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Will Remain in Demine

We take pleasure in calling at
tention to the professional card
of Attorney c. c. Fielder in this
issue.
Mr.. Fielder moved from Hill
county, Texas, to Deming last
January, but since the dissolu-
ton Of the former firm OF Fielder
and Fielder, he has been con-
templating changing his location
but himself and family have been
so favorably impressed with
the natura! resources of New
Mexico and with Deming as an
ideal place for a home, and con-
sequently has decided to cast his
lot with US and become a perma-
nent citizen of Luna county.
Mr.. Fielder is an attorney of
experience and ability, and we
feel confident will merit and re.
ceive a liberal share of the public
patronage. His genial nature
and social disposition have won
for him many warm friends in
this SCI ton, who, in common with
the editor Of THE GRAPHIC, are
highly pleased to know that he
will make his future home in
Deming.
Mr.. Fielder in connection with
his law practice will be associated
with the firm of Darr & Tackett
in the real estate business. By
adding his ripe business exper-
ience to the already thoroughly
established reputation of barr
q Tackett for integrity, energy
and perseverance will make this
one of the strongest real estate
firms in this portion of Nee,
Mexico,
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1907-07-26
New Mexico Towns Win In
Fight for Freight Rates.

" ashington, July l8. In an
opinion rendered by Commits
sioner Prouty, the interstate
commerce commission today an
nounced its decision in the case
of the Roswell Commercial Club
and others against the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Co.
and others. The complaint in
this case was in issue the reason
ableness of rates between var
ious points in the United States
and Roswell, Hagerman and
Carlsbad, in New Mexico. The
present class rates from Kansas
City and st. Louis, Galveston
and Denver, to said points in
New Mexico are unjust and un-
reasonable and reductions were
ordered.
Certain commodity rates to the
same points in New Mexico were
held to be excessive. The COM
modify rate on grain and grain
products from points in Kansas
and Oklahoma were ordered to
be reduced from AZ cents on
flour and as cents on wheat to
az cents on -four and 40 cents on
wheat. The commodity rate on
Lumber to points in Texas and
Louisiana was ordered to be re-
duced from as cents to 32 cents
per hundred pounds; and that on
salt in sacks from Hutchinson,
Kan, was ordered to be reduc-
ed from IS cents to 30 cents per
100 pounds.
The commodity rates on apples,
alfalfa and alfalfa meal from
points in New Mexico to Fort
Worth, Tex, were held to be un-
reasonable and were ordered re-
duced from SO cents on apples
and 81 cents on alfalfa and on
alfalfa meal to as cents on ap-
pies and 30 cents on alfalfa and
olfalfa y,,nol
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Mr.. F. c. McDermott was in
the city from Haywood Tuesday.
Judge Chapman's court has
been on a swift grind this week.
For good, pure homemade
lard call at H. Myers Meat
Market.
Hon. J. N. Upton left Tuesday
over the Santa Fe for his ranch
near Spaulding.
Mr.. W. C. Wallis was up near
Mutt the first of the week on a
surveying trip,
Attorney Jas. S. Fielder went
to Silver City on business Tues
day, returning next night.
The advance guard of the
prospectors who are going to ar.
rive here this fall are beginning
to put in an appearance.
r. Swanzy, the Cash Lumber
| Man. has all new stock and
good material.
Mr.. ]. A. Mahoney is home
from his trip to the Eastern
markets. His friends are pleas.
ed to see him looking so we'll.
Cool, refreshing showers are
now visiting us. The stockmer
report the range getting in good
shape by reason of good rains.
Pure, homemade lard at II
Myers Meat Market.
Col. Geo. Graves, the wei
known capitalist, has returned t
the city from a trip to the min,
ing centers of the Cooks Peak
district. Mr.. Graves sees il
Cooks Peak a wonderful mining
camp some day.
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Flash Back" Did II.

