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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-08-24

l.. ID. Thomas was kicked by a
horse Thursday. His leg is bro
ken below the knee.
J. r. Daughtry bought Thurs
day the corner at Center and Sec
ond from Mrs. Neis for $500.
At a stock farm sale in Missouri
one hog sold tor S5,I25. There's
good money in that kind of hogs.
Excavations have begun on the
Hancock building on Main street
opposite the M. b. Goldenberg
Company.
A. II. Carter has sold his proper
ty on the corner Of Second and
Jackson streets to William kuhl-
man for a consideration of SI2, 900.
w. F. kelsay treated the editor
of the News to a very fine water.
melon this week. He has splen-
did crops and will derive consider
able revenue from his watermelons
Walter Evans, brother of Geo.
Evans, president and manager of
the Evans Realty Company is here
visiting him. He came from
Richmond, Ky.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-08-24

1t has rained all the way from
RI Paso to Kansas City tins week
and northeast New Mexico is wet
ter than for several years. This
is now the most prosperous sec.
ton of New Mexico and the immi-
grafton to Quay county this fall
will be greater than ever before.
The News claims some of the
responsibility tor this. We have
been advertising the resources of
the county Tor nearly two years
and the results show for them
selves,
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-08-24

part OF this week on business.
Mrs. J. w. Campbell who has
been very sick for several weeks,
is reported improving.
There is a baby girl at the home
OF Donald Stewart. The stork APP
peared there Thursday morning.
Miss Bell Van Horn left Tues
day for Dawson where she will
spend some time with her parents.
J. ]. Pace, president of the city
council, went to Duran Thursday
morning to take a look at the new
town.
Chas. Beal has received supplies
Tor his butcher shop and market
and will be ready for business in a
few days.
Mrs. Earl George returned
Monday from Colorado Springs,
where she has been visiting her
brother Tor the past few weeks.
l. V. Gallegos and wife OF Las
Vegas, have been here for several
days visiting their son, Hon. n.
V. Gallegos, and family.
Al Highfl has SEN for his fam
lily at Captain, Lincoln county,
and is has %tening the completion OF
a residence for their reception.
l.. +. Sherwood and wife return
ed few days ago from a trip to
Southwest Texas. Mr.. Sherwood
interested Texas people in Tucum-
carl and sold five acres of the
Cooper tract.
+. M. Salyers has a fine field OF
water melons ripening and is this
| week bringing them to market.
His crops are generally good. He
lives northeast Of town two miles.
A learned professor says that in
a few centuries women will be
wearing whiskers. This will nc
doubt be a pleasing revelation
10 women who already wear the
pants.-Yuma Sentinel.
Herman Gerhardt has sold the
Blankenship property to a lumber
man OF Granite, Okla, for a con
sideration Of SIo,5oo.oo. ID. A.
Belmore is the purchaser. Six
lots are included in the deal.
G. G.. Davidson made an effort
to get to the Pecos Valley Thurs.
day morning via OF Torrance, but
the auto line was compelled to
abandon the trip on account of be-
ing rained out OF commission.
Architects are making plans for
the erection Of a two story build
ing for DIR. Herring on the lot Join
ing the Gerhardt buildings and
south OF the First National Bank.
The building will be constructed OF
cement blocks and will be 5ox85
feet.
We had another soaking rain
Thursday night and we are pleased
to record that the measure is near
ly three inches this week. Crops
of all kinds that had not already
suffered from drouth will mature
in the next two or three weeks.
Quay county can now have a fair
that will be an eyeopener to her
citizenship,
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-21
Editorial Notes.

One of the bedizened diplomats who repre-
sents a South American state at Washington
volunteers the information that the Ship Sub
sidy steal should have gone through Said
diplomat thinks it pity that Great Britain
should be allowed to beat us in getting South
American trade. This being So the said
diplomats duty is clear: let him persuade the
Ship Subsidy gang to change the law so as
to give the American citizen the same right
which the Englishman enjoys, to-wit, That
of buying ships where they can be bought
cheapest. That's simple plan, a practical
plan, just plan which hurts nobody and
which would Immediately put the American
flag back upon the ocean.
Another way to put the American flag back
upon the seas, and thus fill the soul of Bob
Lowry and other Bankers Association mo-
guls with bliss, is equally simple, viz, put
ship-building materials upon the Free List.
Would that hurt anybody? Not soul.
Then why not do it?
Because a gang of thieves want to raid the
United States Treasury in the interest of
transportation companies.
That is all.
Put that into your pipe and smoke it, Bob
Lowry-you who were busy handing out
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-21

