Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-01
SOME COURT MATTERS.

An appeal bond has been filed In the pro
bate court by John J. Meyer and wife te
recover children from the guardianship Of
N. Segura.
A subpoena, addressed to Rosita Polaco
at Trinidad, Colo, she being the defend
ant in a suit for divorce, pending in the
district court, has been returned, unopened
and unanswered.
In the Lynch mining case from Elizabeth.
town, a consent decree will probably be
entered by Chief Justice Smith, which
will not interrupt mining operations as al
present carried on.
Subp@nas have been issued and made
returnable on certain specified days 10 the
cases Of the U. s. against Teodoro Tenorio,
charged with bigamy; U. y. against vi
cente Duran, same charge; U. s. against
Antonio Jose Valdez, charged with rob
bling the postofice at Los Alamos.
Felix Papa, of Santa Fe, has been sp-
pointed and qualified by Probate Judge
Gregorio Varela as administrator Of the
estate Of Jesus Abran Mera, the first hus-
band of Mrs. Papa, also deceased, and thus
empowered to act in the matter of applica-
ton for a $1,000 Indian depreciation claim
In the case OF r. H. Hunt against Jesus
M. Garcia and others, out at Rociada Chief
Justice Thos. Smith has settled all differ
ences by awarding portions of the land in
dispute to each party, Hunt getting TWEEN
ty-five acres Of irrigable land out Of the
160-acre tract. Both parties can now pro-
coed quietly with their work of tiliipg the
soil unmolested, If they will have 1t that
way.
Perry Craig, Thomas N. Stowell, Will
lam Hampton, Frank Reynolds and Apo
Ionic Martinez, the persons implicated 10
the shooting Of Deputy Sheriff W. l.. Keys
at Monero, Rio Arriba county, and in re-
sisting the decree of the court as to SUR
rendering possession Of a mine, have been
arrested, at the instance of Chief Justice
Smith. The prisoners will be taken to
Santa Fs and arraigned before Judge NIB.
Laughlin for contempt. hedeputy sheriff,
although shot through the left lung, was
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THE SUPREME COURT TERM.
In THE SUPREME COURT OF THE
TERRITORY OF NEW MExIco,j
1t appearing to the chief justice and the
associate Justices Of the supreme court OF
the Territory of New Mexico that it is
provided by the organic act Of the Terri.
tory of New Mexico, that the time for the
annual term of said supreme court may be
fixed by the justices Of said supreme court
in vacation or at such other time as q
majority of said justices may determine;
and
WHEREAS, 1t further appears that on,
to-wit, the 9th day Of February, 1896, .
majority Of said justices@d | by an order
made a part of the records of said court,
and determine that the term Of
said supreme court beginning ON the last
Monday in July in each year be, and the
is abolished, and instead there cot
there should be two terms In each year of
said supreme court beginning respectively
the last Monday in June OF one year,
and the first Monday in January or the
year; and it further appearing that
there is doubt as to the validity OF said
order, because of its attempting to provi ie I
for two terms in each year, instead Of one;
further because 1t is also claimed that
the fixing Of the said annual term is to be /
BY act of the legislature and not by the
laid justices, therefore, we, the chief jas
ice and the associate justices Of the su-
'reme court Of the Territory OF New Mex
co. do hereby revoke and annul said or
Ter; and we further order, adjudge and
determine that the annual term Of the u