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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07

best assist the government in pro-
ducing articles necessary for prose-
cutting the war; but those who, with
out good reason, hang back and avoid
their duty will regret it as long u
they live and realize that they have
acted the part of sneaks and towards.
Help Men Into Service
The best thing that any friend can
do for man of military age, and
for his relatives, is to assist him to
get into the army or navy for SER
vice during this war.
1t is said in some places that a
mans first duty is to his family.
Even so, the highest duty a citizen
of the United States can perform
for his family is to help preserve for
them the liberty they enjoy under
the government of this great repub-
lie, and save them from the fate
which will be theirs if the Central
Powers, Prussians, fustrains and
Turks should win this war. No SOL
dier's family in the United States
will suffer want while he is absent
in the army, and the government
insurance system will provide for
them in case of his death.
Fighting For Our Safety
German agents are industriously cir
culating the other false charge that
this war is being urged by the United
States for the benefit of England.
Nothing could be further from the
truth. u. S. Ambassador Gerard
and other Americans who have spent
much time in Germany during recent
years have positive knowledge of the
hostile intentions of the Imperial
German Government toward the Unit
ed States, and for several years the
British navy is all that has stood be-
tween this country and the fate of
Belgium.
I believe it is lack of knowledge
of the true facts connected with
this war and of the imminent danger
that if the people of this country
do not quickly put forth their best
efforts to win the war on foreign
soil it will have to be fought out
to the bitter end in our own coun-
try, which has caused so many of our
citizens and their relatives to seek
exemption from military service under
the selective draft, and I hope that
your council will endeavor to place
before the people of your county the
facts and the necessity for helping
he government in every possible way
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07
SANTA FEAN HAS FRIENDS
WHO SAW THIS MURDER

Nothing brings home to us the
horror of German atrocities so much
as to hear of those acts of barbarism
to which friends of ours have been
eye-witnesses.
Shortly after the war began, some
friends of Mrs. c. H. Cochran, of
Santa Fe, were travelling in Belgium,
These friends were Mr.. and Mrs.
Higgins. Mr.. Higgins was railroad
man and in Belgium on business, and
his wife was with him, when they
were caught by the war. One day
by the road they found small child
crying bitterly. Their chauffeur ex-
planned that the little boys father
and mother, in fact his entire fam
lily, had been killed, and he did not
know what to do or where to go. Mr..
and Mrs. Higgins thought that this
might be a chance for them to do
something, so they accompanied the
child back to the village where he
said he lived, and here they found
that all the child said was true. They
decided thereupon to adopt the child,
and take him back to America with
them, to which the authorities in the
village. on examining the. passports
and taking the address and references
of Mr.. and Mrs. Higgins, willingly
gave their consent. They therefore
took the child in their automobile
and proceeded on their way. AT the
next village, however, they were ac-
costed by German officers who
searched their automobile, examined
their passports and then demanded
who the child was, and why they
had no passport for him. Mr.. and
Mrs. Higgins explained the circum-
stances, whereupon the commanding
German officer seized the boy liter
ally by the scruff of the neck, set
him in the road, and shot him dead
before their eyes. They were then
allowed to continue their journey
May Come To Us
If any woman in New Mexico
thinks that the war "is no concern
Of hers, she need only consider how
she would feel if she were forced
to witness, and to experience such
acts of cold-blooded, inhuman bru-
tality of which this is a fair sample.
This is what might happen in New
but for the wall of flesh and
steel in northern France and Belgium
that protects our shofes.-A. c. H.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07
SOLDIERS LAND
AND MINERAL
ENTRIES SAFE
ACTS HAVE BEEN PASSED
AND APPROVED TO PRO-
TECT HOMESTEAD, DEs-
ERT AND MINERAL EN-
TRIES

