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and promptly forgot. Various other gen
 tlemen were eager to show David how to make mlons. David wasn't inordi-
 nately fond of money, but he was inflated
 with the amount of attention he received and was only saddened by the fact that he could not take advantage of all the opportunities that were offered to him | One pous old gentleman, a friend of the family, laid proposition hefore Da- vid that stirred the young mans fancy The pious old gentleman had a street 1 railroad. The road was about eight
 miles long. It ran from the center of
 the town, nine miles out into the country
 and ended nowhere In particular It had | been nightmare to its stockholders, l who had been roped in by a glib pro- moter. 1t had gone through bankruptcy, was run down to a state of deerepituds
 and had been purchased by the piols gentleman for about what 1t would sell | for drewood and old iron.
 Ho talked to David about as the pro
 motor had talked to the stockholders
 All 1t needed to make 1t prosperous
 property was an energetic, talented man.
 ager like David. One of the most valua- able possessions of the railroad was g
 fine suite of offices. The principal room
 in this suite was, of course, that occupied
 by the president David had rather fiord tastes, and he had 8 mental picture oi his name on the ground glass door fir gilt letters with the title President be- low it.
 David bought the railroad, elected him. self president, moved into the fine office
 and had his name put up fin the way he had pictured 1t. His first work in i'm proving the property was to order the finest lot of stationery any street rail
 road in the state could boast He also
 had the printers get up highly ornate | pass, with leather case, and these passes
 he sent to state officials, city officials and
 such members of the national govern
 ment as he thought worthy of his con
 sderation. With these important pre- | liminarles attended to, he inspected hi property.
 It was a horse railroad and most of tht | horses were rather ancient. So were | the cars. The road was a single track
 with sidings every half mile; the ties were rather decayed and the rails were | light and rusty There was no particular
 schedule, and there would have been nc
 good reason for rebuilding the property
 and putting 1t in first class condition, foi
 there wasn't enough traffic to warrant it. Everybody knew David had been bam-
 boozled, except David
 A few kindly persons told him plainly 1t was shame how the pious gentle
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JoW such a queer character as
 David ever came to be born into \ the McCullom family was a mys- tery. Three generations of the Mc- Culloms had been identified with the dry goods business of America. The first McCullom was hard work ing, hard headed, church going, precise gentleman. who followed a straight path and never deviated His household was conducted on rigid lines, and his sons and daughters were fashioned after him. And their sons and their daughters were like their parents. All the fourth gener- alton were of the true McCullom stripe except David.
 He was very fussy and fretful as an in- fant, perverse and hard to manage as a small boy and rebelllous and unruly as lad School had no attractions for him. He scandalized his father and family gen. erally by going fishing on Sunday instead of going to Sunday school; was wildly excited over anything in the nature of a street parade OF band; wouldn't mend his ways in spite of corporal punishment or pleading, and preferred the companion
 
