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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-07-15
Schiff Party Leaves Dawson.

j. Dawson, Y. T., July I15.-Jacob H.
Schiff and his party of friends, who
are inspecting Alaska, have left for
'Skagway, where they will embark or
the, private yacht Romano for Cordova
and Valdez. =. .-...~ .... = -:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-07-15
BY THE WAY
Ifyou promise loud enough some
fool apt to believe YOU. -

Advice to those new graduates
fill your first job, and it will be a
powerful boost toward a. better one.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-07-15

1t is from: now on to election
time that congressman really work
and sweat for that $1,000 salary.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-07-15

Floating capitaP'. Would it be
proper to place the cash that is put
into flying machines in this classs
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-07-15

The Outlook still refrainss from
publishing club" rates, even if the
Colonel is the editor.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-07-15

Literally speaking-Mr. Roose-
welt is making hay and saving
wood.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14
Accept Calhoun Statute.

Washington, March 12.-John Cald-
we'll Calhoun, congressman senator.
cabinet member and vice-president.
father o. notification and states
rights, and one of the South's great
est statesmen, who died in Washing
tor sixty years ago this month, has
returned to ais former haunts in the
national capital in the form of an i'm
posing marble statue. The memorial.
the gift of South Carolina to the Hall
of Fame in the Capitol, was today
formally accepted by Congress with
dedication ceremonies of an imposing
nature.
He was elected to Congress when
barely thirty years of age. and from
that time forth he was seldom absent
from Washington. 1t was Calhoun
who, as a member of the Committee
on Foreign Relations, reported the
bill for declaring war against Eng
land watch passed in June 1912. He
was vice-president of the United
States under John Quincy Adams and
Gen. Jackson, but became a pronoun,
ced enemy of the latter, against
whom h. hurled his famous "Nullifi
cation Doctrine"
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14
wonan,s Missionary Society.

The Woman's Missionary Societr
of the First Presbyterian church met
at the home of Mrs. r. z. Lund on
Thursday afternoon. Over forty lad
les were present. Mrs. Pope presided
Mrs. Martin led the devotional xer
cises. A most interesting program
was in charge of Mrs. Wetmore as
sisted by Mrs. Anderson and Mrs.
Parkhurst. Current Topics were Civ
n BY Mrs. Morse. A solo by Mrs.
Hunt closed the program.
This was the last meeting for the
year and the day for the opening OF
the mite cones and thank offering en-
yel0DeS. The members were greatly
nl1eased when they found the sum
collected in this way to exceed eighty
i've dollars, making the amounts ION
tributed during the year nearly two
hundred and twenty-five dollars.
During the social half hour follow
ing the meeting, delicious refresh
ments were served by the ~hostesses,
Mechanics Lund. Bear. Beers and
Bonney.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14
THE PLANTING OF COT
TONWOOD TREES

