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The Monte Vista journal., 1912-04-06

The vast Interior valleys are COW
cred with luxuriant grasses and can
be made to raise cattle and sheep. and
even grain. If proper seed and proper
methods are experimentally developed
by scientific agriculture. But agricul-
ture development cannot go forward
where the local.markets were small.
Secretary Fisher finds the coal de-
posits OF Alaska to consist OF the an
thraclte and high-grade bituminous
coal, which is found SO far only in the
Bering river and Matanuska fields. No
anthracite coal has as yet been found
anywhere else on the Pacific coast.
and but little high grade bituminous
coal, or high grade coking coal. Ex-
cept for coking coal. anthracite coal
and high-grade bituminous coal Alas
There are great quantities of Ignite
and low-grade bituminous coal
throughout the Pacific northwest and
British Columbia. Much of the btu
minous coal mined on Puget sound is
of fair quality and fit for .steaming
purposes, and when the freight and
handling charges on Alaskan coal are
taken into consideration 1t is clear
that the low grade coal will not be
used on ocean steamers except those
plying to Alaskan ports.
For steaming purposes and for
heating purposes In manufacturing es-
tablishments. California fuel oil is sup
planting coal In many fields. 1t pos
sesses advantages in economy and con.
venience of handling. and coal OF any
kind cannot compete with It, But oil
cannot be used for smelling ores, or
for making STEEL and for these pur-
poses Alaska coking coal will hold the
market
Trunk Line Favored.
when the anthracite coal fields OF
Alaska are opened. and railroads con-
structed. so that anthracite coal can
be landed at Los Angeles or San Fran
cisco for SIS or Sc per ton, 1t Will drive
all other coal from the market for do
mestic use. One ton of anthracite
coal contains as much heating force as
two tons Of bituminous coal In the
New England and Middle states no
other than anthracite coal is used for
domestic purposes. and none other
would be used here II 1t were avail
able at reasonable prices"
Secretary Fisher favors the con.
struction by the government of one
main trunk line of railroad from tide
water to the Yukon hOO pilaa Tho
railroads now in operation In Alaska
consist OF the Copper River and
northwestern road, which leads from
Cordova on Prince William Sound, 200
miles up the Copper River to the
bonanza copper field. the Alaska
Northern railroad. which started from
Seward on Bering Strait for the Mata-
nuska coal fields and the Yukon. but
stopped discouraged seventy-one miles
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-04-06
European centenarIans.

There are, according to German Of
fetal statistics. 1000 persons in Eu-
rope who have attained their hum
dredth year. Bulgaria comes first on
the list with 3,SS3 centenarians. then
Roumanja with 1.074. Servia has 573.
Spain 410, France 213, Italy 1877, Aus
tria-Hurgary 113, Great Britain 90.
Russia 80. Germany 76. Norway 23.
Sweden 10, Belgium s and Denmark 2.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-04-06
Newspaper Greatest Modern Fore.

Nobody lives through a month with
out tho newspaper, and few In this
country live without It day Its uni.
versal distribution, with rapIdity OF
publication. make the paper force
In advertising tfat has no counterpart.
Nothing can withstand its tremendous
power. Its capacity for hitting widely,
hitting quickly. hitting everybody and
hitting .epeatedly.-Printers Ink.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-04-06
Woman's Wit Saved Situation.

While crowd OF several hundred
men and women lined the banks OF
the Park river. Hartford. Conn, offer.
Ing futile suggestions for three hours
one recent afternoon. as to how to res.
cue q poor little puppy that had be.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-04-06
"Father Of Antl.eptlc surgery"

Sir Joseph Listers remarkable dis
coveries in surgery won worldwide
fame for him. In the profession he
was acknowledged to be the father
OF modern antiseptic surgery" He
had long been recognized as one Of
the leaders OF the medical profession.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-04-06
The Life Of a Farmer.

The life OF the husbandman-a life
fed by the bounty of earth and sweet
ened by the airs of beaven.-Douglas
Jerrold.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-20
ARIZONA JAbS
ITS JUDGES
Fight In Legislature to Re-
submit Recall to People
Likely to Fail
IS ALREADY CUT AND DRIED
Senator Places Photographic Re
production of Provision Be.
fore Law Makers.

