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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-03-02
Puerto Pickings
correspondence

One more week of fair weather,
and still the immigrants come from
the four corners of Texas and Okla
homa.
Everybody is busy blowing, fenc-
ing and building, setting out trees,
etc.
Joe Doran was in this neck of
the woods looking for fat cattle to
butcher.
M. w. Bates sold some fat range
cows to Charlie Mitchell, and they
were fat too.
Say, editor, | am sending you a
clipping from the Furrow, which if
you will publish, you Tucumcari
fellows will maybe think a little
more of the farmers when they
come to town, even if their clothes
are a little ragged and worn and
one suspender is in evidence. From
the figures in this will draw the idea
that the nestor cuts some ice in
this worlds wealth. The clipping
follows:
To the Nations production the
farmers of the United States this
year contribute six billion dollars.
We hear much of the Standard Oil
Company and its wealth, but our
annual export-not production,
but exports-of cotton alone has a
value four times as great as all the
petroleum produced in the United
States in a year. From the attention
given disturbances in coal mining
one might consider that coal is a
very important production of this
country. But year after year the
farm products of the United
States have on the farm a value
more than thirteen times the value
at the mine of all the coal dug in
the United States. We have be-
come the greatest pig iron produc-
ing CO lntry in the world. Yet each
year the grain of one crop-corn-
has a value five times greater than
all the pig iron produced in this
country. Why, the corn grown
each year by the farmers of Illinois
alone has a value about equal to
our entire production of pig iron.
Every time our miners dig a dollar
from our gold mines, farmers dig
$40 from the ground; and every
time our miners dig a dollar of
silver from our mines, we dig $I65
from the ground. The farm pro-
ducts Of the United States have a
value more than twelve times great
Ell than all the gold and silver
mined in all the world. With their
products of one year only the far
mers of this country could buy at
par all the stocks of all the nation
al banks of the entir. country, not
once, or twice, but eight times
over, and they could pay all the
wages and salaries in our great iron
and steel industry thirty-four times
and have money left. During the
past sixteen years our exports of all
articles have exceeded our imports
by $1,000 ,ooo.o 90. The farmer is
responsible for our enormous ia
vorable BALANCED in information trade,
In all the world no other class in
any country produces as much
wealth as the farmers of the United
CSkotac -
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-03-02

FOR SALE-The Skating Rink
on easy terms. See w. J. Hittson.
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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-03-02

Patterson & Donohoo at the
Court house get reports every week
from the land office. I7tf
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-03-02

If you want your land business
attended to promptly see Patter-
son & ponohoo at the Court House.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
LABORNGOODHUMOR
RELATIONS IN CHICAGO ARE VERY
 HARMONIOUS.
Mn Troubles on May Day Are Expected and There is Not a Cloud on
 the Industrial
 Horizon.

Chicago, April 2S.-The relations oe- tween employer and employees were never so harmonious in Chicago as now. In the past, on May 1. there has always been some sort of struggle go- ing on between the labor unions and inc employers in Chicago. but this year there is scarcely cloud on the industrial horizon.
 Every union In the building industry, with the exception of the structural iron workers has renewed contracts with employers and the iron workers expect to reach a settlement without strike. Machinists have demanded an increase of 25 cents a day in wages, but the indications are that there Will practically be no trouble in putting the new schedule into effect.
 Agreements covering all the wood workers mills and factories have been entered into, so that there will be no trouble in that line of industry, while the brick makers are now holding con- ferences with their employers and will undoubtedly reach a settlement before next week Most of the unions of teamsters are working under agree ments and little trouble is expected in that direction The railroads which recently granted wage increases to the men in the train service are now doing the same in their mechanical depart ments.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
PLAN A CUBAN ARMY
DIFFICULTY WILL HE TO SECURE
 OFFICERS.
If Arrangement is Agreed Upon, Mil itary School Will Re Indispens~
 able To the Island
 HepubIfe

