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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-01-18

CLOSE IN-Good room and board
Home cooking; at 40S N. Richardson.
74-t6*.
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FOURTEENTH ASSEMBLY OPENED
AMID SCENES OF ENTHUSI.
ASM IN SANTA FE.
RIESS AND MlERA WIN

Mem from San Miguel and SandOval
Counties Elected President of COun-
Gil and Speaker of Lower House.
BrOgan and Salazar Are the Chief
Clerks. in Absolute
Control.
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W. P Littlefield is down from Ken
ma spending a few days with his
family.
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LOST:-By Louise Cahoon, gold
bracelet, on Main St Finder will be
suitably rewarded by returning it to
First NATIONAL Bank. 1t.
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CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAL-
LAS NEWS WRITES THAT
THE MONEY HAS
BEEN SECURED.
VOUCHERS ARE READ Y

Money for Payment of Current Ex-
penses is Ready and the construc-
tion of the Track is to be Comnenc-
ed Soon.-Work on the Grade is
Now Under way.-Rosweli Men
Talk of it.
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L. w. Martin came up from Artesia
this morning on real estate business.
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tives of the Trust Company from St
Louis, are The News correspondent s
informants, They stated that plenty
of funds are available with which to
push the construction of the railroad,
and that vouchers may be drawn at
once with which to defray any and all
expenses that may be incurred.
The Altus party composed of Cage,
Beach, vice president of the company
j. G. Atkins, ]. D. Rogers and J. B.
r ussell, directors, left tonight for
home, Edgar Chapman, of Cuero, sec
retary of the company, remains in
Houston. Ed Kennedy, president of
the company is Houston man. j. s.
Wood, cashier of tn First National
Bank of Altus, is a director of the rail
road company, and all of the men con-
nected with the proposition are said
to be prominent citizens.
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The fern leaf White Elm IS beau
ty. Wyatt Johnson has them 72t6.
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Grading Work Done.

1t is stated that thirty-three miles
of the proposed route have been grad
ed in Oklahoma, and twenty-five miles
near Lubbock, Texas, between Altus
and Roswell. Twenty teams are at
work at Altus now on the grade, it is
said, and the company is now in con-
troll of 12O teams that will be put to
work at once.
Railroad men say that the Altus
Roswell and Ell Paso project is one of
the best railroad propositions under
consideration today. The distance
from ,Altus, Ok, to Roswell, N. NJ, as
surveyed by the promoters of the rail
road, is 286 miles, and every acre of
the country traversed is said to be
splendid country. Not only is the
land arabic, but has been found
wherever tried, to be very productive
of wheat, corn and especially alfalfa.
Altus, a thriving Oklahoma city OF
5000 people is the junction of the
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Rail-
way and the Frisco. 1t is in excellent
farming territory, and another rail-
road is needed. 1t is in the Red Riv-
er Valley, where crops are said to
never fail.
The proposed railroad is surveyed
to cross the Fort Worth and Denver
City at or near Childress. The line
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WANTED-To buy a 4-room cot
tage up to 81 400 to 81 800; must be
we'll located
E. L. Wildly
74-t2. 303 N Main ST
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SCHOOL BOOKS AND SUPPLIES
AT PAYTONS.
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Wyatt johnson has the Elm. 72t6.
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FOR SALE:-Good Milk Cow.-210
S. KY. Ave. 74tf.
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74-t2.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1909-03-14
BLUE GRASS BLADE

Many of their affairs of state were under
the control of horuspices and augurs.
Priests, as with all other religious peoples,
presided over the terrestrial world, in
structing the celestial beings what orders
to give to hold the religious people.
The Etruscans divided the heavens into
sixteen parts, over each of which god
presided. Their government was loose
federal union; each state ruled by magis-
trates, annually elected from class of
hereditary sacerdotal mobiles. The wife
was on a social, and in most respects, a
political equality with the husband.
The Etruscans were experts in medi-
cine, astrology, metallurgy, engineering,
building roads, tunnels. tombs, etc. They
had made some advance in astronomy;
manufactured jewelry coined money and
constructed buildings of huge stone with
out cement
In most respects they were little behind
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1909-03-14

