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The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-02-22
Notice Of Contest.
serIal M 800. contest lO35.

Serial No.055gL. Contest 1925.
Department Of the Interior, United States
Land Office. Fort Sumner N. NJ, February ?.
10 ~.
johannes ID. Shaw Of Texico. N. NJ. Contestee.
You are herebynotifed that Rowena J. Sober.
who gives Johnson. Arkansas. as his post-onico
address, did on January II. 1912. file In this office
his duly eorroborated applicat % to contest and ae-
cure the cancellation Of your homestead. entry
No. Serial No. o5597 made June 3. 1905. for NE
Ia Section %. Township 4 north. Range SO east.
MN P. Meridian. and as grounds for his contest
be alleges that the said james D.. shaw never as.
tabi1hed residence upon the land or cultivated or
Improved same. That entry was made for pur-
poses Of speculation. and that ontryman has who'll
y and totally abandoned same Tor a period Of
more than three years last past.
Yoa are. Therefore. further notified that the
ud allegations will ba taken By ai1 once g
baviuG hsen confessed BY YOU, and your said
fuRthar right TO be heard therein, either before
thD odiee on on appeal u YOU fail 20 ME ID this
slco within twenty days after tho tbuMiH
publication Of this notice az shown below. your
aaoWor, under oath. specifically meeting and
Hnr1adinr 10 thas8 allegations Of contest. or ~
IVA lal within that time 70 Ale Ga this Office
gc1r answered. ire said contestant either in
nUGon or BY registered mnA, IL this service Ia
oate BY the delivery q acopy Of your an
anguor 10 the contestant IN person. proof Of such
orFgfca must DO alth2r Che said contestant q
written acknowledgement 81 BE receipt of the
9DR ohowinG the data o. ita receipt q the adi-
dawn al The neraon bg whom the delivery was
mado stating when and whore the copy was de-
ugwod. II made BY Registered mail. proof Of such
r1rco must cou1i1t Of the aliuavtt OF the person
~ whom the copy was mailed stating when aud
ttaNo8tomos 10 which it was mailed. and this
aNtNaglt must DO accompanied by the post
nrtrT'a receipt Tor the letter.
.0t should otato 10 your anRWcT the name Of
.hN Cr1t oAco % which you desire future no.
ucI 10 BE- sent % you.
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The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-02-22

W"WWW ANWM 20 AMa
Santa Fe, N. NJ, Feb, IL.
The recent ruling Of the general
land Office 10 Washington regard
ing he necessity of FIVE years
actual residence on the home
stead IN order Co prove up, does
away with The six months CON
structive residence which has
heretofore been accepted where
the claimant went upon the land
in good faith and established
residence on the land within six
months after the date of his en-
try.
The rule now is to date the
residence from the date of actual
bona fde residence, and not from
the date of entry as heretofore,
and the claimant and witness
must show actual residence on
the land as Z home for FIVE years
exclusive Of absences or a leave
of absence.
In the case of Communication
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-02-22

Arthur 2 Curren. ReelsIsr.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-02-22

Arthur e curron Register
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
POLITICAL.

The Republican party OF New York
state in convention at Rochester de
clared for the nomination of President
Taft and adopted a resolution urging
the states delegation to the national
convention to vote to that end
Winners in the Illinois preferential
advisory and direct primary elections,
as indicated by sufficient returns to
warrant prediction are as follows
For President: Theodore Roosevelt,
Republican; Champ Clerk, Democrat.
For United States Senator: l.. Y.
Sherman, Republican,: James Hamil.
ton Lewis. Democrat (uncontested)
For Governor: Charles s. Deneen. Re-
publican; Edward F. Dunno, Democrat
Colonel Roosevelt's state managers
claim this majority over President
Taft is from 100000 to 100000. Re
turns Indicate his vote was nearly s
to 2. Presidential delegates were not
named on the ballots and will be elect
ed by congressional districts and at
large, as without the primary, the ef-
feet of this vote being only to serve
as guide to party officials in indi-
eating party feeling.
Secret service officers have begun q
hunt for registered package contain
ing $4,000. which is said to have been
lost. or stolen. somewhere betv eon
Chicago, ILL.,, and Pasadena. Calf
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
Aid for the Farmers.

