Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-12-01
LOOKS DECIDEDLY FISHY
Inc Commissioners Evidently rIny ing at
SHARP practi ca-h Probablc Ruse

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Sheriff Chavez has not yet taken into
custody County Commissioners Sloan ard
| Martinez, committed to 60 to Jail for con.
tempt OF District Judge Seeds court.
/ Neither of the commissioners were in
| town on Saturday and Sunday. Commits
sioner WHY'S, however, was in town for
an hour or TWO on Saturday night and in
conference with the Democratic bosses
This morning the whole affair took
q fresh turn when Commissioner
Sloan arrived from Las Vegas
and proceeded to Judge Seeds
chambers where he stated to the Judge
that he was willing to obey the order of
the court requiring count to be made OF
the Cettti, ate Of election returns from
ttalisteO precinct, No s, and would as
chairman OF the county board call a
meeting of the commissioners for thig
purpose. Judge Seeds stated that this
vas satisfactory, and accordingly this
| forenoon Clerk Garcia drew up and sent
to Conn. Martinez and Conn. WHY'S
the following notice:
SANTA FL, n. NJ, Dec. /, lS0O.-Sir:
There will be a meeting of the board of
county commissioners tomorrow, Tues
day, December ., 1890, at 10 o'clock a. N.
Business 70 canvass the Galisteo certi-
fcato Of election. Please be present with
ont fail. BY order of the chairman.
,Sigued) VI. GARCIA, Clerk.
Mr.. WHY'S was also notified of this
meeting bv wire and some are of the opin-
ion that he will, i'll view Of his confessions
all along that lie wanted TO obey the
court order come up from Cerrillos to-
morrow morning and proceed to count
the returns, so that Sec. Thomas may
have them before him when the terri
tOrial vote is officially canvassed to-mor-
row.
On the other hand, however, it is re-
ported that Comrs. WHY'S and Martinez
will find 1t convenient, at the die
tation OF the Democratic bosses, not
to show up here at all tomorrow, nor any
other time very soon. From some quar-
tiers comes the intimation that this call for
Il meeting OF the board tomorrow is only a
ruse, and some say it was made for the
purpose of atfording Commissioners
WHY'S and Martinez ample time to clear
out Of the territory, the idea being that
they will remain absent until after the |
holidays, when the legislative assembly |
will have organized and that body, being
possibly Democratic, will recognize the
Democratic applicants for membership
from Santa te county, whether they
have any certificates or not. However,
this is as yet mere conjecture, and to-
events will probably reveal the
truth or falsity of it.
Under the wording OF the commitment
on which sheriff Chavez was ordered to
rearrest and commit Commissioners Sloan
and Martinez to Jail, he must make re-
turn on the same to the court on We'd
nesday next. The application to dissolve
the injunction restraining the issuing OF
by the board, which applica-
ton was filed by the Democratic attor-
neys last week, will not be argued until
after Wednesday.
The New MEXICAN has information from
Jerrillos this afternoon to the effect that
WHY'S is not there, and
vas last heard of on the east bound train
,oing toward Ration, having been in
las Vegas yesterday morning. This
would seem to give color TO the
eport that the proposition to
cunt the returns was put up
Oh which it WAS never expected should
,e carried ont.