He was a Representative from New Mexico ; born on Greenwood plantation, near Bayou Sara, Louisiana., April 3, 1861 ; attended the public schools ; moved to the Territory of New Mexico in 1879 and worked on a cattle ranch until 1881 ; acted as post trader at Fort Stanton ; engaged in the mercantile and stock business until 1886 ; deputy treasurer of Lincoln County in 1886 and 1887 ; elected county clerk in 1888, county assessor in 1890, and sheriff in 1892 ; member of the Territorial senate in 1894 and 1896, serving as president the latter year ; lieutenant of the First Volunteer Cavalry, known as “ Roosevelt ’ s Rough Riders ,” in the Spanish-American War ; sheriff of Otero County in 1899 ; resigned to join the Eleventh Volunteer Cavalry ; lieutenant, provost marshal, and provost judge, with service in the Philippine Islands from December 16, 1899, to March 20, 1901 ; Governor of the Province of Camarines, Philippine Islands, in 1901 ; chief of police of the city of Manila, 1901 ; Governor of the Province of Isabela 1903-1905 ; Governor of the Province of Samar from 1905 to 1907, when he resigned ; Governor of the Territory of New Mexico 1907-1911 ; upon the admission of New Mexico as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from January 8, 1912, to March 3, 1913 ; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1912 ; engaged in the hotel business in Socorro, N. Mex.

* Sources ( 1 ) Norma S. Vargas, “ Antero S. Soriano, 1886 – 1929 ,” Prominent Caviteños in Philippine History.

The first telephones were introduced to Gibraltar in 1886 by a private company which was later taken over by the colonial authorities.

This was established by agreement between the two colonial powers in two series of negotiations, in 1886 and 1902-5.

The Republic of Colombia ( 1819 – 1830 ) or ‘ Gran Colombia ’ as it began to be called only after 1886, more or less corresponded in territory to the old colonial administrative district called the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( 1717 – 1819 ).

Missionary activity then started at the mid 19th century and European colonial ambitions led to the establishment of a German Protectorate over the Northern Solomons, following an Anglo-German Treaty of 1886.

1886 map of colonial Indochina

Burkill Hall and the VIP Orchid Garden: Burkill Hall is a colonial plantation bungalow built in 1886.

British expansion into southern Africa was fueled by three prime factors: first, the desire to control the trade routes to India that passed around the Cape ; second, the discovery in 1868 of huge mineral deposits of diamonds around Kimberley on the joint borders of the South African Republic ( called the Transvaal by the British ), Orange Free State and the Cape Colony, and thereafter in 1886 in the Transvaal of a major gold find, all of which offered enormous wealth and power ; and thirdly the race against other European colonial powers, as part of a general colonial expansion in Africa.

Mackinnon then approached J. F. Hutton, a business acquaintance also involved in colonial activities, and together they organized the " Emin Pasha Relief Committee ", mostly consisting of Mackinnon's friends, whose first meeting was on 19 December 1886.

Following the end of the slave trade, Portuguese commerce stultified, and the town was eventually handed over to France on 22 April 1888, in a deal brokered amongst the colonial powers at the Berlin conference of 1886.

The territory had been under the tutelage of the government settled in Cartagena-except a brief period of time when it was under the jurisdiction of the central government in Bogotá-this control was effective by several denominations while the country evolved from its colonial institutions until its final republican form in 1886 and until the establishment of Sucre as a department independent from Bolivar.

Final borders were established by means of agreements reached between the two colonial powers in two series of negotiations, in 1886 and 1902-5.

* James Allen ( Australian colonial author ) ( 1806 – 1886 ), English-born writing in colonial Australia and New Zealand

The Order of the Dragon of Annam was created on March 14, 1886, in the ancient Vietnamese city of Huế, by Emperor Đồng Khánh of the Imperial House of Annam, upon the " recommendation " of the President of France as a jointly awarded French colonial order.

After British control of Assam in 1826 and of Upper Burma in 1886, vast areas of hill tracts between India and Burma still remained beyond imperial surveys and colonial conquest.

In 1886, at the invitation of the South Australian and Victorian colonial governments, the Chaffeys undertook several irrigation projects in Australia, establishing colonies at Renmark and then Mildura.

In 1886, at the beginning of their colonial rule, the Belgians changed the city's name to " Coquilhatville ".

Though intended to replace the Lebel Model 1886 and Berthier rifles as well as Berthier carbines, budget constraints limited MAS-36 production, and it served along with the former rifles in many French army and colonial units.

Sir George William Des Vœux, GCMG ( 22 September 1834 – 15 December 1909 ) was a British colonial governor who served as Governor of Fiji ( 1880 – 1885 ), Newfoundland ( 1886 – 1887 ), and Hong Kong ( 1887 – 1891 ).

George Fletcher Moore ( 10 December 1798 – 30 December 1886 ) was a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and " one the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite " ( Cameron, 2000 ).

Lockier Clere Burges ( c. 1814 – 31 July 1886 ) was an early settler in colonial Western Australia who became a leading pastoralist in the colony, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.

The authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly after the founding of Germany in 1871, and from 1886 onwards the Prussian Settlement Commission was active in increasing German land ownership in formerly Polish areas.

Polish patriots continued to form societies ( such as the Central Economic Society for the Grand Duchy of Poznań ), and a Polish theatre ( Teatr Polski, still functioning ) opened in 1875 ; however the authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly through the Prussian Settlement Commission ( founded 1886 ).

The Bayreuth authorities allowed unstaged performances to take place in various countries after Wagner's death ( e. g. London in 1884, New York City in 1886, and Amsterdam in 1894 ) but they maintained an embargo on stage performances outside Bayreuth.

The authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly after the founding of Germany in 1871, and from 1886 onwards the Prussian Settlement Commission was active in increasing German land ownership in formerly Polish areas.

In British India, too, Leo established a Catholic hierarchy in 1886, and regulated some long-standing conflicts with the Portuguese authorities.

A military plot formed, and on the night of 20 August 1886 the conspirators seized the prince in the palace at Sofia and compelled him to sign his abdication ; they then hurried him to the Danube at Rakhovo, transported him on his yacht to Reni, and handed him over to the Russian authorities, who allowed him to proceed to Lemberg.

In 1886 Geronimo surrendered to U. S. authorities after a lengthy pursuit.

In 1886 Harnack was called to the University of Marburg and in 1888, in spite of violent opposition from the conservative church authorities, to Berlin.

In 1886, Robinson investigated the charges brought against Sir John Pope Hennessy, Governor of Mauritius, and decreed his suspension pending the decision of the home authorities, who eventually reinstated Hennessy.

Having been refused permission to travel through Siberia, he set off on 10 March 1886 through Afghanistan where he was expelled by local authorities.

The authorities, however, continued efforts to Germanize the region, including through the activities of the Prussian Settlement Commission, founded in 1886.

In 1886 a bookstore with Polish books and publications was opened in the town and came into conflict with German authorities who wanted it to remove Polish language signs

In consequence of a dispute with the authorities over the question of his right to make provincial tours in France he resigned in 1886.

In a bid to evade the authorities as the SS Fanny neared Ireland, Major Crawford purchased the SS Clyde Valley ( 1886 ) in Glasgow.

The establishment of the mounted unit is directly related to the four-month Toronto streetcar strike of 1886, when authorities called on the Governor General's Horse Guard Regiment to assist in suppressing the strike.

Wall had been with the Marion Herald before he started The Vernon Courier which was in 1886.

The paper was started in 1886 by volunteers including Peter Kropotkin and Charlotte Wilson and continues to this day as an unpaid project.

Roberta started out in 1886 as a railroad office and warehouse " Roberta, ca.

The first popular male impersonator in U. S. theater was Annie Hindle, who started performing in New York in 1867 ; in 1886 she married her dresser, Annie Ryan.

Wilson started as a company town for Robert E. Lee Wilson's nearby logging and sawmill operation founded in 1886.

Seeking to create a local trading center, he formally established the town in July 1886, gave land for a Catholic Church and cemetery, and started several businesses including a general store, grain elevator, post office, lumberyard, and a coal yard.

Gretna started shortly after the Burlington Railroad built a short line between Omaha and Ashland in the summer of 1886.

Countywide problems caused by the contaminated water supply were not solved until 1886 when Lima started a municipal water system.

In 1886 the Linewebber and Brown cannery was started to take advantage of the plentiful fish in Nestucca Bay, shipping 12, 000 cans of salmon a year and providing an economic basis until 1926 for the region, along with logging and dairy farming.

The towns of Rosemary and Harpers Crossroads were settled along the Georgetown and Western Railroad which started operation in 1886.

Three successive almanachs of unintroduced nobility have been published ; the first one was started in 1886, the second in 1912, and the third in 1935 ; it was most recently published in 2010.

Furnivall was always an enthusiastic oarsman, and till the end kept up his interest in rowing ; with John Beesley in 1845 he introduced the new type of narrow sculling boat, and in 1886 started races on the Thames for sculling fours and sculling eights.

The tunnel opened to goods trains in September and to passenger traffic in December 1886, nearly 14 years after work had started.

Telephone service in the area started in 1886.

In 1886, first public school started working.

1886 – 1911: The railway line from Buenos Aires, built by the Buenos Aires Great Southern reached Mar del Plata in 1886 ; the first hotels started their activity.

This work started in 1886, but there is no record of exactly what was done.

Neher & Sons, the aluminium manufacturers, started in 1886 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, at the foot of the Rhine Falls-capturing the falls ' energy to produce aluminium.

This process started from the very first professional choir, organized in Georgia in 1886 ( so called " Agniahsvili choro ").

He started his career before the American Civil War and continued to play professionally until 1886, when he was 43.

Returning in 1886, Bell started building an estate on a point across from Baddeck, overlooking Bras d ' Or Lake.

A second community, the " new " Claiborne, was started in 1886 when Gen. Joseph B. Seth and the Baltimore & Eastern Railroad Company agreed to begin ferry and railroad service between Claiborne and Bay Ridge, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.