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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
3
A Citizen Special Correspondent critiques a Medical Sanitary department grip epidemic alert in New York, noting past winter alarm patterns and urging calm. The column wryly mocks the illness as chronic post-holiday fear, cites a codfish tale at Sandy Hook, a deadly knife fight injury, and a Wall Street prayer‑meeting mood, ending with finance and faith satire.
Miss Nancy Campbell, long devoted to helping Japanese and Chinese communities, dies in Brooklyn at 77 after an aneurysm. Her funeral draws diverse leaders and financiers who credit her with founding schools and guiding many to prosperity in Asia and the United States. Anarchist Anna Goldman, alleged to corrupt young women with “free love,” faces arrests and renewed calls for action by ministers and authorities. William Parkinson.
A Swiss miner employed at the McCabe mine in Prescott District died after stepping from a bucket into an adjacent shaft at the 700-foot level. The 32-year-old, identified as Scashiglingy, fell 160 feet and was instantly killed. A coroner's inquest ruled death accidental due to his own carelessness. Remains were brought to the surface and interred at McCabe. a brother in Redding, California, was notified.
J H Cordes the Cordes merchant installs a power shearing plant at his station near Black Mesa country Arizona. The Kaxoline engine drives twenty two shears with a daily capacity of about 2500 sheep. The machine offers better results than hand work and is welcomed by sheep owners though initial fears about wool growth have faded. Also notes on grip and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a cure and pneumonia preventer.
A long panorama details how the northwest stock ranges yielded to farms in New Mexico and Texas border areas. Immigrants flooded frontier counties, pushing land values high while transforming open prairies into cultivated valleys, railroads spurring towns, and new irrigation projects like Elephant Butte dam expanding cultivable acreage. The piece portrays a shift from vast cattle and sheep ranges to settled, irrigated farming, with rich notes on Pecos Valley, Estancia Valley, and regional growth, asserting New Mexico will buoy its stock and coal industries amid this change.
The passage questions the common story of Adam and Eve from a skeptical lens. It suggests learned men reinterpret the original fruit as a lemon, arguing the ancient tale may be a misrepresented allegory rather than a factual event.
Karl Sparks, charged with shooting Louis Andre on December 21, was released from Prescott county jail on a ten thousand dollar bond. His cousin J M Sparks and local businessmen supplied the bond and additional collateral to secure his appearance before the next grand jury, per the Prescott Journal Miner.
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