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f?l? Two ON TO NEW MEXICO rMr. L. iv Fc ?. . '<unea IZ\? H m>ni?c?nc**? of Early T ravel* Soon ;.u r am cm ?t So:, ge: i met ar il fo t: >d ihe acquaintance cf a young practic *.?r physician who wa> raised in an adjoining ?unty to my home in Virginia, i told him why I was there and he gcnetwfidy o. r-' ed to assist me ail he could and a< he w&- unmurned he invited me to share hi- room in the hotel where he wa- boarding He gave me mu -h x information about the country and its n ha ;tant>. The population of; New Me\u <. at that t'n was largciy j Mexican (which as is well knowni { is a mongrel race and were called! "greasers" by the white people. They were getibrady an indolent, shiftless kind of people living in huts built ; of sun dried brick and covered with; earth. The town of Springer although it i was the county site was more than half Mexican. I Don inquiry- I found ther* was a stage line in operation to Tramp?'ras the town near where! Mr Wool ford lived but t hr distance was calied a hundred miles, the stage lMlkftif two trips u week. I looked up| tb?-stage driver and found him to be a Mexican with . y poor outfit.; very little accomodations and an exori' wirt price for *h trip, so 1 decided it would be rr?< r* satisfactory! to buy me an outfit d make the trip alone as ! did not know where I would iiu or 'now lot 1 would stay,: so I bought a horsi. saddle, bridle an?l blanket and made ready for the trip. The state at chat time witn the excepliors of the tov and railroad centers was lai^-.y cent roiled by the slock men. ! learned there were no sett em* re - aior.g :i ?a?: 1 -s.? ;?i travel except two carte ranches bout miles apart vherc I could i spend the nights. 1 was also advised to take with ine a can < en of water as there- was no water along the! route, the hot dry weather causingi travelers to suffer for water at that time of th.- year. About all the rain in that part of New Mexico t all during the months of July and August so ! was told. Th** precipitation in winter time is in the form of snow the snow capped mountains being; in plain view. It was near the last of June when 1 left Springer, the rainy season just ushering in. There wis no rain that da\ and there wano house in sight till 1 neared the cattle ranch a .hort time before sun down. That was the famous Dorserf ranch which at that time was attracting a great deal ot* comment in the VST it vvUb I'lHUUVU CUUV L'(U fjerf and Elkins wen using unfair, means to monopolize the cattle industry. Mr. i/cr. y at that time was in Europe his much and cattle intere.-t ia.-n- 1 : -pr in charge of ex-gov- , ernor Eatley who ha?i oeeti the re-1 coijrtrilvi'O!! governor of Arkansas, immediate iv ti ?. Ail wur. thi.o- 'Ivej^l at l-si-'eStay j.j long as a;i- j.ei-i .--ary and when they left not to ask ihe.r board lull as flicte! was ;io . 1 uuw. : v.hc 1 ro.uup '< the r ! i i ied to oUey ai-' tractions and inquired of ih?- young' man wl... a a in e.n.-.ige of the ulln&ry department u n? re i shouni p :t my hor-e. He told me and -howe<i n\C where to gvi l\-e?l,.So 1 proceed ed to wait on my ef and get ready i for supper, h; a short time the boys who had he* n looking after the stock came it;. Thvv appeared to he a very; gentlemanly :>am-n ? ? fellows and treated me kindly. Governor Hatloy and wife lived in a nice house a little apart from the shacks occupied by the men, ho h;ui seon nu ride up | to the shacks, so after supper he; sent for me to come up to the house ; and .-it with hifrt awhile. I expln.rie-i to him how I came there, what, my | business was, etc. He treated me with much consideration ami proved to be! vor\ interesting in conversation. He toid me much ..f his experience when \ fa? mEEESSSESi and i1 sijBCo he had begp a charge of Mr.' Tinny hen! ot stock eat* :e had fast i-fc'i. UvMSs from h e of lags fcy -Vr. ? were in .i yet lui iji' -vi f&tore I pi .cede*; on ne ( ?_ a uj accepted. cat; of the polled varieties. and hla. k m co.er. 15 of tfcv nt v. re Poll An^ and i were < la. .o a; . . or. Coiii'f y distinguish between the two vai cues, i ne Ga!!o\va> s were sma'.it r and their hair )o:??M\ <! >'i-rnor Hai . y said the Galloway- were siroiu'ikK s>r.?i -.1 . .-a s -; - - -* u- r - - .- v. .rn V u TTTCTTP U.g'Tlon.; of S i. where they r rea very little at .. at ion. Alter i had viev.eu 'lie cattle -utF.rienl.y 1 r,-j pie* .