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The Socorro chieftain., 1906-02-17
TERRITORIAL.

ne santa re lOuRe OF ElkS
will entertain Governor Hager-
man Tuesday evening, February
20.
Brother Botulph, for many
years head of St. Michaels col-'
lege at Santa Fe, died on the 9th
instant.
The Tocolote Valley Railway
company has been organized to
build a road from Las Vegas to
Mora, a distance of Sixty-five
miles.
Work is being pushed on the
construction of the St. Louis,
Rocky Mountain 4 Pacific rail-
road from Ration south to Eliza
bethtown.
The encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic of New
Mexico will be held in Las Cru
ces ,probably between April IS
and May 9.
1t is noted as singular inter
esting incident in Masonry that
Columbia Royal Arch Chapter of
Roswell recently conferred the
Royal Arch degree upon three
brothers named Miller at the
same time.
Secretary James w. Reynolds
reappointment was confirmed by
the senate Tuesday. The senate
committee investigated some
grave charges against Mr.. Ray
nolds, but reported unanimously
in favor of his confirmation.
John Conley, convicted of
double murder and sentenced to
be hanged yesterday in Taos
county, was granted a reprieve
of one week Thursday by Gov
ernor Hagerman in order that
the question of Conley's sanity
might be determined.
The Southern Pacific Railroad
company has bought vast coal
fields near Durango, Colorado,
and will build a road from Du-
range to Clifton, Arizona. This
road will pass through western
New Mexico, crossing the Allan
tic x Pacific near Gallup.
Attorney General Prichard has
given his official opinion that
when public schools are closed
because of the prevalence of a
contagious disease the teachers
employed in such schools can not
collect pay under their contracts
for the time the schools are
closed.
Among the candidates for the
Office of probate clerk of Bernal-
lilo county, made vacant by the
death of j. A. Summers. are
Siegfried Grunsfeld, who has the
backing of the business element
of the community, and c. h.
Newcomer, who is backed by the
Hubbell faction. Both are re-
puted to be good men.
Says the Santa Fe New Mex
lean: Among the documents
recently obtained from the pa
pers of the late Governor Dona-
ciano Vigil, that were left with
his son in San Miguel county, is
manuscript proclamation dated
July 20, 1915, on a sheet "a Sd
by 3 l-2 inches, with the stamps
of 1914 and 1915, made by Don
Bernardo Bonavia Y Zapitta;
whose official titles occupy five
long lines, governor of the east
ern island provinces of New
Spain, warning the people
against the Mexican revolution
then in progress and calling on
them to bear true allegiance to
King Ferdinand VII. 1t espec-
ially denounces the Licenciados,
Jose Maria Sotero and Jose
Maria Ponce de Leon, who had
signed the new constitution as
delegates from Durango. This
will be placed in the case oi
documents in the Historical
rooms"
The Socorro chieftain., 1906-02-17

Professor Twining wishes to
announce that the students in his
room will give a public entertain
ment in the high school building
Wednesday. The exercises will
be of a patriotic character in OBJ
servance of Washingtor's birth
day, Lincoln's birthday, and flag
day. The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
The Socorro chieftain., 1906-02-17
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES.

Church services as usual at IL
a. m. and 1880 p. m.
Subject for the morning,
What Temptation Means" for
the evening, THE Child as a
Model" All are invited.
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Come.
The Socorro chieftain., 1906-02-17

Mrs. Matias M. Torres, we
are sorry to say, is bedridden
with some chronic ailments. All
of her children are here, includ-
ing our county school superin-
tendent.
The Socorro chieftain., 1906-02-17

