The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-04-22
|. |. kL|NEFELTER, VET.
ERAN EDITOR, DIES
SUDDENLY

.
cd for Obar, Quay county. and every
town in the county when it was ne
cessary, passed into eternal sleep last
Friday morning after serious i'll
ness of only few days duration. Tor
some time be had been troubled with
his stomach and on Wednesday suf-
fered considerably. He was again at
tackled by severe pains on Thursday
and was accompanied to Tucumcari
by Mr.. Berlin that night and placed
in the Physicians Hospital. On ar
rival here he seemed to improve, hut
during the night. however, he was at.
tackled again and never recovered,
passing away at four o'clock.
We know very little Of Uncle Klincs
past life, but we understand he was
once well-to-do financially, and for
merly lived in the state Of Iowa,
where he held responsible Offices, one
OF them being county school superin-
tendent, at one time he was editor Of
a farm paper and became quite
writer. For reasons best known to
Uncle Kline he left Iowa and landed
in Oklahoma with less than n dollar
in money and piece of lead pencil
He persuaded some business men in
one of the new towns there TO buy
presses and machinery with which to
run newspaper. He made good as
he always did, and after locating at
other points in that state he decided
to come to New Mexico and grow up
with the country. At the ripe old age
of 80 he took up the work of editing
n newspaper at the town of Perry.
now Obar, and has remained ever
since. He was live wire and will
be missed in that village as we'll rs
throughout the state of New MeXi.
co where his articles were clipped by
the large dailes and wceklies.
We wish to reprint Il letter he wrote
to Register Donohoo only few days
before his death in which he states
he was not feeling well but expected
soon to regain his usual health and
leave for an extended visit in the east
with the expectancy of boosting the
"soap-weed' industry, better known
~ the bear grass industry. He also
claims To have been the daddy of the
movement to make fiber out of bear
grass. The letter will explain itself
and is given in full here:
Obar, April Q, 1915
Friend Rome:
] am sorry to trouble you again
right after you accommodated me so
nicely in the matter Of Carl D's proof,
but here comes this Amos Pearcc mat
ter this morning, which find can he
squeezed through by the time | am
expecting to go away, ana so | will
explain II to you, feeling certain you
will do the best you can for me.
My health has been in such bum
condition that | must get away for
awhile, just as soon as | can count
on warm weather, which is about the
middle of May.
Now, about this notice. If ! can
get it back by Friday morning, April
10, can give it five insertions by May
ID, and then if the hearing was set
for May Is could get it all out of
the way that week.
| have been planning To take the
Sunday night train for Tucumcari and
ohhSt obN w wv btgN NllNlN
start on my trip east. So you see if it
can be arranged with your Office to
get the old mans proof out Of the way
by the 18th ! can make il all right.
One of the reasons ! am coming to
Tucumcari is to get material for a
write-up of the fiber industry and the
new works there for which ! have "A
request from big Chicago monthly
journal.
You see | am in Il sense the dad
dy" of that Tucumcari plant. because
that whole business has grown out
OF sample bale of soapwced ! pur-
chased from old man Hackerott about
year ago and shipped to parties in
Chicago for trial purposes. They
sent IL to the factory with which Mr..
Raymond was connected and these
people after experimenting, ordered
two ear loads and later twenty cars
from Obar.
had nothing to do with the bust
ness except getting it started. The
rest has come about of itself, SO feel
some how, that ! am not asking too
much of the Tucumcar folks when |
ask favor once in while as in this
Pearce case.
II I get this notice by Friday, Apr
10 and the hearing is set for May l5
will thank you thousand times.
Yours truly,
l.. l.. Klinefelter
The foregoing letter will show that
Kline did not realize he was in dan.
gerous condition and was full of hope
for chance to go east and regain
his health, at the same time boost tn,
bear grass and other industries of Oui
new state.
Uncle Kline was friend to tn,
printer and every time he came L
town he was sure to have pocke
full of cigars for the printers anC
did not pass anyone by. He did no
have sore spot in his body when HI
thought Quay county would be bene
fitted by some certain proposition, an,