Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-12-07
TO THE
PHILIPPINES
Captain George Curry to Return
There in February to Be.
come q Civil Governor.
HIS ENVIABLE CAREER
Praise for Governor Taft and General
Wood...New Mexico Men in
Philippines.

,attle grower and twice sherif OF Lin
,oln County, president of the council
If the Thirty-second Legislative AS
;embly, captain of Troop H. First Uni
ed States Volunteer Cavalry, (Rough
aiders), sheriff of Otero County, first
lieutenant Eleventh United States
Volunteer Cavalry and in command
of Troop X. of that organization in
he Philippines, civil governor of the
province of Camarines, first chief or
police of Manila, and organizer of the
police department there, manager OF
the Camarines Mercantile Company,
with the civil governorship of the
province of Mindanao awaiting him up
On his return to the Philippines Is
ands about February l, 1904.
This is the enviable and rather
career of Captain George
Curry a citizen of this Territory.
whose military experiences date back
20 the day when he became captain of
Troop H. in Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
Captain in Rough Riders.
Captain Curry is native of Louis
ana and came to New Mexico when
still a boy. His first vocation in life
was that of clerk, working in store
in Colfax County. He then removed
to Lincoln County, where he engaged
as a merchant and later as a stock
grower and was twice elected to the
office of sheriff of Lincoln County
serving with great credit, courage and
efficiency in that Office He was elect
ed a member of the council OF the
Thirty-second Legislative Assembly
and was chosen as president of that
body filling that Office in first-class
manner and for the benefit OF the Ter
ritory. Upon the creation Of the
county of Otero, he was appointed the
first sheriff by Governor Miguel A.
Otero.
At the breaking out of the Spanish
American war he was appointed by
Governor Otero as captain of Troop
H. of the First United States Volun-
teeer Cavalry, (Rough Riders) OF
which Major General Leonard Wood,
now in the Philippines was colonel
and President Theodore Roosevelt
lieutenant colonel. He went with his
regiment to Florida but his troop was
a part of the battalion that remained
at Tampa. He was honorably mus
tered out October Is, 1898. with
good record and then served very
creditably as sheriff of OterO County
His Career in Philippines.
Subsequently he received commits
sion as first lieutenant, and was as
signed to duty with the Eleventh
United States Volunteer Cavalry.
leaving New Mexico in August, 1899,
and arriving in the Philippine Islands
early in November Of the same year.
In the absence of the captain he was
in command of Troop K. until the reg
iment was sent home to be mustered
out in April, 1901, when he was de-
tailed as civil governor of the prov
ince of Camarines, to which office he
was re-appointed by the Philippine
Commission in June, 1901.
He continued as the civil governor
of the province of Camarines until
August Z, 1901, when he was appoint
ed by the Philippine Commission as
the first chief of police of Manila. He
organized the Manila police depart
ment on the new basis, and served one
year, resigning in the fall of 1902, to
assume the general management OF
the Camarines Mercantile Company.
Owing to illness contracted last May
he left Manila in September, arriving
at San Francisco October %, 1903.
Offered a Civil Governorship.
Before leaving the Philippines. Cap
tain Curry was offered the civil gov
ernorship of the province of Minda-
mao, under Major General Leonard
Wood, who is now the head of the
civil and military governments OF the
province of Moros, which takes in all
of the southern islands. Captain Cur
ry has accepted the office. and will re-
turn to the Philippine Islands about
February /. to assume the reins of
government in the province of Min
danao.
Captain Curry talked interestingly
and entertainingly of life in the Phil
ippine Islands, of citizens OF New
Mexico who have made their mark
there, and wound up by stating that
he liked New Mexico better than any
other place on earth, and would re-
turn from the Philippine Islands in
side of three or four years, and again
take up his residence among the peo-
pie of New Mexico. His three chill
dren are at present being educated at
Roswell.
New Mexico Men in Philippines.
Ralph e. McFie, son of Judge John
R. McFie, Of Santa Fe." said Captain
Curry, has held several positioas ot
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