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100 acres, and each bid was signed
by a different applicant, and all were
at the uniform price of $3.50 per acre.
No other bids were received. These
bids were accepted, = = = = and deeds
to the various parties were subse-
quently prepared, but were not execut
ed or delivered owing to the doubt
in the mind of the commissioned as
to whether the sale could be consum-
mated without violation of the act of
June Fl, 1898.
Prior to my departure for New
Mexico to enter upon the investiga-
ton. 1 ascertained from the records
of this office that a right of way for
reservoir and pipe lines over certain
lands described in the BOnham &
Holt application was approved De-
cember %, 1904, to the Mimbres Rfv-
er Water Company, the incor-
porators being George w. Delameter,
of Pittsburg, Pa; Allan G. Kennedy,
w. B. Childers, James Delameter and
Ed L .Medler.
Upon my arrival at Santa Fe, |
had a conference with the governor
of the territory + x = = and was as
sured by him that l should have ac
cess to the records. II y x x also call,
ed on the commissioner of public
lands and ascertained tina. written de-
hands had been mad upon MIN On
March 20, 1906, by Bonham & Holt
for immediate delivery of the deeds,
and a tender made in final payment
of $14,419. in full settlement, which
tender he declined and refused to de.
liver the deeds because he considered
the contract and agreement a viola
tion of law. = = + =
ION April 3, 1906, l met Mr.. Holt
in the Office Of the governor. In
said interview Mr.. Holt specifically
denied the existence of collision or
pirvity of interest between any of
the applicants, or the existence of any
agreement by any of the applicants
for the transfer of title after the
same should have been acquired.
SOME INTERESTING AFFIDAVITS
o April 4, 1906, | secured from
Mr.. F. C. Dezendorf, special agent,
the affidavits of two of the applicants
which had been secured by him, Viz:
Albert J. Fountain and Eugene Van
Patten. Both affidaVits made oath
that they had signed the applications
at the request of Mr.. Holt and to OBJ
Iige him. that it was with the under
standing it was a mere form and there
was nothing illegal or wrong in it;
that they did not pay for the land and
did not expect to have any interest in
it, and at the time of the signing the
applications they likewise executed
deeds conveying the and to Mr.. Holt
or some one else, and gave the deeds
to Mr.. Holt. (These affidadvits are at
tached to- the Hoicomb report as ex-
hibits. Both Mr.. Fountain n Mr..
Van Patten are well known citizens
of Las Cruces.)
81 then secured another interview
with Mr.. Holt at the office of Mr.. Dez
endorf, and in his presence at which
Mr.. Holt reiterated hat all the appli-
cations were made by bona fide APP
p%licants in their own right and under
no agreement to transfer title after
it was acquired, and in response to
Mr.. D~ezendorf's question as to wheth
err he meant by a bona fide applicant
one who applied for himself for his
own use and ne for the use of anoth
er, and intended to pay for the lane
with his own money, he stated that
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pride or design in their conversation.
Jeremy Taylor.

Eve admitting that the old ma
chine members of the legislature
we're forced in self-defe1se to spend
most of the session in devising ways
and means CT keeping their friends
out of jail-they cannot afford to go
home without passing a new tax law,
revising the election laws, taking the
schools out of politics, abolishing H.
censed gambling. and passing a few
measures of economy which the peo-
pie demand. This, too is a matter of
self-defense-for a dead politician is
really in worse fix than one who is
safe in Jail.
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Improving Library Lot.

Street Boss Jim Pinson has started
the work of improving the lot at the
Carnegie library and it will be n OF
the prettiest plots in town when he
gets through. He set out a nice elm
tree there yesterday and is cleaning
the lot and putting it in first class
shape in every particular. He is set
ting a good spring example to all
the citizens of Roswell.
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kIinq to be Sporting Editor.

Kansas City, Mo-, March 9.-Johnny
King of the Chicago Cubs, said to be
the highest salaried catcher IN the
baseball world. today assumed his
duties as sporting editor of a local
newspaper for one day only and will
nave complete control of the sporting
matter that goes into Sundays pa
per. He will give out assignments,
edit the copy. direct the artists and
write several feature stories giving
the inside of baseball from the play
er's standpoint.
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Well Has a Good Flow.

