Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-05-18
JUDICIAL REAPPO2T|0NMENT
Many Candidates for Dis
trict Clerkship Under
New Judges.

publican organization Of Mckinley
county.
Memorial Day Proclamation.
Pursuant to custom and in honor OF
the soldiers, living and dead, OF the
North and Of the South, who served in
the Civil war, l. George CuN'y, Cover
nor of the Territory Of New Mexico,
do hereby designate Monday, May 81,
1909, as Memorial Day and a legal
holiday in the Territory Of New Mex
ico
To the soldiers of the Civil war is
this country indebted for the peace
and safety it enjoys, as we'll as for /ne
proud position it occupies among the
nations of the world; and to these sol
diers is due the nations deepest graf
itude.
Therefore, recommend that on Me-
mortal Day, New Mexicans suspend
their usual routine of work, as far as
practicable; that they join with the
patriotic societies in services in honor
Of the country's dead; that the teach
ers in the public schools arrange to
devote a day for suitable exercises
and lessons, which shall inculcate in
the minds of the youth the true pur-
poses of Memorial Day.
Done at the Executive Office this
the 18th day of May, A. D. 1909,
Witness my hand and the great seal
of the Territory Of New Mexico.
BY the Governor:
(Seal.) GEORGE CURRY.
NATHAN JAFFA, Secretary OF
New Mexico.
Confirmation Of judicial Appointees.
Special to the New Mexican.
Washington, D. c., May 1S.-The
Senator to whom was referred the
matter of reporting on the appoint
ments Of Hon. Afford w. Cooley and
Hon. M. G. Mechem to be associate
justices of the supreme court of New
Mexico, was unable to be present at
recent meetings of the committee but
will be present at the next meeting,
when presumably a favorable report
will be ordered made.
Judicial Reapportionment.
Silver City, Socorro, Ration, Tu
cumcari, all hope to be the head
quarters of the new judicial district
created by Congress- 1t looks at
present as if Socorro would be chos
en- and as if Hon. M. G. Mechem would
be assigned to make his headquarters
there, but the matter rests entirely
with the supreme court which will
reassign the districts and determine
their boundaries. The majority oi
the people of Torrance county hope
that Torrance county, on account o1
the convenience of the county seat
Of, Estancia, to Santa Fe, will be an
nexed to the First judicial district
Alamogordo hopes to retain Judicial
headquarters, and Hon. A. w. Cooley
will probably be assigned to that dis
trist although the people of Silver
City desire to retain him as resi-
dent and Judge Cooley has soft spo1
for Silver City where he regained his
health and has made many friends
Roswell, is the only headquarters
fixed by law. OF course, Santa Fe
Albuquerque and Las Vegas are II
no danger Of losing judicial headQuar
ters.
There Is also host Of applicants
for district clerk under the new
judges, many Of them from the out
side, who evidently do not know thai
the Thirty-eighth Legislative Assem-
bly, put spoke into any desire tt
appoint district clerks from the out
side, by passing a statute that nc
salary shall be paid to any official who
has not been resident of this Ter
ritory for at least two years. Dis
trict clerkships are reputed to be
worth about $4,000 a year, although
Of late years the pickings have moi
been as rich as formerly. Judge Cool
ey will not return from Washington
until the latter part Of June. The
Territorial Supreme Court will NEE
In August.
Committed to Asylum.
Judge John R. McFie, this forenoon
ordered committed to the Territoria
Insane Asylum at Las Vegas, Marcellt
Medina, q Pueblo Indian boy from
San Juan pueblo, Rio Arriba county
\ who had been attending st. Gather
ines school, and Anastacio Salaza
Of Chamita.