Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-01-29
OFFICIAL GRIST.
Sale Of Unauthorized School Charts,
Etc.-That Writ of Prohibition
Capital City News Notes.
pRoH1BIT1vE WRIT RECOGNIZED.

III tno liatter Oh tn6 WFlV RrHutou W
by Judge Fall, of the New Mexico su
preme court, prohibiting Judge Seeds
as U. s. district Judge from hearing the
case of A. M. Hendry vs.. the Lincoln
Lucky Lee Co. until the question of juris
diction was passed upon by the territorial
supreme court, Gen. Bartlett and Mr.
Spiess appeared as friends of the court
and asked that the writ be ignored on
technical grounds. Judge Seeds prompt
ly responded that he Was law-abiding
citizen and should be governed by the
prohibitive writ of superior authority
until the question was passed upon by
the supreme court. A writ of prohibit
ton was waved in the Conklin- Cunning
ham case aud that case was continued
until the question Of jurisdiction was dis
posed of.
UNAUTHORIZED SCHOOL APPARATUS.
An energetic Chicago agent, Mitchell
by name, has been selling great num-
Der of unauthorized charts and other
school apparatus in various counties in
this territory. Hon. Amado Chaves,
superintendent of public instruction, has
written letter on the subject to the
county treasurer of San Miguel county
which appears bAlow.s Similar, letters
have been sen. to the treasurersp Of other
counties where this man has been operat-
ing. 1t has been the custom not to per-
NIT any charts or apparatus of any kind
to be used in any of the common schools
of the territory before the same have
been examined and approved by the ter
ritorial board of education. Hon. E. A.
Fiske has been employed by Mitchell to
bring this matter before the courts with
a view to compelling the various county
treasurers to pay all such warrants. This
will settle the question as to whether the
board of education has the power Of Sc
Letting the charts, ETC., that are to be
used in our public schools, and the legal
aspect of the case has interest for all who
desire to see our present public school
system remain in tact:
Hon. J. n. Tafoye, County Treasurer San
Miguel County, N. NJ.
Santa Fe, Jan. ~, '94.--Dear Sir. I
have been informed that one Geo. D.
Mitchell, Of Chicago, has been selling in
your county some charts and other
apparatus that have never been adopted
by the territorial board of education.
He has received from the directors war
rants against yen in payment for said
charts, etc. In view of the facts In this
case, I have the honor to request you not
to pay any such warrants unless you are
compelled to do SO by order Of the dis
trict court. Very truly yours.
AMADO CHAvEs,
Supt. of Public instruction,
OFFICIAL NOTES.
The postoface at Carr, N. NJ, is to be
supplied on the route from Fort Wingate
to Ramah.
U. s. Marshall Hall reports that the
United States witnesses and Jury funds
are exhausted. It is presumed that con-
gress will soon make an appropriation to
supply the deficiency. III
"a The y. s. petit jury and the U. 8. wit
nesses, except those before thefgrand
jufy, have been discharged. tits pfoba-
Bile that the y. 8. grand Jury will be dis
charged Tomorrow. 24ag 8{j
7 'Nr.qM. "A. Otero, late district clerk in
ths fourth district, on Saturday after
noon settled IN full his accounts with the
territorial auditor, and returned I'd Las
Vegas with hts hnal receipt and . large
smile.' s''fss asaEsa
In the criminal libel suit brought by
II. ii. Belts before Judge Isaac Givans 81
Silver City against Prof. Thielman,
superintendent Of county schools, the
court held that there was no law on the
statute books to prevent any person from
expressing his or her opinion ofanother, In
print, in public OF in private. /.
Bills Of exception have been filed at
Albuquerque in the case of SchoAeld, re-
ceiver of the Albuquerque National bank,
against Joseph e. Saint, receiver Of
the New Mexico Savings Bank 4 Trust
Co., and against Folsom. The supposition
is that the fling Of exceptions by defend
ants attorney Is but q preliminary step
to taking the case to the supreme court
of the territory, e
Col. Thos. M. Jones, special agent in
charge Of the Is. Indian school, has
sent. q requisition to the department for
clothing necessary for 100 pupils. Only
two appointments have thus far been
made. These are Mrs. Helen Thomas, OF
Omaha, assistant matron, and Mr.. e. w.
Pike, late Of st. Louis, clerk. Other sap.
pointments will be announced from
Warrington at an early day.