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The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-05-04
ALAMOGORDO HAS I94S,,
OTERO COUNTY, 1909
Total Population Of Territory in
1910 Was 3c7,3Cl
TAOS COUNTY HAsN0P
CHAN3ED F0R 20 YEARS

The census bureau has just
given out the tofal population of
New Mexieo arranged by counties
and voting precincts. According
to this report the population of
the territory in 1910 was :27 .:Ol,
~ 800, ,a-.t' ~i'L to5 a0n. ~ 1900,
aud l53. sos, in 1890.
The population by counties is
compared with the population
ten and twenty years ago, but in
the case of New Mexico such
statistics are of little value be-
cuse in almost every instance
new counties have been formed
out Of parts, Of old counties. so
that Taos county is the only co.
unity that remained intact during
the ~ years.
The population of the counties
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-05-04

Don't overlook the bargains
that the Prince Store is offering
in this weeks News. The goods
are just the things reeded at this
season and the prices are very
attractive.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-05-04
Music Recital

The pupils of Maude Bush
Davis, composing the Beethoven
Music Club, will give > recital
Friday, May 9Th, at the High
school auditorium commencing
ct eight p. m. Admittance by
invitation.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-05-04

The towns of Otero county and
their population are given below :
Alamogordo 1913; Tularosa, 1922
Highrolls, 43S; La Luz, Ala;
Cloudcroft, 40S; Mayhill, 339 ;
Weed, 249; Three Rivers, 100;
Orogrande, 1856; Mescalero Apa-
ches, 437.-Albuquerque Morn
ing journal.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-05-04
REV. ]. \. MURRAY ON
BOYS MARBLES"
Former Alan ,gOrdO Pastor Now
at Duidth, minu.
MAKES EARNEST PLEA
TO PARENTS FOR BOYS

The following sermon was de-
Iivered by Rev. j. II. Murray.
a former pastor of the local
trace NJ. r.. church. but now IN
charge of the same church at
Duluth, Mimi, who will be re-
@c.t.. : .ee' - '"c-l
readers. W. take the sermon
from the Duluth News-Tribune
~ April2 n
The boy IT yesterday is the
man of to-day. The game Of
marbles yesterday IL the game
Of life today" said Rev. John
II. Murray. pastor If the Grace
VI. f. church. Twenty second
avenue west and Third street, in
his lecture on THAT Boy aud
His Marbles" before a large
audience last evening.
Rev. MIR. Murray made All elo.
quent plea To- the parents for
their boys. The men Of today
he said, were but the overgrown
boys of yesterday. He is. he
said. bigger in body and mind
but is still the same boy. So
rapid is the work of time that
they are scarcely conscious of the
change.
In seven short years the boy
has developed to the mah. Ike
learns the trade or profession,
performs the modern miracles,
builds the modern cities, makes
the recurrence of catastropheS
impossible aud goes forward into
battle amid the hail of bullets
and shows to the world the
metal out of which heroes are
made. God never had q bigger
Job cut out since he created
heaven and the earth than he
has for that boy aud his marbles.
Il have taken this theme be-
cause want to emphasize first
the boy, and second his marbles.
What the boy stands for and
what the marbles stand for. We
fellows who have been thinking
that we were full grown men,
and strutting around in our self
important way, will be keeping
the undertakers on the jump in
a little while. Are you glad
that you have boy? Are you
glad as your strength dimin-
ishes his is increasing? But dc
you know that feel downright
sorry for your boy if he does moi
make a better and bigger man
than his father.
"You never had the advaDt.
ages he has and because of them
am safe in predicting a tire.
mendOus tomorrow.
yet they say that q man who
predicts q millennial age is q
fool. l say the man who cannot
foresee such an age is blind. II
God has big job cut out for the
lad Of today, he is not failing u
thoroughly and properly qualify
that boy for the job.
II am pleading for the boy Of
today. Give him u chance,
Don't scold, nag, and beat all
the spirit and sense out of him,
A little wood pile is good, but in
big doses is fatal. A small dose
is Q stimulant, q large dose an
emetic. Not only let him play
but show him how. Better still,
play with him, and later, per.
haps, when you are gone, he
will remember you not only as 8
father but IS companion aud
~ the best friend he ever had.
"Your boy needs . ball aud :
,,,eLa M fuIl NJ marhlas morA thar
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-05-04

he needs box Of candy. . punch
ing bag and ; set Of boxing
gloves, not that you want TO
make . fighter or > rowdy, but
because you want to make . man
of him."
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-05-04