Washington, July Is. The ma
val court of inquiry in the case
of the explosion on the battle
ship Georgia find that the acci-
dent resulted from a flash
back" meaning that when the
breach of the eight-inch gun was
blown open after the gun was
thrown open after the gun was
discharged, some shreds Of
burning cloth or unconsumed
gas were driven into the turret
and upon the powder about tc
be inserted for the next charge,
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Pay day has come again and
the railroad boys are exultant.
The first annual dance for bene-
fit of the Rebekah Lodge will be
given at Clark's opera house
next Tuesday night, July 3Oth,
We understand that the Santa
Fe will soon take steps toward
rebuilding the depot at Haywood,
which was burned down several
months ago.
Railroad Men! We want your
Overalls and want them bad. 25C
q suit.
DEMING STEAM LAUNDRY.
Mr.. Bud Williams, the wei
known stockman of Hachita, was
in the city this week visiting
relatives and acquaintances anC
attending to business affairs.
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The hand-ironers at the Steam
Laundry struck the other day.
A number of aliens have pass
el through here in the last few
days, presumably in transit to
Victoria, B. C.
Miss Bertha Black, of Rincon,
is here visiting friends. The
Black family will move back to
Deming this fall.
Rev. Foulks left Wednesday
for Lake Valley, where he will
begin a protracted meeting. lie
was accompanied by Mr.. o. Max
field.
The Santa Fe has q work train
repairing the track between Rim
con and Laguna, which was
damaged by flood waters of the
Rio Grande during this summer.
Mrs. B. Y, McKeyes entertain
ed the Ladies Aid last Thursday.
Mrs. McKeyes served elegant re-
freshments and the society new
er had a more pleasing and en-
joyable gathering.
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NE XICAN MS IN
FATAL SHOOTING
Mexican Woman Ambushed
~, and Shot 10 Death.

''f There was a killing at Gage, a
small settlement about 10 miles
west of Deming, on the s. p.
road, at l1:90 p. m. last Friday
night.
The principals in the shooting
are Mexicans, a Mexican named
Martin Amadora having shot
and killed a Mexican woman by
the name of Concha Mendoza.
The fatal shot was fired from a
q % calibre rifle and took effect
in the woman's side, immed-
lately in front of the left arm
Ut and came out through the
right arm, above the elbow. The
victim was fired upon from am
bush as she was returning to her
home from q late call at the
home of a neighbor, and died
within a half hour after being
wounded. Jealousy is alleged to
have been the motive of the
crime.
A telegram was sent to this
place to sheriff Don Johnson i'm
mediately after the shooting, and
was received by deputy j. A.
Baker in the absence of the
sheriff, who was returning from
Yuma, Ariz., where he went to
take a Mexican prisoner to the
penitentiary. Deputy Baker left
at once for Gage on horseback,
and trailed the assassin in the
direction of the Florida noun
tains. He then sent word to
deputy Dan Hathaway at the
Florida mines, and Amadora was
captured at the mines shortly
thereafter by deputy Hathaway,
and YVES brought to Beming
and lodged in Jail. He had his
preliminary hearing before Judge
Chapman Tuesday and was held
for the grand jury without bail.
Amadora is said to have been
a former suitor of the Mendoza
woman, who became engaged to
another Mexican with the above
result.
This is the fourth killing of the
kind that has occurred in this
county in the past four years
and the first time that the mur-
derer has been brought to jus.
tice.
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Will Not Hang Today.

Jefferson City, Mo-, July %.
Governor Folk today granted a
respite of thirty days to Lord"
Frederick Seymour Darlington
under sentence to be hanged on
July 26th (today) for the mur-
der of Jas. P. McCann at st.
Louis two years ago.
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THE DEEP SEA I
SWALLOWS 81
Passengers Of an Ill-Fated
Steamer.

San Francisco, Cal, July %. =
News was received here this
morning that the steamers Col
umbia and San Pedro were in
collision off Shelter cove at mid
night Saturday. The Columbia
sank in five minutes and nearly
one hundred passengers found
watery graves.
There was q heavy fog at the
time. The San Pedro was heav-
lily loaded with lumber and
struck the Columbia on the port
bow with such terrific force that
she was cut down to the waters
edge. About eighty persons
were saved by clinging onto
the San Pedro, from which ves-
sci they were rescued some hours
later by the steamer Roanoke.
Captain p. A. Doran, Of the
Columbia, bravely stuck to his
ship and was among the lost.
The Columbia sailed from San
Francisco Saturday for Portland.
She had a passenger list Of 189.
The collision occurred at mid
night, when all on board save
the lookout and an officer on the
bridge were asleep.
Shelter cove, where the collis-
ion occurred, is ITO miles up the
coast.
The Columbia lies in deep wat
er.
The disaster is the most heart
rending that has occurred on the
high seas in recent years.
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Auto Line.

