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will check it completely AID which
will leave no possible chance for the
existence of upstairs gambling dens
and blinds, in which all experience
goes to show that a game which in
the open has only a heavy percentage
against the player, becomes a sys-
tenn of robbery.
But. the point is here: If the ma
chine leaders in the legislature and
out of it are in favor of an anti-gam-
bling law, ar ZONES law, why do
they continue to obstruct and defer
its consideration? The understanding
is that a part of the scheme to pass
the fax law was to hold up all anti
gambling legislation until after the
adjournment of congress, so as
to remove the danger of the Little
field bill, and then until the closing
days of the session, when members
who might refuse TO stand for a fake
law. could be whipped int line by
threats of delay of other legislation.
The continued delay in considering
this legislation merely serves to add
strength to the common rumor as to
this plan.
There are men in the legislature,
in both houses, a few of them, who
are openly and frankly opposed to the
a~nti-gambling law and who desire a
continuance of the present license
system. These men are quite raj
in their expressions. They do not de-
sire delay in the proposed legislation.
They are willing that it should come
up and be considered and either pass
ed or defeated. The position of these
men compels sincere admiration when
compared with the position of others
who are seeking to block this legis-
lation while pretending to favor it.
There has been plenty of delay in
this legislation. There has been am
pie time for consideration of the sew
eral measures before the assembly.
The test of sincerity in this case is
found in action.
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WHAT MIGHT BE DONE.

(By Charles Mackay.)
What might be done if men were
What glorious deeds, my suffering
brother,
Would they unite
In love and right,
And cease their scorn of one another?
O~ppression's heart might be imbued
With kindling drops of loving kind
ness;
And knowledge pour,
From shore to shore,
Light On the eyes of mental blindness
All slavery, warfare, lies and wrongs,
All vice and crime, might die to-
gether;
And wine and corn,
To each MAI born,
Be free as warmth in summer
weather.
The meanest wretch that ever trod,
The deepest sunk in guilt and sor-
row,
Might stand erect
In ~self-respect,
share the teeming world to-
morrow.
What might be done? This might be
one
And than this, my suffering
brother
More than the tongue
Fer said or sung,
If men we're wise and loved each
other.
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GRAFTERS FURNISH PROOF
OF THEIR OWN GUILT.

Harrington Times7Hustler.)
1t is one of the peculiar features
connected with the anti-graft move
ment all over the country that in
their efforts to protect their immoral
practices they furnish the proof of
their own guilt. 1t was SO in the in
surance, beef trust and railway in
vestigations, and it has proven the
same right here in New Mexico where
Governor Hagerman has been making
a brave stand for honest public ser
vice.
When Governor Hagerman dismis-
sed Mr.. BurSum from the Superinten-
dency of the penitentiary and charg-
ed him with either dishonesty or in
competency or both, the papers of
the territory that were under the con-
troll of these graft influences all rails
ed a howl, against 4 governors ac-
ton, and declared Mr.. Bursum to be
both honest and efficient. Even n
democratic p that aspires to a
territorial circulation went to the
trouble to explain hat according to
the figures submitted by HI COVER
nor's accountants the territory owed
Bursum. instead of Bursum being
short in his accounts with the ter
ritory.
Yet in spite of this Mr.. Bursum as
soon as the investigation got well
started, began returning money and
has kept it up until several thousand
dollars have been returned, thus prov
ing that h governor was right be-
yond any cavil.
Then, when the legislature met,
such men as Beach, Holt and Abbott
showed great haste in trying to take
power away from the governors
hands. Their eagerness to do this to
the exclusion of all other important
business proved their -unf1tness for a
public position. whether it be that of
district attorney or any other place.
The governor also recommended
that the appropriation for extra en-
ployes il the legislature he kept
within the provisions of the law. The
legislature went ahead and employed
~ninety-four assistants for thirty-six
members, nearly three for each legis-I
lator. When the resolution making an
appropriation for these expenses for
the first fifteen days reached the gov
ernor he vetoed ii. The legislature
very promptly passed it over his veto
1t was then a gentle tip was given
some of these men that if the appro-
priation exceeded the amount fixed
by law a congressional investigation
follow. This happened the very
next day, when 10, were held
and an all night session in order to
solve the vexed problem. The result
was a decision to cut down the force
from niaety-four to twelty-seven.
of it, one fourth of the session
they employed ninety-four persons as
extra help. but for three-fourths they
can get along with only 'twenty-seven.
Is this not positive proof that
the employment of the ninety
was a downright graft? Do you
for one moment that this
would have been made if we
had not had an honest governor who
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All three are Republl.