Havana, Cuba, April 2s--Tl.e plan of Cuban standing army of 12.0o0 men as suggested by the general stan of the American army. is most attractive to that clemens of the Cuban people which is fond of the gold lace a:.d regalia oe Spanish armies. But among the conservative elements the plan ex- cites really less>interest than the pre- ceding one, to recruit the rural guard up to 12.000 men.
 The latter plan was vigorously oppos- ed even by the Liberals. who, 1t was supposed. would have jumped at the op- portunity opened by such lavish dis tribution of patronage, and while the standing army scheme evidently has been framed to meot thoir objections. the apparent impossibiiity of this &C., complishment has caused it to be re- ceived with some thing very like de- rision.
 Governor MagCon. who has not yet been advised of any intention of the War Department to adopt the elabo- rate program of the general stan. does not believe 1t possible to recruit in the island of Cuba 12000 soldiers, who shall come up to the standard of the United States army. This view is fully shared by Cubans experienced fin mili- tary affairs. who point out that the United states tOday mas mucn ulHicuity in securing recruits for its relatively small establishment of 60,000 men that 1t cannot keep the ranks of the army of paciflcation even reasonably full. How then. they say. cans Cuba be ex- pected to raise a force of 12,000 men, which, in proportion to population would be equivalent to moro than 50O,- 900 soldiers in the United States? Where. it is asked. are to be found the officers to command this force? While 1t is true 1t is richer in colonels than Kentucky and rivals Hayti in the mat ter of generals. few of these warriors have any knowledge of military tactics other than those of the bush.
 To insure a supply of trained off, cers, a military academy is iudispensa- ble, they say. This is in line with a recent proposition. strongly urged upon Governor Magoon by General Estenoz. a prominent Liberal. that at least two schools should be established to form the nucleus of a Cuban Annapolis
 Still more serious objections to the scheme that it imposes upon the repub- lie the double burden of a huge mill tary establishment which will absorb at least one-third Of the revenues and diminution of the already thin ranks of labor by just So many men as are called to bear arms.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
CRISIS IS EXPECTED
RIOTS MAY OCCUR IN TEXAS OH,
 FIELDS.
Company Declares That it VIII NeveR Recognize the Union and the Military May Be
 Needed.

Beaumont, Texas. April 2s-Late re- ports from the Batson, Saratoga and Spindle Top oil fields. where a strike of the employees of the Guffey Com pany is on are to the effect that a crisis may be expected tomorrow, when the operators declare that large num- Der of men will be put to work in the place of the strikers
 One of the officers of the Guffey Com pany states that any of the strikers who desire to return to the employ of the company will be given work. but that recognition of the union is out of the question. He also states that no effort at arbitration will be made. as from the viewpoint of the operators there is nothing to arbI- trate, and that henceforth the fields controlled by his company will be run on the "open shop" plan.
 Many of the peaceably inclined are leaving the fields as they anticipate much trouble when the effort is made to replace the strikers tomorrow. A large number of special deputies have been sworn in by the Sheriff and 1t is reported that the operators have been guaranteed military protection if 1t becomes necessary.
 The union men still declare their in- tention of using, every effort to pre- vent the introduction of strike break CTS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR.
Bureau Shows 1t Exceeds That of Any
 Previous Year.

Washington, April 2S.-The consump- tion of sugar in the United States In the fiscal year, which ends with the month of June, probably exceeds that of any year in the history of the coun- try, according to a statement issued by the Bureau of Statistics of the De- partment of Commerce and Labor to- day.
 The total quantity of sugar imported in the nine months ending with March last was 1882, 100000 pounds in round figures, while the quantity brought in during the first nine months of the high record year. 1903. was 3.606.0 .000,- 900. It is estimated that the produc- ton of sugar in this country in 1906 was l,SO4.O00,000 pounds, which ex- ceeds by 14.000,000 pounds the figures of the former high record year 1905.
 Home production now supplies a lit- tie over one fifth of the sugar consum- ed In this country. and our island pos sessions-Porto Rico. Hawaii and the Philippines-supply practically another one fifth, so that the United States is dependent upon foreign countries for about three -fifths of its sugar consump- ton, aggregating over 5000, 900 ,000 pounds annually or an average of about seventy-six bounds per annum for each individual
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
TROUBLE FOR BORAH
POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS IN FAn
 WEST.
Labor Leaders Are Taking Great Ens tereHf in Prosecution of Idaho Senator and Other Republi-
 can Politicians.