Akron-The farmers of Eastern
Colorado look favorably upon the prop
osition of the Denver Chamber Of
Commerce Investment Company,
whereby they may secure loans for
seed through investing in the com
pany. is shown in report of C A.
Johnson. who. with w. w. Griswold
and J. A. valentine, as representatives
of the company, visited Roggen and
Akron recently. If the results of their
trip are any criterion, says Mr.. John
son, the 100000 fund the company
proposes to raise will be Forthcoming.
The plan of the company, which is
affiliated with the Denver Chamber of
Commerce, is to advance not exceed
ing $50 to each farmer who invests 10
per cent of that amount or more in
the company. At Roggen arrangements
for such loans aggrcgating $1,000 were
made on this basis.
About 100 farmers attended meet
ing here and 5000 worth of stock IN
the company was subscribed. This is
payable in cash. Mr.. Johnson says the
active and generous response accorded
the committee in the first two towns
visited presages the success of the
loan movement.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
People Flee From, Floods.

Washington. The arrival of the
crest of the Mississippi flood has
driven 100000 people in Louisiana and
Arkansas from their homes. according
to kilograms to the War Department.
OF these 100000 are destitute and re-
lief has been sent. bringing the num-
ber of flood victims now being cared
for by the army to $4,000.
Secretary Stimson conferred with
President Taft on the flood situation
and 1t was determined to ask Con-
gress to appropriate s50O.000 for spe-
cial relief work. The Red Cross will
shortly issue a national appeal for
money to conduct Sanitary survey
of the flood district after the water
has receded. A scourge of typhoid is
feared.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
WASHINGTON.

The estimated wealth of the United
States is 125.OOO. 100000.
Secretary of War Stimson will soon
begin distributing to the national
guard of the country the new auto
matte pistol recently adopted.
The Senate committee on public
health ordered favorably reported
Senator Owens bill to create nation
al department of public health.
Joseph Sellwood, an ore mine expert
of Duluth, told the House steel inves-
tigating committee that the Lake Su-
perior ore region contains 1,400 ,000, 900
tons of available ore, of which about
550,O0O,O00 tons, excluding the Hill
lease ores. are controlled by the Unit
ed States steel corporation.
Government supervision of cotton
and grain exchanges as the result of
violent fluctuations in prices of COM
modities and as a safeguard against
speculation and gambling was pro-
posed by w. B. Thompson, former
president of the New Orleans Stock
Exchange, before the House commit
tee
General debate on the postoffice ap-
preparation bill has closed and when
1t is taken up for amendment the real
assault on its provisions will begin. 1t
is expected the fight on the proposed
inauguration of a parcels post system
will mark the beginning of a bitter
debate to amend many of the bills
provisions.
The senators of Virginia and West
Virginia have begun movement to
require the government to account to
the thirteen original states for the
money received from the sale of
Northwest Territory, although a cen
tury has passed since the territory
was given by Virginia to the federal
government.
The Senate passed the army appro
priation bill carrying s95,314,71O, or
$7.570.45 more than the bill carried
when it passed the House and $2,726,-
925 more than last years appropriation.
Senator Warren said the increase had
been made necessary by the economy
wave which swept over Congress last
year and Caused unwarranted reduc-
tions.
The Indignation of State Depart
ment officials over the execution of
Thomas Fountain. the American gun
ner who was captured by the rebels
at Parral, Mexico. is believed to be cer-
tain to prejudice any attempt on the
part of the rebels to secure any rec
ognition of belligerent rights, so nee
sary to successful conduct of their
campaign.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
Minor Mention.

Pueblo is holding Home Industries
week.
Gov. shafroth has purchased an au-
tomobile.
Capt. John ]. Harris, one OF Boul-
der's best known pioneer mining men.
is dead.
Ground has been purchased in
Longmont for the new $4,000 pea
hulling plant.
Frank Wallace died at Evans from a
peculiar disease thought to be tuner
culosis OF the brain.
Meeker is to have more fire protec-
tion, which will reduce insurance rates
and give residents a feeling of secur-
ity.
For the first time this season, wa
ter is running into the Latham reser-
voir at La Sale, through the Union
ditch.
Having given $50 to the high scl,col
piano fund, the Evans improvement
Society will now buy fire alarm for
the city.
Telephone communication between
Denver and nearly every point in the
state was seriously effected by the re-
cent windstorm.
Members of the new town board
have decided on three saloons for
Evans. it is said. and that the licenses
of each shall be $4,000 annually.
Lee Hardesty OF Fowler. president
of the Hardesty Ditch & Irrigation
Company. was instantly killed in an
auto accident near Fowler.
Shade trees for Milliken is the slo-
gan of the Commercial Club and hun
dreds of trees will be set out provided
water rights can be secured.
Dressed meat prices In Denver rose
another 10 per cent recently, making
total advance of nearly 25 per cent
over quotations two weeks ago.
The state can invest public school
funds in irrigation bonds only as an
original purchaser, under an opinion
of Attorney-General Ben Griffith.
At Fort Collins Robert Langford
ence T. White, Denver railroad man,
who was stabbed to death on Dec. 5.
The two-story hotel at Buena Vista
Hot Springs. five miles west of Buena
Vista. was completely destroyed by
fire. entailing loss of about $4,000.
Colorado women. members of the
Daughters of the War of 1872, are
making preparations for celebrating
on September IL. the one-hundredth
anniversary of that memorable con-
flict
Preliminary steps toward the erec-
.tion of a new church were taken re-
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
SPORT.

