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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-03
Comet" Queer Name for Pet

"Comet" was a pet calf who receiy.
ed his name because Of a queer shaped
spot in his forehead. When he was II
yearling he had a great propensity for
getting through fences, and because of
his mischerious tricks, he was sold To u
stock buyer, who shipped him west.
After the terror and WEAKNESS of
the long journey, hot hungry, and oh, so
thirsty, he arrived at the end OF the
railroad and was driven to the range
where he was to find his living. Tired
and stiff, from the journey, he with his
miserable companions, were driven into
a corral. lie hoped this might mean
food, but no, suddenly n moose tight
ened about his neck and as he struggled
to get his breath, other ropes caught his
legs and he was thrown violently to the
ground and held there while n cowboy
pressed a large red hot iron deep into
his quivering flesh and cut notches in
his ears.
After this they were turned out to
pick their living, but ii was some time
before the frightened homesick crea.
lures, tortured by the pain of their
brands, could find enough to satisfy
their hunger.
Days went on and Comet learned The
lessons of the range. He knew enough
TO avoid cactus, the Spanish bayouet,
and poison weed, and never stepped in
a prairie dogs hole. He stunned rattle,
snakes and wolves. lie drank sparing.
ly Of alkali water and controlled him.
self from rushing madly down the steep
bank when they reached the sweet wat.
or of the snow fed streams. Comet lad
seen many OF his comrades die and he
had grown wise.
But now winter was at hand. One
day with a fierce gale and biting cold,
the snow came. Hungry and chilled the
cattle were driven before the storm.
When it ceased they learned to paw the
snow from the dead grass and gain D
miserable s~ustenance. Other storms
came and colder weather. Ihe ponds
were frozen. Many Of the cattle weak
from fighting the twin demons Of famine
and cold, succumbed to the third and
most dreadful foe, thirst. Day after
day they suffered until the coming Of
spring. Thanks to Comet 3 strength and
activity, he wal n Of the survivors.
During the next summer the feed was
good and Comet throve so well that he
became the leader Of the herd after
many a hard.fought battle.
The next winter was a severe one.
Storm after storm piled the p%rairies
high with drifts and II was with Diff
Guilty that the cattle could wander
about, to say nothing about finding
food or drink. At last there came a
three days blizzard. Comet led his
herd before the wind, CALAMITY break
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-03

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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-03

phosphate lands is that the ownership
of these special deposits should be $ p
arated from the land and the deposits
paid for ou the basis Of their actual
value. The principle in these bills
governing the disposition Of water pow.
CT sites is that the government should
reserve, in whatever title il gives Ia
them, the right to protect the public
against ~overcharges by n periodical reg
uldtion Of rates. And in all these trans.
fers of coal, oil and phosphate lands OF
lands with water powers, provision i.
made for forfeiture Of title whenever
they are made n part of n monopoly
"There is only one bill that / feel "a
be essential at the present time; that
is the one assuring the President S
right of withdrawal. When this power
is granted, the lands that President
Roosevelt and / have withdrawn from
entry will be safe, the Geological de
partment can classify them properly
for sale, and Congress can give its at
%tention TO working out the exact de.
tails of the best laws possible. Thu,
will require careful and mature
thought, which will naturally take
time. | have, however, a great sym.
patty for the feeling Of the West and
Northwest that the government should
settle this question as soon as possibl,
in order to permit the development OF
the resources in the public domain"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-03


President Taft il quoted as express.
lag his views OF many national ques.
tons in an interview with George
Kibbe Turner, a magazine writer, who
records the President = side Of the con.
versation at length in the June mum.
her Of McClure's Magazine. In an IN.
troductory paragraph Mr.. Turner ex.
plains hat ''the statement, for the
sake of clearness and simplicity was
put in the form of a continuous quo.
tation-unbroken by the questions
asked OF the excursions from the main
points Of discussion, which are Of ne.
cessity made in any interview" and
adds; "This statement is necessarily
not a verbatim reproduction Of the Ian.
guage Of the President, but is gives
substantially what he said"
Accepting, then, the language rs Mr..
Turner s, but the ideas conveyed rs
those Of the President, the reader Of
the interview inds what appears TO be
u frank outline of the Taft position re.
garding the framing of the tariff, the
corporation tax, the railroad bill, So
cialism, the prosecution of the trusts,
land laws, the Ballinger.P inchot con-
trovcrsy, postal savings banks, econo.
mics of administration, naval reorgan.
ilation and need of business methods
in the nation 3 affairs. What Mr.. Taft
thinks Of the Ballinger-P inchot mat
ter is of special interest at the pres.
ent time. According to Mr.. Turner,
the Presidents views on this subject
are ms follows:
my administration succeeded Mr..
Roosevelt's pledged to the policy of
conservation. l chose for my secre.
tary of the interior Richard A. BALM
ger, Mr.. Roosevelt 5 choice as commits.
sloner of the general land ofice-the
most important division Of the Interior
Department. reform mayor of Sc.
attic, who had the confidence and es.
TEEN of the great Northwest section
of the country. Mr.. Ballinger, while
land commissioner, had been most en-
ergetic in prosecuting frauds; but e
had the belief, quite generally held in
the Northwest, that the government
should not hold back the public do.
main from development more than was
necessary, and in tins | sympathized
with him.
MIR. Ballinger strongly advocated
the passage Of the new land laws but
he questioned whether some Of the
acts taken under executive power in
relation to protecting and developing
public lands had been entirely within
the present law. A difference of op,n.
ION soon arose between him and Mr..
Pinchot involving, in the first place,
the withdrawal OF public lands to pro.
tect water power sites and matters
connected with the reclamation serv.
zee; and, later, "A very strained situa.
ton, arising out Of limitations of a
young investigator for the land office,
Louis A. CLAWS, that Mr.. Ballinger's
relations with certain Alaskan claim.
ants had not been consistent with tho
public interest.
"These charges OF Mr.. CLAWS, end
lie evidence upon winch he based
hem, were given to me, and were care.
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NOTICE

