Five negro bandits held up two messengers of the Main Street Bank and escaped with $42,000.00 [$1.1 million today] in cash. The bandits sped away in an automobile after robbing the messengers at the bank entrance.
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Santa Fe., N. M., Sept. 10.--The Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the southern states in Chavez county, the name of town to be Blackdom.
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Logansport [IN] Pharos Tribune September 10, 1903
Accession Nr:789523 Document Type:Serial Patent State:New Mexico Issue Date:1/8/1921
Statehood Petition Reaches Washington
ATTRACTS MUCH ATTENTION
Circular Letter is Referred to Committee on Territories.
Washington, Jan. 7--A petition asking for the support of the bill for the commission of New Mexico separate statehood was received today in the form of a letter from Chairman W. S. Hopewell, of the New Mexico Statehood league addressed to Representative Fulton, of Illinois. It was referred to the committee on territories.
The petition read that when Governor George Curry visited Washington recently President Roosevelt assured him that he would lend his hand towards securing the passage of his bill and is satisfied that New Mexico was sufficient population and wealth to entitle it to be admitted as a separate state.
The letter give the present population of New Mexico above 400,000 and states that a delegation representing every county in the territory will visit Washington this month to urge Congress the passage of the separate statehood bill.
#Wanted
500 Negro families (farmers preferred to settle on FREE Government Lands in Chaves County, New Mexico. Blackdom is a #NegroColony. Fertile soul, ideal climate. No "#JimCrow" Laws. For information write JAS. #HaroldColeman |