in the house. All three are Republi-
cans.
Ex-Governor JEFFERSON Davis who
will serve his native state Arkansas,
in the senate, was bornssin 1862 Al
vas. the only governor OF that state
to be elected three times. If half that
has been said of him is true he will
make Senator Tillman of South Caro-
Ina look to his laurels as a fire eater.
Other new Democrats senators from
the South r Robert l.. Taylor, thrice
governor of Tennessee, who was born
in that state in 1850, and Thomas
Paynter of Kentucky. born in the blue
grass state in 1851, and who served
as a member of the House in the FIT
ty-frst, Fifty-second and Fifty third
congresses.
All of the new senators to come out
of the West are Republicans. They
include Willihm E. Borad, of Idaho;
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., of Oregon; Nor
ris Brown of Nebraska Inc Simon
G~uggenheim of Colorado. Bourne
a h honor of being first United
States senator to be elected by a
direct vote of the people mi as such
has been accorded much attention
since his arrival in Washington
Brown of Nebraska, will be one of the.
youngest members of Il senate, and
also one of the poorest, nc even own
ing his own home. William E.. Borah
is a native of Illinois, a graduate of
the University of Kansas, and will be
AZ years of age next June.
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WANTED.
WANTED Experienced irrigator a
the Slaughter Farm. 99tf

WANTED Experienced irrigator at
the Slaughter Farm. 99tf
WANTED:- One mile of second
hand barb wire and posts. Address
Box 585, Roswell. 07t12*
WANTED:- Place to work and go
to school, by Is yea Die girl. APP
ply at this office. 09t2*
WANTED:-Room and board in nice
family by young married couple.
Address C. A. G. CO Record 1919.
WANTED A good salesman and
collector. Good opportunity for re-
liable man. Call 10 S.. Main. 09t6*
WANTED An experienced sales
lady, also for altering. at Carlsbad.
N. NJ Apply at The Morrison Bros.
Store. Roswell, N. NJ. Oft
WANTED Mining property to de-
yelop for incorporated company
Zenith Development Co, 313 West
Superior st., Duluth, Mimi. 09t5*
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Classified "Ad5.''
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE Land scrip.-W. G.
Skillmal. Aft
FOR SALE A good hack at City
Livery Stable. 08t5*
ALFALFA SEED-Warra1ted pure.
Chas Doty, 1 mile south of Ros-
WELL. O1t1O*
FOR SALE 5 room box house, six
blocks out, $700.-NelI B. Moore,
American Natl Bank. 1Ot2*
FOR SALE Three or four miles
open woven wire fence. Apply Ca
sis ranen, or phone BAT. If.
FOR SALE Work horse, Z years
old, weight 1900, price $150.-I.
E. Thompson, East sta St. loft
FOR SALE One rotary and drop
Austin well drilling machine. Phone
o. write the Oasis Ranch. 29tf
FOR SALE A combination go-cart
n baby carriage. Good as new.
Cheap. Apply 112 South Lea. 0St3
Eighty acres, well improved, IL
miles from court house, for sale at
bargain for a few days.-Carlton
& Bell.
FOR SALE A seven room house,
with barn, 100 fit. front, close in.
A bargain. Address &C. F." care of
Record. 08t3*
FOR SALE One brand new Cy-
pliers Incubator and two Model
brooders.-Dr. Anderson, Oklaho-
ma Block. 1Ot3
SALE 40 head broke ponies,
4 and 5 years old. Quick sale at
right price. Apply to J. C. Wilson,
Dayton, N. NJ, or Cooper & Mil
lice, Roswell. 09t26
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THE TEST OF SINCERITY.

