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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-10-03

NOTICE FOR rUBLICNrION
Department oi the Interior e.. ;. Lard
Office 1T ruoumcatr y VI oct l. 1905
Notice Is hereby gwen that Fred Smead
Of rucumcari, y VI. whp, on Sept g.
iHoI made homestead entt, no tg,i.
serial no u2oB6, for n2nw4 WANNA and
nv iswl sec 4t tp ton I soc, y VI prin.
ctpal meridian ha, filed notice oi lntcn-
ton TO make final five year proof to cs-
iablish claim to the land abnv- described,
lvrinre Register and krr-iv"r T. = Land
office al IucumcatI y. VI, On the nth
day Of November. zoos.
Claimant anne a. witnesses
Frank Nicory. T A Wayne. Of Tucum.
carl, y VI, Henry Gillis. Gus BycrS. Of
Dodson. y. VI.
ro.S T. 4. Prentic. Register.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-10-03
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REPORT or HI CONDITION
OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK

At Iucumcari, IN the Territory oi New
Mexico. at the close Of business.
sept, lird. iyo5.
RESOURCES:
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-12-04
Mrs Mary M. Mueller, of st

~~Str eAS "tAo Va EAOAOAAOh
] Grant Mueller, has sued Mrs
Bertha Mueller, the widow of her
husbands brother, Henry F.
Mueller, for $50. 900 damages,
charging that the defendant
alienated the affections of~her
husband by using her great
wealth as bait. Plaintiff also
charges that plaintiffs husband
has offered her 1000 not to
contest his divorce suit, but that
over half the sum was furnisned
by the defendant.
James Manning was killed near
Big Mill,-i in Scott county on the
9th ult., by tree he was telling,
falling on him., He was single
and came from Perry county. A
coincidence in tragedies was that
when his mother wasnotified of
her sons death her father had
died at the same Lour,-Charles-
ton co4rier.
The homer of growing the best
ear OF corn goes to Ray county.
The ear, which was grown by a
Captain Maitland near Richmond,
lwill be. Theoretically sealed and
deposited in the corner stone of
the new 100000 building now in
course of construction at the
State University.
A Butler woman, in answer to
an advertisement of how to get
rid Of superluous fat, sent in So
for the receipt, and it was for
warded to her by the first mail.
The directions were as explicit as
they were brief. The answer was
easy-'sell it to the soap man."
i A bunch of Mexico women
went out last week and shucked
a loadef corn which was donated
by George r. Gibson, and sold it
for the benefit of the Christian
church. It was auctioned off and
sold for 81 per bushel, realizing
$50 for the church fund.
Uncle Chester Heiner OF Dem
yer can perhaps lay claim to be.
ing the Oldest continuous sub
scriber to the st Louis Republic
of any man in north Missouri.
He has a record--ef over fifty
years, commencing early in the
year 1868.
In the case of Police Commits
sioner Gallagher against the
Kansas City Journal for SANDER,
the plaintiff was given a verdict
of 1880. The Journal said
that Gallagher had used his Off
cial position to secure insurance
business.
Not long ago a seven pound
baby was born in Moberly,
That was going some and people
"Oh, myedi" but Moberly has
out -Moberlyed itself-s nineteen
pound baby boy was born in that
town a few days ago.
Harry Wilson, a Kirksville
teamster, was thrown from O.
wagon by q runaway team there
Thursday. His head struck q
steel rail, knocking out his
brains. He leaves q widow and
several children.
o. P. Gentry of Liberty was
forced to make an assignment Of
his business 10 protect his credi-
tors last week. Another chapter
Of the same old story7politics and
business do not 90 well together
lin most cases.
The 1909 session of the general
assembly viii convene at noon on
Wedn, sday, January 8. the law
providing that It shall convene,
on the first Wednesday of the
month, and the new year comes
lin on Friday.
A stranger who blew into Fair
fax last week husked sixty bush-
ala OF corn In. three houra and tha
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-12-04
When a big Frisco engin

