Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-09-04
CAPITAL CHAT.
The Land COurt-CanOn del Aqua
Grant at Last Settled
Those Protection
... Cases.

The land court this morning announced
decision confirming the Canon de Car
men grant, the parties to the case being
Pablo Crespin and others on the one hand
and the government on the other. About
10000 acres in Bernalillo county were in
volved in the case. Mr.. F. w. Clancy APP
ordered q continuance of the case of j.
Francisco Chavez vs.. U. s. This was
done on the application of the plaintiffs.
The case of Mariana Lucero and others
involving the ownership of the Baltazar
Sisneros grant is being heard to-day.
This involves 5000 acres in Rio Arriba
county. Messrs Purdy and Wicks appear
for the plaintiffs and Mr. Burkhart for the
government.
END OF THE OLD CANON DEL Aqua GRANT.
On Friday, August 81, last, the COM
missioner of the general land office ap-
proved the late survey of the Canon del
Aqua grant as made by George Fl. Pratt,
U. S. deputy surveyor, under special in
structions from Surveyor General Easley,
dated October 20, 1898.
The old survey embraced 3,5O1.21
acres, and thus makes the addition to the
public domain 3,16O.17 acres. The new sur
vey was made in accordance with the decree
designating the location and boundaries
of the Canon del Aqua grant by the SUI
preme court of the United States. The
8, 16017 acres thus restored to the govern.
ment consists of some of the richest min
ing lands in south Santa Fe county and
this act perfeoting title thereto will be
hailed with delight by hundreds of miners.
THE PROHIBITION CASES.
The cases yesterday decided in the su-
preme court settled several questions of
law of interest and Importance to the
people and bar of the territory. The
efficacy of writs of prohibition was es-
pecialy fully treated in the Cunningham
and in the Lincoln-Lucky & Lee Mining
company cases.
The former was an application for a
writ of prohibition directed at Sheriff
Cunningham's instance to the board of
county commissioners of Santa Fe county
to restrain them from removing him
from Office. The other case WAS an ap-
plication on the part of the mining COM
pany to restrain Judge Seeds from trans
ferring the Hendry suit ON the dockets of
this district to the federal division of the
calendar.
In each case the writ of prohibition
was granted; in the first by Judge Collier,
in the second by Judge Fall. The court,
| in rendering decision sustaining the
| action of Justices Fall and Collier, says
| that the supreme court and its judges
have power to issue preliminary writs of
prohibition in vacation; that such ,writs
can be issued to either district court or
to board of county commissioners, and
finally that the power to do this was ex-
ercised wisely in the present instances by
Justices Collier and Fall.
OFFICIAL GOSSIP.
The official call for bids for peniten-
tiary supplies will be found elsewhere in
this paper.
The quarterly statements by the terri
torial auditor and treasurer will appear
in to-morrow's issue of the New MEXICAN.
Judge H. @. Sluss, of the land court,
left last night for his home in Kansas on
visit of week or more.
At Atrisco on Saturday evening grand
Publication was INDUCED in over the fav
orable decision in the Atrisco land grant
case at Santa Fe.
The clerk of the district court, Mr..
George Willis, reports matters very quiet
in the field of litigation for the last few
days. Only two suits have been filed,
one in behalf of Mariana Perea and
others against Trinidad L. Delgado for
the foreclosure of mortgage for $4,000
on property on College street. The other
is suit on account Mr.. Jake Gold being
the plaintiff.
Joe Hampson found the discharge of
John Caldwell, late sergeant in company
G, 1st New Mexico cavalry, in the streets
yesterday and turned it over to Adjutant
General Knaebel to be delivered to the
owner. If other good citizens would fol-
low this example and turn over these
papers when found, they would aid the
adjutant general in perfecting the records
of his Office.
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