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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
NO TIME TO LOSE IN
PLANTING INCREASED CROPS

The chiefs of our nation agree
that today there is no more patrio-
tic service than the production O!
more food and forage.
New Mexico has idle land which
will produce valuable crops; you
have land which will produce valua-
be crops.
Here is your opportunity to do
your bit for our nation.
Remember that time is limited in
which crops can be planted; decide
on Syour acreage and crops now ;
get your seed now If you need furth-
cr advice or information as to the
use of state lands granted in at
tached letter write to the Commits
sioner of Public Lands at once.
To guide in your selection of crops
you will find below a list OF crops
best adapted to New Mexico lands
both irrigab.e and non-irrigable
Further specific advice as to any OF
these crops will be furnish prompt
ly by the County Agricultural agen,
Or the State Agricultural College
State College N. M.
Crops best adapted to "dry or non.
irrigable land:
Dry land to 5000 IT,, forage, black
and red amber and orange sorgh-
ums, two or three pounds; cowpeas
ten or twenty pounds; millet six
to eight; sudan grass to $500 feet
three to four pounds.
Grain crops to 5000, dwarf yellow
milo, dwarf blackhull kafir and fe-
terra, two to three pounds; to 7,S0C
feet short season, corn three to six
pounds.
Cash crops. 5000 it., boom corn
two to three pounds to $500 IT,, New
Mexico pinto beans ten to tewnty
pounds.
Garden crops, to $500 it,, cabbage,
cauliflower, celery, carrots, turnips
beets. Lower attitudes, pumpkins
squash, melons,
Irrigated lands.
Forage and silo orange redtop and
and sumac sorghums, japanese cane
three to four pounds in rows, corn
six to eight pounds, sudan grass
same, millet fifteen to twenty-five
pounds.
Grain crops, dwarf milo and dwarf
and standard blackhull and Champi-
on yellow dent corn. Up to 1900
feet short season corn. New Mexico
pinto beans twenty-five to thirty
pounds.
Garden stuff,--lower attitudes,
sweet potatoes, corn, cucumbers, chi.
Ii, tomatoes, melons, squash, pump
kins. cabbage, carrots, beets, turnips,
high altitude,-cabbage, cauliflower,
celery, corn, peas, onions, beets, tur-
nips. carrots. Potatoes best results
at $500 feet to 5000 feet 800 lbs.
Remember: Careful crop selec-
tion, prompt planting and good culti-
vation will enable you not only to
serve your country but will issure
you a reasonable profit.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
new MEXICO NOW
AFL0AT WILL Be
IN ACTION SOON
MISS MARGARET g. DE BACA
CHRISTENS THE LARGEST
DREADNAUGHT YET BUILT
HAS OIL BURNERS AND
ELECTRIC DRIVE

New York, April 23.-Another
drcadnaught entered American wat
ers as a unit of the United States
sea power today when the battle
ship New Mexico, comparing favor
atty extensively and defensively with
any other fighting vessel afloat, was
launched at the New York navy yard.
The New Mexico was christened by
Miss Margaret c. de Baca, daughter
of the late Governor f. c. de Baca,
chosen for the honor by Williom c.
Mcdonald, who was governor when
the launching ceremonies were ,r-
ranged After Miss de Baca had sue
cessfully smashed bottle of cham
pasne under the bow, Miss Virginia
NJ. Carr, maid of honor, broke igain-
st it a jug made by New Mexico
Indians and containing a mixture of
water from the Rio Grande and
Pecos rivers. Miss Helen Kelly of
Las Vegas also was a maid of honor.
United States Senator A. A. Jones
of New Mexico represented Govern
or Lindsey, and there were nearly
80 residents of New Mexico present,
together with several hundred native
New Mexicans living in Washington
and New York. Mr.. and Mrs. E. E.
Vceder of Las Vegas were among the
spectators.
Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher,
commanding the New York navy
yard, was master of ceremonies,
Chaplain Isaacs of the yard read the
invocation and Assistant Secretary of
the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt rep
resented the government. There
were no speeches. Others in the
party of sponsors were Miss Irene
Molinari of Portales, N. NJ, and Miss
Katherine French and Miss Hide
garde Hurley of Santa Fe. The
largest battleship ever constructed at
the New York navy yard, the New
Mexico, is the sister ship to the Mis-
sissippi, recently launched at New
Fort News, Va, and the Idaho, under
at Camden N. ]. She
will burn Gil. and is said to be the
first bastleship equipped with the
drive. The keel was laid
in October, 1915.
The original plans announced by
the navy department called for 320p
tons displacement for the New Mex
leo, . length Of go feet over all, .
mean draft Of 80 feet and . speed of
II kno,s. She was designed to carry
\ main battery Of IL l4-inch guns
with 1 five-inch guns, four 6-pound-
ers, four anti-aircraft guns and four
torpedo tubes.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
IMPORTANT SALE AT
ROSWELL LAST SATURDAY

