Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1905-04-08

States and - held In high esteem b,
the Japanese.
Nebraskae legislative upper hous,
has passed q bill which nbollshoe the
death penalty altogether The lower
BIZ. -
II hne heon estimated that more than
5i,V0O.ooo 600 OF bonds are annually
purchased by The Investing public IN
the unltod Hia cs. The savings hanks
and The lnsui Anco companies are thr
hnavicsi purchasers " bonds, hut
there are estimated to be nearly !.
ulV.Vp0 persons In the United States
whn have an annual surplus 20 Invest
Gone pui Of ten % all the deaths in
the United states u caused w pneu.
monia. IN The year closing with the
last census. rnoumouia caused i0s..
9Ii deaths which consumption alone
eycelled. and that only by about 5000.
But the medical world seems to be-
awaklng 70 ne appalling fatality OF
this disease. and no doubt means will
be devised to check ia favagea.
The deman1 tor cattle IN ehis south.
west section has greatly Increased
within the last few weeks, and with
Increased demand there has been In.
crease oi prices, iiil cattle are now
angling from Two 90 three dollars per
mead higher ihan they aid az thls limo
last year. The prospect Of such enc
pastures as viii cover New Mexico
ranges for the next year. relieves the
cattleman from The necessity Of saio
The Hollandcrs. Il ~ said. are not
fond Of lazy people, and they have a
yeiy good W., Of curing persons who
can. but wOnf work. N paup4r who
ls able 20 work refuses % DO 10. they
put him In n cistorn, TO which a pulnp
Is attached. and turn on a stream OF
water. The s.rcam flows into the els.
tern Just SLOW enough 10 enable the
lazy person. ~ lively pumping. 10
keep the water from getting up over
his head.
The actlon 81 the county commits.
tloncrs yesterday. In determining 20
have the dyke building work done By
contract IN worthy o. all commenda.
iion u lneuses good and lnstine work
~ the least reasonable cost. II relieves
the community u a task which II could
have done but Imperfccily and NJ the
greatest individual hardship. and n
viii give employment to labor, thus
Increasing the present circulation Of
money AMONG the very class most
needing Il.
One OF the good results OF the mar.
iiago law, recently enacted by the
New Mexico legislature and going into
effect on the lfh Of the present month.
VIII be 60 render secret marriages i'm.
possible In many paris OF the terri.
Tory Il was setting 90 he quite n fad
Tor young people 10 spring on the un.
inspecting public the fact that they
had been mar led for wssks OF mcnths.
This can no longer be done. The cOun.
ty clerk mus be seen and paid. the
license must be issued and recorded
before any minister or magistrate can
marry n couple
Irrigation experts. electrical and me.
chanical engineers and oficlaia OF the
geological survey mot In conference
az Garden City, Kan, the other day,
70 consider plans for utilizing the un-
derilow Of the Arkansas river In irfi.
cation work for tho western part OF
that state. The government has aD
poriloned $4,000 10 begin this work.
and the meeting was held for che pur.
pose OF deciding upon the plan Of oper.
alton. That the earth holds vaat ator0s
OF water, iusi as n holds gas and oil.
which man will ultimately utilize, does
not admit Of doubt.
The Optic editorially denies respon.
sibilIty for'the alteration In The Gil.
zen announcement, which appeared In
its columns. Il says that having mis-
laid the notice clipped from The Citi.
zen, Il clipped the notice from an.
other paper and published Il without
alteration The only paper which pub
lished the Eotice between the time Il
appeared In Tho Citizen and the time
Of rs appearance in the Optic was the
New MEXICAN. and tho notice In that
paper did rot contain the interpolatod
words. They must. therefore. have
originated with the Optic; but as the
editorial department. did nut put them
In, Il mrst have been "the intelligent
composition" on whom all mistakes
used 10 be laid. The Citizen accepts
the change In lts announcement. as Il
appeared in the Optic. as a typograph-
lcal error