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The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1907-10-19
News Will Join With Citizens of Otero County to Effect
Statehood Organization and Elect Delegates
to Statehood Convention
MASS MEETING Of CITIZENS to BE CALLED SOON
Judge Manu. judicial District In Interview With
News Representative Strong Reasons for Statehood and
Admonishes Citizens Get Together and Get Busy

all Of the statesmen of the terri
still talking statehood for New Mexico and
articles written all
being very all for single statehood
nothing definite and each section and community
t. other busy and do something.
the focal point of the territory
action
the News undertakes
has secured opinion less
judicial Judge Mann the interview gives
should be admitted statehood
Mann asked
ave Mexico had the foundation
be made before
gress in admission to the Union.
Judge following statement +.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1907-10-19
QOUDCROFT SITES ARE SAFE
- pasO Tines Alarms Property OWn-
erS at Summer Resort.
TITLE TO LAND SAID TO Be CLEAR

Last Mondays Ell Paso Times
pubished a reprint of the News
story. of last Saturday about the
government having entered suit
against the Alamogordo Lumber
company, and in commenting
mon the article, stated that the
suit might involve the title to
cottages and summer homes of
those who had bought at Cloud
croft.
The News has investigated
the facts governing the case and
finds that no fear need be en-
tertained by any one owning
property at ClouGcroft, as the
land upon which this beautiful
summer resort is built was Sc
cured independently from any
forest lands and is in no way in
volved in the impending suit.
The hlamogordo Improvement
company secured a clear title to
a large tract of land upon a por-
tion of which ClOudcrOft is To-
Gated, the title having been OBJ
tanned by the outright purchase
from the original settlers.
The homesteaded and patent
ed lands of Eli McNew and Matt
Parrott were purchased by r.
H. Pierce, from him transferred
to the Improvement company
and when the Phelps-Dodgt
company purchased the Z. ?. &
n. Z. railway, the improvement
company transferred these pat
ented lands to the Phelps-DodgC
people.
This, it will be readily seen
gives a direct and clear title
from the original homesteadert
on patented land, to the presen'
owners of Cloudcroft, and pre-.
cludes any possibility Of defec'
in title, or of the Cloudcrof
land being involved in the sui
of the government against th'
lumber company.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1907-10-19

The time has come when ev-
cry citizen of New Mexico, who
has the interest Of our people at
heart, should throw himself into
the fight for statehood for New
Mexico. Governor Curry has ac-
compIished for us something
that is of the greatest lmpor-
tance, that is, the cooperation
of the president of the United
States in our fight for self gov
ernment. With the hearty sup
port of the president and a per-
sistent demand on the part OF
our people we will gain the long
coveted prize at the coming ses-
sion of Congress, This cannot
be accomplished, however, with
ont a determined effort on our
mart to accomplish this result.
A campaign of education must
be started at once and pushed
forward with the energy charac-
teristic of our western people
when once aroused. Congress
must be made to see that there
is no more reason why New Mex
ico should remain a territory
than that the high school gradu-
ate should be kept in the kin
dergarten. 1t must be under
stood that we are hot a handful
of neopIe. largely foreign, III
whose hands the reins OF govern
ment would be unsafe, but thai
we comprise some three hundred
tbonsand Americans, capable Of
deriving the powers of govern
ment from that same source
which. we are told, is the foun
tain of all just government-the
consent of the governed.
] zone does not have to go tal
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1907-10-19
COURT OPENS AT
LINCOLN ON MONDAY

Judge Mann, II. H. Major and
Roy Prentice, returned to Ala
mogordo on Sunday last from
Lincoln, where they had been in
attendance on the special term
Of court.
The special term was devoted
to civil cases entirely and thirty
cases were disposed of at this
session.
On Monday, October 81, the
same gentlemen will leave Tor
Tucumcari, where the regular
session of court will be taken up
and they expect to be occupied
at least three weeks at Tucum-
carl, as the regular docket is
very large, including both crlml-
nal and civil cases.
Mr.. Downs, clerk of the court
will attempt to perform the
duties of clerk at the TucumcarI
term but his recent severe III
ness has left him very weak
and in the event of his being un'
able to complete the entire term
II. H. Major will take his place
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1907-10-19
BAPTIST SERVICES.

