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The Green Forest tribune., 1909-07-02
Local Mention.
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Local Mention. :, Z k .nk AA11n. 1a. .ar 1fan ann s,. xsx ses Hk Ax 2 Come to Green Forest to
 celebrate. @ Groom cottage for sale. See
 J. w. Bair. M No fire cracker shooting for
 thls Fourth. % There will be sane Fourth of
 J. v in Green Forest.
 Dfck Taylor was reported
 q uite sick Monday. # Shoes and oxfords at reduced
 prices. T. E. Wilson.
 To relieve stomach troubles phone 91, Wilson's Grocery. Miss Fame Patty is a late
 acquisition to The Tribune force. # Green Forest proposes to do M just what she advertises on the X Fourth. .sis.. Spurlin will be in his den- < tai office in Green Forest July 6, 2 and 8. S Pink Stone returned Wed- q nesday from q business visit to 8 Ft. Smith. K A cleaning up of the fence #rows will promote peace with the town COW. $ The Fourth of July will be sgood time to stay sober, says Mayor Scott. K B. A. Rich has recently &C., quired an addition to his house. hold, fine girl. # Merchant Albert Buell. of Gisco was. in Green Forest on #business Tuesday. # Newt Stevens and Bruce Phil lips left Sunday evening for Kansas harvest fields. @ Mrs. J. D. Bay and the youngsters returned to their Nhome at Omaha Tuesday. # If you want the best for your money ln spring goods you will Hind it at Coxsey & Co.'S. s# The festive town hog is still himself scarce about the Aetreets of Green Forest.
 A. B. Wilson is having a new scoat of red applied to the out side of his livery barn. M Ira and Dennis Myrss disturbed the quietude of the town by drivi9es n from Denver Tuesday
 Miss Anna Graham left Thurs- day for Franklin county, where she will again engage in teach Sing.
 Jack Griffith and wife of Rule were among the few who moles- ed the rest of merchants Tues day.
 Amos Blasingame and wife of Cedar Valley, Mo-, were visiting at the home of Oscar Grim Monday.
 Miss Essie Whitaker, residing out On Route 3, visited at the home of J. F. Tanning during the past week.
 E. s. Foreman has lately had some handsome interior decor ations and improvements made on his residence. A. M. Webb returned We'd nesday from a prospe cting trip Ito Fairview, Mo. He thinks he Swill try Searcy next. x M. J. Trueblood left Tuesday Flor Sheridan county, Kan, to take care of the wheat crop on his farm out there. w. H. Pinkley of near Eureka #Springs was here first of the week visiting his nephews, Fred and Ellis Phillips.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-07-02

Willie Linzey, little son of the late Mary Linzey, has been taken to the Odd Fellow orph ans home at Batesville.
 People for whom it has not been hot enough the past week are just little bit too particular to make good neighbors.
 E. B. Atkinson, Kansas City real estate man, was in Green Forest Monday with a client on prosp -ctivs land deal.
 J. R. Crawford, the Great Western Oil man, was in town on business Wednesday. He is now ,headquartcring at Bates ville.
 Present indications are that none of the various prizes offered for the Fourth will go begging. There will be takers for everything.
 Mrs. A. J. Russell and Ray mond have been over from Berryville canning and market ing peaches from A. J's. farm here, this week.
 J. E. Wood, who lately retir ed from the mercantile business here, is very sick of fever. He resides with his father near the Wilding place.
 William Marriott, the veteran plasterer, did some mortar spreading on the home of Miss Mahala Davis, a mile north of town, last week.
 C.L. Scott has just returned from Kansas City, St. Louis and other northern points where he has been in search of a market for our canning factory products.
 For cleanliness Green Forest is perhaps not yet a model town, but things are certainly in a much more presentable condition than they have been for a long time.
 Capt. Waldo of Go. D. was here Wednesday rounding up the Green Forest detachment of his company preparatory for going to Ft. Smith for target practice July Il.
 Homer Foster was here We'd nesday on his regular round up of his territory for St. Louis coffee house. He says his family has returned to their home at Tucum- cari, N. M.
 Fred Nunnally has moved his family to the residence of his father, where Colonel will still make his home, when he has time to rest from his duties as shoe salesman.
 A. M. Webb has sold his resi- dence property to. Charles Agard and the latter will very soon be- come a resident of our town. The deal was matched by an ad. in The Fri bune.
 Bruce Phillips came in from the south Friday evening lug ging a monstrous cat fish which he caught on a trout line in Cache river about 75 miles below below Leslie. It weighed 31 pounds.
 Brice Duglass was over from the Rule country Tuesday smil- ing a smile of genuine content ment. He says the only problem with his people is how are they to take care of such great crops.
 Mrs. E. s. Foreman is adding new laurels this season to her record as a florist. One could not wish to behold a more beautiful sight than the Foreman flower garden as it appears at the pres- ent time.
 Burton Grim is back from California after an absence of three months. Burton found that the climate of California was not agreeable to his health. He was not homesick enough to amount to anything.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-07-02
WARNING ORDER.