Roswell NJ NJ, April 2l.-Twenty-
six traFts of state land, ranging
from 80 to 1000 acres, were sold at
public auction in the county court
Commissioner R. P. Ervien, with ac-
house here yesterday by State Land
tive bidding on a majority of the
tracts. Another high record for nom
rrigable state land was set, a tract
Of 2o2 acres selling for $50. an acre.
This tract was sold to John c.
Cauhope of Lovington. G. T. Little
fled, of Kenna, paid $8.2S an acre
for l60 acres near Kenna; J. H.
James. of Tatnm, bought $40 acres
at %.5l; A. E. Hendricks bought
$40 acres at $l4; E. Farris paid
N75 for so acres; w. McCallister
paid $12 an acre for 400 acres; J..
L. Reed of Lovington, bought l60
acres near that town for 84s, and
Adam Zimmerman paid sos for
1850 acres of land now in Lea county,
but which was in Chaves county
when the sale was initiated. A to-
tal of approximately $4,000 acres was
included in the sales.
The commissioner will sell nine
teen tracts in Eddy county at Cars
bad on Saturday, the 2lst, and will
go from there to Clayton for the big
Union county sale on Wednesday
April Is. The business men of Clay
ton have had badges printed for a
large reception committee to well
come the visitors of whom sever
hundred are expected as bidders on
various tracts. and souvenirs will be
presented to those from other coun-
ties and other states. The land
commissioner will make an extensive
distribution of general New Mexico
literature and will also give an IL
iustrated lecture in the motion pic
ture theater the night before the
sale. Col. R. E. Twitchell will be
the lecturer and will speak on "rhe
Land Resources of New Mexico"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

this week, has q we'll equipped group
of marksmen.
Both men and women have organ
ized rifle clubs at Gallup.
Las Cruces, Deming Silver City and
are rapidly increasing their home de-
fense uaits.
A large number of mounted police
commissions have been issued to
these units by the governor and
the units will be organized into .
statewide home guard, which pro-
misses to be . formidable organiza-
ton. Registry of all strangers is
being required in many towns and
the opportunities for sporadic disor-
der Or damage to property are beiag
minimized.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
STATE MOST SUPPLY ~
MEN TO U. s. NAVY

Roswell, N. NJ, April 25.-J. Sand
ers, the special recruiting officer for
the u. S. NJ, who is now in the city,
advises that New Mexico and Arizo-
ma have been allotted 400 men who
are expected to enlist in this branch
ofthe service by May S The recruit
ing officers work in certain pres
cribed districts, and are given line
on how many men they are expected
to be able to enlist in certain dis
tricts
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
HOOVER RECOMMENDS
SCOUT BEAN CROP

New York, April N.-On the
ground that beans are the best Of
food for war emergencies, Herbert
c. Hoover, chairman of the nationa-
al food commission, urges the Boy
Scouts Of America to devote their
energies to the cultivation Of this
crop.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

Nernal Civss Military lnstruetisn
The Normal University at Las We
gas announces the appointmen. o.
Major Ludwig w. Ilfeld as military
Instructor srd effers . regular
course in m,Ii'ayy training.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-01-26
SIXTH EPISODE
THE SPOTTED WARNING

