davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-28

Joseph Ruiz "a Pueblo Indian Of the
class Of 'oS, is doing well as q ear
penter. He owns his home. which he
built himself. For a while after leav-
ing Carlisle he Was assistant disciple
marian nj Albuquerque. \ letter re-
ceived from the large mill company
Tor which Mr.. Ruiz is wrking in Las
Cruces shows that ne has been very
successful and that they hold him in
high esteem He started TO work for
these people our years ago at 81 per
day, ana was gradually promoted I'M
til az present he is getting 81 per day.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-28
CARLISLE MEN ARE
DOING WELL IN
SOUTHWEST
Number Of 'Indian
Craftsman Tells Of Gradu-
ates Who Are Winning Way
in World.

The October number Of The In
dian Craftsman the artistic publica-
ton Of the students Of the United
States Indian schol at Carlisle, Pa,
has "A number Of notes " graduates
which Will be Of interest in this sec
ton.
The Indian Craftsman is pub
lishcd by the Indians themselves and
IS a beautiful specimen of artistic
makeup and fine topography The
leading article in the October num-
Der Is with the Piute Indians an
interesting description of this inter-
esting southwestern tribe by Walter
Runke. Among the personal notes of
alumni are the following:
Supervisor Charles f.. Dagenctt
made Carlisle a short visit the past
month while on his way from Buf-
falo to Washington. Mr.. Dagcnett is
always interested in the work of the
institution, sufficiently SO TO make US
a visit whenever in this part Of the
country, and we are always glad to
have him comc. He il one 81 the
most prominent alumni of Carlisle
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-28

TO THOSE WHO WEAR TURN
DOWN COLLARS OUR NEW 20TH
CENTURY COLLAR SNAPPER OF
EERS THE PERFECTION OF COL
LAR COMFORT. DOESN'T CTlACk
THEM. EITHER, AND LETS "
TIE SLIP Easy. IMPERIAL LAUN-
DRY co. PHONE AS.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-28

Nrs. Downs home cooking sale
saturday. October 30. mt {. x \. cof-
Zee store. can rnt sample our cake
and surcc.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-28

Joseph Porter. n OF the appren-
tees OF u printing department. and
q member Of the Navajo tribe. has ac-
ceptcd a position with the Bulletin
Publishing company at Dillsburg. Pa.
He starts in at s12 a week and We ex-
pect him To make good. He has
done excellent work at his trade dur
ing the past year.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-28
At G. B. BraIevlch's Stationery

and Notion Store topposlte Postof-
fice.) can be found the best standard
cigars ard tohaccos, kept Ia perfect
condition for Immediate use. in spe-
ciaily constructed cases. MIR. Braje-
tich IL selling out under the original
cost a large variety OF school
books and toys
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-28

Frische and W. r. Walton. OF .Albu-
querque and Max Dalies. of Belen.
none OF them were sighted when
their time rolled around for getting
astride the goat. \ pleasant social
session followed the initiation and
business meeting. Appetizing re-
treatments were served in style in The
banquet room by the club room COM
mitteC.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-28

WE HANDLE A FINE LINE OF
FRESH AND CANNED FRUITS.
PHONE Us YOUR ORDER, Il. G.
PRATT & Co, 2f4 s. SECOND ST.
PHONE 40.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14
The Deadly Sameness.