The c. P. Shearman outfit on Thurs
day finished a new well for DR.. O.. R.
Haymaker on his land Z miles south
east OF Roswell. The well is $50 feet
deep. has an eight inch casing over
which the water spouts to a height of
Il inches. making a splendid flow.
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Seventeen also seems to be an I'M
lucky number.
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have the agency for the SWEETEST
line of house numbers n name
plates ever seen in Roswell. See sam
pie at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 05t3
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They enslave tneir children's chill
drel who make compromise with SIN
Lowell.
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RaiIroading measures through L
the interest of the people NATURAL.
shocks Mr.. Holt.
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No wonder the railroad fare Dill
went drought was Gallagher that
let 'er go.
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II what you hear at church tomor-
row has no application to every day
life and good citizenship. it maybe
charged to your own lack of under
standing.
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The Christian standard of morals
is good for a Territory as well as a
state.
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impractical? No. Unattainable, we
grant for the present But worth
striving for-as the ideal leads ever
onward toward the fact.
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Publicity and patient courage hav'
never yet failed in the battle for goo
government
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Perhaps the friends of Mr.. Spies
in the lower house have learned tina
they were being used to rake some
other mans chestnuts out of the fire
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Word comes o Santa Fe that
the love of peace mas been lowering
a little nearer to the legislative hall
since Secretary Garfield a been
heard from.
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Even the fool is wise after the
event.-HOmer.
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When they get back home the
members of the gang will begin to
realize how much publicity has
changed the sentiment of the people.
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All the members of the old gan:
needed was advertising-and they ar
getting it free. 1t is a genuine FIR
sale.
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Elder c. c. Hill will preach tomor
row on The Way of Least Resist
ance." This does not mean that he
will advocate compromise"
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Another shot ON Hudspeth, I'M
then there were only six.
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The Record suspects that it was
man by the name of Hudspeth VINO
struck Billy Patterson
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True honor leaves no room for hes
itatioa and doubt-Plutarch.
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And now, Lord, behold theil
threatenings; and grant unto Thy SCI
wants hat with all boldness they may
speak.-Acts 1929.
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When Christianity comes in col
lision with wrong, evil, and not Chris
tianity, is to compromise--Joseph
Cook.
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Why read about the past at all If
not to apply its lessons in the life OF
the present and the future
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City property, improved farms. land
in 2H acre block joining City on the
East, suitable for suburban home and
truck raising-Woodruff & DeFreest,
opposite Postoffice. 10tf.
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The Record understands that on
prominent Roswell man is involves
in the Holt land deal.
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For loans on improved Pecos Val
ley real estate at loves rates. apply
giving full particulars. to Box rs. care
Record. Roswell. N. N. o4t3o
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The investigation blunder-Burs
was loaded at both ends.
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Quit yourselves like men and
fight. Sam. 40
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WOE unto you when all men sha
speak well of you.-Luke 6:26.
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Same old Bible-but there is new
in it every day for those who read II
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For a just man falleth seven time
and riseth up again.-Prov. 24:16-
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LAND DEAL
EXPOSED
INTERESTING HISTORY OF THE
UNCOMPLETED BONHAM &
HOLT TRANSACTION.
LANDS AT SI.5O ACRE

Extracts From Report of Government
Investigator Show Holt Up in a
Peculiar Transaction in Territorial
Lands.-The Lands for One Com
pany.
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The Bible and it's teachings are
the foundation of good government.
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The of Mr.. Hollis connec-
ton with a plan to defraud the Ter
ritory of public lands may have had
something to do with the wrecking
of the band wagon.
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The reforming of our Territorial
government may not be immediate,
but the move is well started. and
nothing a resist the progress of an
awakened public sentiment.
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Secret enemies are more TO D
feared than open.-Cicero.
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The smashup really was not expec-
ted so oon
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Legal Blanks of all Kinds for sale
at the Record Office.
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BE strong and of good courage.
fear not nor be afraid of them; for
the Lord thy God, He it is that doth
go with thee; He will not fail thee
nor forsake thee.-Deut. 31:6.
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Books are a guide In youth and
an entertainment for age. They help
us to forget the crossness OF men and
things when we are weary OF the
living, we may repair to the dead.
VINO a w nofhfag Of peev1shness.
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Mr.. Bursum's Holt slipped.
The band wagon is busted
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The Record assures the Artesia
News man that there is 10 danger of
our editorial donkey becoming unduly
enthusiastic over eating a mess of
wflted turnip greens from Kansas.
He Is used to Pecos Valley alfalfa
and real mustard.
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It certainly is a peculiar situation.
in which all the Republican papers
OF the Pecos Valley are working
against Governor Hagerman, and all
the Democratic papers are boosting
him. Don't ask us to explain it. We
might offend somebody and lose a
subscriber
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The Artesia News man might be
able to get a job on the Santa Fe
New Mexican. II he objects to being
annexed to Texas. He seems to COM
mand a few cuss-words that would
fresaen up the vocabulary of Colonel
Frost.
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copy=4sh. tea ny Henry uot, < Go anzaazz=a@=s# s
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a $1,000 Farm House.