the world of today. The painted vases
found in their caller tombs, came from
Greece, and SO largely represented Greek
painting, carving and mythology. Later
these vases were of Etruscan origin. The
greatest amount of art is manifest in their
tombs, where were constructed reception
rooms, finely furnished where relatives
and friends were wont to meet and talk
over past and future events, ever mindful
that the soul of the departed was with
them.
My next contribution to the Blade Al
not objected to by the editor, will probably
be Criticisms on Government and it's Pol
iticians, relief from the tread-mill of
ancient history and the superstitions of
down-trodden humanity.
Sometime l may return to pay my re.
spects to the priesthood for their conspir-
acy to overthrow our personal rights and
liberties.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1909-03-14
(By Ernest Lamont.)


During recent discussion, in Congress,
anent the Army Appropriation Bill, an
effort was made bv one of the Representa-
tives, to induce Congress to violate the
Constitution by directing that the sum Of
$4,000 be used for the construction of a
chapel in which to hold religious exercises
in Fort Des Mones, Iowa.
Thanks to the foresight of Representa-
tive Macon, of Arkansas, this attempt at
church graft was effectually checked and
the members of the House were given a
practical lesson in what s meant by re-
ligious liberty in this land of the free.
The following is taken from the Daily
Congressional Record, which will explain
itself. The point of order rails ed was con-
sidered well taken and the allowance was
not made:
Representative Macon, Of Arkansas,
raised point of order against the provis-
ion that $4,000 of this sum may be used
for the construction of a chapel on the
military reservation at Fort Des Moines,
Ia" This led to the following remarks:
Mr.. Hull: Mr.. Chairman, possibly the
point Of order is well taken. | want to say
that there is regmental post there, and
they have no chapel and are anxious to
have one. The officers have asked for it,
and the department wants to build 1t out
of this fund, and they do not feel that they
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1909-03-14
The Church and Congress

have the right to take other buildings or
barracks for chapel.
Mr. Macon: Is there not some other
place for them to worship in?
Mr.. Hull: Yes; they can go 4 1-2 miles
into the city and ttend churcn at the diff
ferent churches, but it is not good discip-
line. They have an excellent chapla
there, and l think there is no difference of
opinion among the officers and men as to
the desirability of building
Mr.. Macon: How are they worshipping
now?
Mr.. Hull: At any place they can find
Mr.. Macon: Can they not continue to
worship in that way?
Mr.. Hull: Oh. yes; they could go with
out worship, l suppose.
Mr.. Macon: Not necessarily. They could
worship in the open air, if they were really
anxious to do it.
Mr.. Hull: They would freeze their noses
at this time of the year, with the thermom-
eter at four degrees below zero
Mr.. Macon: will say to the gentleman
that he knows as well as any one in .Ae
House that at this particular time we are
running behind in our revenues. | will ask
him If he thinks it wise policy to inau-
gurate new institutions of this kind while
our revenues are so low
Mr.. Hull: l did think it wise, or would
not have favored 1t. We have no. increased
the appropriation by 1t. We may cut off
some new quarters some place else by put
ting this in. We do not require that they
shall use it, but presume 1t would be
something they would probably recognize.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1909-03-14

