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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
SANTA FE, N. M, FRIDAY DECEMBER ID. 1906.
STATEHOOD FOR
NEW MEXICO
Territory Might Be Admitted SingIy
and Arizona Annexed to Me-
vada.

The question of separate statehood
for New Mexico is being agtated in
the National Capital and In local cir
Giles and separate statehood for the
Sunshine Territory is gaining ground
The following recent dispatch from
the Washington correspondent of the
New York Commercial shows which
way the wind blows:
THE question of statehood for
New Mexico and Arizona Is again be-
ginning to worry the Congressional
mind; but there is small chance that
it will so far agitate the statesmen
as to get action in the near future.
Last session Congress provided that
New Mexico and Arizona should be
admitted as joint state If each
would cast majority of votes for
the proposal. New Mexico did; Art
zona did not. So neither can become
a state, and the two together cannot.
"Now it develops that the sixty-siX
delegates elected from New Mexico
will meet, despite the failure Of the
statehood proposal prepare consti-
tuition, and present to Congress a pc
tition for admission to the Union by
itself. 1t will be urged that New
Mexico has always stood for state
hood en- any basis it was obtainable.
1t was for joint statehood when Con-
gress favored that plan; now it asks
separate statehood.
IF New Mexico should be taken in
as separate state, 1t would probably
be many years before Arizona would
have the population and development
to entitle it to entrance. But it is
suggested now to let New Mexico
come in by itself, and to permit Ari-
zona to be annexed to Nevada. This
would not be open to the objections
which Arizona people made to jointure
with New Mexico. The Chief objec-
ton to a partnership with New Mexi-
co was that there were so many
Spanish and Mexicans in New Mexi-
co, while the Arizonans are chiefly
original Americans. They would mix
well with the people of Nevada, how
ever, together they would prove a
fair population to justify state; and
altogether the plan has considerable
tn rannmmnud II
considerable interest has lately
been taken in this new phase of the
discussion"
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
BOLD ROBBERY
OF PAWN SHOP
Three Men Bound Proprietor and Sc
cured $4,000 Worth of
JeWelry.

Omaha, Neb., Dec. 14.-Three mer
today entered the pawn shop of JOS
eph Sonnenberg, 1905 Douglas Street
bound and gagged the proprietor
Mike Morrissey, his clerk and Frank
Swan, a customer, and filling suit
case with diamonds and jewelry es
capped. AS they went out of the alley
Samuel Cross, a fireman, tried tc
stop them and shots were exchanged
Later one of the robbers was captured
and the goods partially recovered. He
gave the name of Ed Elliott Of Den
yer. The pawnbroker reported his
total loss at about $4,000.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
TODAY'S NEWS SERVICE

Page 1.-Catron Miera Contest
Case; Federal Over State Power;
Reform Spelling is Abolished; Cabinet
Members $4,000 Per Annum; Tex
as Railroad Law Failure; Tele-
graph and Local News.
Page Editorial
Page 3.-New Mexico Happenings
for Counties of Torrance; Luna,
Otero, Grant. San Juan, Lincoln and
Roosevelt, Hotel Arrivals.
Page 4.--Personal Mention.
Page 5.-Minor City Topics.
Page 6.-Cattle Receipts Kansas
City; Scarlet Fever in Bisbee; Re-
publicans Control Town of Tucson.
Runaway Couple Married at Estancia.
Page New Mexican's Daily
Short Story.
Page S.-Minor City Topics and Per.
sonal Mention Continued; Market Re-
ports BY Wire; Official Matters; Tele-
graphic and Local News; Local
Weather Forecast.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
BICYCLISTS RACE
ENTIRE NIGHT
Leaders in Contest Still 273 Miles Be-
hind Record-Sensational
Squirt.

