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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
CASHIERS SHORTAGE $50, 900.
Calhoun Harris, Society Man, Ar.
rested in South Carolina.

NtAuouH uarrISs society WAN, Ar
rested in South Carolina.
Anderson. s. calhoun Harris,
secretary and assistant cashier of the
Orr cotton mills, here, was arrested,
charged with breach of trust. Elk
pert accountants who are going over
his books announced that $50. 900
was missing. Harris, who is socially
prominent, says the apparent short.
age win be found due to clerical err
rors.
In the cotton company's vault the
accountants found between $4,000 and
$4,000 in old checks, currency and
silver, which had been stored in bags,
some of it for eight years, and appar-
emily forgotten. Some OF these old
checks had been rendered in payment
for accounts with the company and
apparently never had been eashed.
Harris is thirty-five years old. He
was married a few months ago.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
MAYOR JOHNSON LOSES FIGHT.
Schmidt Ordinance Defeated in Cleve-
land by 3763 Majority.

Cleveland, Ohio.-The Schmidt or
dinance providing for the grant of a
franchise to Herman Schmidt, insur-
Ing three-cent fares on a part of the
city street car lines, was defeated at
referendum election here by ma
jority of 1853. The total vote was
31,022 to 34,7S5. The Schmidt ordi-
nance was fostered by Mayor Tom L.
Johnson.
The campaign, which has waxed
warm for the last two months, has
been particularly bitter. Mayor John
son, municipal Office holders and 9TH
ers held hundreds of tent meeting
and urged the granting of the fran
chise. A committee of 100 business
men opposed 1t.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
Wheat Crop Of Unpre-
cedented Value.

Minneapolis, MINI. - Estimates
made by wheat experts of the prom
ised yield of the States of Minnesota
and North and South Dakota, the
three greatest wheat States, place this
years crop at 235. 100000 bushels,
worth $500, 100000 at current prices,
or 165,000s000 more than last years
yield.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
GUILLoTINE AGAIN IN PARIS.
Crowds Gather to See Man Who
Killed Mother Suffer Death.

Paris, France.--A sudden official
announcement that a public behead-
ing would take place at 400 a. m. in
the boulevard fronting the Sante Pri
son created sensation in Paris,
which had not seen such a sight in
fifteen years. Immediately immense
crowds gathered at the scene In
view of the revolving crime of thS
man executed President Fallieres re.
fused to commute his sentence to life
Imprisonment. The victim was one
Duchemin, agedtwenty-three. abutch.
er. In 1908 he stabbed his mother.
and. this not resulting in her death
quick enough he finished her by stran.
gulation. The motive for the crime
was robbery.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
Enoch's Surprise.

Enoch Arden returned to find his
wife remarked.
''Drat the tariff he cried.
Herewith he resolved to be quicker
in legislation in the future.-New
York Sun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
Fewer Idle Freight Cars
Throughout the Country.

Chicago. The fortnightly report
of the American Railway Association
On car SURPRISES and shortages shows
z further decrease in idle cars, bring
ing the total down to 26O,227. OF
this reduction 1856 are box and 1000
coal and gondola cars.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
New workers. Body in Pool.

John G. Diehl, forty-one years old,
son of George H. Diehl, Of No. 18
West 127th street, New York City, re-
tired official Of the Hamburg Ameri-
can Steamship Line, was found dead
floating in a clay hole on the OUT
skirts of Chicago
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
State Income Tax Bin Killed.

At Atlanta. Ca, the House, by a
vote of IS to SIS. killed bill to insert
an income tax in the State tax meas
ure. The resolution to amend the
Federal Constitution so as to permit
an income tax will come up later.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
LEFT FORTUNE TO SERVANT.
Aged Lawyers Relatives Get Only
$4,000 Of His 500, 1000.

Bucyrus. Ohio Franklin Adams,
the Oldest attorney In the county, who
died. aged ninety-six, left almost his
entire fortune to Lizzie .Ostermier,
who has been his housekeeper for
thirty years. The estate amounts to
100000.
Only $4,000 was left to relatives.
Miss Ostermier is about fifty years
old.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
AN EASY WAY.

