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Newspaper
The Clayton Enterprise
Location
Clayton, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
1
A jumble of society anecdotes, weathered proverbs, and curiosities across cities recounts peculiar observations. Notes on fashion, banking, and crime mix with literary quips and local humor, mentioning Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Passaic, and Portland, with no single cohesive story.
In Roswell New Mexico a sensational suit over alleged slander targets J D Render and Cottingham with $15,000 and $2,500 claims amid prominent local business figures. The case follows Cottingham vs Render and involves Artesia Townsite Company ties. Both men are noted in church circles and local industry.
The June 13 bulletin reports plentiful water and high streams with the Pecos valley setback from the Lake Avalon dam failure after recent rebuild. Field crops grow well with oats near harvest and corn cultivation advancing. Alfalfa harvest starts, northern districts show excellent yield, and rains enable replanting of home garden and fodder crops. Range grasses revived, stock advancing toward prime, lambs thriving, fruits promising with peaches and pears yield uncertain, cherries marketed in northern counties.
Gregory Page of Gallup sues to cancel a $10,000 deed of trust and recover the Gallup electric light plant sale terms. He alleges fraud and concealment by W H Gallenwater W A Wolff and Maynard Gunsul, claiming the plant sold for 27,500 with a hidden mortgage. The action seeks rescission of the contract and failure of specific performance.
Santa Fe dispatch reports Melquindes Baca brother of Valencia County Sheriff Don Carlon Baca and a sheep herder drowned at the Baca sheep ranch near Pinco Wells. The 180 foot deep well held thirty feet of water when Baca entered to repair the pump. After time passed, workers descended to help but failed to return. Sheriff Baca arrived from Albuquerque and the bodies were recovered.
The fifth annual New Mexico Sunday School Association convention neared completion in this city with a grand reception for visiting delegates at the Lend Avenue Methodist church. Officers for the coming year were elected: Judge John R. Meife of Santa Fe as president, Hiram Hadley of Santa Fe as vice president, F. W. Spencer of Albuquerque as secretary, and Herbert Appleton as treasurer. E. M. Bullard of this city was chosen to represent New Mexico at the International Association meeting in Toronto next week. The gathering drew widespread attendance and was deemed the most successful ever held.
Governor Otero elevates Dr J A Massie of Santa Fe from guard surgeon to surgeon with captain rank. The will of Felipe Chaves of Albuquerque dated March 16 discloses a multi million estate, two thirds to his New York stock broker son as sole executor, with a substantial bequest to a daughter and $20,000 yearly for a non sectarian girls college at Belen.
Dr William E Parkhurst eminent physician dies of tuberculosis in Roswell age unknown. He had suffered with the disease for years and was noted for his treatment expertise. His home was Chippewa Falls Wisconsin, formerly from Denver where he lived five years. He led the Chaves County Medical Association and was second vice president of the New Mexico Territorial Medical Society. Despite frail health he remained active in practice until his death traveling around the city by automobile.
Roswell dispatch reports June 14 presenting a funeral conducted in the Ulery mortuary with Swedish ritual. Paul Blaum a Swedish landowner died of heart failure last night. Rev H Blaum a Swedish minister arrived from Enter prince Kantas to be with his son. The ceremony drew a large Swedish crowd and was described as impressively conducted.
Las Vegas dispatch reports Chief Justice Mills declined to interrupt jurisdiction in a writ of superseders that would keep an injunction against the D R G Company in force. The company proceeds with track laying in San Juan County, contending against the Arizona Colorado road claim, with no Supreme Court hearing until its term ends.
Duncan McGillivray, a young Scotchman in New Mexico, sold his wool clip of 60,000 pounds at top prices this year. His brother plans a 75,000 pound sale. The brothers, once poor, now own large ranches in the Estancia valley and report the sheep industry at record highs in the territory.