-hid my cat? teen, procure*! a| liincn and resumed my journey. Af ter I was out of sight of Mr. Dorseyi ranch not another ^ouse was to W seen nor a : op of water until I reached the H. T. ranch about XaI mile- distant. I remained two days at the latter' ranch resting up. when again 1 re-! sumed my journey. Ih* same condi-' tion prevailed until I was out t>f catVIRcfmA 3 IwtemBgMm burley M L I 1 : lemons raDKv. v Ken scatter:ng hoti-os werv H'en all occupied by Mext?;> ' I arrived ;,t y? irnpei'ss xto .i i lun .? od : .? . a Mex: s 1 . .i i i t an I./ th tune of go son .. 1 U.-.ri . as- i < --d over the his! a short distance bat out of sight of the .1 s. VV'oer. I neared the - y m#r wtsit man who proved to be Mr. Weolford's foreatit. i. U> > . ng after his ranch and stock during his absence. 1 uttrodu i my.-vi! to him and loid him 1 I-.. <i jii-t recently left Mr. Woolford ai 1 i had a letter for his w.fe. 4*Di<: yo ; ever see her. " he i-Ked me. i t??!d 'hat 1 da! t know her. "Well" he says, ' she's an Indian." I told him 1 could rot help thai; 1 wanted to see her anyway and deliver to her the letter in my possesion. He called for Airs. Wooi*??rd, when a very dark, tail woman with straight black coarse hair greeted me. 1 gave her the letter which she perused and then she told me to j make myself at home and bade the! young man take care of my horse.1 Mrs. Woolford seemed to be rea-1 sonably intelligent and from her man-' ners and conversation, if it had not; been for the color of her skin, 1 j could not have told but what shel was a white woman. She nad several [ children, the oldest of them a grown : daughter who had been educated in j one of the northern state.-. She was very good looking, and tivated. -howt -1 the Indian veiy :iit!e. Mr. Woolford owned a large ia "h wellstocked with horses and cattle and I the surroundings gave evidence that) he was in easy circhmstama - There was -aid to be a tine vaile\ of land ah t 15 miles beyond Tramperas that was being settled up y white peopa . mostly from the southern and t hat was my ?jective point from Mr Woo.ford's foreman i learned that he and some of the ' >ys were going near there on some business, and he offered to show me over the valley. So about noon I landed in a w nit" man's house in said valley, found a very nice family the fir.-t white folks I had met since leaving the cattle ranch. The man was a carpenter, and he and two other men budding a house for some settlers. about half a mile distant. The gentlemen turned my horse in the pas lure and as it was very threatening, told me 1 had better wait until the storm passed off before looking for a 1 neat'on. Hi described a section of line iand two or three miles away that was open for settlement, and told me there was a spring of good water on ir. The workmen invited me to walk ove rto the h< ise they were building as if was covered it would afford u.- protection from the threatening storm. On our . ay over to tho new house We stepped across a small stream of water. Trie buii.a atnK.i one liundi .i yards i ' V< le rain had ialien, though there wai- heavy enu w i ?.i -? k?i k cro?u?. irour or | two parsed away when suddenly We luai'i an wnw>..ai sound, rearing*. cr.fi, ing and clashing, a- though mi( ' m: u vc-r\ Uiii ..a: was taking p a, run: :: to the door - w . . troubu wa:-. the little stream thai we had ju-i crossed ?va - ivm r.g down the vai... y about ln';> yard- wide, the wail of water .ooKed to i e ten or fifteen ieet high ; .r ii;- j its way alnog. carrying brush logs and debris of all kinds before it. It was the /nosi, Minium- sight ) ever saw: the water in front looked like a m>Iid wall. Of course the current J of water suhsideu in an hour or two but we remained on that side of the stream until late in the evening, and then felled two trees across the water to get back to the house. That experience satisfied me with conditions in New Mexico so next morning 1 Middled my horse and started hack to the railroad. It took me three days to make the trip back to Springer. Several hail storm- are common uuring the rainy season there. On my return 1 learr.ee of a calamity befell a young roan who was reusing sheep. He had come from tit V.'ftt t l- I- - - - - - <-P CMV.II, !lil! V. ,;'-Ti ? thorn - at fciliU- J.OOO hv!ii.. uisSiK' sht ep \v t:: ... OU. 'J hat .sarr.i aurznKauai?