Washington. April Special )-- From what can be learned here of the political and other situations in the far West serious complications have arisen for quite a number of the Re- publicans.
 The man who seems to be in tha greatest trouble Is Senator Borah of Idaho, who succeeded Democratic Sen- ator Fred T. Dubois on the 4th of last month. The ordering of District Att torney Ruick of Idaho to Washington to have a conference with the Presi- dent and the Attorney General has greatly excited the leading labor men. Senator Borah 1t is well known, is un-. der indictment in connection with al- legged timber fraud cases in the West. He claims that he is being politically persecuted, and has been doing his ut most to have the prosecution either called off or mollfhed, for he claims that Ruick and others in Idaho are his personal and political enemies and ara trying to ruin him
 The claim is made here that Mr.. Ruick was ordered to come to Wash ington long before this trouble com- menced but some of the labor advo- cates in Washington laugh at the story. They assert positively that MT. Ruick was sent for in order that something might be done to ease up On Borah. The latter they declare. trains with the wing of the Republican party of Idaho and surrounding states favor- able to the Roosevelt policy, and es- pecially with reference to swinging delegates for Secretary Taft.
 Many of these labor lights profess to see the President himself as loom ing up for another nomination, and they talk as if they believed seere- tary Taft has merely been brought forward as a stalking horse" in the interest of the President.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
QUEEN AT BANQUET.
Gorgeous Perambnfafer Rouxht Yrae Spanish Rnhe.

Spanish Babe.
 Madrid. April 2s-Queen Victoria went driving this morniL and this evening attended banquet at the pal ace fin honor of Cardinal Aguirre Gar cia. Bishop of Burtgos. upon whose head King Alfonso today placed the red hat.
 The King never leaves the side of the Queen now. He has abandoned all oe his usSual automobile excursions, The Dowager Queen, Maria Christina and the Princesses. are busily engaged In making additions to the 1ayette for the expected royal babe The royal per- ambulator, a gorgeous spc cimen, arriv- ed at the palace Saturday.
 The Queen is going about almost as busily as at any time since her wed- ding. Her favorlte amusement recent ly has been in visiting the circus en- tertainment. She has been there three times within the past fortnight.
 It has been settled that after the birth of the Queens child. the royal family will go to the Graija palace, where the King and Queen spent their honeymoon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
COMMERCIAL CLUB OFFERS
 Sl,OOO AS EXTRA REWARD

adopted, with the increase of upwards of $S,000,000 made in the appropria- tion of congress, will Involve an agJ gregate expenditure for rural servtc during the next fiscal year of near &35, 00,000, stf...
 The schedule follows: Routes ot or more miles, $s00 per annum; to 24 miles,, $s64; 20 to 22 miles, $s10. ls to 20 miles. s75o; 16 to IS miles, soso' IA 10 16 miles, $540; 12 to 14 miles, $5o4; 10 to 12 miles. $46S; to ID miles. S432: six to eight miles, $396.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
NEWS OF THIS WEEK
SECRETARY TAFT MAY ANNOUNCE
 HIS CANDIDACY.
Controyersy over Rulership of zion City fs Expected to Be settled 4-Cigar Manufacturers VIII
 Close Factories.