From the MafSEllllGWn ttelleClOT.
1t was announced Il few days ago that
a farmer named Pierce expects to build
a $4,000 residence the coming season,
on his farm several miles west of
Union. Mir. Pierce, we understand, q
arrived at the age when many people
call him an old man. His children
are grown up and probably most Of
them have long since left home and
are situated widely apart, as families
usually get to be as the years and
decades go by. Whether the head of
the family" is acting the part of Wis
dom and good judgment in building so
expensive a home at this time in life
is n question.
IL n class of people in the country
is entitled to good, c~oMmodious, cor
~ccicnt ana comfortable homes, it is
the farmers. But many of our wealth.
Test rural Residents gre today living
ia hoa,as, AID ..ew onss, too, that cost
from $1,000 to $4,000. One that cost
more than the latter figure is very rare.
And these people are contented and
happy. Their homes meet all require
ments and they are putting their sur
plus denominations in the bank or in
vesting them in more land, live stock,
etc. When the time comes to divide
up their estates among their children,
without whose help they never would
have been SO valuable. the farms car
be disposed of at their actual worth,
because foresight and prudence have
been exercised in making Improvements
and the best interests of the
ity are thereby conserved.
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More thai that, sir; she fairly
worshiped him. She was always at
the door to meet him; always dined
with him; they always spent their
evenings together. She didn't care
much for society-Ive often heard her
stell him that she would much rather
just stay at home with him. 1t was
he who rather insisted on her going
out; for he was proud Of her, as he'd
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ROMANCE or AN ASSUMED
NAME, TWO WAR SAILORS,
TWO WIDOWS, ONE PENSION