An Act For the relief of home
stead entrymen or settlers who en-
ter the military or naval service
of the United States in time of war.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the u
nited States of America in Con-
gress assembled That any settler
upon the public lands OF the Unit
ed States; or any entryman whose
application has been allowed; or any
person who has made application for
public lands which thereafter may
be allowed under the homestead laws
who. after such settlement, entry,
or application, enlists Or is actual
! ly engaged in the military or naval
service of the United States as
private soldier, officer, seaman, mar
inc, national guardsman, or men,
Der of any other organization for
offense or defense authorized by Con-
gress during any war in which the
United States may be engaged, shall,
in the administration of the home-
steads laws, have his services there
in construed to be equivalent to all
intents and purposes to residence
and cultivation for the same length
of time upon the tract entered or
settled upon; and hereafter no con-
test shall be inflated on the ground
Iof abandonment, nor allegation of
abandonment sustained against any
such settler, entryman, Or person un-
less it shall be alleged in the pre-
liminary affidavit or affidavits of
contest and proved at the hearing
in cases hereinafter initiated that
the alleged absence from the land
was not due to his employment in
such military or naval service; that
if he shall be discharged on account
of wounds received or disability in
Cured in the line of duty, then the
term OF his enlistment shall be de-
Quoted from the required length of
residence, without reference to the
time of actual service Provided,
That no patent shall issue to any
homestead settler who has not re-
sided upon, improved, and cultivated
his homestead for period of at least
one year.
Sec. 2. That any settler upon the
public lands OF the United States:
or any entryman whose application
has been allowed; or any person who
has made application for pub
lie lands which thereafter may be
allowed under the homestead laws,
who dies while actually engaged in
the military or naval service of the
United States as private soldier,
officer, seaman, marine, national
Guardsman, or member of any other
organization for offense or defense
authorized by Congress during any
war in which the United States may
be engaged, then his widow, if un-
married or in case Of her death or
his minor orphan children,
Or his or their legal representatives
may proceed forthwith to make final
proof upon such entry or application
thereafter allowed and shall be en-
titled to receive Government patent
for such land; and that the death
of such soldier while so engaged in
the service of the United States shall,
in the administration of the home
stead laws, be construed to be equi-
valent to a performance of all re-
quirements as to residence and cul-
tivation upon such homestead.
Approved, July %, 1917.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07
TAX COLLECTION ARE
BETTER THIS YEAR

Better tax collections are being
made in New Mexico this year, ac-
cording to Secretary Rupert F. Asp
lund of the state tax commission.
A comparison between the total of
1915. taxes collected up to the close
of July, 1916, and the total of 1916
taxes collected up to the end of July,
shows an increase in money of $780,
1908, and an increase in percent
age of 1928.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07
ELY RECEIVER CASE
ON TRIAL THIS WEEK

The petition for the removal of
Ralph c. Ely as receiver of the New
Mexico Central railroad has been on
trial all this week before Judge Hol-
loman.
The petitioners have gone into de-
tail to show that the road has re-
ceived no benefits from the lavish
of Mr. Ely on his num-
erous promotion trips from coast to
coast, all of which the defendant
claims were of benefit.
The hearing will probably occupy
several DAYS more.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07
Nine Men From Collar

The Colfax county exemption board
has called the first nine men asked
for the war department for immediate
service.
Ernest l., Moore, Ration; Thos Ri
goni Van Houten; John Lumley
Jones; Joe Park; Charles H. Reed,
Ration; John Hunter Vickers, Daw-
son; William Oscar Hunter, Daw-
son; Ezra Edmund Thaxton and
Paul Murphy, Ration None of these
men asked exemption on any grounds.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07
YOUNG MEN ARE NOW
LEAVING EVERY DAY
Ovation at Las Vegas

The commercial club with the CO.
operation of the patriotic citizens Of
Las Vegas, expects to give the San
Miguel county members of the ma
tional army rousing sendoff Sun
day. All OF the 2l3 men drawn from
San Miguel county are asked to be
present
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07
Kaiser Would Rule All

What is wanted is 4 moral deed, to
free the world. -. from the pres
sure which weighs upon al. For
such . deed it is necessary to find
= ruler who has . conscience. =. e. Il
have the courage.-From . letter
from the Kaiser to his Chancellor,
dated Oct. 81, l016-London Punch.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07

Capt. J. H. Toulouse has been ap-
pointed Inspector general of the
guard with rank of major. He has
the true patriotic sentiment and says
Uncle Sam will never win the war
until he is in the front ranks to show
the Boches that they are not in
it. Two or three million men with
that idea is just what will do the
business.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07
Grant County Men Leave