WARNING ORDER. In Carroll Chancery Court, Eastern District, July Term, 1909. John Zaska, plaintiff, vS.
 Walter Mason, defendants. | The above defendant Walter Mason is warn | ed to appear in this Court within thirty days l answer the complaint of the plaintiff, John i Zaska. | Given under my hand and seal as Clerk of said court this 18th day of June, 1909. Al. RUSSELL, Chsncery Clerk
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-07-02

gill IO uO Iu6 WOFk 80 well, nc matter how good the painter.
 For all painting, use and
 insist on having Devoe
 Lead and Zinc Paint.
 JEFF HARBERT, Agent. jC1.
 Sheriff Carroll was here on business Monday.
 Here is pointer. The incest line of spring clothing and shoes are to be found at Coxsey 6 Co.'S.
 You will find Dr.. Crozier in his dental office in Green Forest on July 27, 2S, 29, 30. See him as soon as he arrives about your work.
 Joe Gum and wife left Thurs day for their home at Tahleuuah, Okla., after visit of several weeks with relatives. Joe will teach this fall, after which he contemplates taking a course in pharmacy.
 Stick a pin right here. Ten out of nine of the strangers who have proposition to submit ask ing for your money is loorking for himself and if you ever get out whole on the bait admin stered you will be the beneficiary of an accident.
 A post card from our friend Charley Molder asks us to change his paper iron Me. Kittrick, Calif., to Oil Center, Calf. The group of oil wells pictured on the card suggests that Oil Center is about what it's name indicates.
 U. c. Snyder, residing some six miles out on Route 3, was in town Friday with his son Jesse to have piece of steel extracted from the boys eye ball which had lodged there from a hoe blade some two weeks before. The sight was not injured.
 E. c. Dooling and wife desire to convey to their friends through The Tribune an express sion of their gratefulness for the many kindnesses shown them during their sad bereavement in the loss of their little son. Mrs. Richard Taylor informs us that her brother Elijah Hummer has taken unto himself a wife at Ava, Mo-, the bride being a Miss Belle Singleton. The wedding took place at Ava, where the new married people will make their home.
 Pug Parks, Jim Braswell and Joe McNemar have formed co-partn ership in the painting business. They have just completed a contract on Wilson's barn and Pug says that they will have the town painted by the evening of the Fourth.
 The Tribune has for sale lot of books by standard authors in- cluding a work of ten volumes of the World Best Grafton. These books have been used moro or less and will be sold at half price. If you want some good literature cheap this is your opportunity.
 Young Duncan Hughes, resid- ing five miles out on the Carrollton road, was in town Monday walking by the aid of a crutch. He will always have an impediment in his walk as a result of the broken leg he sus- tained severa. weeks ago while alighting from a train at Coin.
 Again we wish to remind our correspondents that we expect their letters in by Tuesday afternoon. We are often com pelled to cut the commucation short if it reaches us later. We insist also on promptness in writing each week; an occasional letter is barely better than none at all.
 Mrs. John Roberts left for her home in Little Rock Tuesday. She was accompanied by her sister Miss Ruby Nunnally, who will spend a m onth or six weeks in the capital city, returning home in time to take up her work as teacher in the Green Forest public school the first week in September.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-26