(By Special Leased Wire to New MeXican)
Phoenix, Ariz., March 20.-The con-
stitutional amendment providing for
the recall of the Judiciary, which will
be submitted TO both houses of the
Arizona legislature tomorrow, will be
placed before the Legislators in unique
form. 70
Senator Homer Wood of Prescott,
who is seeking to have the proposed
amendment resubmitted to the people,
at the next general election, has pro-
vided for the consideration of the
state senate and assembly photo
graphic reproductions of the original
judiciary recall provision as it ap-
peared in the manuscript copy of the
proposed Arizona constitution.
Above the Photographic part of the
measure, Senator Wood has written
the title and preamble, and appended
to the documents are affidavits of the
secretary of state that the reproduc.
tioDs are correct. 1t is expected that
the amendment will be adopted as
measure No. of both houses in ac
cordance with Governor Hunts mes
sage.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-20
IA TOILETTE
IS LEADING
Plurality of Wisconsin Sem
ator In North Dakota Pri-
maries Are 1882
ROOSEVELT IS NEXT IN LINE
President Taft Is Away Behind
Procession With a Total of
5000 Votes.
(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican

tBy Special Leased Wire to New MeXican)
Fargo, n. D., March 20.-With
1,167 of the 1900 precincts in the state
heard from returns of North Dakota's
presidential preference primary cleo
tion held yesterday give Senator La
Toilette of Wisconsin 34,159 votes:
Colonel Roosevelt 22,S77 and Presi-
dent Taft 5000. Senator LaFollette's
plurality in these 1,167 precincts is
l1,2S2. The only candidate for the
Democratic endorsement was Govern
OF Burke.
Complete returns from q of the 40
counties in the state. including Grand
Forks, and Cass, show that Roosevelt
is $500 votes behind LaFollette.
Thomas F. Marshall, LaFollette man,
candidate for national committeeman,
polled vote equal to that of the Wis
consin senator, and five of LaFollette
electors were chosen.
First Reports.
Fargo, n. D., March 20.-With par
tial returns received during last night
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin evi.
IDENTIFY has lead of more than $4,000
votes over Theodore Roosevelt in the
first presidential preference primary
election yesterday. The total vote in
the state is believed to be about 49,,
600. 1t was cut down materially in
the western part on account of a
storm.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-20
H|LLSv|LLE'
MERRY CHASE
Bandits Who Slew West Vir-
ginia Officers of Law Are
Slippery Customers
S|DNA ALLEN seen N...PERHAPS
Gang Disappeared From Hiding
Place While Posse Guarded
Known Passes.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican,
Hillsville, w. Va, March 20.-Vir
ginia detectives and possemen early
today surrounded and prepared to
assault another mountain stronghold
in which the Carroll county court
house murderers are thought to be at
bay.
Chestnut Ridge, spur of the Blue
Ridge mountains just five miles from
the home of Floyd Allen, now is sup
posed to be the hiding places of the
outlawed clansmen. Posses reinforced
by available men from Hillsville, gath.
cred there today.
News that the Aliens had slipped
out of their discovered refuge at
Squirrels Spur and reached Chestnut
Ridge, was brought to Hillsville last
night by mounted messenger. I'm
mediately afterward Detective Felts,
leader of the searchers, galloped off
for Chestnut Ridge at the head of a
band.
Sfdna Allen is said to have been
seen yesterday afternoon making his
way down the trail from Squirrels
Spur and it is believed that he reach
ed the Chestnut Ridge section with
the rest of the men wanted
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-20
FAIR SMUGGLER
ENDS HER LIFE
Disgrace of Arrest More Than
San Francisco Woman
Could Bear
HUNG FROM HOTEL WINDOW
Confessed to Undertaking $2O,.
Worth of Jewelry Brought
From India.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
New York, March 20.-Mrs Blanche
Carson, of San Francisco, who was
iarrested here for smuggling several
thousand dollars worth of jewelry on
her arrival from India. committed sui.
eide early today by hanging herself
out of the window of her hotel.
The body of Mrs. Carson was seen
by pedestrian swinging from a
window on the eighth floor of the
Hotel Broztell. The clerk was mott
fed and the door of Mrs. Carson s
room was forced. A rope, tied to a
radiator, was passed out of the win.
dow and at the end dangled the body
of the woman. The body was still
warm. Two notes were found in the
room, one of which was addressed to
her attorney, Harrison Osborn.
Mrs. Carson reached here day before
yesterday on the steamship George
Washington. She was arrested on
the charge CT gross undervaluation
and smuggling and confessed that she
had smuggled jewelry which the au
thorities valued at $4,000 On her ar
rival, Mrs. Carson had declared a
package of unstrung pearls but had
|underyalued them.
On her appearance for examination
yesterday she broke down and told OF
the large amount of jeWelry she had
brought into the country concealed in
her hat and in her baggage. Released
on $4,000 bail for further examination
Friday, Mrs. Carsons went presumably
to her hotel She registered as Mrs
Edwin Carson of Paris. She was about
fifty years of age and was making a
trip around the world alone. Mrs
Carson evidently had sat up all night
and some time after o'clock she un
tied rope from large package in
her room and fastening one end TO a
radiator, slipped the moose around heI
neck and dropped out of the window
The body was discovered at $50. The
second note left by Mrs. Carson was
addressed to Paul R. Mayberry, 91G
| West Twenty-eighth street, Los Ange
| les, California.
In her statement before the customs
officials yesterday, Mrs. Carson said
| Il will confess that these unstruns
pearls are not the only gems | have
! / have also a pair of diamond earrings
which | concealed in the lining of my
! hat l was told that the duties col
lected here were excessive. I thought
ought not to pay excessive duties.
regret what | have done. | am will
| ing to tell all and give up everything
have purchased for fair valuation.
am willing to pay the duty"
Was Of Prominent Family.
San Jose, Calf, March 20.-Mrs
Blanche Carson was a daughter of the
late Hiram Mabury, for years one O
the most prominent residents of this
city. The family is one of grea
wealth and after their mansion here
was wrecked by the earthquake O.
1906, they removed to Los Angeles.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-20
TRAIN ROBBERY
NEAR .COR|NTH
Mobile and Ohio Is Held Up
and $100 Taken From
Express Safe
BANDITS MAKE THEIR ESCAPE
Women Passengers Hid Their
Money and Valuables in
Stockings and Hair.