Preaching next Sunday II a. m ana
pm. at the First Baptist church by tne
pastor. Rev, S. b. Galloway. The pas
tor would kindly urge all members ahu
all Baptists not members, to attend 'he
services. The public is especlaI'y anu
cordially invited to worship with us.
SUNDAY school 10 a. u. Come and help U.s.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1907-10-19
SUIT MAY Be COMPROMISED
Rumored That offer to Return Land
VIII Be Accepted.
FORESTS ARE NOT DENUDED OF TIMBER

Dispatches from Washington
state that Attorney General A.
B. Fall and Delegate w. II. An
drews, who were in Washington
last week, made several calls to
the interior department and the
department of justice relative to
recent federal affairs in New
Mexico.
1t is generally understood that
the Alamogordo Lumber compa-
ny made an offer to Attorney
General Fall, to deed back to
the government all of the noun
tain lands from which they had
cut the timber and for which
land the lumber company paid
$3 an acre. The lumber compa-
ny is credited with stating that
the bureau of forestry could take
the denuded timber lands and
replant them in forest trees.
In the suit that the govern
ment has instituted at Alamo
gordo against the lumber compa-
ny, detailed account of which
appeared in this paper on Octo-
Der y, one of the allegations is
to the effect that the lumber
company paid only $3 an acre
for timbered lands which were
worth at least 500 an acre. I'm
less the government decides to
accept the offer of the lumber
company to give back the land,
minus the forests that have been
razed, the lumber company will
have to show cause, on October
10 in Alamogordo, why the in
junction asked for by the govern.
ment should not be issued to
prevent the lumber company
from cutting any more timber
and requiring it to relinquish all
right and title to the "a, 600 acres
secured through alleged irregu-
larities.
1t seems that the allegations
of the government are in error
in some particulars, as the charge
is made that the lumber COM
pany has been continuously cut
ting timber from the lands al
legged to have been secured from
the territory through irregular
tiles, whereas, the facts are, is
stated, that the lumber company
, has never cut stick of tim Der
from the lands in question. The
lumber company secured 0y pur-
chase of scrip a large tract of
timber and it is this tim bered
land that the operations of lum-
bering have been confined to.
: We are informed that these al
legations are at fault in many
instances and the hearing will
disclose some facts that seem tc
have escaped the government at
tOrneys.
In view of the vast areas of
timbered lands which the lum bel
company owns outside of the
> forests in dispute, there is nc
: fear of the lumber company run
" ming short of timber for years tt
y come and the large lumber mil
{ at Alamogordo will continue il
% full operation.
There were rumors on tn,
; streets to the effect that the gov
. ernment's suit would result il
- the logging being suspended an,
:" the mill having to shut down
% but the actual facts in the case
~ as above explained, seem to pre-
IG.,. LILA - Il z,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
Rough Road for Ambulance.

In its trips to and from the scene of to-
days accident the ambulance of the Emer-
gency Hospital passed for a considerable
part of the distance along cobble-stoned
streets. On leaving Pennsylvania avenue
at 18th street, going west with patients
the ambulance was driven through D street
over this rough form of pavement. This is
indeed the usual route for the hospital
wagon on all trips from the main business
section, where very large per cent of the
accidents requiring hospital service occur.
1t requires no acuteness of imagination to
conceive the discomfort. if not the danger,
to patients occasoned by the jolting over
the paving stones of D street between 18th
and 18th. A small sum of money would
suffice to put this peculiarly important
street in proper condition, and it is to be
hoped that this item will be added to the
list of next seasons improvements without
fail,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
What Is to Be Done With Hartman?