demand thatfall other classes be taxed for it's
benefits nGsraf tri..s5es
Right NOW the agricultural classes are the
principal sufferers from our unjust and op-
pressiyet practice of granting Special Privil-
eyes to favored industries. The hundreds of
manufactured articles which the farmer is
necessarily compelled to buy cost him twice
as much as they should because of the fact
that Special Privilege created monopoly
and the monopoly gave birth to the Trust.
Systematically and numerically, the agri-
cultural classes are plundered by the pam
pered few who enjoy the Special Privilege
of governmental protection
1t can not relieve the situation to add an
other horse leech to those which are already
sucking the life-blood out of the unprotected
many.
The South can not escape the ruinous con-
sequences of class law exploitation by getting
protection" on rice and Sea Island cotton.
Let us not condone the crime of robbing
the many to enrich the few by accepting a
pitiful share in the spoils.
Let us stand for the principle Of Equal
rights for all and special privileges for none
When the Farmers Alliance met at Oca1a,
Florida, in 1880, it declared for the sound and
just doctrine that mo industry should be
built up at the expense of another" :"
A special price can not be given in the
American market to the growers of Sea Is
land cotton without compelling the American
consumer. to pay that special price.
Therefore, the long and the short of Mr.
Lamars proposition is that all of us are to be
compelled by law to pay higher price for
Sea Island cotton and for the goods made
therefrom, in order that the few who raise
that grade OF cotton may enjoy the higher
prices thus obtained
Class Legislation of this sort is exactly the
enemy which the agricultural industries
should fight to the death.
What the farmers should demand is not
a partnership in the looting of the many by
the few, but doing away with those Special
Privileges which enable the favored few to
appropriate to themselves the wealth pro-
duced by the unprivileged many.
1t is short-sighted craftsmanship which
would commit the cotton growers to a Pro-
tective System which always has taken and
always will take from the agricultural classes
ten thousand times more than it gives.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-21
your little red booklets in favor of the Ship
Subsidy

.& IA a =
s. Il ca,s ..s. .~.,
+ Those railroad Presidents who are threat
ening the people and defying the laws of the
land are playing with edged tools. @
They would be well advised if they drew
in their horns
Times have changed since Commodore
Vanderbilt could safely indulge the arrogant
temper which so many railroad preside IT'S
have considered to be one of the qualifca ons
for the office.
'The public be damned!" is phrase that
struck deep in the American consciousness
and memory.
In the end, that insolent defiance of the
people is going to cost the Vanderbilt family,
and similar groups, very dearly, indeed.
History presents no marvel greater than
that of the patience with which the masses
of the American people have submitted to the
corporation yoke, to corporation frauds, to
corporation insults, and to corporation crimes
which range from petty larceny to annual
murders of thousands of people.
Thank God for the belief that the public
has at last grown weary of being damned"
and is rousing itself for fight.
Three hundred million dollars is the
amount of water recently poured into railroad
stocks. To that extent the corporation rob-
bers have added to fictitious and fraudulent
capitalization. To that extent has your bur-
den been dishonesty increased, for you are
to be taxed, in freight and passenger rates,
until that additional stock earns dividend.
Should Congress or the State Legislature
impose burden upon the railroads which
will make it impossible to earn dividends up
on that fraudulent stock, the corporation law
yers will claim that such act of Congress or
of the Legislature is "confscatory'; and
they will hunt around until they find a
Judge" who will so decide.
According to corporation logic, no tax, re-
duction in rates, or other public burden can
be lawfully put upon the artificial person (the
corporation) until it has first earned reason
able net profit.
Corporation lawyers SO claim. Corpora
ton Judges" so decide.
The difference between the lawyer who
makes this claim and the judge who sustains
it, is slight The one is on the bench and
the other isn't; but both of them belong to
the corporation.
"Con6scatory!" cries the corporation law
yer.
"Conhscatoryp echoes the corporation
Judge. Away goes the act of Congress, or
of the Legislature. The law can not touch
the corporation until it has first pocketed a
net profit.
l wonder how far that maggot will multi
ply in the brains of rotten lawyers and judges
before the scorching sunlight kills it
A fouler, falser principle than that involved
in this conhscatory dodge was never an
hat itU
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-21