New York, Dec 1.-THE contest
ants in the six days bicycle race
were still grinding out the laps in a
mechanical manner this morning, af-
ter an eventful night. The positions
are unchanged according TO the Off
cial score, although many spectators
believed that Stol and George had
been Tapped after a sensational sprint
ut 9 o'clock. The squirt was started
by Walthour and Bedel7 who were
smartng under the decision rendered
earlier in the evening when the spill
robbed them of lap they had near
ly won. The score of the leading
teams at I O'Clock was LIS miles and
six laps, 273 miles behind the record.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
CABINET MEMBERS
$4,000 PER ANNUM
Amendment to Ap-
preparation Bills
in House.
CONGREsSMEN $500 EACH
And Railroad Fare Once
During Each Session Are
Proposed Changes.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 1.-the
House today adopted the following
amendment to the constitutional con
yentlon and judicial appropriation
bills providing that on and after
March 4. 1907, the compensation of
the speaker Of the House of Rcpresen-
tatlves and the vice president of the
United States shall be $4,000 each.
An amendment was also adopted in
creasing the salaries of cabinet mem.
bers to $4,000 each. effective after
March 1. 1907.
$500 Per Arrum for congressman
Representative Litlauer also offered
an amendment increasing the salaries
of Senators and Representative to
$1,000 per annum, (which compensa.
tion shall be in lieu of all other al
lowances except the actual individual
travelling expenses from their homes
to the seat Of government and return
BY the most direct route. only once
for each session"
House Would Not Increase Pay of
Own Members.
A late dispatch says that on a yea
and nay vote the House refused to III
crease the salaries of its members.
The vote was: Yea, l07: Nay, 1888.
House Is Done With Reform Spelling.
What will probably be the last act
OF the House on the subject of simpli-
fled spelling occurred today when on
motion Of Mr.. Tawney, chairman of
rhe committee on appropriations for
the House without debate. il struck
out of the legislative executive and jul
dicial bill, a provision relative to spell.
ing. This action was taken because
OF the promise of the President to re-
woke his order to the public printer
and the consequent adoption of yes
terday's resolution on the subject.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
KING OSCAR
SLIGHTLY BETTER
Temperature 100 and Pulse Irregular
But Able to Sleep and Not
Coughing Severely.

Stockholm. Dec. liking Oscars
condition shows considerable improve
ment today. Towards noon the fol
lowing bulletin was issued King
Oscar passed quiet night, slept six
hours only coughed a little. and had a
temperature of 100. His pulse is still
irregular, but there is no increase of
phlegm in his lungs. The patients
general condition is fairly satisfac-
tory"
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
CARLSBAD SHROPSHIRE
LAMBS PRIZE WINNERS

Carlsbad, N. NJ, Dec. l4.-At the In
ternational Livestock show in Chicago
recently fifty Shropshire lambs owned
by the Bellies Livestock Company OF
this place were awarded first prize
for age, weight and general merits
The prize winning lambs averaged
ninety-three pounds and were bought
at 10 cents by the c. w. Hammond
Company of Chicago.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14

means Of which divers and sundry
voters were deceived, and that the
distribution of such ballots was decep-
tive and fraudulent and In violation
Of law and said ballots should not be
counted for contestant for the reason
that the same are in violation Of the
provisions Of the election law of New
Mexico, being chapter 127 of the laws
of 1906; and for the further reason
that the name of contestant appears
on said ballot for more than one Of
fee. to-wit, for member Of the con
stitutional convention and for member
of the Council in the 37th Legislative
Assembly"
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
MANY GUNS
LITTLE AMMUNITION
Rear Admiral Mason Says Battle
ships Make No Provision for Sup
ply Of ProjectiIes.

Washington, Dec 14.-Declaring
that in the design of vessels of bat
tie the space and weight assigned to
ammunition has been SO restricted
that the ammunition on board, under
certain conditions of battle would be
expended in less than an hour, Rear
Admiral Mason, chief Of the bureau of
ordnance. in his annual report, urges
the building of two vessels of con-
siderable size. one for the Atlantic
and one for the Pacific coast, devoted
exclusively to the carriage of ammuni-
tion and states that ultimately one of
these vessels should be with each
fleet.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
DIPTHrnIA EPIDEMIC
E .DS AT SAN JUAN
Efficient and Prompt Use of Antitoxir
and FormaIdyhide Prevented
Further Spread of Disease.