sions, and even her gods were of Etrurian
origin. Not only this, but her laws come
from the same source. So, it seems to be-
that long centuries after the Wondering
ruins of oriental civilization had ceased
even to smoke, Etruria awoke from bar
barism and re-lighted the fires of civliza-
ton, this time in Europe.
For century after Rome had expelled
the Etruscans from her borders, an inces-
SAINT war, with varying success, was kept
up between Rome and Veil. In the year
535 B. C. E., the Etruscans sent a powerful
fleet to drive the Greeks from Carrica.
They attacked the Greek colony of Cumae
in 525 B. c. E., and again in 474 In these
contests their naval power was broken by
Hero |, of Syracuse, off the coast of Gu
mae. With this event the Etruscan power
commenced to decline. In Ala B. c. E.,
their dominion in Campania was overthrow
by the Semmites of the north.
This was followed in 1896 by an invasion
of the Gauls, who crossed the Apennines
and destroyed the wealthy city of Mel
pun. About this time, after siege of ten
years, Veil fell a prey to Rome; but the
Gaus continued their devastation over
Etruria, and after vain attempt at Clusi-
UNI, plundered Rome, 800 B. c. E. In 81
the war was renewed; the Romans, 2S3,
forced their way across the Ciminian for
est, again defeated the Etruscans, when
the Tarquinii gave up their independence
and became a province of Rome, where
they were allowed to retain their wealth,
their leading men being given positions by
their conquerors.
The Etruscans maintained quite an ex-
tensive literature, including history, poems
works on augury, divination, demons the
cycle on Greek legends, and the story of
the Trojan war; but all these works were
destroyed, except few Etruscan words
preserved by Desyhius, yaro ct al, mostly
proper nouns. From this, and about 5000
inscriptions, imperfectlv deciphered we
obtain all we have. From their alphabet
1t has been claimed that the germs of the
Latin dialect was derived. About 1000
of these inscriptions are devoted to the
acts and doings of the king and his officials,
giving their names, ages, parentage and
the religious side of their lives.
AS the Etruscan and Greek religious
systems run on parallel lines, both of which
were carried over to Rome, the religion of
the Etruscans can better be understood by
following Roman history Like all other
peoples, the great ignorant mass of the
Hruscans was very much attached to their
divinities. They believed in a future
life, in gods and demons, prayers, sacri-
fees, miracles, and all the forms and GER
emonies common to the earlier and later
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1909-03-14

One Cautious Representative Prevented
Violation of the Constitution, and
Caught Up with the Sly Move
of the Church.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-01-21

Probably the question which is
causing the greatest uneasiness
among the members is the railroad
rate bill. The members are all
pledged to the two-cent rate and we
do not believe there is a corporal's
guard among them who believe that
such law, if passed, will be sus-
tanned by the courts, and failure in
the courts would leave the state
under the three cent rate for another
two years. A worried expression is
about the only reply that can be had
to the question of what the session
will do in the matter.
In conversation with several of the
members who are interested in
good roads law for the state, we are
informed that little can be expected
from the present session. These
men give as their reason, for so
thinking, that there are too many
farmers in the present session who
are afraid to go home and face their
constituents should they pass road
law which would put some one in
authority either in the state or
county, who would have the power
to compel township road commits
sioners to build the roads up to
proper specifications which would
insure good and proper roads. They
think the people of the townships
hold it almost as divine right to
spend the money and do the work
with just their own ideas to govern.
1t is noised around the Hobbies
that after the senatorial election a
bill will be introduced calling for an
investigation committee composed of
members of both houses, and of all
parties to investigate the rumors that
Coe |. Crawford charged his meals
to the state while in Pierre, aad also
while in Huron; that the postage for
the progressive pre- primary cam.
Continued on page A
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-01-21

That automobiles are going to get
body blow here this winter looks
very probable as bill has now been
introduced fixing the speed upon the
public highways. We do not think
they will be permitted to run at over
20 miles per hour and would not be
surprised to see the limit fixed at 10
miles per hour.
The new state house got far enough
along to convince all that when com
pleted it will be e. very imposing
structure and credit to the state
and there is very little sentiment
among the members against liberal
appropriations to properly finish the
building and provide adequate and
appropriate furnishings.
John III. Schrader, we'll known in
w ebster, has been selected as the
presidential elector to take the
returns to Washington. He is \
stalwart republican whose home is
in Rapid City. The matter stood a
tie for three days between Shrader
and G. Fl. Lien, of Summit, Craw-
ford republican, but was finally set.
tied Wednesday afternoon.
1t is evident that the legislature
would very much like to avoid the
passing of the two-cent rate bill. A
compromise has been suggested by
having the railroads submit to two
and half cent rate without a con-
test, but thus far no member has had
the nerve to introduce such q bill,
for all know that such course would
bring the condemnation of the aver
age voter.
Considerable comment is being
made here upon the fact that the
Crawford administration spent all
the money that could be raised by
the state, even raising the valuation
to increase the amount that could be
collected as taxes and also contracted
debts to extent of six hundred thou
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-01-21