Des Moines Register and Leader:
The Baroness Won Hutton, former
American girl, ran away from her
husband not long ago; and now he is
going to divorce her. She says she
hopes he will-becaasc he does not
deserve wife. He is so monotonous-
" good, she asserts, that no woman
could endure his SNUG companionship
for more than week. A mud likeness
of Buddha would be more interesting.
Many persons will feel vague
sympathy for the contumacicus bar
oness. Most people exalt virtue by
habit and resent it by instinct Every
one knows that halo is remarkably
fine thing; and despises the halo ac-
cordingly. That's one of the para
doxes of human nature
There's not boy in school who
does not understand what an adj
mirable youth the Smith cherub is.
The teacher never tires of praising
his irreproachable department. Moth
ers expatiate on his surprising merit,
and point him out as an incarnate
moral to unregenerate progeny. when
he walks by in a glow of soap and
saintliness. And the other boys show
their appreciation of the superior type
of boykind represented by young
Smith, by clubbing him Miss Claribel."
and chasing him home after school.
Youth Smith somehow gets the i'm
/ ~ tot hata him
because they ere so bad; in reality it
/ is because he is so good.
When Baron Won Hutton asks for his
divorce he will attempt tc establish
1 the incorrigibility of his wife. Like
the Smith boy he will be unable 10
comprehend the fact that his wife is
just like other people and that it is he,
himself, who K different. The bar
oness says so. ''If he would only
smoke cigar sometime" she remark
ed. cor use a little swear word or
lose his temper and hit the coachman,
or refuse to go to church some Sunday
i think could love him. But he is
always the same-prim and proper.
The man hasn't the slightest sense of
variety. He l. stupidity perfect. He
has never given me an opportunity to
find fault with him on Legitimate
grounds He is q bore"
The baroness seems to have had a
most unusual experience. Whatever
else may be alleged against titled hus
: bands, unvarying goodness is not tbs
Il Al. -. - > ~
fact, are so unfailingly wicked tina
even their shortcomings become tire
sorle after time. 1t is APPARENT!
impossible to strike general aver
age among the nobility. When the,
: are bad they are very. very bad. AM
when they are good they are horrid
In either case the American wifi
loses, or thinks she does-whicl
amounts to the same thing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14
SWITCHING NOT a NUISANCE.

The Texas supreme court holds
that the switching of trains in city
does not constitute nuisance. The
case decided was brought by hotel
proprietor at Ell Paso against the
Galveston, Harrisburg and San An
tonic. The complainants asked for
perpetual injunction to restrain the
road from using its tracks on Main
street for yard and station purposes,
switching, making up trains, ETC., al
leging that the value of their hotel
which is but 120 feet from the tracks.
was deprecated. The trial court is
sued an injunction restraining the
company from using the tracks in
question except for the moving of its
regular trains in entering and leaving
the CITY,.
The appellate court sustained this
decision. But the record shows that
the railway had been authorized by a
city ordinance to build the tracks,
and that they were in use before the
hotel was bought by the eplaintiffs-
in fact. had been in use for twenty
one years, and, therefore, the su.
/ preme court holds that the use of the
tracks which are enjoined was lawful
and indispensable to the operation OF
the railway; that it can not be pre-
vented without destroying the useful
ness of this public utility. Continuing
the court says:
a railway can not be operated
| without locomotives, which, being
moved by steam, must produce noises
If removed beyond the limits of {
city, so as to place the yards out O
contact with business houses and resi-
dences, their value to the publ,
would be greatly impaired. Some on,
must suffer these inconvenience,
rather than that the public interes
should suffer. If the defendant wer,
compelled to remove to another par
of the city, the same nuisance to 9th
er people would be caused by tn,
same necessary operation of the ma
chinery, and the citizens at that poin
could with greater propriety thai
plaintiffs Gin this suit seek anothe
injunction. These conflicting inter
ests call for solution of the ques
ton by the application of the broa
principles of right and justice, leavia
!. the individual to his remedy by con
pensation and maintaining the publ
interests intact. This works hare
ships upon the individual. but they ar
: incident to civilization, with its phys
cal developments. demanding NOR
} and more the means of rapid transpol
. tation of persons and property"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14