Miss FasI StsItu. Class Of 1911. hIsmogads, n NJ

wnrlh's wealth and prusress r.
warl better things hung IN that
ruc ierision. Il has ever been
ons If the conspicuous elements
uf victory in all our undertakings
that Navering minds rarely ac.
cnnplish anything.
Life is a journey anh he who
wouli succeed. should carefully
cnnsider it's aim /: there should he
o definite idea as 10 its destina-
tion, and with a purpose once
dxed. victory will eventually
crown our labor.
1t is true that circumstances
Ia MT always mike the man,
yet they often times have q great
deal to do with many in deter.
mining what the world calls
their success. John Wesley
turned the most unfavorable cir
cumstances to bring about such
q revolution in the religious
world, which by its benefcieut
results entities him to be justly
ranked among the great men of
the ages. And yet there is many
a one that is counted q failure,
who under different circum.
stances might be called bril-
liant success.
The prizes of life are usually
at. or near the end of the journey,
not at the beginning. and not To
GO on, is to miss them. Fear never
gained a triumph, and to cherish
it is to luse your own self respect
and the regard of the good. The
most untold circumstances, the
: most difficult obstacles will yield
to il dustry. intelligence and
, courage. What might seem q
barrier to ones progress, often
proves to be hut a new starting
' point.
There are many who would be
= great, yet are not willing to pay
; the price of success. The world
has ever been divided between
: the two classes; the few wh'
succeed, aud the many who fail
Why is it so many fail, when tn,
: opportunities are SO vast and th'
! possibilities so great? 1t woulC
I seem that the only real excus,
: would be, either the lack of in
telligence or pure laziness.
g 1t is q great misfortune to
e person to have the path to sue
d cess made smooth and easy fo
j him, for in such cases, he fail
d to develop those sturdy virtue
I and personal resources, which ar
s the product of hard toll, ecohom,
i and thrift, alone, and upon whicI
u qualities depends the value o
z all true manhood and woman
a hood.
q The value of all victories de
e pen1s not only upon the gettinI
of them. but how we get them
: Sometimes a victory costs to
+ much and success is not wort
# the getting. For if to gain
n victory, you must part with hon
n or, truth and character, the
y defeat is far more preferable
/ for honor aud character far out
a rank wealth or position.
u So aspire after great ideals
G great things, great men, Of whor
o the world has not q few. Loft
It places and great deeds requir
e courage aud great men, and thus
!; who aspire after such places
must make themselves worth
a Of them. II is the greatest glor
n Of America that it is the land O
9 self made men, here all is fre
It movement and every one find
i their own level.
: Success belongs to him VII
b dares to win it; to him VII
= knows that no defeat is final
save the defeat Of wrong. and
o is sure TO crown the life of an
d person, who possesses en- averag
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-05-04