II Mr.. Hartman hoped to learn precisely
where he stood, as TO the federal govern
ment. a result of last nights conference
at the White House. he must be disap-
pointed man today. There may be some
comfort 10 be sure. in the fact that there
has been no straight-out announcement
that the administration is TO proceed to put
the Presidents indianapolis speech into eff
feet by making an example OF Mr.. Harri-
man as one of the bad magnates whom
he denounced in that utterance. But there
are indications at the same time that the
conclusions reached by those who partici
pated in the conference We're purely tenta-
tive and that prosecution may follow later.
The prime question involved in this mat
ter is whether there is actual need of a full
demonstration of the federal powers in the
premises. That Mr.. Hartman and his as
sOClates have engaged in some very ques-
tionable. if not actually Illegal, transactions
IN connection with the financing of his sew
eral deals, is generally accepted by the
country at large. The main point of de-
sire, of course, is that steps should be
taken to put stop TO such methods of Jug
Cling the properties of stockholders and
merging the transportation lines, and there
by limiting the range of competition. Punt
tive measures would serve, to he sure as
terrible example to all fnanciers, if exc
Cuted in sufficiently severe terms. But
that is the last resort. Has the case come
10 the point at which it is desirable to dis
charge the heaviest bolt in the CULVER?
A punishment that is perennially held
over the heads Of offenders, and never in
fiicted, becomes after a time of no avail in
restraint Damocles grew SO familiar with
his peril that he was no longer oppressed
by II. The President, it is well known,
has way OF looking upon law as some
thing TO be enforced whenever violated. He
does not believe in allowing statutes to fall
into desuetude. to be repealed by failure to
apply. 1t may be readily assumed that he
Is therefore at this time an advocate of i'm
mediate punishment in cases where the Of
Tense is proved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08

Senate, but few of them have been either
useful or comfortable there. Those who
failed, ed dismally. They loafed through
a term or two, and then were glad to drop
out, as the country was glad to have them
do so. Coming into the chamber without
qualification for such an arena. they were
little more than spectators. They could but
sit and observe the play. Their own parts
were very small, and not speaking parts.
They shaped no policies, wrote no reports,
made no addresses. The public wondered
at their presence in such a place. and ex-
planned it in but one way.
In Virginia the political leaders have, as
a rule, been poor men, who had made q
study of public questions. Even John s..
Barbour. who was a man of wealth, had
addressed himself to politics for years be-
fore he reached the Senate, and had al
ways resided in the state. In such company
Mr.. Ryan would be out Of place. Nearly
the whole OF his business life has been
spent In New York. and spent wholly in the
domain of business His part in politics
has been small For such man, therefore.
to change his residence so late in life and
offer at once for SO high an office would
challenge the traditions, and it might shock
the pride. of the Old Dominion. We shall
probably not see the word senator prefxed
TO Mr. Ryan name.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
The South in National Affairs.

The argument in support of southern
man for President is that the south is
the seat OF the democratic power she should
lead the party. Why. it is asked. should
she be forever a humble follower of the
north? She has many worthy sons, and
just now is being adjured to put one of
them up for next years nomination.
So far as the presidency is concerned the
south has been sitting below ,he salt long
time. but in other respects she has had
good deal 10 say about party matters?
In the House the south has been in the
democratic saddle for nearly a quarter of
a century. -Ir. Carlisle was first elected
Speaker in December, 1883, and served
three terms. The next democratic Speaker
was a southern man. Judge Crisp. and he
served two carms Among the democratic
leaders on the floor have been Mills Of
Texas. Wilson O. West Virginia, Bailey of
Texas Richardson of Tennessee and Will
lilms of Mississippi, all southern men.
In the Senate the democratic leader for
years was Mr. German of Maryland and
when he died the vacancy was filled by the
selection Of Mr.. Blackburn of Kentucky.
The northern democrats presented nobody
against Nh German, and last winter as
against Mr. Blackburn they had nobody to
the party northern democrats have disap-
peared from the Senate until none is left.
When the Sixtieth Congress organizes
next winter the south will again be in the
saddle. Mr. Williams will again lead his
party in the House. though there arSdemo-
Gratis who would be glad of change. But
only southern men. Mr.. Clark and Mr.. De
Almond OF Missouri have been proposed
to succeed him. In the Senate the only talk
of a minority leader relates to southern
men. Mr.. CulberSon of Texas. Mr. Martin
OF Virginia. MIR. Bacon of Georgia and Mr..
Rayner of Maryland are the men canvassed
for the place vacated by Mr. Blackburn.
and it seems likely that one OF the four
will draw the prize
II is hardly accurate. therefore, to describe
the south as a stepchild in the democratic
household She has very resonant voice
about party matters. and during both of
Mr.. Clevelands terms as President she
shared beautifully in the distribution of the
patronage. At the cabinet table, in the
diplomatic field and elsewhere she was we'll
represented She yields in the matter of
the presidency only through fear that for
the grand e she would not hold the
winning ticket. For everything in fair
reach she holds out her platter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
Mayor Mcclellan and the Recount.

