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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Clayton Enterprise and Clayton Citizen New Mexico Historical Newspapers 4-6-1916 Clayton Citizen, 04-06-1916 R. Q. Palmer Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/clayton_ec_news Recommended Citation Palmer, R. Q.. "Clayton Citizen, 04-06-1916." (1916). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/clayton_ec_news/26 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the New Mexico Historical Newspapers at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Clayton Enterprise and Clayton Citizen by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE CLAYTON CITIZEN VOLUME 12 CLAYTON. NEW MEXICO, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1916. i NO. 13. Italic mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmgm NON-PARTISA- N Announcement Extraordinary ONLY 9 VOTES VICT0R1NWARM AGAINSTI BOND In L0CALELEC110N $55,000 Water-work- s Extension Bonds MABEL RIEGELMAN GRAND CONCERT Have Easy Voyage. Texline to Incorporate ' Swipe and Prima Dona Soprano, late of Chicago One Night Only Democrats Fail in Ruse to V . Elect Civic League's Suggest- Grand Opera Company and now ; Monday Night, April Tenth By a vote of 149 for and 9 against ed Candidates Clayton decided Tuesday to place with the Boston Grand Reserved Seats $2.00 $55,000 worth of municipal bonds on contested election the In a lively ; Opera Company On Sale at Rose's Pharmacy the market for the purpose of making Citizens ticket was vic- improvements and extensions in tha torious in the aldermanic division of water-work- s system and the city's the election, losing only the mayor, electric light plant. This is the second H. J. Hammond, to T. H. Rixey, demo- At the New Mission Opera House, layton, New Mexico bond election for public improvement crat, by three votes and H. C. Mc within sixty days, the other being for Fadden, independent candidate for city naiinwaiiiin a $35,000 high schools treasurer, won over R. W. Isaacs, Pick up Texline will' Incorporate ticket to make political timber of it i TIRED OF BEJNG A TOWN Christian Otto, Alderman n, with a vote of 182 to hence they too, were reported to have 138. M. R. Jones, unopposed candi Texline Will Incorporate deserted. The board of county commission- date for city clerk received 317 votes Christian Otto, ranchman and mer- i - ers issued an election proclama- chant, is one of the leading and most out of a total 32U- . Why Rixey Won? Texline, by a vote of 64 to 10 decid- are T. H. Rixey, tion Wednesday in which the ques- influential business men of Union ed to incorporate at a special election Other Winners H. J. Hammond's defeat by T. H. Otto, Carl Eklund, tion submitted is one which is county. He has been in this country Saturday. Considerable interest was mayor and Chris. Rixey is attributed largely to the in- C. de Baca, al perhaps without parallel in the for the past thirty-fiv- e years and has in evidence as the vote cast was with- M. Herzstein and F. cident which culminated so dramatic dermen. The defeated candidates are state. accumulated quite a fortune, laying in six of the total number. We con- ally embarrassing at the democratic A petition signed by re- H. J. Hammond, for mayor, and J. the the foundation of it all with a small gratulate Texline on this step to the rally at the court house Monday night quired M. Gonzales, Geo. II. Wade, Allen number of voters from herd of sheep that he brought here front. when Edgar Sherman, of the News, t Spring, aldermen. Folsom asking the board to call with him, driving them overland from Wikoff and John repudiated the assertion of his em- Very close to a complete vote was an election for the purpose of de- California. Mr. Otto has held var i ployer, C. P. Suthers, that the latter more than just interest termining whether the town shall ious offices of trust in the county and ern buildings in this section of the gotten out and did not know and did not give the or during the day. A or shall not "disincorporate." city and the manner in which he han country. Being a successful business was manifest der to blot out Mr. Rixey's name on evidence near the Folsom, we understand, was one died the affairs of both city and coun man and heavily interested in Clayton crowd was always in the democratic ballot, printing Mr. many motor cars of the first towns to incorporate ty, as well as his individual business, we believe the people made no mistake polling place and Hammond's name over it. To voters proclaiming their "na- in northeast