Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-10-10
Outcome Of Accusations Of Dis
trict Attorney Clancy
Awaited with Interest.
METHODIST CONFERENCE
President Tight Tells Why He
Didn't Get to the Top of
Mount SOrata.
ROYAL RECEPTION FOR HEARST
Special to The Optic.

Special to The Optic.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Oct. o.
Considerable interest has been awah
ened here through the publication ii
the Morning Journal late the Journal
Democrat, Of a letter By Hon. Frank
w. Clancy over his official signature
as district attorney, calling attention
to certain irregularities Of the officers
OF Bernalillo county, Mr. Clancy
pays particular attention to the bond
issue, by which Mckinley county paid
its Indebtedness to Bernalillo county
after the formation Of the new county
Mr. Clancy, with the aid of the travel
ing auditor, has discovered that there
has been absolutely no record of this
transaction kept in the books of Ber-
nalillo countys treasurer and that
the only record Of the receiving and
paying out Of the $4,000 involved is
found in a personal check book, the
property of Charles X Newhall, the
then treasurer of the county. The
records of this check book are held
BY Mr.. Clancy to be wholly irregular
and, for the most part, unintelligible.
He next goes into some detail in the
matter of the administration of the
office Of school superintendent, pay,
ing particular attention to the lack Of
records in the Office AMI the payment
Of the superintendent to himself dou-
BILE the sum allowed by law for his
visits to the several districts. Mr.
Clancy states. and, apparently, proves,
that the present school superintend
ent has drawn pay for some $40 OF
these district visits at the rate of S.
per visit, when the number of school
days within his term could not pos
sibly have been more than $40, it be-
ing necessary, according to law, to
pay these visits while the school is
in session. There are a number of
other minor matters which the dis
trict attorney apparently makes very
plain. For one thing, he states that
furniture has been bought for the Of
flee of the school superintendent
which is now to be found in the Of
flee Of a weekly paper in Albuquerque.
This is, of course, La Brande ra Amer
icana, the Hubbell organ. The out
come of the open charges made by the
district attorney is being awaited
with some interest here.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the New Mexico mission is in ses-
sion in the Lead Avenue Methodist
church in this city. The attendance
Is unusually large, and the conference
is made important and doubly inter
esting by the presence Of the yener.
able bishop, John NJ. Walden of Gin.
cinnati, whose work as a missionary
bishop has made him famous In the
west. The convention was called to
order yesterday, and reception was
rendered Bishop Walden last night
Today is being devoted to religious
work, and tomorrow the business ses-
sion OF the conference will be held
The convention will adjourn after a
praise service Sunday night. The re
ports thus far show the Methodist
church in New Mexico to be In bet.
ter condition financially and IN every
other way than ever before.
DR.. w. @. Tight, president OF the
University, who has just returned
from South America, announces that
he failed to reach the summit Of Mt
Sorata. He says the game was not
worth the candle, and being threat
ened with starvation through the de
sertion OF their Indian packers, and a
winters Imprisonment in South Amer
ica because of the quarantine against
the Bubonic plague, they thought II
best to beat hasty retreat. as It was
necessary for the doctor to ride six
hundred miles through forest and jun
gle and mountains 10 find an open
port.
Dean c. E. Hodgin and Mrs, Hodgin