EuitOr
understand that it is planned to
have some of the cottonwood trees
being set out BIZ the city cut off six or
seven feet above the ground. If per-
sons interested will examine h large
tree at rs corner of my residence
property at 502 Nortl Missouri ave
nue. and the one west of it, they will
see the result of that kind of york.
One third OF the top of the large tree
was blown off by a very heavy wind
storm from the north on July 3. 1908,
AID a large crack down the trunk from
the fork indicates that the tree will be
completely wrecked by tle first real
heavy wind that comes from the
southwest after the heavy forage is
out. The other tree has a hidden pit
in the fork that is slowly rotting the
tree right wlere the five or six inch
top was and half the top of that tree
will probably tear off In a heavy wind
this yea or next, unless my efforts
to remedy the miserable blunder
proves successful. I am trying to
W them bat may fail. Even il a
tree when set out is twelve or fourteen
I feet high it will be thai much better
if the top is only two to -four inches
i'm diameter. because h limbs can
grow together quickly at h top and
form a strong fork, with 10 pit 10
catch water and soak and cause rot.
If trees have to De used having a
top moro than two or three inches
across. | believe the danger might be
lessened by beveling the top to a
blunt point so nat the base of b
limbs in growing can get together
quickly. r. S. HAMILTON.
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Leayenwortil. Kan, March ~
Some of the hardest and most OBJ
Struperous words in Webster's Una
hridged have been dug up and will
be passed out to the nifty spoilers OF
Leavenworth county at the annual
spelling bee in Tonganoxie tonight.
Fer weeks the students of the schools
of the county have beer porting over
dictionaries and engaging in prelim-
mary contests. in preparation for
the great event OF this evening. wlen
the spelling championship will be de-
.cided.
BY a process of selection and clint
nation. only those who are able to
Withstand a rapid fire OF strange and
peculiar words will take part i'm to-
nights contest of the photographic ex-
'perts. school and township contests
were acid. and the three who re-
manned standing" the longest i'm the
latter bees were chosen to take part.
Medals will be awarded the three
best spoilers I'm the final compete
ton.
County Superintendent Kelsey de-
CARES that these contests have result
Cd 4 a great and general improve
ment i'm the ability to spell correctly
among tbs students OF the country
schools.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14
WILL THE HoNDO REsER-
vOIR MAKE GOOD?

Editor Roswell Record
Tde recent report of the Territor-
ial Engineer. as summarized by MIR.
Herbst. showing the ~practicability of
building a cemented ditch from near
the Diamond A Ranch to the intake
canal of h Reservoir. that the water
that o sinks in the i've bed may
be brought down to the ditch system.
and distributed to tle land owners
1ndcr the IIondo Project is full of in
~terest. and carries some hope that
the water wners may after a while
become water users. after their years
Of painful waiting. This plan Toes not
propose putting any water into the
great dry lake: but il does raise the
question of what hope there is that
the big reservoir site shan itself
sometime be filed with water, and
become a fountain of supply for the
many thirsty acres which have claims
On it.
If the 4ondo Reservoir was located
near to of the great rivers of the
West, who's waters never cease to
fow from the vast snow fields of the
mountains. it would have been filled
Ot It's cb4lpltIiOn, anu WOllu nave
kept full all these years, giving life
and crops to the waiting lands below
it. For its intake system is well ron
ceived and admirably built to carry
such a constant stream. But it not
so located. There are no such snow
fed rivers that have eve been big
enough in the best of our years to
spare any water for the reservoir if
the growing crops are supplied. II
is located in a country where in nor
nal years some good rains fall in the
limited watershed of our mountains:
and wlere we every few years have
great floods, b volume of which, If
il could all he stored. would not only
fill the present reservoir, but two or
three of equal capacity. The old
great ficods-several of them-and
they know the immense extent of
water that then goes to waste. During
our last great flood a board of engi-
appointed by Mayor Hinkle es-
timated that about 10000 second feet
that nearly as much more went down
the South Spring draw" That means
that water enough came down the
Hondo valley past the Diamond "A"
Ranch. to have filed the present res
ervoir in "a hours TO its full capaci-
ty of n billion, seven hundred mill
ion cubic feet. or 10000 acre feet of
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14
SPECTATOR PATTEN ALMOST
MoH6ED IN LIVERPOOL

London, Eng, March 12.-James A.
Patten. the Chicago sp~eculator, who
yesterday was thrown out of the Man
chester exchange and almost snobbed.
sailed from Liverpool today for New
York. The English press. generally
strong for law and order. extends no
sympathy for Mr.. Patten in his Man
chester experience. The Westminster
Gazette expresses establishment that
Patten had the "fnpudence," consid-
ering the injury his operations had
done the Lancashire cotton industries
to presume on the courtesy generally
lantic.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