EAO11 AA0A44CA4&S
The Morning Journals recent X
posture of the scheme to force a fake
anttgamblfag bin on n legislature
AID the people during the closing
days of the session, has brought a
loud wall of denial from the men who
were responsible for the possibility
of such a scheme becoming success
full 1t has brought renewed assur-
ance from the machine organ in
Santa Fe tAa the leaders of the ma
chine are sincere in their support of
an honest prohibitory law which will
stop gambling in this Territory.
These assurances have been coming
from the machine organ in Santa Fe
since tie beginning of the session;
vague, indefinite intimatiols that in
good time the machine might LEM
it's assistance to the passage of a gen
ulne anti-gambiing act.
There are now three aati-gambling
bills before the assembly, any one of
which, 1t is declared, would stop gam
bling. The machine apparently favors
the Sp5ess bill, the last to be intro
duced.s Some very able lawyers of
which Mr.. Spiese Is one, assert that
the Spiess bill will prove enforceable
and that it will check gambling. 9th
err very able lawyers assert that the
Spfess bin Is detective in that it pro-
vides for prosecution only by indict-
ment and makes no provision for
prosecution upon information by the
district attorney. That h bill would
be more effective with such an added
provision, there 10 NO doubt The diff
lculty OF securing indictments for
violation OF laws of this kind is well
known The man who CANDLES Is al
ways unwilling to testify before a
grand jury. while the man who runs
the game, very naturally. In even less
Inclined TO testify.
M the provision for prosecution MP
ON information win render this leg
islatfon more effective IL should be
inserted, and every man who stands
for the prohibition OF gambling.
should seek to have IL inserted; for
it Aim agreed that it were better to
leave tine gambling evil alone as At
ia, unless ar1aW can De- passed which
U NM.
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STANFORD BASEBALL TEAM
WILL TOUR THE EAS

WILL lOOn I6E EAot
Palo Alto, Cal, March 2.-The base
ball season is now on in full blast
at Leland Stanford University, the
meeting the strong Gallagher
Marsh team this afternoon. Fourteen
games remain on the schedule yet
be played, the local season ending
with two games with the University
California on April 6 and 13. The
nine will leave on a our of the East
the last of May, and the manager is
now arranging games with the state
and other institutions in
the territory to sbe invaded. While
the showing made by the Stanford
nine in some of the earlier games
has been unsatisfactory to the fans,
the players are now getting into shape
and it is believed that at the close OF
the local season they will be able TO
give a good account of themselves
in games with any of the eastern uni
versity teams. Most of the members
of the University team of last year
returned and it is likely that
nine will play through the season
without any substantial change.
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NEWS FORECASTS FOR
THE COMING WEEK.
MONDAY:

The second session of the Fifty
ninth congress will come to an end
at noon.
The nomination of G.. B. Cortelyou
as secretary of the treasury, George
Won L. Meyer as postmaster general
and J. R. Garfield as secretary of the
Interior become effective.
The Standard Oil Company of In
diana will be placed on trial at Chi
cago, under eight indictments charg-
ing acceptance of rebates on oil ship
ments.
The case of Will J. Davis, manager
of the %Iroquois theater at Chicago,
charged with man slaughter in con-
nectiol with holocaust has again been
set for trial.
The United States Supreme our
will hear arguments in the case of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
against the Chicago Great Western
Road, involving alleged illegal chan
ges in rates
Ermete Novelli, the famous Irish
tragedian will begin al American tour
at Boston.
The delivery of patents to Choctaw
and Chickasaw Indians will begin in
the indian Territory.
The Florida Press Association will
meet at Jacksonville for a trip to
Key West, where the annual conven-
ton will be held.
The Texas Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows will begin its annual session
in San Antonio.
TUESDAY,
Russian douma will meet in St. Pc
tnrShur0 whnn tho animal hlIT1 Cnf will
be submitted.
The New York Grand Lodge, of An
cient Order OF United Workmen will
in Rochester.
The British Columbia and Mantle
grand lodges of Odd Fellows will
hold their annual sessions.
WEDNESDAY,
About forty members of the house
of representatives will sail for Pa1a-
ma to investigate the canal construc-
ion.
Civil service examinations will be
held for clerks, French translators,
engineers, stationary engin-
GERS, assistant assayers, Topographic
biologists ,wiremen pho
and tailors.
Rhode Island grand lodge of d
Fellows are to begin convention at
Providence.
Manitoba Loyal Orange grand lodge
meets in Winnipeg.
Thursday
The two huadredth anniversary of
union between England M Scot
and will be occasion of a great cele-
in both countries.
The Olympia commercial vehicle &
boat show will open in London.
The Arkansas State convention, of
Young Mems Christian Associa-
ion "opens in Jonesboro.
The Columbia, Cornell and Pennsyl
rama universities will hold their an
lual debates in New York, Ithaca and
Philadelphia.
The South Mississippi Lumbermen's
association meets in Harrisburg.
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conviets GET Lease of Life.

