Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-12-20

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JtIL,
Marcelno Garcia, county clerk, now IN
jal for refusing to obey the orders OIL the
district court, and posing AS q martyr, was
serenaded last night at the county jail by
a lot of men picked up for the purpose by
the gang that is doing and advising all
this laWiessness going on. The demon
stration was in progress during
the better part OF the evening: |
While this was going on, and the jail
was surrounded by quite crowd, rob
berry OF a business house was committed
on a block but a short distance away from
the jail. These proceedings may be very
funny and again they may not be, taken
singly or together still they show very
bad state of affairs to exist and one that
ought to be put stop to by some means
and that at once. The good citizens and
taxpayers ought to organize and take
hand in this business.
THE GALIsTEo PRECINCT CERTIFICATE.
As the New MEXICAN stated the other
day, negotiations by the Democratic
bosses to secure an affidavit from Severe
Montoya, one Of the judges OF election at
Galisteo. to the effect that the certificate
that he signed was incorrect and wrong,
etc., are still going on; they have not
been concluded at this writing The al
tidavit, if secured, is to be used to Dust
the legally elected members to the legis-
lature from this county, should the bosses
organize that body as they have in mind
of doing remarkably fine state OF
affairs this. At 3 p. NJ. the New MEXI-
CAN is informed that the negotiations are
u failure now, what next"
THE TAOS COUNTY DISGRACE.
C. NJ. Cenklin returned from Taos
county last night. lie was designated by
District Judge Seeds some days ago to
proceed to Taos, having in custody Coun-
ty Commissioners Alos SCheuriCh and
+. r. Montoya, who were directed by the
court to count the complete Taos county
election returns or go to jail for contempt
He tells q rather remarkable story. lie
arrived in Taos on Friday the 18th, and at
2 o'clock that afternoon two of the com
missioners, ScheuriCh and Romero, be-
gan to count the votes, Montoya claiming
to be i'll. They counted precincts Nos.
. and 3. when ScheuriCh refused to count
precinct No. 4. They then adjourned to
Saturday, when they again met and
counted some OF the precincts, and Scheur-
ich refused to count precinct IS. Officer
Conklin went then to see if Conn. Mon
toya was we'll enough to attend the meet
ing ofthe board, but Montoya said he was
still i'll. On Monday the board met, all
commissioners being present, and pro
ceeded to count all precincts, save 4, II,
- and Is. These SGheurich and Mon
toya declined to count, saying they would
not obey the courts order. Mr.. Conklin
then asked the assistance OF the sheriff
to confne them, under the courts order!
OH the county JAIL but the sheriff refused
to comply.
Three Justices of the peace, Fernando
Salazar, David Struck and Sill
viano Lucero then got together
and issued a writ of habeas corpus
which the sheriff attempted to serve
upon Mr.. Conklin. When he refused to
acknowledge the authority of this .tri-
umvirate, they issued an order for arrest
and the sheriff thereupon placed officer
Conklin under arrest. There was great
excitement and armed men were plenti-
full. They took him to the court house
and there the three justices declared that
Commissioners Scheurich and Montoya
were blameless in the premises, saying
they cared nothing about the order from
Judge Seeds court which Mr.. Conklin
presented as the basis OF his author
ity and action. The sheriff was
called on again to arrest the
commissioners, but refused. On
Monday evening, Officer Conklin having
been released from custody, went and
served L. S. warrant upon Scheurich
and Montoya and they resisted, alleging
the warrant to be defective. At this time
fifty armed men were following Conklir
all over town. Scheurich finally, at the
suggestion OF Smith Simpson and Loren
20 Lobato, afterward acknowledged the
authority OF Officer Conklin in SERVING
the U. S. warrants, and pledged himsel
to appear in Santa Fe on Wednesday
next in company with the other commits
, sioner, Montoya. However, both OF then
disappeared on Monday night and have
not vet been located.