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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1911
Page
2
The Sierra County Advocate urges readers to back the Beortholdee constitution to ease Sandy and Grant counties debts, claiming a 20 000 strong majority for the January 22 1911 vote and framing it as a public responsibility.
The article argues President Patt would rewrite constitutional boundaries like a minister edits the Bible. It recalls New Mexico voters rejecting statehood about twenty years ago and again more recently due to graft and corporate influence worries.
A public notice warns that approving the framed constitution would remove the $200 property tax exemption. It argues all property tax money would instead fund higher salaries for state officials, shifting the tax burden to homeowners.
The article from La Revista Catholica condemns bondholder aligned practices under the territorial regime. It argues entrenched entanglements and frauds will be outlawed by a delegates’ constitution. It questions morality and claims even commandments are treated as movable by political interests.
The piece questions the constitution's limits praising its omissions and suggests rulers tolerated murder theft and concubine age as common in the New Mexican territory, arguing the charter did not prevent these acts by custom rather than law.
The article argues that the proposed New Mexico constitution should be rejected and rewritten. It claims acceptance would require federal changes, warns voters not to be swayed by Republicans, and urges the state to pursue a properly crafted constitution through its own constitutional convention.
The list enumerates vacant school and institutional lands in Sierra County as of December 1. Lands are available for grazing or agricultural use under lease. Blank rental information forms may be obtained from the territorial land office in Santa Fe New Mexico.
William C. Kendall Sheriff of Sierra County New Mexico advertises a public auction of the Ready Pay Mill and associated mining claims in the Las Animas Mining District. The sale, to satisfy a judgment of $37,665.46 plus costs and interest, is set for January 14, 1911, at ten o'clock in the forenoon at the mill site north of Hillsboro.
The husband Daniel J. McCarley sues Marguerite McCawley in the named court seeking dissolution of their marriage bonds. The proceeding, begun by petition, outlines grounds and seeks court intervention in the marital status.
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