Washington, April 28.-Poiiticai an- terests this week centers in the possf- bility of a definite announcement of his candidacy for the Republican nomina- ton for the Presidency on the part or Secretary of War Taft.
 On Monday he is to address the Bus mess Mems Club at Cincinnati, but ifs view of the fact that he seems to have tabooed politics in his public utter ances since going to Ohio. 1t Is consia- cred doubtful whether he has anything to say in definition of his position at this meeting. Before he leaves for the West, he is expected to confer with some of his Ohio political friends and some positive action may result
 About 1000 delegates are expected to attend the convention of the lnterna- tional Kindergarten Union, which will be held in New York beginning on Monday and continuing TOUT days.
 A novel test to determine how to ex- pend the $3,0oo.0oo appropriated by Congress for purchasing submarine boats for use in the navy will be com menced off Newport on Tuesday. The Holland boat Octopus and the Simon Lake, both will take part in the con test, which Is intended to determine which is the more available type for the navy. Tests for speed, quickness at diving dHQ dpiAity ho ut'S eSSRAJ will be made.
 The question as to who will rule Zion City, built under the direction of the late John Alexander Dowie. is ex- pected to come to an issue on Wednes- day, as Wilbur Glenn Voliva has issued an uItimatum declaring that unless the people accept him as their head by May 1, he will take radical action to assert his control
 The independent cigar manufactur- CTS in Havana have decided to close their factories April 29 in sympathy with the strikers of the tobacco com bine and as a result 5000 cigar makers will be out of employment. The com bine's employees struck two months ago to compel the payment of wages in American instead of Spanish money.
 The International Maritime Exposi- tion, organized by the French Naval League will open at Bordeaux May and continue until October 81. The exposition is to commemorate the cen tennial anniversary of the invention of steam navigation by Robert Fulton. The United States, Great Britain, Rus sia, Italy, Japan. Belgium. Mexico and France have sent exhibits and in some cases warships.
 over 300 of the Vienna Mannessang Verin members. accompanied by their conductors, Kremsor and Heuberger, are due to arrive at New York May 4, on board the German steamer Oceana, from Genoa. Concerts will be given in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo and Milwaukee.
 Elections for members of the Spanish Senate will be held May 5.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
TRAIN SHOT
 OVER TRESTLE Fell Into Stream and
 Two Are Killed. WRECK ON THE WABASH One Hundred Passengers Had
 Thrilling Escape. New Schedule, which Had Just Gone Into Effect No Donbt sav.d the
 Lives of Many
WRECK ON THE WABASH

Pittsburg. April 2s.-Two men were killed and 100 passengers had a thriIl- ing escape on the Wabash RaiIroa Id today when the engine and one pas- senger coach on westbound train No. 27 left the tracks near the Bridgeville station and plunged into Chartier's' Creek. forty feet below.
 The dead:
 Marion Boyd. engineer. Rock Station. Frank McIsaacs. fireman, Barberton. Ohio.
 The train was crossing over Char tiers Creek. when without warning the engine suddenly leaped from the rails and shot into the stream underneath. taking the first coach with 1t. The coach was smashed Into splinters. There were, as 1t happened, no pas- sengers in the front coach. The coup- ling between it and the second coach was broken when the engine left the rails.
 None of those in the three remains ing coaches knew of the accident or realized how close they had como to death until several minutes afterward. when the cars. deprived of motive pow ep slackened their speed and stopped.
 new schedule went into effect on the road today and to this fact many owe their lives. Under this schedule train No. 2T left here forty-five min- utes earlier and over fifty persons miss- ed the train for this reason. On aa- count of the reduced number of pas. sengers all were placed in the three rear coaches.
 Boyd and McIsaacs were crushed to death.
 The cause of the accident ia A rnva- tery and the railroad officials will give out no statement until an investira- ton has been made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
RATTLE oF FLOWERS.

Annual Spectacular Event in City of
 LIexico. I
 City of Mexico. April 2S-The most spectacular battle of flowers and flower parade ever witnessed in Mexico City. took place today. The celebration Is an annual event.
 From II a. m., to 1 p. rn.. parade of flower bedecked carriages. automobiles and bicycles passed down San Francis co Street in review before President D., members of the diple iatic corps, and other prominent invited guests In and around the Alameda.
 In the afternoon the flower parade and battle of flowers took up its march through the main streets of the city. which were ag1ow, with national colors and brilliant illuminations.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
STATUE or MCCLELLAN.
Roosevelt Will Speak When It is Un-
 yelled

Washington. April 2s.-The most in teresting feature of the thirty seventh annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac this week will be the unveiIing on May of the heroic bronze equestrian statue of General George E. Mcclellan, organizer and first commander of the Army of the Potomac.
 President Roosevelt Is to make the principal address and speeches also will be made by Generals SickeIs, Howard and Dodge. About 5000 troops, regu- lars and militia. will participate in the ceremonies.
 The reunion Is to begin on May and will continue four days. On May 8, the veterans are to be received by the President.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
A QUIET MAY DAY.
No Labor Troubles are Expected fin
 Pittsburg.