Mayor Mcclellan of New York city has
vetoed the famous recount bill, which
was recently passed by the legislature and
Of official events. The mayor, however,
lacked the courage to do the job of vetoing
himself, but performed it by proxy, skip
ping out of town just at the psychological
moment to relinqush his office temporarily
to acting mayor. That the acting
mayors veto message was framed with
full knowledge of his chiefs desires and
ideas may be accepted That it goes to
Albany as a Mcclellan veto is the general
opinion today. And the net result of it
all will doubtless be that the bill will be
passed over the veto and will become a
law, leaving the mayor in the rather I'M
to put himself on record against 1t and
the spirit to approve it and thus invite the
fullest possible investigation of the cleo
ton of 1893
The acting mayors veto message, which
is read as an echo of the mayors own
words puts the objection TO the measure
on several grounds. chiefly that the con-
testant for the mayoralty, Mr.. Hearst, has
his rights sufficiently safeguarded by Or
binary court processes. 1t is somewhat no.
torious fact that Mr.. Hearst's rights in
MED by Mr.. Mcclellan, and that it was
only when they were fully affirmed by the
highest court of the state that they were
acknowledged a the city hall. 1t was be-
cause of the assurance that the court pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08

ceedings would be still further INSTRUCTED
by the mayor that the special enactment
was sought from the legislature, to permit
an earlier ascertainment of the truth with
regard to the election.
Mayor Mcclellan had y glorious oppor-
tunity Immediately after the election, when
the cry Of fraud was first raised. If he
had then consented to a full recount of the
ballots he would have stood to lose nothing
but an office to which he had no rights.
He might have won both the Office and the
esteem of the community. He may now
lose the Office and he has long since lost
the public esteem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
The Offer of France.

The suggestion coming from Paris that
the French governments good offices are at
the disposal of the United States in order
to straighten out the questions affecting
this country and Japan is somewhat pre-
mature. to say the least. There is no such
embarrassment as to warrant the inter-
vention of a third party. The questions
now pending between the United States and
Japan do not turn upon difficult issues.
They bear in the main upon the point Of
how far the United States can go in guar
anteeng the security of the persons and
property of Japanese resident in California,
where they are subject to a somewhat
heated mob sentiment by no means re-
Elective of the general sentiment of the
country The United States has at no time
expressed the least Discrimination to go to
the limit of the federal powers to enforce
the terms of existing treaties. If Japan
is dissatisfied with these conditions there
can be no possible ground for a breach of
relations.
If the United States were disposed to act
cavalierly toward Japan at this juncture
there might be warrant for the suggestion
that now comes from Paris. 1t is not to
be thought for a moment that the exact
situation is misunderstood abroad There
| main desire of the French government is
| to secure the cooperation of the United
| States in the new adjustments between the
powers. These adjustments are taking the
form of so-caled ententes, or treaties of
alliance. The latest is that between France
and Japan. which recognizes the integrity
of China. The United States cannot well
agree to enter upon any such series of ar
rangements. Its traditional policy from
which there is no present reason for it to
depart, precludes it's joining with the pow
ers of Europe in any bargains of the
sort, even though it has more than once
proclaimed itself as favoring the preserva-
ton of China from partition.
AS for the Japanese situation, it will
surely yield to reasonable treatment If the
jingoes of Japan do not force the hand
of the government at Toxic and if the peo-
pie of California, on their part. pay due
respect to the international obligations Of
the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
Ryan of New York and Virginia.

