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El independiente. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1894-19??, 1906-09-13
Susano Montana.
Testigo
LIamdda para Ia Convention Terrific.
rial RenuhIiCana.

Quartet General de la Comisi6n Gem
tral Territorial Republicana, San
ia Fe Sept. 8, 1906.
Segnn la autoridad dc la Comisi0n
Central Territorial Republican,, yo, ell
abajo firmado, presidente dc la Conf
sion Central Territorial Republicans
de Nuevo Mexico, por esta llamo una
convention que sera tenida en- la Casa
de Opera de Duncan, en- Fast Las Ve-
gas, el dia 20 de Setiembre dc 1906, con
el fin de nominar un candidate para
delegado al sexagesimo Congreso Ma
eional y para transar negoclos que Sc
presenter ante dicna convention.
Los varios condados del Territorio
estan entitulados representation en-
dicha convention como sigue:
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No SO permitiran proxies excepto
cuando dichos proxies son presentados
por RESIDENCES bona hde del condado
donde dichos delegados fueron elegi-
dos.
1 Todas las convenciones de condado
para el escogimiento de delegados dc
los varios condados son por esta re-
queridas dc ser tenidas no mas tarde
/ que 81 dia 26 de Setiembrc
Una iunta dc la Comisi6n Central
Territorial Republicana es por esta
llamada para ser tenida en- la Casa de
Opera dc Duncan, Las Vegas, q las
diez do la maiIana, ell dia ~ dc Setiem-
bre de 1906, para transar los negocios
que propiamente SO presenter ante ella.
II. o. fSURSuM, Fresidsnts.
AtestIe 20:
9, V. Stafford, Secretario,
El independiente. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1894-19??, 1906-09-13
ADI0S DfM0CRkclA. VA NOS VA
MOS

SAN MIGUEL, n. NJ, S'bre 7, 1905
Al Hon SEcUSDINo ROMERO,
Presidente de la Comisi6n Cen
trail Republican, del Condadc
do San Miguel.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
Come Back Home.

Governor Jelks invites all Alabamians
born who have wandered to other
states or other countries to come back
in Homecoming Week beginning Oc-
tober Is. He asks them to rally in
central point for the opening and chief
welcome home. Afterwards each county
is expected to welcome back its respect
i've wanderers. Come home," says
Governor Jelks In his official call. you
will find" he adds, "some old faces
that will brighten at your presence.
You will miss some other faces that
have gone to home beyond the power
of this proclamation to reach. Tears
for themi You have changed your al
legiance, but not your affections. The
sentiments of your younger years can
not be outgrown. Give them play and
come back to the friends you left by
the LAYING sea; along that middle
stretch known as the black belt; come
back to your friends of the hills. From
side to side and end to end of the
great state you will receive a welcome
which shall be as full as are our
abundant harvests, as gracious as is
our sweet climate and as rich as are
the warm impulses of our hearts,
Every citizen should send this set
ting apart of a Home Coming Week
far and wide. Let every wandering
son and daughter of Alabama be called
back. The crops are to be abundant,
and by October Is all will be ready for
holiday. Send out the call in every
mall and then there will not remain
much to do except to induce the rail
roads to cut rates to the lowest point,
and to get ready welcomes BETTING
the occasion. Home Coming Week
should be rendered memorable, and
every word and line of Governor Jelks'
eloquent call should be made good.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
NEGRO Troops In Texas.

The abolition of the army canteen
seems to have been at the root of the
disturbance in Brownsville, Tex, where
a battalion of the Twenty-ffth infantry
negroes, was stationed. In the absence
of a canteen the negro troops went to
a saloon, and from that saloon trouble
began and a racial war on small
scale was inaugurated.
The government cut the matter short
by sending the offending negro bat
TALON up the Rio fGrande about one
hundred miles to a fort which has no
saloon near it, and by replacing them
at Brownsville with company of
white troops. The entire tempest in
Brownsville has thus been allayed, set
tied and put out of sight.
There seems to be no reason why
obnoxious troops should be inflicted
upon any community in time of pro-
found peace. A little common sense in
such matters is all that is needed. If
the Texans do not want the forts along
the Rio Grande garrisoned with negro
troops, there is no reason why they
should be forced to accept them. There
are plenty of forts they could garrison
with satisfaction. and that is what the
government is preparing to do. Browns
vile wants no negro troops, and
Brownsville's wishes can be respected
without doing any injury whatever to
the army. This seems to be the policy
agreed upon, and all is quiet again on
the Rio Grande.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Register: We must lay 1t to
the hot weather and not to lack of hos
pitality that the crowds" that welcome
the visiting orators are SO small.
Gadsden Journal: The dollar eontri-
button" envelopes of Rockefeller, Rogers,
Carnegie. Friek. schwab and many others
would bring a premium If put up at aue=
ton.
Gadsden Times-News: A man named
Goodgame was arrested in Texas the
other day for running a crooked faro
game. IN his case there was certainly
nothing IN the name.
Montgomery Adevtiser: Get out your
mourning toys and prepare to feel sad.
The Jam of Navanagar is dead. We don't
know where Navanager is nor what the
Jam does, but he seems to have been
the chief figure in his bailiwick. Let
us step aside and shed few weeps.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22

