Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-12-26
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the resignation Of the Santa Fe
police force. and the police, upon prom
Use that their claim for six months sal
airy would be adjusted, consented to
continue TO serve for the present.
District Attorney +. c. AbS0tt in the
District Court for Taos county filed n
suit Tor the territory of New Mexico
against the delinquent taxpayers of
Taos county for 1900. There are fully
$ 1,OOO,OO0 delinquent taxes due IL the
territory.
Levi Claypool. who was found guilty
at the last term of the SocorrO County
Court Of stealing sheep and sentenced
to five years i'm the p~enitentiary. has
been released from jail on a bond of
$4,000, pending an appeal to the Ter
ritorial supreme Court.
The sale of the famous guano caves
of John II. DeMier at Lava, in south
ern Socorro county. to a party of Cali
fornia capitalists, is confirmed. Inc
same California parties are looking
into the report that large guano ave
exist on the ella river in Grant
county.
1t is reported at Santa Fe that n
corps of engineers is making a prelim-
mary railroad survey between Espan-
ola and some point west Of it, the sur
vey running neal the Rio Arriba-Ber-
nalillo county line. 1t was not known
for whom the surveyors are in the
field.
The Santa Fe city council met in ac-
cordanCe with the writ of peremptory
mandamus issued by Judge Merle, and
ordered q warrant drawn to pay the re-
cent judgment of the Santa Fe Water
& Light Company against the city,
amounting to S1.129.6j, for water rent
of the first two quarters Of the year
1901. The moyar, city clerk and every
member Of the city council was in at
tendance.
In the right of way case Of the South
crn Pacific VS.. the Bisbee railroad,
Judge +. w. Parker has decided in IA
vor of the Bisbee company, allowing
them to cross the Southern Pacific
tracks at Deming. Commissioners will
be appointed to assess the damages.
The case has attracted much interest,
many prominent attorneys being en-
ployed Oh both sides.
b. NJ. Read recntely received from
Dick Bros, Denver, two designs for the
proposed Luna memorial at the capitol
in Santa Fe. one design consists of a
marble shaft suitably inscribed and
surmounted by a bust, and the other is
a marble tablet or a bracket sur
mounted by a bust, the cost of each
monument being $3.50. Mr.. Read re-
ferred the designs to Governor Otero.
The suits by the territory of New
Mexico against Joaquin Gutierrez, as
SCISSOR of Guadalupe county. and
Thomas Fleming. assessor of OterO
county, for failing to send duplicates
of the assessment rolls for 1901 to the
territorial auditor. have been dismissed
at the instance Of Solicitor General r..
l.. Bartlett, both assessors having sent
in the assessment duplicates and eX-
cused themselves for their tardiness.
Leo Moody, the nine-year-old son of
NJ. L. Moody of Carlsbad, lost his life
in Il most horrible manner The lad,
without the knowledge Of his father,
made a jump to get into a moving Wag-
ON by catching the brake beam. He
missed his hold and fell under the wGg-
on, the hind wheel passing over the
back part of the head, crushing the
skull. On looking back to ascertain
what the wagon had run over. Mr..
Moody discovered his own son lying in
the road, dying.
w. II. Farr and c. G. O'Hara, timber
experts of Wisconsin, started out No
vember Doth on an overland trip from
Chamita to Colmor, along the route o.
the proposed railroad from Colmor tC
Gallup. The passage of the mountains
will not be difficult. as at first reported
as Il good wager road exists from San
tn Fc to Mora on an easy grade, al
though 1t reaches an elevation of o,
600 feet. From Mora to Colmor there
are no big engineering difficulties il
the way of constructing the road.
Roman /. Baca and Francisco Vas
quez have filed suit at Santa f,
against Herbert T. Reynolds ct al. e
set aside and declare null the sale OF
the Las Trampas grant of 27,4S1 acres
in Taos and Rio Arriba counties, 70
5000, to Herbert T. Reynolds, OF
grounds Of fraudulent collision and ir
regularity of sale. The grant was sole
for II cents IN acre and now an offe
of $3.50 an acre is said to have beel
made to the purchaser.
In the District Court at Santa -
Judge McFie has handed down an I'm
portant decision which it is said vii
result in adding considerably to tn
revenues of the territory and counties
He ruled that private land grants ar,
subject 10 taxation from the day tina
the survey is approved by the court o
private land claims. Thousands Of dol
lars of taxes are involved in the dec
sion. The court also holds that lanI
grants must be assessed in the name
OF the known or unknown owner an
not in the name Of the grant.
The cattlemen Of Dona Ana county
who have lost a great number of stoc
frouu rustlers from Old Mexico an
Texas, have organized a protective Il,
ISOLATION and elected the following OF
fcers: George w. Mossman. president
Jose Lucero. secretary and treasurer
with JEFF ID. Isaacks, w. w. Cos
Thomas Hall. Henry Summerford an
II. r.. Kerr executive committee, A
assessment Of 3 cents on all Stoc
owned by members was levied aud a
paid promptly. The association is d,
termined TO break up the gangs of ca
tie thieves. and the officers of the sOutl
ern counties viii render all assistanC
possible to rid that section of the cattl
rUstlcrs.