Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-04
COURT cuLLINos,

Judge Manuel O. dc Baca and ID. H..
Yeeder have been appointed appraisers Of
the Miguel Salazar estate.
IT, Ground, who resides two miles east
OF Beulah, has been excused from further
attendance at the U. s. court and handed
a check for 1920.
Members. Of tha legal fraternity are ex-
amining the library of the late Major
Miguel Salasar, with a view to purchasing
the books on the shelves.
Juan sails, who was committed TO the
Las Vegas jail for one year, In December,
1896, charged with adultery, has been
released from behind the bars.
Chief Deputy u. s.. MarshAi w. A, Cena-
man came over from Clayton, last even
ing, In time to partake of that epIcureau
game dinner at the Headquarters cafe.
Rosalio Ortega, indicted under the Ed.
munds act, not being willing to explain
his conduct, possibly, has gone, like the
Arab, and Uncle Sam asked for another
warrant for him-he 10 needed.
U. 8. court met, pursuant to adjourn
ment,n this morning, and adjourned over
another day, there being no cases ready
for trial. However, 1t lie thought the grand
jury will have supplied some by tomorrow
morning.
L. f. Churchill, of Puerto de Luna. who
was excused from service on the U. 8.
petit jury, drew $44.I0 for the trouble OF
coming to town and pouring his plaintive
talk into the ears of a sometimes cold and
a%ustere judge.
Robert ]. Steele, Of Colfax county, has
Instituted legal proceedings here for a
divorce from his wife, Ida May Steele,
she having been herself unsuccessful 10
getting the decree for which both seem to
pant and pine.
Out of the twenty Eve citizens sum-
moned to U. S. court to serve their country
on the petit jury. thirteen were unable to
sign their own names on the pay roll out
OF twenty-one members Of the U. 8. grand
jury, nine could not attach their John
Hancocks to that document.
AN IMPORTANT CASE.
On yesterday, in tho supreme court OF
the United States at Washington, d. c.,
the case of Guadalupe Bent and heirs OF
| Alfred Bent. deceased, vs.. the Maxwell
land grant company came up for hearing.
The compliments were represented by
Hon. J. G.. Carlisle, former secretary of
the treasury, while the claim was argued
H. No.. UraaH Gprfnrar IF T.aa Vanaa
This suit is for an undivided elfth
interest in the Maxwell grant and was
decided by the district and supreme courts
of New Mexico in favor of the grant COM
pany. 1t has been pending in the courts
for many years and is the last Of q long
list of cases involving the title to the
Maxwell grant.
The claimants were represented in the
lower courts by Messrs. Taylor d Mcneil
and Caldwell Yeaman, of Denver, and the
grant company by its counsel, Hon. Frank
Springer, tho able Las Vegas lawyer, who
has never yet lost a case carried up to the
highest judicial body of the land.
RIO ARRIBA coURT
The October special term of Rio Arriba
county district court at TERRA Amarillo
has been succeeded BY the regular term,
which bids fair to last till the middle Of
the month. The results OF the special
sitting were: The acquittai of Agapito
| Abeyta; thu conviction Of Juan Francisco
Lobato OF murder in the third degree for
the killing of his uncle, Jose de la Cruz
| Gallegos, near San Jose de Chama, on the
23d of December, 1894, by riding bis horse
over the deceased, by criminal negligence,
on the road to San Juan; the conviction
of one other of cattle-stealiDg and the
acquittal Of two petty offenders. In both
the convictions mentioned, the jury rec
commended clemency, and Judge Laughlin
stated that he felt it his duty to give
effect to the recommendation. Juan Fran
cisco Lobato was sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for two years and the Gentleman
to the same institution for the period Of
eighteen months, and fined $500 which was
RENTED.