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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-17

Arriving here by team from Albu-
querque in 1886, and having since con
tinuously resided in Roswell, helped
in the work and witnessed the towns
upbuilding from a frontier village to
the present pride of the Pecos Val
ley, no one will for moment say
that William S. Prayer has not con-
tributed his part in the making of
Roswell, the Greater Roswell
We all know him here as @Will'
Prayer, and those who are familiar
enough to say, Hello, WILL" know
that there is not a better man alive
than "WilP' Prayer. He is simply an
all-around good fellow; mixer, and
his holdings here are silent testimo-
mails as to his business worth.
Another thing about WHIP Prayer
that most every man and woman ad-
mires is that he is self-made and has
risen in the world on his own respon-
sibility.
He was born in the smoky city OF
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, November
29, 1853, and will soon reach the half
century mark, though he has not
that appearance.
He attended the public schools of
Pittsburg, and when a boy he was
taken with a longing to go west. At
the age of fourteen years he ran off
from home and came to Trinidad,
Colorado.
Soon after arriving in Trinidad he
entered the employ of Jaffa Brothers,
dealers in general merchandise, and
has since his boyhood days been con-
nected with the Jaffas in various bus
mess enterprises. His sterling worth
and unfiinching honesty won him in
to the hearts of the firm, which was
composed of three uncles of Nathan
Jaffa, present Territorial Secretary
(same in states as lieutenant COVER
nor), Joe ]. Jaffa, cashier of the Cit
zens National Bank of Roswell, and
Harry Jaffa, of Jaffa, Prayer & Co.
From Trinidad Mr.. Prayer went to
Las Vegas, New Mexico. and worked
with Jaffa Brothers. who conducted
at that place. He remained in Las
Vegas for three years and then
went to Albuquerque to accept the
management of Jaffa Brothers gen
eral store. He worked with this firm
for ave years. but he was taken with
Southeastern New Mexico fever, and
though he tried hard to overcome II
could not, and 1t has panned out as
a good thing for him and for this sec
tion OF the Territory. In February
1895. he entered Roswell with Ma
than Jaffa and Horace Clarkson.
from Albuquerque the trio came via
.Mules." and the trip was slow and
tedious. When the present site OF tne
city OF Roswell was sighted the little
party, Il not aloud, yelled IN their
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-17
orpheum Re-Opening Thursday.

The Orpheum Theatre scheduled
to open tonight with the Orpheum
Stock Company will be compelled to
postpone the opening until Thursday
night. Manager Franklin received a
telegram from the four people he had
engaged, saying they missed connec-
ton at FIT. Worth and would arrive
Tuesday night sure.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-17
For sidewalks see l.. b. Craig.
Live Stock Market,

Kansas City. Aug. 17.-Cattle re-
ceipts, 1000. Market steady South
ern steers, 3.40@4. 60; southern COWS,
2.50@3.40; stockers and feeders, $50
@4.5O; bulls, 250@375; calves, 3.25
@6.00; western steers, 3.60@5.25; );
cows, 2.5O@3.6O
Hog receipts, 5000. Market 500
cents higher. Bulk sales, 6.50G7.00;
heavy, 6.704 $50; packers, 6.50@6.75; j;
light, 6.52@6.65; pigs, 375@5.5O
Sheep receipts, 5000. Market stea-
dy. Muttons, 3.75@425; lambs, 45O
@6.20; range wethers, 3.5004 %; fed
ewes, 3.25@400
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-17
TAFT TO DELIVER SPEECH
IN VIRGINIA ON FRIDAY

Hot Springs, Va, Aug. NV. H.
Taft was engaged today in preparing
the political speech he is to deliver
here next Friday to the Virginia re-
publicans. Taft today received a let
ter from Admiral Cervera of Span
ish war fame, expressing a wish for
his election.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-17
U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU.
(Loeal Report. Observation Taken Z

Quo a. n.)
Roswell, n. NJ, Aug. 17.-Tempera-
ture.-Max. s4; min. 60; mean, r.
Precipitation, 90; wind 8. E., ve-
locity 2 miles; weather clear.
Forecast, Roswell and Vicinity:
Fair tonight and Tuesday; station
ary temperature.
Comparative Temperature Data:
Extremes this date last year.
Max, SO: min. 65.
Extremes this date. IA years. rec
ord:-Max. 81. 1905; min. 6S. 1906.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-17
The Wool Market.

st. Louis, Aug. 17.-Wool steady.
Territory and western mediums, $50
II; fine mediums. 10015; fine,
@12.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-17
Negro Law and Order League.

