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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-02-23
House Bill No. 81.
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w. 'ASN BhbC'I
Commissioners OF Union and San
Miguel Counties respectively, shall
at the first regular meeting of said
Boards after the passage OF this
Act find and determine and duly
enter OF record the total amount of
the lawful indebtedness of their re-
spectlVe Counties less cash on
hand and present value OF perman-
ent county buildings and improve
ments and finally determine the en-
tire amount of property assessed
IN said Counties for the wear 1907
and the entire amount of property
assessed in the portions of Union
and San Miguel Counties by this
Act made a part Of the County of
Quay, and shall forward a certified
copy OF said record to the Probate
Clerk OF said County of Quay and
the said County of Quay shall paw
to the Counties OF Union and San
Miguel such portions of the lawful
indebtedness of said Counties re.
spectively as cash on hand and per-
manent improvements as aforesaid
as the amount Of property assessed
IN the portions of Union and San
Miguel by this Act made a part Of
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-02-23

II you want your land business
attended to promptly see Patter-
son q Donohoo at the Court House.
I7tt
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the County of Quay shall bear to
the total amount of property ssess
ed in said Counties of Union and
San Miguel respectfully for the said
year Of 1907 and for the purposeof
enabling the said County of Quay
to pay said sums of money. The
Board of County Commissioners OF
said County of Quay are hereby
authorized to issue and sell bonds
in such amounts as may be required
Tor such purposes, and until such
amount shall have been paid to the
said Counties respectively, the
County of Quay shall levy and col
lect a tax and pay annually to said
Counties of Union and San Miguel
respectively, from the funds thus
collected such amount as will equal
the interest upon that proportion
OF the debt of such Counties re-
spectively which is hereby made
obligatory upon said County OF
Quay to assume and pay.
Section 8. This Act shall take
effect and be in force from and
alter the date of its passage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
LFrom the Atchison Globe.J

LFrom the Atchison Globe.1
We all need things we can plug
along without
If you do as we'll as the country, you
are all right
People don't call you a liar every
time they think so.
What has become of the old fash
toned dog named "Ring?"
If you are right, don't let a clever
man persuade you out of it.
The best compilations are the ones
which receive the least attention.
Apologies are like family skeletons:
They should not be taken out before
company.
Nothing but vacation pleases a pupil
so well as catching the teacher in mis-
takes
Everything else moves faster than
an old house that people hate to see
blockading the streets.
If you have disagreeable ways. re-
member that people have a lot of
chances of getting even"
A book agent agent may have a
great many friends-back home where
they don't know his business.
About all that man can hope to
get out of the glorious Eastertide is
to have his old pants pressed.
The longer we live, the more we
appreciate a really nice man: a man
who is polite. capable and fair.
Be polite to some people, and they
will be impudent in return. Fortu-
nately such people are not numerous.
In a little town it is one indication
that a man was an acceptable citizen
If his obituary notice refers to him
as Brother"
Breaking a record at billiards re-
duires a skill and energy which would
accomplish something worth while, if
properly directed.
The old fashioned wife. when her
husband i'll treated her, told her trou-
bles to the Lord: the modern wife
tells tn EN- to a lawyer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
.LAYKH WKER JOTS

Good advice from the Lindsborg
Record: Don't slap the wrong end of
a mule
Joy Morton has announced that he
will rebuild the Hutchinson salt works,
and Hutchinson says, "Oh, joy"
Up at Kirwin no one wanted to run
for mayor, so no nominations were
made and the present city officers have
to keep the jobs.
Victor Murdoch pronounces the recent
fight in the First district primaries
a poorer scrap than any Honduras and
Nicaragua have put up.
Wellington will have to wait awhile
longer before hearing those roll calls.
Senator La Toilette had to cancel his
date there on account of illness.
Out at Mcpherson the doctors have
agreed among themselves to raise the
price of night calls, and the people
have determined to get sick only in
tho daytime.
With reference to J. R. Burton's de-
cision to become an editor. Mack P.
Gretchen says: ut can at least be said
in Burton's favor that he hasn't picked
out get-rich-quiek business this
time
The Winfield Courier naturally can
not find name expressive enough to
fit the person who pulled up some
Citizen had set out to beautify an I'M
slightly place along a railroad right
OF way
Told by the Wichita Eagle: A Tope-
ka man, much addicted to drug store
loafing, whose wife invariably sat up
for him, slipped around the back way
the other evening and went to bed
where his wife found him at a. m.
She hasn't decided whether to sue the
jointist or to sue for a divorce. In the
meantime she refuses to speak to the
sneak.
A BellevilIe 5-year-old, according to
the Freeman, got the good old father
lessons and Abraham Lincoln mixed in
his mind and when he related to his
aunt the story of Abraham and Lot
taking the land in the north country,
he went on with the explanation that
after Abraham had been there while
he went to the theater and when he
was there a man stepped out on the
stage and shot Abraham and when the
man started to run away he caught
his foot in a flag and fell and broke
his leg.
A social tragedy at Fort Scott, told
by the Republican: During a dance a
few evenings ago a young woman, be-
fore going to the floor for a waltz, stuck
her chewing gum under the chair. A
young man who had been treated scorn-
fully by her thought he would play
even. He took the wad of gum, spread
it out and placed a piece of tobacco
inside, rolled the gum and placed 1t
under the chair. When the dance was
ended she started for her chair putting
the gum in her mouth, and 1t is said by
those who witnessed the scene that
when the tobacco began to get in its
work Their was the most peculiar acting
ever done before a large audience. All
the rest of the evening she stood there
and leaned against the chair, a perfect
picture of inconsistencies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
LIGHT on HARRnAN.