ot yesterday are u'", ihe scene
to-day are quickly passing. aud
the pictures tomorr,v will be-
new.
Each day comes freighted with
greater opportunities and en-
larged interests. To meet those
constantly increasing re~ponsl
bilities. our lives should be- lie.
veloped along practical lines.
/ The great problem of the ages
aud the burning question of to
day is How to Succeed. Ever
generation of the past has beef
confronted by this problem. an'
earh individual today is asking
the same vital question. We all
desire to succeed: our ideals oi
happiness may differ. but still.
We are all striving for that one
ideal We call Success.
In these days of toll and strug-
gle, of success and failure: IN
the midst of competition and
strife. it might be well for US
all to pause and ask, what is
success? According to the usual
standard Of the world, it means
the gathering of much gold,
stocks, and lands. America has
multitude Of such successful
men. A century or so ago. there
were but two or three million
aires in the whole United States,
, today New York alone has more
, than three thousand such persons
, and there are vast numbers OF
, them throughout this great coun-
, try. many of whom count their
wealth by the scores of millions.
, Others by the hundreds of
, thousands of dollars. Nearly all
, Of them began life in poverty,
, and by commercial standard have
, been eminently successful men,
|, yet the experience of time ha:
|, demonstrated to us that it is not
! always best to take the mere &C.
! emulation of wealth a. q stand.
, AID for true success in life.
2 Genuine success is not a sud.
0 den outburst Of what men cal
4 genius, but rather the result ol
O continual patient, and common.
4 place toll.
The supreme agent for gaining
success in any calling is the
mind. Intellect is mightier anC
of more Importance than manua
labor could ever be. Indeed
: mere muscular energy does bu
. very small part of the world
work today, and is by no means
the most important or efficien
agent in achieving anything
worth while. The product of ,
> few brains is doing by far th'
/. greatest and richest of tn,
worlds work.
q Energy, will power, and de
cision, are three Of the most i'm
portant factors. Every step o
/, progress that has been takeI
= since the world stood, has beer
. by some one man, or ut most b,
|, some few men, who were distin
guished above their fellows by
superior energy, foresight, o
inventive faculty. Look over th'
chief events Of history. VIII
caused them2 Men Of energy no
: the masses. Who climb tn,
mountains of success, only a few
the laggards are at the foot.
And then the decision Of |
single individual has more thar
once changed the current of th'
worlds history, and that too, no
only for an hour, but for cen
: turies. Who in the days Of Colum
. bus ever dreamed that so mucl
OF the worlds history aud pro
gress depended upon that un
known man, or would be .
Q changed By his seemingly vile
I decision TO explore unknown
seas. And Jet how much Of tn
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-05-04

Landlord J. O. Jones Of the
Southwestern Hotel, vas at
Clouderoft Monday.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
CAPTURED NEGRO FUGITIVE.
Sheriff Buford's Prisoner Wanted in
BarnWell.

Newberry, July 13.-Sheriff Bu-
ford Tuesday evening captured Hay
ward Wicker, negro fugitive from
Justice from Barnwell county. Last
November Wicker killed negro man
in that county named Manuel Walk
er. The killing took place in the day
time and there were witnesses. The
night of the same day some one, sup
posed to be Wicker, went to Wicker's s
house and shot at Wicker's wife with
a shotgun, missing her, but killing
the baby in her arms. Nobody saw
the murder. Wicker Acknowledges
the killing of Walker but denies that
he killed the baby or shot at his
wife.
In the spring Sheriff Buford was
asked by Barnwell officers to be on
the lookout for the negro. Yesterday
evening he located his man on Gus
Singley's farm, near Prosperity, and
going there with his deputy, caught
him, and today he carried him to
Barnwell.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
Woman Surrenders.

Gaffney, July 11.-Mrs, Frances
Sarratt, a white woman of this coun-
ty, who on Sunday night shot and
killed Ruth Duncan, 2-year-old ne
gro girl, in an endeavor to shoot LII
Duncan, mother of the dead child,
came to Gaffney this morning about
10 o'clock and surrendered to Deputy
Sheriff Watkins. A search for the
woman has continued since Sunday,
and this morning Deputy Watkins
was near the river preparing to re-
new the search when he was met by
Mrs. Sarratt and her husband, Ira
Sarratt. They were coming to town
to surrender.
Mrs. Sarratt, when seen in the jail
by a reporter late this afternoon,
said that she had no statement to
make and refused to discuss the mat
ter, saying that the affair was zone
best known to herself" She stated
that she had not engaged counsel.
She is woman of about so years OF
age.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
Barn and Contents Burn.

Fort Motto, July 13.-Peterkin,
Crouch & Arant had the misfortune
to lose their barn and stables by
fire caused by lightning. Four mules
were in the stables and were killed
instantly. The entire oat crop,
wagons, harness and other material,
which was in the barn was destroyed
at loss of about $4,000, with no
insurance.
The rains in this section within the
last week have greatly improved the
crops, which were in a serious con-
dition owing to the long drought.
The corn crop will be very small
with but little prospect for a hay
or forage crop. Cotton looks well
but appears to be fruiting too near
the top.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
Woman Uses Gun.