- - ' u . UcilUC^Llle-J -CL uc- Lt--si~ltellllcr. ejllelflh=L Jc=L i v hip us your cream H ^ (bS; Q ur shipping faciliti ius I" jj ndoubtediy the bes l: Piedmont section US |p eturn empptys imr i i"'. ash to individual s ? IP K eturns please I H ju3 t ach day brings new s ^ Iways a patron aft< ay we not have yo | FOR SALE?200 grz pj China and Duroc Sh api heifers to freshen in 1 We buy all kinds c an] Hickory Cr H HICKOi : T1" THE WAT/ MURDER SERIES IS TRACED TO GANG COUNTERFEITERS System cf Crooks o-i-d to be Inter national in zoope. i 2 Arrests Abroad AMERIC \N Si-Crti SERVlC WORKED 0.' CASE New York, re > -With tl international counterfeiting systen wrecked by secret > r. cc agents \v. laid its working's bare yesterday a;u with 50 to 600 p* rson. connected w tl the ring ?r? a ...lories, unde: arrest. Federal authorities today pre pared for a court fight to send th< counterfeiters to jail for the inaxi mum term of 16 y ars While court evidence was bei.'ij set in order, the drag net of th< secret service was extended to mos of the large cities ??f the Unite< States to catch hundreds of passer of counterfeit money, implicated b' clues captured in the raids here. Joseph A. Palma. captain of thi special secret service souad, whirl for eight months tracked the mark ers and distributors of spurious icon ey, gave evidences of the wide spreai international ramification of the plo by announcing that fifteen person had been arrested in England. Franc* Egypt. Germany, Cuba. Austria, am the Bahamas. as the result of infor mation furnished by the Americai secret service. New York police, who began ai inde pendent investigation professei to find a direct connection betweei the counterfeit plot and many hith erto unsolved gang murders of thi past few years. Several of the murders were be, lieved to have resulted from pass age of bogus money and from dou hie crossing in the ranks of the cou nterfeiters. A number of crimes i was said have been committed in o: near the Broome street cafe ownet by John l)i Rosa arrested yesterday as one of the ring's large wholesa ler's of counterfeits. Palma agreed that scoies of im porta nt criminals were in the rani unfamiliar with American money he said, were the easiest victims hut the gang also hunted out smal stores, kept by aged women am res left at times in charge of th? children. A photograph S6 feet long an* ten feet hi'-rii has been completed h; toe curator of the Chicago Academ; . k .v.- ... 1*^,. It 1. ...... ..f aim* nse pai rama photographs show th< Michigan Shore & .\nl ? i il< ,.t h. !i< *ir Gary. Indiana tht famous Indiana sand :.~.nes, th Grn ( :u unlet Itiver and swamp eivU i.u Mg around the southern envi roj - ? ;' Chicago. A poti.ro of th; -,..f * produced for o - thai olO aid tailing in transparent oi co.-;- ioit a sma.'i amount additions a i omp.ired with the thousands o dollars an oil painting would cost. wv ? k the hail killed them all. not lea vim: fcim a sheep One of th; oo\ hoys toid me that he was caught - u .!i a hail storm and that in : \ he saved his life was by taking hi life was by tak.nir his saddle olt am holding over his head. I stayed all liight with a ranch* \\ ho had moved from Virginia. IIi told me he was trying to put u) some hay near the house when ; hail stone hit him on the head am he was rendered unconscious. When 1 returne d to Springer found a letter waiting for me fioii the old gentleman 1 had travelled wit! through "no man's land." He was )o i a tod in the Yackimaw Valley, stat oi W ashington, was pieased with th our.try and urged rae to come t> that vaiiey. It was my purpose to g there anyway, so I wrote my unci s Port Worth to <kin my trunk t* fvar.sas City, sold my horse, hi ; >o m*. tril H ? -- nit: lUiii ??^ 3UUII <c i made my arrangements .-a-viae. ir i hoarded i!.'j train and feh & a uuisl adieu to Xovv M. :un. : ^ZFvS^t ystJE r! -t~. >c:. _i_. wcr. 1Id DdJ 1*31 i.t .'.' y?inl2I cream r ? _ 3 es are unequaled | t equipped plant in the . nediately on arrival hippers | ihe most exacting CSi H patrons ? 5r one shipment cri ur shipment also? ide Hampshire, Poland E toats; 25 grade Jersey E :he next thirty days. ?f country produce. c=l ? E eamery Co. RY, N. C. 1 2 feiSsnkriknlsnfenk^ i tUGA DEMOCRAT GAVF NO THOUGHT TO PAF Mother MigH at Least Have Warn H??r. 7i<t >t Is All Too Late Now. There is a cental fellow of our a qnaintance vrho possesses a daughter the lucky dog! This particular man a queer sort of cuss and he has ulwa thought, along with Barrie. that the are only two great epochs in n gir life. Contrary to all accepted thoug u|N?n the subject, marriage is not o of them. The first great event is wh the initial recognisable smile rlppl into ha by laughter; the second wit she puts up her hair. 1 This man we have la mind had ma a sort of dream ritual of this latt and had planned a thousand ways turning the matter over in his inn f consciousness how he would invest ! ceremony with a thousand littie grac i remarks a writer In the Baltimc * .