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Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23

rrRRlroRIAL ~ Law.

The total tax levy Tor territorial, pur
poses as fixed by the territorial audi
tor is 1851 mills on the dollar The
Ivy is divided a. follows: For territor
ial purposes. 6 mills on tne dollar: for
territorial IN titutions. 40 mills on
the dollar; for charitable institutions
0.Sl mills on the dollar; for Louisiana
purchase exposition fund 0.60 mills on
the dollar; 70" payment Of interest and
Is principal ~ certificates OF indebt
ednesF. I mill on the dollar, for pro.
Wis onal Indebtedness sinking fund,
O.50 mills on the dollar. for capitol
building sinking fund. ! so mills on
the dollar: FOR support Of public
schools. 2 mills on the dollar. Tho
lcvios for the cattle indemnity fund
and for the she p sanitary fund are
moi included in the total. as they do
not apply gen rally
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23
OFFICIAL MATTERS.

The following homestead entries
have been made: A. Herrera, Rocia-
da, 1Go acres In San Miguel county;
Leandro Trujillo. Springer. Mora coun-
ty 100 acres in Mora county: Martin
Granley. Colmor 100 acres In Mora
county.
The following desert land entry has
been made: Charles NJ. f'raker,
Ocate, 33S acres in Mora county.
The following coal declara,ive state.
ments have been made: August Rich.
ter, Gallup. w. IL NE. and Nh. IA
NE. IA section, 4. r. 10 ~. r. IS W.,
in Mckinley county.
Edward Pillars, w. ~ NE. IA and
NE. IA Me. IA. section 4. r. Is NJ,
r. rs w, Mckinley county.
Josie Stearns. Gallup, w. Ia SIC.
Ia, section 4. T. 10 ~. Il. Is W., Nc
kinley county.
The following final desert land en-
try was made William II. williams
OF Aztec. 40 acres in San Juan county.
The following sales OF coal lands
were made at the United States land
Office. Santa Fe, last Saturday:
Alicia Il. Sloan. 155 acres. $3.iO7,
SIC. IA of SIC. Ia. lot 4. section II,
w. i2 of SW. Ia. section l6. lot l2,
section 20. township 13. N. r. Il. May
Huber. s. l-2 OF NV Ia f. 1.2 OF Sw
IA, section l6, township IL, NJ II. 6
e. go acres $4,000. G. II. Huber, NJ
10 OF NV. IA N. IL OF NE. IA, sec
ton II. township 10, ~. r. 6 e. 100
acres. $4,000. Sarah Stoker Ross, s.
1-2 Of NV. IA S. IL OF Me ia, sec
ton II, township 10. ~, r.. 6 e.. ice
acres. $4,000. J. NJ Breeder. SIC. IA,
section l6, township 10, N. n. 6 &C.,
100 acres, 5000.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23
A BAD CHECK.
Passed on the Romero Mercantile Co.
by John r. Crane.

A man giving his name as John r.
Crane. dropped into the grocery de-
partment OF the Romero Mercantile
company last evening about 8 80, with
a depleted larder and a bad check He
handed long list OF needed groceries
to Hopolito Baca TO be Immediately
filed. and with an air OF millionaire
stepped out without asking the con-
dltlon OF the market or caring whether
eggs were up or down.
On account Of the size OF the order
and the Indifference displayed by the
customer. II was decided 10 withhold
the filling of the order until the
stranger returned.
He came back in few minutes. and
an itemized statement was filled out,
and the prices were very satisfactory
to the customer. and In payment for
the bill OF goods he rendered a Gus.
toners draft drawn on the First Nat
ional bank OF Watrous. In favor o.
John II. Crane and signed by ex-Gov.
A. o. Hadley, per f.. dated May IA
for SIS.
Mr.. Baca accepted the check and
gave him In chrnge s35. Upon receiv-
ing his change Crane left the store
Immediately, saying that man would
call la the morning for the groceries.
On an examination OF the draft 1t
was noticed that IL was not numbered.
and the similarity OF the writing OF
the drawee and the endorser at once
aroused suspicion.
The draft was taken to the bank
where il was pronounced IN. O.
Mr.. Baca secured the services OF
Marshal Cartwright who ut once In
stituted a search for the man with
the depleted cupboard.
He was found In a saloon In East
Las Vegas. He was informed that
the check had been presented and re-
fused, and was asked to make II good
He insisted that the draft was good,
but did not know who the man was
that drew the check. further than his
namo was Edwards. He could not
give a good account OF why he should
come here 10 cash his draft. He
turned over s3i OF the s35 and allowed
Mr.. Baca to keep the draft and gro
ceries until morning, when he said
he could make good.
He claimed TO have been In Las We
gas for fifteen years, but did not know
OF ony one who could identify him.
Cartwright did not arrest him and
he was allowed to go, and II In very
probable that ere morning he vii
put many miles between himself and
his grocery order
Crane In a man about 35 years old
smooth face and well dressed.
The writing on the draft Is In bold
clerical hand and bears the marks o
man accustomed to handling checks
Las Vegas Advertiser.
Citizen want ads bring results.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23

