Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-01
ANTO. JOSEPH'S GRANTS.
How He Obtained Possession Of Two
thirds of the Oj0 Caliente Tract
and Valuable Springs
Thereon.
Atfidavits from Numerous Persons Who
Were Deceived by Joseph-Was
He Honest?-Judge for
Yourselves.

lIO 1IOllCSLi oNASoS ASA
Yourselves.
The New MEXICAN has been furnished
with fourteen affidaVits showing how DO
seph obtained deeds to large portions of
the Oio Caliente grant and to the very
valuable springs thereon. The deeds
given by the persons who make oath as
riven below are now recorded in the
counties of Taos and Rio Arriba and are
regular warranty deeds, although these
persons swear they did not so intend
them.
Ii is plain from the atliddvits that the
persons who made the deeds were de-
ceived. How about misrepresentation,
deceit and false pretenses; were these
practiced by Joseph in these instances or
were they not? Read and Judge forge
self:
Affidavit No. 4.
l, Ana Maria G. de Jarumillo, widow of
the late Pedro l. JarNmillo, land owners,
and interested parties in the Ojo Caliente
grant, testify that in deed that we made
to Antonio Joseph, on July %, 1878, res
pecting the Ojo Caliente grant, it was not
our intention to sell nor convey, in any
way, our rights in the grant, but that we
signed such deed with the only intention
and object of empowering the SAID Jo-
seph, to represent in our behalf, said
grant, and thereby avoid its being divided
according to the partition law. We I'M
derstand the deed to be as an agreement,
and. on our part, it was not an absolute
sale
Signed by me this 25th day of February,
1892.
ANA MARIA G. DE JARAMILLo.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
25th day of February, 1892.
SEAL. CHAs. A. SpIEss,
Notary Public.
Affidavit NO.%.
This certifies that We the undersigned,
residents of this place and interested par
ties in the Ojo Caliente grant:
We testify that certain deed that when
we signed in favor of Antonio Joseph,
on July %, A. D., 1873, regarding the Oio
Caiente grant, it was not our intention
to sell nor convey, in any way, our rights
in said grant, but that we construed it
and understood it, according to our
agreement with Mr.. Joseph, to be only
to empower him as our attorney in said
grant, in order to avoid, thereby, the
division of said grant, according to the
partition law, which was i'll force at that
time. We further deny emphatically
that we have ever been paid any con
sideration, either in cash or otherwise,
for our rights, according to said deed,
but that it was an agreement as afore-
said. MANUEL JARAM1LLo,
MARIA DEL ROSARIO BALDEs DE JARAMILLo
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 27th day of February, 1892.
SEAL. CHAs A. SPIEss,
Notary Public.
Affidavit No. B.
This certifes that we the undersigned,
residents of Ojo Caliente, do not ac-
knowledge to have sold to Antonio Jo-
seph, any right in the Ojo Caliente grant,
because we do not consider we own or
ever owned any such rights in said
grant. 1t is certain we sold him the
rights we might have had in the Hot
Springs, in case we might have any such
right; but as to the grant, we deny that
we ever sold anything.
Signed this 2Sth day of Feb, A, D., '92.
MoNICo VIALpANDo
her
MARIA IsIDoRA ORTIZ DE VIALpANDo.
mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 2Sth day of February, 1892.
TsEAL. CHAs. A. SPIEss,
Notary Public
Affidavit No. 4.
This certiies that we, the undersigned
residents in the grant of Ojo Caliente
that in deed or agreement that has been
made to Antonio Joseph on the 23d day
of July, A. D. 1873 regarding the Ole
Caliente grant, it was not, nor has it been
our intention to sell or convey our right
in said grant; inasmuch as it was ex
planned to us, by Mr.. Joseph, that the OBJ
iect of the deed was only to empower hin
i'".u L." i' ,nr, behalf, might rep"nsert
said grant for the purpose ol avoiding 1t:
division, according to the provisions Of
the partition law, which was in force a
that time, and we have never made to sale
Joseph any bona fide sale of the right We
believe we have in the said grant, for w
deny emphatically that we were ever pait
any consideration, either in cash or other
wise, for our rights because 1t was not
nor has it been, our intention to sell GU
rights by said deed.
Signed by us this eth day of February
A. D, 1892
his
JOSE GABRIEL X VALDEZ,
, mark
, her
MARIA TRINIDAD o. VALDEZ.
mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me thi
9th day of February, 1892,