AS we'll might furniture factory say: "We
are not making any profit out of the business,
and If you put that tax us it will be corlfis-
catoryv
AS we'll might the merchant ~ and farmer
plead that they are not earning net profits,
and that therefore, the taxes laid upon them
are confscatory.
Why should there be one law for artificial
persons and different law for natural per-
sons? .@H.-
Why put the railroad in so much better po-
siton than any one else? Must the national
and state authorities overhaul everybodys
books, to learn whether there is net profit
before making laws which affect that busi-
ness?
A railroad company comes into court and
pleads that the act of the Legislature reduc-
ing passenger fares to two cents per mile is
"confscatory."
That is, the two-cent rate takes the profit
out of the business. >..e
Suppose it does-WHOSE FAULT rs IT?
Perhaps the road is badly managed and
should employ better manager. The state
has nothing to do with the general manage
nent of the road.
Perhaps the road-bed has been allowed to
run down and there have been many wrecks,
causing loss of limb and of life to passengers,
and the piling up Of huge account for law
yers' fees other expenses of litigation, and fla
bilities to persons injured. The railroad was
to blame for that not the state.
Perhaps the salaries paid to the stock
gambling Presidents in New York were too
high, while the wages of engineers, conduct
ors, telegraph operators, ETC., were too low:
and thus cheap labor operated the trains and
great disasters resulted.
The state had nothing to do with that, or
should not be held responsible
Perhaps too much money was spent on
lobbyists, editors, legislative and judicial cor
rupton, campaign contributions etc.-should
the state be made responsible for that?
In other words, the failure of a railroad
company to earn profit on any given pas
senger rate, or freight rate, depends upon a
thousand and one things with which the state
has nothing to do To say that the state
shall not interfere until the corporation has
first made profit is to put the state-EVEN
WHEN HONESTLY DEALT within
the position of Insurer to the Corporation.
Can such a proposition be otherwise than
absurd? ao :
The state is not permitted to manage the
corporation, but must guarantee net profit
else it can not lower the rates! NON
SENSE.
The Steel Trust is one of the Infant In
dustries" which Our laws protect" from for
eign competition to such an extent that it
sells goods abroad 40 per cent cheaper than at
home.
Thus the foreign farmers who compete with
ours are enabled to procure plantation imple-
ments of all kinds much cheaper than our
hoo, fort, +1a%o, IL.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

The Mississippi Central Railroad
has issued an order making known
the fact that the Fl. H. Graham Jew
elry Company has been appointed
official watch inspector for that road.
If correct time is necessary any
where in the world it is with the rail
road for the proper conduct of the
business of transporting passengers
and freight to their destination, the
running of exact schedules, the con-
nections at functional points and even
life itself depends on the correctness
of the timepieces used by the en-
ployes OF railroad.
The Mississippi Central has grown
into most important link in the rail
road system of this country and it
wiz continue to grow as the time
passes and following the custom OF
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

responsibilities of the position are ap
preciated by the management of the
firm which is to have charge of the
correctness of all the watches of the
employees of the Mississippi Central
Railroad and that the duties will be
well performed is beyond question.
The Graham Jewelry Company has
been in business here for little less
than two years, but in that time has
won the confidence of the public
through its manner of conducting
business and the large number Of
friends to the firm will be glad to
know of the appointment.
Likewise, those who know, are con
graduating the officials of the road
on the selection they have made for
this important post.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06
OFFICIAL WATCH inspectors
FOR The MISSISSIPPI GENERAL

all great trunk lines the officials
looked about them for a suitable per-
son or firm to act as official time in
spector. 1t is no small honor that
was conferred upon the firm when the
official announcement of the selec-
ton of the Graham Jewelry Company
was published.
The officials of the railroad when
selecting an official time inspector
took into consideration that the party
or parties appointed should bear an
excellent reputation among towns
men and the public generally and
should also be well known for thor
oughness and exactness in everyday
| life and business and all of these re.
quirements having been fully met by
the firm, the Graham Jewelry Com
pany was appointed. The honors and
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

the beer was being sol and easily
found the p ,,juss as the last buck;
ettul was beh-s drawn from the keg.
The negro had been doing splen-
did business with the draft beer, sell
ing it as fast as he could draw it
at fifty cents per bucket. Had he
been a little less exorbitant in his
charges the possibilities are that he
would not have been given away
by the customers. who took that meth
cd of getting even with him.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06
lN'FRATERNAL
CIRCLES

