Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-30

water supply, from which they clear
net annual profit of s450.640. after
providing interest and sinking funds
for borrowed capital. and ninety-nine
towns own gas works, paying a profit
Of $i.974.125 year. Manchester
alone clears s250.000 from gas.
The Alamogordo business men have
formed an association to make prac'
teal demonstration Of irrigation by
pumping in that part of New Mexico.
| Twelve hundred acres of land have
been acquired for testing the growth
OF alfalfa, garden and orchard pro-
ducts.
An Iowa congressman says II Is ridi
culous to talk of the Iowa idea or any
other political question in his state.
The people are so busy making hay
while the sun OF prosperity shines that
all they ask Is that the government
shall do nothing to interfere with the
good times.
The New Mexico College Of Agricul
ture has just issued bulletin giving
the result Of experiments with shade
and ornamental trees and what ones
are best adapted to our climate and
soil. thus giving homemakers valuable
aid In choosing varieties for plonting.
The bulletin was published in The Cit
izen the other day.
Charles Gates Ward. alias Charles
and II took nearly a column of space
in the Democrat for him to announce
to the public that his right name Ia
Charles Wellesley Gates Ward" He
is a genius In the newspaper business,
and. besides being the star CORE.
spondent of the democrat. writing un.
truths and scurrilous articles about
The Citizen for a side consideration,
he is also the professor of grammar on
the Optic few OF his gems OF
thought" culled from the Advertiser
were reproduced In The Citizen last
Saturday.
{ Senator Bailey has sold his farm for
$500 900. which shows what demo
crat can do as farmer when he does
, MT try to run 4 weekly paper as side
a l. sue.
4 Indianapolis always knows what she
s wants. and does not hesitate to ash
I for II. For next year she only wants
two vice presidential candidates ant
!. both the great national conventions
$ The rush Of emigrants from IRELAND
n to the United States has not abatet
z a particle the past few months because
|. OF the promised Irish land purchase
}. Legislation. Why should It? In Can
e ada there is land to be had almost TO
/. nothing; and so. too. In the United
@ States. To buy land In Ireland unde
o the proposed law the average tenan
q will need almost a lifetime.
:. The Optic, the Albuquerque-Ias We
e gas publication. Is accused OF suppress
t um scandal FOR consideration" Tn,
/. sheet makes a very slim denial of tn
e charge, saying that 'it had In its pos
8 session sensational story who's
n publication could only injure our cit.
II and benefit no one" The paper sud
denly has grown to be mighty good.
s Ravenna a small town in northern
4 Ohio asserts II has just reelected tn
e youngest mayor In this country. HI
& name is H. J Riddle. Jr.. and he wa
born In September. 1880. When h
II was first elected In April, 1909, he wa
is therefore just few months NOR
e than legal age Then he got major
v ~ OF II, This year he got majorit
OF 23i. The nearby town OF Shelb
J. has a mayor only "a years old. An
u yet people wonder at Ohio's strengt
sr In national politlcsl
1t Democratic editors who have labo
ed so earnestly to prove the existenc
ID OF conflict in interests between Sci
n ator Hanna and the president wi
ID have to guess again.
n A scotchman has Just sold In thu
le country the right to manufacture hi
invention whereby II is proposed
* substitute pigskin for rubber as q mi
10 terial for vehicle tires. Those VIII
e. have tried to grow rubber trees" h
u says. have found that twenty-tw
X years are required to produce sal
This is too slow The virgin forest