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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-11-05
Chain ends Campaign.

Milwaukee. NOV S.-Eugene W.
Chain, the Prohibition candidate. for
president, closed his campaign Mon
day night In Milwaukee. speaking in
bis native state to an audience which
included the famous Phantom Outing
club Of which he is a member. In his
campaign Mr.. Chain has Travelled 25,-
600 miles. has been on the road for
105 days, speaking on an average Of
1--WE times 4 day and has addressed
audiences in 80 states.
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nrvan Al Home AGAIN;

Lincoln, Neb., Nov S.-The greatest
demonstration in the history Of Lin
coin was given to Mr.. Bryan by his
fellow townsmen Monday night on bis
return to his home city at the close
Of his campaign. Non-partisan in char
acter 1t was participated In by Dem
ocrats and Republicans alike and the
Democratic candidate was driven
through the streets cheered by almost
the entire population Of the city.
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\ nIa Electric Contract.

Philadelphia, Nov. Sat a meeting
Monday Of the directors Of the Penn
sylvania Tunnel & Terminal Railroad
company there was awarded to the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacture
ing company a contract for the cleo
trificatlon of the Pennsylvania termi-
nal in New York and the lines in New
Jersey and Long Island connected with
It. The initial amount Of apparatus
required viii aggregate S5,000,0oo.
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Circulation statement.

Washington. Nov. s.-The monthly
circulation statement issued By the
comptroller Of the currency shows that
at the close Of business October 81,
1908, the amount Of national bank
notes in circulation was see5,s4l.ls2,
an Increase for the year Of s65.sss, 72s
and q decrease for the month Of 80.
7es,1S5
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\ WIsooH1Ins
n milwaukee,, NOV. 1.-THE Republican
/ national ana state tickets were vic
torions in Wisconsin Tuesday BY
plurality estimated at 5000. The con
gressional delegates, with one district
to hear from, probably viii remain
about the same as two years ago, nine
Republicans and two Democrats. The
legislature, which will elect q United
Htates senator, TO succeed Isaac 6teDh'
enscn, will be overwhelmingly Repub-
lican.
California.
San Francisco, Nov. 4.--owing 70
the slowness with which the returns
from California points have been re-
ceived 1t Is difiicult to make any esh-
mate that would carry accuracy and
positlveness. If the Taft figures
maintain their ratio Of gain a. indI-
Gated In 100 scattering precincts.
California will 90 Republican by $4,000.
Nevada.
Reno, New, Nov. 4.--Indicatlons are
that Bryan has carried the state BY q
substantial majority.
Colorado.
Denver, Nov. with thousands Of
scratched ballots yet to be counted.
and returns on straight ballots com
plete In no city, town or county 10
Colorado, conditions at midnight Tues.
day night were such that 1t Ii impos-
sible to give even an idea OF how the
state has gone.
ohio.
Cincinnati, Nov. 4.---The figures con.
tinued to fall as the additional re-
turns came in later in the night and at
one o'clock 1t seemed that Taft would
have slightly more than normal plur-
atty Of close to $4,000 while Harris.
Republican for governor, was defeated.
The figures at that hour were for the
election Of Harmon, Democrat, by over
$4,000.
Utah.
Salt Lake City. Nov. 4.-Utah is Re.
publican sgain this year by a heavy
majority. that Of the national ticket
being much greater than for the state
candidates.
North Dakota.
Fargo. N. D., Nov. with Taft
leading by $4,000 in 300 precincts in
the southern part of the state heard |
from nj ten O'clock the race for gov
ernor grows alarmingly close, Burke,
Democrat. having 1906. and Johnson, |
1900.
VIRGINIA,
Norfolk va. Nov 4.-The Republi.
can state committee concede Vir-
glnia to BRYAN by $4,000. but claim a
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Newark. N. J., Nov. 2.-Four men
were badly hurt one Of them probably
fatally, In automobile accident here
sunday night when q touring car
owned By n. R. Ward Of Wayne, Pa
crashed into an iron trolley pole.
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rock raft three Minutes to Vote.