during 1902. he Mexican Central suf-
torod a net loss in revenue amount.
Ing TO s,S6.96494. United States cur.
rency. This resulted in net deficit
to the company amounting to 1904
4o2. "A. United States currency. Had
the average price of the Mexican dol.
lar during 1902 been the average price
OF 1901, the company would have
shown a surplus amounting to s272..
5e220 over and above the charges OF
the year This loss is ut the rate Of
s5,s59.53 for every cent depreciation
In Mexican currency.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23
HARD WORK.
Such is Being Experienced on the
Belen CutOn.

II. +. Bennett OF Albuquerque, who
has been in the employ Of the Santa
Fe, assisting in its Belen cutoff work.
arrived in this city yesterday on his
way 10 Los Angeles. where he goes
on business trip, says the San Ber-
nardino Sun. He stopped on In this
city to spend the day and enjoy the
closing features of the street fair, He
states that as many as 1000 men are
now employed by the company In the
rock cuts near the Abo Pass. The
weather has been very cold in that
part of the country OF late, Ice forming
each night. Mr.. Bennett says that the
water about the camps is very bad
and that nearly all OF the Americans
are leaving the site of operations. In
speaking OF the work he said:
The big cut. 1870 feet deep. is get
ting we'll along towards completion
Some wonder has been expressed that
the company did not tunnel here in
stead OF making such a prodigiously
deep cut. The reason is that the ma
terial Is so loose and shay that the
digging OF n tunnel would be practi
cally an impossibility. II Is an inter
esting fact that out in Abo canyon
there are within distance Of thre'
miles seven big steel bridges OF vary
ing lengths The number Of the bridget
necessary and the immensely Of the ex
cavations make II evident that the cut
off Is going to cost all kinds OF money
besides being an engineering feat o
much note"
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23
Territorial Funds.

The following territorial funds have
been received by J. II. 9aughn, terri
torial treasurer: From II. o. Bur
sum. superintendent of the territorial
penitentiary. convicts' earnings, s207.-
81; from Leopold Sanchez, treasurer
and ex-offcio collector OF Guadalupe
county, taxes for 1902. s1o33s.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23

says the San Barnardino Sun. Engine
Foreman Davidson, Head Switchman
Daniel Coyle and Yard Switchman
Gutzmer have stepped down and out.
Coyle has already departed for the
east and Gutzmer has left for Denver.
Several other designations are looked
for SO far no new men have been
taken on to fill these vacancies.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23

s. Horrabin Of Tboreau will take
twenty-five Navajos back with him to
work on the railroad spur now being
built from Thoreau to the timber lands
of the American Lumber company.
About $50 men are at work on the
grade now. Horrabin wanted 100 In
dams at si.75 Fer day. but could get
only twenty-five.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23
Notary Amounted.

Governor Otero appointed the fol-
lowing notary public: Juan Jose Sal
azar, Cuba postoffice, Sandoval eoun-
! Nv
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23

Engines Nos. 6sl and 679 were out
for trial yesterday after a siege In the
back shops undergoing extensive re.
pairs.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23

II the present falling on IN yard
switchmen keeps up within short
time none of the old men will remain,
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23

family blood taint.
Scrofula is bred in the
bone, is transmitted
from parent to child,
the seeds are planted in
infancy and unless the
blood is purged and pu-
rified and every atom Of
the faint removed Scroll
ula is sure to develop at
cntnA n.,,o,l - x,xx,..l,g,
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-23

Scrofula manifests itself in many ways
neck and throat, Catarrh, weak eyes, white S
scesses, skin eruptions loss OF strength and
1t is a miserable disease and traceable in
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-20
BIG BALTIMORE FAILURES.

The news of the failure of large trus.
companies in Baltimore further accentu-
ates the necessity of keeping near the
shore" These institutions had large CAPT.
tai, owned securities which were worth
millions over their liabilities few months
ago, and the best business men regarded
them as solid When the spectators IN
Wall Street began to knock the bottom
out of many stocks and bonds, the Off
GERS of these trust companies saw first
their immense profits swept away with
regret, and later with CONSERVATION saw
all that they had and more go into the
same hole, and now they face bank
ruptcy.
These failures will have tendency to
disturb financial conditions, but they Go
not affect any institutions that have
kept clear of speculative securities. South
ern banks and trust companies have had
no part in the immense profits made II.
the floating of watered stock, and now
they have no part in the failures that
follow the rapid shrinkage of the wa
tered stock. They have not departed from
safe. sound and conservative methods
Therefore they stand unmoved amid fnan-
cial storms because they builded upon a
rock
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-20
ABOLISH The DEATH
SENTENCE.
UniversaIist Congress Asks it
of Legislature.
Jurors Fail 10 Convict of Murder Because Of Ihs
Severity of the Death
Penalty.