! (By Special Leased Wire 10 New MexicanJ
| Corinth, Miss. March 20-Sheriif
I McPeters of Alcorn county, started to-
day at the head Of a posse in pursuit
of the robbers who last night held UP
the north bound Mobile &, Ohio train
No. 4, dynamited the safe in the ex-
press car and escaped with booty, the
amount of which has not been deter
mined. The robbery took place seven
miles south of Corinth in the Tusum-
bia River bottom, which is heavily
wooded. 1t is believed the robbers
up a Rock Island train west of Mem
phis.
Swag of $4,000.
st. Louis, Mo, March 20.-More
than two hours behind its schedule.
the Mobile & Ohio passenger train
No. 4, which was held up and robbed
near Corinth, Miss. arrived here to-
day. The express messenger, William
Snoddy, told further details of the
robbery. He would not say how much
money the bandits obtained Passen-
gers quoted Snoddy as saying $4,000
was in the safe.
Il had no idea the train was being
robbed when it stopped, he said. The
first I knew anything was wrong was
when | heard something crash against
the door of my car Then the door
gave way, and the first thing | knew
a man had jumped in. He threw a
revolver up and ordered me to put
up my hands. He ordered me 10 keep
still, and then another man came in.
was ordered then to leave the car.
Outside, one man guarded me. an
other was busy in the car for several
minutes. Then he too, came out. A
minute later came tn. explosion, as
the safe was forced open"
Women Hid Money in Stockings.
]. ]. Howell, his wife and their
daughter of Avon H., We're passen-
gers on the train. Howell told how
the passengers hid their money and
valuables when the conductor rushed
through the coaches informing the
people the train was being held up.
Women put the bills in their stockings
and hid them in their hair, he said,
while the men Slipped their purses un-
der the seats and into every available
niche.
The express car was wrecked be-
yond repair, the whole front being
torn away. officials believe nitro
glycerine was used. Windows in the
car We're shattered and express pack
ages broken open by the force of the
explosion Members of the train
crew with the exception of Snoddy,
left the train at Jackson.
Mobile, Ala, March 20.-Local
! Agent Martin Holbrook of the South
| ern Express Company, said today that
the robbers could not have obtained
more than 500 in the hold-up of the
/ Mobile & Ohio northbound train No.
IA, near Corinth, Miss, last night.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-20
ATTEMPT TO LOOT
CALIFORNIA SAFE FAILS.
Preston. a Watchman, Fatally Wound
ed Two Robbers, But Was Him
self Injured.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
San Bernardino, Calf, March 90
An attempt to loot the safe of the Cen
tral Lode Mining Company in the Clate
mountain district of $4,000 in bullion
and which resulted in a revolver duel
in which three men were wounded,
was reported in messages received
here today. H. Lengley and Bert
Lane, posing as teamsters obtained en-
ployment with the mining company.
They were said to have tried to loot
the safe but were frustrated by Henry
Preston, watchman Lengley and
Lane are reported seriously wounded,
while Preston was shot through the
shoulder.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-20
100 DIE IN
NINE EXPLOSIONS
Pennsylvania and Oklahoma
Disasters Were Caused
by Coal Gas
RESCuERs RUSH TO SCENES
Workers Entombed in Flaming
Z Underground Passages Are
Without Hope.

