Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-12-12

EDITORIAL NOTES



Washington Is promised ban,
'oncorts and a baseball pennant mex
summer.
Now is a good time TO pant holiday
( idvertisomants. The return Is sure
/ the Christmas season.
The Citizen Ia indebted TO Delegate
I fodey for a copy OF the memorial ad
I ire Of John Hay upon the life and
| character OF William Mckinley
A canvass OF this city shows that
the hsppiest and most contented and
cheerful person In this community is
blind woman eighty-one years old.
Inc kindergarten teachers who are
mp TO date are showing the children
now to make papier mache republics
instead Of wasting ther time on artl.
fcia flowers.
The MonteZuma Trust company Is
filing long felt want In this city,
'nahling the people to increase their
avings and elpng to build up the en-
erprises OF the community.
Angry women at Bayonne, N. j., are
put in a body hunting Jack the Kiss
r, but the report does not state
whether they were his victims who
we're after him or those who had been
overlooked
The Carnegie library which has
been in course OF construction at Al
exandrla Ind for more than a year.
is now completed. and the handsome
building was formally dedicated on
Wednesday.
The wise housewife Is doing her
marketing, and will lay in supply of
dyspepsia tablets. TO be served when
he impure food companies whom
Secretary Wilson is said to have on
he run. unload.
Delegate Rodey has a few copies OF
government publication on dis
cases OF the Horse" for distribution
among citizens OF the territory, which
those interested can have, II there are
any left, on application. II Is the
reatcst WORK OF the kind over pub
lished.
People who are behind In the pay
ing OF their legitimate notes for
months past. ought to make It point
TO pay up by January /, 1904, and
start new accounts. Il looks bad ID
have accounts, against good and hon
orable people. on the books for
months witnoa. any credit marks.
Yesterday was snowy day in Santa
Fe the beautiful coming down for the
first time this season II extended
along the SaGts Fe Central as far as
Torrance on the Ell Paso & North.
western. It showed north. east AMI
west OF Albuquerque. the flakes cover.
Ing the tops o. the Sand!a mount.
aims, but none fell In the Rio Granie
valley herabouts Last night was the
coolest here % the season.
The indications are that newspaper
readers are increasing in this terri
tory every day. and II Is a fact which
speaks well for the citizenship Of New
Mexico. There Ia scarce n newspaper
in this territory but shows an increase
In Its circulation. The Citizen during
the past year has had a remarkable
increase, and in making its canvass II
finds that others have shared the same
good fortune.
Mr.. Brlstow estimates that the total
amount received by the impeached
postal officials as their reward TO-
their misdemeGnors and crimes will
aggregate between 100000 and
100000, IL the concerns pay such
sums FOR the privilege OF robbing the
government. their profits must have
been enormous. A yearly deficit in the
operation Of the postal sLrfara is no
longer occasion for surprise
The irrepressible DR.. w. Godfrey
Hunter has been sworn in as congress.
ional representative from the Elev'
enth district of Kentucky. DR.. Hun
ter was for a number OF years known
as the sole republican member OF the
Kentucky congressional delegation,
More recently he was minister to
Guatemala. DIR. Hunter Is we'll known
In New Mexico, having resided in Las
Vegas for some time, at which place
he purchased the water works plant
for the present Kentucky owners.
The states which received an in
creased representation in the elector-
al college on account OF the reappor-
tionment based on the census OF 1900,
and the number OF their Increase, are
as follows: Arkansas, |; California.
/; Colorado. !: Connecticut, /; Florl-
da, /; Illinois. 3; Louisiana, /; Mas
sachusetts. L. Minnesota, q Mississ'
ippi. /; Missouri, l; New Jersey, 2;
New York, 5. North Carolina. l. NORTH
Dakota. /; Pennsylvania, 2; Texas,
3; Washington, L. West Virginia, ],
/ and Wisconslr, l.
The annual exodus from the north
west and middle west OF Scandinay'
ians, who return TO the motherland
/ for the Christmas holidays, promises
to he unusually heavy this year. Ar
engagements have been made for spec
lal trains next week to carry between
600 and 500 excurslonists from Chica
go to New York. where they will en-
bark for Sweden and Norway. Prac
tically all the excursionists will re
turn TO the United States, and man,
OF them have arranged to bring klns
men with them on the return trip.