The epidemic of diptheria which
caused five deaths in the San Juan
Pueblo recently has been entirely
wiped out according to report re-
ceived by Superintendent Clinton j..
Crandall at the United States Indian
Training School south of the Capital.
The prompt work of DR.. NJ S. Murphy
of Espanola, who had charge of the
cases, in the use of antitoxin and for
maldyhide despite the opposition of
the Indians, effectively stopped the
spreading of the disease. The Indian
police have raised the quarantine
about the Pueblo which has been in
effect for a month.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
TEXAS RAILROAD
LAW A FAILURE
Colquitt Tells Mem
bersConstitution-
al Convention.
THE HEPBURN RATE BILL
Might Satisfy People Under
Certain Conditions .-Roos-
evelt's Successor.

Guthrie Okla, Dec ll.-ln address.
ing the Oklahoma constitutional CON
vention this morning, Hon Oscar b.
CoIquitt, a member Of the Texas Rail.
road Commission. declared that while
the Texas Railroad Commission act is
good law the railroad rate regulation
in Texas has been a failure except in
producing uniformity. and he quoted
Mr.. Maytield of the same commission
as acknowledging that it had been al,
most a failure.
Roosevelt Forerunner for Mr..
Bryan.
Commenting the efforts OF President
Roosevelt, Mr.. Colquitt said If strong
men were kept on the Interstate Com
merce Comm ssion and the courts did
not nullify their work. the Hepburn
rate bill might satisfy the people. 9th.
erwise he believed Mr.. Roosevelt
would be the 'forerunner for Mr..
Bryan
First Texan to Declare Law a Failure
Mr., Colquitt was an advocate of
railroad regulation in Texas when the
cause was championed by the late
Governor Hogg. He is the first prom
inent man in public life in Texas to
declare it has been a failure through
President Roosevelt.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
TEA KETTLE EXPLODED
BURNING ROSWELL WOMAN

Roswell, n. NJ. Dec. 14.-Mrs. 0. D.
Pool of this place was severely burned
a few days ago when a tea kettle on
a stove in her home blew up. She
was bending over the stove preparing
the MONDAY meal at the time.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
SALOON KILLER
GETS LIFE SENTENCE
Max Miller of Ell Paso, Who Shot
J. F. TurIey, to Prison tor
SO Years.

Ell Paso, Dec. 14.-Max Miller, the
saloon keeper who shot and killed j.
f. Turley. railroad man, was today
found guilty and sentenced to ninety
nine years in the penitentiary. Mil
Ter found his wife in saloon and ac-
cused her of buying drinks for Turley
and other men. When Turley denied
the charge, Miller deliberately shot
him while he crouched behind the ba'
pleading for his life and stating that
he was unarmed.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
REBEL LEADER
KILLS HIMSELF
When Taken Prisoner by Government
Troops Of Ecuador-Used
DictnI

Guayqui, Ecuador, Dec. 14.-When
General Paez and the government
troops were entering Cuenca today
with the rebels captured at the battle
of Ayancay a mob tried to rescue the
prisoners, whereupon the troops fired
and dispersed the mob. As the troops
fired. Colonel Vega, the rebel leader,
who was among the captured, drew a
revolver and killed himself. The con-
servatives say Vega was assassinated
by the government troops.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
LAckAWANNA GRANTS
DEMANDS OF TRAlNMEN N

Scranton, Dec. 14.--The Lacka-
wanna Railroad today announced that
the demands Of its conductors and
trainmen have been satisfactorily ad.
iusted. They are given liberal ad.
yances in wages and a ten hour day.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14
HERO OF PORT ARTHUR
THROWN EEOM HORSE

Toxic, Dec. 14.--General Nogi, the
Japanese commander who captured
Port Arthur. was thrown from his
horse today and his condition arouses
grave apprehension.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-14

New Mexican advertisers get trade
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-11-22
Against the Standard Oil
Co. Is Sought.
FIRST SHOT FIRED
In the War to be Waged by the Fed
eral Government Against the
Oil Trust and Its Officers.