craving a local freight train from
Memphis to Cape Girardsau,
reached Hayti early on the
morning Of the 10th ult, it blew
up with such force that Brakeman
Fred Bossler was buried beneath
the wreckage and instantly killed
and fireman H. c. Brook was SO
badly injured that he died that
night. Conductor j. H. Hatha-
way lies at the point of death.
Engineer Sam Frissell will prob
ably recover, although his hip
and one leg were crushed and he
also suffered internal injuries.
The passengers sawed Bossler
from under the engine. The
conductor was blown three hund-
red feet into the woods while
Frissel was found half that dis
tance away. Brock was under
the pilot when picked up. A
special train carrying surgeons
rushed to the scene from Cape
Girardeau and brought the dead
and injured to a hospital. While
conscious, the conductor said that
he had observed the water column
in the engine a short time before
the accident and knew that there
was plenty of water in the boiler.
He could not explain why the
engine exploded. Sixteen loaded
box cars were demolished by the
explosion. A brakeman proved
himself q hero, and probably
saved a score or more of lives by
his coolheadedness and prompt
action in tagging the south5ound
passenger train. When the boil
er exploded he was knocked down
and his lantern extinguished aud
lost. After vainly looking for the
lantern with matches, which the
wind blew out, he started up the
track to warn the passenger train
of its danger and had ran about
a half mile when he saw it COM
ing, but being without a lantern,
had no way of signalling it. He
stood in the middle of the track
and waved his cap at the engi-
neer until the fast approaching
train was on him, when he jump
ed on the "cow- catcher" climbed
from it to running board of the
engine, then made his way to the
cab and informed the engineer of
the wreck just before the train
reached II in a sharp turn in the
road.
Some people, it seems, never
tire OF getting worsted by travel
ing fakirs. A "fortune teller"
named Dayton, hit Cape Girar-
deau a few days ago and placed
advertisement in the local papers
setting forth that he could tell the
past, present and future for the
nominal gum of 30 cents for ladies
and S1.00 fon men. He did a
-office business and succeed
ed in extracting 5000 from q lady,
a Mrs Minton. Dayton had Mrs
Minton place the money in an
envelope, seal the same, close
her eyes and make a wish. She
did 80, and Dayton switched en-
velopes, giving her instead Of the
one containing money, one that
contained several newspaper
clippings. He told her not to
open the envelope until a certain
date, which gave him ample time
to get far away. Other com-
munities are warned to look out
for him.
A certain Mill Springs young
man called on his girl a few
nights ago and valisntIy offered
TO brave the darkness of the back
yard to bring buckst of water.
He reached the yard, set the.
bucket down and turned q crank
vigorously for several minutes.
His efforts met with failure and
he returned to the house with the
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-12-04

old, and Mrs Jane Kigger, sixty
eight years old, we're married at
the home of the bridegroom in
Milan Saturday. Mr. Medley had
previously been married Ave
times and his present wife had
been married three times.
The theory of the Dunklin
County Democrat that Hadley
was elected governor Of Missouri
by the brewing and saloon inter.
ests in pursuance of certain
promises. made in his belief ia
interesting and it has some sup.
porters in st Louis. For the
reason that this idea is taking
root In oil parts of the state, it
seems to the Post Dispatch that
it would be pretty. good policy
for the governor elect to explain
pretty soon what he means by
home rule for cities. Mr. Folk
favored that proposition at one
time, but when as governor he
came to consider the difficulties
involved he. abandoned it. There
can be no doubt that the impress
sion prevails in st Louis that Mr.
Hadley is going to be an easy
governor SO far as the excise laws
are concerned. II his home rule
theories go beyond this and in
clHde important changes in the
existing system ofgovernment he
might with propriety outline his
plans. There is powerful wide
OPEN town element here which
naturally enough would like to
know just how the new governor
intends to confer the boon of
home rule upon us.--Leading
Editorial in Post Dispatch.
The two-year-old child of Mr.,
and Mrs. Chas. Flack, of South
west township, was attacked by
a vicious SOW, and probably
fatally injured. The child was
dragged from the jaws of the
brute while it was literally eating
the baby. The mother was
severely torn by. the furious ani-
mails tusks, before she could res
cue the baby and get back into
the house. The family live on
the Hice Kent place in the south
west township. The terrible af.
fair occurred Thursday, Novem-
Der 9Th. Mrs Flack was severely
bitten in the arm and also the leg,
before she could escape INTO the
house. By terrible effort she
succeeded in pulling away from
the mad animal and reaching the
door of the house. The cow was
right upon her heels, and 1t was
only by a foot or two that she
succeeded In closing the door be-
fore the SOW was in after her.
She then ran through the house
and out the other way into the
road, bleeding and wounded her.
self, carrying the babe, whose
head seemed at that time to be
cut and crushed into a bloody
mass, to the house of VIM Johns
son. the well-kpowp stock man.
The baby was playing by herself
in the yard, when the mother, at
tracted by its scream, was horfi-
fed to see the tiny form down in
the dirt, enter the jaws of the
vicious brute, which seemed to
be literally eating it up. Mrs
Flack rushed at once to her
bsby's rescue, grabbed It from
the furious animals jaws and
to bear 1t away, but the
SOW Immediately attacked her,
and it seemed for an instant as il
the cruel tuskS and the powerful
jaws would pull both mother and
babe to an unspesbly horrible
death. Arriving there the doctor
was summoned by phone, and it
was found after an examination
that the wound sustained by the
child from the sow's teeth would
perhaps not prove fatal. There
was cash across the top of the
=
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-12-04
'ROUNDABOUTTHE STATE.
Cleaned from hanges--Madeb by the Shears,
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal. Some Credited and Some Stolen.
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.