does not accomplish what it is intend,
ed to do, but it is much the better
plan of the owo provided for in the
act.
The so called Commission Plan,'
the one Mr.. Mullens circulated a petit
ton for is a corker and is intended
to get some city in trouble.
1t provides for a Mayor and not less
than two or more than four Commiss.
toner's, and does not say how this mum.
der is to be determined, but is very
positive about the salaries. This Is the
exact language:
1.-THE Mayor SHALL receive a
compensation annually of $780,
90 n Other memers of the Com
mission SHALL receive a compen-
sation annually OF $4,000 each,
and they SHALL NOT BE 9TH
ERWISE EMPLOYED"
1t would take $46OO.Oo for us to start
with for executive salaries and posi-
bly, $4,000 and the very intent is to
keep men out of these offices that
should take them. 1t bars out success
full business men-the man with
something else to do.
The whole intent of a commission
form OF government is to concentrate
and simplify government. To get three
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take the surface rights, while the coal
rights are reserved for the future and
separate disposition. The chief of the
Denver field division of the General
Office reports that from informa-
ion received in his office ninety per
cent of the Colorado entrymen in ar
to take title to the surface reserving
to the United States the coal rights.
This alone indicates the value and
wisdom of this legislation which IS
the first important amendment OF the
coal land act along the lines urged by
Mr.. Ballinger in 1907, when Commits
sioner of The General Land Office.
II the entryman, on the other hand,
chooses to contest, then the issue be-
comes n of relative worth between
agricultural and coal values. In a re-
port to Secretary Ballinger the Direct
or of the Survey stated that in the
case OF the North Dakota lands, to
which this act was supposed to be
specially applicable, while all western
North Dakota, a part of which had
been withdrawn as coal lands, is be-
lieved by ahe biologists of the Survey
to ibe actually underlain by workable
deposits of Ignite, yet in all ibut 81
townships this area is conceded to be
at present more valuable for agricult-
ural purposes than for it's deposits of
low-grade coal.
The regulations for the classification
and valuation of the Government coal
lands as revised in April provide for a
somewhat more discriminating separ.
L ot;0- 49, -u- - -
and for the fixing of more adequate
valuations upon lands underlain by the
higher grades of coal. These changes
were determined upon by the Secreta-
| ry of the interior from the considera.
| ton of present conditions in coal min.
ing in b Western States, where thin
ner. and deeper beds are being mined
than vas formerly the case, and of cuT
| rent practice in the matter of coal roy.
| alties collected both by the States and
| by private landowners. Two of the reg
| ulationS Indicate the spirit of these
| administrative measures for safeguar
| ding the disposal of the nations re
manning coal lands. The price of Goa
lands containing the lowest grade oi
| butuminous coal Or lignites is fixed
at the minimum provided by law, the
intent. being to thus encourage, 20 faI
| as the law permits, the immediate uiil
ization of these low-grade fuels. Anoth
| er rule states that in all valuations Oh
coal beds n special condition en-
HANGING the value of the land for coal
mining purposes shall be taken into
| consideration.
The revised scheme used in the val
| uatfon of the coal lands differs from
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Pile understood what they were sign
ing, nor will they vote for or adopt
either plan When they do.
The Roswell Plan" provides. for a
Mayor and two Councilmen and among
other things says they shall establish
three departments of municipal gov
eminent for such city," which are in
themselves conflicting, would lead to
divided authority and confusion. And
then it goes further, and after outlin-
ing their duties at length and defining
how each shall preside over a depart
ment in the next section turns all over
to another person to he called the "su-
perintendent,' who is to I've the
whole outfit. 1t does not say the Mayor
and Councilmen may have such a SUI
p~erintendent' if they see fit, but
SHALL have him.
The act also provides for an assist
ant City Clerk and may also have an
Auditor of Public Accounts if deemed
necessary, therefore again making a
conflict and division OF authority.
The act is altogether TOO lumber
some, conflicting and confusing and
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Or 4 men around a table, talk things
over in a business way and admins
ter affairs as a board of directors. To
out withdrawing ward politics"
and the legislative and red tape feat
ures of our present form. These acts
only lessen the numbers. There are no
other good features. 1t creates from
three to five Mayors with conflicting
departments and increases hi e
pense in many ways, all unnecessary.
Il might do for and is evidently in
tended for a city of 100000 or more,
but there is nothing in New Mexico
that it is fitted for.
1t is no improvement over our pres
ent form, in fact is not as good.
1 IN in favor of a commission. form
Of government, but not this act. !
want one that means what it says. /
write this for the purpose OF bringing
it out, while there is yet time, for I
do not see any way to ourn it loose II
we should adopt one OF these plans
and it should prove a failure.
J.. f. H1NKLE.
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THE ROSWELL PLAN.