st. Louis. The United States
government on Thursday made
the initial move to dissolve the Stand
ard Oil Co.'S alleged monopoly by fl
ing in the United States circuit court
a petition in equity against the Stand
ard Oil Company of New Jersey and
its 70 constituent corporations and
partnerships and seven defendants, in
cluding John ID. Rockefeller and Will
lam Rockefeller, asking that the COM
bination be declared unlawful and in
the future enjoined from entering into
any contract or combination in re-
straint of trade.
The suit is brought under the Sher-
man antitrust act, which the Standard
Oil Co. and it's constituent companies
and the seven individual defendants
are charged with violating In formal
states that criminf prosecution is re-
served for further confederation.
The governments petition in the
suit is signed by William RI. Moody,
United States attorney general; Mil
ton b. Purdy, assistant to the attorney
general; Frank B. Kellogg, Charles B.
Morrison and G. A. Severance, special
assistants to the attorney general. The
petition contains 1874 printed pages, or
about 100000 words, and an additional
"a pages of exhibits, consisting of by
laws and minutes of Standard Oil
meetings and organizations and a map
showing the retail prices of oil in
every state and territory of the Union.
The defendants are entitled tn ono
month in which to enter their appear
ance, and so days in which to file an
swer to the allegations in the petition.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-11-22

Practical educators have been busy
of late at teachers Institutes and 9th
er gatherings, and many topics of live
interest have been discussed. Among
other things athletics and secret so
cieties have been considered. 1t is
noteworthy, says the Troy Times, that
much opposition was shown on the
part of professors and other instruc
tors to secret societies, particularly
those in high schools and academies
AS regards athletics, however, there
was a surprising unanimity of opinion
that proper indulgence was an excel
lent thing ap1 tended to promote good
scholarship. Even delegates to relig
ious assemblages join in this senti'
ment. At the Baptist state convention
of Minnesota there was severe denun.
citation of secret societies of the class
mentioned, but Prof. Nathaniel Butler
of the University of Chicago vigorous
1y. defended athletics, including foot
ball, saying: Athletics are conducive
to high morals and high degree OF
scholarship" Which is merely another
way of saying that the world is made
better by an increase in the number OF
muscular, healthy and scholarly Chris
tians.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-11-22
INDICTMENTS FOR EXTORTION.
They are Returned Against the Mayor
of San Francisco and "Boss" Ruef.

San Francisco, Cal-The grand jury
on Thursday returned five indict-
ments against Mayor Eugene Schmitz
and Abraham Reuf on charges of eX-
tortion. On each charge the bail was
fixed at $4,000.
The first alleged crime was in con-
nection with the Poodle Dog restaur-
ant and the indictment recites that
Ruef and Schmitz demanded money
from the proprietor, Tony Blanco. AS
this demand was made, it is said, on
two occasions, two indictments were
returned. Extortion said to have been
practiced on Edouard Marchand, pro-
prietor of Marchand's restaurant, is
the basis Of two more indictments.
demand made upon Joseph NAL
fanti, another restaurant man, is the
alleged offense on which the fifth in
dictment was found
The indictment of Ruef was expect.
ed by the public, but they were not
prepared for immediate action against
the mayor, who is now on the Atlantic
ocean, returning from visit to Eu-
rope.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-11-22
CONVICTED OF GIVING REBATES.
Jury in a Federal Court Returns q
Verdict Against the New York
Central Railroad Co.

New York.-The New York Central
& Hudson River Railroad Co.
was convicted in the United States
circuit court Thursday of granting a
rebate of $4,000 to the American
Sugar Refining Co., and the trial of
the latter company for having accepted
that sum as rebates will begin today
in the same court. The jury was out
about two hours and Immediately up
on the announcement of it's verdict of
guilty" counsel for the defendant
company moved to set aside the ver-
dict, which Judge Holt promptly de.
MED
When court met Joseph H. Choate,
counsel for the defendant company,
moved to dismiss the indictment and
upon it's denial by Judge Holt, entered
upon a long argument for the defense
Judge Holt fixed November 20 as
the date for argument on a motion
to arrest judgment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-11-22

A London dispatch announces that
the famous ruins of the Abbey at Glas
tonbury, founded in the sixth century
are offered for sale and that bid has
been received from the United States
A great deal of American money has
been invested in foreign titles, but
should the sale be made it is believed
it will be the first instance of old
world ruins being bought simply be
cause they are ruins. Somehow it looks
like buying ancestors.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-11-22
journalism of To-Day.