Appreciating the fact that a correct
list Of tho verious secret societies.
with the time and place OF meeting;
would pos9IbI bs ct value to the pub
, ,is; q NJ ts' ssxs has prepared the
4f&Iesburg commandery Mo. Fl,
knights TempIar-T. A. McElreath, q
q. ]. w. Montague. Recorder. Meets
Tuesday nights in the Masonic Tenn
pie at 8 o'clock
HattIesburg Lodge No. 3s7, A. r. 4
A. Mr.. H. Lee. w. NJ; j. D
Bennett, Secretary. Meets Monday
nights in Masonic Temple at p. m.
|. Hattiesburo Royal Arch Chapter No
114.--W. M. Conner. H. p; ]. d. Ben
nett, Secretary Meets Thursda.
nights in re- Masonic Temple at
L.ssry I ~; y Ca
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06
Hampton Dispensed
Foaming Liquid to Quench
Thirst Of Fannished Citizens

Bishop Hampton, a negro, was ar
rested by Officers Beverly and Nor
wood yesterday afternoon while in
the act of selling draught beer in a
partially finished house in Yellow Pine
Park, near Ninth street.
He was locked up and will be tried
Monday morning.
The officers saw man drinking the
foaming beer out of tin bucket and
on questioning him learned where
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06
HORSE BECAME FRIGHTENED,
NEGRO DRIVER JUMPED OUT,
Leaving LADY UNPROTECTED

jumped from the hack leaving the
lady to her fate, but white employee
of Fabacher's restaurant rushed out
and caught the horse and held him
until he quieted down.
The lady secured another hack and
proceeded to her destination before
her name could be learned.
The man who stopped the FESTIVE
horse is one of the chefs in the res
taurant mentioned.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06
GRAFTERS
ARE UNDER INDICTMENT.

the Southern Paving and Construc-
ton Company in connection with the
awarding OF city contract. The sec
ond charge is for accepting $500 from
Noll & Thompson in connection with
another city contract
The indictments have created SEN
sation in municipal and business cir
cles, as it is said that graft on much
larger scale will develop when the
charges against those under indict-
ment come up for hearing.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06


Woodmen Of the World, HattIespurs
Camp, No. 44s-E. 3. Everitt, G. c.:
J. w. Brookshire, Clerk. Meets Thurs
Gay night in Odd Fellows Hall, at s
o'clock.
Woodmen Circle, w. o. W., Hannah
Grove No. 73.--Mrs. R. w. Thames,
Guardian, Mrs. M. j. Coker, Clerk.
Meets second and fourth Wednesday
nights in each month in Odd Fellows
Hall at 1880 o'clock.
international Association of Ma.
chinists, Local Union No. 62s-C. T.
Ellis, president; H. R. Stevens, secre-
tary. Meets second and fourth Friday
nights of each month at o'clock in
Odd Fellows Hall
Benevolent Protective Order OF EIks,
No. $780, M. ]. McGrath, E. R.; W. A.
McCloud, Secretary and Treasurer,
Meets Tuesday nights in their rooms
on West Front street at 8 o'clock.
Fraternal Order Of Eagles, Aerie No
f557.-Mr. J. A. Frazier, President; F.
H. Hartman, Recording Secretary;
Meets Thursday nights in hall in the
Draughn building, at o'clock
| Hattiesburg Typographical Union
No. 547.-Eugene Warren, president;
George F. Long, Secretary. Meets al
Martin Printing Company first sunda,
In each month.
4 Brotherhood Of Railway Clerks
Local No. SO. q. L. Russell. Presi
dent; M. F. Gleason. Secretary. Meet
second and fourth Monday nights Il
Odd Fellows hall at o'clock.
Il HattIesburg Lodge 1877 I. o. o. r.
M. T. Sheehan, N. g.; A. F. Jones, v
g.; DR.. VIM. Busby, R. 81; H. Katz,
s. Meets Monday nights in |. .. o
F. Hall at 8 o'clock.
Hattiesburg Encsmpment No. 20, /
o. Q. Ell! Coplin, G; p; r. H. Pen
der. scribe. Meets every Wednesda.
might in Odd Fellows Hall at 5 o'clock
Rebekah Lodge No. II, |. o. o. F.
Miss Ella Risher. N. c.; Mrs. Len,
Trombley. v. G.; Miss Ida Cowart
secretary Meets Thursday nights a
o'clock, in Odd Fellows Hall.
Woodmen Of the World, Leaf Rive
Camp No. 2s.-W. 3. Martin, G. G..
w. ]. Fowler, Clerk, Meets Tuesda,
nights in Odd Fellows Hall At p. n
Carpenters and JoIners Of America
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