= AcH of Us plays role on LIES
OO) stage and then departs. Often
times we appear in a humble
part and make our exit without applause.
At other times we become great and the
signs of a multitude follow us to the
grave. The beautiful and poetic idea of
comparing mans varied activities In life
to his portrayal of Its phases on the stage
must appeal with singular force to men
who are professional actors. Such a man
was Lewis Morrison. who appeared In
many parts but won fame in only one of
them. Although his portrayal of Mephisto
lost somewhat of its early excellence during
the later years of his life, 1t still re-
tanned much of the polish, the grace and
the charm which have made Mephistophe-
les fascinating villain. Morrison brought
out the grim humor of the character and
his satanic laugh had become years ago
one of the triumphs of histrionic mimiery.
Last year in Birmingham, during his tour.
as elsewhere. Lewis Morrison made a
curtain speech In his happiest vein. little
dreaming. perhaps, that his lightly spoken
words of farewell were really the last
He was brave soldier and a good actor.
In recalling the tragedian one is reminded
of that pun in which he took a keen de-
light-he played the devil a long time
but he played 1t well.
WHEN THE CAMPAIGN DAYS ARE
OVER.
On the hastings. day by day,
Candidates are heard to say
What they want to do to help the peo-
pies cause.
They VIII right an hundred wrongs,
Each Observation-Disclosures
For a chance to make a decent set of
laws.
Every candidate has said
That his henchmen shall be paid
For the noble work they do to help him
win,
But on looking to the past
We are tempted much to ask
Don't you think the chances are trife
thin?
When the campaign days are over, candi-
dates,
And you have the job you tried SO hard
to get
VIII you keep the words you said2
If you don't no tears we'll shed,
For candidate has never done 1t yet.
A newspaper writer defends boards be-
cause, he claims. they give to some men
an appearance of manliness. If man
can't be manly without beard he ought
to get into petticoats A beard doesn't
make the man any more than clothes do.
Literary lights are snuffed out every
day. Editors do the snuffing with print
ed slip.
The bounce that Valparaiso got was
San Franciscan.
1T is never too late to mend"-but most
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
Go 10 the Court House.

A registration of 237 voters on the
first week day of the present week in
this county is encouraging. Let the
good work go on straight through to
Saturday night, for the books of the
registrars will remain open at the
court house until Saturday night next.
August rs. No one can vote on Au-
gust 27, the day of the state and county
primary, who is not registered.
There are at least two or three
thousand persons in this county who
are not registered and yet who are en-
titled to registration. A trip to the
court house will make mere citizen
a fully qualified elector, an American
sovereign equipped for the exercise of
his great privileges. No American
should rest content under disqualified
tions that rob him of his electoral
rights. Go to the court house today
and secure registration.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
HAS 1.ooo,ooo-AcRE ESTATE.

From Harpers Weekly.
BY the recent acquisition of a tract of
10000 acres Santa Gertrudes Ranch, in
southwest Texas, already reputed to be
the largest estate In the world owned by
a private Individual was increased to
the immense proportions of 1000 square
miles or /, $4,000 acres. AS an aid to the
comprehension of these dimensions some
comparisons may be found useful The
area of Rhode Island, exclusive of the
waters of Narragansett Bay, comprises
673 800 acres, or Just trihe more than
one-half the area of the Santa Gertrudes
ranch. The area of Delaware, exclusive
of water. is 1.254,OOO acres, or $500 acres
smaller than Santa Gertrudes. Texas con-
stitutes one eleventh of the area of the
United States; yet If the Lone Star state
were to be cut up into raches the size
of Santa Gertrudes there would only be
land enough to make 1872.
Santa Gertrudes ranch was founded in
1858 by Captain Richard King, a former
Mississippi river pilot, who, with his
friend. Capt Miffln Kennedy, had charge
of the transport service on the Rio
Grande which supplied General Taylor's
army during the Mexican war. Captain
Kings ambition was to possess the largest
and best conducted ranch in Texas; but
he died twenty years ago, after accumult-
ing 100000 acres. The property was left
to his widow, Mrs. II. NJ King. who
turned the entire management over to
her son-in-law. R. ]. Kleberg. a lawyer
who was born and brought up within $50
miles of the ranch. Under Mr.. Kleberg' S
management the acreage has been In
creased more than so per cent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
Vicious Headlines.