New Mexico. has won for him the confidence of the in electing Mr. Herzstein. flying banners who did not understand just why Mr. every corner of the The election date is May 27. people as an honest, conservative, Mr. Herzstein stands with the rest tionality" searched Suthers should allow Mr. Rixey's name The weather helped competent business man. His ser of the members in the matter of city for voters. to be printed out, the tendency was to make the event interesting, being vices to the city as a member of the and if the aldermen are to swing toward Mr. Rixey especially ROY AFTER THE BUSINESS ad- typical election day, chilly enough council and the many ways in which materially concerned in Clayton's a among those who really had no pre- overcoat and damp enough for his good offices and helpful advice vancement the people can rest assured for an ference as to the fitness of these esti- The business men of Roy are alive are features of Mr. Otto's activities, that Mr. Herzstein will bs a member cars to skid. n. elec- mable men. We understand the - c work of tha.advance .fjui.i'L to the thi.t ?i& no must íi-av- His as commission- hn Alleged Reason' .. Jaw firt The tion f.tm' th pmiirg of o'K' made for him a place in the hearts name over another public is are like water inasmuch as they fol Many wise ones profess surprise at hut the of the people of the county that speaks Fulgencio C. de Baca, Alderman not always familiar with laws' low the line of least resistance. An the result, others just as wise say the the for him nothing less than the appre many avenues and alleys and the fact item in our Fasamonte correspondence outcome could not have been other- ciation of honest service rendered. Hi Fulgencio C. de Baca is known to that Mr. Suthers denied that he had wise. Still others declare that the leads us to conclude that Roy folks retention on the board is met with the everyone as the accomodating deputy anything to do with blotting out Mr. result would have been different had consider good roads a people of the town as a whole, and treasurer of Union county. Rixey's name was the point that That he it not been for certain events Monday Item as follows: as a popular candidate he wus second thoroughly understands the affairs of night and still others wag their heads scored. high man. "One of our neighbors received a that office does much toward recom- and solemnly declare the undercurrent mending him a seat on Clayton's letter for turned the cork to home and safe- UNOFFICIAL RETURNS the other day from some of the that Carl Eklund, Alderman board of aldermen. Like his fellow ty was a "wet and dry" issue. Pseudo business men of Roy stating that they members, he is a business man. Beside The numbers followed by an aster gamesters were offering as highly would help fix the road to Roy and extensive property interests Mr. de isk designate majorities. Mr. Carl Eklund, who led the ticket colored an assortment of bets as one do what they could toward getting a Baca is a member of the director's Citizens' Ticket in Tuesday's election, is a man that could wish to find but few were taken board of the First National Bank. Hammond, mayor 159 telephone line from Pasamonte to Roy. needs no introduction to the people of each seeming to have a fixed idea of There is no reason why Mr. de Baca Otto, alderman 189 They seem to appreciate our trade. Clayton and Union county. He has his own as to the outcome. should not make an estimable record Eklund, alderman 190 been in Clayton for the past twenty- - A petition is being circulated for pre for himself during his term we be People Didn't Want Politics de Baca, alderman 168 five years and has had much to do with sentation to Union County commis- lieve he has the qualifications and angles Herzstein, alderman 163 the building of this little city. Viewing from various the sioners for the purpose of building a It will use them for the good of Clayton. stirring events of the short campaign Isaacs, treasurer 138 has been said of Mr. Eklund that he Mora county Mr. de Baca is of a democratic nature county road to the line." had his choice upon coming to Clay- it appears that the paramount issue, he believes that any issue should ton, he could either walk in or hot so far as the people were concerned, Democratic be decided on the basis of the greatest dodge political side of come in at all. His capacity to gather was to the the Rixey, mayor 162 Wilson with The Citizen good for the greatest number of peo- him and money and affair and elect a ticket that would Gonzales, alderman 132 friends around ple.