Al parties knowing themselves in.
dohted To me viii please call and Bet
'Ir az once AMI ohlige. I have oblipa
'luHs 10 meet and need the money. You
will please see me at your eearliest con.
NcpIence.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-03

Senator r. l.. Owen, of Oklahoma, the
democrat leader in the recent unsucccss.
ful fight At Washington TO defeat the
wo.battle.ships.a.ye program which
had already passed the House. On the
republican side Senators Burton and
Hale were the leaders against The bill
for more battleshjps but their strenuous
efforts were futile. The total amount
carried by the bill is almost $4,000.
600.
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fully considered by me aud by the at.
torney general, ut my request; and, with
the full evidence in the case before
us, we both decided that they consist.
ed entirely of u%nfounded suspicious and
that Mr.. CLAWS should be discharged.
MIR. Pinchot had been appealed to by
Mr.. CLAWS in his series of protests
against Mr.. Ballinger, and he and Mr..
Ballinger were now in entire disagree.
meut. The very effective medium for
publicity built up under MIR. Pinchot
IN the campaign in favor of national
conservation was directed to attacking
the administration. Finally Mr.. Pinch.
Ut forced mc-very much TO my regret
to dismiss him from the government
service. In my opinion, there has been
up TO the present time n total lack of
evidence to confirm the charges made
so freely against Mr.. Ballinger.
"In the meanwhile bills have been
introduced into Congress representing
the principle that the administration
believes should govern the disposal of
our remaining public lands. The most
Immediately important of these in one
to give the President and the secre.
tary of the interior specific power TO
withdraw public lands from entry or
settlement pending proper Legislation
for their sale.
items OF millions Of acres were
withdrawn by executive orders Of Mr..
Roosevelt, covering all known lands Of
special value for coal, oil or water
powers. All lands of this kind are
still withheld by my administration,
but the legal right of the executive to
10 this has been questioned. Members
Of Congress from the West, who are
not friendly TO the conservation move
ment as it has developed, have claimed
that in issuing these orders tho Presi.
dent is encroaching upon the power of
Congress TO dispose OF the public do
main, and that the right to Withdraw
great areas of land indefinitely might
easily become a dangerous power for n
President to hold.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-03

''In some sections Of the West indi.
viduals are now actually taking up
lands that have been withdrawn by
the President s order, on the theory
that the withdrawing of lands in this
way was not legal. This has been the
ease in the valuable oil lands in Cali.
fornia-3,000 900 acres of which are
withdrawn from entry. 1t is only the
strong, speculative interest hat Is
able to make an entry in this way, and
fight the question through the courts;
ara If, for any reason, the contentious
Of these interests should prove right,
it would mean that the lands we are
seeking TO preserve from the hands OF
the people, who respect the law, and
have fallen into the hands Of just the
people who ought not to have them.
a law to make certain the execu,
tive : power to hold back land was,
under these circumstances, the first de-
sire of the administration. There are
eight other bills to complete the pro-
gram of conservation. The principle
of the new laws covering coal, oil and
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-03-26
Cotton Decrease In East Baton
Rouge.

