Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-06-27

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There is a party G! scientists from
Philadelphia. who are near Canyon
Diablo, Arizona. making preparations
10 excavate the famous meteorite
mountain. On the top OF the mountain
Is the ruin OF an immense basin one
mile wide and COO feet deep, with al.
most ~1endicular sides.
The San Francisco Chronicle is .,uot.
ed to the effect that even in the great
.ruit state of California. alfalfa has
been proved to be more profitable
'rop than fruit and that wealthy men
with good orchards are turning them
INTO alfalfa fields.
II is impossible to conceive why the
authorities OF the country do not put
IN end to the toy pistol business at
once and forever To permit the ire.
sponsibe children of silly and reckless
parents to endanger the lives OF all
about them is to become personally re-
sponsible for the consequences.
The most recent crop review of the
United States weather bureau shows
that the wheat crop has suffered less
than was supposed from unfavorable
climatic conditions. Speaking in a
general way the American farmer is
going to have plenty of grain to sell
this year, and is going to get big prices
for IL.
II nations can settle their differ.
ences with honor to one another with.
out resort To violence. IL ought to
he possible for employers and EN-.
ployes to reach satisfactory agree
ments by peaceable means. by arbitra-
ton when neither party to the dis.
pute can he moved by the arguments
of the othes.
Having lost $4,000 900 in specula.
tion, John w Gates Is out with pre-.
diction that this is going to be a cool
summer.
The territorial fair attractions are
being increased every day. The exhi.
btion in October will be the very best
anywhere in the west.
About the only thing that is neces-
sary to secure this city from future
floods is for the city and county to
build strong levee at Alameda.
Judge Mcmillan will now retire to
private life. He is the third federal
Judge in the territory who has been
removed from office for immoral con.
duct.
On the twelfth OF this month a mon
ument was dedicated at Darlington, r.
l., to the negro slaves owned there as
late as 1854, when slavery was abol-
ished in the state.
Experts have discovered that there
were Chinese in Mexico 1000 years
ago, and there was a civilization in the
cannibals Islands of the South Sea
about the same time.
A recent census report shows the
value of the product from the Arizona
smelters to have been S17,2S6.517, out
OF s21 ,3l5, 1879, the value OF all manu-.
features in the territory.
The United States paid France
three and a half cents per acre for the
land included in the Louisiana pur.
chase. The average assessed value
now put upon it is SIS per acre.
American visitors are arriving In
London at the rate of 1000 per week,
and the shopping quarter is outdoing
itself to secure their trade before they
have a chance to spend any money In
Paris.
During the year 1902, 1871 persons
died of tuberculosis OF the lungs In
New York City, against S,135 In 1901.
The reduction In mortality from con.
sumption in the city since 1856 has
been 40 per cent.
An exchange says that the strikes
are being declared of one by one; the
floods are receding, the politicians are
not particularly active, and all told 1t
looks as though the country would be
reasonably prosperous this summer.
True philanthropy in this world
does not consist In the giving of aims
nor the appearing of temples. IL can
be narrowed down to one thing-giv.
ing a fair compensation TO the great
est number OF laborers. Wealth is
only held in trust for the common
wealth, and the man who most equi-
,ably divides II among honest toilers,
in return for their labor. Is the man
who does the greatest good in the
world
II is the opinion OF the officials OF
the immigration bureau, which Is
shared by the best informed Jews in
Washington, that the recent massa-
ores in Kischeniff will cause an enor.
nous exodus from Russia this sum-
mer. Nearly every jew who can get
away will leave Russia. and the most
of them will come to the United