No man has been as much written
about in the magazines recently as E.
H. Hartman, and the events of the
last three days bring him more into
the public eye than ever. In its cur
rent issue the American Magazine has
an editorial on Hartman that is espe-
cially interesting now.
His arrogance toward the public is
beyond belief" says this editorial.
cat times he excuses his arrogant
statements by saying that he meant
them as a joke. So he characterized
his remarks on the stand that he
owned Governor OdelI of New York.
He may now know the answer to the
conundrum: When is a joke not a
joker Humor, he should learn, is the
possession of the poor, about the only
one they enjoy, and has never been
seemly in the rich And people know
too well the sinister character of his
control of OdeIl to relish 1ests about
it Similarly. when it was reported
that he refused a contribution to the
Hughes campaign fund with a jocose
remark that was distorted into a vio-
lent statement to the effect that he
could buy the other side more cheaply.
no one laughed. For every one knew
that he, nominally a Republican, was
supporting Mr.. Hearst in New York
with a thought of the Hearst newspa-
pers' power in California. Mr.. Hearst
may not have been in the deal. I give
him all the benefit of the doubt But
his papers have been noticeably tender
towards Mr.. Hartman and Mr.. Hearst
spoke rather warmly to Lincoln Stef-
fens- when Hartman was mentioned.
The echo of this last jest was so hol-
low that it frightened Mr.. Hartman to
send a friend to President Roosevelt
to explain its mirthfulness.
But the thing that the public can't
and won't stand Just at present is to
have these operations and similar ones
flung in their teeth. They don't want
to have a man empty their purse and
then beat them over the head with it
Mr. Harriman's 'don't-give-a-da dammit
tiveness' has been worse since the in
surance investigation began than ever
before. He has delight ted in Offending
public sentiment One of his partners
told a friend last summer: Hartman
is not so bad. The trouble with him
is that he never can do even a good
thing in a pleasant way. He is going
to do something tomorrow that ought
to be favorablX received but the way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The recent election does not neces-
sarlly mean, however, that Wichita
and Kansas City, Kan, need hurry
about ordering their halos.
You may have sometime felt that
you did not know where you were at, -
Dut you never were more completely
at sea than are the Topeka baseball
fans this week. Not until Saturday
VIII it be decided whether Topeka is
in the Western League or the Western
Association, and until that momentous
issue is settled it cannot be expected
that the fans will be able to think of
anything else.
-
The Oldest Inhabitant is running a
severe risk of straining his memory in
trying to recall an earlier spring than
this one. but he is bound to do it, even
If he has to work his memory over
time.
y y
Some real photographs of Evelyn
Thaw have been received in Topeka,
and any number of Topeka young men
will swear that she doesn't begin to
compare with some of the local peaches
for looks.
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lFrom the Philadelphia Record
The henpecked husband never crows
about 1t.
How can a bald-headed actor hope
for a god part7
1t takes two to make a quarrel, and
frequently both are wrong.
Some people seem to get lot of en-
joyu1ent out of being miserable.
In summer a girl may have liquid
glance and in winter an icy stare.
Strangely enough, 1t is the matchless
beauty who has no difficulty in making
a match.
An egg shouldn't belong to the things
that are not what they are cracked up
to be.
Every man wants a square deal, but
it doesn't seem as though there were
enough to go around.
she-''So you admit that a woman
can make a fool of a manT' He-"Oh,
yes; whenever he wants her to-
Tankleigh-''IAquor, my boy, improves
with age" Guzzler-'Yes, I've noticed
that the older we get the better we Hks
Z.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
RECKLEss AUTO DRIvERs.

