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H. 8. WEIIS WRITES HERALD TELLING REASON WHY SANTA FE WILL NOT TIE Fill RAISED B¥ GALLUP PEOPLE FOR LAIDGeorge Mattis, right of way ■ 3gent for the Santa Fe coast lines is in Gallup completing the details of the transfer of the titles of the land for the shop site. He has been in town for several days ..^.'Hesaid he found a general, feel-, ing of appreciation of the com-‘pany’s action in returning to the ; people the subscription raised to defray the cost of the shop site.In further confirmation of the . news printed in last week’s He-. ’ raid that the railway company :..... .wlH itself pay for the land and.not accept the Gallup people’s , donation this paper has. received a leter.from Mr. H. G. Wells, -the general manager of the Coast Lines with offices at Los Angeles, in which he states the company's ~ appreciation of the public spirited act of the citizens of Gallup.In referring to the reason why the company will not call upon the people of this city to pay for the land Mr Wells in his letter , said:. . , - ■ ■ •—. A new mechanical ’ayout at or near Gallup was needful for the requirements of the company.. Business was at low ebb, and realizing that the land would cost a considerable' surii of- mon,ey,-we arrived at the conclusion that the matter being ope of mutual benefit, we would'ask the people - of-Gallup to donate to us the -re-: quislte land. This was generously done,. but after mature deliberation, business having in .1 the interim: very materially increased, we reached the conclusion that w.e would mot,.; profit by the generosity of o.ur friends at , Gallup who had come to our aid, and as stated by me. to Mr. Cot-' ton, we. have arranged to refund the money—and in this action ! hardly think we will be criticised by peop,e who think straight. ...This^tatement from Mr Wells is sufficient7 to set at rest any -in-, ' sinuations that the company had Any ulterior* motive in no Making the money offered by the .people; of- Gallup; -................' There is still some doubt as to where the new passenger station and Harvey house .are to be built ' but there is .every probabilty that , 'the site of the present depot will : be used for the pew one, which is to be one of the finest berween Kansas City and Los Angeles.' The plans are now being drawn V and call for a much finer build-ing than wasjat first contemplat-\ ed for Gallup. The eating house will be under the same roof as the passenger station and the general ground plan will be something the shape of the letter, TJ. Work oh the station building will • be. commenced as soon as the 'weatlfer itf the spring permits.■ ; The grading work being carried on bv the Lee Mooi-e construe-. :. tion company on the shop site is . gi'alpng rapid progress, and the .. winter weather, of the past few days hasjrlot hindered in the least _ -The smaller of the two steam ' shovqls-at work has. opened the hew channel for the Puerco to ; the - Gibshq branch line and- is .v 1 handling qbout 5800 yards,ofdirtWhat promised to have been a £ general spree among the Navajos 1 at the Chalico dapceat Zuni last week wasnipped in the bud by : Jack .E vans, J R. .Gains; Gardner J Davis and the government officer at Zuni when they confiscated ' and destroyed 125 bottles of whis- i key under, direction of Special -officer Melugin'of Galltipr Aside I from- the whiskey- theupfficers 1 seized 10 sixshooters from drun- i ken Indians. In one instance one j of.the Indians attempted to show 1 fight but was persuaded;, to; sur- 1 render his pistol. j.. Two of the Navajps were ar- lt;rdsted for fighting with knives 1 and are in jiil a*Cthe agency at i .Zuni. The pduskey came from I Gallup and a large quantity of it was carried to Zuni by Navajo ’ women and.by them distributed ; among, the men. None of the Zuni 1 Indians was found with any whis- : key and none of them.wasdrunk. lt;The work of suppressing the ] bootlegging trafic here among i the Indians is progressing, but 1 the business had • attained such i proportions that it is impossible i for. one man to put a stop to it ( without help. iT.w.Q.,.Mexicans were arrested last night and were charged with selling whiskey to Indians. r Entertaining Talk . iOne of the most interesting of; f the series of High schopl- talk? j was given MondaykTnornirig by • • the Rev. J.. Craig-'Watt. -Mr. Watt:, congratulated, the...High school pupils upon th^ir-superior advantages, but impressed them . with the fact that because' of these advantages the community has the right to expect a great . deal of them-tp expect that they lift themselves far above “The ® Common Herd..” j. j,- The object of education is a .three-fold: it aims to make us c AetteFworkers, thinkers and'be- ^ lievers; Mr Watt laid stress on e the importance of jnanual labor j, guided by the brain. He en- p .couraged the/ girls .to become f good bousekeppers. He . assured p them that no 'cosmetic can pro- j, duce :.tfie same effect as bread f making. 1Mr Watt then spoke of the re-. 4 lation between thinking and be- 1 lseying;.::.-that.fiye:djxth of -the f world’s thinkers are believers. l All branches of knowledge are n related in,that they lead back to i: the one source—Our Creator: aTh'e Guild Of the Episcopal i church and'1 their friends were p entertained at the home of Mrs. q Gregory Page on Monday after- b noon. Many of the ladies brought v their, fancy work and spent a .... social hour together, while others just dropped in to have a cup of a tea and greet the ladies of the y Guild, The tea was a great sue- q cess both in attendance and also a in a neat little sum realized for e the church. ‘ •'C. J. Loring has:purchased the Service Tailoring and clothes j. cleaning ^huainesppn Second q street from W, L. Allison.. / Mr. Loring comes to GallUp from j. Colorado and is a practical work- j mail. .'I ^There wiil.be no services - at t the. Methodist.Church ..tomoifohr; .y Sunday School will be held as ^ usual.. ^per day. ■ . . tIt'is a-sight well worth , seeing i; to watch the operation1 of the f steam shovels and the clock-like j work-of the teams hauling away j the earth' the shovel bites out j of the ground. „ «
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The Gallup Herald
Gallup, New Mexico, US
Sat, Dec 18, 1915
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