to carry out his recommendations, at
the present session of congress.
The Presidents message will shock
those who adhere strictly to the prin-
ciple that there shall be no govern
ment without the consent of the gov
erned. Lincoln said that no people
is good enough to rule another with
out its consent, but nowadays the
generally accepted and more practic-
al view is that nation has obliga-
tons. as well as rights. and that
when it fails TO observe them, it must
be disciplined as an individual would
be. In other words if Porto Rico is
fit for self-government. it shall have
it, and If not, it shall be governed
from Washington. Cuba and several
other republics in the West Indies
and Central America have received
ponsible person is not allowed to run
amuck, and it is beginning to be under.
stood that no nation should do so
either.
For all practical purposes. as the
president says, the Porto Ricans are
enjoying greater liberty than they
ever did before. The island is more
prosperous than ever, since the
American occupation wages have gone
up and are now much higher than in
other West Indian islands and some
British and French colonies are com
planning that their trade has suffered
because of the growth of business in
Porto Rico. The suggestion now made
by the president is not intended to
work to the injury of the Porto
Ricans. Rather it is to their advan.
tage to be assured of a stable govern
ment and the more orderly, intelli-
gent element of the native population
no doubt will commend the step he has
taken.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14
From Fiery Red to Neutral Tint.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: A wonderful
change has come over the topics, and
the temper of discussion, in the edi-
torial columns of the Iowa press,
within the past elve months. One
who left the state and ceased to read
Iowa political newspapers a year ago,
returning now, would have some of
the sensations of Rip Van Wrinkle.
The words "standpat" and "progres-
sive" are now seldom seen or heard,
and when they do put in an appear
ance, excite little interest. They are
as faded leaves from ancient history.
The reader examining file of state
newspapers now finds but little to re-
mind him of the fiery columns that
met him year or SO ago whenever he
opened the papers. The Sioux City
Journal, Des Moines Register and
Leader, Waterloo Courier, Marshall
town Times-Republican, Dubuque
Times-Journal, Des Moines Capital,
Spirit Lake Beacon, Creston Adver.
tiser and Gazette. Keokuk Gate City
iowa Slly hepupilcdH, rolt l1ouSe
Messenger, Cedar Rapids Republican
and others thai might be listed have
all washed off the war paint and put
the Ratchet out of sight. Everything
is quiet and peaceable; little mon
otonous, to be sure, but eminently re
spectacle. The neutral tint may be q
bit tiresome for the veteran editorial
fighters. but they seem to develop q
remarkable adaptability to circum
stances.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14
FRAMING A TARIFF LAW.

With characteristic good sense the
Keosauqua Republican is not worry
ing one iota over the revision OF the
tariff 1t is letting the legislators at
Washington do that When both par
ties last year declared in their plat
forms for revision it knew there was
trouble ahead for the national law
makers. The Republican says there
are ots of fellows in Van Buren, and
other counties who talk wisely about
revised tariff, as though they knew
i nearly all, when in fact they don't
know beans about it. 1t confesses it
does not. and it believes it knows
about as much as to how the tariff
should be revised as the average citi-
zen. Furthermore. the Republican
has no sympathy with the wise men in
that and other counties who are de-
nouncing Aldrich and Payne and Dolli-
yer and Cummins because of their
views as to this or that item consider
ed in the tariff bill. II says in this
connection:
1--WE believe they are all trying to
arrive at a fair tariff measure. and in
the end we hope for a fairly we'll adj
justed law-but we dopbt if, when
completed. it gives any better satisfac
4 ton to the business interests of the
4 country, as whole, than the present
! Dingley law. We hope it may but we
! doubt it. But be this as it may, con
gress should, as soon as possible
pass into law tariff measure. Set
tie it quick, and then business will be
come settled The people will know
where they are at
The Republican is right in its con
clusion, beyond doubt It is impera
tive in the interest of business ant
prosperity that uncertainty as t.
schedules be ended at the earliest pos
sible moment. Better that Law
faulty in some details be passed thar
that discussion of items be continued
while trade halts and contracts for TIL
future are withheld. Doubt is clos
second to fear in paralyzing effects
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14
a BOYS Calendar.

Down on their knees in the schoolyard,
marking a ring in the ground,
Posing the prizes of battle each on its
little earth mound,
Breathing, for luck, on the shooter,
playing by time-honored laws,
Silently cycling the glasses and moving
backward to taws;
Slickries and cloudies and agates, all
in gorgeous array,
Shooters all nicked up with half-moons
April, ar i soon to be May.
Bringing up mud from the bottom,
holding one arm up with pride,
Floating and diving way under COM
ing up on the far side;,
Clothes on the bank quite forgotten,
springboard all slippery and wet
Cries from the door of the Kitchen
coming right soon, but not yet.
Trousers and waists wet and muddy
home and the woodpile so high,
Silence and suspense-and supper
June, and along to July.
Games of the Terrors and Tigers: blue
shirts, white pants and red socks,
Hearts almost stilled in their beating
eyes on the man in the box;
Swish of the swift-wielded willow,
thud of the ball in the nit.
Cries from the bleachers, ooh, Reddy,
Bring in that run with hit"
Crack. when the bat meets the base
ball, swells such a turbulent
cheer,
Reddy's the hero of sandlots -midsum-
mer, August quite near
Nut stains and berry-hrown fingers,
freckle and stone bruise and tan
N.Y. How the time has flown from us
since the vacation began,
Oh, but the summer was splendid, Oh.
but the June-time was glad,
Wish it could be that way always
what vacation he had.
Legs tagging on to the schoolhouse-
whistle nor birdcall nor cheer
Comes melancholy September, sorrow.
full end of the year,
j. W. Foley in the Saturday Evening
Post
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14