Incidentally isn't it about time to put
a stop to the reckless speeding of auto
mobiles on the public streets? One of
these days there will be a bad accident
from this cause. The accident can be
avoided by putting quietus on reck-
lessness now.
OF course all autonobilists are not
reckless. Some of then-probably the
majority-are careful in their driving,
but there are some who fly along the
streets at a tremendous speed, and this
class brings the automobile into disre-
pute with pedestrians and the drivers of
other vehicles.
If a team should be driven half as
fast as some autos go, the driver
would be arrested and fined. Why not
treat reckless autoists the same way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
Is COOPERATION A FAmURE?.

The failure of the Farmers Coop
erative Shipping association does not
mean that cooperative business en-
| terprises among farmers can not be
made a success. There is limit to
their success, however.
theoretically there is no such limit.
A beautiful system can be worked out
on paper whereby the farmers of the
country can be organized into one
great company. eliminating the mid
dleman and saving his profits to the
producers. In reality such organizations
are limited "by the ability and in
tegrity of their officers" as Judge S.
H. Allen once put it. Even if every
man is absolutely fair and honest it
requires a big head to conduct a CO.
operative business on a big scale
more than it does to conduct a sim
liar business for an individual or a
corporation, for in a cooperative con-
Germ every member is to certain ex-
tent a boss. and it is difficult to get
along with multitude of bosses.
Yet there are a multitude of CO.
operative farmers organizations in
Kansas and other states that testify
that such organizations can be made
success. Where the farmers of one
having confidence in each others in
tegrity and fairness, join in a co-opera-
tive enterprise, each bearing his due
portion of the expense and RESPONSE
bility, cooperation is d success. 1t is
where distrust, or deception, or shirk-
ing creep in that cooperation fails.
In the case of the Farmers Coop
erative Shipping association, which
has decided to quit business, the fail
ure was probably due to the size of
the concern. 1t spread over three
states. Its individual members knew
little about its affairs, and they let the
burdens fall heavily on a few leading
members. There was lack of work.
ing capital and there has been dis
sension among those in charge of the
business of the concern. There can be
little cooperation where there is dis
trust and strife; and. while the as
ISOLATION was doubtless a great benefit
to its members in keeping up the price
of grain, it's own business was fall
ure.
1t is a mistake to believe that the
middlemen's profits can be entirely
saved. In eliminating the middleman
the cooperative concern pays out his
legitimate profits in salaries to officers.
wages to agents and employees, and
similar expenses. If a mfddleman is
content with a fair and legitimate
profit, a cooperative concern to elm
mate him is foolish and unnecessary.
It is when the middleman tries to rob
his patrons by excessive profits that
cooperation is beneficial. The excess
sive profits taken by the grain trust
We're responsible for the farmers CO.
operative movement in Kansas and adj
joining states, and the cooperative
concerns have done much towards de-
stroying the trust.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.J

From the Chicago NeWS.J
No, Alonzo, all the musical cranks are
not attached to hand organs.
Early to bed and early to rise makes
a man healthy, weaithy-or otherwise.
A widows mite is spelled might
when she makes up her mind to marry
again.
Love is not always the least harmful
OF the various intoxicants that make
the world go round.
Next spring many a man who Is cold
enough to know better will pose as an
amateur gardener.
It's just as we'll to know when to
forego an advantage as 1t Ia to know
when to grasp an opportunity.
One sentence Of a police magistrate
is more effective than dozen sentences
handed out by a political orator.
A man may be a failure without
knowing 1t, but II he Is a success he not
only knows it himself but let's every
body else know it.
When a man attributes his SUCCESS
to the taking advantage Of an oppor-
tunity the opportunity is usually but
another name for an easy mark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05

Instead of voting for Immediate
municipal ownership as it did two
years ago, Chicago this week voted to
extend the franchise of the street rail-
way companies twenty years. The pro-
vfsos of the extension, however. are
such that the city can buy the lines
at a stated price whenever it gets ready
and in the meantime 1t can compel the
companies to give first-class service.
and the city gets 55 per cent of the net
receipts. Isn't that about as good as
municipal ownership?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05

uIation giving the church utilization of
all the students of the University of
Kansas shows that the Methodists are
far in the lead in that institution There
are go members of the Methodist
church in the university, while the
Presbyterians, which come next, have
pnly 1872. The Congregationalists are
third with e5. IT must be remembered
that the Methodists have three colleges
of their own In Kansas, one of them.
Baker university, big institution only
a few miles from Lawrence. The Meth
mdlgtR may be stronger numerically than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05

declared Mr.. Dufford as he stepped
through the doorway. You've shown
the stuff that's in you-and it's mighty
good stuff; At material for a son-in-
law. I'm going on to the rest OF my
holdings in New Mexico as long ms I'm
out here. AS you are going to be put
in charge of my mining interests when
we get back to New York, you'd better
combine a honeymoon and a business
rip."-Copyrighted, 1907, by c. H. Sui
clifre.)
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OF course those California millers can
not see why they should not be allowed
to have an advantage in freight rates
so that they can build UP good bust
ness in California flour made out of
kansas wheat, but the Kansas railroad
commission will furnish them with a.
pair of specs so they can see better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
Ep0N OTHER PENS
uITIMATD OWNDRsHIP.