How to Cure Kidney Troubles Easily
and Quickly.
1t is needless to suffer the tortures
Of an aching back, the misery of head
aches, rheumatic pains, urinary dis
orders, or risk the danger of diabetes
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10

Colombia's President Resigns.
Colombia's Congress unanimously
accepted General Reyes resignation
as President.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
Left the Pope AZ coo. 600.

The will OF Don Carlos, the Pre-.
tender to the throne of Spain, leaves
to the Pope works of art and money
to total of $4,000, 900.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10

The Car arrived at Cowes, Eng.
land. on formal visit to King Ed.
ward.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
Where $4,000 900 Untitled
Orders Are in Sight.

New York City.--With the railroad
plans in sight for the cruising of $685.
900, 900 to $170, 100000, most of
which is to be expended on improve
ments and new construction, the steel
companies contracting for the expen-
diture of almost 500, 900, 900 on new
plants and with untitled orders
amounting to more than $410,00O,-
900 already on the books of a few of
the leading companies in the princi-
pal Industries, the outlay of cash in
this country in the nexttwelve months
is expected by trade experts to be the
largest ever known in our domestic
trade.
So far as the railroads are con-
cerned, stock market authorities pre-
dict that before the year is out new
securities will be placed on sale that
will bring the total for the twelve
months up to the enormous sum Of
$1,000, 900, 900, and probably ST.
50,000,000, thus verifying James ].
Hills prophecy that in good times
this country needs billion dollars a
year fresh capital for new construc-
ton and improvements.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10
Four Companies to
Spend $74,OOO,O0

A canvass by reporters of the steel
and iron corporations showed that a
total to be- spent by four of them
alone for new construction in the next
twelve months amounted to $4,000
900. In detail the figures are as fol-
lows:
United States Steel Cor
poration. 80. :. ~. $50, 000, 600
Jones & Laughlin. ...... $4,000, 900
Bethlehem Steel Company 5000, 900
Republic Steel and Iron
Company -. ~. 5000, 900
Heavy expenditures are also con-
templated by the Pennsylvania Steel
Company, the Maryland Steel Com
pany, the Inland Steel Company, the
Colonial Steel Company, the Southern
Steel Company and the Sheffield Coal
and Iron Company
That these expenditures are war
ranted is proved by the untitled or
ders on the books. A computation Of
these from the records of few lead
Ing concerns, in the different indus
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-08-10

ries, shows the amount to be as fol-
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

idler at either end of the social scale.
Envy is not the proper attitude toward
them. The proper attitude toward
them DIS a good humored but thorough
going disapprova1 of the man or wo-
man who is so blind, not only to the
Interests, as to believe that anything
permanent a be gained from a life
of selfish and vacuous idleness.
81 trust that, more and more of our
people will see to it that the schools
train toward and not AWAY from the
farm and workshop. The great ma
lions of mediaeval times who left such
marvellous works of architecture and
art behind them were able to do so be
cause they educated alike the brain
and hand OF the craftsman.
Teach the boy and girl that their
business is to earn their OWL liveli-
hood; teach the boy that HE is ITO he
the home maker; the girl that she
THAI their work is b most important
by far in all h land; that the work of
the statesman the writer, the captain
of industry and all the est is condi-
tional first upon the o that finds
it's expression in the family that sup
ports the family.
so teach the boy that he is expec-
ted to earn his own livelihood; that it
is a shame and a scandal not to be
self-independent, not to be able to hold
his own in the rough work of actual
life. Teach the girl that SO far from
it's being her duty to try to avoid all
labor, all effort it should be a matter
of pride to her to be as good a house
| wife as her mother was before her"
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11
LIQUOR DEALERS TO TRY
TO SWAY THE PUBLIC.