Santa Fe is goin, ahead in its en-
deavor TO place the Roswell Plan of
government into effect in that city.
Here are the impressions of the Santa
Fee New Mexican regarding this plan
and a comparison with other plans:
wonderfully and fearfully made Is
the impression that remains after X
amfning some of the recent charters
Mexican has been favored with a copy
of the Des Moines charter, witch that
of Colorado Springs, and has cad of
others, and they seem mostly an effort
of human ingenuity, to meet every pos
sible condition and contingency in
some n~ew-fangled way. They have
wandered far from the simplicity and
directness of the Constitution of the
United States; they lack the robust.
ness of that admirable document
which placed full confidence in the
ability of the people to govern them
selves.
cit is because the Roswell plan is
unlike the fullfedged charters with
which some of the big cities of the
nation lave recently adorned them
selves, that the New Mexican urges
its adoption by Santa Fe. The Ros
well plan is simplicity itself; it abro
gates no rights of the people; invests
no new powers in those in authority
does not seek TO regulate every steI
and every move of every citizen; In
fact, does not make necessary any
new charter, or any new ordinances
IL anything, it simplifies the presen'
administration, the present methods
and permits the future to provide {
rule for every contingency that may
arise ami to which rule h people OF
those whom they a delegated pow
er, must submit, whether such submits
sion is for the good of h communi
ty or not. 1t does not divide or spill
powers and responsibilities, burt cen
trahzes them, so that the people ma.
know who is to praise or who is q
blame. It is the ideal plan for a Re
publican community; 1T is the onl!
plan adapted to the peculiar financial
and other conditions existing in SAINT;
Fe. 1t points the way to Santa Fe'
future greatness, prosperity and goo,
government, and what is more. SAINT;
Fe is ready for just that kind OF mu
nicfpal administration"
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THE PROPOSED COMMISSION
FORM OF CITY GOVERNMENT

/ see from the New Mexican that
Santa Fe is also considering the Com
mission plan of government and petit
tions only for the so called Roswell
pIan," while we of Roswell petition
only for the other way, or h so called
Commission Plan" I understand from
Mr.. Mullens, who circulated the petit
ton here, that only w or three
signed for the Roswell Plan" so 1t
seems to me, that if the people under
stood it at the time they signed. that
1t is anything but h Roswell Plan"
1 do not think, However, that the PEG
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-26