Macon, by the, discovery after
the action was Instituted in the
federal court, on Tuesday morn.
ing two weeks ago, that Burnett
had died suddenly the preceding
Monday morning Of heart failure.
Within the last two or three
weeks three tragedies have occur
red in Reynolds county, in the
first of which j. r. Chiffon, OF
near Reynolds, killed his wife
and then shot himself; the Sec
ond, the Radford- Cook murder,
told in another place in these
columns. The third was only a
near -tragedy-when Editor Carr,
Of the Ellington Press, came near
dying from joy over the result of
the election, as he was another of
the many Republicans that were
about scared to death over the
outlook.
W. S. Cowherd, the lion -heart-
ed standard bearer whowent down
in defeat while leading the demo-
cracy of Missouri, was sorely tried
by villification and unjust assault.
Yet he has never grumblsd, and
to a friend out in the state who
wrote him a letter OF sympathy
and sorrow because of his defeat,
he responded: "As for the result,
/ regret 1t far more on account of
the party failure and the sorrow it
brings to my friends than for any
effect 1t will have upon my per-
sonal fortunes" Exchange.
Oberlin M. Carter, former cap
tain of the engineering corps of
the United States army, is acting
as superintendent at Mexico of
the Megico Brick Fire Clay COM
pany whose plant in that city
recently came into the possession
of a New York syndicate. He
has been there more than a
month, but few persons know his
identity. Ex-Captain Carter re-
fuses to discuss his case in the
federal courts in Chicago and
against the United States govern
ment.
The first installmept OF rolling
stock for the Oregon, Holt county,
railroad arrived on Saturday last,
and is the passenger coach, No. 1.
II is . full length coach, with OBJ
servstion platform and both side
and end doors. tits in maroon red
and the lettering "oregon Inter-
urban Railroad" in gold.
"Skeet" Elton took the first ride;
he dumped aboard" while it was
being placed on the side track.
"Uncle" Peter Neff, who has
served Andrew county as dep
uty sheriff for the past twenty
years, will at the close of the
present term of circuit court ten
der his resignation. "Uncle"
Peter has filed this place honor
ably and has been very attentive
to his duties during his long SER
vice, but feels that his advanced
age requires thst he give up the
place.
The Republicans had a 5000
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-12-04