 ters to the refined, if rather suited, so- ciety of his own family circle He was tow headed, obstinate, careless and indif- ferent to anything and everything except that which appealed to his own desires.
 If he had been a rovable, kindly boy he would have had a fair number of apologists-but he wasn't He was rather selfish, indifferent to the rights of others, fidgety, fretful and almost boorish Prob ably he never knew how much of trial he was to his straight laced father, or how much he was responsible for the gray hairs and the wrinkles that came early in that stern mans life. Regularity, decorum and conventionality were articles of faith to the tribe of, McCnllom, but not to David.
 For some years the father hoped against hope that when David arrived at an age of discretion his character would change It didn't. When he was about 16 the boy ran away with band of Nypsies. It was three months before his father got trace of him out In Ohio and brought him back home. Life with the gypsies didn't seem to cure David for a month later he fled again, this time in the wake of a troupe of negro minstrels. Once more his father had to send to bring him back. and once more he disappeared, this time with a faker who posed as an Indian doctor and sold
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fractory, mulish: unwilling to submit to any form of authority.
 Davids father never gave as much study to a business problem as he did to the case of his son. and never made less headway. He never could understand the boy and no one else did. Despairing of getting the young man to acquire an | education, he finally took him into his store. Few establishments were con ducted on more rigid, deeply rooted lines than the MeCullom dry goods business. The father put David behind the counter. It was no use. When a customer ap- preached him David would talk about | anything or everything except the goods that were for sale. He was a monoto- nous, tiresome talker. most inquisitive and pertinacious. One week as a sales man settled him. Then his father tried him in the office. Everything David did there he muddled. Not only that. but he exasperated the other clerks and drove some of them to the point of frenzy.
 MT. McCullom next used him as de- livery man. That was too commonplace for David and one day he fled--this time with a theatrical company of the bur lesque type, one of the members of which had caught the eye of David.
 For a church going, straight laced  forgivable. He washed his hands of David and announced he would have nothing more to do with his unregen- crate son. No one had g. good word for David, except his mother. She grieved and grieved. Occasionally she heard from David He was wandering around the country. managing somehow to make a living, happier, apparently, working with cheap show at some seaside resort or as street faker in New York or Chi cago than he would be at home. Up and down the country he travelled, lead ing a vagabond existence, sometimes pen nless, often hungry and rarely in funds, I but he never asked for money.
 | Then, one day his mother died. She never had given up hope of David and nearly everything she possessed she left to him. She had an independent fortune of nearly s2O0,00o She knew the other children would be well provided for by their father; probably she had doubts about David in that respect.
 When young man suddenly comes into lot of money, there usually are a fair number of persons willing, if not anxious, to assist him in getting rid of. it. When David got his s200,O00 he suddenly became sought after. His father unbent enough to give, some very~good and wholesome advice to him, which David listened to
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Honolulu to New York. This is by the way of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico, the freight being car ried across that isthmus by railroad. The company has some steamers of 12,900 tons each, and it is now carrying 3O0O00 tons of sugar a year.
 There are 10000 and 13,000 ton vessels which ply regularly between San Fran cisco and Honolulu and some of the big gest gray hounds of the Pacific, the Pa cific Mail Steamship company and the Toyo Risen Kaisha stop at Honolulu on their way to and from Japan. There are also number of sailing vessels which go from Hawaii down around South America and thence to New York and Europe. and there are many tramp steam CTS which call at the islands.
 Health and the Lepers
 The government has done much to i'm prove the health of the islands. They now have a bureausof health, which spent last year more than s13000 and there is a sanitary commission which will reorganize Honolulu as to it's sewerage and drainage. There are district physicians who make house to house inspection to keep track of the sick. During the past year they have made 5OO0 visits and filled 10000 pre- scriptions. They received 6000 and exam ined 15.000 school children.
 A campaign Is being made against tu- berculosis and the United States is car rying on leprosy investigation which may result in the finding of a cure for this dread disease. They have discovered the bacillus which produces leprosy and have noculated monkeys, rabbits. guinea pigs, white rats and horses with it. So far only the monkeys have taken it, and this is said to be the first time that ft has been developed in any other animal than man. They are now experimenting with a horse serum as an antitoxin.J
 On MOIOkai
 Tn addition to the leper colony on the island of Molokai the government has norv receiving hospital for lepers at Honolulu
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and on the island itself 1t is adopting a new policy as 10 the treatment of lepers. In the past it has been customary to re- gard them as outcasts. They arc now considered as patients and treated like other human beings. There are $50 lepers in the hospital, of whom five-sixths are Hawaiians and the most of the remainder Portuguese and Chinese.
 The leper settlement is on a tongue of land comprising several square miles on the Island of Mololai. The lepers have a colony of their own, and this Is a com plete community of itself. bis much like the leper colony of the Philippine Islands in that 1t has It's own magistrate and po- lice and it's social and business life. It has churches, debating clubs, baseball grounds and race track. There are two bands and a moving picture theatre. In the colony are four large institutional homes. One is for males, another for fe- males, a third for hopeless cases and a fourth is a nursery for the children. There are also about 200 other buildings, consisting of machine shops. storerooms and detached cottages occupied by lepers Among the schools of Honolulu are some for non-leprous children whose parents are lepers.
 Sugar and Labor
 Some of the big questions of the future in the Hawaiian Islands have to do with the labor question. This Is based on the sugar plantations. which are enormously rich. but. which require cheap labor to handle them. There are few spots upon earth that produce sugar like the low lands and valleys of this Sandwich group. The area is not large, but the crop last year amounted to more than a billion pounds, or enough to give every man, woman and child in the United States a pound of sugar d month all the year through and leave some to spare.
 The sugar plantations of Hawaii all be- long to rich corporations and trusts. There are altogether 65 companies, most of them chartered under the laws of California. The stock is held by 1000 persons. some
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Such Is Life