Manager McDermott, of the
popular Haywood Hot Springs,
is planning to build an automobile
line from the springs to the sta
ton. Mr.. McDermott is chock
full of enterprise and is making
the Haywood Hot Springs famous
the world over.
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Accepts Chief Clerkship.

Mr.. W. A. Woodard has ar
rived in the city from Los An
geles and accepted the position
of chief clerk with the s. p,
having entered upon his new
duties last Monday. Mr.. Wood
ard was formerly with the Santa
Fe here and his old friends will
be pleased to hear of his return
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T. R. Page, of Colorado, is
here looking for land.
Sheriff Chas. Nichols, of Grant
county, was in the city Monday.
Mr.. Tom Lyons, the big cattle.
man Of Silver City, was in the
city Monday evening on his way
to Colorado.
The artesian we'll is still going
down. The chances for an ar.
tesian flow grow brighter as the
we'll is pushed farther down.
There is a big deal on foot il
local business enterprises thai
will probably be consummated
by the end of the present week
Swanzy, the new lumber
merchant, is furnishing the ma
terial for the new addition A
Prugle is building to his rancl
home.
r. l.. Crenshaw, formerly il
the livery business here, has 10
Gated in Silver City. He was il
the city Tuesday on his way t
his new home.
We understand the salesmel
in the stores in the city woulC
like to have shorter hours dur
ing the summer season now on
The boys are deserving of it.
Mr.. Horace Z. Rodgers, o.
Fayetteville, Ark, went to Silve
City Tuesday on a sight-seein,
trip, and to get acquainted witt
the country. We hope the youn,
man will decide to locate in Dem
ing.
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Col. Augusta Azzali, leader of
the famous gendarme band, of
Guadalajara, Mexico, which &c.
companied the FL Paso Elks Ia
Philadelphia, was drowned last
Friday while in bathing at At
lantic City, N. J.
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stars an SIGH like things for the lads kites"
Wolcott told him sometime after that he should
paint portraits as the most profitable employment
SO ha responded the simple Ope. Il ha
painted Farmer So and So wi his wife and ten
BARNS He said it were but right to encourage
genius; SO he ga me half guinea
Half guinea" exclaimed the doctor. Why
man alive you ought to get at least half guinea
for every head.'
Oh no. cried Opie, with uplifted hands
That Wilma do, sir; for it would ruin the courl-
try"
Opie never lost this simple modesty; but on the
other hand he retained a certain bluntness of
speech that one of his strongest character
IStlcS.
He was painting the portrait of old beau of
fashion, who, whenever he thought the artist
touching the mouth, screwed it up in the
ridiculous manner At last Opie said very quietly
Sir, if you want the mouth left out O the pic
ture, will do it wi pleasure.
An Eccentric Sculptor
THE eccentrictv of genius probably never had
better representative than the sculptor Car
peaux.
Carpeaux was Bohemian, and an absent minded
one at that Invited once to the Tuilleries by the
Emperor Napoleon III. and the Empress Eugenie
he pulled out his pipe after dinner. filled it, and
discovering that he had matches, took scrap
of paper, climbed q chair and lighted the pipe
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with the Victoria Cross for heroisrn at Bulawavo
1t would give me pleasure to describe his deeds 81
daring; but | did not happen to see or hear OF
them.
Only thing married my pleasure in the pros
pect of putting Buawayo behind me, and that was
the thought of my parting from Fifteen, the Mata-
belle boy who when | was in remote jungles. hun
dreds of miles from any of my kind, had faced
dangers with me- who several times had saved ny
life, who had always been absolutely oval and
questioning and forgetful of himself in serving
We'll, Fifteen" said to him evening.
within week am going to leave you
He looked startled, and when he grasped the fact
that was going away from this country altogether,
he began to beg that 1 take him with me
Some Pointers for Fifteen
NO, Fifteen" answered, lit cannot be. The ways
= of the people | am going among Your
ways You would always feel yourself stranger.
You would be lonely, and would soon begin to long
for your old home again. You have seen some
samples of civilization here in this town. Have YOU
liked them Well, you would like others no better
Why, you dislike clothes' He grinned at
this, but all the evening seemed downcast.
In the morning, clad in coat, shirt and pair
of trousers which had bought for him and insisted
upon his putting on, and carrying in his arms d
number OF trnkets and some pieces of gay cloth for
his friends among the women of his tribe Fifteen
went his way. Three days afterward the
OF my departure tor the south, was smoking pipe
and reading old newspaper before the door OF
our little brick dwelling place, and, happening t.
glance up Fifteen standing before me- as inno-
cent of wearing apparel as he the day first
Where are your clothes?" 1 demanded fero-
ciousy
Make EN- presents he answered with happy
grin. We shook hands in a final good by the next
morning. and my last impression of Bulawayo. as
the trek wagon in which l lay went jolting down
the HILL the slim figure of Fifteen, silhouetted
like black statue against the rocks.
After bruising ride of forty-ive days over the
stones in the springless trek wagons we camped in
the fiat and uninteresting little town of Mafeking.
There l took train and reached johannesburg d
year and nine months after l had started out with
my donkeys for the distant north.
MY devious trail, if measured in all its twists and
turns, would have reached a length of about FIVE
thousand miles | should advise no one to atternp.
similar exploration. Northern Rhodesia is prac-
tically abandoned now, and contains little for the
white man.
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about the same -esut-inebriaton that led to rows
The leader never failed to report less than three
hundred katirs killed, and these the reports
that afterward sent to London; but, ii the truth
may be told, few katirs fell.
The excitement OF the days diversified by
indignation meetings, in which demanded to
know, in the heat of their liquor and their rage.
if the Chartered Company going reimburse
them for the mining and other properties outside
the town that had been DESTROYED by the kairs.