Grant county'S first contribution Of
men to the national army will leave
Silver City on Sunday for Fort Riley,
Kan. There are IL men in the lot
constituting per cent of Grant coun-
ty's total of 2l8
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07
Soldiers Desert Act

An Act For the protection of de-
sert-land entrymen who enter tho
military or naval service of the u
nited States in time of war.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of representatives of the Unit
ed States of America in Congress
assembled, That no desert-land en-.
try made or held under the provi-
sions of the Act of March third,
eighteen hundred and ninety-one, by
an officer or enlisted man in the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Or
ganized Militia of the United States
shall be subject to contest c.- cam
collation. for failure to make or ex-
pend the sum of 81 per acre per
year in improvements upon such
claim. or to effect the reclamation
thereof, during the period said en-
tryman or his successor in interest
is engaged in the military service
Of the United States during the pre-
sent war with Germany, and until
sly months thereafter, and the time
within which such entryman or
claimant is required to make such
expenditures and effect reclamation
.of the land shall be, exclusive of
the time of his actual service in
the Army, Navy. Marine Corps, or
Organized Militia of the United
States: Provided. That said DESERT
land entry shall have been made by
the said officer or enlisted man prior
TO his enlistment: Provided further.
That each such entryman or claimant
shall, within six months after the
passage of this Act, or within six
months after he is mustered into the
service, file in the local land office
of the district wherein his claim is
situate a notice of his muster into
the service of the United States and
of his desire to hold said desert
claim under this Act: Provided fur
ther, That the term enlisted man."
as used in this section shall include
any person selected to serve in the
military forces of the United States
as provided by the Act entitled "An
Act authorizing the President to in
crease temporarily the Military Es-
tablishment of the United States"
approved May eighteenth, nineteen
hundred and seventeen.
Approved, August 2, 1917.
Soldiers Mineral Act
Joint Resolution To relieve the
Continued on page four.)
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07

Russian soldiers are paid six cents
. day. But some of them are not
earning it.-laeon Telegraph.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07

Soldiers Mineral Act
Joint Resolution To relieve the
Continued on page four.)
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-07
NO TEARING UP OF
N. M. CENTRAL RAILROAD

several days more.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06

Efforts to stir up sentiment against the draft and to secure members for the Working Class Union," have been made recently in this county.
 It is said that leaders of the move. ment are woman named Mrs. Wyatt, and Herbert Hairless. Mrs Wyatt spoke recently at the schoolhouse at Pangburn. Sentiment was so great against her that from 75 to 80 shots were fired into the building where she and her followers were gathered. The people ordered her not to try to hold any more meetings.
 On the day of Fairless' trial on a charge of gambling, she tried to hold another meeting at the schoolhouse. but the crowd was dispersed when S,seriff T. c. Plant and several depu. ties appeared. The case against her has been turned over to the United States authorities.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
STATE MAY HAVE
 CHARITY HOSPITAL
PLANS BEING FORMULATED TO CONVERT ISAAC FOLSOM cLIN-
 iC INTO HOSPITAL.
AUTHORIZED BY LEGISLATURE
Conference Was Attended By Govern or and Members of State Charity Board-AIl Those Present
 Approve Idea.
Little Rock

Little Rock
 Plans for starting at once the State Charity Hospital authorized by the last legislature were discussed at a conference held this week by Gov ernor Brough, members of the State Charity Hospital Board and represen- tatives of the University of Arkan- sas Medical Department. The confer ence was held at the Isaac Folsom clinic, Second and Sherman streets.
 All those present approved the idea, but deferreS action pending an investi- gation as to whether the action would be legal
 It was suggested that the clinic be converted into the State Charity Hos pital as beginning. It was said that the old hospital could be repaired so that two additional wards could be installed. furnishing facilities for about 100 patients. The Isaac Fol som clinic was constructed at a cost of $25,000 and was donated to the state. It was suggested that Gov ernor Brough issue an emergency  proclamation to provide S30,000 for the purpose of euqipping the clinic as a hospital. It was said that the S30.- 900 could be secured by selling the state-owned land west of the Deaf Mute Institute. This land was given to the fund for the establishment of the State Charity Hospital by an act of the last legislature
 Frank Pace, member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Ark ansas, was requested to examine the act of the legislature creating the State General Hospital to ascertain whether the proposed plan would be legal. Governor Brough said he would consider the suggestion that he issue an emergency proclamation.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
GERMAN RE|CHSTAG
 DEMANDS HE TRUTH
SIGNS OF AWAKENING IN GER MAN EMPiRE-KAiSER WILL
 HELM CRITICISED.
PEOPLE MUST KNOW FACTS
Majority Party Serves Notice That Military Censorship Must Be Modified Within Four
 Weeks.

