Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-21

proved-"Pap" WaIIker~AOur Fruit
Growing Interests-NIr. T~witchelrs
Denial-The Governors stan, etc
Special Correspondence ofthe Optic 4
SANTA lie, August 10 "A great out
rage has been -perpetrated ~ some
Trinidad, Colo, correspondent, writ
log to the New York Times OF the 7th
instant. In a column -and-a-half ar
ticle, printed in the Times Of that date,
under glowing headlines reading thus;
"Western Bandit Caught-Six Men
ard Two Women Charged With the
Murder of Green and Kelly-Many
Crimes to Their Score-Congressmen
Catron a Member OF the Organization
Which COMMITTED q Series OF Muir
ders Between Albuquerque and Trit :
dad" II is charged that ex Delee ate
Catron and others have long been at
the head OF two bands Of outlaws.
operating in New Mexico and 81 nth
ern Colorado; that the gang, while
} working under one executive head, had
two divisions ; one had its headquar-
:. tiers at Santa Fe, and was known as
the button, or Borrego gang, while
the other, the Trinidad end Of the en-
I terprise, was known rs the Archuleta
e faction. "The lives sacrificed by these
i outlaws number more than two score,'
says the Times article, and Catron's
colleagues, it asserts, were "men OF
national reputation men as At
n torney Spices, M. w. Mills, Cipriano
Lara, 8. w. Dorsey, Henry Sturges,
w. G.. Wrieley, Garnett Lee. DR.
Kohlhousep,'' and so the Trinidad dis,
j. patch in the New York Times runs on
lie adj n%daseain.
r. Isn't this the rankest aud most malici
GUS rotP What possible apology car
I. here be for coupling the names of thes'
g we'll known and lifelong residents o
New Mexico with the gang OF fiend'
Ewho ASA ssinated Kelly and Greer
n Anear Trinidadp Catron, 1t Is true, wa
& woefnlly mixed up with the Borreg'
+. crimes, but he certainly had no concerI
~ withsthe Green and Kelly ffflir, and a
most of the other oitigens nance
as his "colleagues, 4" why, they scarce
~ speak to Catron, and some OF then
have stood as his personal and politi
IS cal ene miles for years past.
IS The NJ y York Times may ba Gale
y upon to disclose the name OF its Trim
dad correspondent, and possibly tn
\, Times may haye q libel suit on ii
~sEnand, before long. Certainly, it will
P these citizens have the grit we believ
g them to possess.
ne Under a mandate ISSUED by the So
- preme court of the Territory, to-day
Z Henry Daniels, a murderer, confine
c;n the Grant county iii, will b.
hanged, on September II b.
a. Hon. Qlinby Vance sent his oficis
bond as encouragement up from La
Cruces, this morning, and, bright an
Early, K. A.. Fiske. Esq, appeared be
Id tore Judge N. B. Laugblin with il
10 Tie sureties are Martin Lehman an
Numa Raymond, who qualify in til
y um OF $85. 900. Judge Laughli
q promptly approved the instrument
IN Mr.. Vance will take charge Of tn
he Office, about September 1,t.
Register James I'll. Walker, Of the U
= =. land Office at Santa Fe, has he'll
down that post of duty most faithful.
se Tor four years and n week. There !
e no sign Of a early change.
Secretary Lonon Miller, of the Ter
%ritorial bureau Of immigration, is com
ng home from the east about day aftel
tomorrow. He has been 10 Chicago
,r for the good of New Mexico fruit grow
era. urging the A. I. s. 5. F. to put OF
q line Of refrigerator cars, and en- route
nome he hit W~arrensburg, Mo-, for t
few days, t o cross palms with a host o.
dig hearted folk who knew him wher
, be used to wear blue Aannel shirt ant
vas just a plain, every day, horny.
= handed miner.
70 The New Mericon denie hog q v
is ernor Olero has offered r.. Twitchel,
the Territorial solicitor-generalship
Well, then, there is a whopper out,
somewhere!
. Capt. E. G. Austen, the portly and
popular cattleman, of San Migue'
10 county, is shortly to be named as ON
"a of G vernon O.ero's official st:f
When he and Col. Harry Whighan
ion their new Uniforms, won't they
make a swell pair to draw TOP Blu
. here are others. 80 NERtTAs.