The officials of the company declined to commit
themselves this point, and one orator mounted
on box shouted out declaration that Rhodesia
free and independent State. He called for
followers, and some responded. 1t looked for time
as if there was to be revolutionary war in Bula-
wavo; but the Patrick Henry clapped into
Jail and the other rebellious spirits quelled.
Sport at Bulawayo
THOUGH these were troublous times. the men of
Bulawavo were not without their sports. Every
dav blacks who did not want to fight against the
English would seek refuge in the town. These in the
morning would be formed in a line, with armed
guards at end, and then there would be race.
As the Katirs ran, the guards would keep shooting
them down, until few reached certain goal where
for the time being they would be safe. Another
feature of the life of the the daily hanging.
Those of the blacks who did appear agile enough
to furnish good race were strung on tree IN Fife
St and left dangling until evening. when prisoners
from the Jail carried the bodies away their backs
and buried them
One of these prisoners a Young American
named Evans. who had been sentenced to FIVE years
in prison because he had declined to obey order
to go mission of about four miles to the south.
He would not have been under the slightest obliga-
ton to obey if the town had not been under martial
law; but the truth he could not. for the reason
that he weak from fever that 1t would have
taxed his strength to the utmost to have walked
mile. But his refusal had been positive. and the
spirit of INSTRUMENTATION had been so general that
the authorities felt it necessary to make an example
SO they had tried Evans and found him guilty. In
his depleted physical condition, it was virtually
death sentence for the boy.
saw him one night staggering under the body
of Kafir who had been hung and my head grew hot
at the thought that American citizen, gultless
OF any crime. and a mere boy at that. should be
subjected to such indignity. Early the next
morning l went to the little building in which Earl
Grey had his office. Chandler indignant my
self accompanied the door and waited
there. He had his revolver with him, ready to
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from the great chandelier above the
table.
You don't mind smoking: do
YOU, ma am" he said to the En-
press.
Carpeaux accepted from a rich
patron an order to make a sculp-
tured group representing the Cy-
clops Polyphemus crushing the
youth Acis under a rock. Carpeaux
had no sooner accepted the COM
mission than he regretted it. for
the subject had no attraction what
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shoot II they seized me. The forty other Amerl-
cans in the town were likewise ready to attempt
a
Il demand to see the Earl" announced loudly
when the latters secretary informed me that His
Lordshlp extremely busy and had time to
give me. Weak and somewhat excited, | was in no
condition to weigh my words, and automatically
followed up my demand with the statement that the
Earl had no business more urgent than mine and
that | would not be put off The secretary retired
to consult with his chief, and in a moment l
admitted.
You killing innocent boy in your jail out
there" l said and l have come to ask that he
be released
He had trial and convicted" answered
the Earl coldlv.
He had no real trial" I declared 1T was
a summary proceeding, sir. Before the hearing
your Judges had determined upon conviction
They wanted evidence. | knew something
about the case of this boy, and went to the trial
to tell about it. | was not allowed to speak, but
ordered out"
His Lordship became thoughtful This town is
under martial law he said after a momentary
pause 1t is impossible to conform all the usages
of we'll ordered communities. and under the cir
cumstances YOU have no right to come here with
your protestatons and demands.
The Colonels Protest
7 HAVE a right under any crcunlst ances to pro-
test against the slow killing without fair trial of
this young American, and do protest. in the name
of the United States. Furthermore, protest in the
of civilization against the barbarities that
being perpetrated here!
Some of the Earl's aides in the room, and
they moved up close to me, evidently waiting for
the order to put me under arrest; but their chief
merely waved his hand, and said in very freezing
tones, Il will hear no more Co"
Having said what | wanted to say, went Two
days afterward Evans released. The fortunate
ending of this affair due. | think to the fact
that the Earl knew was West Pointer.
For two months and half the siege wore on.
Where the troops? Why don't they GOMEZ
the people kept asking another and these were
nonentous questions, because death was beginning
to reap bountiful harvest in the Finally late
one afternoon in June a large company of
bobbing horsernen to the south, and before dark
Colonel Plumer, with thousand lancers. rode into
Bulawayo That night they out and
scattered the katirs and the siege raised. The
Duke of Teck, callow youth at that time,
with the command and afterward decorated
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ever for him. He put the matter off again and
again. but was urgently pressed by his patron to
begin it.
Finally one day the sculptor took the impatient
patron to his studio and showed him a great rough
block of uniformed clay. There is Your group,
he said
My group. Where?"
Why, this is the rock"
That's all very we'll; but where is Acis:'
Under the rock-crushed quite out of sight Of
course
:" But where is Polyphemus:"
The sculptor smiled. He: Oh. YOU don't
think Polyphemus would remain anywhere about
after he had done thing like that; do you?'
And that as far as the classical group ever
got; and CarpeauX of course lost big fee
A Modified Subject
NOLLEkENS the sculptor was a man of pretty
: y wit and a neat resource in compliment He
had at one time for sitter OF great beauty,
but of extremely nervous and impatient tenn
permanent. During her sittngs she would con-
stantly change her position, and with each shift Of
posture her expression changed At last the sculr-
tors patience gave way.
Madam" he cried. of what avail is Your beauty
if you will not sit still till have reflected it in my
model?
The sitter smiled with gratfed vanity. and was
as motonless lay figure during the remainder
of her sttings.
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He Sold the Painting