->ews. 1 ney wouia tanc aooui u e^ so much beforehand and as the d drew near there would be many lit backward flights and timorous fee -j of how It would all turn out. In t . childhood days he would often toss t - little mane up backward and she, t 1 little tnhix. would tantalize him In tu 1 by parading before him with a mot tain of finespun gold banked on 1 j dainty little head. It #as to he a m< omental occasion and the poor fell* hugged the thought to himself. Th would plan for It as for a lard mayo ceremonial. 1 The blow fell, as most Mows ft 1 suddenly, unexpectedly. He w< home of an evening, carefree. Joyous, romp with this girl-child as of old. S was going to a party and she was ! teen going on sixteen, and her moth . without a won! of preparation for 1 shock, with a thoughtlessness a!m< 1 sublime, had borne her off to a hr r dresser, where all the Iniquitous rl of that diabolical Institution were p petratrd. We doubt very much whetl this genial fellow will ever be quite I . same?the deepest, the most polgm < hurts somehow or other always se to come out of thoughtlessness and I fal'cre *o grasp even faintly the otl ! fellow's point of view. Kven fath' 1 have a few temples where they mi1 L prayer. ? "Paternalism"' in Sweden. y In Fwodon a tenner ran he ret mended by the governor of a provi: 1 for abusing "mother earth." O' 1.100 < ises of abusing farm land w negleoiing to cultivate It prope have l-oen deal! with during the l >s four ye:irS, There has been some discussion s to definitions by those charged w i determining when a farmer should ' censuAd for neglect for his land. 1 ? ihe Swedish cultivation extens 1 committee has cotne to the concp.is that corrective measures are nee sary where land \va^ found overgro " witli weeds, when* a field yieh T notably less than the neighbor L fields, where the annual product ^ decreased, or where grain had b< disposed of nr.thrashed. Of the 1, cases considered 123 had to brought to The attention of provlm L' governors before Improvement \ I* effected. it ______________ Great Boom for Alaska. l A very considerable Improvement ,i the business of Alaska is predicted h a recent investigator who was s there to look the field over. The L portution of fish, which has been great source of revenue for the p ^ ten jears, will be found to have gr* ly Increased during the last y when an account of the business si have been taken. There is a revi In the mining industry and the exp of high-grade lumber, cut from Tongnss region. ha* shown ,a v promising hcginnizig. The govcrnm efforts to foster the pulp and pa manufacturing mean much for a country, and the completion of -i railroad front Seward to Fairha: ^ will be the means of increasing agricultural resources of the lend. ' ^ completion of this road will take pi 5 at an earl:, date. r The Bright Proceeding. ^ Mrs. Grand ways was calling u = Mrs. Cassidy, whose husband was u = to-do and whose daughter ha?i th> D fore been sent to college, r "Bv the way," said Mrs. Grnndwi = when the two had been gossiping k a while, "where Is Clara? I bay 5 seen her for an age." Mrs. Cassidy swelled with pride, = "Clara is at college," she repl - with grandeur. And then added : *\ IS I dni so worried about her. I hav p had a letter from her for nearly 5 weeks." "That is where you made the i J take," was the prompt rejoinder p Mrs. Grandways. "Instead of let t* her go to college yon should have i her to one of those correspond* ? schools." Farm Episode, rj Gabe, what are you doing in farm yard?" r.i "Nnffln. boss." p "Yon <11 'In't come over to mc ct my henhouse?" | -No, boss." "I see. Yon came over to c V some wood for me." / b "Oat's it." . Ami Gnbe had to chop two h< g before the foxy farmer would let xo.?Louisville Courier-Journal. = Too Ready to Agree, j She?r*an It he that yon really 1 fO me? I fcnow T am not beautiful. ^ He?Bui I care nothing for bean q She?Oh, Indeed! So yon do & hesitate to Insult me already! Pli fO consider onr engagement at an cn ^ Bontoo Transcript. ?A I WHY TRADE AT HOME? ^1 >'d>boro News. 31;;. y people a>k that question bui > n trouble