The Senate of the United States
addressed a letter to the internal
revenue collector asking aim what
would be the amount that could reas-
.onabiy be expected from the tax on
brandy. whiskey. beer and other liq-
uors. He replied, "On account of pro-
hibition in the South las year the
tax fell off $500. 900. and this year it
will fall off $1,000. 900 from the South
And yet il is claimed prohibition does
not prohibit.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

when the time is ripe it will be put
into effect
Mr.. Longs plan was to throw a dam
across the yalley of the Hondo, about
three miles above the present intake
canal, al what is known BY the old
timers as mission PIaza"-This dam
was to be sixty feet high, from bluff to
bluff. a distance of some 500 or 900
feet Also to build another dam di-
rectly south of the first across the
valley OF Rocky Arroyo. also from
bluff to bluff. All these bluffs are
rocky and everlasting rhe r
valley is approximately 1900 feet wide.
1t is forty feet lower thar the Hondo
and connected with the Hondo Valley
by a slopipg plain. The border of
hills between the two valleys inter
mits at the plaza" for anout a mile.
and the valleys are two miles apart.
The Arrovo dam would be buiit zoe
feet high and the crowns of both
dams would be on the same level.
Thls pair of dams would stop all
the floods. when they came. They
would MAKE a great lake covering
5000 acres Of land when far and tllis
lax would contain about five billion
feet of water or 120,o00 acre feet.
This is nearly three times the stor-
age capacity OF the present reservoir.
There are no engineering difficulties
in the case. These dams will simply
stop and hold all the water that
comes down from the mountains, un-
til the lake is full. The tenderfoot
who surveys the dry plain now knows
as the Hondo Reservoir. will mile at
the thought of this ruch greater one
ever being frll. Pit our last food
you'd apparently have filled it 10 the
brim. and he overflow would have
filed The present reservoir too--if it's
intake Was big enouea-and have had
some water left to waste over he
spillway. With tails system quilt the
floods would all be put to service.
and that n food would have suffc-
lent water enough for more than he
present allotment of reservoir lands
two or three times as much-dur'ng
these dry years since, if the rainfall
had balanced the waste from evapor-
alton.
With such a system constructed.
there would be water enough, when
our c.cle of rainy years comes again
to sustain farm crops On forty or IF
~ Thousand acres of these fine rich
lands that are waiting. What would
this mean to Roswell? The cost Of
this rev system, which would use
the present reservoir and its ditcaes
for distribution would not greatly ex-
.cssd the money spent in the present
Hondo construction. which as il
stands today is and will continue to
be until some important changes are
made, a barren investment. A gov
er1renf that gladly spends seven
millions on a reservoir in the Rio
Grand Valley, might surely put up an
other quarter million-or II it sho I'D
be a half miliion-haye to make the
present expenditure productive, and
to quadruple its possible service.
Dur rainy years will come again
md the foods will come-as they
have lone for bered years.
We are not prepared to utilize them.
VIII the Reclamation service help
rs, or II not can 1t not still be done?
Yours truly,
PARKER EARLE.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

The Democratic party has made
great advances along the lines OF
temperance during the last few years.
And the South is leading in the pro-
cessioa. Now h William ]. Bryan
has taken off his Goa to fight the
saloon evil the party is bound TO make
greater advances than ever, and the
Democrats of Roswell saould get in
line. and enlist under the banner OF
Bryan.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

The anti-saloon Democrats of Ros-
well need have no apologies to make.
iaey are fignting under the banner
of William Jennings Bryan. and tina
is good enough for them. With the
other fellows it is different. They
owe the public and themselves al
sorts of apologies, and most of them
hnow 1T. They are fighting under the
banner of crime, insanity. pauperism
and kindred evils.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