We have for saIe TWO or the best
residence lots in the city at rs per
cent less than their real value. East
front, splendid location. See US at
once.-Roswen Title & Trust Co.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-17

FOR SALE A good retail business
bargain If taken at once. Apply Al
this Office. t1s
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-17
Phones 65 and a.. 2l5 North Main
Parsons 6, Son
BROKERS

All classes of legal and notary work.
Expert accountants. Typewriting &
Stenography All sorts of money to
loan. Property all over the city for
sale, rent or exchange. The only la
bor agency in the Pecos Valley. Oan
get you anything you want, or tell
you anything you want to know.
Ask parSOnS---f1e Knows
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-17

DIR. PRESLEY:- rye, ear, nose
md throat. Glasses fitted: phone 100.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-04
TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE
FOR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

won the respect that win live long after
them.
1t is hoped that the reader of this
article viii ask himself or herself the
question: Shall /, in my ability, assist
to establish this life-saving station, and
in the face of my knowledge in the
case, if l do not, am I in any degree
responsible for the loss of the life a
child2 Then go and see James Morgan,
treasurer of the fund of the children s
hospital.
Mr.. Editor, you are to be commended
for taking up in your paper a short while
ago a case presented to you by the Sal
walton Army Oh a destitute and friend
less family. Mr.. Rath truly remark
people do not learn of it, and it is hard
TO get the necessary assistance Now,
to the reader, / would like to present
this thought: If there is a little you
can spare from time to time, don t wait
to be asked for it, the asker, although
generally politely treated, sometimes
receives looks intimating that he is not
welcome, and then, occasionally Il am
glad to say not very often), the giver
seems to feel that he has done some
thing fine for you personally, when it
really is for the good of others you are
asking Now, when you meet on the
street Mr.. Rath of the Palama Settle
ment, Mr.. Bradley of the Salvation
Army work, or anyone of dozen or
more other such people in Honolulu,
whose names could be mentioned, who
give their time for the relief and bet
terment of mankind in general, and
who have not the means themselves to
do this work, what do you say to for
getting self? Just walk up to them in |
a cordial way and say, I have little
extra cash that is available for the good /
of others, may / be of assistance to you
in your work, and you viii find that not |
one man will turn you down; you viii |
be politely treated, and your money
will do some one or an institution some
good.
Very truly yours,
GEORGE P. CASTLE.
Honolulu, August 3, 1905.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-04

Mescofiier, the famous Ritz Carlton
chef, was praising in New York the
Philadelphia squad.
But, really" he said to the re
porter, q prefer to talk to you now
of other tnlngs. 1t is true / am cook,
but l often lift my eyes from my
easseroles. and my brochettes. I can
talk of other things than cooking.
don t want, you see, to resemble
the Partisan who spent eleven years in
America. On his return home, a learn
ed society invited him to dine''
. Tell us your impressions of thar
great and rich country where you re-
manned so long, they said to him at
the dinner
And he pondered long while.
Then he said:
The American redhead duck is de-
''But the learned men about him
pushed aside that statement. He had
been in America eleven surely,
they said, he must have observed other
things!
And the guest, after a very great
while of thought, said:
!" The American canvasback duck is
also delightful. ~
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-04

