Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06
OFFICIAL WAITS.
Newsy Paragraph OF General Moment
Gathered from Various Sources.

The poll tax lists have been ready for
delivery at Socorro since May l, but owing
to the new school law, have been with
held by order of the superintendent OF
public schools.
President Spiegelberg, of the Second
National bank, was the lowest bidder for
the territorial penitentiary bonds and to-
day the governor accepted his offer and
bought in $4,000 worth OF these bonds at
$685..
At meeting of the board regents of
the territorial insane asylum at Las Vegas
the architects were ordered paid $3,447,
estimates of the work done to date. Carl
w. Wildenstein was designated as the
member to visit Santa Fe and push
the sale of the bonds in the sum
OF $4,000. With this money in
hand, the insane asylum building will be
under roof by October l. Fifty thousand
brick were ordered from the penitentiary
yard in Santa Fe, il only being necessary
to pay the freight on the same.
At to-day's session of the territorial
board of equalization the appeal of Rev.
Gentle, of Albuquerque, was considered
briefly and more time given the appellant.
District Attorney Whiteman and Deputy
Assessor Bond appeared for Bernalillo
county and urged that no reduction be
made in the A. & ?. grant and other
cases from Bernalillo county. A letter
from the clerk of Dona Ana county mott
fed the board that Col. W. L. Rynerson has
appealed case wherein the Southern Pa
cifc roads assessment has been raised
from S. 900 to $4,000 per mile. The ap-
peal has not yet come to hand and the
board wrote the clerk to forward it at once.
Governor Prince will deliver the open
ing address at the territorial fair at Albu-
querque this year. His address last year
was grand advertisement for the re-
sources of the territory, and it's general
circulation in pamphlet form by the New
Mexico bureau of immigration has done
the territory vast amount Of good. He
is an earnest and untiring worker for the
interests of the people and development
of the territory, and no man is better fit
ted to deliver the address on 80 important
an occasion as the opening of what will
be the most complete exhibition of New
Mexico products ever seen.-Las Vegas
Stock Grower.
Some weeks since, Casimiro Cordova,
a prisoner from Grant county in the peni-
Tertiary, became mentally deranged, and
as there are no proper facilities for the
care OF a person in that condition at the
pententiary, the governor consented to
release Cordova if the county commits
sioners of Grant county would agree
to receive and take charge of him as an
insane man. This morning the governor
received an official document from the
county commissioners accepting this
proposition and agreeing to take charge
of Cordova, and accordingly pardon has
been issued, conditioned on his remain
ing in their charge until cured.
For cause deemed amply good and sui.
ficient the governor has committed the
sentence of Ralph Krewitz, of Socorro,
sentenced to three years for murder in the
third degree May 8, 1890, to one and a
half years imprisonment. Francisco Tru-
jillo, of Colfax county, sentenced for life
for murder, had his sentence committed
by Governor Ross to twenty-five years,
and now, because of the special good be-
havior of the convict and there being
some mitigating circumstances in his
favor, Governor Prince has further COM
muted his sentence to fourteen years i'm
prisonment.