Baton Rouge, La, March 14.-The
Rouge Compress Company has
completed its season with record Of
TACO bales, against $4,000 bales for
last year. This record was made
with over double the territory to
draw from and with the aid of seVe-
raj thousand bales of through cotton
shipped to the local cotton compress
from Alexandria, La, where the cot
ton compress was shut down during
the past season. The figures show
the great reduction occurring in the
cotton crop in this section last sea-
son and hold that if it is further re-
duced this season the cotton crop of
East Baton Rouge and vicinity will
dwindle to insignificant proportions.
The experience Of the cotton COM
press with the deduction of the
through-cotton shows that the crop
Of this parish was less than 5000
bales, even with the cotton which did
not come to this city and passed out
through shipping points other than
the local shipping facilities. There
was a falling off Of more than two
thirds Of last years crop and the ex-
perience of this concentration point
is Indicative OF the conditions exist
ing throughout the district.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-03-26
'TIGHT.WAD" in BUSI.
NESS is NOT RES
PECTED BY ANY
CLASS.
There Has Never Been A Sue
cessfuI Business Man Who
Rugged the Dollar to His
Bosom.

The following article, reprinted
from the LVnville Qa.) Star, contains
the sentiments of the publisher ano
editor, Mr.. C. w. Widman. The arti-
Gle was inspired by an interview with
a prominent non-advertising business
mar of the town, who orders his sta
tionery from out-of-toWn concerns.
The article is printed in the Auxiliary
as it may express the feeling of other
publishers:
Don't be a tight-wad. Did you
ever see a successful business man
who was everlasting grabbing for the
almighty dollar, showing It down in
his jeans as soon as he gets posses
sion of it and never letting go of it
until forced to do SO. Such men
there are in every town, men who
take no interest in the advancement
Of the town, never spend a cent to
help push the interests of the town.
seldom if ever spend a cent for ad-
vertising either in the local paper OF
in any other way except perhaps t.
scatter a little free printed matter
sent out by the firms they represent.
buy all their goods as far as possible
of catalogue houses and roar their
heads off if the farmer sends to sons
distant print shop for their station
cry instead of letting the home
printer make a cent or two profit but
you bet they don't hesitate to hang
it on to the other fellow when op.
~portunity offers. Don't be a tight
wad, no one respects such people, lei
some Of your dollars loose and see
them circulate, it will do the other
fellow good and you will live just as
long, no one need starve, and after
it is done you will get enough good
out Of it to repay you. You will hold
your head higher, step lighter and be
able to look the world in the face.
Brace up, be a good fellow"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-03-26
SHOULD BUY At HOME.
Lille Fertilizer Produced At Home Bought.
Report Of Bureau.

Baton Rouge. March 20.-The re-
port filed with the State Department
If Agriculture and immigration by
the chief Of the Fertilizer and Feed
stuff Inspection Bureau, for incorpora-
lion in the annual report Of the de-
gartment to the Governor and the
General Assembly, shows the com
parative use Of feedstuffs and fertil-
izers in the State. During the year,
-nding Sept. l, 1909, the people of
Louisiana bought commercial feed
stuffs amounting to some l5,954,499
tons. This enormous consumption of
feedstuffs in a State where few cattle
are raised and where few cows are
kept for dairy purposes and where
the native forage crops can be SO in
extensively produced, is an argument
for a reduction of this branch of ex-
penditure by the agricultural interests
of the State. On the other hand it
is noted that cotton-seed meal fer
t~ilizers, a product largely produced
ii this State, was represented by d
tonnage of l5.660.27 tons, against a
tonnage for the other species Of fer
~tilizers of 58,00l, which shows the
lack of consumption of one Of the
manufactured products and the habit
of the planters buying the products
of other States in preference to their
own. The amount of money spent
for imported stufs of the kind above
mentioned is enormous and is pointed
to with emphasis by those who would
make the people of the State self
supporting, as an argument in that
direction. It is well known that there
is considerable matter which escapes
the inspectors Of the department SO
that the figures do not represent
actual conditions. In recent times
there has been a large increase in
the manufacture Of feed atuffs from
native grown forages, and the home
industries, have to a great measure.
reduced the amount of thia class Of
stuff shipped ints the State.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-03-26
REDsKlN CAN'T STAND IT
Indoor Life IS Fatal to fine sons Of The Forest
40 Prevent Exilnctlos.

Washington, D. G., March 21.-To
save the red race from extinction, the
bureau Of Indian affairs is prosecut-
ing a health campaign among the
Indians with all the yigor possible.
tuberculosis and trachoma are
scourges among the Indians. Directly
from their life in the open tepees Of
their primitive days, the Indians have.
advanced to the indoor existence Of
civilization, regardless, in a large
measure, Of the necessary requisites
Of ventilation and sanitation. The
mortality among the Indians is equiv-
lent to twice that among the white
race and tuberculosis forms so per
ooeeHHtt &c e their their death death sseasttee according tn
statistics which have been so far col
lected by the Indian bureau. Traeho-
ma is particularly prevalent among
the Indians of the Southwest. In the
Indian schools which have been ex-
amined in N W Mexico from II to 81
per cent Of the children were afflicted
with trachoma. In Arizona the per
centage ranged from 81 to So. Il
California % psr cent were found.
and in Oklahoma "A per cent were
affected. Il was said to be no I'M
common occurrence to find a great
number of indians suffering from
trachoma on the reservations.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-03-26
Creole Dishes.