Cincinnati, Nov. 4.-Judge William
H. Taft cast ballot S71 1T 4;41 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon at Precinct H, Sec
ond ward, the polling place being IN .
plumbing shop It 1908 Madison Road
owned BY John Volt. 1t required
three minutes for Judge Taft to cast
his ballot after going into the booth.
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nIaanlronn ranaa Elrn.

Bolton. Tex, Nov. 2.--Fire started
BY Halloween rolsterera late sstur
day night totally destroyed the Bolton
compress and 10000 bales Of cotton
The loss VIM exceed ss5o.ooo. covered
By Insurance.
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southern Author Dead,

Columbus. Ga. NOV. s.-Emma Mof-
felt Tying, aged So. author and leo
turer, died Monday, Mrs. Tying was
an extensive traveller In both the new
and old worlds and lectured on the
holy grail.
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St Joseph. No. Nov. 2-WiTiam
Groves AGED Is e dead. and Mr&
Carrie A. Bulling badly injured, as tho
result o. 4 street car striking q bugsJ
n which thaY uers riding.
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Boston, Nov. 2-Gov. Curtis Guild.
Jr., has fully recovered from the at
tack Of easrltis With which be Wa
salIctsd last week Il b announced
bat be VfIl Be- II bic dstk \ tha
tate house Monday.
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Earl Barclay, an employe Of the
Muskogee. Ok, Oil Refining company.
was killed BY electricity in his bath
room. He came in contact with a
alaotric light wire.
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MllllSslppl.

5ackson. Miss, Nov. t,-The returns
hon Tuesdays election indicate
nFyan carried Mississippi BY a ma
itrlly Of over $4,000. An eight Dem
ocratio nominees for congress vsrs
nisetsA
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Maine.

Portland, Ne, Nov. l.-Mains Tues
day gave TAFT an estimated plurality
Of $500. John P. swasey and Frank
4. Guernsey (Rep.) were chosen in
The second and fourth congressional
districts. respectively, to All short
lcfma vacancies.
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Boston, Mass. Nov. 4.-The Repub-
llcaR national and state candidates
swept the state Tuesday and all II
Republican congressman were re-
elected. Both branches Of the legis-
lature win be Republican by heavy
margins.
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indiana.

indianapolis, Nov. l.-Early returns
from Tuesdays election In Indiana in.
dicate that W. H. Taft has carried the
state by from 5000 to $1,000 plurality.
Those returns are mostly from the
cities and towns and later reports may
Increase his plurality. Thomas R.
Marshall. Democratic candidate for
governor. was leading his Republican
opponent. James +. watson. BY shout
5000 votes. ias
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-09-17

men, for presidential electors and
state officials, the people of New Mex
leo, the greater part of whom have
lived in states and exercised the full
rights Of American citizenship, are
allowed merely to vote for members
of the territorial legislature, who can
not pass a law that congress cannot
set aside, and for a voteless delegate
to congress.
The maintenance Of this condition
of affairs is properly charged against
the Republican party. 1t has had it
within its power for almost a half
century to give to the people of New
Mexico the rights of citizenship law
fully and ~deservedly theirs, M has
deliberately refused to do so by their
representatives in congress, again
and again. On the contrary the Dem
ocratic party has labored faithfully
and earnestly for statehood for New
Mexico and has evidenced this by its
for statehood.
This being true, and it cannot be
disputed, the a~bsurdity of the Repub-
lican claim that Andrews alone can
secure statehood, is manifest. He has
had abundant opportunity to prove
the truth of these claims, and has
miserably failed. Andrews cannot get
statehood for New Mexico because
the majority of the Republican party
is opposed to it, and in spite of many
platform pledges has always and al.
ways will cast a majority of its votes
| against statehood.
On the other hand, the Democratic
party believes in statehood for the
people of New Mexico and will give
full evidence of that belief at the
first opportunity-the opportunity that
Is coming after the November cleo
lions. Mr.. Bryan will be elected, and
with him a majority of the house OF
representatives. The President, a man
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hen who honestly desires to carry
out the pledges of his party, and not
a man who refuses to commit him
self on statehood one way or the 9TH
er Notwithstanding his party plat
form, will be enabled with the CO.
operation of the lower branch If the
national congress to secure state
hood. There is no other way than
through the Democratic party. The
Republicans could, but would not.
The Democrats will and after the
elections can give us statehood. Lee
us then send Mr.. Larrazolo to con
gress to cooperate with his party in
securing us the rights of citizenship
we so earnestly desire and so great
ly need.
A vote for Larrazolo is a vote for
statehood.
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Free Lunch Served at The Gas Well
The Railroad Fare Covers Entire Expense of the Trip