THE careero we'll known English
i painter, Hawkins, furnishes a
strange instance of youthful pre-
cocity come to naught. At twenty
years of age he was the center of
reclamation. Everyone thought he
was sure to do great things.
Hawkins's failure was aScribed
to his conviviality. A boon COM
panion, everyone setting out for
"a night of it" wanted Hawkins
along as a matter of course. And
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Hawkins only too glad be beguiled
Once he asked by Ackers. member of Par
lament, to accompany him and two Others
to Paris. the host promising to give him holiday
and pay all his expenses. For once Hawkins de-
INJURED.
I'm busy picture" said he. and | want
to finish it for the exhibition.
Never mind that said Ackers. Bring it
with YOU and paint it there
Hawkins yielded. he always did IN the end,
and the picture put into the carriage. As they
driving along Ackers asked to be allowed to
look at the work. When it was uncovered he said:
What do YOU for it
II shall want fifty pounds for it when it's fin
ished." answered Hawkins.
Good" exclaimed the jovial NJ. P. I'll give
it to YOU, and. what's more, I'll finish the picture
too" With that he kicked hole through the
thus leaving the artist free for unds-
turbed jollihcation
Began in a Saw Pit
nP1E. the great portrait painter, greatly in
~ debted to Doctor Wolcott for his start upon
a successful career. The doctor had found Ope
working hard in a pit. At that time his fame
painter rested on humble foundation, and
modest and unaSsuming it would have
been difficult to find When asked what he had
painted to acquire the reputation he had gained in
the village. Ople replied
Il ha painted Duke William from the signs, an