Bisbee daily review., 1907-12-05
FALL IS BOOKED
FOR SEaATORSH|P
Judge Has Had Remarkable
Career From That of Driver
of Pack Team.

resigned as attorney general OF New
Mexico to devote his entire time ~
the interests of Colonel w. C. Greene
and give attention to some historical
facts about New Mexico, which he Is
collecting. and who is sure to be one
of the first United States senators
from New Mexico when 1t comes into
the union, is a remarkable man.
Having risen in few years from tms-
humble station of a miner, to that of
attorney general of dis adopted ter
ritory and being in a position to com
- - - So sss--t sas.ata-shir.s
from his adopted state when it is ad-
mitted into the union. is a career re-
markable even in tn west where such
things are more frequent than in the
east
Judge Fall was born November 81,
1861, in the town of Frankfort, KY,
his father. w. r. Fall. at that time
being a captain in the confederate
army. The fall of the confederacy
destroyed their plantation and iInpo.-
erished Captain Fail, who. before the
war, was in very comfortable cif-
cumstances. In the chaos of recon
struction young FAN, with the meager
facilities at his hand, educated him
self and at the age of IS was teach
ing school. Giving up his school, ne
entered a law office and prepared for
the bar. but feeling the call of the
west at the age of q, he moved to
northeastern Texas, and for a time
clerked in drug store at GAINESVILLE,
Texas, where he married Miss Emma
Morgan.
From GAINESVILLE he moved to the
ed river country in Arkansas, ant
EARNED for a while, coming later to
New Mexico with his wife's brother,
Joe Morgan.
He first ran pack train in the
Mogollon mountains in the Indian
days and he mined for while in 81
ezra county, doing the mental labors
of an underground drill man. He
then cooked for a COW outfit. All
this time young FAN was reading law
wherever he could secure any legal
books, and decided at last to euuer
the practice of law at Las Cruces.
He soon became one of the leading
attorneys of the southwest, and the
most popular man in the territory.
He was elected to the lower house
and to the upper house or the legis-
lature, running both on the Repub-
lican and Democratic tickets. He
was district judge and one of the JUS
tees of the territorial supreme court,
and was appointed attorney genera
of New Mexico during the Cleveland
regime.
Governor George Curry in his desire
. Tx x.l Al
in the territory, appointed Judge Fall
last August attorney general, and he
has just resigned from this Office.
When the Spanish American war
broke out Judge Fall went to the
front as captain of the First Terri.
| torial volunteer infantry.
An interesting feature of Judge
Falls career is the personal friend
ship existing between him and Col.
W. c. Greene, the copper king. Judge
FAN was friend of Colonel Greene's
long before the colonel reached the
height of his Mexican promtions ana
when the colonel was a cowpuncher.
He met the colonel on ais return
from New York after trying to pro-
mote the Greene Consolidated com
pany. The copper magnate was not,
in those days travelling in a private
caro- instead his single dress sun
| case had fifty-four pieces-a deck OF
cards and a pair of socks.
Now these two men are among the
most prominent in the southwest and
Fail is certain of a senatorship from
New Mexico. George Curry the pres.
ent governor of New Mexico will get
the other senatorship if political af-
fairs do not change too much. Fall
is looked upon with favor by both
Democrats and anuhlicanG and is/the
! only man in the territory who could
| land the senatorship regardless of the
political complexion of the legisla-
ture. Democrats are said to have
made him overtures to accept the Re
( publican nomination for congress auo
have declared that they would not put
out an opposition candidate and tlat
be would be elevated to the senator
| ship when the state was admitted