To the Editor: 1 herewith send you tor
publication copy of resolutions as adopt
ed by the last annual session of the Uni
versalist Conference of North Carolina,
held at Magnolia:
Z Whereas, we believe the dictum OF some
of the ablest writer's on criminal Jurls-
diction, that it is the certainty rather
than the severity of punishment from
crime committed that has the greatest de-
terrent influence upon the crimlnally DIS
posed element of society, and
Whereas, we further believe that the
severity of the death penalty by legal
infiction, fosters the disposition on the
part of jurors to refuse to render YER
dict of guilty when such verdict IS tc be
followed by the infection of said penalty;
therefore
Resolved, That we urge upon the legls-
lators of our State the abolition of the
death penalty, and the substitution there
for of more rational punishment in har-
many with the dictates of mans higher
nature.
Whereas. the legislature of this State
has enacted some desirable and stringent
legislation for the restriction OF the liquor
traffic; therefore be it
Resolved, That we the Universalist Con
ference urge upon our denomination to
participate both individually and demon
nationally III all earnest and well direct
ed efforts for the suppression OF the trat
fic in our State.
L. L. MATTHEW'S, Secretary.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-20
THE DEA1H PENALTY.

Do the people of North Carolina be-
lieve in the death penalty for murder?
That is a question that is open to DIS
eussion. Very many of the most intelll-
gent people of the State are opposed on
principle to capital punishment. Very
many of the same class believe that IS
wise, salutary, and necessary. But where
stands the majority?
At its recent conference the Universallst
church of North Carolina passed resolu-
tions calling upon the Legislature to re-
peal the death penalty upon the ground
that the severity of the punishment "fos-
tiers the disposition on the part of jurors
to refuse to render a verdict of guilty
when such verdict is to be followed by
the infiiction of said penalty"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-20
A NOVEL SUIT.

That is very interesting case that is
to he heard at the next term of Mcdowell
court. in which Mr.. Fred Eubanks, OF
Hendersonville, sues the State Board of
Dental Examiners for $4,000 for refusing
him license to practise dentistry. He says
that personal feeling caused the board to
refuse him license and that he is well
qualified to follow the profession.
That is a very novel suit, nothing like
it being known in the history of htiga-
ton. The trial will particularly interest,
not only the dentists, but physicians,
pharmacists and all other professions that
have laws calling for examinations by like
boards,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-20

In concluding their weekly cotton letter,
J. H. Parker & Co, say:
THE strength of the present situation
lies in the fact that the producer has dis
covered the weak spot in the consumers
armor He realizes now that his cotton
is necessity to the mills, and that there
is no reason why he should force it on the
market. The result will be seen in a
disposition to sell only when the spinner
is bidding for it, and holding off when
the demand slackens. A crop marketed
in this way, so long as it is not far in
excess of the needs of consumption (and
no one claims that the present one Isl can
easily be disposed of at full rates. The
advance in Silver to 2S12d., the highest
price seen in years, promises good de-
mand from all silver-using countries, and,
while the war-cloud still hovers over ia
pan Russia and Korea, the situation has
frightened materially, through the pres
sure brought to bear on the two contest
ants by Great Britain on one side, and
France on the other and there IS hope
that the crisis will be passed without COM
ing to blows. The events of the past
week, however, developed the strength of
the cotton situation, and the talk of low
prices such as we saw last year during
November, has been abandoned for this
season. 1t must be remembered that the
advance of 10 to Is per cent. in the price
of goods permits manufacturers to pay
cent pound more than for ray material
than they did year ago"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-20
MAKE IT MANDATORY.

The Corporation Commission has been
comforting with the authorities of the
Southern Railway and the Atlantic Coast
Line with reference to re-estabhshing the
connection on the afternoon train at
Selma. For dozen years and more parties
could leave Eastern North Carolina and
reach Raleigh on the same afternoon
Now they cannot reach here except at
midnight or the early morning. There is
great complaint of inconvenience caused
when the Southern Railway, without no.
tice to the Corporation Commission,
changed its schedule so as to leave Selma
before the Atlantic Coast Lines train was
due to arrive. The Southern says that it
is the fault of the Atlantic Coast Line,
and that road, replying, says the Southern
ought not to have broken the connection
without giving due notice. The travelling
public is concerned only with this: it
wishes the connection restored, and hopes
it will be done at once. The travelling
public is also inconvenience because the
connection is often broken with the early
morning trains at Goldsboro. They wish
that remedied. Writing of the incon-
venienee, the Goldsboro Argus says:
1.-The recent change of schedule by
which the Southern Railway passenger
trains leave here few minutes before
the arrival of the Atlantic Coast Line
train from the North in the morning is
working a great inconvenience to the
travelling public north of this city, and
Corporation Commissioner Rogers has
been appealed to to remedy the trouble.
He went to Wilmington yesterday to con-
fer with the Atlantic Coast Line people
and the Messenger of today contains the
| following: 1t is highly probable that the
difference now in the Goldsboro and Selma
| schedules of the Southern Railway and
| Atlantic Coast Line will be adjusted. In
reference to this Corporation Commission
| er S L. Rogers was in the city yesterday
and held a long, but satisfactory confer
ence with Fourth Vice-President John r
Kenly. of the Coast line"
| The Corporation Commission does vel
to try to bring the two roads together SC
that they will quickly adjust theil
schedules so as to make these connections
but if they delay in doing so it will bt
the duty of the Corporation Commission
| to issue mandatory order requiring both
these roads to make and maintain these
connections They owe that to the travel
| ling public.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-20

