Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-31
SIEGE AT FRANKFORT
Forty Mountaineers In the Building
From Which Shots Were Fired
At the Senator.
THELEGISLATURE HOMELESS
The Capitol Building Surrounded By Troops
and Entrance Is Only By Passes Leg
islature Will Certainly Declare
Goebel Elected

Frankfort KY. January 31.-The phy-
sician from Senator Goebels bedside at
2:10 a. m says that there has been no
change in his condition for two hours;
that he is in precarious condition.
Other information from the senator's S
room Is that should the wound prove
fatal 1t will be between and o'clock
this morning.
Frankfort, KY, January 31.-The
court of appeals has indefinitely ad-
journed, refusing to sit while the militia
is here. Letters were received from Mid
dlesboro to-day stating that Appellate
Judges Hazlerigg and Hobson We're to
have been killed yesterday
Frankfort KY, January 31.-At $40
o'clock this morning DR.. E. E. Hume,
who had been in attendance upon Mr..
Goebel throughout the night, announced
that there was hardly a possibility that
he could recover. THE only thing that
keeps him alive" said DR.. Hume, 'is
his splendid nerve. He cannot keep UP
on THAT alone, however, and I consider
death practically certain and that
Within a short time"
Goebel was troubled during the night
with frequent spells of nausea. Inter-
nal hemorrhage ceased, however. When
able to talk he insisted that he surely
was going to recover.
No progress has been made toward
apprehending the man who did the
shooting, and 1t Is not likely any will
be made. The police have practically
abandoned the case. A force of noun
taineers are in the building from which
the shots were fired, and nobody has
been allowed to enter 1t. Access is made
still more difficult now by a force of
soldiers stationed at every gate. Nobody
is admitted to the capitol grounds with
out a pass, and very few have been
issued. ALI night soldiers poured into
Frankfort, and at Z o'clock this morning
fully 1000 men with two gatling guns
were stationed at the capitol building,
and 800 more are expected during the
day.
Large crowds are expected at Frank
fort to-day. 1t is largely due to the
conservative attitude assumed by the
leading politicians of both parties that
4llera has not been fighting s@ the
streets. 1t is certain the legislature will
seat Goebel at the first session it holds.
II he is seated by joint ballot, Repub-
LEANS will refuse to surrender any of
the offices. They say the seating of Goe-
bel by a joint ballot is Illegal, even un-
der the Goebel election law, which pro-
vides that the contesting candidate for
governor shall be seated by a majority
Of both houses. Governor Taylor and
his attorneys remained all might at the
state house. Threats have been made
against all Of them.
Last night the contesting boards,
which for two weeks have been listen-
ing to the evidence in his contest for
the governors chair, declared him enti-
tied to the seat.
The boards having In charge the con-
tests bet, cen Goebel and Taylor for
governor and Beckham and Marshall
for lieutenant governor, by a strict par
ty vote Of 10 to declared William Goe-
bel ito have been legally elected gov
ernor of Kentucky.
The Beckham Marshall contest was
voted upon, and by a party vote of to
2 this matter was settled.
An effort was made by a number Of
Democrats to get quorum of both
houses and hold night session. hear
reports of the two committees at once
and adopt them and declare Goebel gov
ernor of Kentucky before morning.
The Republicans will probably, as
soon as a decision Is rendered in favor
Of Goebel, make application to the Unit
ed States circuit court of Cincinnati for
an injunction restraining Goe'bel and
Beckham from taking their seats, and
the battle then be continued before
Judge Taft, of that court
THE LEGISLATURE ADJOURNED.
Frankfort, KY, january S1.-Govern-
or Taylor ait 10 O'Clock issued the fol-
lowing proclamation:
To the General Assembly Of the Com
monwealth of Kentucky: Whereas, a
state of insurrectfon now prevails In the
state of Kentucky, and especially in
Frankfort, the capital thereof, by virtue
of the authority vested in me by the
constitution OF Kentucky, / do hereby
by this proclamation adjourn aIt once
"He IS Wise Who