaska evidently has the same
brand of liquor that is sold in the Kan
sas drug stores. An army officer sta
toned there, in deploring the absence
of the canteen, says the whisky In
Alaska runs sixteen fights to the
pint"
China is said to have the longest
bridge in the world. II is $4,000 feet
long and has a roadway seventy feet
wide and seventy feet high. This
bridge has 300 arches and each Of It's
pillars, which are seventy-five feet
apart. bears a pedestal surmounted
with the figure Of lion twenty-one
feet long and made out Of one block Of
marble.
The memory of the battle OF Manila
Bay is to be commemorated in Union
Square, San Francisco, by a granite
shaft surmounted by colossal Victory
In bronze. The design Is by Robert
Aitken, sculptor, and Newton Thorp,
architect. The cost Is to be $4,000,
and the bronze figure has been cast.
This Is the first monument in honor OF
Dewey's famous victory.
The ratification of the Panama canal
treaty involves the payment by the
United States government OF the larg-
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