In Maine, a dry state. tine links
have n~inety-nve dollars per capita for
every man, woman, boy and girl; In
the wet states of Pennsylvania and
Illinois, powerful and rich as they
are he banks have but $13.43 and
s16.71 per capita Why? Because
the Maine people place their money
in the banks to use for themselves,
and the people of Pennsylvania and
Illinois tnrn it owe to the liquor deal
ers, breeding crime and inefficient
labor.
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water. But mis- flood continued many
days. And il storage had been pro-
vided. with the means of letting water
into it, enough water could have been
~impounded then to have supplied more
tran the g of thirsty land that
now has theoretical water rights. with
plenty of crop water for these dry
years.
sui that colossal food could hard
ly have gotten into the reservoir by
way Of the seventy foo wide intake
that mas been provided. for it a
four Thousand feet wide, and three to
folr feet deep, past the Diamond "A"
Ranch. A reservoir built in a cottn
try without large perennial stream to
fill it and feed it. but where enormous
floods can be depended on every few
years. would have some advantage if
it was built so hat the foods could
get in. 1t has sometimes seemed to
me that the eminent engineers who
planned and built our reservoir had
not sufficiently considered the nature
of the water supply upon which. and
upon tlis only. the filing of it
forever depend. Our reservoir is a
gigantic disappointment. 1t will be
answered that there have been o1ly
dry years since its completion. This
is true. And it is true that if there
had been long seasons of frequent
heavy rains. and a full running Hondo
the reservoir would have been filled
through the present intake. But it is
also true that the great flood of few
years ago could not have filed il;
though -four times sufficient. because
the flood CoIld not get into it. And
vet it is evident that any reservoir
system in this particular section must
always depend largely upon floods for
being filed.
There will be other floods. We
shall have them running through Ros-
well every few years as long as ma
ture holds to her present plans. The
wafer viii not again run in our bust
ness streets as it has done before. be-
cause of the levee protection on our
western border. But the thought that
the reservoir having been built, Sc
cures us Immunity from future food
conditions. is an idle fancy. Is there
any remedy for this situation that can
ever be put in force? | think there
is. But it depends upon what the Re-
clamatIon Service can be induced to
do. or will consent to have done by
others.
II is evidently within the power of
engineering skill to construct a stor-
e system that will hold all of our
floods. Nothing less than that should
have been one by the Government
when tae present empty reservoir
was built And il can yet be done,
and at a cost not probably so much
larger than what went into the pres
ent construction. Possibly not any
greater. h present reservoir would
become n useful part of the larger
and sufficient system. That larger
reservoir system was planned and
surveyed many years ago by that able
engineer. Leslie w. Long, who resid-
ed in Roswell for many al II
have been ver the plans. and over
the ground with aim several times.
some fourteen years ago. My faith in
the entire practicability of his large
but simple plan, Is as strong today
as u was in those years. I will brief
Nv outline 1t as I still believe that
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14
e. PASO SELLS BONDS
FOR STREET EXTENSION.

FL Paso. Tex, March 1.-THE city
has solo an issue of $4,000 of bonds
voted for the opening of West San
Antonio and North Kansas streets, to
the West German Bank of Cincinnati,
o., at a premium of $i,433. The pro-
ceeds will be used to purchase propr-
ty condemned for the extension OF
the streets named.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

No well-advised trades %unionist car
deny that a greater part of the in
ternal quarrels and chickering's among
trades u~nionists have been concocted
in the back rooms of saloons. The
greatest curse to the labor movement
a cen the saloon, and it is high
time that the labor leaders get to-
getner and forever divorce the trades
union VEN and the saloon in
fuence.-The Bhcksmith's Journal.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

IL booze is such a good thing why
ion't the railroads advertise for engi-
leers and conductors who are booz-
'ers? Why don't the banks look out
for boozers to employ them? Why
do not all sorts of industrial estab-
lishnents hunt for oozer to employ
them? On the contrary they look for
men who are not drinkers. Why is
this?
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

The Record is authorized to an
nounce ID. III. Wixom as a candidate
for County Commissioner. 3rd district
subject t. the action of the Demo
cratic primary.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

When a criminal case gets before
the public or in the courts, IL may be
almost assumed taat booze had some
thing to do with IL. Take the Cudany
case in Kansas City, for instance. 1t
has developed that booze played a
prominent part. and was really the
cause of the whole matter.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

There has been SO much disorder
md trouble along the Mexican Dor
Ter recently hat steps are being tax
n to check it, and of course h best
method is to get rid of the saloons
{ is proposed to establish a zone
along the border from enc 70 end, IN
which neither saloons or gambling
will be permitted.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

Last week a killing took place at
Ocate and of course the liquor inter
ests had a hand in the matter. N of
the participants being a saloon keep
er. and plenty of whiskey was on tap
on the side.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

Before Ohio went local option and
tnus got rid of thousands of saloons,
the tax on saloons and the liquor
trade brought In annually fou mill
ions of dollars. But ON the other hand
the state paid out over seven millions
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14
GREAT NORTHERN MOUNT
AIN LINE Is NOW CLEAR.