Thomas F. Ryan is a man in whom the
public is interested. He is the subject of
much t..cussion He may OF he n. ~ not
have retired from Wall street He NAV or
lie may not be worth a hundred million dol
lars. He may or he may not be cotem-
plating lie OF ease and happiness on his
Virginia estate. The reports about him
make good reading, and therefore are nu-
merous and well prepared. At fffty-five he
has just entered upon what the French call
the youth Of old age. His health is satisfat-
tory; Lis experience has been large. and if
lie abandons an active for quiet life he
should enjoy himself.
IL is stated, however, that a seat in the
'nited States Senate is n feature OF his
Plan for a quiet life. The duties of the
office he thinks are light, and would take
up but Little of his time. He could spend
lis winters in Washington. and his SUM
lners and falls in rural Virginia. The year
would thus pass pleasantly. After helping
70 save the country. he could cross the Po-
1"mac and gather in his crops and entertain
his friends. The scheme is very pretty ON
paper.
But Mr.. Ryan should think twice before
"HtrlhS Tor such an honor. The place would
not suit him. Rich men hare reached the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
"a japanese Tolstoy."
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
Count Okuma is out of politics and is re-
gArded as Japanese Tolstoy." Such Is the
pithy comment at the end of a special ca
BILE dispatch to the Herald from Toxic this
morning. The facts cited indicate. how
ever. that Count Okuma is trying very hard
to break into politics. Leading statesmen,
according to our dispatch, attribute his
lingo utterances and his hostility toward
the United States as intended mainly for
home consumption and as part of the
progressive party's efforts to overthrow
the present ministry. There is question
that he had strong following in his opposi-
ton to the terms of peace concluded at
Portsmouth, and it is likely that he and the
other progressives have considerable popu-
lar support in their lingo utterances about
the recent Wrecking of restaurant and a
bathhouse owned by Japanese In San Fran
cisco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
The Mosquito War.
Tic MUSQu IIU " Ut.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
The effort by the city authorities to rid
Baltimore of mosquitoes is entitled to the
aid of all citizens. Indeed. there can be
only measurable success without general
cooperation. If householders permit rain
barrels and pools of standing water and
open cesspools in their lots then mosquitoes
cannot be exterminated, and a whole neigh
borhood will suffer from the neglect or in
difference of one person. 1t has been shown
that mosquitoes do not travel far, and If the
people of the city will comply with the or
ders of the board of health and the city
ordnance the breeding places around the
houses will be made unDroductive, and
there is little danger of an invasion from
outside
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
"Progress'' With the Trusts.
From the New York Times.

From the New 1Ork Times.
1t is not often that single day witnesses
two such combinations as the Morse merger
of six steamship lines with $62, 900 capt.
tai and the absorption of the Boston and
Maine by the New. York and New Haven
Railway, all but completing the monopoly
of transportation in that portion Of New
England. If the coincidence had been in
territorial it would nave been sheer defiance
of the ''big stick to make such announce
ments at the very crisis of the campaign
against the worst restrainer of trade now
at large.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
Modern Conyeniences.

"And, will you write to me- he sighed
when 1 am far away?'
In earnest accents she replied,
I'll write you every day.
She really meant each word of it,
If simple truth were known.
But, it's prosy task to sit
And scribble, all alone.
And so she smiles, serenely bland,
And thinks her duty done.
She bought lot of post cards and
Just mailed them, one by one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
For Her Sake.

$50 you quit smoking because she asked
you to-" said the youth with the clam
shell cap.
Yes" answered the lad with the turned
up trousers.
"And them
Then she went walking with man who
smoked pipe because She said it kept
away mosquitoes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08

UIn order to avoid delays on account Of
personal absence letters to TIE STAR
should not be addressed to any individual
connected with tho ONCE. but simply to
THE STAE, OF to the Editorial or Busi-
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08
The Backward Season,

do you expect many summer board
ers?"
Yes answered Farmer Corntossel. I've
got a new idea. I'm going to cut out all
this talk about fresh air an scenery an
advertise an oil stove in every ROOM