| (By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Scranton, Pa, March 2O-In a gas
explosion. it is believed, by mine set.
! things, nine persons were killed and
two injured today in Dunmore, near
here. Two families, comprising two
women and seven. children, were
either blown to pieces in the eXplo.
sion, or burned in the fire that fol
lowed and destroyed three houses.
The dead are:
Death List.
Mrs. John Cavella, and her five
children: Rose, aged 3, Dominek, s,
Lucy, II. Lizzie. IA, William, 20.
Mrs. Vito Suma, Mrs. Cayella's S
daughter and her two children, Mary
'aged :, and Frank, ). The body of
Mary Suma was found in the limbs
of tree fifty feet from the scene of
the explosion a half hour after the ac-
cident.
More than twenty dwellings near
the scene of the explosion were badly
damaged by the concussion and the
flying timbers, and scores of persons
were thrown out of their beds and
crushed
Dunmore says that from a broken
main, perhaps caused bv the mine set
things, found its way into the cellar
in a dense volume and exploded when
it came in contact with an oil lamp
that was burning in the house Re
ports to the mining company's head
quarters indicate heavy loss of life.
IS Die in Oklahoma Mine.
Fort Smith, Ark, March 2O.-Tt is
feared that S5 men were killed today
when mine No. of the San Bois Coal
Company at McCurtain, Oklahoma.
was wrecked today by an explosion of
gas in the ninth level Fire and smoke
thus far have prevented any effective
rescue work. One body brought out
was so badly burned that experienced
miners believe there is little hope of
rescuing alive the other 81 composing
the day shift.
Rescue Work Begun.
McAlester, Okla, March 20.-Mine
Inspector Burgess, with rescue ap-
paratus left here this afternoon for
| McCurtain No intimation was given
as to the seriousness of the catastro-
| phe.
| Rescuers on Way.
/ Ft Smith, Ark, March 20.-A spe-
| cial train left here at II a. m. carry
! ing all available doctors and nurses
and with orders to pick up other doe
tors at Intermediate points for serv-
ice at the McCurtain mine disaster.
Fort Smith, Ark, March 20.-A later
report from the general manager OF
! the Sans Bois mine al McCurtain, Ok
| lahoma, says the number in the mine
was ninety-tWo. One was taken out
dead and eleven escaped alive. Eighty
are still entombed The fans We're
working and there is hope of rascuing
, more.
! McAlester Okla, March 20.-Nine
men escaped from the McCurtain
mine Immediately after the explosion
and seventy men are still. entombed
Another explosion momentarily is
! feared. Air was forced into the shaft
this afternoon despite the fire, but it
is feared all the men remaining in the
| mine are dead.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-20
Postoffice Affairs.

The name of the Agricultural Col
lege postoffice has been changed to
State College. The postoffice at
Guigue has been discontinued and mail
sent to Chamita.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-20
PLOTS TO KILL
SECRETARY KNOX
Nicaraguan Government Dis
covers Explosives and Lib
erals" viii Suffer
NO DANGER At ALL, SAYS SEC'y
No Request from American Gov.
ernment For Punishment of
Fire Eaters.
(Bv speclal leased Wlre 10 New Mcxieanj