F~ - NAsJ' AAoo W.
rine McCowen shot and killed one
in the store where she clerked
Saturday,
A Deepwster man felt that he
was about the grandfatherest
grandfather in the business.
! Within ten minutes OF each other
he became the grandfather Of an
arrival at Coal and one at Clinton.
The Oregon canning factory
has closed down for the season,
having put up 25,0O0 cases Of
corn, $1,000 cases of tomatoes,
5000 cases of pumpkins, 1000
cases of apples and 1000 cases
peaches.
The big revival meeting at the
Christian church at Hannibal
conducted by Evangelist Scovill
came to a close on Sunday night.
There were more than 400 sddi-
tions to the church during the
meetings. =
The acetylene gas plant of the
Missouri fish commission car blew
up at Kennett Sunday night at
10 o'clock. President Porter,
Secretary Shortall and W. H.
Hughes Of the commission were
on the car.
The body Of a stranger was
found ir he creek near Carthage
Thursday pinned under an over
turned buggy. The papers found
on his person would indicate that
he was Thomas A. Nelson of
Muskogee, Okla, salesman for
the Oliver Chilled Plow Company
of Kansas City.
A deaf and dumb couple at
Maryville are asking for a divorce
and the court was in q quandary
as how to get the evidence, none
of them understanding deaf and
dumb language. They were
obliged to send to Council Bluffs
and get an expert who could in.
terpret the finger talk.
Wild ducks are so plentiful this
season that the city markets are
getting an abundant supply of
them. Since the repeal of the
Walmsley law the pot hunter has
free range and, though game
generally is abundant this year,
there is small prospects of its
continuing 80 very long.
Uncle Bob Ralph was probably
the Oldest man in Ray county who
cast his ballot at the recent cleo
ton. He was 80 years old Sep
tember 2Otk, and rode in from his
farm southeast of Orrick on the
afternoon of election day, and it
is needless TO say he voted the
Democratic ticket from. bottom to
top.
Judge James T. Nevill of
Springfield caused a sensation in
circuit court there recently by
dismissing the jury in the case Of
George j. Grayston against the
Joplin Globe Publishing Com
pany, brought to Greene County
on a change Of venue, by declar-
ing he had evidence that the jury
had been tampered with.
Grand Secretary Wilkerson OF
the 1. O. o. F. grand lodge of
Missouri has issued q circular
letter to all lodges fixing Decem-
Der 81 as Odd Fellows annual
"big night" This is the rally
nightof the Odd Fellows and all
lodges are expected to be in ses-'
sion at the same hour that night
and the lodge roll will be called.
Judge ]. o. Morrison, repre-
sentative elect of Vernon county,
died at his home In Nevada, on
Monday afternoon, Nov. 18th. 1of
stomach troubles. Judge Morri-
son had been sick for several
months. Towards the last he
realized his nracarioua condition.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-12-04


Eighteen deaths from pneu.
monis were reported in st Louis
last week.
The return Of confidence Is still
passing up Kansas eity's new
union depot.
Bad whisky seems to be caus-
ing a big lot of trouble over in
Grundy county.
Reynolds county gave a Dem.
ocratic majority of $40, and it is
said 15O Democrats of the county
failed to vote.
The lawyers of Boone county
will hold a banquet in the old
courthouse just before the work
on its destruction begins.
Hon. W. 8. Nc Clintic Of Monroe
City, d we'll. known Missouri poll
tioian and at one time president
OF the state senate, died Sunday.
jesse Boston was sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary at
shelbyville this week for de-
bauching his wife's fourteen
year-old sister.
The proposition to remove the
county seat of Douglas from Ava
to Vera Cruz voted on at the
regent election, was defeated by
a substantial majority.
Alfreta Morain, an orphan girl,
aged eighteen, of New Florence,
while cooking breakfast for an
aunt ignited herclothing and was
60 badly burned she died.
Porter Phillips, business man
OF Carrollton, has been arrested
charged With killing his infant
daughter who was born Tuesday
night and died before morning.
Over in the little town OF Gait,
Grundy county, a religious wave
has swept things. At a revival
240 persons professed faith and
1928 were immersed at one time.
: Dennis Miller, a liveryman at
Rich Hill, is loser to the extent of
a $25 shotgun and some wearing
apparel ss a result of allowing a
strange negro to loaf around his
barn.
A beer bottle was the gavel at
the Republican banquet Saturday
night in ST Louis. When the
chairman had broken his own
empty bottle he used Hadley's 10
secure order.
The Maitland electric light
plant was sold last week, the con-
sideration being $4,000. It was
bought by Theodore Mueller, who
has been in charge Of the plant
since it was rebuilt after the fire.
Wabash special agent Harry
Hutton arrested eighteen neg
roes at Mexico for stealing beer
from Wabash car. The negroes
were tried and given Jail SEN
fences and fines. The maximum
given in any one OF the cases was
six months In jail, the crime be-
ing committed about two weeks
ago.
Samuel B. Holmes, Of Mary
vile, ninety.six years old, voted
for q presidential nominee for the
seventeenth time at the last elec-
ton. Mr.. Holmes cast his first
ballot in 1870 for the Wing cam
didate e-William Henry Harrison.
He was an ardent abolitionist and
has voted the Republican ticket
ever since tho party was crgan-
izsd.
The U. 8. Marshal Of Nsbras-
r. was prevented from serving
papsrs on George +. Burnett in
: 81. 600 damage suit brought By
lhe Rlees Military Academy. q
New-York tribune., 1908-06-17
ALASkA'S COAL DEPOSITS.