Sam Langford. the American heavy
weight, defeated Sam McVey of Cali
fornia in twenty-round fight, on
points. at Sydney. N. S. W.
Packey Mcfarland has received an
offer of $4,000 guarantee to fight
Matt Wells. British lightweight cham
pion, at Madison Square Garden, N.
Y. April 90. Mcfarland has the priv
ilege of accepting the cash guarantee
or taking twenty-five per cent of all
receipts.
Since Jack Curley's last visit to Las
Vegas. N. NJ, recently. it has been no
secret among those in position to
know that the Meadow city of the new
state has been selected as the definite
site of the battle on July between
Jack Johnson, present champion of
the world. and Jim Flynn, the Colo
RADIO aspirant for the premier honors.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
News Summary of the Past Week

The crop reporting board of the
bureau of statistics, United States De-
partment Of Agriculture, estimates,
from the reports of correspondents and
agents of the bureau. that the average
condition of winter wheat on April 1
was S0.6 per cent of normal. against
s3.3 on April 1, 1911; sos on April 1.
1910, and S6.1, the average condition
for the past ten years on April 1. rhe
average condition of rye on April 1
was s7.9 per cent of normal, against
1913 on April l. 1911; 92.3 on Apri IL,
1910. and S9.s, the average condition
for the past ten years on April 1.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
WESTERN.

A fire In the warehouse district IN
the southern part of Butte, Mont,
caused loss of more than $1.000,000.
Women. of Excelsior. Mimi. are
planning. II necessary, to keep the VII
lage dry" to purchase the saloon IL
lenses at $1,000 each.
The Boston mine of the UtaR Cop
per Company, at Bingham, Utah. has
shut down, as the result of walk
out of $50 miners and muckers.
Believing women should have a
hand in running municipalities. the
town board. Milliken. Colo, has ap-
pointed Lossie Wheaton town treas
urer
In battle In Bishop. CAL. between
Chinaman and town officers. Con-
stable Reed and the Chinaman were
killed and Marshal Douglas Robinson
was wounded.
Engineer John Adams of Ottumwa,
Iowa, was buried beneath his engine
in 28 feet of water, in Cones lake. near
Muscatine, and his fireman, John Mori-
arty, was fatally injured.
move to bond the state OF Wash
ington to the extent of S15.000.000 Tor
the construction of a system of high
ways was set afoot at Seattle by a
gathering of business men from all
parts of the state.
An American newspaper man who
returned to Ell Paso from Parral. Mex.
with 1874 American and other foreign
refugees from the battle-swept dis
trict, brought news of the execution
Of Thomas Fountain of Las Cruces. N.
NJ, by the rebels.
Miss Clara Barton. founder of the
American Red Cross Society. died at
her home in Glen Echo. Maryland. The
cause was chronic pneumonia, With
which she was stricken about year
ago. Her brother. Stephen Barton OF
Boston, was with her. Miss Baitcn
was born at oxford Massachusetts,, In
1921.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
convIcts Do Good Road work.

Fort Collins-The report of the
superintendent of the convict road
gang at work on Pingree hill for the
last three months has been made to
the county commissioners. The total
cost of construction of 5000 feet of
road was $1,000. The lowest bid re-
ceived by the commissioners for this
work by contractors was $3.100, and
the next lowest $4.100. The work
done by the convicts is satisfactory,
they having constructed one of the
best stretches of road in Larimer
county.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
TWENTY HURT
IN TRAIN WRECK
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIMITED RUNS
INTO DEFECTIVE SWITCH
NEAR PUEBLO.
OLD SOLDIER WILL Die
TEN VICTIMS WE'RE ONE FAM.
ILy-PATIENTs RUSHED
TO HOSPITAL.
western Newspaper Union News Services.