-
dian and sent many an Apache
warrior to the happy hunting
grounds. He surrendered at dis
cretion to the representative of
the fiery and untamed press, who
gathered the following reminis-
cences of the early days on the
frontier.
EARLY MINING.
MIR. Patterson settled in the
canon which bears his name in
the Magdalena mountains early
in the spring of 1872, and made
his first mineral locations in Feb
ruary of that year. In the fall
he erected a Mexican adobe cupo-
la furnace with a % foot over
shot water wheel, which afford
ed the motive power to 40-inch
blacksmith bellows, which fur
nished the blast to this primitive
plant. He made an output of
two tons of lead bullion every
twenty-four hours containing
from $40 to $50 per ton in silver.
Each run would last from three
to four days, when the furnace
would blow out for repairs;
which gave Mr.. Patterson an op-
portunity to burn charcoal and
secure supplies of mineral and
blue limestone and iron Tor flux-
ing. But Notwithstanding all
the natural conditions favored a
successful issue to this enterprise,
and lead commanded $3.50, Mr.
Patterson was a loser to con-
siderable amount, after counting
up all the expenses and proceeds,
so he finally abandoned the un-
dertaking, as he discovered that
for every dollars worth of bull
lion which he produced it cost
him $3.50; or a net loss on every
dollars worth of bullion of 81. so.
He thereupon disposed of his ten
mineral locations, his water
right (now known as the Silver
Peg spring., and his furnance,
camp and all, for SIPS, and NOV
ed to his present ranch on the
west border of the San Angus
tine plains in this county, in Sep
tember, 1875, where he devoted
his attention to the cultivation
of the soil and to stock-raiSing
AGRICULTURE UNDER DIFFICULT.
TIES.
Mr.. Patterson had, however
become a citizen of this county
long before this. AS early az
1866 he and few other adven
turous American and native fami
lies, including Captain Joe En-
erson of this city, founded thu
town of Canada Alamosa, TIN
first settlement west of the Ri
Grande. The colonists were eX
posed TO daily attacks from tin
| Apaches and Navajos, and it wa
only by the most indomitable en
ergy and bravery that the set
tlement was perpetuated. So
corro was then, as now, the dis
tributing point for all place
west. and it was on the occasion
of their semi-annual trips to thi
city for ammunition and supple
that their courage was mos
tried, for they were in the enc
my's country, and had to be eve
on the alert to repel attacks, an
il was rare, indeed, that the
were not called upon to iigl
back the Indians with their tru'
ty rifles. Danger attended the
every movement. At night whe
in the shelter of their villag
the redskins could be hear
prowling with stealthy steps
the rear of their houses. al
when cultivating or irrigatin
their fields each one had his rii
Slung over his shoulder, and h
cartridges encircling his waist.
The Socorro chieftain., 1906-02-17

Mrs. Jas. G. Fitch has chosen
Friday of each week as her re-
ceiving day.
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Synopsis of Statement.

Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society
January /, 1900.
The Socorro chieftain., 1906-02-17

S9l ,79s .64
OscAR kEDRMANN, Agent,
Magdalena, New Mexico.
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FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
The English battleship Dread
nought, the most powerful in the
worlds navies, was launched
Saturday.
China is not disposed TO grant
the United States the same priv
ileges of trade in that country as
other countries enjoy. The re-
lations between the United States
and China are becoming some
what strained.
Vice Admiral Chonkinn of
Russia was shot four times by a
woman in his Office at Sabastopol
a few days ago. The woman is
supposed to have belonged to a
st. Petersburg group of terror
lists. She was killed by an or
derby.
At the Algeciras conference
the situation of the Franco-Ger-
man controversy over vital points
of Moroccan reforms remains un-
changed. Because of her large
interests in Morocco, France
claims special rights in the di-
rection of the affairs of that
country, Germany opposes the
exercise of those rights though
she has no special interests in
/ Morocco. The sympathy of 9TH
/ er countries seems to be with
France.
The Socorro chieftain., 1906-02-17

Fresh fruits in season at Wink
lers'.
The Socorro chieftain., 1906-02-17
NATIONAL.