From the Pittsburg Post.
 ''Did you ever think of what you. would do if you were rich?' inquired the Wood street wonder.
 sage.
 But did you ever figure that you would make some friend manager of your vast estates, and then find out that the un- grateful wretch had been going around describing you as a mere dreamerf'
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nes have been advertised and compara- lively few have been taken.
 The officials say that there are possibll- ities in the islands in the raising of cof- fec rice and bananas. and there is no doubt that money may be made in tns pineapple industry. which Is rapidly grow ing. The exports for tho last year were something like 60O,0Oo cases and they will be s00,000 in 1912 Among other industries which bid fair to pay well are tobacco and cotton, but the main profits will always come from the sugar, and this as I have said. is in the hands of the rich.
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have all modern facilities for the handling of freight. A very important work is that which is going on at Pearl harbor.
 The general board of the army and navy has declared thatthis place should be made a naval base, and plans have been prepared which will involve the spending | of $10000,000 in improving 1t. There are to be also posts and fortifications which are to cost $4,000, eco more, and altogether we shall erect little Gibralta away out there in the middle of the Pacific. The islands have already been made a separate mill- tary district, and a general officer has been assigned to the troops stationed there. We are putting in a huge dry dock at Pearl harbor, and connected with it will be repair shops for our gunboats and other vessels of war.
 The opening of the canal will greatly h. crease the importance of these islands as the metropolis of the middle Pacific They lie, you know. at the crossway of the main travelled routes of that ocean. They are 2l00 miles from San Francisco and about 5000 from the east coast of Asia. They are 400 miles from the western end of the Panama canal, 3S00 miles from New Zealand, 34OO miles from Japan and about 2400 from Seattle or Vancouver. They are the half way house to almost anywhere in the Pacific and their future trade will be enormous.
 Better Shipping Facilities
 As it is the transportation facilities have increased since We took possession. There are now Is steamers which go regularly from island to island, and they carry sev- eral hundred thousands tons of freight every year. There is a big traffic be- tween the United States. Australia and Mexico and there are many vessels which call at Hawaii on their way to and from Japan and China. This Is so of our Transports en route to the Philippines and also of the Canadian vessels bound for New Zealand and the Fitis.
 The American Hawaiian Steamship company has now a freight line from
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-01-11

Franz Weisbrod, Vice Presi-
dent and Manager of the Union
Mortgage Co, became suddenly
il Monday night with an at
tack Of appendicitis and was
taken on a stretcher to the train
en- route for Amarillo where he
win receive medical attention.
Nh. and Bert Curless return
ed Monday from Oklahoma City
where they have been visiting
r.. M. Holt and wife.
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Notice Of Contest

Serial No. o224 Contest
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Contastoe
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never maintoineaa residence OF nor cultivated
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hou are thetqiofe tnilaef notinea tnat lne
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Notice Of Contest.