Atlantic City, N. j., May lit has
been decided by the United States
session Wednesday evening, June 2,
the second day of its national conven-
ton, when that body meets next
month. The meeting will be address
ed by eminent publicists, who have
been invited to express their views
with the utmost frankness.
One of the speakers will be the Rev.
DR.. John P. Peters, rector of the St.
Michaels Protestant Episcopal church
in New York, and chairman of the
Committee of Fourteen, which was Or
ganized for the suppression of the
Raines Law Hotels. This committee
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11
ALBUQUERQUE WOULD GET
AHEAD OF ROSWELL

The preliminary petition in favor OF
the adoption of the commission form
of city government, is being signed In
Roswell, and If the business people OF
albuquerque do not wake up to the Inn
oortance of beginning active opera
in this matter, Roswell will get
In ahead Of us.
This is a much larger place than our
sister city OF the Pecos, and the ne
cessary i hundred signatures to the
petition could be obtained more read
lily here than there, and since the bu-
siness community of this town is prac
tically a unit in favor of the proposed
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

has invited the cooperation of the
brewing trade, and of the bonding com
panies, and under their joint action,
a number of the most Objectionable re
sorts in New York City have been clos
ed. DIR. Peters was professor of He
brew at the University of Pennsylva-
mia in 1885, and prior to that, Profess
sor of Old Testament languages and
literature in the P. E.. Divinity school
at Philadelphia. He had charge of the
expedition Of the University of Penn
sylvania to Babylonia, conducting the
excavations at Ntppur some fifteen
years ago. He Is well known in prac-
and has taken a leading part for some
years in the work for the social well
fare of h people of the community.
DR.. Peters address will dea with the
evils connected with the liquor traffic
the necessity OF reforming them, and
the means of reforming as he ees it
in New York.
DR.. Allen McLane Hamilton will
speak from the Medico-Physiological
standpoint. DR.. Hamilton, who is well
known specialist in nervous diseases,
was formerly Professor of mental dis
eases at Cornell University College,
and 1t the author of a number of well
known works on medical jurispru-
dence; nervous diseases; railway and
other accidents, etc. 1t will be recall
ed that DR.. Hamilton testified for the
Government as expert in the trial of
the assassin Guiteau.
John Koren, of Boston, the well
known statistician, will speak on the
legislative aspects of the liquor prob
lem n local option. Mr.. Koren was
In the service of the Committee of Fiji
ty, which investigated the liquor
problem from 1894 TO 1899, and is the
author OF the volumes ON the "Econo-
mic Aspects of the Liquor Problem"
and the Liquor Problem in its Legfs-
lative Aspects" He Is an expert spec
ial agent OF the United States Bureau
OF Census on social statistics, relat-
ing particularly TO pauperism. insani-
ty n crime. He was special ex-
pert OF the United States Department
of Labor. abroad, in 1891; and in 1898
was sent by the Federal Government
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11
(Seal)
Contest Notice.

Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Roswell, N. NJ,
April %, 1909.
A sufficient contest affidavit having
beer filed in this office by John H.
SmoOt, contestant, against homestead
entry, No. 1O673, made January 18th,
1907, for Southeast quarter rs. E. "a
Section 81 Township 10 s., Range %
E., N. NJ. P. Meridian by Anna Collins
C~ontestee, in which it is alleged that
said Anna Collins has never establish
ed her residence upon said tract and
has not resided upon and cultivated
same for any length of time whatever,
said parties are hereby notified to ap-
pear respond, m offer evidence
touching said allegation at 10 o'clock,
a. m. on June IS, 1909 before the Reg
lister and Receiver at the United
States Land Office in Roswell, N. NJ.
The said contestant having, in a
proper affidavit, filed May 1, 1909, set
forth facts which show that after due
diligence personal service of this 10
tice can not be make, it is hereby or
dered and directed that such notice be
given by due and proper publication.
T. C. TILLOTSON,
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11
Gives $4,000 to Harvard.