Iowa has suffered a cold wave
this week. The temperature
was D degrees below zero at
Charles City Thursday and 10
below at Des Moines.
The marriage of Congressman
Nicholas Longworth of Ohio and
Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter
of President Roosevelt, took
place in the White House today.
The Amalgamated Copper
Company of Butte, Montana, has
bought several rival interests and
thus settled litigation and dis
pute that have long retarded the
development of the district.
John Brady, known as Jack
the Stabber," was arrested in St.
Louis Saturday. He confessed
having stabbed several woman
on the streets, but could give no
explanation of his conduct, ex-
cept that he enjoyed the excite
ment.
John ID. Rockefeller, the Stand
ard Oil magnate, and doubtless
the most cordially despiSed
man i'll the United States is in
hiding to escape being called as
a witness in the official investi-
cation of Standard Oil methods
of doing business.
Richard A. McCurdy, former
president of the Mutual Life In.
surance company, has gone tC
Paris to live and John A. Nc.
Call, former president of the New
York Life, is seriously ill
These men were ousted from
Office as a result of certain fla.
grant abuses of trust revealed by
the memorable investigation il
New York.
The Hamilton Joint statehood
bill is now under consideration il
the senate. Senator Foraker ha
presented his amendment provid
ing that New Mexico and Ari
zona shall vote separately upol
the question of joint statehoo'
and that a union shall not b
consummated until a majority o
votes in each territory are cas-
in the affirmative.
The conference between tn
coal operators and union min
workers of the hard coal fields o
Pennsylvania, at which effort
will be made to formulate a
agreement between the employ
erS and men to go into effect o
April lst, when the award O
the anthracite strike commissio
expires begun in New York cit
, Thursday afternoon. The prir
cipal points that the mine work
ers are contending for are a
eight hour day, increased wage:
and recognition of their organ
zation. There will be a strik
of 300,00 coal miners April
an agreement is not reached b,
fore that date.
The Socorro chieftain., 1906-02-17
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Condensed and classified from Press
Dispatches for the Benefit Of
Busy Readers,
FOREIGN, NATIONAL, TERRITORIAL
Such Things as Every Intelligent
Citizen of New Mexico Ought
to Know.

The Chieftrin presents the news
of the week condensed and classi-
fed as follows:
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WHY THE AMERICAN WOMAN
IS POPULAR IN ENGLA

her intense vitality. The mixed blood Of
many Intelligent races courses through her
delicate veins and gives joyous Hghtness
TO the bounding of her heart and the swift
grace OF her step. She is full of energy as
well as charm. If she sets out to enjoy
herself, she enjoys herself thoroughly She
talks and laughs freely. She is not mere
well-dressed automaton like the great ma
Jority of upper class British DANES. She Is
under the Impressions perfectly correct
one-that tongues were given to converse
with and that lips, especially pretty ones
were made to smile with. She is, taken at
ner best. emtnently good-natured and re-
freshingly free from the 1aundiced spite
against others Of her own sex which savors
the afternoon chitter chatter OF nine out of
every ten English spinsters and matrons
taken together in conclaye. She would on
the whole, rather say a kind thing than a
cruel one. Perhaps this is because she is
herself so triumphant In her social career,
because she is too certain of her own power
to feel "the pangs of unrequited love" or to
allow herself to be stung by the green
eyed monster" jealousy.
Her care Is always rolling over roses
There is always a British title going a-beg-
ging, always some decayed or degenerate
or seml-drunken peer. whose fortunes are
on the verge of black ruin, ready and will
ing to devour, monster-like, the holocaust
of an American virgin, provided bags of
bullion are flung with her into his capa-
ciouS nav, though certainly one should
look upon The frequent marriages OF Ameri-
can heiresses with effete British mobiles as
the carrying out of a wise and timely dis
pensation of Providence. New blood. fresh
sap is SoreIy needed to invigorate the
grand old tree of the British aristocracy
which has of late been looking sadly as
though dry rot were setting in, as though
the wood lice were at work in its hearts
and the rats burrowing holes at its root;
but thanks to the importation OF a few
clean minded. sweet soued American
women. some of the most decayed places in
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.