Rome, Ca, July 10.-As the Sc
quel of of a series of business quar-
rels, extending over several months,
Miss Zella Phillips last night shot
David Tate, a Rome merchant, four
times with an automatic pistol. One
shot entered his chest and three his
legs, but his wounds are not neces-
sarily fatal, and it is believed that he
will recover. The woman is held in
Jail pending the outcome of Tate's
injuries.
She claims that Tate was advanc-
ing on her with a pistol when she
shot him. Tate claims Miss Phillips
sent for him and shot him down as
he approached her door.
The two conducted business es-
tablishments on Fifth avenue, in ad-
adjoining buildings, and the shooting
was due, it is said, to business rival
ry and jealousy.
. Miss Phillips now has pending a
$4,000 suit against Tate for alleged
defamation of character, and there
are now in the courts several cases
against both for disorderely conduct
and fights Tate had with men over
the woman.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
ANNUAL REUNION.
Confederate Veterans Will Meet in
Columbia August 90.

The reunion of the United Confed-
crate Veterans of South Carolina will
be held in Columbia on the 9th and
10th of August. Columbia is consid-
cred a particularly convenient and at
tractive place for these gatherings
and the city considers it an honor
and a privilege to entertain the old
soldiers. Judge Robert Aldrich has
accepted the invitation extended by
Mayor Gibbes to be the chief orator
of the occasion. The full programme
for the two days has not been arrang-
ed as yet, and it is not decided
whether the principal oration will be
delivered at the second meeting of
the first day or at the first meeting
of the second day. Details which will
be in charge of the Sons of Veterans,
have also not yet been arranged, but
it is understood that the order of the
meetings and the nature of social fea-
lures will be announced shortly. Gen.
B. H. league, commanding general
of the South Carolina Veterans, is at
his summer home in Saluda, and is
in communication with the mayor,
and with members of Camp Hampton
as to arrangements for the reunion.
These annual gatherings of the old
soldiers were formerly held in May,
but for a number of reasons it has
been considered more convenient to
have them during the last of the sum-
mer. The one last year held in Spar
tanburg in August was most success
full and enjoyable and it was decided
at the time to hold this reunion for
1911 at about the same date.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
THREE.CORNERED PISTOL FIGHT
Rock Hill Negro Killed and Two
Special Policemen Shot.

Charlotte, N. c., July 13.-1n a
tri-cornered pistol duel on board a
negro excursion train returning to-
night about $50 o'clock from Co.
lumbia to Charlotte, John Reeves,
colored, of Rock Hill, was killed.
Special Policeman J. A. Eskridge, OF
Charlotte, was dangerously wounded
and Special Policeman J. T. Wilson,
also of this city, was grazed by a
bullet from Reeves revolver. The
trouble occurred in the smoking car
of the train between Rock Hill. and
Fort Mill, when the negro began fir
ing his pistol out of the window.
He was ordered by Wilson, who
was detailed to preserve order on the
train, to surrender his pistol, but in
stead opened fire, one of his bullets
striking Policeman Eskridge, who
was standing in the aisle. Wilson
says he then pulled his pistol and
shot Reeves dead. Eskridge, how
ever, also maintains that he fired the
fatal shot. Eskridge is in preca-
rious condition in a hospital here. .
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
OBTAIN LICENSE ON AFFIDAVIT.
important Construction of the New
Marriage Act.

Columbia, July 14.-Attorney Cen
eral Lyon has given an interesting
and important opinion in connection
with the marriage license law enacted
at the last session of the genral as
sembly and which went into effect on
July 1. He has ruled that license
may be issued by the clerk of court
or the probate Judge as the case may
be, upon the presentation of the
proper affidavit sworn to before a
notary public and that with this afti-
davit is not necessary for the con-
tracing parties to appear before the
officer issuing the license. The opin-
ion was given upon the request of
S. H. Rodgers, the clerk of court of
Beaufort county. The opinion says:
''In response will say that it is my
opinion that the statement under
oath or affirmation, required by Sec
ton of the act, may be made by
any person having knowledge of the
facts, before a notary, and that such
statement under oath of affirmation,
is sufficient to authorize the clerk of
court or probate judge, as the case
may be, to issue the marriage license.
It is not necessary, under the terms
if this act, that either of the con-
tracing parties appear before the Of
fcer who issues the license, but the
license may be issued upon presenta-
ton of the statement under oath or
affirmation as above Indicated"
In another case presented Attor-
ner General Lyon has ruled that the
officers issuing the license may per-
form the marriage ceremony.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
Woman Leaps in Well.