to seek the answer. .. hy should people patronize theii home merchants? Because t is a jrrc.it saving ol ? time and time today represent IS money j8 Because the home merchants car re only remain in business through tin j. patronage of home people and ? town without mere! ants would be i * orry place in which to live. n* Because the home merchant sell: en goods that do not have to be re les turned because of deects or inferi en ority of quality. It is the only wa; in which a local man could hold hi: d trade. Because the local merchant is no er in the habit of charging exccssiv. *n prices. You may at times be able t< get the same article elsewhere for ; he httle less money but the quality wii oe invariably reduced in proportioi >re to the prices. The local merchan rer plies soon finds that it has but littl< left for the purchase of additions J supplies. It is so simple a child could under stand it. and what a child can com er prehend should not go unheeded b; ler adults, be Think it over. lfTl Thinking will accomplish mucl in- ? ? ? ,er i ? 5 III 1 ?5S 2 RUN^ ilr! Nev I ik* | i JoBr Ma Jggr m I? ill 1 Where can m' value than J^t j about at thi ? 1 We believe. the ' osi that it is the ',.ar means of tra v'l! ji; men can em ">r* i|i ?absolutely ,he i' . - . ry I; at the minin ^ desired. Hie' iiji '^1 J. B. nl:s sdj iije 1;:; n>e uce BOONE AN! ! in ell- ... x erefor ? ^ =an? " i "Slims led. I \nj |j en't jS "When i feel stupid, get const two 1 two of Black-Draught and it sets nI>. 1 Haislep, of R. F. D. 2, Columbia of gn all right, and have not used any ' IH ?">' ' am a guan> " the Stal ncn 111 or more When 1 first,hea II DT A r*TT 1 the ill Liver i]0gt BH ttfl and Hie good medicine it was, < faa I'd get up in the morning. I wen h?P || t>ad taste in my mouth, but didi ! II stupid and didn't feel tike eating >nrs nil was then I began Black-Diaught htm SB kind of work, ready to eat anS si , |fl I take Black-Draught, and for 25 wouldn't be without it at all. M loro |B lot. 1 am out of doors, and fr I r -ineslneed. I recommend not g Sold ? ^ j fer-?L^^Mj'C^S55i i. iiiiiijB* 1 MARCH 1. 1923 ? j Quail are classed as sonjtbiids by 1 the Minnesota State Humane Society A'he o*gutive committee of the So- %\ t ciety has passed a resolution urging * \ the farmers of all states where there . are quail to feed and care fot theiu because of the tact that a small amf I ount of grain expended would be abundantly repaid in the destruction ol' seeds of obnoxious weeds and inj ( sect pests. , Work has begun on the first of a i chain of twenty hotels for motorists ' extending from "Vancouver, British ? ! Columbia through Washington, Ore. gon, California and Nevada. These . hotels will be or.e days automobile run apart and will be constructed , 011 the unit plan. They will provide the motorist with comfortable quart tors and food supplies, auto equipL. menl and repair shops. ^ > SWEMMSMMMtoBKWroiBHHI 1 good. It certainly wili do no harm. 1 r;innot nfTord to .soil "rhoan Rtuff" i i His customers would not tolerate it. t Because the prosperity of a cora^ i> munity depends upon the amount I of money in circulation in the community, and that is regulated main Iv by the marketing of surplus pro ducts abroad and the keeping of as y much as possible of the receipts at home. Because a community that spends h most of its money abroad for sup??t??H?'lI 111 ! ! I .ffi.HHMW . ji ^BOUT I I i v Price j F. O. B. DETROIT 5 ji you find a greater the Ford Runs new low price? without question, j : mast economical nsportation sales ploy. i lme-savmg dependable travel lum cost. Terms ;||I TAYLOR PS EAL.F.R j| J D VALLE CRUSIS BlimBIIJ, "^.inr l1wmnwnB^".-wnni ?r. ^ _ j Taste" I ipated, or bilious, I take a good dose or 1 me straight," writes Mr. George B. HH , S. C. "It cleanses the liver and I feel 1 tlier medicine as I do not see the need S3 e Reformatory, and have been for three I trdof DRAUGHTH Medicine I had been having a tired feeSng when Bjj uid be stiff and tore, and had a slimy, p3 I't think so much oC it till 1 began to feel | ?then 1 knew i needed medicine. It I , and I felt an made over, ready lor any f eep. So, for any return of this trouble, Sn years it has been my medicine, and I Hi y work is constant. I am on my feet a t esh air and Black-Draught are ail the fjjj it to others for I know it is good." srerywhere. - H sgPffaac,^1 ^ 'iriBij iiiuiw1 miLni .mjim.i.u'i Aiigaag
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