Louisiana is noted all over the
country for its excellent cooking.
It's rich gravies have charmed the
people from abroad. No coffee com
pares with ours. Our method Of
cooking fish is unknown elsewhere
and those who have tasted the gumbo
file ask for some more.
All of these are dishes peculiar to
the State and they can only be found
here in their perfection. But the
time is near at hand when these
great Injuries will be enjoyed every
where. In Michigan, in Oregon, in
most States and territories they will
be found in every first class hotel and
restaurant. These famous creole
dishes are to be introduced in every
section Of the country.
4 large firm in the city of New
Orleans is preparing creole seasoning
and "gumbo fle' for sale, the count
erpart Of which was prepared by the
creole cooks Of years ago. This com
pany introduced these dishes Only
a few months ago and it is said that
the demand exceeds the supply.
These prepared dishes are sent out
as coming from the city Of New O
leans, and this is sufficient to capture
the taste of the epicure who has
tasted Of she good cuisines Of the
Crescent City, and who has q fond
remembrance Of she savory dishes
that ere made here.-Marksville Ea-
terprise.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-03-26
A New Game Law.

Book agents may be Killed from
October / to September l; spring
poets from March l to June 1; scan
dal mongers April | to February |;
umberalla borrowers, August 2 to
November l; and from February | to
May l, while every man who accepts
a paper two years but when the bill
is presented says: Il never ordered
it," may be killed on sight withoui
reserve or relief from valuation or
appraisement laws, and buried face
downward, without benefits or clergy
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-03-26
ReddeIle Notes.

ReddelIe, March 2l.-Weather is
fine. Spring has sunkn--th.
N. Guillory, Jr., made q trip to
Mamou on Monday.
N. Guillory and j. Bite. G. Miller,
the two head knockers of the Vidrine
Mere. Co., made a flying trip to
Branch Lake Monday.
Mr.. Alex v. Fontenot visited
Chicot Monday on business.
Mr.. Geo. Otis, with Bonrkenroad
Goldsmith & Co., of New Orleans,
was here Wednesday on business.
Mr.. 0. L. Fusilier of Mamou visited
the Vidrine Graded School on Tues
day.
Mi. W. M. Fontenot made a flying
trip to Mamou, on business Tuesday.
Mr.. Sidney Mayeaux made a bust
ness trip to Vile Platte Tuesday
night.
A Corn Club was organized at the
Vidrine Graded School last week with
the following officers elected: V. NJ.
Fontenot, president; Emile Miller,
vice-president; John P. Vidrine, sec
rotary.
Mr.. Gilbert Fontenot made a bust
trip to Mamou on Wednesday.
Miss NJ. Murff and Miss S. Cole
visited Mamou on Tuesday.
Mr.. Geo. Jaubert of New Orleans
was here Wednesday on BUSINESS.
Mr.. Daisy Fontenot visited Reddell
Tuesday.
Mr.. ]. Bite. G. Miller visited Ma
mou Wednesday on business.
DR.. 7. H. Guillory of Mamou was
here Wednesday.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-03-26
Grand COteau Notes

March 16th.-Mrs. E. V. Barry
and daughter Beatrice visited Lafay-
cite a few days last week.
Misses Zita and Electa Smith re-
.urned home Friday after visiting
relatives in Lafayette.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith Davis Of Port
Barre we're the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Smith Sunday.
Mrs. Dudley Castillo with her fam
lily was the guest of her sister Mrs.
F. Doriac in Lafayette last week.
MIR. L. T. Castillo and family of
Opelousas were here Sunday.
DR.. W. W. LESLEY and Mr.. @.
Guidry Of Carencro were in our midst
Sunday.
Mr.. John Smith was a Lafayette
visitor last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Mouton visited
Lafayette a few days this week.
Mrs. John Smith came in Wednes.
day from 0pelousas.
Rev. M. A. Grace. S. J.. Secretary
and Treasurer of st. Charles College
returned last Saturday from a two
weeks visit to Galveston, Texas.
Mr.. Jules Petetin was in New
iberia last week.
Mr.. Pat. Schrege left Tuesday fol
Lake Charles.
Mrs. S. D. Tinney with her daugh.
ter Ennice Of Welsh is visiting hel
daughter Mrs. Ssanislaus Feucht.
There was Q heavy frost here Hed
nesday.