Calhoun, Ga., July 10:-Said to
have been suffering from temporary
insanity, Mrs. Joe Stevenson jumped
into a we'll at the home of her broth
er, r. H. Land, Saturday, carrying
with her Mrs. Lands 4-year-old
daughter.
Mrs. Land was sitting on the porch,
near the scene, when the incident oc-
Cured, and tried to catch Mrs. Stew
enson as she started to the well, but
she lodged, picked up the child and
leaped.
The neighbors were attracted by
the screams of Mrs. Land and several
gathered at once.
w. H. Mcconnell went into the
well and found Mrs. Stevenson sink
ing for the last time, but rescued her
by catching her clothing and holding
it while rope was being let down,
with which she was drawn out.
Mcconnell, not knowing that the
child was in the we'll came out, but
on going down again, found the water
too deep to reach the child, which
was drawn out later on hook. DR..
Shelhorse, of Calhoun, was summon
ed, and succeeded in reviving Mrs.
Stevenson, but found it impossible
to resuscitate the child.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
Mysterious Abandonment of Baby
Partially Solved.

At Least one feature of the mys-
terry surrounding the attempt Of the
young woman to abandon her baby
on the train at Yemassee last Sum-
day night and later, presenting the
child to an Augusta man, has been
solved. The Augustan into whose
care the child was delivered is w. H.
Emanuel, weaver in the King mill,
who resides at 124 Third street,
Greggtown. He still has the baby at
his home and he and his wife are
giving it the best attention within
their means.
Mr.. Emanuel says that the name Of
the mother of the child, as given to
him, is Mamie Kinard, and her home
is in Bamberg county, South Caro-
lima, near the town of Ehrhardt. The
little girl who has been the victim
of the affair is two years and eleven
months old. Mr.. Emanuel and his
wife are anxious that no one will dis
turb them in their new possession and
he has a list of the witnesses who
were present when the mother gave
the baby to him unconditionally.
It is said that when the child had
been left on the train from Sayan-
nah by the mother, and the passen-
gers insisted on her going back on
board and taking it with her, she de-
MED that the baby was hers or that
she knew anything about it but there
happened to be another lady on the
train who knew the true circum-
stances and would not permit her to
abandon her helpless little one.-Au-
gusta Chronicle.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
Mr.. Belts Funeral.
The Trouble.

Two old settlers sat smoking in a
cabin far away in the backwoods. No
woman's hand desecrated that do
main, and CRIME reigned supreme
and triumphant. The conversation
drifted from politics to cooking.
"Yas," said the elder of the two,
with a drawl, 81 did get one of them
there cook books wunst, but 1 could
never do nothing with it,
what was the hitch?" inquired
the other.
"Well, every one of them recipes
begun in the same way, with the
same words. Every one said Take a
clean dish'-and I never got no fur
ther."-Tit-Bits
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
Payment in Full.

A train travelling through the west
was held up by masked bandits. Two
friends, who were on their way to
California, were among the passen-
gers.
Here's where we lose all our
money!" one said, as robber enter
ed the car.
"You don't think they'll take
everything, do you?" the other ask
ed nervously.
Certainly the first replied.
"These fellows never miss anything" ."
"That will be terrible" the second
friend said. "Are you quite sure
they won't leave us any money!" he
persisted.
"Of course" was the reply. "Why
do you ask?"
The other was silent for a minute.
Then, taking a fifty-dollaI note from
his pocket, he handed it to his
friend.
"What is this for?" the first ask.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20
To Speak for Former Slave.

Washington, July Ex-senator
John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi,
a loyal admirer of Jefferson Davis,
will rush into the fray in the senate
tomorrow to prevent that body from
separating from the payroll James
Jones, formerly personal servant and
slave of the president of the Confed-
eracy. Jones is said to be the sole
guardian of the secret of the hiding
place of the great seal Of the Con-
federaoy. He lives in Washington
with relatives, and is growing old;
bit he refuses to disclose where the
seal reposes.
Senator Lodge got a resolution
through the senate to-day which
would abolish several senate places,
among them that held by one unem-
ployed laborer. This laborer is
Jones. Senator Martin, after the
resolution was passed, moved to re-
consider. After some discussion the
motion was left pending until to-
morrow.
It is expected Senator Williams will
pay warm tribute to the old slave
along with his old master. When
Senator Williams came to the senate
he said it was his greatest ambition
to sit in the seat once occupied by
Jefferson Davis, and Senator Owen of
Oklahoma, so moved, as to let him
occupy it.