Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-01-20

AFFAIRS
Commissioners Adopt the
Report of Superintendent
e. 0. Bursum.
WORK HIGHLY COMMENDED
Men Charged With Murder Num-
Der 81 and SO Are Serving
Life Sentences
Points.

The annual report of the Board OF
Penitentiary Commissioners to Cover
nor Otero is cordial and emphatic en-
administration of Superintendent H. o.
Bursum.
The commissioners are: f. H. Pierce
of Las Vegas, president; w. H. New
comb of Silver City, secretary; Louis
| Ilfeld of Albuquerque; Juan Navarro OF
Mora; and ]. 7. Mclaughlin of Alpu-
querque.
The report of Mr. Bursum is submit
ted in detail and is made the report OF
the board. 1t covers the period from
December l, 1900 to November 30, 1902
| The detailed financial statement is
made and from it the showing Is made
! that the actual cost to the territory for
the two years, after deducting the earn
| ings by convicts and the Improvements
! including the cash expended for per-
manent improvements, for the two
years was $57,441. The average cost per
| day including clothing, feed, mainten-
ance and repairs of buildings, salaries
and expenses, gate moneys for dis
charged convicts, officials, employees,
guards, commissioners mad all other
items, was 1913 cents per day. During
the SD fiscal year there were furnished
to officers, guards, employees and pris-
oners, 93 143 meals or an average num-
ber per month of 1852. The total cost
was s15,3S7s0. During the SD fiscal
year the total number of meals served
was 9S,627, or an average per month of
s,219. The total cost was $15,S44. The
average number of meals served per
month for the two years was 1000 and
the average cost per day per man was
1851 cents.
The number of convicts imprisoned
on December /, 1900, was 215. The num-
ber received during the two years was
PIG, making a total of 431. During that
time there were discharged by expira-
tion Of sentence 1885, pardons and COM
mutations A, died 10, escaped 4, and
SeiileuCeS IeplieFeu D, VI d loleii VI 1oo,
making the number on hand November
80 last, 235. By counties the dis
tribution was as follows: Bernalillo, re-
ceived during the two years, 49, on
hand, 2S. Chaves, received II, on hand
9. Colfax, received IA, on hand 16.
Dona Ana, received 25, on hand 29. Ed
dy, received 9, on hand 4. Grant, re-
ceived 20, on hand 33. Guadalupe, re-
ceived 8, on hand 5. Lincoln, received
9, on hand 6. Luna, received s, on
hand 7. Mckinley, received l, on hand
1. Mora, received 8, on hand g. Otero,
received II, on hand II. Rio Arriba, re-
ceived 9, on hand 9. San Juan, received
2, on hand 2. San Miguel, received 81,
on hand 80. Santa Fe, received 10, on
hand 8. Sierra, received S, on hand 5.
Socorro, received II, on hand u. Taos,
received 1, on hand 2. Union, received
8, on hand 8. Valencia, received 2, on
hand 4.
The number Of United States prison.
ers on hand December 1, 1900, was IA,
and during the two years "a were re-
ceived. Twenty-Five were discharged
by expiration of sentence, leaving 16 in
the prison on November 30, last. OF
the United States prisoners, none were
in the prison on the last named date
from the 1st district, 2 from the I'd, 4
from the Sd, 5 from the 4th, and from
the 5th. On November 30 last Jail
prisoners were held from the 4th ju-
dicial district and from the 5th.
BY occupation the prisoners now in
the penitentiary are classified as fol-
lows: Laborers 80, miners 21, cowboys
10, farmers II, cooks and sheep herders
each, blacksmiths 8, ranchmen and
teamsters each, engineers, house
keepers, shoemakers and stonemasons
each, BARRIERS, musicians and mer-
chants each, bricklayers, hostlers,
goatherders and painters each, book
! keepers, butchers, railroad clerks, Of
| flee clerks, cigar makers, electricians
engravers. laundryman, laundress, ma
chinist' helper, marble polisher, plum
ber, plasterer, printer, railroad man,
sailor, telegraph operator and waiter
each.
The crimes for which they are serv-
ing are: Murder 81, larceny of horses H.
larceny and burglary Is each, larceny
of cattle IA, assault with intent to MUIR
der 8, robbery Z, assault with intent to
kill and forgery 6 each, assault with
deadly weapon with intent to kill, as
sault with intent to rape, assault or
wife, incest, and larceny of neat cattle
each, larceny from dwelling, larceny
| by embezzlement, larceny of sheep
rape, unlawfully discharging deadly
weapon, violation of postal laws, and
stealing U. 8. MAIL each, assault with
intent to MAIN, breaking into post
office, embezzling postal funds, embez-
zling letters, false pretenses, highway
robbery, having counterfeit money In
possession, killing sheep, killing cattle
larceny from a warehouse, larceny of q
gun. larceny or saddle, larceny o1
swine, larceny of money, larceny Of
mules, larceny Of goats, larceny Of 9
I mare. mayhem, manslaughter, obtain.
ing money under false pretenses, OBJ