The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-05
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
OF BEAUTIFUL LAS VEGAS
Governor and Family Will Trough It"
Over Mountains With J, D. Hand.
A Story of New
Mexico.
BY {. E. kERsH.


most beloved sons, one honored with the
highest office that his fellowmen can
award. But the people OF Alabama
take the very greatest interest IN the
every act of Governor Jelks delshting
TO honor him for the clean, honest ao-
ministration that he has given them,
and more especially for the higher re-
gard for law and order that his firm
mandates to the law officers have estab-
lished.
1t is but natural that every true Ala
bamiah laments the governors condition
truly sorrowful that he must even for a
little while be absent to build up his
broken health 1t is my great pleasure
however to assure his thousands OF
friends that he is really not sick man.
Erroneous and greatly exaggerated re-
ports have been circulated as to his con-
dition. While Governor Jelks is not
very sick man the nature of his disease
Is such that it requires time TO overcome
it.
Governor Jelks is delightfully."- located
here Together with Mrs. jerks
and Miss Jelks the governor oc-
cupies very pretty little cottage
within a half a block of his physician
main sanitarium. IF L must De slch'
surely could not hope for sickness un-
der more favorable circumstances, IS
the wav the governor recently expressed
himself.
The governor is kept rather closely
confined by his physician, Doctor Bailey.
BY the way, DIR. Bailey does not treat
tubercular trouble as other physicians DO.
The average person who comes to Las
Vegas for lung trouble is emoued Win
the idea that it is the climate tnat
cures They seem to believe In an out
door ife-riding, walking, etc. And a
majority of the natives tell you this is
the thing to do. But not so with Doctor
Bailey. who has proven himself very sue
cessful in the treatment when the pa
tient follows his instructions. Just what
his treatment consists Of the uneducated
In medical skill will not undertake TO
say, but it is observed that all OF his
patients are put to bed, and when they
are finally permitted to leave their rooms
1t is only for a very mild exercise. Gov
ernor Jell<s, with score of others In
the Bailey sanitarium, seems thoroughly
pleased with the treatment received.
The governor has been here for two
months, and the Improvement in his con-
dition is indeed most satisfactory. 1t is
Idle, however. to entertain the tnougnt
that he VIII be mack III Aldpdiha "l.hii
the next rev weeks. ne mas coiie nei
for the purpose OF securing res s'rseioil
to perfect health, ana IL is ms ueciareu
purpose not to return nome until TINS mas
been secured You ask wnen this may De
A question not easily answered, 10 De
sure. Judging from the time that others
have remained here for perfect cures, IL
might be asserted that Governor Gun
bingham, in whom Governor jerks mas
such perfect commence Will hoiu tne
relns OF government lor some t"elVe da-
ditional months. But the governors case
is not so serious as that OF the average
''lunger." 1t is but a slight tupercular
trouble, that his physician says Will be
wholly cured within Few months.
While the governors surroundings are
pleasant now, when he is permitted to be
out at will royal time at roughing 1t is
his. Fortunate, indeed, he Is to be near
the splendid ranch Oh jim HAND, an Ala
bamian well known, who is here living an
ideal life. Mr.. Hand is preparing all
sorts of comforts for the governor, and
really he seems very impatient for the
coming of the day when his adobe man
sion at Los Alamos is to be converted In
probably not more magnificent estate
In New Mexico than this one owned by
Mr.. Hand. 1t embraces more than one
hundred thousand acres. and Is compare
lively well watered, and improved by
good fencing and adobe houses. A few
thousand acres are cultivated, some ten
thousand in Alfalfa and the remainder
Is used for grazing for about three hun
thousands.
Recently Hand has been making some
special arrangements for the entertain
ment of the governor and his family He
purchased in the east a large wagon
which he had fitted out with berths sim
liar to a Pullman sleeping car, and in this
car it is proposed that the Jelkses will
accompany Mr.. Hand oveN the mountains
of New Mexico for camp hunt lasting
several weeks. or until the party becomes
tired out. Old timers out here say that
this trip alone is sufficient to cure most
any kind OF tubercular trouble.
Governor jerks is not permitting mat