1t is said that teachers throughout
the state and those contemplating en-
tering the profession are much inter-
ested in the new second grade law
that goes into effect in July and many
interrogatories are coming to the state
superintendent regarding the new Jaw
and the tests to be given The new
law permits the renewal of second
grade certificates without examination
every year while the teacher remains
in active work of teaching. 1t was
said at the time the law was passed
that this would result in the state SUI
perintendent raising the standard OF
the examinations % meet the new
value placed on the second grade GER
tificate by giving it extended life. 1t
is to this point the inquiries are be-
ing made. Teachers want to know
what they have to meet and those
who are contemplating entering the
profession wish to know whether Tie
requirements are going to be SO severe
that it will be too much trouble to
enter the work of teaching in country
schools.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14
Would curb Porto Rican Authority

La Crosse Leader-Press: The mes
sage of President Taft on Porto Rico
is as striking as Roosevelt message
and is the nearest approach to the sen
sational we. have yet had in the state
papers of the present occupant of the
white house 1t was mistake, Mr..
Taft says, to entrust the inhabitants
Spain with all the rights of self-gov-
eminent at the start and before they
had time to learn to understand them.
Governed for centuries by an irrespon-
sible and tyrannical government, the
Porto Ricans never had the opportun-
ity. until the Americans arrived, to en-
Joy any share in the conduct of their
own affairs and when these were in
large measure turned over to them
they were unable to manage them
properly.
The situation just now is aggra-
waited by the adjournment of the in
sular legislature without making the
appropriations for the expenses of the
government. The legislature has
wanted contain changes in the laws,
which it was unable to get because
! the executive council, which is ap-
pointive. refused to agree to them,
4 and in retaliation it failed to make
the regular appropriations. The gov
eminent of the island is thus left
without the right to pay its bills.
+ This is intolerable, in the presi-
dents opinion, and he wants such a
I modification of the existing law with
4 respect to Porto Rico as will provide
for ordinary expenses when the leg
islature fails to make the proper ap-
preparations. He suggests that the
approp1iations be the same as those
of the preceding year when the leg
iglature adjourns without action.
This would curtail greatly the power
enioyed by the Porto Ricans but I'M
der the circumstances the president
thinks it is necessary. Therefore he
asks that appropriate steps be taken.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14
whv sleiohinu is Gone Forever.

Mount Pleasant Free Press: A
farmer who had read the item about
there being no sale for sleighs said
that sleighing in this country is gone
forever. This is his explanation.
Years ago the roads were lower than
the fields alongside. Generally there
were hedge, board and rail fences
along the road. The snow would
come; perhaps six inches would fall.
The wind would blow the snow into
the road and there would be four feet
of snow and sleighing would last all
winter. Now. with the roads graded
higher than the fields and wire fences
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14

A group of newspaper reporters
called ON Judge Smith Mcpherson
soon after his arrival in Des Moines
with request that he make state
ment to the people of Iowa relative TO
the assertions of Congressman Muir
ply of Missouri concerning him But
the Judge told them he had nothing
further to say: that his statement to
the associated press at st. Louis was
full one and covered all the points
Sorry you can't stay longer the
Judge added with smile as the Wis
itors fingered. The reporters hadn't
mentioned the fact that they were in
a hurry to leave, but the hint was not
lost on them. Come back again.
he shouted as they backed out of the
door.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14

