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1 uuav>? U UUC KJ 9 ul f The Story of j , j Our States j By JONATHAN BRACE \ t XLVI.?NEW MEXICO 1 \ ^==T^ AS ITS | \ | i ^id Mexic?* i It was the f ? -' - t- - ? - ? 11. AV f y j spamsn who were us ursi w ^ 1 plorers, De Vaca visiting this f | region in 2586 and Coronado I | four years later. The natives f | were the Pueblo Indians, al- I f though they are somtimes errone- ? | ousiy reputed to have been Az- f ^ t tees as they were well advanced | | in the arts and had a compara- f | Uvely high civilization. These \ i Indians were conquered in 159S f f by Juan de Onate and became ! ii subject to Spanish rule, being ] "V -forced to work the mines and i v pipy tribute. Missions were eslab- f \ jisjied and. Santa Fe was founded i ,! about 1605. | ;' Bzcept for a period of tea \ , years when the Indians revolted I / apd maintained their indepen- f \\ d?nce, New Mexico remained un- I j| der Spanish control until in 1S21 f < Mexico gained its independence I -? |j |rom Spain .and New Mexico f < i became - a Drovinee of Mexico. I | Thus it Remained until the out- ? f break of the Mexican war, when I | in 4846 Colonel Kearny marched f | from Fort Leavenworth with his i | troops, occupied Santa Fe and f ? this region a part of the f | States. By the Treaty J "i t ife^lco in 1848, the upper ? ^ 4 p^ttsoT. the state was formally | i thp tlnited States and * ti^:Territory of Mexico wag or- I | Sanizefl in 1851, which reached | J ffdpa Texas to California. , I I Arizona was set off from New | t J^e^icO- In 18G3 and a few years 1 later k portion was contributed j ty/Gqlbfado. Application for ad- f mission as a state started in | j 1&50, but:'it was not until 1910 j ? that New-Mexico became the I f fta^seventh slate. j '-New Mexico ranks fourth in * 1 among the states with an j i area pf 1^2,634 square miles, but I te.Sp'arsely populated and accord- | I ufer' has only three electoral f V | tfes' for President. I | (? fcjr IfcsClur? Newspaper Syndicate.) ^^T?**** * * * t * --t r t t i i i i i i j [The Story of j I Our States I t > | Br JONATHAN BRACE t j XLV111.? I fcKKI 1 UKiC.3 i ??*THE Story t 1 of our I States" would J J tory of ttjie .United States, which * i is not included in the actual' for- | | ty-eight states. The biggest of f 4 these teiTitories is Alaska, with | | an area of 590,8S4 square miles. | f This huge region was under Rus- I \ | siati domination until 1867 when * t the United States purchased it | for. $7,200,000, or less than two | I cents an acre. There was. some * j grumbling at the time by a few ] ! congressmen over "adding a re- * J frigerator to the United States.* j } But tiie refrigerator has been * ! found <tp be well stocked with | gold, coal, forests and fisheries, J SO tb?t Alaska has proven a 1 4 profitable investment ] t Hawaii, like Alaska, is a reg- i < ulir territory. In 1893 there was a* successful revolution 1 against the Hawaiian queen, and I I A provisional government was 1 f&fmed under American protec- , \ " tton. In 1&98, at the request cf ^ ;; the- population, Hawaii was an- | nexedf to the United- States. 1 iv porta *ueo, uuam ana tne rjpiiippinei w?re ceded to the United Slates. iq 1899 as a result of the Spanish-American war. Porto Rico apd the Philippines are de! pendencies and not territories. Their local affairs are administered by a legislature of two houses and they are represented j in the United States by resident | commissioners elected by the leg- i I isiatures. Guam is under the j a ? 1 ? ?n>v. ^ ui iinvai uiuv:r^ ili vuin- ^ i mand of naval stations. Under isimilat naval control are the j Tutuila group and Samoa, ? ^ . which . were ceded in 1S99 by ] | Great Britain and Germany. 1 Then the^e is the Panama Ca- ] t nal Zone, which was purchased i | from Panama in 1904 for $10, ! I 000,000. This is governed by the j f Isthmian Canal commission i !The .year 1917 saw the pur- | chase from Denmark of the Vir- i gin Islands, for $20,000,000. | These aggregate only I.jO square ,, miles anu are temporarily gov- , " erned by a naval officer. !; Finally,, there is the District I : ;; of Columbia, which was organ\ m ized in 1791, as the seat of our '! federal government. The resi dents have no vote for either i | local or national officials, nor 7 | are th*y represented in con- | . gress. . } *|fi i i i i i i t r t i"f y \ W Sifeytrjfl ^ Deoenr | fill TIRES AND TUBES, ! M ' VUL TOO I ATEi How ?^?3 these words? nsp< ! maximum mileage. . - I ^ i I I . . 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