sand dollars upon which the state is
paying interest at the rate of from
five to seven per cent and then for
Crawford, now that he has ex-
hausted everything to secure his
election as United States senator, to
advise the legislature to practice
economy. Funny, isn't it?
South Dakota will be looked upon
as the tramp's paradise if one of the
bills introduced against the railroad
companies passes. The bill provides
that all stations must be kept open,
4, lighted and heated tor the benefit OF
the public twenty four hours a day.
1t has been suggested by some to
amend the bill to compel the CON-
panies to put cots and lounging
chairs and furnish free lunches and
cigars.
There seems little room for doubt
but that the present session will
make an appropriation to properly
advertise the state but the sentiment
here generally seems to be that the
immigration business will be taken
away from the real estate men OF the
state and made department Of the
South Dakota department Of history.
This looks to be the best way OF
making the advertising which the
state is to pay for general and Of
benefit to the whole state.
Julian Blount, one Of the allege
land filers for Crawford in Walworth
county, who was his stenographer
during his term as governor and will
assume like position when Craw-
ford becomes United States senator,
is being taken care of by the pro-
gressives during the time interven-
ing between the expiration of Craw-
ford's term as governor and assuming
new duties by being given $500 a
day clerkship in the Legislature. 1t
certainly pays to be good with
Crawford.
Evening star., 1909-07-16
Rock Creek Park.

1t Is gratifying to note that the Com
missioners are planning recommenda-
ton for legislation that II enacted will
result In making Rock Creek Park more
accessible to the public. by carrying the
car lines to the boundaries OF the res
ervation. The Star has often In the past
urged that something Of this. kind be
done in order to bring the park into
range of those who are not SO fortunate
as 70 possess private vehicles. The park
Is one of the most delightful places of
resort in the District of Columbia, and
If It were possible to reach 1t conven-
iently by street cars thousands would en-
Joy the pleasures of an outing under the
trees and on the banks of the creek who
are now unable to do so. 1t Is not de-
sirable to run the cars actually into the
park itself. but this Is not necessary to
induce the public to make a wider use
of the reservation. Every part of the
park is delightful. and 1t Is only neces-
sary to cross the boundary to appre-
ciate the advantage which this wisely
provided natural space offers to the city
dweller. In all the treatment of the
park since its creation the wise policy
has been followed of preserving the nat
ural scenery and OF obtruding artificial
structures to the least possible extent
The consequence is an area OF great
beauty and restfulness, and It Is highly
desirable that the people Of Washing
ton be induced to use 1t as freely as
they now use the Mall or the parklet.
scattered about the city.
Evening star., 1909-07-16
The Record and the News.

From time to past 1t has been necessary
to admonish the directors Of that i'm
portant and usually interesting periodical,
the Congressional Record, that IL they
are to produce a newspaper In the full
sense of the word they must not permit
themselves to fall unduly into the habit of
withholding information. 1t Is true that
an adage runs that many newspapers
hold back as much interesting news as
they print IN consideration OF public well
fare and out OF respect for personal feel
ings that might otherwise be needlessly
offended. But the Congressional Record
surely has no such compunctions. What
II prints Is transcript Of what happens
in the House and Senate Of the United
States Congress-. and its editors are In no
wise responsible for the happenings In
those arenas Of federal debate. 1t must
be confessed that very often things are
said on the floors OF those two houses
that were better left unsaid. But there
they are, transcribed into the notebooks
OF reporters, and every consideration OF
journalistic enterprise and OF fidelity to
the public welfare demands a prompt
publication in the Official journal Not
withstanding many petitions, the Con-
gressionai Record continues to offend in
this particular. The issue Of this morn
ing. for example. containing the supposed
record of the proceedings Of yesterday In
tn; House. where there was something
doing throughout the day. includes in Its
Offering the following eloquent testimo-
malls to the caution OF its contributors
whatever may be thought Of the enter
prise of its reporters:
His remarks Vlr appear hereafter.
'Nr. kinkead OF New Jersey addressed
Evening star., 1909-07-16