The versatile Emperor of Germany
is the latest critic of modern journal
ism. He deplores especially the lack
of preparation ON the part of those
who engage in the business of molding
public opinion. To obtain recognition
in the ministry, the law, medicine, or
even dentistry, years of application re-
sulting in tangible evidence of pro-
ficiency are required. This, he thinks,
is as it should be, but in journalism, he
asserts, 4 lad of 20 may sally forth,
notebook in hand, make collection Of
baseless rumors. and forthwith pro-
duce and publish articles which may
set the world on fire. The Emperor
is not the only one who cherishes this
delusion respecting the method of
making newspapers. Even in this en-
lightened country, many otherwise
well-informed persons regard with a
species of awe the smart young man
seeking an interview. They behold In
him one who possesses mysterious
power and authority. AS matter of
fact, remarks the North American Re-
view, he is only a cleaner of wisps of
Information, which in common with
thousands of others find their way
into the winnowing machine. The man
behind, unseen by his majesty and fell
low-critics is the editor 1t is his intel
ligence and judgment, hardened in the
most severe school of mental develop
ment known to civilization, that deter.
mine what shall or shall not be given
to the public. No other profession re-
quires so perfect combination of I'M
doubted integrity, alert intellectually
and dispassionate mental balance; nor,
in this country at any rate, does any
other calling possess these qualities in
SO high degree.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-11-22
For First Voters to Consider,

A protective tariff is sharply de.
fined question in the campaign of 1906.
First voters must necessarily divide
upon it. Do they wish to protect
American wages and industries from
foreign competition, or open wide the
ports to the products of cheap foreign
labor, admitting it free from any duty
of home protective nature? Do first
voters prefer-to make the next house
Democratic and so cut off the present
administration from legislative sup
port during its last two years? These
are practical business questions for
100000 first voters who are them.
selves, for the most part, just engag-
ing in business. This year over co..
600 voters in Missouri are entitled to
take part in their first state and con.
gressional election. Yet there are
Bourbons who insist that this state is
necessarily Democratic and that an
old party label is of more consequence
seven to it's young men than a living
issue. 1t is false view, and fresh
surprises are in store for such hide
bound belittlement of political duty
and opportunity.-St Louis Globe
Democrat aa...
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-11-22
EXPORTED MANUFACTURES.
Why Wage Farmers Will Vote for Pro
lection.

1t Is curious to note the pathetic
persistence of the New England tariff
reform organs of which the Boston
Herald is chief. 1t admits that the
tariff reform issue is nowhere to be
made state issue this year in clean
cut fashion-not even in Massacnu-
setts. This evident popular disin-
clination to hear more of the subject
does not deter the esteemed Herald,
however. 1t goes on to present the
staple argument of the revisionists,
which is that we no longer need a tar
i'll because we are exporting manu-
factures. 1t cites the export figures
-$161, 100000 worth of iron and steel,
S69,000,000 worth of wood and manu-
features therefrom, $53,000,000 worth
of cotton goods, SAL 100000 of leather
and goods made therefrom, $25,000,-
600 worth of agricultural implements
Cat export prices"), $1S,000,000 worth
of cars and carriages and $16,000,000
of scientific instruments, and so on.
The Herald does not believe the
protectionist assertion that these ex-
ports represent almost entirely the
surplus product of our mills, and that
it is sold al at the prices pre-
vailing abroad merely because it
swells the output and not only assists
to reduce the cost but enables the
manufacturer to keep his mill in
steady operation, which the home
market sometimes is not broad
enough unaided to accomplish. Not
only the manufacturer, but the work
er, is the gamer. If the Herald does
not believe the manufacturers rep.
reservations on this subject, let 1t
interview tho workers-Say, for ex-
ample, in the tin mllls.
And what would the reduction of
abolition of tho tariff do? The export
trade would go the other way then
Instead of holding all our own market
and selling Europe our surplus. we
should then see Europe holding its
own market and selling us it's sur
plus. Wouldn't the American wage
Garner rather see his own products
going out than European products
coming in? We think he would. And
that's why he votes the Republican
congressional fredericksburg Press