The editor OF the Register-Trfbune
who Is also a member of the city coun,
Gil, lands on some of his fellow mem
bers for not attending called meetings
OF the council. The Record was under
the impression that the council was
going to quit meeting and do awaJ
with l~egislating. for the present a.
least, but it seems that we are mistak
en-, and more laws must be passed
Perhaps the fact that the R. T. is now
running a Spanish paper may have
something to do with the revival o.
dormant energy.
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that formerly in force in two genera
respects. The basis is now specifically
that of coal tonnage and the land pric-
es thus determined for the better
grades of coal, anthracite and coking
bituminous, are somewhat higher, the
maximum being raised from 500 to
$500 per acre, and indeed his maxi
mum does not hold in districts which I
contain large coal mines where the '
character n extent of the coal de-
posits are well known to the purchas-
err"
The plan of valuing the public coal
lands by accurate determination of
coal quality and tonnage is the most
equitable possible, and while adequate
returns are secured to the Govern
ment the land prices thus fxed rare
ly amount to ~one-fourth of the royal
ties in The same districts among the
private interests.
The present scheme of valuation is
as follows. Anthracite and cokingIbi-
luminous are valued at 2 to 3
cents a ton. High grade ~non-coking
Ibituminous Goals are valued at l and
2 cents a ton. High grade sub-bitu-
minous Goals are valued at " cent to
1 cent a ton. Low grade sub-bitumi-
nous Goals and lignites are valued at
the minimum price fixed by law of $40
TO $40 a. acre. The tonnage is very
c~onservatively estimated and actua
recovery ought always to exceed the.
tonnage upon which the valuation fs
based.
Not only are the prices determined
on the basis OF the present plan be-
| lieved to ibe not excessive, but a high
er valuation would have been very pro
perly approved by Secretary Ballinger
were it not for the fact that the coal
land law limits the coai and that may
be acquired to an acreage below what
a mining company needs for economi-
cal operation. 1t is evident that a
purchaser could well afford to pay a
larger price per acre did the law per-
NIT the purchase of the larger tract.
II will De seen that h present Goa
land policy provides for the saving to
the Government and the people of en-
orunous sums of money and prevents
the monopolization by private inter
ests of the western coal fields. The
most advanced scientific and eff
fective methods of classifying and val
uing the nations remaining coal lands
which still constitute abou 80, 900 900
acres, have been adopted, and in brief
the intent of h policy developed by
Secretary Garfield and now further
advanced by Secretary BalEinger is to
promote development n economical
utilization and at the same time to Sc,
cure adequate returns from cheese val
liable public lands. !,
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LEGAL Blanks at Record Office

it's work of classifying and valuing
the public coal lands. The national pol
icy OF promoting the most advantag-
eou disposal OF the public lands is
continued under Secretary Ballinger
and by his instructions the Director of
the Survey Is transmitting TO the Com
missioner OF the General Land Office
land c-lassif1cations based upon the re-
ports of the field sgeoligfsts. To the full.
lest extent possible under the law the
fort Is to secure the wisest utdlizat
ion of the of the public do
main.
Recently enacted legislation gives
to the agricultural entryman whose er
try was made prior TO the. passage o.
the act the privilege of eaecting te
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NOTICE.

To Whom it May Concern:-
This is ITO certify that letters OF a d
m~inistration have been granted the
undersigned by Hon. j. T. Evans,
Judge of the Probate Court for Chav'
es Sounty, for the las will and tesla
ment of Amanda Reeves, deceased.
Therefore, all persons having claims
against said estate, are hereby mott
fed to present same within the time
prescribed by law.
Witness my hand this 4th day ot
May, 1909.
J.. i. REEVES,
Executor
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The local weather man is long on
wind but short on rain.

Even in the midst of Africa, busy
slaughtering wild animals and song
birds, strenuous Teddy finds time to
call a few more persons liars and
grafters. To save time he should Sc
cure a phonograph, make a record to
suit himself and then turn it loose
when occasion warrants.
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ORDER OF OWIS-The latest and
greatest order Of the day; best induce
ments offered ITO those looking fol
good protection; cheaper and better
than Insurance. For particulars cal
on DIR. w. F. Larimer,- Deputy Su-
preme President, Ell Captain Hotel. g.
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A NEW POLICY IN THE SELL
ING OF COAL LANDS At VALUE
Washington, May 25.-The United
States Geological Survey is placing
even greater emphasis this year upon
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ROSWELL WILL BUILD

In the line of natural
advantages and least re-
sistance.
This is true of every city
and Roswell will be no ex-
ception.
Can anyone who views
the situation here from
this standpoint doubt that
the great future growth
of Roswell will be to the
South?
That the coming High
Class Residence Section of
Roswell will be in South
Roswell?
Think it over, weigh
the facts and then buy
your lot in ,
South Roswell
With Water, Sewer & Sidewalk
The Choicest Lots 10000 0
TERnS-One-third Cash,
Balance in 6 and IL Months.
Equal Distance You Cannot Equal the Price.