Copenhagen.-A warning that un. demands of the Reiehstag for reforms, the majority parties will take meas ures, has been given before the Reichstag Main Committee. Resolu- tions of the majority, introduced by Dr. Karl Heine, Socialist, demanded for the fourth or fifth time. abolition of the political censorship and limita- tion of the military censorship to facts connected with the conduct of the war and criticism thereof It was de- tary authorities exercise a sweeping political censorship of the German press on the pretense that publica- tions of political nature may affect the military spirit of the people.
 Dr. Heine gave the government four weeks, until the assembling of the Reichstag, to amend it's ways. Otherwise, he said, the Reichstag ma jority would take steps. The govern ment has received some half dozen earlier warnings of a similar nature and it's response in the present case will be a test of the influence of the present majority in the Reichstag.
 Kaiser Criticised.
 Speeches and announcements of Emperor William were criticized in the debate on the censorship. Matthias Erzberger, Centrist leader. and Dr. Heine called attention to the effect caused by the emperor's impulsive statements which sometimes run counter to the ostensible policy of the government The emperor'S crit ics probably had particularly in mind his recent utterances in regard to England, which he said is Germanys arch enemy and must be defeated at any cost.
 Dr. Heine appears to have demand ed freedom for the press to discuss such utterances of the emperor. Herr Erzberger asked whether Chancellor Michaelis assumed responsibility for what was said by the emperor. For eign Secretary von Koulhmann re- piled that he aids The misleading "denials" by the Foreign Office of Premier Kerenskys statement that a separate peace offer had been made recently to Russia and of the mes sage said by former Ambassador Ge- rard to have been sent by Emperor William to President Wilson at the outbreak of the war, were brought up. Herr Erzberger said the official com munications were coming into wide discredit abroad owing to the many self-evident contradictions in them
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
Road Conference Called.

Gov Brough issued a call request ing good roads leaders from Sebas- tian, Logan, Yell, Perry, Pulaski, Faulkner, Conway, Pope, Johnson. Crawford, Saline, Garland. Hot Sprin~ Clark, Nevada, Hampstead, Miller. Little River, Seyier, Howard, Pike and Montgomery counties to assemble tn a two days congress in Little Rock on Semptember 19 and 20 to arouse interest in the work of the Bankhead Highway Association, which will extend from Washington to At lanta, Birmingham and Memphis and from Memphis to the Pacific coast, passing through Arkansas.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
STATES SCHOOL
 POPULATION 65S,643.
County Examiners and Superintend ents' Reports Filed With State Su- perintendent Bond Show Increase
 of s9, ,59o Over Last Year.
NUMBER OF CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE IN STATE OF
 ARKANSAS IS 658,643.
COUNTY FIG URES GIVEN
Little Rock

