The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-10-23
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Owes the Homestsadsr Good Advice
About ths Difucuitiss Of Settling
in New Country.
Hrs SPEECH WAS FULL OF HuMoR

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or the Dakotas, and who have been al.
lowed another chance because their 6rst
fling wasn't worth 4 man 5 head right.
New Mexico IL the only part Of the
public domain where a homestead is a
full equivalent for ones head right.
Now here In Quay county, especially
around Obar, a man often considers that
even less than n fnll quarter Is enough.
I an an example Of that myself.
My W claim Is only 1870 acres, and
] am satisfied, one hundred and twenty
acres adjoining the TOWNSHIP Of Greater
Obsr In enough, especially at my age.
You see I am like the old chap who
came to County Clerk Donohoo's Of.
zee a little while ago and asked for
. marriage license. Rome courteously
showed him the different styles, with
their nice borders, fancy lettering and
pictures Of cupids and angels all over.
The prospective groom asked the price,
ard when Rome told him they were a
dollar and n half, the p. g. pushed them
back and asked, Haven't you got q
cheap kind, something for about two
bits that will do for an old mani.you
see I wont need q license as long as
n young man"
Our great objection 90 a homestead In
Kansas or Oklahoma IL the cyclones
they nave there, not having any cy.
clones, we here In New Mexico are apt
20 forget about them, and for that rea.
son ] want to speak Of a few; Up in
Kansas they had u cyclone that carried
away n homesteaders shack, stoves,
tables, bed steads, and bedding and then
came back sixty.hve miles after the
sheet. II came back the next day and
got the old mans whiskers.
Over In Nebraska, a cyclone blew q
farmers well out Of the ground and
left II In the top 81 an apple tree. IL
took the neiRhbors two days 10 get
that we'll back In the ground and then
II was cracked 50 that IL wouldn' Z hold
water.
Back In Oklahoma. where a lot Of
Ms came from they don Z have any very
big cyclones but they have a lot Of
them, and people get accustomed to
being pitched up and whirled over in
"a the merit county.
During the political campaign pre-
eeeding statehood. II was nothing un
usual for the farmers Of three or four
counties TO get whirled together up
among the clouds and in such eases
they often held conventions and adopt.
ed resolutions In favor II the initia-
tive and referendum. Some people say
the politicians Of Oklahoma have been
''up In the air" ever since.
They are making a lot Of bother just
nov a. 10 whether Cook or Peary dis.
covered the North Pole first, bu. both
these gentlemen are twenty years late.
I discovered the North Pole myself,
about 90 wears ago. Il was this way:
I was living in Iowa, and one night
one OF those big husky cyclones they
have M there, picked up the house and
carried II 80 far in the air that
could see over the bulge Of the earth
and ! saw the North Pole sticking up
like a sors thumb.
Unfortunately, before l could get my
story into the newspapers, I woke up.
But I am getting on my text.
want 10 talk a little about the first
homesteader. have been looking up
the records and | find that Adam was
tho hrst homesteader. I admit that
the record is a little hazy in spots and
far from complete, but ~ near as I
can make 1t out, Adam hled on a
choice claim cver in Eden Valley or
Paradise Flats somewhere. think IL
was on the NEA Of Section 81.
His original fling papers have un.
fortunately been lost. The number OF
his Homestead Entry was 4liH and
his serial number was %.
am very sorry that Adam origi.
nal entry receipt can not be found, be.
cause ! have always wanted to know
what Adam other name was,
You know YOU always have 10 give
your full name when you file.
II seems too bad that such An able
and successful ancestor as Adam, should
be called by his FIRST name by all his
descendants.
How would YOU like to have your
grand children speak Of you as "Bill'
or "John" or pete"
Then think Of the entire human fami'
" referring to its esteemed primogeni.
tor a. "Adami"
Ism Z IN awful, Mapeif
II we could hnd his Cling reeeip, we
would be In position TO use a "more
tenderer term" But IL Gems Adam
got into some kind Of trouble with the
government and he never proved up.
In fact, l think his entry was can.
eslled by the Land Once and he was
elected.
Tho record speaks OF two angels,
"eherubim," they are called, who
stood outside the gate, and wouldn't
Let him In. OF course the word "eheru.
bine," means our old friends, the Reg
lister and Receiver.
This wss a cruel blow 10 Adam and
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