The giver of the sum cd $4,000 to
Harvard's department of history and
o especial use a. spend
able cash in Strengthening instruction
to municipal government is the Vol
of the late Frank Thompson, president
of the Pennsylvania railroad. Gradu-
ating at Harvard. Mr.. F.. G.. Thompson
studied law at the University of Penn
%sylvania. Recently returning to Phil
adelphia, after life on his ranch in
New Mexico, he plans to devote his
time to public affairs and his money
to civic uplift in ways that the gift to
Harvard shows will be far-reaching.-
Boston Herald.
Frank Graham Thompson, spoken
of above, is a resident of Silver City
and Is a frequent and generous giver
to charities in this city.-Silver City
Enterprise.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

Fire was discovered on Sunday at
Ration in the vacant Schneider Brew
ing Company's building, but was extin
guished before the fire department
could get into service. There was evil
dence that kerosene had been scatter
ed on the floor of the garnet and one
Of the south rooms and the blaze
started by incendiaries.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

good but unwise women a 81 have
worked hard; my daughter shant
work" The poor woman, not realizing
that great though the curse of mere
drudgery of overwork Is, it IS not SO
great as the curse Of vapid idleness,
and it does not make n difference
whether the idleness is that of the
hobo at one end Of the scale or the
gilded youth at the other.
do not waste time in envy1ng the
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

A. C. Wilson. Plaintiff,
VS.. No. 1921
Mary Alice Robertson and
A. B. Robertson,
Defendants
To Mary Alice Robertson and A. B..
Robertson, the above named defenl
ants:
You are hereby notified that A. C..
Wilson, the above named plaintiff, on
February IL, 1909, filed his complaint
in b District Court of the Fifth Ju-
dicial District of New Mexico, sitting
within and for Chaves County, at the
City of Roswell, in said District; that
h said cause known as No 1491 is
now pending in said Court; that by
said action plaintiff demands judg-
ment against you in the sum of nine
ty dollars and costs of action, COM
planning that said sum Is due him on
contract of employment as real es-
tate broker or agent, for services rem
dered defendants in selling, or pro
curing a buyer for certain real estate
in said complaint described, and you
have refused to pay said promised
commission;
o are further notified that your
property, to-wit: lot IL, in block AZ,
west Side Addition to the city of
Roswell, New Mexico, has been at
CdcHeu Dy Sdld plalnClH, ana unless
| you answer in said cause on Or before
the 25th day of June, 1909, judgment
will be rendered against you by de-
fault and said attached property will
be sold to safety such judgment, as
by law in such case made and provid-
ed.
D. w. Elliott, whose business ad-
dress is room 1, Oklahoma Block, Ros-
we'll, New Mexico, is attorney for
plaintiff.
Given under my hand and official
seal this 10th day of April, 1909.
S. I. ROBERTS, Clerk.
By GEO. L. WYLLYS, Deputy.
Apr. 12-19-26. May 3-10-17.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11
Notice of Tendency of Action.

To Frank Lesnet: You are hereby
notified that there is pending IN the
district court for Chaves County, New
Mexico, civil action No. 1926, styled
Annie E. Lesnet, Plaintiff, v, Frank
Lesnet, ct al. Defendants; that you
Mrs. Jennie Haley, Mrs. Edith Ander-
son, Mrs. Bessie DingwaN, Miss Geor-
gia B. Lesnet, Francis Lesnet and
George Milton Lesnet are defendants;
that the general objects of said ac-
ton are to quiet the title of the plain
tiff, Annie E. Lesnet, in and 10 lot 8
(eight), in block % (twentyAeight),
Roswell, In said Chaves county, II to
debar defendants and each of them
from having or claiming any right, IT,
tie or interest in and to said lot, and
to have such other relief as may de
equitable, including costs.
You, said Frank Lesnet, are further
notified that unless you enter your ap-
p~earance in said action on Or before
the 21st day of June, 1909, Judgment
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11
THE JOY AND THE
DIGNITY OF LABOR.

From the pen of Theodore Roose-
welt has come some very beautiful
and some very practical expressions,
although the ex-president was much
better in writing than in carrying out
his own ideas. One of his articles is
we'll worth reading. 1T is as follows:
1--WE have all of us often heard some
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

Roswell will have to get a hustle
on to be the first to try the Commits
sion Plan of government. h Record
notes that Wichita, Kansas, is more
thar pleased with the working Of he
plan in that city.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

will be rendered in said action against
you by default.
That the name of plaintiffs attorney
is U. S. Bateman, whose post Office ad
dress is Roswell, Chaves county, New
Mexico.
This April 16, 1909, Tues. st
S. L. ROBERTS,
Clerk.
by Geo. l.. WHY'S,
(Seal) Deputy.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

reform, we ought to have the credit of
getting in first" and can have it, just
as easily as not If any two or three of
our live business men will set the
pace.-Albuquerque Journal.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