Pueblo, Colo.-Twenty-thre passen-
gers Of the Rocky Mountain Limited,
the Rock Islands crack train from
Chicago. had a miraculous escape from
suden death when the train struck a
defective switch at Cuba. fourteen
miles north of here. Twenty passen-
gers were injured. ten being members
OF one family. One is fatally hurt and
others may die.
The train was running at the rate
OF fifty miles an hour when the wreck
occurred. The engine. combination
mail and smoking car had passed safe
Iy over the switch when the derail-
ment occurred. The chair car broke
loose from the train at the top of n
forty-foot cmbankment and turned
over twice before landing almost clear
of the right-of-way. The Pullman sleep
er was dragged some distance but re-
mained upright on the track at the
edge of high trestle.
None of the trainmen was injured
The locomotive remained upright and
Conductor Thomas ]. Edwards had
just left the chair car. The wreck oc-
CURED on the Rio Grande tracks used
by the Rock Island between Colorado
Springs and Pueblo There is no sta
tion at this point, but members of the
train crew walked to Bragdon, San
ia Fe station two miles away. AMI
sent word Of the wreck to Pueblo doc
tors. A relief train bearing doctors
and nurses was rushed out of this city
and brought the injured to hospitals.
All passenger traffic was then di-
verted over the Santa Fe. but at a
late hour the Rock Island tracks were
reported to have been cleared.
Mrs. William X. Green and three
children were enroute from Kansas
City to join Mr. Green in Pueblo. He
was at the Union station waiting for
them when word of the wreck came
He rushed for the relief train and hur-
ried to the scene of the wreck to find
to his intense relief that all were un-
injured among his family, although
they had sustained slight bruises
Another narrow escape was that OF
the Thomas Grier family of Ogden,
Utah. consisting of mother. father and
eight children who were seated in
little family group in the chair car
when 1t went over the embankmen.
Every member OF the family was in.
tured.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
price Of Alfalfa Goes High.

Rocky Ford. Colo.-With hay at SIS
a ton In the stack and very little to
be had 1t is a serious question as to
where the price will go before the
first crop of alfalfa will be ready to
market Owing to the fact that so
many alfalfa mills are being put up in
the valley II is predicted that the
prices will never be as low as in for
mer years. as the mills will take all
that they can get at a reasonable price
and the farmers who some years have
had hard work in disposing of their
supply will not be bothered in the fu
ture.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

Gently at the annual meeting of the
ST. Marks Episcopal Parish in Den
ver
The Brighton school board has
called an election for May / on the
question of issuing $25.000 in bonds
for the erection of high school build
ing.
Among the finest deposits of brick
clay to be found In the state are those
on the north side of the Arkansas riv-
er. some five or six miles from Rocky
Ford
There are about twenty cases OF
smallpox within the limits of Lafay-
ette, and the officials are considering
closing the schools and stopping all
public meeting
For the fourth time within the last
two months. Frank Perry. an Italian
truck gardener OF Grand Junction, re-
ceived a letter signed with a black
hand demanding the payment of ST.
O00
One more railroad station near Den
yer will be added to the Union Pacif-
les map. 1t. will be known at Roys
Crossing. near Aurora. and the Union
Pacific has agreed to build depot
there.
One hundred and fifty gypsies, who
have been living in three small ter
races in Denver for more than a week,
will be made the subject of investi-
cation by State Humane Officer Nor
ton David.
Aviation has been made part OF
the course of studies of the signal
corps of the Colorado national guard,
and with two Curtiss graduates as in
structors the members are preparing
to become experts.
Taxpayers of Weld county have al
ready paid half of the 100000 to be
collected in taxes this year. There IS
100000 to be collected in the county
before December, but 100000 of this
is taxes in irrigation districts.
George Richter, an old-time and at
Gone time leader in the politics of
ant position in Washington under
President Hayes, G1ed In Victor from
an overdose of laudanum.
1t is said that the town of Cripple
Creek and the Cripple Creek Water
Company will drop their protests
against the passage by Congress Of
the Colorado Springs Manitou lard
bill, and that Victor alone is pushing
it's objections.
II. F. Bedford, secretary of the
Platteville Commercial Club, sent
sixty pounds of garden seed donated
to needy farmers in the northeastern
part of the county.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
FOREIGN.

The minting of Canadian s5 and $40
gold pieces viii begin soon. The only
gold circulating at present is coined
by the United States.
Rebel forces were routed from the
city of Jojutla. Morelos. Mexico, an
important commercial center. and 500
OF their number were killed in the bat
tie, according to dispatches made pub
lie at the Department OF the Interior.
at Mexico City.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
GEN ERAL.