Secretary Cortelyou was celebrating
his recent epigram, tPolitics are a
duty
81 don't mean by politics spoil
hunting and office-seeking. Politics is
a good, and honorable word. 1t is a
shame to have degraded it. We should
try and uplift it again to its right
place.
eve don t want the word politics
to evoke the picture of such a man as
Hilary Hardness.
"Hilary Hardness was a politician
of the lowest type, and unsuccessful at
that. His whole life was devoted to
office seeking; he spent thirty-seven
years vainly seeking a $4,000 office
hours 10 till 2-while his wife and
daughter supported him by keeping a
candy shop.
well, Hilary died at last. A mod
est shaft was put above his remains,
and the executor asked the editor to
suggest an epitaph to go upon the
shaft.
'FThe editor thought moment Then
he smiled, and slipping sheet of paper
in his typewriter. he clicked off:
q Here lies Hilary Hardness in the
only place for which he never APP
Piled -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-04
SOME STARTLING VIEWS

CONTINUED from Page Nine.)
or Hindus do, but it is not cruel OF
harsh to isolate them, with all due
Christian care. 1t is, moreover, imper
alive for the salvation of our future
race that children of lepers and of
consumptives should be separated from
their parents, and the sick ones Of
those two diseases everywhere should
be kept away from the well.
ALBERT S. ASHMEAD, NJ. D.
New York, July z.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-04
A wELLKNowN REMEDY.

There are few people in this country
who have not used, or at least heard
of, Chamberlain IS Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. It is the first thing
they think of when they or any mem
Der of the family are stricken with
diarrhoea, pain in the stomach or
eramp collie. 1t has probably saved
the lives of more people than any other
medicine in use, and once it has b"en
used in a home and its valuable prop
critics become known, they rely upon
it as confidently as on their family
physician. For sale by Benson, Smith
& Co., Ltd, agents for Fl. I.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31

ent kinds which are most abundant
upon their farms. Sometimes the
weed is known by the right name and
the seed Is not known at all. Some
times the seed is well recognized be-
cause perhaps, millers and elevator
men have refused to buy grain con
tanning it at the normal price, while
the weed which produces the seed is
not recognized. 1t is not at all I'M
common to find persons who have
been damaged for years by the growth
of destructive weed pests, wholly un-
certain as to the possible methods the
weed may have of reproducing itself.
One of the commonest questions that
this department has TO answer is:
Does this weed grow from the root
year after year or does it grow simply
from the seed?" This is such very
simple question that one could sus-
pect anyone might be able to answer
it, should he take the trouble TO make
few daily observations during the
farming operations. Naturally, the an
swer Is of direct Importance when de-
Gliding as to what method to pursue
in attempting to control the weed. The
person who does not know the habits
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
The Work of Rescue.

Rome.-The work of rescue at Mes
sina. according to the meager details
received here, presented narrowing
scenes. Hundreds Of people were
pinned under the walls and rafters
alive but terribly injured for thirty
hours. One of the rescuers found un-
der the ruins of house FIVE children
alive but unable to speak. lying
around the corpse of their mother. In
some cases heroic rescuers met death
in the falling debris. In one house
twenty persons suspended on the fifth
floor and unable to reach the street
because the lower floors had been
torn away were rescued with rope
by sailor. Six criminals were killed
while attempting to loot the Bank of
Sicily, where cash amounting to half
a million dollars lay in plain view.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31

1896 were, perhaps. the first expert
ments of the kind conducted in any
country. Since that date various ex-
perimenters have recommended either
copper or iron sulphate for the de-
struction of weeds under varying con.
dtions
Each year our experiments have re-
suited in success of such marked ma
ture that the writer feels safe In as
sorting that when the farming public
have accepted this method OF attack
Ing weeds as regular farm operation
that the gain to the country at large
viii be much greater in monetary con-
sideration than that which has been
afforded by any other single piece OF
investigation applied to field work In
agriculture, not even excepting the
now generally used formaldehyde
method of seed disinfectlon which has
saved to the state of North Dakota an.
nually. wheat and other cereals to the
value of several millions of dollars
The writer is not over sanguine in
this matter and recognizes that this
method of destroying weeds cannot re-
place the approved methods of eradi
cation by cultivation, seed cleaning,
crop rotation, manure composing
proper pasturing and vigilant hand
work There are, however, great
areas in the north and western cereal
growing regions which, until sufficient
people have occupied the land to
break it up into small farms. must be
cropped upon the large plan charac
teristic of cereal and meadow produc
ton. This allows the introduction Of
annual and other types of weeds in
spite of the best efforts of cultivators.
Proper blowing and good cultivation
alone do not prevent constant intro
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
U. S. CONSULATE DESTROYED.
United States Consul and Wife Dead
In the Ruins.