the rendezvous of the best social life
about the town, and the g~entle-voiced,
dark-eyed mistress stood in this new
Community for all that was sweetest
and best in womanhood. It soon was
learned lat she had a frown for the
ugly doings of people and q%uestiona-
BILE conduct was condemned, not so
much by her word as by her manner
Among the shop girls, the mattresses
at the hotels, as well as among the
home women, what Mrs. L. would say
or think soon came to be the unwrit.
ten law of social usage.
Not all the women who take up
claim-life rule over doting husbands,
adorn bird-nest cottages and charm
the social world into a state of law
and order. One of the real heroines
of this land in the making is a young
woman teacher who never has known
the protected places of life. self
made" covers the plan of her devel-
opment from the time of losing her
mother in childhood until we met her
in homestead land. At the age of Is
she set about preparing herself for
teaching. By her own efforts she
made her way through school, and
after several years of successful work
in the schools of Texas, she realized
as the majority of young women
teachers do, that from nine months
salary, with the attendant expenses
Of summer study n living, little is
left to lay aside for investment. Hav-
ing saved up several hundred dollars,
and craving what most women ray
a home of her very own, she investi-
gated the government offer of $50
acres of lane in New Mexico. Against
the advice of well meaning relatives
friends she determined to under
take the plan of possessing a piece
out to the e country and get a
whereby to make expenses.
at the station to which ner
had been directed she found
a swarm of people, but most of them, |
like herself, newcomers looking for
locations and work. Locations were
not SO hard to find, but work was
another matter. She learned there
no schools in the community. |
People were not long enough settled
to organize boards of trustees, build
school houses and enroll pupils.
Aghast at this condition, she decided
here was missionary work here for
Ter to do along with looking after
Ter personal interests. So after choos-
ng and filing on one of the best quar-
.er sections in the community, she
lecided to put her surplus money into
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The most conspicuous thing about
the visit of VIM. ]. Bryan to the East
is the great receptions that are be
ing accorded him everywhere. The
semi-hostile feeling displayed toward
him twelve years ago in some quar-
tiers is now entirely lacking, and his
motives are admitted by even the
strongest Republicans to be patriotic
and conscientious. The great signif-
of this will be known in No
vember when the votes are counted
and Mr.. Bryan declared President
elect. The cause for 1t lies in the dom
ination of the Republican party by
the special interests and the know.
ledge that the Democratic party I'M
der the leadership of Mr.. Bryan is
laboring to preserve the rights OF
the people.
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THE WOMEN OFiTHE
HOMESTEAD LAND.