Serial No. 0749i. Contest 7l9.
To Irank M~uldowney, Of Clovis. n. NJ, Con-
testce.
Yoa hra hereby notified that Howard w.
johnson who gives Clay Center. Nebraska. az his
poaio7hce address,. did on April 20. 1911 file IN
this office bis duly corroborated application to
contest and secure the cancellation Of sour
Homestead entry serial NO. 0749i made January
range Fast NJ. T. Meridian, and as
grounds Tor his contest ne alleges that said
frnnh Mu ownev has never at any time estah-
ishei bis re idsnce ON said land.
You Gre. therefore, further notified that the
saia allegations win be taken By this Office as
having hHHn contested by you. and your said
entry 1851 N9 cancelled hereunder without your
iurtaEr right tQ.be heard therein, either before
fhis Office ar On appeal if you fail 70 file IN this
orce witnin twenty days after the FOURTH
publication pt tna notice, as shown below, your
answer. under oath, specifically Meeting and
respond uH % those allegations Of contest, or If
yon fait within that time to hle in this Office
due proof that you have served a cory Of
your ansWer0n the said contestant either in
person or by rogistored mail. If this service Is
mado bv Che delivery Of Gcopy of your an
service must Be either the said contestant s
written acknowledgment Of his receipt Of the
copy. shoving the date Of its receipt, or the ati-
davit of the person BY whom the delivery WAS
made stating when and whore the cory was de-
liyered; IL made by registered rail, proof Of such
service must consist Of the affidavit of the person
by whomthe copy was mailed stating when and
the postodice to whichit was mailed. and this
affidavit must be accompanied by the post
master's recatps for the letter.
You should STATE In your answer the name Of
tha post office 10 which you desire future no
teas to be sent to You,
Arthur r.. Curren. Register.
Date Of FIRST publication. December "A. 1911
second Deeember n, lsil
fourth Jan. 4. 1912
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NoTIca coz PUaLIoATIoN.


NWT TI-T |ITTN7
Department Of the interior. United States Land
Office. ut. summer. N d.. Nov. Is. 1911.
Notice IS hereby aivan that Charles H. We5tkaH
Of Clovis N. M. who on March %, 1910 made
homestead entry sor. N0.0T8le for So section IL
township q NJ. n. 90 70. N. ~, p. Meridian has
filed notice Of intention 70 make final communication
proof to establish claim 20 the lam above
deerlbod before r, f. Rowells. Probate Judge,
Curry county, NJ. N. in his Office at Clovis. N. N.
on the 9th day Of January 1919.
Claimant names as Witnesses
Joseph p. Lutes. William stuber, both Of
Claud. N. M. and Arrie F.. Stephenson.
George NJ. Gurley, both Of Clovis, new Mexico
nso j. Arthur e. Ourren. Register.
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Non coal land.
Department Of the Interior. II s land o1ipc at
Fort 81 mner. N. N. December %. 1911
Notice Is hereby given chat Ida Woodward.
of Claud. NJ. M, who on May 9. 1910. made
II. p ser. No 0808l for northeast quarter,
aec{ion rs township A North range S6 east M.
N. p. Meridian has filed notice Of intention
to make final communication proof to estab-
llsh claim TO land above described before
VIM. } Curren u S Commissioner Ia his office
at Clovis. MN. on the TIN day of February 1872.
Claimant names as Witnesses.
Francis M. Rose. Roscoe Smith. both %
Haag. N. NJ, Luther r. Carnes, Augusta Kos
both Of Claud. N. NJ.
Arthur ~. Currer.
Reglster.
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Al he Chrgtian Church.

"a large congregation listened
to d very interesting sermon at
the Christian church last Sunday
night. Brother Rose expounded
in a very impressive way Shell
don's book I'm His Steps" He
was aided by his Stereoptican
views, and the story was one
which affected deeply the feel
ings Of all, as twas impaired to
them. All who have read this
book are familiar with the lesson
it teaches. What would Jesus
NO"
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Notice for Publication


Department Of che Interior. u. g lnnd Offices al
Fort Summer. N. M. Dec. %, 1911.
Notice is hereby given that Andrew y Osborn.
west quarter section 30 township o north range
81 East new Mexico Principal Meridian has filed
notice Of intention % make final computation
ribbed before w. J. Currou. 81. s.. Commits.
sioner in his Office at Clovil. M. M. on the tth
dav Of February 1919.
Claimant names az Witnesses
Joseph A. Mccormick, Oscar T. McCofmict.
John w Stanford, Ell Of Navener IN. N.
William u. Reed OF Biaektower. ~. NJ
Arthur 70. Curfcn. Register.
il-f8
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-01-11