LONDON May 20, 1905
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knowledged everywhere? Why
is she received by knights and earis and
belted churls with such overpowering en-
thusiasm7 Surely something subtle, elusive
and mysterious clings to her particular
form. nature and Identity, for more often
than not the stolld B-itisher. while falling
at her feet and metaphorically kissing the
hem Of her garment. wonders vaguely how
It is that she manages to make such a fool
of him! To which she might reply on de-
mand that II he We're not fool already she
would not find her task so easy. For the
American woman Is, above all women In
the world. clever-or let US say "brainy''
TO an almost incredible height of braininess.
She is all there"
She can take the measure OF a man In
about ten minutes and classify him as
though he were a botanical specimen. She
realizes all his limitations, his notions"
and his special and particular fads, and
she has the uncommonly good sense not to
expect much OF him. She would not take
any" on the lily maid OF Astolat. the fair
Elaine. who spent her time In polishing the
shield OF Lancelot and who finally died of
love for that most immoral but fascinating
Knight OF the Round Table. No. she
wouldn't polish a shield. you bet! She
would make Lancelot polish Ii himself for
all he was worth and polish her own dear
little boots and shoes for her into the bar
gain. That IS one OF her secretS-masterful-
ness. or. let us say, queenliness, which
sounds better.
Perhaps the chief note in the ever ascend
ing scale of her innumerable attractions is
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Deer Tracks Are Different.
From Field and Stream.


Sportsmen have no cause to hagcle over
distinguishing features in the tracks of
deer, which, If they exist are so slight that
they quickly disappear IL the conditions
are NOT ideal, and they most assuredly are
not when snow is on the ground, as it is
when the average hunter does his tracking.
However 1 deem it necessary to point out
few features which distinguish deer
tracks from those OF porkers and domestic
sheep; for. everywhere / have hunted thus
far l have found gunners who judging
from the zeal with which they followed
their tracks. were as anxious to capture
these barnyard deer" as others might
have been TO capture yenison. A deer. II
walking. always places its feet firmly
closed upon the ground, and consequently
the track is sharply drawn--thak Is. the
hoof Is not spread TO any apprecIable ex-
tent; exceptions are sometimes the track
OF deer that are heavy with fawns. during
spring and early summer. and those OF old
bucks during the rutting season. But even
then. the heeis'' of their tracks are consid-
erably closer than In tracks made by hog
or o sheep. The hoofs OF the latter two
animals are always rounder at the toe than
those of deer. making the tracks they leave
easily distinguishable. and II the difference
u not dscerntble In frozen snow. the fact
that the trail made by hogs or sh8e9 does
not regfBfer should settle al doubts TOR the
tracker. deer. Il not wounded. wiu all
Ways step With its hind foot h The track
made ~ tho front foo&
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fully by the whole of our dear investments
being boated ashore, we being informed
that we could resume possession OF them by
paying fines Of about treble what we had
paid for them.
What trou-le the skipper took on our be-
half I do not know. but just before we
sailed our curios were brought back, flung
promiscuously into an open boat in petit
ing shower of rain, which rendered most of
them useless either for sale or presentation.
But we had some canaries, monkeys and
Java sparrows bought in Sunda straits.
and these we cherished tenderly all the way
home. more. however, from their value to
us as pets than from any hope of return.
Now as to the result. L accumulated all
the curios worth having during the passage
home In payment for teaching navigation
and I gave them all away in London, find
ing them utterly unstable Two dozen Java
sparrows and two canaries l sold to a
dealer in Upper East Smithfield for less
than half their cost, because really could
not keep them; and as far as the monkeys
were concerned, we were only too glad to
find anybody who would accept them from
US and save US from the almost impossible
task of looking after them in our boarding
houses. This may not be romantic pic
ture of the small traffic Of the seaman. but
that it Is a true one every sailor OF ex-
perience viii testify.
4
The traffic in livestock, such as monkeys.
musk deer and rare foreign birds, is one
that most sailors will engage in. despite
their limitations in regard of food and &C
commodation, but, alas II Is one that never
can Yield any profit. For 1t is so hard in
the first place to keep the poor delicate
things alive. l have known over a hundred
birds to die in one morning off the cape.
when homeward bound, when an icy blast
from the southern pole has come sweeping
over the ship Nothing could save them.
And as for monkeys; well, perhaps the less
said the better. since nothing the sailor in
vests in abroad is productive of more trou-
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But an unfortunate failure. a gigantic col
lapse in the money market, made havoc of
the fathers fortunes, and as soon as his
ruin was declared beyond a doubt the noble
earl, without much hesitation or ado. broke
off his engagement and rapidly decamped
from the states back to his own country
where, as all the world knows, he did very
well for himself. Strange to say, however,
the girl whom he had THUS brutally for
sa<en for no fault Of her own had loved
him with all the romantic and trusting ten
derness of first love, and the heartless blow
inflicted upon her by his noble and honor
able lordship was one from which she never
recovered.
Marriage, however. is by no means the
only or even the chief resource In life Of
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tertained. A civil apathy wraps each man
and woman in its fibrous husk and sets
them separately apart behind barricades of
the most idiotic conventionality. The
American woman is the only being that can
break down these barricades and tear the
husk to shreds. No wonder she is populari
The secret of her own success Is in her
own personal charm and yivacions -fntelH-
gence, In her light scorn of stupid cere-
monies, in the frank geniallty of her dis
position (when she can manage to keep 1t
unspoiled by contact with the reserved
hypocrisy of the smart set) and the de-
lightful spontaneity of her thoughts which
find such ready expression in equally spon-
taneous speech MARIE CORELLI.
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found to our amazement and almost I'M
speakable rage that whereas silver carried
a discount of Is per cent, a paper dollar
was always at par value. In other words,
that we had voluntarily presented the res
taurant keeper with one shilling out Of
every four we had exchanged. A little gift
amounting to over four pounds It was a.
bitter pill. And we could blame nobody,
not even ourselves.
I think that under the circumstances we
could hardly have been blamed If we had
then determined to spend the balance in
riotous living in the reaction of our shame
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Winners Of Prizes.