Jefferson City. Mo-, March liar
ry Vaughn, George Ryan and Edward
Raymond, the three prisoners at the
state p~enitentiary who convict
ed of murder in the first degree for
killing officers Clay and Allison dur
ing a mutiny at the prison in Novem-
Der. 1905, and sentenced 10 be hang
ed today, have secured a new lease
of life through an appeal to the SUI
preme court. 1t is not likely that the
triple execution win take place before
the middle of the year.
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Bernard Pos Piano Go
EXPERT TUNING.
Telephone 1872.
Real Estate Transfers.


The following deeds have been fl
ed for record in the Office of Probate
Clerk and Recorder F. F. Gayle:
JOIN C. Silman and wife, by sher-
ifs sale, to the Western Grocery Co,
for s117.95, the north half of lot L,
block 9 Alameda Heights addition to
Roswell.
Mary Doole, to J. j.. Rascoe for
$1,000, lots 5, 6 and 7, block Z. West
Side Addition to Roswell.
Joseph c. Lea, deceased, by L. K.
McGaffey, administrator, to r. A.
Holmes, for $3.50, lots s. and 9. block
4, North Spring River Addition to
Roswell.
J. B. Keaster and wife to Miss Eu-
nice Bell. for $2,10o, ten acres in 30
10 "a.
Richard E. Byrne to Allen A. Ma
so1, for $3.50. lot IL, block SO, West
Side Addition to Roswell.
w. H. Drashner and wife to F. d.
Mitchell, for $475, lot 10, block 2.
West Side addition to Hagerman.
Richard c. Phillips and wife to Dor
E. Webb and husband, for $500
lots / and 2 block 1, Wildy's addi-
ton to Roswell.
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To make a new application of a
suggestion from a Kansas paper, even
though the New Mexico legislature
fails to agree upon any law, the ses-
sion will not have beer in vain if it
teaches the voters to be careful
in the future in h selection of their
legislators.
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TESTIMONIAL DINNER
TO "TODY" HAMILTON

New York, March 2.-"Tody' Ham
ilton, for a quarter of a century tae
worlds greatest press agent of the
greatest show on EARTH" now to
every circus and theatrical man news
paper nan and sportsman IN Ameri-
ca and Europe, will be the recipient
of a testimonial dinner at the Wal
dorf Astoria tonight. The event is
in the hands of newspaper men and
scores of them from all parts of the
country have united their efforts to
give .tTody" a send-off so exuberant
as to make even his tremendous imagi
native powers pale by comparison.
The executive committee includes %
prominent newspaper writers and pub
fishers, with Peter F. Collier, proprie-
tor of the Golfers Weekly, as gener-
al treasurer. There(a hundred men
on the dinner committee from all
parts of the United States. The din
ner is expected to last until a late
hour and the presentation of the tes-
timonial will Immediately follow. The
nature of the gift has not yet been
made public, but the contributions
have e very large n it is certain
to be something substantial.
"Tody" Hamilton is the great origi-
nal press agent, the father of the
flock, the Nestor of publicity promo
tiers. Moreover, he sticks to the good
old name Of "press agent" disdai1ing
the modern appelations with a SUI
preme contempt. He was as great in
his own line as Barnum was in his
He made a new profession, one which
is now a recognized necessity in the
circus and theatrical business. Some
of the most monumental axe ev-
Ell fabricated are to his credit-not
to his discredit, since they were never
malicious and were always amusing
a1d pleasing to the public.
To the newspaper men of the coun-
try who have arranged the dinner and
testimonial the work has been purely
a labor of love. Hamilton has zee
closely associated with newspaper
men for a generation, and every one
who has come under the spell of his
happy personality is his sincere friend
''Tody'' has had thousands of sue
cessors, bu few equals n no super
iors. He was the first to advocate
display advertising for amusement
ventures, and in converting P. T. Bar
mum to his way of thinking added
much to h prosperity of newspaper
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THE ROCK ISLAND GIVES
CONVENTION RATES.

