Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-10
Statement to Penitentiary Commission
ers Based Upon Hot Air and lmag-
mary Balances and Resources
FORMER SUPERINTENDENT JUGGLES FACTS A,v rsneEs
To Controvert Acting Governor Reynolds Communca
ton Concerning Unsatisfactory Condition of
Prison Financies

Under the heading "Was Acting
Governor Reynolds ignorant or Jug
Cling With TRUTH" and three other
sensational, misleading and cooked up
heads, fake reformer Danny Macpherr
son in the Albuquerque Morning CO.
vote Journal of yesterday published
letter nearly four columns in length
purporting to be an official communi-
cation to the board of penitentiary
commissioners from Arthur Trelford,
the removed superintendent OF the
Territorial penitentiary, dealing with
the facts and figures contained in an
official communication addressed by
Acting Governor James w. Reynolds
to the board of penitentiary commits
sioners in which it is set forth that the
financial affairs of the Territorial peni-
tentiary were in very unsatisfactory
condition and that the property or the
Territorial prison was in bad state,
in great need OF repair and substitl-
| ton of new machinery.
Trelford's epistle may have brought
the Albuquerque Morning Coyote some
$50 for insertion and that 1t Is an estaD-
| lished fact that that sheet will publish
any untruth, any lie, any misstate-
ment, any libel. any slander, for
Doodle, the publication is not to be
wondered at and will not astonish any
one at all acquainted with the career
of greed, graft and venom" of the
! Coyote.
Inquiry into the situation at The
| Territorial penitentiary, together WITH
an ability to add and 2, soon proves
| conclusively that ex-Superintendent
| Trelford's defense of his financial
management of that institution Is
| puffed up and padded with the same
quality of mathematical hot air"
made popular in certain quarters
about year ago by one Mcmahon
the would-be financial expert from CO.
dorado Springs. When contrasted
with actual facts, however, the state
ments OF Trelford are sufficiently bald
faced to make poor old Ananias turn
over in his grave, while Mcmahon
will blush with envy at having shown
himself to be such veritable tyro
in juggling with figures.
Seven Thousand Dollars Worth Of Coal
on Hand!
With coal costing about four dol
lars per ton this means nearly two
thousand tons of coal, and as the
average car holds twenty tons 1t
means only 200 cars of coal or ten
train loads of twenty cars to the train.
Shade of Ananias hang your head
with shame! But where, Oh, where,
are all of these train loads of coal?
There may be as much as 800 tons
stored in the coal house and less than
that amount in an open pile in the
yard. The remainder of this big lot
of coal 'on hand" remains to be
bought and paid for by Superintendent
Littrell, and the amount of coal neces-
sary to run the institution for the re-
naming five months Of the present
fiscal year will cost between $4,000
and $1,000.
The removed superintendent then
states that Mr. Bursum left MIN a
deficiency Of $4,000, but carefully
neglects to make any reference to the
| fact that MIR. Bursum also turned over
to him about $4,000 worth of material
and supplies on hand, $4,000 worth of
good bills receivable which Trelford
collected, and that superintendent
Bursum turned in besides this amount
$4,19O upon claims made by McMa-
hon, or total of more than 100000
all of which Trelford lost no time
In spending.
Again, Trelford forgets to mention
the fact that in reporting upon per-
manent improvements made by him
he charged the taxpayers for brick
laid in the wall at the rate of SIT
per thousand. As the brick and lime
are made by the convlcts and laid In
the wall by the conyicts they are
worth in that condition not to ex-
ceed IS per thousand. So the Eek
pert superintendent" and ex-officio ac-
countant only pads this item in the
sum of $12 per thousand, or at the
rate of $50 per cent Of hot air. But
most beautifully does the ex-superin-.
tendent tangle his feet in trying to
show that sum OF $4,000 will be
available during the next five
months for proper maintenance of the
institution OF this amount he
properly cites balance in the main
tenance fund amounting to $6,566.25,
then goes on guilelessly to include
| $5,490 in Ell Canine Real fund, $3,469