Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-10
COURT MATTERS.

Optimus juder, qui minimum sibi.
He is the best judge who relies as little as
possible on his W discretion.
Fred G.. Brefeed has taken out his sec
ond naturalization papers.
Louis Gold is the name of the newest
janitor at the temple of justice.
Antonio j. Valdez has been on trial in
the U. 8. court o -day charged with break
ing into and b%urglarizing the postof1ce at
Los Alamos,
+. H. Pierce, superintendent of the
Aqua Pura company, and Orlando Smith,
the carpenter, are serving on'juries for the
first time in their lives.
VIM. H. Pope, the Santa Fe barrister,
was over, this week, taking testimony In
the matter of Francisco Delgado against
the Cerrillos Coal railroad company.
Ollin E. Smith, the limb o. the law, over
at Clayton. drew $32.5 so Of Uncle Sans
money as witness fees and mileage, and
presumably left town for his Union county
home.
The charge against Albert Noble and
Otis Snyder, robbing the U. s. mall at
Clayton, has been stricken from the docket,
a party named Chambers having con-
fessed the crime.
Sheriff Romero went down to. Rowe sta
tion, last night, and s~ubpoenaed margarine
and Agustin Prada as witnesses in the
suit for divorce instituted by Estefana
Baca de Vigil.
An a~mendmant ~ tba omardad orocs-
bill and an amended bill ofcomplaint have
been filed at the district clerks office in
the case of James Lynch against Q. EN-
ory Stevens and others, involving Eliza
BEETHOVEN mines.
An attachment was issued out of the U.
S. court, to-day, for the body Of Valentine
Jimenez, said to be the coroner of Mora
county, a regularly-subposnaed witness,
who failed to m~aterialize in the court
room, this morning.
Frank N. Page, of Puerto de Luna, and
Amarillo, Texas, has filed a forthcoming
bond of $3.50, with Gross, Blackwell g. Co.
as s%ureties, for the release Of his property
in Guadalupe county, in the suit fetched
against him by DR.. w. R. Upton.
Victoria Valdez de Olivas has been
granted a legal separation from her liege
lord, Andres Olivas, with permission to
again enter into the bonds OF matrimony,
II she so chooses; however, Don Andres,
the derelict husband, is restrained from
again contracting marriage with any
party. Poor fellow Whatll he do?
Men who know themselves to be guilty
OF crimes and misdemeanors are acting
rather more sensibly than usual at this
term Of court, in that they are walking up
to the judges stand and pleading guilty,
thereby affording Judge Smith some justi-
fcation in passing moderate sentences.
But whether the pleas of guilty are en-
tered at the suggestions of attorneys, who
have perhaps already pocketed their fat
retainers, the deponeth sayeth not.
A woman named Lucrecia Martinez.
who was brought over from Clayton, ar
raigne1 under the Edmunds act, and dis.
charged, now finds herself unable to get
back, though her child is reported quite
sick at Clayton. Mrs. McElroy has taken
her in out Of the wind and dust, tempo
rarily, but she has a hard enough row to
hoe. as IL is, without taking in charity
boarders for humanity's sake. The case
has been brought to the attention OF
Judge Smith, who viii probably see to it
that the woman is sent home, by the same
process Of law that brought Der hItber,