There came near being frightful
accident on Mobile street, yesterday
afternoon, near the Gulf and Ship
Island depot which was averted by
the presence of mind of man who
does not wish his name used.
A lady who came into the city on
the southbound Gulf and Ship Island
train entered hack driven by negro
and as it started off the horse took
fright and started to run The negro
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06
Associated Press.

Chattanooga, Tenn, October 81
The grand jury today returned indict-
ments on two counts against T. P.
McMahon and two members Of the
board of public works-H. f. vanDeu-
sen, chairman. and w. d. Kelly. An
Indictment was also returned against
A. L. Thomas, a former member of
the board.
The first indictment charges them
with accepting bride Of $3.50 from
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

Order Of the Eastern stsr.--Mrs. s.
C. Eaton, w. NJ; Mrs. M. Dunn, Secre-
sary. Meets Friday nights in the Ma
sonic Temple at 8 o'clock.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

The usual crowd of travelling men
who make Hattiesburg q resting up
place on Sundays, ran into the city
last night and are pleasantly spend
ing the day.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

Secretary Larson, of the CONNER
cial Club is to have his suite Of offices
on the fourth floor of the Carter build
ing and will be occupying. them with
in few days. s. ~
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

ner, T. l., NJ; ]. D. Bennett, Secretary.
Meets Friday nights in the Masonic
Temple at o'clock.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06
CITY BREvITIEs.

Mr. w. P. Watson, the hustling
foreman of the Laurel Ledger, is in
the city visiting his friends and will
return to Laurel and his work tomor-
row.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

D. Bennett and d. X. Hemeter. The
new concern will be known as the J.
D. Bennett Lumber Company and will
carry full line of building material
in addition to lumber.
-
The secretary and directors of the
Lake Stone and Manufacturing Com,
pany, of Jackson, Miss, are in the city
in the interest of their building stone
which is creating much interest in thu
state. A sample of this stone is on
exhibition in Hotel Hattiesburg, also
a prospectus of the propositions. Call
there and see Mississippi produc
ton which promises to be the lead.
ing industry of the south.
49,
Yesterday brought some painful re-
membranes to Deputy CLERK Cham
bers, of the circuit Clerks Office, as
it was the forty-third anniversary of
! the battle of Altoona, In which en-
gagement he was s,severely wounded
in the shoulder and carried the ball
in his body for twenty days before it
was cut out. The arecollections of the
day and the wound must have made
his shoulder ache, instead of his heart.
-
News was received here yesterday
of the death in Ell Paso, Texas, of
Wallace w. Anderson, formerly of
this city. Mr.. Anderson was well and
favorably known in this city having
been connected with the Owl drug
store for some months before leav.
ing for the west where he intended
making his home. He is survived by
4 his brother, John Anderson, the well
known cotton buyer who has long
been resident of this city, and has
| 4 host of friends who will sympathize
/ with him in his loss.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

The first hack driver to put out his
sign For Whites Only" has found
that it paid to cater especially I'd
white folks and other hackmen are
now following his example, having la
belled their hacks in like manner.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-06

There will be an important meeting
of the Hattiesburg Typographical
Union this afternoon at the office of
the Martin Printing Company, 4
O'Clock being the hour set. A full at
tendance is desired as there are
some important matters to be taken
up at this meeting. -