Little Rock
 J. L. Bond, state superintendent of public instruction, has just complet- ed the tabulation of the county ex- amfne-s' and superintendents' annual reports for the school year ending on June 30, 1917 This tabulation shows the number of children in the state between the ages of 16 and 21 to be 658,e43 The school enumeration for last year was 649,053. The increase this year over last year is 9,590
 According to the report. there are 464, ,606 white children and 194,037 ne gro children of school age in the state
 The following counties show ma terial increase in school population for the year. Arkansas, Baxter, Brad ley, Calhoun, Carroll, Cleveland. Co lumbia, Craighead. Crittenden. Cross. Dallas, Desha. Drew. Grant. Greene, Hampstead, Hot Spring, Howard, In- dependence. Jackson, Jefferson. John son. afaLyette, Lawrence, Lee, Lfn- coin. Lonoke, Miller, Mississippi, Mon roe, Nevada, Ouachita, Perry, Phillips, Pike, Poinsett, Prairie. Sebastian, Se- vier, St. Francis, Stone, White, Yell.
 The following counties show de- crease in school population for the year: Ashley, Benton, Boone, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway. Crawford, Faulkner. Franklin, Fulton, Garland, Jzard Titt1e River Logan Madison Marion Montgomery. Newton, Pope, Polk Pulaski, aRndolph. Saline, Scott, Searcy, Sharp. Union, Van Blu ren. Washington, Woodruff.
 Pulaski county reported last year an remuneration of 31,903 while this year the numeration is 29.203, a de- crease of 2,700
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
Confer On Road Work.

A conference has been held be tween Governor Brough, the Stats Highway Commission, members of the State Penitentiary Board and repre- sentatives of the United States army and the Little Rock Board of Con- merce. looking toward the securing of an additional number Of convicts for the cantonment road. The Peniten- tiary Commission members said that in addition to the 100 convicts who are being furnished to work on the cantonment road, 75 additional could be spared within the next three weeks before the harvesting of crops.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
Compulsory Attendance.

State Superintendent J L. Bond has mailed to the superintendents and ex- aminers of the various counties blanks upon which the principals of the schools are to report concerning the compulsory school attendance law. At the close of each month teachers are to report to the county examiners and superintendents the absentees, who are then reported to the prosecuting attorpavs of the counties.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
STATE HAPPENINGS.

Curtis Alderman, editor and owner Of the Arkansas Staats Zeitung of Lit tie Rock, was arrested and placed in jail at the request of United States Attorney General Gregory Alderman was already on s2,500 bond for en- couraging violations of the selective draft law. Alderman is an alien ene- my He came to America from Ger many in October, 1907.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
Druggists Notified.

The State Labor Department has mailed notices to druggists through to the child labor law which makes it a misdemeanor to work boys under Is years of age more than eight hours day or more than six days week, or after o'clock at night. Violation subjects the offender to a fine of not less than S5 nor more than S100.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
Citizenship Restored.

Governor Brough has issued proc 1amation restoring to citizenship Howard and Kendall Robinson, re- gently fined in a justice court in Lo- gan county for petit larceny, both defendants having paid the fines. They were restored to citizenship to ena- ble them to testify as witnesses in case in the Logan Circuit Court
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
BRIEF NEWS AND NOTES.

With other recOrd-breaking crops in this section of the state surround ing Cotter Is the mast crop, which is as heavy as was ever known. All the oaks are bending with green acorns that will begin to ripen in few weeks. Chinquapin, walnut and hickory trees all are load ed Thousands of hogs will be fat tened in the woods this fall, but even then a large part of the mast will go to waste because there will not be enough hogs to eat 1t up.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
Back To PenitentiarY.

". c. Alexander of Pine Bluff, who was sentenced to death in 1912 for the murder of Cotton Belt engineer named Kelley, and whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and who later was adjudged insane, is to be released from the State Hos Physicians at the hospital say that he again is sane
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
Special Judge Named.

Governor Brough has appointed Patrick Henry of Monticello, special county and probate judge of Drew county to hear several cases in pro bate in which Judge c. Knox, the reg ular judge, is disqualified because he is related 10 some of the litigants.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
want Neoroes Removed.

Washington. A petition asking withdrawal of all negro troops from Texas, signed by all the members of the Texas delegation in Congress has been presented at the White House by Senator Sheppard and laid before President Wilson. White House of- ficials did not indicate what action might be expected from the president.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-06
Judge Butler Appointed.

Governor Brough has appointed Judge Turner Butler of Hamburg, Ashley county, delegate to the con stitutional convention from Ashley county, to succeed G. P. George of Hamburg, resigned Judge Butler is circuit judge of the Tenth judicial cir cult and is serving his first term, hav- ing been elected in 1914.