Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-01-05

Two heads in close neighborhood
Judge Falls and Don Felix's. Now, what
Veremos.
TT. M.--"That's pretty slick mes.
sage, but you ought to hear one down in
Arkansas"
Postmaster Anastacio Roibal, of Pecos.
town, is an on-looker at the Legislative
assembly to-day.
Say, governor, why didn't you versify
the close of your message? The poetry
was there without its peculiar vestment
Measrs. Alex Gusdorf and Alloys
Scheurich, prominent citizens of Taos
county, were about the legislative halls
to-day.
The clear cut, classical face of the Hon
W. E. Dame, speaker of the house of rep.
resentatlves, ia an index Of the metal that
is in the man.
Councilman j. Frank Chavez was &C.
com panied to Santa Fe by his wife and
little child. They have apartments IN
the Delgado block on water street.
A Member:-"Please, dear, good Mr..
Carr, won't you stop objectlng SO we can
get down to businesss Remember Hol-
mani" But Mr.. Carr ID watchful, pains
taking, scrupulous legislator"
How like the voice of Actor Robson is
that of the president of the senate! One
almost expects to see him toss penny
to determine whether he shall buy or sell
stocks as "Bertie, the Lamb"
The Albuquerque Citizen is inconsist-
ent, as usual. On its editorial page it
says: "Fort Catron is impregnable.
Long may it's battlements frown down
upon the historic plaza of Santa Fe." On
its news page it has head line which
says: "Republicans of the house sur
render and give in.-Heavy snowfall in
southern Europe" The Citizen should
have said: Sand the next day it showed
"Gov. Thornton virtually admits that
at the least the council would have stood
that is, he tacitly admits that the eaui-
ties for swearing in purposes were with
j. M. G. Chavez and j. A. Ancheta as
against Larragoite and Miles."--Albu-
querque Citizen. The governor was seen
about this to-day and he said he admitted
nothing of the sort, fully endorsing the
action of Secaetary Miller i'll the premises
The Citizen is evidently pretty badly
ratified.
A dispatch from Springer of date the
Sd inst, says: "The new board of county
commissioners met yesterday and organ
lied by the selection of Thos. Fisher for
chairman. The first official act of the
new board was to make re-canyass OF
tho election returns of this council dis
trict, aid as might be expected, they re.
versed the order of the retiring board by
granting certificate of election to A. G.
Voorhees," Indeed? Aud thereby an at
tempt is made to give the notorious cleo
tion frauds in Colfax the stamp of official
approval, ehr What boots it? Mr.. Voor'
hees is out and the duly elected member
Mr.. Abeytia, is iu!"
Mr.. j.. w. Lenoir, clerk of the district
court for the Bird Judicial district, came
up from Las Cruces last night with the
court records necessary for a fnl investi
CATION of the pending charges against A
L. Christy, the would-be representative
from Grant county. Mr.. Lenoir will ties
tify before the house committee ap
pointed to look into the charges pre-
ferred. 1t is stated that the proof of Mr.
Christy's shortage is of an indubitabl.
character and that the alleged receip
he holds covers only very small portion
of the shortcomings charged to Mr..
Christy's account while clerk of the court
Publications have been industriouslJ
made by the Albuquerque. Citizen in It'll
last issue or two to the effect that Score
tary Miller seated Severino Martinez, thu
Colfax Democratic representative, in
stead of q. W. Cook, elected on the ko
publican ticket, on telegram from The
county commissioners to the effect that &
by the board. In this statement as usua
the Citizen studiously avoids the truth
the only respect in which its publication
has show of truth being the ststement
that Secretary Miller acted upon a tele
-, gram from the board OF county commits
sioners from Colfa1 county. The tele
gram was statement that a certificate
had been issued to Martinez and embodied
in the telegram was an exact copy of thu
certificate issued showing that on re
count Of the vote the evidences of franc
required the throwing out of two pre-
cincts and the issuance of a certificate .
election to Martinez by the Colfax count!
board. The next mail brought to thu
secretary's Office, duly signed, the certifi
cate of election of which the Telegram
WAS q copy. la recognizing the tele
graphic certificate, Secretary Mile
simply performed the duty imposed upor
him by law. Had he done otherwise thar
to swear in Mr.. Martinez, he would hav'
done serious injustice to man whom
the proper authorities certified to hav'
been elected. In the list of its New
Years resolutions, the Citizen evidentl.
omitted one resolving to quit misrepre
sention.