Washington Arthur s. Che.
ney. American consul at Messina. Sic.
i!y and his wife. lost their lives In
the earthquake disaster which devas.
tated that city is indicated by an Of
fetal dispatch received Tuesday night
by the state department from Stuart
lupton, American vice.consul at Mes.
sina.
THE Messina consulate destroyed
and consul and wife supposed to be
dead LUPTON."
Consul Gale, in forwarding the dis
patch by cable, added that I.upton is
supposed to have escaped. He stated
that q British warship had left Malta
for Messina TO assist in the work of
rescue.
Arthur S. Cheney is a native of IL
linois, but was appointed a consul to
Messina from Connecticut August Is,
1907. Mr. Lupton, who is from Ten
lessee, was only recently appointed
vice and deputy consul at Messina,
and had just arrived at his post, sue.
ceeding j. Pierce an Italian.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31

There is the greatest danger that
a pestilence will follow the destruc-
lion of the towns where. on account
Of the vast havoc wrought, bodies will
lie unburied for days and weeks
Those who escaped death, many of
whom are badly injured, are making
their way by the thousands to the
nearest place of refuge. Their suf.
ferings even now must be intense, as
they are without food or clothing.
1t is feared that many foreigners
have been killed, as a number of the
hotels at Messina, and doubtless at
other places, were crowded with tour
lists.
Already British and Russian squad
rons have arrived at Messina. Sail
crs and marines have been disem-
barked, and they have performed
courageous acts in rescuing the in
Jured and removing the wounded. A
large number of survivors have been
transferred to the warships, which
are transformed into great floating
hospitals Steamers with doctors,
druggists, firemen and workmen have
arrived at Messina from Catania and
other places.
Special dispatches received from
Calabria confirm the destruction OF
Reggie. They report that the situa
ton there is as bad, if not worse
than at Messina. The streets in Rome
are TANNED with people, who as soon
IS they heard the news flocked into
the streets.
The hands of all the nations have
been extended to Italy in her afflic
ton. From rulers have come mes
sages of coincidence and from the peo
Tle spontaneous promise of that aid
which brings the world closer to
sether in time of great calamity.
Great Britain, France and Russia
have sent their warships quick as the
flash OF the telegraph could carry the
orders to lend assistance to stricken
cities. Relief funds have already
been started and a hundred ships ant
trains are on their way carrying sup
plies and reinforcements to the south
Rome, Milan, Florence, Naples ant
ether cities are sending physicians
notice and firemen.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
TIDAL WAVE THIRTY FEET HIGH
Hundreds of Men, Women and Chill
dren Caught by Rushing Waters.

Palermo -Railroad communication
with Messina has been restored. A
trainload of refugees came in here
Tuesday morning, but they are al
II addened with terror, and no one is
capable of giving connected account
of the catastrophe. All agree that
Messina has been destroyed and that
the victims will be counted by the
tens of thousands.
The Triancria hotel. with ninety
guests, was demolished The city
hall, the bourse, the telegraph Offices
and the barracks also were destroyed
A tidal wave, thirty feet high, swept
up three streets of the city in II
height of the confusion following tn
shock. Hundreds of half dressed men
women and children who had fled
from their houses TO the streets were
caught in the onrush of waters en6
drowned or injured.
The refugees declare that the en-
tire country around Messna has beer
devastated and that several villages
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
National Congress in india.

Madras.-The Indian national con-
gress was opened in this city Monday,
with 1000 delegates in attendance.
Emphatic approval of the reform
plans for India introduced by Lord
Morley, the Indian secretary, were ex-
pressed. The session was entirely
harmonious, and the meeting this
year promises TO clear the air and put
G. damper on the activities of the agi
tators who recently caused much anx
iety. At the last meeting of the con
gress, just year ago, opposition to the
election of DR.. Behari Ghoz as presi
dent resulted in free fight, and
caused the congress to be indefinitely
postponed.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
Some One Blundered.