Enoch Golden had never formed the
habit of taking others into his conf
dsnce. And when events came into
his life which seemed to leave him
more and more dependent on his Inn
mediate associates he atrayed an &C.
casional tendency to focus his neb-
ulous resentment against that situa-
ton on the exasperatingly imperturb-
able figure of David Manley.
Young man." he said, fixing his Sec
retary with steely eye, Il came to
this decision twenty long years ago,
and nothing Is going to change II. That
woman was sent from my home, and
abe will never enter It again"
Marley, looking down at the note
still held In his hand, thought OF the
troubled and tear-stained face OF the
girl who had so recently chung to his
arm and asked him to plead her cause.
And the memory Of Margery Golden
brought fresh courage to him.
But this woman who was once your
own wife Is only asking for a glimpse
OF her own daughter again. Surely
that is asking little enough"
And I repeat that I won't allow 1t.
have saved my daughter from the
dangers that woman's wrong surround
cd her with. have saved her from"
Have your" interrupted Manley, de-
liberately meeting the older mans
stare.
Any retort the older man was about
TO utter remained unspoken, for at
that moment a soft-treading footman
entered the room and crossed to the
desk with a salver of mail in his hand.
Manley. looking up, eyed that servant
resentfully, and with a touch OF sus'
picion. This intruder, he promptly
surmised, was a new figure in the
household retinue.
BE so good as to knock when you
enter this ROOM" was the young secre-
tary's sharp command.
VERY good, SIR" answered the new
footman. scarcely raising his eyes.
"H'h!" Golden scoffed, looking up
from the letter which he had just
opened. Since you're 30 ready to ask
favors, here's another friend to ask
than for. Here's the captain OF the
circle you're so ready to champion!
But instead of asking favors you see,
he demands them!"
He tossed the folded sheet angrily
across the desk top. Manley took II
up and read II.
"Your happiness hangs on one small
serap OF paper. That paper 10 the
portion Of the Wlndward island chart
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-01-26

quick cry of warning bursting from the
drivers throat. Staring ahead. she
saw that still another effort was being
made to intercept them. This time it
was man with a. red flag. Instead of
stopping. the car swept past the man
so close that its fender-end slapped
against the flagstick itself as he re-
peated his lusty shout of command.
But that command was more or less
lost on Train, little dizzy now with
the sheer drunkenness of speed.
Stop Knocked the driver as he
raced on. I'm going to stop for moth
ing this side of hell"
Yet that valiant boast was little
more than the articulation OF mortal
pride so often preluding mortal disas-
ter. For, bearing down on them along
that lonely stretch OF roadway they
could already see a second car. The
point about this car that worried Train
was that it was not approaching them
as a well-behaved car should approach
a comrade vehicle, but vermiculated
drunkenly from one side of the road to
the other. Even Margery, as she
leaned forward, puzzling over these
strange movements, realized that peril
was involved in passing a vihicle so
uncertain OF its course. At the same
time, too, she could hear from far be-
hind her the prolonged and warning
cry OF an auto horn, wailing disturb
ingly through the quiet air OF the late
afternoon.
The next moment the two cars had
met, head-on.
There was "a crash of metal and
glass, a rending of honey-comb radia.
tors and coppered tenders.
What happened after that for all
time remained strangely like a dream
to Margory. She remembered seeing
Train lying close beside his wrecked
car. with the blood trickling from his
wrist and staining his whip-cord uni.
form. She remembered seeing other
hgures, even more helpless looking.
But most OF all she remembered how
one OF these figures, pulling himself
together. had slowly risen to his feet.
AS he did so he turned halfstupidly
about and stared down at her. And the
moment she saw that pallid yet tri.
umphant face she knew that 1T was lie.
gar. She knew that he was confronting
her, that he was slowly but determin.
eddy making his way towards her. And
she knew that in another moment she
would have been their prisoner again
had not sudden and unlooked-for in,
terruption taken place.
This interruption came in the form
of a flying roadster, with a masked
figure leaning low out from its run.
ming board as it swept down on them.
She remembered the sudden shout of
the men, the sudden clutch of the
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-01-26

and hand II to the man In the black
ulster who will be waiting there. Nc
trickery can succeed. And this is your
last chaneel JULES LEGAR."
Silently the beaten man stared down
at this strange missive. Slowly as he
did so, the last of his once iron will
melted away.
He rose heavily from his chair and
crossed TO the vault. From this vault
he took the map, the time-yellowed
square Of MANILA about which so many
of the SORROWS and troubles of all his
life seemed to revolve. Then, calling
for his hat and coat and ordering q
car, he tremblingly made ready for his
midnight visit of capitulation to the
Central Tower building.
While these events we're taking
place, however, there was one member
OF the Golden household who remained
far from inactive. When David Man.
ley so abruptly left a tranquil bunga
low at Cedarton and so stealthily
pushed his way through the shrubbery
surrounding that bungalow, IL was be.
cause he had made the sudden dis.
covery that Legar himself was In the
neighborhood. Nor was Il hard for
him to guess the reason for that mas.
ter-criminals invasion of those seques.
tered grounds. And Manley, promptly
deciding to stalk the stalker himself,
was rewarded by overhearing enough
of Legar's plans, as the latter hurried
ly issued his instructions to two OF his
confederates near the roadside, to
realize the necessity of at once get.
ting in touch with Enoch Golden.
Whatever happened, he felt, IL was his
duty to warn Margery's father that
Legar himself had acknowledged his
ignorance of the girls whereabouts
and had expressed his intention Of
trucking the chart out Of its present
owners hands.
Ten minutes of frantic efforts at a
telephone booth In the nearby village,
however, convinced Manley Of the i'm
possibility of getting in touch with
Golden by wire.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-01-26

