Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-10-28
COURT MATTERS.

Judge Thos. Smith, A. A. Jones and w,
B. Bunker were returning court attaches
from Springer, last evening.
I Mike Slattery boarded last evenings
train for San Narcial, after being out Of
pocket in attendance at the Springer court.
| David Mckee, night policeman at Ration,
and John wilbur were acquitted on the
charge of the larceny of a horse, at the
| Springer court.
John Henry Teltlebaum has fetched suit
against j. B. Mackel on an alleged breach
of contract, claiming damages In the
amount of $1,000.
Prof. T. d. Lieb and a party named
Gavin were admitted TO the bar at the
| Springer court, on certificates, till the
meeting of the Territorial supreme court,
uuder the new rules.
On October 18th, there was in the court
fund for Union county, $2.046.53, deducted
from which are the expenses OF the
Thompson murder trial, at Springer,
amounting to between 5000 and 500.
@. o. Bell pleaded guilty to the larceny
| Of a calf from Parson brothers, Of Ponil
pork, Colfax county, and was sentenced at
| Springer to one year in the pen, the sem
tence being suspended during good be-
havior.
The suit of Eli Green versus Teodoro
Ortiz, which was settled in Justice
Wooster's mill, is not docketed for Judicial
-.;.l;o- q, tha distr;ot corrk and tho
magistrate will take due and timely notice
Of this fact.
The Las Vegas court will convene, next
week. the United States grand jury being
~empanelled on Monday; the Territories
grand jury on the second Monday, and the
Territorial petit jury on the third Monday
of November.
John Lee, of Trinidad, Colo, a verit-
able old-timer 10 Colfax county, this
Territory, has filed a suit against the
Springer mercantile and banking com :
pany AMI others. by virtue Of certain
certificates of stock by him held, asking
damages in the sum of $4,000.
Tax suits have been instituted by the
| special attorneys for the Territory against
the following named parties for amounts
ranging from 500 up: Geist & Prigmore,
| w. A. Owens, o. L. Houghton, Trad
| Cochran, New Mexican filigree company,
Las Vegas brewing company, w. G.
Hayden, assignee. ta
Every business man in Colfax county,
guilty of violating the Sunday closing law
of the Territory, against whom any evil
dence could be found. was indicted by the
grand jury Of that county in session at
Springer. The New Mexico law is very
strict on Sunday closing, but no attention
had been paid to the law for about tw 0
years, up that way.
Sheriff Marion LittrelI, II Colfax county
with Deputies Fl. K. Fuller and sieve Tru-
jillo, were passeugers ter Santa Fe. last
evening, in che GO Of i've prisoners con
signed to thu Territorisl penitentiary for
terms raging from one to i've years. They
were. Louis Martin, one year for horse
stealing; A. @. Jarvis, colored, five years
for various thefts; Juan Amparano, one
year for horse stealing; Severe MontoYa,
two years and six months for horse steal
ing, and e, j. Stark, two years and six
months for stealing q carload OF sheep
The minions of the law also had In charge
Scipio Aguilar, who was remanded to San
Miguel county, turning him over to Sheriff
Hilario Romero for safe keeping.