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Newspaper
The Clayton Enterprise
Location
Clayton, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1906
Page
2
A curio-filled column riffs on public figures, wealth, and curiosities. It jokes about Russia, mosquitos funding, and parlor language while noting London money, Marie Corelli, and a Santo Domingo army episode. It blends satire with brief observations on culture and industry.
Ignacio Armijo dies after accident in Albuquerque while cleaning car windows. In Farmington Clarence Ivie attempts self harm. Territorial game law arrests and indictments span multiple pueblos and counties. Ex-delegate Rodey faces charges against Secretary Raynolds as official answers recounts disciplinary policies and a Lincoln County cattle feud context.
Survey team led by J Frank Warner from Santa Fe, with Anta Blanchard and Williamson, returned from the Zuni Reservation where they marked twelve miles of the disputed boundary between New Mexico and Arizona. The line also forms the western edge of the Zuni Reservation amid past tribal and settler tensions. The group will inspect the Texas New Mexico boundary dispute in Roswell next.
The Territorial Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings in two murder cases. Howard Cheneworth, recently released from Silver City jail in Grant county, faces execution, and John Conley, a former Denver resident, will be hanged at Taos on February 16. Conley had shot James Redding and Charles Purdy during an assessment job in Taos and Questa Red River area, claiming self defense amid circumstantial evidence.
Governor Otero appoints Dr J H Sloan of Santa Fe as insurance commissioner of New Mexico succeeding Pedro Perea. Sloan, popular and Democratic, has led in the city and serves on the Territorial Medical Board. Other candidates included H M Harding US Weather Bureau director, A B of Bernalillo, Simon Nuesbaum ex postmaster, and Dr G W Harrison of Albuquerque.
An old insurance study notes that when a wife dies the surviving husband tends to live about nine more years, while if the husband dies first the wife survives roughly eleven years, reflecting longevity patterns from paired spouses.
The senate chamber at Washington measures 113 feet 3 inches long by 8 feet 3 inches wide and 36 feet high. The gallery will accommodate 1,000 persons.
The Count de Vergennes praised Jefferson saying you replace Dr. Franklin, and the new minister to Behoge notes that none can replace him, reflecting a fragmentary historical remark about French acknowledgment of Jefferson.
A fragment notes that in London nearly half of men and women are engaged in occupations, with domestic servants making up about one to every one hundred persons in the population. The text is incomplete and provides limited data.
The district attorney was jailed until Monday after Judge Johnson fined him for contempt. Attorneys Willis Elliott and Rodney J Bardwell advised serving the order. The DA claimed the action aimed to force him to testify about transferring cases between divisions and said the case may go to the state Supreme Court for resolution.
Denver district attorney George Stidger was freed from county jail by a state supreme court writ of habeas corpus issued Monday night. He had been held since Saturday after failing to pay a $50 fine tied to a dispute over information filing between divisions. A Feb 8 hearing will review the writ and the contempt findings involving the district attorney and a District Court judge.
Seven men were killed in Utah snowslides Friday night in the Wasatch range east of Salt Lake. Six died at Alta in a saloon buried by a sudden wall of wet snow and rocks. one man, George Tynge, lessee of the Wyoming mine, was carried away in American Fork canyon. A companion, a man named Krauz, escaped with minor bruises as the slide carried a building away.
Former New Mexico congressman Rodey told a House territories committee that corporate interests pressured Arizona public opinion against joint statehood. He claimed intense persecution and said thousands favor joint statehood but fear speaking out.
Apostle Smith refutes published reports quoting him about the Woodruff manifesto. He states he never spoke to Professor Wolfe or anyone else and did not say the noted line about the manifesto being a trick to beat the devil at his own game.
Special Inspector Braun reports European governments and agents conspire to push inadmissible immigrants into the United States. He cites fake passports, contract labor, and propaganda to keep Hungarians and Armenians patriotic abroad while securing stay and citizenship by subterfuge. Recommendations include overseas surveillance, origin certificates, heavy bonds for ticket sellers, criminalizes aiding foreign immigration, and longer residency for naturalization.
Former Judge William K. Olcott, counsel for Albert T. Patrick, will on or about the first Monday in February seek a new trial based on newly discovered evidence.
The Dewey, a 609 by 134 by 42 foot floating drydock, 18,000 ton capacity, cost 1.25 million, towed from the Paige river to the Pacific coast. Officials say its vast size and 14,000 mile tow increase safety for U S warships in distant waters amid potential hostilities with other powers.
M Mahan of Chicago announces a perfected flying machine and plans to reach Washington on April 23 to deliver a message from Chicago’s mayor to President Roosevelt. The announcement frames the feat as an eightieth birthday mission amid a wave of new aviation devices nationwide.
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