W H Greer J T McLaughlin and M B Hickey of Albuquerque form the Albuquerque Land Lime Brick Company with capital stock of 10 000 George B Anderson of a Los Angeles publishing company is in Albuquerque to aid a two year project compiling a comprehensive history of New Mexico The event marks a milestone in territorial documentation A smoker at the old palace in Santa Fe honors Gov Miguel Antonio Otero marking his eighth year as territorial governor He is noted as the youngest man under US Spanish or Mexican rule Eins Post a Roswell jailed jockey awaiting grand jury action on forgery charges was freed on a 1 600 bond The Indian bureau plans a 26 000 dormitory and 4 000 adjoining structures at the Santa Fe Indian school. brick construction specifications are nearly finished and proposals are being drawn up
Indian villagers and hundreds of workers under Superintendent Allen labored to build embankments and redirect floodwaters from the Rio Grande. Farmland and alfalfa near Isleta were mostly ruined while Ranchos de Alrsico was reinforced after a Sunday night dike breach. Los Cerrillos bridge and Barelog bridge were guarded as Sacramento county notes warned of dangerous conditions. The city center remained safe, though rail lines south of town faced washouts risks from heavy trains.
A La Luz NM dispatch says Irwin Nichols found two skeletons in an arroyo about a mile from town. They lay under a bank, covered by stones, waterlogged and well preserved for at least ten years. Theories cite two men from Kansas City who left Tularosa for Dona Ana County, or local Indians killed by Mexicans, as possible identities.
In Torrance county the firm ofross, Kelly & Co. paid 23 cents per pound for the William Frazier wool clip from Estancia plains, totaling 35,000 pounds. Earlier, Meyer Friedmann of Las Vegas paid 62 cents per pound for scoured wool in the city, for the William McIntosh clip. The two clips are among the territory’s most desired, described as the finest and longest staple, with prices 50 to 60 percent higher than last year and up to 100 percent higher than three years ago.
Las Vegas dispatch reports President F. M. Murphy of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix says the Arizona extension is to join a new transcontinental line, creating a double track from Chicago to Los Angeles. He adds the extension will have no grade steeper than one percent.
W RB Andrews pressed Washing ton officials to consider making the Roswell Torrance automobile a United States mail route. Officials noted terminal towns with rail facilities and no intermediate stations hinder progress, but the department would favorably review the matter. Territorial Irrigation Commission met at Santa Fe on the 16th, organizing with Seligman elected secretary and Pratt president, to cooperate with the government reclamation service in New Mexico. El Paso & Southwestern Railway closed capitan coal mines on the 13th, 100 workers affected as machinery moved to Danaon to boost output. Capitan mines opened years ago by a subs idiary of E&N and leased to C and I. mining recently unprofitable. Las Vegas Cement Stone Company filed incorporation papers with capital of 10,000, headed by Cox, Kunkel, Angles, Taupert, and Jones in Las Vegas. New State Financial and Construction Company incorporated June 12 by Kohler, Harlan, and Springer, with 100,000 capital, based in Raton.
Wires report Enrique Daguhob killed with thirty nine followers in the Philippines. Taft succession talks. Loubet names Faure to music post. labor unrest in the Rhenish West. Mary Rogers to hang. body of John Paul Jones to be ferried to Havre. Mott honored in Paris. Roosevelt Norway petition. Canadian Pacific Kootenay Central line planned. Chilean loan for railroads. Patrick convicted in Rice case. Fort Worth old packing plant burned. timber and forest outputs tracked. Russian censorship tightens. Confederate veteran Coomes dies. Liebig plant proposal in Texas. 1812 relics found in DC. Japanese bonds funds held in NYC. Spur ranch change of control.
An article argues that poor lighting harms eyesight and describes acetylene gas as a near sunlike light. It notes many children wear glasses and suggests acetylene lighting, easily produced and installed, can reduce eye defects. Also contains a stray exchange on grammar and advice to consult authority.
At the biennial Order of Railway Conductors meeting in Portland Oregon they unanimously endorsed President Roosevelts stand against secret rebates and urged Congress to avoid sweeping rate regulation. They warned centralized control could lower rates unfairly, harm railroads and impede justice, noting freight costs remain a small share of consumer prices while American management built national expansion. A Calcutta paper cites unhealthy climate as local context.
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