Full MAN ESTEEMED THROUGH
OUT THE SOUTH.
Atlanta News.
In the temporary depression which
comes to the personal fortunes of John
Shelton Williams he should be fully as
sured of the sympathy and confidence of
the South.
The president of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway has been the most unique and
admirable figure of the industrial decade
in these Southeastern States. His career
has been as brilliantly successful as it
has been beneficient and progressive. And
no one who knows the man, and the mo-
tive and method of his life, will doubt
for a moment his complete re-establish-
ment in wealth and power. And to this
confident expectation there are added
hundreds and thousands of genuine good
wishes from all over the region of his
helpful and wholesome activity.
Mr.. John Shelton Williams is yet a
young man. not having passed his fortieth
birthday. The genius of organization-the
genius or persistent executive ability, and
of resolute and superb defense-rank him
high among the really great industrial
captains of the time.
The history of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway is an epic OF constructive talent
and of consummate financial tact. 1t has
been for nearly score of years the history
of one man against a well-nigh irresistible
syndicate of opposition, and the marvel
Of it is that the one man has won. And
that he has triumphed in the unequal
~ he NJ sol 20 ~ of
the Seaboard system is the monumental
proof Out of few, far separate, COM
paratively ragged, and altogether dis
jointed roads, the genius of this one man
has constructed compact, cohesive and
comprehensive system of railway, making
serious rivalry with the greatest railway
combinations of this colossal day. And
this, his creation, he has held against the
strongest forces of his time What he
has lacked in capital he has filled out with
tact and brains and with this masterful
equipment he has held his place and his
lines against absorption ana against con
solidation. He has resisted overture
| force and diplomacy; fought the omnipo
tence of superior capital; by sheer
| "gumption and grit has held intact the
greatest system that preserves competi
ton in these States and has right by
his masterful record of the of 1.-THE
Pierpont Morgan of the South.''
| Surely this is an achievement that viii
explain the regard and admiration which
is felt everywhere in this section for the
young president of the Seaboard. Surely
this is a grateful basis upon which WI
can rest the assurance of the good wishes
and the godspeed of Southern people t.
his rebuilding fortunes.
For, as a Southern man he has Tough
and finished and builded in Southern
limits, and if he has fallen upon critica
lines of personal fortune, he has fallel
without fault, and will rise without stain
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-20
WELCOME TO ALL.

The News and Observer hopes to see
many of its forty thousand readers IN
Raleigh during the State Fair this week.
They will find a warm welcome at the
nermanent office of 1.-THE old reliable" on
Fayetteville street or at the temporary
office on the Fair Grounds. The office
at the Fair will be in charge of Mr.. II. b.
HARDY the popular representative of the
paper who. knows all its subscribers and
IS esteemed by them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-20

thorities there We're vigilant last week
and this gentry did not get in as
much of their work on the people
rs they expected to do. But they
they piled their work vigorously at the
State Fair in Raleigh to the sorrow of
many people who were robbed. At the
Spring Carnival they tried the same tao
tics, but the city authorities were "onto
their little game" and they went away
empty handed.
All day Sunday and yesterday crowds
were pouring into Raleigh. Wherever
crowds gather the pick-pocket may be
expected to muster their forces. Doubt
less there are plenty of them in Raleigh
The city and fair authorities will protect
the people to the extent of their ability,
and it is TO be hoped that the first man
who is guilty of picking pockets will be
arrested and given a complete outfit of
the garb of a convict.
The people have right to look to the
authorities for protection, but the people
themselves can help in two ways: /. Do
not expose valuables. Do not carry much
money on your person. There is never
any good, reason, in city with six banks
open, why any man should carry large
sums of money on his person at any large
gathering. 2. If any private citizen sees
a ,pick-pocket plying his trade let him
take him by the collar, call for assistance,
bind him hand and foot, and thus help
the officers of the law to get him a term
improving the public roads