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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
2
An 18th century parliamentary account notes David Lloyd George outlining a decisive postwar approach. Allies reportedly reject territorial demands while planning a joint response via Asquith and Lloyd George, with Chamberlain to head national service. Postmaster nominations for Colorado and Wyoming also listed.
Berlin reports a stalemate on the Danube and Carpathian fronts with gains claimed by Germany and its allies in strategic regions. Paris says Joffre ceded command of northern and northeast French armies to General Robert Nivelle. Wheat rallies on peace offer veto, with futures jumping to about 1.71 and nearby quotes up several cents.
The House approved the executive and judiciary appropriation bill raising salaries for about 14,000 government employees earning under 1,800 dollars annually by 5 to 10 percent and increasing each representative's secretary by 500 dollars a year. Secretaries now earn 1,500 dollars yearly. An attempt to add an extra stenographer for each representative at 75 dollars a month failed.
Final Department of Agriculture estimates place the value of major farm crops at about 78.8 million dollars. Wheat and corn totals declined from last year while cotton and tobacco rose in value, with revised 1925 figures showing corn at 2.485 billion bushels and wheat at 638.6 million bushels.
The War Department paid 290000 dollars for an aviation proving ground near Monroe on the lower Chesapeake. About 1.7 cro wn appears in the text and the price reflects an 11000 figure, with the government acquiring the site for military air operations.
A hotel fire in Cheyenne early Monday killed Roy A. White of Baylis California his wife and their four children. The Interocean Hotel was destroyed leaving the family as the sole casualties in the blaze. All readers were shocked by the swift tragedy at the New Homestead Bill is Passed Washington. -All disputed points in the Perris bill to provide 640 acre homesteads were smoothed out in conferences between House and Senate and the measure goes now to the President for signature. Many millions of acres of land would be opened to stock raising homestead settlement under the bill and it is regarded as one of the most important affecting the public domain passed in many years.
The Board of Temperance Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church urges banning liquor advertisements from the mails. They warn prohibition states are seeing a rapid rise in liquor mail order distribution and report strong member feeling behind the push.
Western Newsp News reports Gen. Panson designating 16,000 National Guard troops to depart the Mexico border and be mustered out of federal service. Units listed include Nebraska Fourth Infantry Iowa Company A engineers Minnesota Brigade headquarters and Second Infantry Kansas Company A signal corps and others across North Dakota Utah Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana Missouri Maryland New York and Virginia.
El Paso reports United States officials assess a new Villa attack, with one clan predicting a strike on Chihuahua's northern capital within three weeks. Reports confirm killings at Santa Rosalia and Jiminez, and Henry Clark's escape. Creel camp offers bid for US noninterference in exchange for halting foreign destruction.
Roumanians gain in news from London report a quieting of revolutionary outbreaks in Portugal. The dispatch cites Western Front losses and German offensives, noting Meuse fighting, Verdun activity, and Teutonic gains in Romania along with British advances toward the Tigris.
West Virginia's official count shows Wilson unlikely to receive any electoral votes though Hughes carried the state by 2 271. Republican elector Scott was defeated, receiving fewer votes than Democrat Depue. Woman suffrage lost by a larger margin than the 1912 prohibition amendment, with 63 540 for and 161 607 against. Arizona contest to quash, judge rules lack jurisdiction due to no certified election. British embassy advised rejecting German peace terms could alienate neutral sympathy. Russian Duma rejects peace proposal.
Advices from El Paso report Villistas retook Parral after reclaiming Jiminez and Santa Rosalia, reestablishing control over southern Chihuahua while bridges from Ortiz to Santa Rosalia on the Mexican Central line were burned. Swiss vote elects Ed mund Schuthess Switzerland's president. Market notes show wheat prices jump amid wartime trading. Will of John D Archbold leaves most estate to widow and children. Gold import from Canada totals nine million dollars.
Willimsport Pennsylvania farmer Ammon Harer saved his brother Ellery from a wounded bear that attacked him at the Hater farm. With an ax he freed Ellery while the bear gnawed at his arm and later died from a blow delivered by Harer. The incident occurred as Ellery opened the kitchen door to investigate a disturbing noise.
Mrs. Lottie Goodrich, visiting Redondo Beach, fought off a robber to protect her purse containing several hundred dollars. A rugged stranger aided her home and shared a dinner, later revealed as her brother Charles I. Martin of Waterloo, Tennessee, who had walked from Montreal seeking health and work. He told her of an $85,000 legacy from their father left five years ago.
In November cold, a Sioux City family faced coal shortage as mother sent Anna to gather jumps from stalled rail cars. A switch engine and its cars ran over the girl, severing both legs above the knees, changing the family’s life amid hardship. The incident occurred near the St. Paul railway yards.
Market notes show bids for steers, cows, calves, and bulls with hay fed, grassers, and mixed quality. Feeding cows, breeding heifers, and stockers priced alongside hogs, yearling lambs, feeder ewes, and grain and forage commodities with Colorado and Nebraska upland prices per ton and various fruit prices in Colorado.
Mixed commodity prices and livestock quotes fill the markets pages. Copper and tungsten figures appear alongside live cattle and hog prices, with grain and provisions in Chicago and wool auctions in London showing firm demand.
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