IT have never approved of sensational
headlines said Henry Bawmenn of Chi
cago, who has been visiting relatives in
Birmingham. And when 1t comes to
vicious headlines, likely to do serious in
jury to a community, there is certainty
no excuse for the paper that permits
such practice.
ION a train I picked up a Chattanooga
paper and read this heading in big black
type over a Birmingham story about a
deputy sheriff shot to death while raiding
a negro crap game;
ham District Full of Disorder-Officer
Killed While in Discharge of Duty
In smaller letters lower down in the
head was the only sentence that Indicated
the nature of the trouble-Tragedy in
Mining Camp Results from Attempt to
Break Up Crap Game. Negroes Show
Fight
THE Birmingham district may be cursed
with the homicide habit but there is no
state of disorder here such as the start
ling headlines suggested. l cannot con-
ceive why the telegraph editor of Chat
tanooga paper wanted to perpetrate this
thing when he must have known 1t was
calculated to injure a neighboring city.
If it had been in one of the yellow jour-
nails of New York, would not have been
surprised, but 1 was amazed to see 1t in
the SOUTH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
No Cause for Alarm.

while there seems to be no cause for
alarm whatever among the neighboring
states because of the existence of yell
low fever In Louisiana, owing to the fact
that conditions there are more sanitary
than ever before" said q man, "stll 1t
must be remembered that nearly three
months must elapse before frost falls in
the southern parts of the Gulf states.
About November % is the average frost
date for New Orleans. However, even if
the fever were to appear right In the
city with the elaborate system of screen
ing, and the general war on the mos
quito, which, according to science, has
a monopoly as a public carrier of yellow
fever germs, 1t is safe to say that it
would be confined to a few sporadic
cases.
ut is hardly possible that there can
ever be another epidemic in New Orleans.
And with the available 100000 voted by
the last Congress to be expended at the
direction of the marine hospital service,
such condition as existed last year is in
conceivable even in the poorest parishes"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
President Roosevelt a Partisan.

President Roosevelt never hesitates
before precedent. He prefers violation
of precedents to obedience, and his let
ter to Congressman Watson of Indiana
shows that he has decided to pull for
republicanism in the pending congress
sional campaign. He asks for con-
tinuance of Cannon Congress because
1t would promote canal digging and
lead to the ratification of the San Do
mingo treaty; because we need big
navy to enforce the Monroe doctrine;
because corporate greed should be re-
strained. He names a number of meas
ures that have become laws, and he
aims to carry the impression that their
passage was due to Speaker Cannon
and the republicans. when as matter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22

From the Chicago Record Herald.
The man who had made $15,000,00O in
few years looked downcast
whats the matter?" his friend asked
,'Why are you unhappy? You ought to
be thoroughly satisfied You have made
a splendid fortune, you are still In the
prime of life, and the workmen have
lust put the finishing touches on your
fine palace What more do you WANT
THAT'S Just IT." the disconsolate one
replied. Instead of moving into my pal
ace now and enjoying life I've got to
spend five or six years hunting through
European junk shops for dngy pictures
with which to decorate the walls
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
DoG-DAY MADNESS.
Horses and Sons of Poor Old John
Smith of Georgia.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Poor old John Smith. a Georgia farm
err, died, as all men do sooner or later,
and left as personal property seventeen
horses and three sons His will. when
read by the lawyer, provided that John,
Jr, his eldest son, should have one-half
of the seventeenth horses to hold and
keep forever that Bill, the second son,
should possess one-third of them, and
Jim, the boy should have one-ninth of
the seventeen horses. The day after the
funeral of the old man the seventeen
horses were in thelot and the three sons
were quarreling over the division under the
terms of papa's will. one-half of seventeen
horses would be eight and half horses,
and as they were valuable animals it
would be pity to cut the roam in halves.
Deacon Jones, riding down the pike on
his old gray mare, heard the dispute and
stopped to think. After some good Chris
tlan thought he turned his old gray mare
into the lot with the seventeen horses.
He then led out nine horses and gave
them to John as half of the lot, half
horse more than the will gave to the
favorite son. The deacon then led forth
six horses and gave them to Bill, at
which Bill was joyful, as he had one
third of eighteen horses, instead of one
third of seventeen carved animals.
Jim, the boy son, was not neglected.
The deacon led forth two horses, one
ninth of eighteen, and handed the brides
to Jim. Then good old Deacon Jones
mounted his gray mare and rode on to his
home. Each of the three sons had re-
oeived a fraction more of a horse than
the fathers will bequeathed to him, and
vet only seventeen horses We're divided.
Let the wise Bunch" take eighteen chips
(potato or poker or an equal number of
beans or matches and they can physically
demonstrate this problem. Then let them
try TO explain 1t by the simple rule Of
three. by algebra, geometry, trigonom-
etry or any other old mathematics.
When the wise Bunch" have solved
this problem and want to amuse thei-
children until the kids will fall asleep
laughing, let them take a small stick
n match win do-make a hole in it and in
the hole insert another stick or match
in perpendicular position, then take
string and cross 1t around and underneath
the horizontal stick, cross the string again
on the upper side of the horizontal stick,
behind the upright one, then another cross
of the string above the horizontal and to
the front of the perpendicular stick; then
a fourth cross of the string underneath
the horizontal stick and bring the two
ends together above the horizontal bar.
Bv this time the string has been crossed
four times, twice around the horizontal
stick. Now remove the perpendicular
stick and the string will fall off the other
as II 1t had never been crossed-if-mind
the if-you have crossed the string in
certain way. This is no joke. II will work
inst as explained. Try 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
Dodqing Debt Collections.