M. Boyle, president of the
American Bank and Trust co.,
returned the latter part of last.
week from 81 business "trip to
Paso and Albuquerque. Mr.
Boyle says he found the wea-
ther colder upon his return
home last week than be expe-
While visiting our neigh
boring cities.
Jewel Kimberliu, our hustling.
merchant went TO Portales
Tuesday en- business.
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In THE PROBATE Court OF
CURRY COUNTY NEW MEXICO
IN THE MATTER OF A. r.
LEMOINE. DECEASED.

Notice is hereby given, that
letters of administration on the
estate of A.. R. LeMoine, deceas-
ed, were granted to the under
signed by the probate court, of
Curry County, New Mexico on
the End day Of January A. D 1912.
All persons having claims
against said estate are required
to exhibit the same to the I'M
dersigned at his cfiee in Clovis,
New Mexico for allowance. with
in one year after the date Of
this publication with necessary
vouchers, or they will be for
ever precluded from any bene-
fit of said estate, or said claims
may be flied in said Probate
Court.
Dated this End day Of January
A. D, 1912.
B.. D. Oldham,
j4-1S Administrators.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION


NTT|-T-T T-ITT9
Department az the Interior, u. S. Land Office
at ri. Sumner H.. NJ. November J8. 1911.
Notice Is hereby given that Mary W. Williams.
Of Clovis, N. NJ, who, on Oct 2, 1905 nude
homestead entry serial No. O3667 for SEA
section s township north range 81 east. New
M. p. meridian. has flied notice Of intention TO
make final hve-year proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before William J,
Curron. III. s. Commissioner. at his ofiet IN Clio
Wis. NJ. M. OF. the 9Th day Of January 1912.
Claimant names az witnesses;
John Boppenmeyer. James D.. Looper, both Of
Clovis. N. d. Alpheus P. Powell, Harry
BirdsaIl. both OF Blacktower. N. M.
a. r. Currens Register. NS0-J5
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Notice for PubIieation.
Non-eoal land.

Non-coal land.
Department Of the interior, US land office at
FtSumnsr. December 40 1911.
Notice ia hereby given that George w. Black
Of Clovis N M. who on Jan, Ia. 1907
made homestead entry. serial number os8sl for
as-stauaater0 section township north
thge 80 81, New Mexico Principal meFidian
he's filed notice Of intention to make hnal hfe
wear proof to establish claim TO Che land
above described before Wm. j. curren. United
states Commissioners n his Office az Clovis
New Mexico on the e2nd day Of January 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses;
DavidW. Nicholas, Abort 3. Daniels Waiter
G. owen. Daniel L. Move. an Of Clovis. New
Mexico.
d2l-i25 Arthur ~ curren Register
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Compare your proof notice
with your papers. Look them
over each week. as type some
times drops out. We'rs careful
as we can be, but four eyes are
better than two. OF course the
serial number will be new you
must trust us for that
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Notice For Publication.
NOTICE. FoR PUBLICATION.

Non I01I Land
Department Of Che Interior, Ut. s. and Ofhse
1T tt, Sunner. M. M November rs, 1911.
Notice B hereby given that George y. Wastfall
oi Cows ~. M.. who on Jan, 18, 1906, made
u. % NO. 0lA6 for southeast quarter section
l7 township 4 north rauga Sc east. New
Mexico P Metidian has al8d notice Of intentl0n
tn make anal Communication proof, to aatahllah
ciaim 10 the land above described, before h, -
RaWaiia. probate judge CUGE County at
Clovig, d. M., on the Sch day Of January 1912.
Claimant names AZ Witnessed
ArTia ~ Stephenson. Fred W. james, both Of
Clovis, ~. M, and william stuber. Of Chud.
.N. NJ. Henry Holt. 81 ToEioo. N. ~.
u32-i6 Arthur p. cufrea. Register