Great Falls, Mont-As the result
o. a head-on collision between a
freight train and work train on the
Great Northern railroad Monday after
rCon eight men are dead and four in
jured seriously. The wreck occurred
because the freight, which was com,
ing north, did not stop at Mid-Canyon
siding to allow the work train to pass,
but who is to blame for this failure
has not yet been decided. The work
train had orders to pass the freight
train at Mid-Canyon.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
Roosevelt Sends Message of Sym
pathy.

hington.-President Roosevelt
through the state department on
Tuesday sent to King Victor Emman-
uel of Italy dispatch expressing his
horror and that of the American peo-
pie over the disaster which has be-
fallen southern Italy and Sicily by the
earthquake visitation, and rendering
sincere sympathy. The president
also notes that the American Red
Cross has issued an appeal for contrl-
buttons to aid the sufferers, and that
the organization has notified him that
it will Immediately communicate with
the Italian Red Cross.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
Four Thousand Soldiers Bur, ed.

Rome.-Refugees from Reggie, who
reached here on Tuesday, said that
they could see huge columns of smoke
rising from the ruins of Messina.
They affirmed that Reggie Cannitelo
and Lazzarro We're destroyed. A tidal
wave washed the railroad between
Lazzarro and Reggie, and small
army of men are working desperately
to re.establish communication with
the latter place, for which train
with troops and telegraphers has
started. Latest reports state that A.
600 soldiers from the various bar
racks at Messina were buried under
the ruins.
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Ped Cross Issues Appeal for contrlbu
tons to Sufferers.

Washington.-The American Red
Cross on Tuesday sent telegram
ever the signature of it's president
William H. Taft, to the Italian Red
Cross at Rome, in the following Ian
guage:
THE American Red Cross desires
TO tender to the italian Red Cross its
profound sympathy because of the ter
rible earthquake in Italy and Calab-
ria. An appeal has been issued by
the American Red Cross for contribu-
tons for the benefit of the sufferers. /"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
Urge Labor Leaders to Defy Supreme
Court.

Spokane. Wash.-In scathing reso-
lutions. the Spokane Central Labor
union went on record as urging the
head officers of the American Fedora
ton of Labor to defy the supreme
court of the District of Columbia, and,
If the higher court concurs in the de-
cision, to defy this court and keep
on publishing in the Federationist the
LIST of employers unfair to organized
labor The Buck Stove and Range
company was also denounced.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
Indian Killed Companion Just Be-
cause He Wanted to Xiii Somebody.

Fort Smith. Ark--After fatally cut
ting the throat of Peter Fulson, with
whom he was riding horseback. Will
liam Martin rode into StigIey. Okla,
On Monday and gave himself mp to
The authorities. He said in eSplana.
ton that he 'just wanted to kill some
body" Martin and Fulsom were rid,
ing the same horse, when the former
drew knife and cut the throat OF
the man in front of him. Both men
we're Choctaw Indians.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
WEEDS THE PERSISTENT
FOE OF THE FARMER
They Depreeiate Reduce Crop Yieds-Ge
Rid of Them BY H L. BoIey M. S., Botanst,
North Dakota Experiment Station.

The characteristics of the weeds. If
only comparatively well known, would
give a breadth Of knowledge sufficient
TO allow one to control practically all
types of plant growths which are H..
able to become weedy. Most farmers
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND LIVES LOST

have disappeared. Telegraphic re.
PORTS have been received from all
parts of the island of Sicily. They
say the inhabitants everywhere are
torrorstrtcken and praying in the
streets and churches.
Reggie is described as nothing but
vast sepulchre.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
Effect of Treatment Upon an Dat
Field Which Was Thoroughly Infested
with king-Heads.

The oats were 10 inches high with the
weeds just overlapping them. The spray
used was III pounds of sodium arsente
to the acre, using So gallons of water.
The two lunches represent the growths
which occurred upon one yard square of
ground. treated and untrcated; the left
lot from treated ground, the right from
untreated ground
live with weeds about them during
their entire lives. 1t is notable fact
that very few really know the differ