Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-06-24
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
TO CONVENE
Governor Curry In.
sists on Law En-
forcement
BETTERCOLLECT|ON OF TAXES
Conservation Commission of
the Territory to Meet
on July l.

Governor Curry has decided to call
a convention of district attorneys
during the session OF the supreme
court at Santa Fe the latter part OF
August to discuss with him and At
torney General Frank w. Clancy, the
better enforcement of the laws, es-
pecially the criminal laws, including
the Sunday closing, the anti-gambling
laws and the law prohibiting the sale
.of liquor to minors. Complaints come
to him from every part Of the Terri
tory of the open violation of these lat
ter laws especially in out-of-the-way
settlements. The closer collection OF
taxes is also to be discussed as sew
eral counties are notorious for the
small per cent of taxes coI9cted
while a. few other counties again are
very derelict in assessment matters.
Conservation Commission.
The new territorial conservation
commission will meet at Santa Fe on
July 1, the members being Hon. Solo,
mon Luna of Los Lunas, and Attor-
neys w. A. Fleming Jones of Las
Cruces, and A. A. Jones Of Las We
gas. The commission will map out
important work and also appoint
clerk for whose salary an appropria-
tion is available
Incorporation.
Ferguson & Collister, of 307 West
Central avenue, Albuquerque, en-
gagged in the dry goods business, to-
day filed incorporation papers in the
office of Territorial Secretary Nathan
Jaffa. The capitalization is $4,000
divided into 500 shares, to which the
incorporators and directors have sub
scribed as follows: D. M. Ferguson,
James H. Collister and Thomas X. D.
Madison, 10 shares each.
Suit for, Real Estate.
In the district court for Santa Fe
county yesterday, suit was filed by
Rafael Granite and Erminia Padilla,
his wife, for the recovery of lot at
Cerrillos, having 200 feet front, and
for $500 damages, from Louis Jones.
who is charged with taking wrongful
possession of the premises.
Seventeen Forest Fires.
Seventeen forest fires have occur
red thus far on the Gila forest reserve
in Southwestern New Mexico and a
force of fourteen rangers was dis.
patched day before yesterday to extin,
guish fire reported on the upper
Gila. Another fire is burning in the
Black range, between the head Of the
Mimbres and the Diamond Bar ranch,
60 miles from Silver City. A third
fire is reported on the west fork of the
Gila, also sixty miles from Silver City,
and a fourth fire on Little Dry creek,
45 miles from silver City. Sixty men
are now employed to fight forest fires.
Arrested BY Mounted Policeman.
Mounted Policeman Fred Higgins
at Roswell, reports the arrest of
Thomas Johnson and Mrs. Fannie
Richardson, wife of J. w. Richardson
of Elida, the arrest being made at
Corona, Lincoln county on warrants
charging statutory offense.
. A Woman Game Warden.
The following letter is from fe-
male deputy game warden of the Ter
ritory at Roswell:
"My success as a game warden is
i. showing around our 640-acre park, a
short distance from my poultry yard.
No more men or boys are seen killing
meadow larks, yellowhammers or
mocking birds. One stop was enough.
got no cursing, as man would,
and the birds appear and sing, go
into my garden and catch the bugs.
AS New Mexico has experienced a
drouth, they come and drink at my
pump, and otter one can see a mock
ing bird drinking with my white leg
horn baby chicks. My success on the
river Is the same. No more strings of
baby bass are carried away. / have
the river posted with the game law
printed on linen tacKed on trees and
fences. So far I have made no COM
plants to the justice of the peace, the
new law having to be published for
time. Game laws, as rule, are noe
very popular, but it makes consider
abb difference as to who is enforcing
them. No sane man would care to op-
pose woman or meet her evidence
at court in New Mexico. am getting
evidence regarding lot of quails be-
ing shot by hunters on fruit farm.
Quails are protected here until 1915.
l killed two bad hawks yesterday.
Each rose from the ground with
young meadowlark in its talons. A
charge Of No. shot killed each one
dead; the 2O-bore fetched them.
MRS. B. R. BUFFHAM,
Deputy Game Warden"
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