Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-06-22
Henry P. Bardshar, of Prescott,
Appointed and Qualified to
Take Office.
ASSUMES DUTIES JULY |
Judge A. [. Morrison Retires With
First Class and Honorable Record
Career of Incoming
official.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry +. BafdSnar, Ol
Prescott, Arizona, arrived yesterday
from Washington and from visit IN
other eastern cities. Mr.. Bardshar
was appointed U. S. collector of intern
al revenue for the district of New
Mexico and Arizona on May "a last,
and will take charge of this office in
this city on July /, 1905, relieving
Judge A. l.. Morrison, who has served
for eight years as such official very
creditably and highly satisfactorily
Mr.. Bardshar has furnished his bond,
has received his commission and is
ready for duty.
To a representative of the New
Mexican the new collector stated that
there was no intention on his part to
endeavor to have the Internal Revenue
office for the district moved to Pres
colt or to Phoenix.
Mr.. Bardshar is young man, only
thirty-three years of age and has been
a resident of the sister territory for
fifteen years, during which time ne
has been engaged as a mining engln-
eer, in mining and in promoting MIN
ing projects in various mining camps
in Arizona. He is native of Clyde,
Ohio. where he attended the public
schools and is also graduate OF
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, and OF
Campbell University, Horton, Kansas
He enlisted in Troop "a" First Volun-
teer Cavalry, "The Rough Riders,
commanded by the late Captain Bucky
O'Neil, and served creditably and hon
orably during the Spanish-Amerlcan
war. was present in the fights at Las
Ouasimas and San Juan Hill in Cuba,
and was mustered out at Montauk
Point. Long Island, on September Is,
1S9S
Collector Bardshar was married in
June, two years ago. in Prescott, Ari
zona, to Miss Sylvia DeKuhn, of that
city
He is well known in Arizona and
has many acquaintances in this Ter
ritory, as he has had considerable bus
mess here and has travelled more or
less extensively in visits TO the dit
ferent mining camps and districts OF
the two territories. The new collect
or does not intend to make any
change in the Office force or among the
deputies in the district, at least not
for some time to come, and he VIII
first acauaint himself thoroughly with
the management of the office. He and
Do, ,,Jc wi rnnlain in Santa
Fe for the present, except that Mr..
Bardshar himself may take a short
trip to Prescott to attend to urgent
personal business.
Mr.. Bardshar was not an original ap,
plicant for the appointment as col
lector of this district, but, having been
informed that Judge Morrison had re-
signed and having had the office ten
dered him, he naturally accepted 1t.
He is warm friend of Robert h. Nor
rison. eldest son of the retiring col
lector. who is one of the leading at
torneys of Arizona, and of Joseph E.
Morrison, another son of Judge Morrl
son, who is also an attorney in Pres
colt and, for his age, doing remark
ably well.
He has the highest respect for
Judge Morrison, of whom he has heard
nothing but praise and good words,
and accepted the office not to take it
away from the Judge, but had he not,
some one else would have been ap
pointed.
In appearance the new collector is
tall, being six feet and one inch In
height, brown hair, gray eyes. pleas
ant face and makes a favorable inn
preston upon those whom he meets.
He is frank and cordial in manner and
evidently considerably man of the
world. In northern Arizona, where he
is especially well known, he bears
very good reputation as man of in
tegrity, good habits and competent in
the performance of his duties. He is
a life long Republican and has never
voted anything but the Republican
ticket. In Arizona he has taken con-
siderable interest in politics. He
holds his office as non-political, how
ever. and politics will not interfere in
it's conduct or in the appointment of
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