Pittsburg. April 2S.-May Day here is expected to pass off with fewer la bor disputes than in previous years.
 Heretofore, it Is said, difficulty has been experienced between the work men and building trades but this year scales have been signed and the men are apparently satisfied with the ex- ception of the machinists demands. 1t is believed. all the wage scales will amicably be adjusted.
 The machinists are striking for an increase of wages and shorter hours. At two foundries. the men are now out and the trouble may become general unless the union scale Is agreed to by May 1.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
Fridge Falls Into stream.

Richmond, April 2s.--A Bedford City. Va, special says about one hum dred feet of the arch of the new con- crete bridge over Little Otter river at Lowery river, gave way yesterday and fell in the stream below, carrying with 1t many hundred tons of earth and completely damming the stream. The loss Is variously estimated at from a quarter to a half million dollars, be- sides the delay in completing the road.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
wATCHMAN IS MURDERED.
Body of John Grnntham Found at
 COaat Line shops.

Waycross Ga. April 2S-According to the verdict of the coroners jury. John Grantham S5 years old. was murdered by unknown parties at the new Allan tic Coast Line shops here early today. The body of the dead man was found by his little son at noon today.
 The body was about evenly feet from the building in which Grantham'S pistoI was found with one chamber empty. The dead man was watchman At the shops and 1t was first thought he had accidentally killed himself.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
Castro May Retire.

New York. April 2S-The Tribune to. morrow will say:
 President Cipriano Castro of Venez- uela, according to information receiv- ed in this city yesterday from two in- dependent sources, will retire from of- fee on May 22. Although this date might suggest here some other cause LOT his retirement the reason Is his continued i1l-health. He will seek re. cuperation in Switzerland. First Vice President Gomez will succeed himG
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
Conditions fin St. Louis.

St. Louis, Mo. April 2s,-Employers and labor leaders of St. Louis and the Southwest report labor conditions bet ter for May 1 this year than for many years past.
 Practically all wage scales In St. Louis and the surrounding territory for 200 miles are signed. In St. Lnuia
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
Cardinal Leaves For Home.

] New Orleans. April 2s.-Cardinal Gibbons, who came to this city at the direction of Pope Plus x to bestow the pallium upon Archbishop Blenk or New Orleans last Wednesday. left to- night for his home in Baltimore. As is his custom on his visits to New or leans, the cardinal this morning oi- ficiated at a high mass In St. Johns church.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
PAY OF RURAL CARRIERS.
Postmaster General Approves the N
 SaaTa

Washington. D. C., April 2s.-Post- master General Meyer has approved the detailed adjustment of salaries of rural free delivery carriers as sub mitted by Assistant Postmaster Gen. eraI De Graw.
 The new schedule, which will be- come effective July l. will make a gra- ded increase in the compensation of carriers of from nine to twenty five per cent. based upon the number of miles travarsed. The readjustment
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
Ear,bouaIke shock. ,n I,.Ix,

Naples. April 2S.-Frequent slight shocks of earthquake were felt in Ca labria today. The population of South ern Italy especially in Calabria is fear full lest there be a repetition of earth quake disaster pt 1905.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
No Difference. fin PhiIadeIuhia.

Philadelphia, April 2s.-May Day, according to present indications, will pass in this city with little friction be- tween workmen and employers. With few exceptions the agreements under which the union men are working are acceptable.
 At 9 meeting of the Central Labor Union today it was said there would be few labor troubles. The small unions in the building trades have se- cured all the concessions asked for. and the carpenters and painters have but slight differences.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29

alone this includes 120.000 union men.
 The unions allied with the building trades council here are all signed for the year, with the exception of a very few men employed in small shops. There are about 10000 men in these unions. Other branches of trade show 8 similarly good condition.
 The brewery workers. who were on strike few months ago. are now signed, as are also the. other trades. Employers and labor leaders say there will be nothing this year in local cir- cles to hinder great building activity.