The World can understand how
politician might favor the immediate
| oyerturn Of historical policies and the
Immediate substitution of new order
| of things, but ultimate policies are
rather too vague and indefinite Tor
practical age. Uncle Joe Cannon ana
| his kind cautiously discuss an ultimate
revision of the Dingley schedules. Mr.
! Bryan calls them stand-patters and
says they are not in favor Of tarin re-
vision at ALL When the Republicans
discussed ultimate self-government for
| the F'ilipinos Mr.. Bryan jeered and
| insisted that this meant no self-govern-
ment at all. What we should like TO
know is lust where Mr.. Bryan now finds
| himself on this issue of government
railroads. When is ultimately Does
| Mr.. Bryan intend to go before the DEM
| ocratic national convention In 1913 ana
| demand a plank committing the party
to federal ownership and operation of
| trunkline railways ?-NeW York world
o.
THE RAILROAD SITUATION.
| American financiers who are in Eur
| ono and F,;ropean f1nanciers who are
| now in America, If cable communfca-
ton is to be trusted, are devoting at
tention to what is termed by them the
railroad situation in America. In their
minds the situation is grave because
| investors show a reluctance to put their
money in railroad securities Illogical
ly they are disposed to attribute that
reluctance to the agitation by the fed
eral government of the question of the
proper regulation of railroad corpora
lions, instead of ascriblng 1t to the rev
Citations of the unlawful and sinful
methods employed by some controlling
fnanciers which cast a doubt over all
securities.-Brooklyn Eagle.
CHICAGO POLICE BLACKMAIL.
1t is safe to say that no police force
in the country ever was sunk so deep
in the quagmire of political corruption
as are the bluecoats who theoretically
guard the lives and property of Chicago
citizens. The one most striking in
stance of how far Collins men will VEN
ture in their political blackmail IS that
of the Strauss brothers, whose hotel
is in a state of siege because the pro-
prietors refused to pay 500 tribute to
the Dunno campaign fund. Russia IT.
self could offer no example OF greater
and more brazen official corruption
Chicago Evening Post.
DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT
1t is limited that Secretary Taft is
taking long chances in leaving the
United States and permitting his boom
to take care of itself; but Mr.. Bryan's
boom was much larger while he was
out of the country than 1t is now
Boston Transcript
CHANCES ARE IT WILL NOT.
In the meantime Mr. Hartman has
bought another railroad, and two years
from now, when the interstate com
find out with whose money he paid for
it-Detroit Free Press.
THE PRESIDENT ENGLISH 4
BoSton's admiration of Roosevelt is
severely strained by his use of a split
infinitive In his promise ''to formally
open the jamestown. exposition--Phil-
ade1phta Inquirer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
MPORTANT MEASURE.

Some Of the Kansas state SENATORS
who voted with the. railroads on every
thing are now busy pointing out to
their constituents the value of the
anti-fraternity bill, which they voted
for.-Wichita Eagle.
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sIf peace can be arranged this sum-
mer between the public and the rail-
ways says a railway organ, sit will
be a greater achievement than the
treaty between Russia and Japan"
And then it looks expectantly in the
direction of t R.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IFrom the New YORK Press.1

The average man thinks he's an
orator when he's only a foghorn.
Some boys do well even to learn in
college what kind of neckties to wear,
Where the photographers make
their money is out of the pretty girls.
When a woman says she has no
clothes she means somebody else has
more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05
FRANK JARREIL' sGUEss.

Burton says he will get back into
politics. Maybe he will The people
are a queer lot. They elected Burton
to the Senate, and they knew as much
about him in 1901 as they do now. We
would not be surprised to see Burton
come to the front again in the Repub-
lican party Our guess, however. is
that he won't.-Holton Signal.
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the other denominations in Kansas, but
they certainly are not as much stronger
as these figures would indicate. taking
into consideration their own three coll
IeRaS
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NO LoNGER CHEAP.

sTwixt all supplies there seems a race
To reach the top notch first:
The cost of living grows apace,
And now we have the worst
1t almost makes the nation weep,
This rise of one sad day,
For even talks no longer cheap
The Senate's raised It's pay.
-Harper's Weekly,