Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-07-18
Will Be Heard at AIamogordo
and Decision viii Be of
General interest.
ESTABLISHING
HEADQUARTERS
The Court Officials Of Sixth Judicial
District Will Soon Have Fine
Offices.
Alamogordo, July IS.

SptCldt correspondence OF the new
Mexican.
Court matters in the Sixth Judicial
District of New Mexico are beginning
TO take on color, the novelty of the
| new arrangement is beginning to wear
off, the constituency of the district
understands the change and everything
| is moving smoothly District Clerk
Leahy has the records, dockets and
| files of Otero, Leonard Wood and Quay
Counties in his Office here, and has just
returned from Lincoln, where he has
received from District Clerk Martin, of
the Fifth District, the records and files
of that county. Owing to the short
time between the establishing of the
headquarters at Alamogordo and the
opening of the district, the commits
sioners have been unable to arrange
for the Judges chambers and Clerks
office, and for the time being both
Judge and Clerk are working at con-
siderable disadvantage. The room for
merly occupied by the surveyor and
county school superintendent has been
turned over to the clerk, and just now
1t answers the purposes of judges
chambers and clerks office. However,
the commissioners have arranged for
the money necessary to make the
changes in the court house. occasioned
by the addition of so important an Of
flee as that of the United States clerk,
and within the next week or two the
contract will be let for the construc-
ton of the vault and the erection of
the auxiliary hnildin1. which miIl hn
devoted to the Offices OF the United
States District Attorney and the
United States Marshal and jury rooms.
An arrangement has been made with
Mr. Anderson, the president of the
First National Bank of this place,
whereby Judge Mann's chambers will
be fitted up in the second story of his
new bank building, now nearing COM
pletion. The furniture of the clerks
Office and portion of that for the
Judges chambers has already been Or
dered and will be here early this week.
AS United States Marshal Foraker said
to your correspondent, after looking
over the proposed arrangement:
"When the work is completed and you
are all located in your new quarters,
and also taking into consideration your
beautifully picturesque and progress
sive little city, you will have the hand
soonest headquarters in the Territory
The attorneys of the new district,
having matters which matured about
the time of the opening of the district,
held them for Judge Mann to act on,
and, as a consequence, the new Judge
has been pretty busy man since the
first of the month. The Judge has
appointed A. r. Curren, Of Tucumcari,
U. S. Commissioner for Quay County,
and has recommended to Chief Justice
Mills that E. R. Wright, of Santa Rosa,
and Colonel T. W. Heman, of Tucum-
carl, be retained in their offices of U.
s. Court Commissioners for the coun-
ties of Leonard Wood and Quay, re-
spectively.
U. S. Marshal Foraker was in town
last week on business connected with
the establishing of the United States
court headquarters here. He received
the leases, duly executed by the COM
missioners of the county, for the use of
the buildings and rooms for the U. S.
officials and made further arrange
ments for the furnishing of the nee
essary supplies for the judges cham
bers and clerks Office.
Road Commissioner Grant, of this.
the first precinct, is having some trou-
BILE collecting the road tax due in this
precinct and has resorted to the law
for the purpose of finding out where
he is at 1t seems that number Of
the residents, who were in position
to do so, have secured receipts for
road tax from Tucumcari, and when
asked for their tax by Mr.. Grant, ex-
hibit these receipts. The tax at Tu-
cumcari seems to be 81, while that Of
Alamogordo is IS. A number of the
alleged offenders have been sum-
moned on complaint of Mr.. Grant, and
the matter will be settled in few days
in Justice O'Reilly's court. Mr.. Grant
is desirous of making number of i'm
provements, among them the purchase
of an additional street sprinkler, and
he finds it hard matter to do so when
he is unab.c to. acllect the taxes justly
due his precinct.
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