Seattle, Wash, March 1.-THE
Great Northern overland train start
ed east over its own rack this morn
ing. The engineers have cleared all
distractions at Wellington. The line
has been blocked more than three
weeks.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14
."BLEACHED FLOUR" CASES
DISMISSED BY. COURTS

Council Bluffs. Iowa, March ~
WHAT are known as the "Bleached
Flour cases were dismissed in the
federal court here today by Pierce
Butler. special ounse for the gov
ernment. -Four brands of flour, be-
longing to Omaha and Topeka mills,
we're involved in the suits.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

In Missouri SIS per e n of all crime
comes from the liquor traffic; in
Washington City % per cent OF crime
so per lent of insanity, and 40 per
cent of pauperisn: in Massachusetts
81 per cent of crime from liquor, 80
per cent of pauperism, and IS per cent
of insanity.
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EoR

The Record is authorized to an
nounce N. ]. Fritz as a candidate for
denomination on the Office of county
commissioner. Bird. district. subject to
the action of the Democratic primar.
les.
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FOR RIFF,

We are authorized to c.
f. (Tobe) Odem as a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for sher-
if. subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic primaries.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

Governor Hoch. of Kansas, says
the people of that state nave over
$160, 200. 900 in their banks, and paup-
ers are almost an unknown quantity.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

Last year there were $3.50 murders
n the United States-only three in
ly three-fourths of tle more than
nine thousand were caused by liquor.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

Last week a bunch of Indians at
Isleta, this territory. got hold of
some booze and proceeded to cele-
brate, with the usual ending. two dead
and others likely to follow.
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COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

The Record is authorized to an
nounce A. Durand as a candidate for
County Commissioner, 3rd District.
subject to the action of the Democrat
ic primary.
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FOR SH RIFF.

The Record is authorized to an
uounce o. z. Finley as a candidate
for Sheriff of Chaves county. subject
to the action of the Democratic Pri-
mary.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

MIR. Bryan is the leader of the an
~ti-saloon Democrats and no man could
ask for a better.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-14

1t 10 dead easy to fool people. Tae
average man really believes he Ia
free and independent. but when the
ONE to vote he will fall In
line and toddle along behind his polit-
ical boss like a SOW after a leaky corn
wagon. and be led right into the polls
and voted just as the boss wants him
TO vote. And all h time he really
things he is doing just rs ne pleases.
It's funny. but it's true.-tHarpoon."
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The government mails are being
weighed to determine what shall be
paid the railroads for the next term
for hauling etaem- Perhaps this has
something co do with the great out
put OF government bulletins and sim
liar matter. IL a private business con-
Quoted such q matter. either the mails
would be weighed for the whole time
CT an average struck from past per
fcrmances. But the government not
only does mot do this but even per-
mits the mails to be greatly increas-
cd during the weighing period I'm or
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for added crime caused by liquor. A
mighty bad economical proposition.
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der, we presume. to pay b railroads
a larger sum.
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IN THE SPRING

IN THE SPRING
q young mau's fancy lightly turns TO
thoughts OF love aud Ice cream So
does the young lady's 40 far ms the
latter part OF n proposition In con-
cerned-
A DISH OF OUR ICE CREAM
will taste nm good now NJ it will I'm the
hottest days OF summer. Get the
habit of coming I'm here and have a.
ulata whenever you feel tired or de-
pressed You q have no more
whoIesome or n0urlshinG refreshments
IL you sought for . thousand years.
RLlN