Mary M. Shaw in kansas City Star.
1t is good to know the women of
Homestead Land. They live, move and
have their being in a world apart
from the city woman, the oma of
the East. North and South. Their en-
vironment is wholesome, their oppor-
tnnities vast, their initiative and re-
sourcefulness unlimited. 1t is a far
cry from the Plymouth colony to the
hills of New Mexico, Colorado, the
arid sands of Arizona, California and
the wooded lands of Washington and
Oregon. But the homeseekers who
landed nea SOo years ago on the rock
shores Of New England were but
Iof the homeseekers who
today are possessing these lands of
West fbr their own.
In the extreme Southwest one OF
the most Interesting sections of gov
eminent fand is being developed and
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made to thrill with new life and prom
Use of a glorious future. The valleys
and high brown table lands of New
adic Indians and grazed by hordes OF
cattle. A new order of things is be-
ing enacted. The opening Of these
lands by the government has brought
in thousands of settlers, who are max
ing on these manifestations homes
which call for schools. churches. law,
order, citizenship, statehood. Large
numbers of people have poured in
from the North, South and East, and
with the native population they make
a splendid spectacular drama of real
life, the leading motive being the es-
adjustment of homes. And here is
found the typical women of this home
stead land.
The variety of types found here is
the first matter Of note. The home
steader of today embraces more clas-
ses of people than when some of the
older states were settled. The exam
pie of success set by Kansas, Oklaho.
ma and other sections has inspired
confidence, n today the homestead
ers of the West are not altogether
made up Of families who come over
land in oxcarts. We do have this class
and many of them our best citizens;
but along with them are the majority
who charter cars and bring from their
former homes the household necessi.
ties, the domestic animals and stock
which go Tar toward quickly making
one comfortable in a new country.
The nan with money m here to
invest it and help develop the coun-
try. The professional man of standing
comes for the benefit of the climate
for his family, the teacher comes to
organize educational work, the preach
er for new fields of Iabor. So, from al
these varied sources we find home,
stead land peopled with interesting
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ILLINOIS METHoDISTS
GOING AFTER CANNON.


Speaker Cannon's methods fail to
win approval W. in his own state,
and now the Methodist church takes
a rap at him through the Central Ill
inois conference, as follows:
I'VE deplore and condemn the law
that gives speakers of legislative DO
dies the power to control legislation.
The conduct of Joseph G. Cannon,
speaker of the house, in refusing to
allow a vote on the Littlefield bill, is
worthy universal condemnation, and
we suggest that such politicians who
lack the elements of craftsmanship
should be returned to private life. We
urge upon the people the use of all
lawful a in securing the defeat
of ]. G.. Cannon as speaker of the
house of representatives"
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types of women well worth knowing.

4 ~ R>S 0AAS O
Probably the woman OF most gen
eral interest to all people is the wo-
man of charm, and one of the most
pronounced specimens lives in the
New Mexico homestead land. For sew
enteen years she graced one Of the
most beautiful homes in Grand Rapids
where her bedroom and boudoir led
out into halls, library and parlor fur
nished with luxurious chairs, grand
piano, shelves of choice literature.
Her week-ends were made enjoyable
by out-of-town visits to lake shore
or suburban home. And all this de-
lightful social life was under the pro-
lection of a most chivalrous husband.
But most chivalrous husbands tire
social rounds, so wnen this one de-
veloped a well marked case of west
ern fever and became possessed of
the ism of the simple life, the charm
ing wife fell in line as all charming
wives should. With ~unfaltering hero
ism she saw the beautiful home sold,
its furnishings scattered; and with
a few smuggled curtains, pictures
and pieces on b~ric4a-brac she turned
her face toward a New Mexico claim.
Here, two miles from one of the
towns which grow up over night in
this A1laddin's land, they filed IN o1e
of the quarter sections Of government
land. And here is where the test of
her charm began.
To smile and smile and yet to be
a deceiver often is necessary in the
role of the charming woman. So with
this me-. To smile upon the drifting
ONE of the little border town, to
smile at the privations of claim life,
while all the while her heart was hea-
Wy for the old congenial friends and
the comforts of her past, was the
first schooling of her homestead ex-
perience. And the smile, so often
forced. soon came naturally; for int
crest in the new surroundings awak-
ened as she came to know the strug.
giles b other women about her were
making. And Is day followed day she
to make their four-room por- |
table cottage a nest, comfortable and
homelike, the true setting of a really |
charming m The smuggled cur |
tains which had draped the windows |
her library in the Grand Rapids |
home were cut in half and screened |
the little h~ah-length panes Of her cot.
tage sitting room~A number of choice
books placed on home made shelves
one corner, a wire cot spread
her favorite couch stood
opposite, and with q beveled mirror
lere and q cut glass vase there, her
com gave an impression Of former
,etter things which was quite salts
The Httls cottage came to be
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a school building, as there was yet
not enough public spirit developed
to build one.
She organized her board of trus-
tees, secured a small number of pu-
pills and set about building the school
house. The townsite company gave
her a lot and promised to buy her
building if the country developed. On
this chance h put up a $500 build
ing, had it well ventilated, we'll heat
ed and painted a clean shade of gray.
When finished it attracted much no.
the people was well established. The
school fourished. Her next thought
was that the people should have some
kind of religious service in the COM
nunity, SO b talked to Baptists,
Methodists, Presbyterians and what
not, urging he beginning of some
public worship, and opened the school
building for the holding of these SER
vices. The denominations came to-
gether in a union meeting, and for
two years the gray school house has
been the meeting place of a live Sun
day school and a morning and evening
service of the most devout character.
And yet only a few days ago a lead
ing real estate man was heard to de-
clare that it was a bad thing for the
old maids.
But the teacher and the social star
are in h minority in homestead
land. The great majority of the wo-
men here are the mothers of families,
wrestling with the problems of milk
ing, churning, washing, cooking and
making end meet whether or no.
And this is where the woman from
Kansas shines, she whose parents
state was being opened up. The expe-
of n days of hot winds,
droughts I'M the other calamities
which befe1l its settlers, fits her as
no schooling or social opportunities
could to meet the experiences oil a
country. And armed with this
power of endurance she FORCES ahead
making ways n means where there
are no ways and means. As a gen.
eral leads his men on the march, so
she leads her neighbor woman thru
hard places of claim life. When
drought threatens and there are
no vegetables to be had, she tells
them how to make Kansas potatoes
by mixing a snort dough n frying
It in hot fat. If coyotes become too
destructive she loads up the gun and
Tres away, bagging her game and in
Continued ON Page Three.)
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A VOTE FOR LARRAZOLO
A VOTE FOR STATEHOOD,