servants telephone below stairs. Part
of that guarded conversation was car.
ried on by Wrench, the new footman.
and much OF 1t had to do with the very
situation so disturbing the aged million
aire in the room above. For II was lie.
gar explaining that a masked stranger
at the last moment had snatched the
girl from their hands and had apparent
ly carried her of to some hiding place
Of his own. This was followed by the
command to deliver still another mes
sage to Enoch Golden, with the final
warning that every wire leading into
the Golden house must be cut as soon
as possible.
The new footman, In obedience to
these orders. quietly traced out the
telephone circuits to the basement and
there severed the wires with a pair OF
from Mile. Celestine's workbag Then,
watching his chance, he carefully
penned note, wording IL as Legar
had duly instructed him to do. Then
he returned to the neighborhood Of the
library door. with his ferretlike alert
ness masked under his customary i'm
mobility Of face.
II was not until his restless master
discovered the telephone wires to be
dead. and went storming through the
house to determine the reason for this
misadventure that Wrench realized
his chance had come. Slipping into
the deserted library on the pretext of
adjusting the rugs, he stopped before
the rosewood table, hesitated a mo.
ment, and then lifted the heavily.
chased lid of Golden's cigar case and
dropped the note inside. A moment
later he had left the room, unobserved
and unsupported.
1t did not take many minutes OF
waiting to confirm the wisdom OF
Wrench's movement. For Enoch Gold
en-, striding restlessly back into his
library, sank with sigh OF WEAKNESS
into the armchair beside the rosewood
table For a moment or two he stared
abstractedly and unhappily about him
Then, with still another sigh, he
reached out and lifted the heavily
chased lid Of silver. His fingers, in
stead of coming in contact with per
fecto corseted in gold, rustled against
sheet of paper. Automatically he
picked II up and unfolded it.
Written on that mysterious sheet he
found the following:
"To fight me further In this Is use
less. And unless you open your eyes
to this fact 1t will soon be worse than
useless. It will be fatal. repeat tina,
! want your half Of that chart. II you
want your daughter to live, want her
sent back to you, take that chart to
the twenty-fourth floor Of the Central
Tower building, within the next hour,
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-01-26
sYNoPsla

On Wfndward Island Palidori intrigues
Mn. Golden into an appearance OF evii
which causes Golden TO capture and tor,
Iture the Italian by branding his face and
Iorushing his hand Palidori opens tne
|Sks gspsrsl rush TO escape the flood Kid
pAps 0olden's six-year-old daughter Mar
9ofy. Twelve years later In New YORK
Masked One calling himself the Hamme,
Of God" rescues an eighteen year-old girl
from the cadet Casavanti, to whom Jules
IAgar has delivered her, and takes her 70
the home OF Enoch Golden millionaire,
whence she In recaptured by Legar. Legar
and stein are discovered by Manley, Col
den's secretary, setting fire to Golden's
buildings. but escape. Margory's mother
fruitlsssly tmplores Enoch Golden To
ind their daughter. The Masked one
sgain takes Margory away from Legar
ILeEar loots the Third National bank, but
again the Laughing Mask illustrates his
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-01-26

no damage which q half.hour's worl
couldn't patch up.
But Manley. in truth, was thinking
little Of either Evart or his flier. All
his thoughts, as he climbed frantically
up through the broken tower window,
were revolving about the problem az
to whether or not he was too late.
And that all-vital question still OBJ
sessed him as he mounted the iron
treads of the stairway leading to the
tower top, painting up flight after flight
until his lungs seemed bursting for
want OF air, and his over-driven heart
beat drumlike against his rib-cage.
And as he reached the>top and flung
out through the narrow door opening
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-01-26

which you still hold. Unless this 10
delivered TO me, and delivered ss I
have already directed, the Spotted
Warning will come to your daughter
Mareery. And the meaning Of the
Spotted Warning she already under
stands. JULES LEGAR."
And what do you intend to do?"
asked Manley, still staring down at
this strange note.
DO you suppose" retorted Golden,
with q slightly tremulous finger al
ready on the bell, that I'm going to
empty my safe to every blackleg who
handles about q catch.word that be
longs to little Italy7"
But what earthly use Is this piece
| Of chart to your asked the Younger
man.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-01-26