and she explained to the department
the circumstance OF adopting the as
sumed naEe. and sent papers showing
enlistment. discharge. etc, in thai
tia1.!e. She was finally able to make
up a pretty complete showing of her
husbands records, and to convince the
pension office that John Wilson and the
sailor John Burns were one and the
same person. Then came her surprise.
Another Widow Getting IL.
mother woman was drawing the
pension that should have ACQUIRED to
aer, and had been drawing it for
twelve years.
Mrs. Wilson protested, despite that
the situation hooked bad for her, that
no other woman was entitled to tina
pension. She vas certain that she
was the real and the only wife her
husband had eve had, despite that ex-
%perience OF the pension office has de-
vcloped cases of double marriages and
double lives in great numbers.
The bureau delved into the case, and
at last the facts were brought to light
The widow Of the real John Burns had
applied for pension, and lac been given
it, not on the record of her own hus-
band but on the record made by Will
o While bearing the name of Burns.
She had been drawing for twelve years
a pension that belonged to the ether
woman.
The authorities at the bureau. after
convincing themselves thoroughly that
there was no fraud or bad intent. took
up the matter Of Strengthening out the
situation. The pension which Mrs
BurEs has been drawing will be trans
ferred to Mrs. Wilson,, and Mrs. Burns
will have to make a new application
and secure an allowance. But there
is a question whether, in view of the
fact that she has drawn several thou
SAND dollars to which she was not en-
titled, she will now be allowed to draw
any more until the new pension which
will undoubtedly be allowed to her
shall have amounted to as much as She
has already drawn.
The expectation is that spcci~i .ss!s:
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Lydig, Miss Ethel Barrymore and Miss
Maxine Elliott. His hasty departure
caused him to leave many commissions
untitled. Al the time of his visit he
exhibited at the Durland-Ruel galleries,
1t 301 Fifth Five years pre-
viously he had exhibited at the Keppel
gallery. His portrait of the duchess of
Marlborough was a pastel sketch.
which was first taken to Blenaeim and
placed in her morning room and ub-
Gequcntly presented to the bibIiotheque
rationale cabinet of ~engravings in
Faris. Two years g Helleu was dec
grated with the legion of honor.
NJ. Helleu is q man 30 years old. He
has a wife and two daughters, and his
devotion to them is n household word
throughout the length and breadth of
Erance. He had never been separated
from his wife for as much as n week
at q time until his visit to this country
The subject of all his early drawing
is lovely Woman chiefly as typifiea In
his Wife. She and his two daughters
We're his only models for years. When
he Was not s%ketching a lovely and be-
loved woman he was drawing an equal
ly lovely and beloved child.
NJ. Helleu has never had Il studio.
He mentions them disdainfully as a
modern innovation. m says that Wat
teau and the masters of the Eighteenth
century never dreamed of such a thing.
He prefers to make his portraits and
studies in the home of his sitter, and
h u avoid rs far as possible, any hint
OF artificiality. He directly
on the clean face of the copper plate
With his dry point needle. He uses
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but one. 1t is Il diamond point needle
which was presented to him by Tissot
years ago. He values it so highly that
he carries it in an especially deep pock-
ct which he has made in all of his
clothes, and never allows it to leave
his possession. He feels that If he
should lose it he would never make
another etching.
The effect of working directly cn the
plate is that w must enjoy " the
proof from the plate at first hand the
vim and energy of the original con
ception of the artists mind" to quote
the words of the critic Jacomb-Hood.
But babies! Why this sudden changs
in a ma whom his friend and critic
NJ. de Goncourt described as "%essenti-
ally the portrayer of the grace of wo-
men, and again as a maker of snap
shots at the charm of modern oma
hood?" The explanation is that the
artist whose love is so great and pure
and fine has Succumbed to the infinite
charm of childhood. He sees and
portrays the grace and humor Of baby
hood. and his most frequent conbin-
alton is that o. mother and child.
Many years ago in England he made
two wonderful pictures of the twin
daughters of the duchess of Manches-
ter, Lady Mary and Lady Nellie, which
gave a foretaste of his direct immedi-
ate, spontaneous work in portraying
the childhood of today. He is chronl-
cling the innocense of childhood in the
same manner now that he drew the
portraits CT innocent, lovely m
hood in woman's own atmosphere, the
homo, in his earlier work.
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What is the use of perpetuating
either ugliness or SIM" asks Nj. Paul
Hel!eu, the noted dry point artist.
"Nothing in the world could induce ME
to draw an ugly woman or n woman
who is not good Helleu is Il man of
peculiarities. Perhaps it is these foibles
Which a gained for kim some OF
the sweetest, most exquisite and beauti
full women in the world as subjects for
his art.
But babies are the most Fundamental
things in the world. Nj. Helleu has re-
Gently startled his circle OF artistic
friends by turning his attention from
lovely wone to beautiful babies.
Heaps of them. He has drawn disap-
pointed babies, Interested babies. sur
prised babies, reflective babies, sleepy
babies. wide-awake babies-everything
but frightened babies. His latest book
Of sketches has just reached this side
of the water. The title of the collection
is 'Our Babies" and in it delleu has
shown all the vivid, joyful s~pontaneity
of his earlier work.
1t will be remembered that Heileu
came to this II i'm December. 1902,
and that his all too brief sojourn among
us was a meteoric succession of social
events. He brought many letters from
the duchess of Marlborough, whose por-
trait he had done, and was dinad and
wined till he became quite a social lion.
NJ. Helleu is a worker. however. and
before the illness of his Oldest daughter
caused him to hasten back to Paris he
had made etchings of Mrs. Jaires A.
Buruen, ir.. Mrs. Livingston Beeckman.
Mrs. Robert j. Collier. Mrs. Philip
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Think of the Risk!
From the Philadelphia Record.

fIoLl inc IullduelpEla Record.
Two Scotchmen with a thirst counted IT..
the joint possessions and found that they
could just cover the price of a drink Of
whisky. They went into the nearest sa-
loon and ordered one drink. Sandy put
ting down the money for the same. Then
arose a discussion as to how it could be
disposed of to the best advantage. 1t was
no Alphonse and CASTOR discussion. Each
was disposed to stand on his own right,
while at the same time admitting the
claim of the other.
At the critical moment a stranger enter
ed the saloon. With a wink of his eye at
his companion Sandy turned to the new
conner and said, will you have a drink
with us?"
Surprising that the others had drank be-
fore his entrance, the stranger said heart
lily, II WILL" and emptied the glass.
There was an uncertain pause for a mo-
ment and then the third man said, come
on, boys. and have one on me-"
They had it. AS they went out Sandy
wiped his mouth and said, 'see, mon, it
worked"
Yes was the reply; but, oh. what a
.:.1t,,
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Hard Lines.

DR.. Austin Flint. the famous al.enis~
said at the Century club in New York.
apropos of a will contest that had been
tried last year:
1.-The plaintiff lest, and no wonder. His
case was as difficult a one as that of the
young man who appeared unduly depress-
ed after the death of his rich aunt.
"'Why are you so sad?' an acuuain-
lance said to the young man. You never
appeared to care much for your aunt
II didn't, said the youth dolefully.
but l was the means of keeping her in
an insane asylum the last five years of
her life, and now that she has left me all
her money. I've got to go to court and
grove that she was of sound mind