A premature explosion of dynamite
in the Kramer zinc mine at Joplin,
Mo-, killed Fred Odin and Samuel Sta
ley.
The Republican national convention
which will meet in Chicago June 18th
will have total membership of 1,O7O
delegates.
Ten cents bushel advance in the
price of wheat in Chicago told of the
worst crop scare in the United States
since 1907.
The abnormal weight of $50 pounds
attained by Abraham Sodekson or
Boston, Mass. caused his death. He
was twenty-six.
Three hundred men, women and
children and fifteen priests were
thrown twelve feet into a struggling
mass when church floor collapsed at
Harrington Park. N. ].
Major General Frederick D. Grant,
son of the famous general of the Civil
War, and himself commander of the
Department of the East. died at the
Hotel Buckingham In New York.
The Mississippi levee for miles
in the vicinity Of vicksburg, Miss,
presents a wierd scene. Fires made
of driftwod dot the embankment on
which refugees are roasting carcasses
Of beeves for food.
Another serious break has occurred
in the levees of the Atchafalaya river
and considerable section of the low
lands of st. Landry and st. Martin
parishes. Louisiana, are inundated. Ac-
cording to reports, no lives have been
lost there.
By a majority of more than $4,000
out of $4,000 votes cast, locomotive
engineers on fifty railroads east of Chi.
cago and north of the Norfolk & West
ern have authorized a strike, should
further negotiations with the railroads
for increased pay fail.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
Metals.

New York-Standard copper, easier;
spot $15.371a@15.50; April, $15.450
1850; May. $15.47h @15.55; June,
$15.47h@15.60; July, s15.47h@15.70;
Lake copper. $16.O0@16.25; electro
lytic. SIG; casting. s15.50@15.75.
Tin, easy; spot. s43.OO@43.25; April.
$42.75@43.25; May. s42.50@43 30;
June, s42.35@42.S71s; July. $42.37h@
42.62h; August. s42.00@42.50.
Lead, easy; s415@42O; New York.
$4.121s @4.171a east st. Louis.
Spelter. dull, s6.60@6.S0; New York,
$3.50 bid East st. Louis.
Antimony-Ouite; Cookson's $500.
Locally iron is steady. No. 1 foun-
dry northern, s15.25@15.75; No. 2.
s14.75 415.25 No. ! southern and No.
southern soft, s15.25@15.75.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
cueoenheIm Ask, for Money.

Washington = Senator Guggenheim
offered an amendment to the agri-
cultural appropriation. appropriating
100000 to enable the Secretary OF
Agriculture to purchase additional
supplies of seed for farmers in droath
districts. Also an amendment to tne
sundry civil appropriation bill apnro-
priating 100000 for the completion OF
the Denver public building and $25.0o0
for the Greeley building.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
Violates Gambling Laws.

Trinidad-Alleging that he had lost
$3.50 while playing roulette in a lnsal
saloon, Stewart f. Todd filed inlorna-
ton with the district attorney and
caused a warrant to be issued for the
arrest of the saloon proprietor for TO-
lation of the gambling laws.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
Express messenger Dies In Car.

Colorado Springs-E. A. Larson Of
Denver. messenger for the Globe Ex-
press Company. was found dead in mis-
car at Castle Rock. when the Rio
Grande passenger train reached that
point. Death was due to heart failure.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
w..tern New.paper union New. SERVED.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.
April democratic State Convention.
Colorado Springs.
May s.iI.-state Y. NJ. C. A. Convention.
Pueblo.
June 1B-20.--Stato Sunday School Con-
vention. Colorado Springs.
June 11-July 19.--Summer Term. State
Teachers College. Greeley.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19

The quasi-official relation which by
force of circumstances have existed
between Marion Letcher. United States
consul at Chihuahua, Mexico, and
Gen. Pascual Orozco, commander of
the rebel forces, were broken when
Orozco formally notified Mr.. Letcher
that he no longer recognizes the ,at-
ter in an official capacity.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
Federal Expert Coming.

Boulder.-Paul Raymond of this
city has received a letter from the
government that it Will send an ex-
pert to Colorado early In the summer
to examine the district which is in
tended to include in the Estes Nation
al park.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
Dairy Expert Buys Ranch.

Kersey.-C. H. Hinman. the dairy
expert of the State Agricultural col
lege, has purchased what is known as
the Reyes ranch one-half mile east of
here for $10,500. He will develop It
and make 1t into a model dairy ranch.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-04-19
Wind Plays Freak Trick.

Greeley-Of the many freaks
played by the wind, that which lifted
the nest of setting hen made in an
empty cracker box and deposited it.
hen and thirteen eggs. on the top of a
rural mail delivery box, quarter OF
mile away. was the strangest.