and as in those days sailing ships rations
were always fairly scanty, my proposal was
agreed to. We went to Chinese reEtau-
rant and had what We considered good
meal, although L now shudder to rennem-
Der the Indebtedness Of its constituent
parts. Then. with all seaman's horror of
paper money in any shape. we decided to
ask the proprietor If he would change our
bank notes into sterling silver at par Yes,
he would, seeing that we were such good
lish sailors, etc. SO we received from him
the face value of our notes in current heavy
Mexican dollars and were delighted.
We sailed forth upon Queens road and
invaded the curlo shops. intent upon our
plan OF purchase for later profit Then we
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and rage. But we did not. We purcha sed
a large quantity of what I now know was
worthless rubbish and carried 1t on board.
hoping that our profits would be sufficient
to console US for the folly we had been I'M
Willingly guilty of. Shortly afterward we
sailed for Manila q am speaking of twenty
eight years ago), and as soon as We an
chored the custom officers came on board.
Entering the fo'c'sle, they overhauled our
treasures and seized them as not being on
the ships manifest, and obviously not be-
ing personal apparel or tools. Even our
spare stock of soap was taken.
l dare not hint at the scene, which came
perilously near bloodshed. It ended peace
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tlnities are exceedingly limited; and in the
next, when he reaches home, where, If any
where he may hope to find a market, he is
usually too much excited to exercise the
true commercial spirit, and so his care
fully guarded purchases are all too apt 10 De
given away to most unworthy recipients.
And even IL he keeps clear head and does
try to realize upon his outlay he is certain
to meet with the most astute dealers In the
world. Jews who throng every seaport, ana
make their living by trading upon seamen s
folIy And II may be taken for granted that
he who buys from Hindus, Mussuimen, chi
nese or Japanese at one side or the Worio,
and sells to Jews on the other, making
profit on the transactions, Is financial ge-
MUS of the very highest order, one WIG
would make a fortune under any condl-
tons need not say that such paragons or
commerce are seldom found among sailors
AS an instance illustrative of the fore
going remarks 1 would like to quote here an
experience of my own. I was an able sea-
man on board of an English bark called the
Dartmouth. which carried a cargo of coal
from Cardiff to Hongkong. In the latter
port although we had all incurred debts to
bumboat men, washerwomen and tailors
when liberty day came our just skipper
gave us all months pay (of course, 1t
was overdue) and sent us ashore. The
money was in notes of the Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank. In high giee we reached
the shore all of US having made up our
minds that we would spend half of our cap
ital in curios, mostly to sell again.
Obviously, the first thing to do when we
got ashore was to have a drink, but /. be-
ing a teetotaler, suggested feed instead.