AS they long have done. the people
of New Mexico now desire statehood.
1t is one of the most needed things
for the future advancement and pros
perity of the territory. In a general
election, while the people of the
states are voting for their congress
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The soil of the Pecos Valley is SO
rich that the trees are not satisfied
with merely producing one crop OF
fruit each year.. This morning Mr..
Wilson, the gardener, brought to the
Commercial Club a limb Of a peach
tree loaded with ripe peaches and
also in full bloom.
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The last obstacle to Democratic
in New York has been re
moved by the agreement of the sew
eral factions In the party in that
state to pull together for the success
Of the national and state tickets.
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.

states that hav een heretofore con-
ceded to be Republican, and will make
a deperate effort to hold them; but
it is all useless. This is certainly a
Democratic rel
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The Pecos Valley produces not o
II the largest and best fruit in tne
Southwest, but also the largest
quantity.
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Judge Parker has lined up squarely
for MI. Bryan and the national plat
form.
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Should the visitors to the National
Irrigation Congress come to the Pc
cos Valley, they would see the only
spouting gas well in New Mexico.
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The Record understands that there
are 200 more children in the schools
of Roswell this year than last year.
This would Indicate a gain of about
one thousand in our population dur
ing the year.
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The stranger who visits Artesia
during the Alfalfa Festival will be
no longer a stranger to the fact that
the Pecos Valley produces the finest
alfalfa in the world.
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Edward Kennedy evidently intends
to make good on the railroad propo-
sition, and there will be some lively
times in Roswell during the next few
years.
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TAFT finally has grown wise to the
doubtful condition Of the western
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Hundreds of visitors to the Albu-
Querque Exposition and Irrigation
Congress can be brought through the
Pecos Valley if the proper effort be
made, and it will be well worth while.
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Chaves Co. Democratic Ticket

CndveS 10. Uem0CfaGlc llcke
For County Commissioner srd Dist.
NJ. ]. FRITZ.
County com'r. Second District.
w. M. ATKINSON.
For Probate Judge,
J. 7. EVANS.
For Clerk Of Probate Court,
r. p. GAYLE.
For County Sheriff,
c. l.. BALLARD.
For County Assessor,
GUY n. HERBERT.
County Treasurer and Ex-of1eio
Collector,
JAMES SUTHERLAND.
superintendent of Schools,
c. c. HILL.
County Surveyor,
". r. KENNEY.