(Bv Special Leased Wire to New Mcxicanj
New Orleans, La. March 20.-As
the result Of the alleged discovery by
the government of Nicaragua of a plot
to assassinate Secretary Knox during
his recent visit there, it is not imprOb-
able several leading Liberals" will
be put to death, according to advices
received here today from Bluefields.
Bombs for Knox.
New Orleans. La, March 20.-Thir-
teen dynamite bombs placed beneath
the road bed over which Secretary
Knox's special train travelled from
Corinto to Managua and connected
With an electric battery, were discov-
cred by government agents and were
held as evidence against the conspira-
tors. On the day of Mr. KnOX's arri-
val at Managua, bomb was exploded
under the Chilamate bridge between
Leon and La Ceiba, destroying a small
portion of the track, but doing very
little damage.
Customary Punishment.
Washington, D. c., March 20
State Department officials today eX-
pressed surprise at the reports from
New Orleans that the Nicaraguan
government contemplated executing
liberals arrested March and in
connection with a reported plot to
kill Secretary Knox.
No Danger, Says Knox.
United States Minister Wetzel, in
reporting the arrests to the State De-
partment at that time, declared the
records failed to show tn any dyna-
mite bombs actually were placed, but
the men We're arrested merely to keep
them quiet curing the secretary's Wis
it as they had been talking wildly and
Publishing inflammatory articles in
the newspapers. Secretary Knox in
cablegrams to the department de-
clared these precautions were un-
necessary. No request of any kind
for the punishment of the men was
made by the American government.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-20
PUBLIC RECEPTION
ARE COMMON
IN TROUBLED MEXICO.
1t is Hard to Distinguish Rebel From
Federal From One Day to

Next.
(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Chihuahua, Mex, March 20.-A reb-
ell detachment entered the city of Par
raj today where they were Joined by
the former commander of federal
rurales Jose de la Luz Soto and his
men. As Soto had previously agreed
to join the insurrection there was no
fighting.
300 Rebels Move South.
FL Paso, Texas, March 20-Eight
hundred rebels intended for the cam
paign against Ojinaga departed from
Juarez today, going south in forty-two
box cars.
Germans Not Interested.
Berlin, March 20.-The German for
eign Office has decided that there is
no ground for German action in Mex
co, which has been demanded by cer-
tain newspapers in consequence of
report cabled from New York on
March is that some followers of the
insurgent leader, Emiliano Zapata,
had murdered a Mormon woman,
German. The report proved false.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-16
.."..."........." ......".."."..
A Dickens Portrait

From the knickerbocker, August, 1S39
 In person he is little above the stand
 ard height, though not tall. His figure is Slight, without being meager, and is well |proportioned The face, that first object of physical interest, is peculiar, though not remarkable. An ample forehead is displayed under a quantity of light hair, worn in a mass on one side rather jaunr- lily, and this is the only semblance Of |dandyism} in his appearance. His brow is marked and his eye, though not large, is bright and expressive. The most reg ular feature is the nose. which may be called handsome, an epthet not applica- ble to his lips. which are too large. Taken |altogether the countenance, which is pale without sickliness. Is in repose extremely agreeable and indicative of great refine ment and intelligence.
 Mi. Dickenss manners and conversation except perhaps in the perfect abandon ameng his famiiaps. have no exhibition of particular wit much less of humor He is mild in the tones of his voice, and uuescent, evincing habitual attention 10 etiquette and the conventionalisms of pol ished circles His society is much sought a fter, and. possibly to avoid the invita- tions pressed upon him, he does not reside in London, but with a lovely wife and two charming children occupies retreat in the vicinity He is about 26 years Of ye ,ut does not look more than g and 24. Mir Dickens is entirely self made, and rose from an humble station by virtue of his moral worth. his genius and his industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-16
NOTES ON THE ART EXHIBIT

Among the paintings which will be ex- hibted at the Hillman on the 20th and Fist Of this month will be number by Miss Lucille Douglas, including her salon picture, a brilliant study in oils of The Moorish kings in Spain. She will have a collection of the fine little pastes of Dutch shipping scenes. excellent in draw ing and charming in color; also several large, free, dashine water colors which were painted in Holland.
 Miss Carrie Hill will exhibit the studies in oil and water color which she has been working on since the last exhibition. Most of them are scenes around Birming- ham, studies in Shades valley. Red mountain sketches, and scenes of the city. An especially good painting is a little cabin study, a red clay bank, vivid green foliage and a fine sky with shin ing white clouds.
 Miss Elliott. in addition to a little col lection of her fine miniatures, will shcw a number of her large water color studies, most of them made in Shades valley, very bold in execution, and clear in color
 Miss Eliott's miniatures are charming. She has the sense of beauty without which the work of no artist, however fine, can be entirely pleasing. In addi- ton to this she has an unusual talent for catching likenesses. Her style is that of the present American school of miniature painting. which far excels the European, artistiCally