28 Oct 1892
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1892
Page
1
W Parker, attorney at law and solicitor in hathery Hillsborough New Mex, will practice in all the courts of the Territory. Prompt attention given to all business entracted to them SEEMOT E LOTT & FRANCE, phrase.
The territory solicitor general states that voters not able bodied may avoid poll tax yet qualify if they meet elector requirements. The assessor list governs tax liability and prima facie evidence of nonpayment exists if a person’s name is absent. The opinion emphasizes the legislature may set qualifications with limits.
An British writer proposes Earth should signal Mars by using London’s nightly electric illumination. He suggests organized light and darkness alternation every five minutes over London during low traffic hours as a test. An American also proposes using the United States vast nightly lighting power for the same purpose.
Ten thousand guests from Colorado New Mexico Arizona Texas and beyond will attend with heavy excursion trains from Mexico Kansas City St Louis Chicago New Orleans San Francisco and Denver The McGinty Club will present a ten thousand dollar pyrotechnic display and General McGinty will storm the Veiled Prophets stronghold Five bands will line the parade route organized bands urged to join Knights of McGinty will stage a grand impromptu entertainment Receptions at the Franklin Club and other venues with speakers from the United States and Mexico Written notice from Rev Berrien El Paso Texas Com Adv Com.
George Bartlett United States marshal with 18 years service on the Sioux reservation warns that Indians may revive the ghost dance despite agents' denials. He says hundreds are ready for the dance and fear prevents immediate action, signaling imminent danger.
The City of Topeka arrived from Alaska with a giant rhamphorate skeleton, the second of its kind known. J L Buck of Everett, who found it on the Muir glacier with Frank Willoughby, will assemble the bones at Buck’s home, after a two day salvage effort that left parts crushed.
The article notes a New Zealand moa specimen valued at 30 000 dollars heading to the Smithsonian after a World’s Fair exhibit. It also describes moa sizes from two and a half feet to twelve feet, with bones and skins preserved by favorable conditions. In Morocco, the royal treasury at Mikans guards vast wealth with 300 slave guards, opened yearly, and sub-treasuries at Fez and Tafilalet. rumors abound of hidden treasure in the Sabara desert and a Black Guard protecting the vaults.
From the New York Sun the piece notes a famous Moroccan treasure house at Miknns on the Fez road, housing gold and silver and binding heavy taxes on the people. It outlines the Sultan’s expenses for court, pensions, hospitality, and army while local officals seek personal gains.
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