Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-03-06
OFFICIAL BUDGET.
Board of Penitentiary Commissioners
Rewards for Criminals-A
Missing Act-NOtes.

The new board of penitentiary com.
missioners met yesterday and organized
by electing ex-Gov. o. A. Hadley, oil
Watrous, president, and Mr.. W. E. Dame
OF Cerrillos, secretary. There was pres
ent full board. great deal of routine
business was attended to. Among other
things list of articles needed for the
ensuing six months was made up, for
which bids are called for elsewhere in
this paper. 1t was resolved to carry out
the usual plan of advertising for such
bids, that is, inserting the call in the New
MEXICAN, the Las Vegas Optic and Albu-
querque Citizen.
The board then adjourned till April 2
REWARDS FOR CRIMINALS.
The 31st legislative assembly provided
for the appropriation of $4,000 for pay
ing the executive rewards offered for the
capture of the San Miguel and Mora gang
of outlaws and to meet other rewards
Sheriff Cunningham, Deputy Sheriff Fe-
lipe Lopez, of San Miguel; Deputy Sher-
If VIM. Green, also of San Miguel, and
other officers of the law will come in for
and Billy Green called on Auditor Perez
in regard to the matter yesterday, but
got very little consolation. That officer
holds that there are now no funds in hand
to meet such items and thinks the bene,
ficiaries will be in luck should they gel
their money out of collections to be made
during the next two years. Mr.. Marcelinc
Garcia will soon become auditor, how
ever, and these claimants will then ask
him to take up the question and see if il
is not possible to secure immediate pay
ment of these rewards.
MISSING ACT.
"a Las Vegas young man, name not
necessary at this time, who has beer
spotted" as the fellow who most prob
ably pocketed and "doctored" the 5her
ifs bill over at Santa Fe, receiving $2t
for the naughty and hazardous work, may
yet find himself in peck of trouble, il
not to the penitentiary. He was ordered
to be brought before the bar of the coun-
Gil but couldn't be found by DR.. Strachan
the sergeant-at-arms of the upper body oil
the territorial legislature"
The above from the Las Vegas Optic
refers to one E. W. Pierce, clerk In the
late legislature who is believed to have
made away with bill referring to the
taxation of reservoir and ditch compan-
ies-not the sheriff's fee bill.
TIKI. ro, II u NJ 1A7 opoop5ipp {he
law so that at the end of six years the
exemption should cease and irrigation
corporations should pay taxes. The
measure was earnestly supported by
Messrs. Curry and Hinkle as per agree
ment with their constituents in the
lower Pecos country, and it was duly
passed by both branches of the assembly
but after receiving the signatures of the
chief officers of the two houses it appears
that Pierce got hold of it and pocketed
it, SO that it never reached the governor
Mr.. Curry discovered this on the last day
of the session and sent the sergeant-at
arms after Pierce but he could not be
found. 1t is supposed he was we'll paiG
by somebody to make away with the bill
OFFICIAL NOTES.
The United States land court opens iti
Arizona term at Tucson on the 18th
inst.
The official reports of the territorial
auditor and treasurer appear elsewhere il
this Issue of the New MEXICAN.
The Las Vegas normal school board
will meet on next Monday, soon after
which time the work of constructing the
building will commence.
Mr.. Martin Chaves, respected citizen
of Picacbo, Lincoln county, has been APP
pointed member of GOV. Thornton's
staff with the rank of major, vice George
Curry resigned.
1t is said that the late legislature made
provisions for the payment of reward
money to the amount of $1,000, over hall
of which will come to Las Vegas, besides
about 100000 in appropriations.-Lae
Vegas Optic.
There are forty criminal cases on the
docket of the district court, all of which
will come up for hearing at the APP
preaching special term. Five of these
cases involve the crime of murder or &C
cessory to murder before or after the act
Hon. John z. Victory yesterday for
mally succeeded Gen. Bartlett as solicitor
general of the territory and the law firm
of Victory & Pope was also organized
Their Offices for the present will be a
Mr.. victory's old office, on San francisco
street, almost opposite the NEW MEx1oAl
office.
At the local election held in Farming
ton in January the vote for Justice of tn,
peace "resulted" in tie between Mr.
Locke and Mr.. Willis. There was on,
defective ballot cast and the county com
missioners, after counting the vote, dc
clared Mr.. Willis to be the choice of tn,
people. The district court ruled other
wise, however, and another election viii
be held shortly to decide the matter.
One of those great big blanket news
papers published in the effete east an
nounces: "The income tax returns ar,
causing much distress of mind to man,
persons who are in doubt as to provisions
of the law which might exempt then
from making returns to the collectors
Precious few newspaper men in New
Mexico are distressed about making in
come tax returns. The average news
paper man Is not hog. He would re-
joice to pay 2 per cent on an income ir
excess of $4,000.