49,
The following letters show that the
Rock Island road will give an extra
good rate of far to the cattlemen's
convention:
Fit. Worth, Tex, Feb. Is, 1897.
Chairman, Transp. Committee,
Roswell, New Mexico.
Dear Sir
Referring to your letter February
9Th: We will make rate of fare and
one-ifth from points on our line to
Amarillo, added to $500 round trip
rate from Amarillo to Roswell, pro-
vided this is rendered to us by the
Pecos Valley Lines for basing pur-
poses; tickets to be sold April 10 and
14th, final limit April oath.
Yours very truly,
Chicago, Rock island & Gulf Ry.,
Phil. A. Auer, G. P. & T. A.
Amarillo, Tex, Feb. 25th, 1897.
Mr.. P. A. Auer,
GPA, CRI & G. Ry Co.,
FIT. Worth, Texas.
Dear Sir
Referring to your letter of Febru-
airy 25th to Mr.. Kemp, and my ecent
telegram. You are correct in under
standing that we will accept from
Amarillo to Roswell and return $500
for tickets sold for this convention.
Yours truly,
D. L MEYERS,
Traffic Manager
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LOST.

LOST:-A Scotch Collie pup. yellow
in color. Return t A. C. Swanson.
and receive reward. 09t2s
LOST BLACK OVERCoAT.- On the
road northeast or south of town.
Leave at Captain Hotel for reward.
]. W. FISHER. 0st2s
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Can you not believe that a man
Of earnest and burly habit may find
small good i'm tea, essays, INT chate-
chism, and want a rougher i1struc-
ton. want men, labor, trade, farming,
war. hunger, plenty, love, hatred,
doubt, and terror, to make things
plain to him; and has he not a right
to insist ON being convinced in his
ow7 way? When he is convinced, he
will be worth the pains.-Emerson.
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For the benefit of the uninitiated,
the society editor yesterday might
have added a note explaining that
Shakespeare was not guilty of writ
ing the poem quoted, ever if he
did write Macbeth.
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Fol a man in hopeless minority po-
sition, Mr.. Hudspeth seems to be
possessed with surprising courage
and persistency. He insists on calling
theft, e~mbezzlement and graft by
their proper names, and declines to
be suppressed.
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Today's dispatches bring news of
a suit being filed against Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy for a financial account
ing. But of course she will not rec
ognize such vulgar m~aterialists as the
courts-ald surely she is not a com
mon CRATER.
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A correspondent wants to know If
the proposed annexation of he Pecos
Valley to Tex is a bluff. Well, wait
for the showdown. Bluffing seems to
be fashionable, however.
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The men of fine parts protect them
selves by solitude, Of by courtesy, or
by satire, or by an acid worldly man.
ner, eacn ~concealing, as best he can,
his incapacity for useful association,
but they want either love or self-re-
liance-EmerSon.
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The Record has a subject for Mon
day in which politics cuts very little
figure, THE Greatest Enterprise in
Roswell" You should read Mondays
paper.
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STATE LEAGUE
WI RE nRGANIZEF

Atlanta, Ga, March "A move
ment has been i~naugurated to organ
ize a new Georgia State baseball leag
lie, with Columbus, Albany, Americas
Waycross, Dawson and Cordele as the
proposed members. Severa of the
towns have already raised funds for
the purpose and it is likely that the
new organization will be successfully
launched before the season opens.
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Failure of the legislature to pa:

Failure of the legislature to pass
any appropriation bill at all will not
seriously affect the Military Institute.
Under the law 1t will be allotted the
same amount given two years ago.
The threat of cuttiIN OFF the appro-
priation was only a blum based on he
assumption that many Roswell people
did not know anything about this
provision OF the law.
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objected to such practices? Of course
o cannot
So here we have another example
of the g%rafters furnishing the proof
of their own guilt.
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A whole lot of fellows are charging
their cussedness up to "eccentricities
of genius" who haven't fully proved
up the genius part of the proposition.
Maverick.
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1t would be ungrateful of Roswell
not to acknowledge a debt to Dele
gate Andrews for getting the Military
Institute N bill through congress
though he never built h Santa Fe
Central to the Pecos Valley.
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This being Saturday, we let you
of easy, SO that you may be il a pro-
per frame of mind to attend church
tomorrow.
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The machine at Santa Fe probably
will come out more plainly after the
adjournment of congress.