Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-04-24
IN THE LAND COURT.
Veeder's Victory i'll the San Miguel
del BadO Case-The Santa Fe
Grant-Extract from De
Vargas Diary.

In the U. s. court of private land claims
to.day decree of confirmation was en-
tered in the case of the San Miguel del
Bado grant, $4,000 acres in San Miguel
county, on the Pecos river. The court
confirms the grant to the people, to Juan
Marquee and fifty-four co-petitloners and
other settlers who occupied the land in
good faith prior to American occupation
of this territory, and rejects all other
claims, including that of ex-Vice Presi-
dent Levi P. Morton for a one-half inter-
est in the grant, holding that the grant
was not given to one man, from whom
Morton derived title, but to the whole
colony of settlers. There are 1000 voters
residing on this grant. The interests of
the people we're represented in court by
the Messrs. Veeder, of Las Vegas, and the
decree of confirmation is a splendid legal
victory for them. Mr.. Justice Fuller rem
tice Murray dissenting.
- THE SANTA FEE GRANT.
Attorney j. Fl. Purdy introduced more
documentary evidence in the Santa Fe
grant case to establish conflicting grants
Candelario Martinez and two other wit
nesses testified in relation to the Talaya
grant alleged to conflict with the Santa
Fe grant. Arguments in the case will
probably not commence before Friday.
DE VARGAS DIARY.
4bo ,,,o,,, ip%arostipo aybiiits
filed in this case by the attorneys for the
city is the following, an extract from De
Vargas diary; the original consists of 200
pages only lately discovered to be in the
possession of Hon. Antonio Ortiz Sala-
Ear, who received it from the late Gasp8r
Ortiz who, in turn, purchased it from Ira
M. Bond, private secretary to the unla-
mented Gov. Pyle, under whose mal-ad-
ministration so many of the ancient ar
chives of New Mexico were either lost,
stolen or sold for wrapping paper:
December LIST, 1893.
Entry into this town of Santa Fe, by
said governor and captain general.
On the sixteenth day of the month of
December, date and year above, l, the
said governor and captain general, about
the eleventh hour of said day, made my
entry into this town of Santa Fe, and
coming in sight of the walled village
where the Teguas and Tanos reside, with
the squadron on the march and in com
pany of the very illustrious corporation
| of this the said town and kingdom, its
high sheriff and color-bearing alderman
the captain, Don Bernardo Duran de
Chavez, carrying the standard referred to
in these acts and under which this land
was conquered, we arrived at the square
where we found the said natives congre.
gated, the women apart from the men, all
unarmed and abstaining from any hostile
demonstration, but instead behoving them
selves with great composure, and on prof
fering to them our greeting, saying
"Praise to Him" several times, they an
swered ''forever;" and seeing the approach
on foot of the very reverend father Gus
todian, Friar Salvador dc San Antonio
and in his train the fifteen monks, priest:
and reverend father missionaries and the
lay brothers of our father, St. Francis
chanting on their march divers psalms
l got down from my horse and my ex
ample was followed by the said corpora
ton, corporals and officers of war and by
the ensign of the royal standard in com
pany with the said high sheriff and color
bearing alderman, all having gone on
with the purpose of receiving the sale
reverend fathers, who, in union with thei
very reverend father custodian, came sing
ing in professional order, and then made
due obeisance as I was passing on my
way to the entrance of said village anC
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followers, ard in the middle of the square
q cross had been raised, where all present
knelt down and sang divers psalms and
prayers, including the Te Deum, and in
conclusion the Litany Of Our Lady, and
the said very reverend father custodian
attoning his voice, sang with such Joy and
fervor that almost everyone without ex-
ception was deeply moved by the happi-
ness of hearing in such place the praises
of Our Lord God and His Most Holy
Mother. And after he had sung the hymn
three times offered by congratulations
to said very reverend father and the rest
telling them that notwithstanding that
last year at the time of my happy con.
quest / had given possession to the very
reverend father, President Friar Francisco
Corvera, who was one of the fathers who
came at the time as chaplains to said
army, which said reverend father presi-
dent had witnessed and accepted, and in
this manner and in the name of this order
and in favor of his sacred religion would
do it again and would grant it to him
anew with great pleasure, considering the
great resignation with which all, together
with their very reverend father, do 80
heartily and freely agree to employ them
selves in the administration of the holy
sacraments in this said newly con-
quered kingdom; to which the
said very reverend father answered, ten
dering his thanks for himself and all his
order, and that by the use of said grant,
invested and given by me, the said gov
ernor and captain general, they had
enough for the maintenance of their
rights, much more than when they entered
Immediately in the administration of the