Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-09-25
1t is the Number of a Suit in the Dis
trict Court Filed Against Thomas
B. Catron and Settled
Yesterday.


as an ornament to his name and to BIT
known to generations yet unborn as The
Catron block. $40 - 4r f-..s
In. casting about for the means Of
erecting this edifice around whose exist.
ence SO many of his ardent ambitions
were to cluster, Mr.. Catron contrlved to
make low rate for the manufacture OF
his brick by 'F. g.
THE pENITKNTIARY ooNvICTs.
In fact, he succeeded in getting an agree
ment by which brick was to be furnished
him at the low rate of So per 1000, when
many others who were not 80 fortunate
were paying many times that amount in
cash for such building material. Be-
tween July, 1890, and May, 1891, 432,3o6
brick were gotten under this exceedingly
advantageous contract, and utilized in
the structure of this monument to a
great statesman, and, as subsequent facts
proved, mighty financier. .-,.
The building, like all others of its kind,
grew in stature and soon its lofty walls
began to overlook the foliage of the
plaza. IT'S said that as this dream of
Mr.. Catron's youth became more and
more a reality, he was accustomed Oft
times to stand at respectful distance,
surveying the approaching consumma-
ton of his plans with smile, almost
akin to the heavenly, illuminating his
capacious countenance.
And still the building grew! For in
July, 1891, 10000 additional bricks went
into it's spacious walls; and when little
later the turrets shone in their completed
splendor in the midday sun, twas said
by those who knew that 86,450 other
bricks of penitentiary origin had gone
into the edifce. The future private
office on the corner soon stood strong
and symmetrical in its entirety; and the
spacious library behind, which holds in
Vulnerable volumes and Charlie Spices
soon was the wonder of the whole New
Mexican bar. But around these all
holding them in firm embrace, were
solid walls of SO a 1000 brick furnished
by
THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
IT'S said, however, in holy writ, that a
day of reck oning always comes; and this
mex orable rule applies even to Thomas
B. Catron. For, some days later, a bill
was presented reading somewhat as fol.
lows: s.7
Dec 90, 1891
7. B. Catron, Dr., to the Territory of New
| Mexico:
For 1872 ,SO0 brick from July, 1880, to May, 1891
| 10000 brick in July, 1891.
86,450 brick in July, 1891. ~
53s, Total.
Bricks at $500 per NJ, 81 ,6l6.27, ~
1t might very readily have been sus
pected that 30 small an item as $1,000
especially as debt to another, would b'
spurned by man who has been for years
dealing in thousands of acres in lane
grants. And the course of the matter
Justified the suspicion.
For on February 8. 1898, the territory
came to the conclusion that the "waitinl
was weary, too weary" Its collector was
complaining that, as consequence of his
innumerable pilgrimages to the shrine
which Mr.. Catron had erected within thu
walls built of this self same brick, hi
shoes wore away with the week and his
salary was wholly devoted to paying
for sole-leather. Accordingly
PATIENCE CEASED TO Blk VIRTUE
on February 8, 1893, and upon that da,
the solicitor general fled suit under the
title of the territory against Thomas B
Catron, which was duly numbered 3,24C
by Clerk Goshorn. This suit alleges that
on the 31st day of May, 1891, the said
Catron was then and there indebted to
the said territory for the price and value
of goods bargained, sold and delivered by
plaintiff to defendant at defendants re-
quest. Gen. Bartlett concludes by making
the final touching statement, "yet de-
fen dant, not regarding his said promises
and undertakings, has not as yet paid said
sums of money nor any or either of them
nor any part thereof" wherefore judg-
ment for the full amount ia asked. Ac-
companying this petition to the court
was bill of particulars. as set forth
above. ~ sa' "t>>.
Mr.. Catron immediately entered an ap-
pearance in his own defense and on june
l3, 1893, the case was set for trial on June
,26, 1893. The case was not tried on that
day and went over to December II, when
it was set for trial on the 18th.
On December ~, all the possible re-
sources for delay having been exhausted
NIB. oATRoN OWNED up
in court language as follows: 70
"Case No. 3,24O.-Now comes the above
named defendant in his own proper per.
son and confesses judgment therein in
the sum of $l,SO2.l1, and authorizes the
clerk to enter such judgment Of record.
ut. B. CATRoN."
Judgment was entered up accordingly
on December Is, 1898, for that amount
That the public may understand how $1,'
SO2.1l was arrived at, it is proper to state
that interest on accounts run after six
months from the date Of the last item
and in the absence of express agreement
the rate is per cent. Accordingly, the
interest from January, 1892, to December
1893, was $1S5.s4, which added to the
original debt of $1,618.27, gave the
amount of the judgment, $1,s02.11.
1t is, however, as all who have ever par.
ticipatsd ina law suit we'll know, one
thing to get Judgment ard another
thing to
GET THE MONEY.
So the territory discovered most EN-.
phatically in this case; for from Decem
Der, 1898, up to yesterday, the judgment
rested upon the docket calmly awaiting
new developments.
These long looked for new develop
ments' came last Thursday at Socorro
when Mr.. Catron, having thrice spurned