Indications of the presence of both oil and
coal near Controller Bay, Alaska, were noticed
fully twelve years ago. but the first detailed
report OH the subject is embodied in bulletin
of the United States Geological Survey issued
this week The field TO which the account re-
lates is situated about a hundred miles TO the
westward of Mount St Elias and is near the
coast. Whether the petroleum found there will
possess much value is still undetermined, but
10 such doubt concerning the coal now remains.
I'm an area embracing forty-seven square miles
are deposits of anthra cite. soft coal which can
he converted into coke and soft coal which
cannot be but which nevertheless is useful
for the generation of steam
These facts have a considerable industrial i'm
portance. As long ago as 1904 Alaska imported
inward Of one hundred thousand tons of coal
for IFS own use More than half of that amount
if obtained in British Columbia. Besides,
nearly one hundred and forty thousand tons
were consumed by coasting steamers which
visited Alaskan ports Some of the territory ;
s,,e,iaI needs will now be met by the home
product Before long Alaska will be able to
give copper smelters all the coke they want. BY
the supply of cheap and excellent fuel for loco
motives a fresh stimulus will be impaired to
tho construction and opera ton of Alaskan rail
ways. The companies which run steamships to
Alaska from Puget Sound and California may
find il profitable to establish stores of Con
troller Bay coal at the southern fermini OF
their lines as well as TO fill the bunkers of
their vessels in close proximity 10 the mines.
The character of the deposits here referred TO
possesses significance also, for the American
navy. which has hitherto been dependent for
its best coal on the East.
The service which Alaska is thus enabled to
render TO the country is the more valuable be
,.allse in this respect nature has not been par
ticnlarly generous TO the Pacific Coast states
California has next to no coal and must pro-
cure it from regions thousands of miles away.
Oregon is only little better off. Washington
is now mining something like four million tons
= wear and is beginning to prove a formidable
bitumfnous and can he converted into coke, but
If does not quite equal Eastern coal nor that
Of the Controller Bay district, which IN quality
is evidently unsurpassed by the richest deposits
of PENNSYLVANIA and Wales.
The area of the Controller Bay coal field is
much smaller than the anthracite region of the
keystone State So varied are the require
nents of Industry. however, that the world has
e, use for the many grades of coal which its
,,iues afford Indeed. Alaska is producing
several different kinds That which is fount I
in the Yukon Valley is gnte-a pretty poor
article. but not TO be despised when nothing
New-York tribune., 1908-06-17
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
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from Tire Tribune BureanI
Washington June fS.-The President manifested
the keenest interest to-day in the opening OF the
Chicago convention reading all the press news ana
private dispatches that came to his desk Seere-
tary Taft came to the White House omces W
enjoy the and read many OF inc ospo'Si'0S
with the President.
The American delegates TO the Pan-A1nerlcan
Scientific Congress to be held this summer IN
Chilli called on the President to pay their Respects
Secretary Taft held a conference Win ,'le
5.nt In tbe afternoon regarding the purchase BY
Cuba of church property in Ortenta province
Former Senator Stewart. Of Nevada askea "'e
President use his influence to have 1nserteo lt"
the Republican platform plank pieoslns tiio p'tS
to the rapid development of Western lana oy ir'i-
cation.
All the Cabinet members were present AT ths
meeting to-day with the exception OF secretary
Metcaif, who is on his way to Caiifornla 10 speio
the summer; Secretary Garfield who is IN hawaii
and Attorney General Bonaparte, who is in Phiia-
deIphfa to argue the coal roads cases
New-York tribune., 1908-06-17
dicate high degree Of devotion to the TASK
and of efficiency for its achievement
.o To Ty.yJ7NCTIONS.

II is clear that the excited state OF ieeilis
which exists among some of the ieauibs oeie-
gates 10 the Chicago convention over the eA-
pected plank in the platform relating 10 ia-
functions has been artificially snmuia'eo anu
in mart at least reflects sharp political rlVai-
rios Tbere is nothing intrinsically revolu-
tionary in the suggestion that wrong may re-
sult from the use of the writ of injunction,
nor is there any open or veied attack upon the
courts in an effort 10 diminish the possibility
that such wrong will be done.
The purpose of any declaration on me SUBJECT
which Mr. Taft weuld ratify could not be
strange or menacing 1t would be fairly and
fully EXPRESSED in resolution testifyns to the
confidence which the country feels IN the WIS
dom and integrity OF the federal courts, ana
advising such an amendment of the statute OF
procedure with respect TO the writ OF lnlune-
tion as will make their wellnigh unlVersai
practice heretofore the invariable rule here
oft