Secretary Wilson OF the depart
ment Of agriculture says the wheat
corner "is a deliberately planned rob
berry" and adds:
THE spectators sent agents out all
over the United States to gather
statistics on wheat, directing them to
get bad reports, and they got them,
and published them Their reports
are lies. There is plenty Of wheat in
the United states, and there is no
reason why the price should be so
high"
The spectators find their profits in
disappearing crop conditions and
ali reports from such sources should
be taken with several barrels OF salt.
The government agents are intent only
On getting at the facts and have no
private ends to serve. In case OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14

Ex-Commissioner Keltz charges Gov
ernor Carroll with wearing celluloid
collar. To what extent the charge, if
true. iustifies the former commissioner
In collecting pay from the state for
services he did not render remains to
be demonstrated.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14
IoWANs IN WAR WITH MEXICO
Records Show that Seven Companies
Went from this New state.

seven full companies of Iowans en-
listed for the war with Mexico and
served throughout the war, marching
from Iowa south into Mexico and west
ward to Los Angeles, Cal.
Records showing that Iowa's mill
tary record began in the same year in
which it was admitted to statehood
have been uncovered for the first
time In the war department at Wash
iDgton and are now in the possession
of Colonel G. ". Crosley of Webster
City, who is in charge of the work
of compiling the roster of Iowa SOL
diers and sailors soon to be published
b. the Iowa National guard.
Historians knew that Iowa had fur
nished troops for the Mexican war.
but how many or who they were was
never known until Colonel Crosley
received the complete record of the
Iowa Mormon battalion of six COM
panies and of Company K, Tenth
United States infantry. which was re-
cruitcd entirely from among the resi-
dents of southeastern Iowa.
| Company K of the Tenth regular
1 infantry was recruited from Keosau-
qua, Fort Madison, Muscatine (then
/ Bloomington and other towns in
/ southeast Iowa, and was commanded
| by Captain Edwin Guthrie who was
wounded with others of his command
4 at Pa La Mega and died few weeks
/ later in Mexico The records SLOW
! that many other members of the Iowa
company fell in battle or died in hos
/ pitals in the city of Mexico.
The other six companies which rep
resented Iowa in the war were re
cruited from Mormons who had reach
ed Council Bluffs, on their westward
i journey. in search of land where they
would be free from persecution. They
were called the Iowa Mormon bat
talon. and comprised about 600 youns
men.
The records show that none of the
Mormon battalion were killed in ac
ton, but they marched the entire
distance from Council Bluffs, where
.
1916, to Los Angeles. Cal, where /
was mustered out just year later
Records show that one member o
the battalion died on the Rio Grand
river, indicating that they marche,
south into Texas and what is nov
New Mexico, and thence westward t,
Los Angeles, then a small Mexican
pueblo.
After being mustered out the rec
ord shows that many drew travelling
allowance from Los Angeles over tn
cid Norman trail to Salt Lake City
then just laid out by Brigham Young
Others settled in California and fe,
found their way back to Iowa.
The records received will add ms
terially to the completeness of tn
roster, which is to include the name
and records of all Iowans who say
service from the earliest Indian CON
bat to the close of the Philippin
campaign.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14

Miss Harriet Fulmer at the Ma
tional Conference of Charities said
that fully two-thirds of the corrective
and reform measures necessary are
the direct result of bad housing con-
ditions, dirty and ill-ventilated rooms
making most of the disease that is IT
tie root OF crime. Imagine a man
tired from his days work crowding
into two or three rooms or possibly
only one with no outlook, except a
dirty yard, with loud voiced and quar-
relsome neighbors and sick wife or
children in his own small nome. II
is small wonder that the father and
children often become delinquents
and then state charges.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14

The fear on the part of some that
the row among the Des MONIES city
commissioners is an indication of
weakness in that plan of government
is quite groundless, as the Sioux City
Tribune points out:
This row down at Des Moines does
not. as come carping critics imagine
disclose weakness in the commission
plan of government. Rather 1t re
yeals how the commission plan pro
vides a remedy for every distressing
situation, for it presents the opportun.
ity 10 bring forward one of the plans
most excellent features, that one
which provides for the recall of in.
competent or dishonest or negligent Of
fcials. The commission plan is all
right