At the Buenos Aryes banquet Secre-
tary Root said the United States had
never employed and never would en-
ploy her army or navy for the collec-
ton of debts contracted by govern
ments or private individuals. He did
not say that the United States would
not employ arbitration, mediation and
diplomacy for that purpose. This coun-
try is mediating in San Domingo, and
the reference of the Venezuela troubles
to The Hague tribunal was largely due
to our diplomatic efforts, and our
threats against the collection of debts
due from citizens by force.
No one seems to know Just why
the Pan-American conference at Rio
Janeiro is lodging the Drago doc
trine, but 1t is plain that con-
certed action upon 1t is impossible.
Possibly this is SO because an an
nouncement and general enforcement
of the doctrine would very nearly abol-
ish all lending to the South Americans,
and they are loath to cut off the golden
stream.
Be the reason what it may, it seems
to be understood that no action pledg-
ing all the southern republics to a sup
port of the Drago doctrine will be
adopted by the conference now sitting
at Rio. Each republic will probably
be left free to invite The Hague tri-
bunal to incorporate the Drago doctrine
into international law.
his is just what The Hague tribunal
will not do, nor will the next congress
sitting at The Hague take such action.
For that matter the Monroe doctrine
itself cannot be said to be a part of in
ternational law. 1t Is respected be-
<cause 1t has force enough behind 1t to
command respect. When the Monroe
doctrine becomes a recognized part of
international law, then 1t will be III
order to bring forward the doctrine
which forbids the collection by force
of debts created by the government or
citizens of an American republic.
The committee In the Pan-American
conference which had charge of the
Drago doctrine has already reported
In favor of submitting the question to
each state to be acted on independ-
entity, and this simply means that the
doctrine of Senior Drago of Argentina
is far from the point of general adop-
ton in the southern republics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
Crop Prospects.

North Alabama's crop prospects are
the finest in many years." said a gem
t1eman at the Morris hotel last night.
II have just returned from a buggy
trip through cullman and B1ount counties
and must say that never saw finer pros
poets for both corn and cotton. There
is some complaint It is true. of too large
cotton stalk, with a scarcity of fruit in
proportion, but bolls are still forming and
with reasonably good seasons for the next
two weeks the crop will be large.
Corn is exceptionally fine except In very
low lands where excessive rains have done
a little damage. The ear is large and we'll
developed. The acreage IN corn Is greater
than last year.
1.-THE farmers throughout North Ala
bama are in a prosperous condition and
are giving but little attention to politics
or other distraeting matters
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
large Bryan Delegation.

John l. Parker, chairman of the Ala
bama Bryan committee, reports that he
is still receiving applications for seats
for the Bryan reception to be given at
the Madison Square Garden. New York,
on the night of August 30. Many of these
letters are coming from Alabamans now
residing In New York, who wish to take
their places at the banquet alongside of
the delegation from their native state.
Chairman Parker says that in all there
will be about 300 Alabamians In line for
the occasion. The delegates are expected
to meet at the Hoffman House on the
morning of the 10Th. Something like fifty
Bryanites Will go from Birmingham.