strong hand as IL caught at her while
the roadster swept by, the equally sud
den pain through her bruised body as
she was swung safely up into the seat
OF the onward swerving car. She re-
membered, too, the arm close about
her as she lay back, weak and pant
ing, as they danced and speeded on
along that lonely. road. She remem'
bered turning in through stone gate,
winding along an orderly gravel drive
way, stopping before a vine-bowered
bungalow. She remembered, as the
masked man at her side helped her in
through an ivory-white door, turning
dazedly to him and asking who he was
And she remembered the smile that
showed just beneath the fringe of the
yellow domino as he shook his head
and the sense of deprivation that
swept through her as she found her.
self once more alone. Then from the
same door through which the Laugh
ing Mask had stepped, she remem',
bered, she had seen a quiet-eyed WON.
an come out, = quiet-eyed woman who
had crept up to her. with tears we'll
ing from her eyes and a smile of pity
ing tenderness about her lips.
"Margery, don't you know NE? Don't
you remember your own mother@'
that quiet-eyed woman had asked rs
she had taken her in her arms. And
as she stared up into that motherly
face, bent so close over her own. she
had said, with gasp of bewilderment
Are you--you the Laughing Mask?"l
But her mother, she remembered, had
smiled, almost sorrowfully, and had
put a finger to her lips.
The Tower OF Destiny.
Enoch Golden, anxious and worn
out, sat waiting for some further word
as to the fate Of his daughter Margerys
Nothing had come to him since Trains
startling message of the collision and
the even more startling news of the
girls mysterious disappearance. He
would have got little consolation from
q talk that was taking place over the
The Carlisle independent., 1917-12-06

DIR. c. w Garrison, state health Of
f1cer, was advised that Circuit Judge
c. w. Smith at Ell Dorado refused to
grant an injunction to restrain the
county health officer and teachers Of a
district in the western part of the
county from vaccinating the school
children OF that district. The chan
cellor said that the legislature knew
what it was doing when it gave the
State Health Department authority to
enfore the law requiring vaccination
and that the law should stand.
The case In question was that of G.
F. Vinson and others against DR.. II. H
Smith, county health officer, and Miss
Mary McGraw, school teacher At
torneys for the defense urged that
there was no smallpox in the district
or in the county and that the law re-
curing vaccination was a great incon-
venience to the school children.
Vaccination is a matter of extreme
Importance at this time, on account
of war conditions" DR.. Garrison said
81 have been advised by Surgeon Gen
eral Gorgas and Surgeon General Blue
that there should be no deviation from
the law"
The Carlisle independent., 1917-12-06
ALL INDUSTRY CO-ORDlNATED
Nationwide Administration Will En-
deavor to Make U. S. Fac
tories Efficient.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of an
administrator of industries for the
duration Of the war is not far distant.
Reports of a countrywide investiga-i
ton of labor and industrial conditions
made to the Council of National De-
Tense show decided lack of unity in
the industrial mobilization of the
United States
1t is pointed out that there are at,
least six departments in Washington,
all working for settlement of labor
troubles, but through different means.
This has caused dissatisfaction and
unrest in many quarters.
An administrator of industries
would have control Of labor supplies,
priority of labor, curtailment of nom
essential industries, and standardiza-
ton OF labor conditions.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-12-06
COMMISSION SEEKING FACTS
Experts Now Making Survey Of Silk,
Cotton and Wooden Man.
ufacture

Washington.-The United States
tariff commission is making prelim-
mary inquiry in industrial and COM
mercial centers, with the object of Sc
curing pertinent information relative
to disturbances of American industry
due to war conditions. Expert special
agents of the commission now are
making a preliminary survey Of the
situation as it affects silk, cotton and
wooden goods, textiles. glassware,
earthenware and other commodities.
The commission will endeavor to
ascertain the extent to which normal
conditions of supply have been dis
tributed and what new sources of
supply exist, including the character
and source of imports. The inquiry
will extend to definite information
concerning facts now apparent and
tendencies developing in particular
lines of industry. new plants and ex-
tensions of old plants because of war
demands, changes in processes and
methods due to war conditions, the
more or less permanent character Of
such changes and preparations for
adjustment to normal conditions after
the war.