today more rational. more perfectly
balanced mentally. than he was at the
time Of his Imprisonment. Whatever
the witnesses at White Plains may say
In his behalf, however strong the proof
may appear to be that he is now and
has for some time been perfectly sane,
there will be no general conviction that
his salvation from the ultimate punish
ment prescribed by statute for the will
full taking Of human life was justified
upon moral or even legal ground. In
other words nothing that can happen
in the form Of proceedings to determine
Thaw's sanity will remove the impress
sion that the original verdict was q mis-
carriage Of justice. His release now In
consequence OF these proceedings can
not fail to be accepted as evidence that
private fortune Is a great aid to those
who are accused Of crime and placed In
Jeopardy of their lives-one of the most
unwholesome impressions that can pos
sibly obtain In the public mind.
Evening star., 1909-07-16
Deterioration in French Navy.

From the New York Sun.
The report OF the French parliamentary
commission arraigning the navy depart
ment for extravagance, inefhciency and
even corruption only confirms an opinion
generally held by naval experts. On
paper the establishment Is impressive
but a vacillating policy as to types and
construction has made retrogression inev.
table and France has fallen to the
fourth place in sea power. Disasters like
the unexplained explosion on the lena
by which 11S officers and men lost their
lives. have had q bad effect upon the
personnel, which could not but believe
that either ignorance or roguery was al
dents. The gun crews had no faith in
the material they handled when there
were premature burstings OF shells on one
ship after another, the Suffren. Duplex
Kleber and Desaix. In target practice
the French, naturally enough, are very
far behind both the Americans and the
British.
Evening star., 1909-07-16
His remarks will appear

the committee. His remarks will appear
hereafter.
"Mr. Goodwin addressed the committee.
His remarks will appear hereafter.
Mr.. Rainey addressed the committee.
His remarks will appear hereafter.
the committee. His remarks will appear
hereafter.
"rir. Rainey addressed the committee.
His remarks will appear hereafter.
"Mr. Perkins addressed the committee.
His remarks will appear hereafter.
Mr.. Rainey addressed the committee.
His remarks will appear hereafter.
'Nr. Rainey addressed the committee
His remarks will appear hereafter.
Mr.. Clark OF Missouri addressed the
committee. His remarks will appear
hereafter.
MIR. Rainey addressed the committee.
His remarks will appear hereafter.
Had these eleven speeches been printed
in the Record issued this morning that
publication would have been of normal
size, but for the fact that 1t contained
sixteen speeches which have been, pre-
sumably, delivered in the House on past
occasions Far be 1t from any one to
suggest that the text of these sixteen
btlated bursts of eloquence differs In any
wise as thus printed today from the ac-
tual utterances of the impassioned
orators on the occasion of their appear
ance on the floor of the House. But there
is a literary finish to them that suggests
the possibility of preparation in an at
mosphere more conducive to brilllancy
and painstaking polish of diction than the
July air of the House of Representatives
Evening star., 1909-07-16
Thaw's Sanity.

Thoughtful Americans are all watching
closely the proceedings at White Plains
N. Y. where Harry Thaw Is endeavorinp
to persuade court that he has recovered
his sanity and Is fit to be DISCHARGED
from custody despite the record Of his
killing of Stanford White. OF Thaw's
guilt, apart from the matter OF the
definition Of murder in terms Of mental
responsibility. there was, Of course, not
the slightest shadow Of doubt. He slew
White in public and was taken with gun
In hand. He pleaded justification at
first and then changed his defense 10
insanity. The jury declared him insane.
both at the time of the killing and at
the tim, of trial-a verdict which sert.
ously distressed many who felt that II
broke down one OF the barriers OF law
for the safeguarding OF human life
There is no knowing how many crimes
have been since committed under the
inspiration Of that verdict. but 1t is to
he feared that several lives have been
sacrificed in the thought. lurking II
the minds Of slayers, that the Thaw
case strengthened the plea Of unwrit-
ten law and the chance of acquittal or
the ground Of mental responsibility.
Few people win believe that Thaw II