Word has come from Washington
that the resolution annulling the New
Mexico publication law will probably
be pushed through during this ses-
sion.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

Chaves County is an orderly county
there being very little crime compar
atively speaking, but there Is little
doubt that with booze selling eradi-
Gated, but that conditions would
greatly improve.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

The City Council of Santa Fe has
backed water on it's decision to close
out the saloons in hat city and Will
pass the entire matter UP to the peo-
ple for their decision.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

The Record Acknowledges receipt OF
the program of the annual conven-
ton of the National Educational AS
ISOLATION, to be held at Denver, Colo
RADIO, July 8 to 9, 1909. M. H. Brash-
er, superintendent of the local schools
is a member of the board of directors
of the National Association.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

to Europe to study the Gothenburg
System. He is the Secretary and di-
recting spirit of the American Stats
tical Association.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

This Is commencement week for the
Roswell public schools, the most inn
portant week in the year for the
school children, and corresponding
ly important for the parents. Roswell
has a good school system, above the
average and one that is being con-
stantly improved under the efficient
administration of Superintendent Nj.
H. Brasher. The time is at hand, how
ever, when the city must improve the
schools by adding at least one new
building. The schools are already ov-
ercrowded and with h growing pop
ulation Of Roswell, more room must
be provided.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11
ChamberIain's
Liniment

is ali that is needed and it is GER
tain to give quick relief. Give il
a trial and see for yourself how
quickly it relieves the pain and
soreness. Price 25c; large size. soc.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11
Rheumatism

More than nine out of every
ten cases of rheumatism are
simply rheumatism of the
muscles, due to Geld or damp,
or chronic rheumatism. In
such cases no internal treat
ment is required. The free
application of
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

Andrew Carnegie would have the
United States and England enter in
to an agreement regarding defense.
The United States would defend the
Atlantic ports of Great Britain and
possessions of this country. This
sounds very nice but suppose the peo-
pie of this country would not approve
of the war into which Great Britain
might enter. What then?
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-11

The Clovis News has become a dali
ly, several numbers of what promises
to be a real daily newspaper being re-
ceived at this office. In it's first issue
the Daily News remarks that h first
issue of the Weekly News was issued
two years ago on May 1, 1907, before
there was a single house In Clovis,
and that not, two years later, with
the first issue of the Daily News, Clio
Wis has a population of above $500.
The Record wishes the Daily News ev-
ery success in it's new venture.
Sharp County record., 1909-01-01

L. P. Cox came in from Texas
last week for visit with his
brother, DR.. F. NJ. Cox. Mr.. Cox
formerly lived in Evening Shade,
bat this is his first visit back to
the place in twenty-seven years.
The Chapter OF Royal Arch
Masons at this place has receiv-
ed many new members within the
past few weeks. The last to take
these degrees were E. j. Russell
of Maxville and W. W. Justus Of
Pfeiffer.
EIston Brewer, who foupded
the Cave City Clarion and later
merged his paper with the Bates
vile Observer, has severed his
connection with that paper and is
now working on one Of the New
port papers.
DeWitts Carbolized Witch
Hazel Salve has many imitators.
There is one original, and the
name Dewitt is on every box.
Best salye for burns, scratches
and hurts. 1t is especially good
for piles. Sold by Snow Drug
Co.
John Carver, who liver near
Center, was in to see US a few
days ago. Mr.. Carver carries
avoirdupois to the amount Of $50
pounds and declares that he is
now about 30 pounds under
fighting weight.
Several young people in this
section should attend the Spring.
field Business College, 1t is one
Of the largest and best schools.
Every graduate Is placed in
good situation, or the tuition is
refunded. Send for the free
catalogue.
j. W Atkinson Of Benton was
here several days lately visiting
old scenes. Mr., Atkinson lived
here many years ago, and his
friends 10 this section are many,
He is now a contractor at Benton,
and all his old friends will be
glad TO know that he is prosper
ing,