Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-06-07
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
RUIZ RESIGNS
Supreme Court Ses-
sion Postponed
to July l
BALuNGER WILL VISIT US
He Has Set September as the
Probable Time for
His Coming.

Governor Curry who left this after
noon for Alamogordo, has been tend
cred the resignation Of District At
torney Arturo Ruiz of Gallup, NC
Kinley. county. He has taken the
matter under advisement until MS
return which will be in about ten
days. At Alamogordo Governor Cur
ry will attend the Grand Army en-
campment and thence go to Tularosa,
from where he will go to Three Riv-
sers to spend several days as the
guest of Hon. A. B. Fall. From Three
Rivers Governor Curry will make an
overland trip to Roswell, passing
through Lincoln county, the stamping
ground Of his early days in New
Mexico.
Supreme Court Meeting on July I.
Chief Justice William ]. Mills an
nounced today that he had postponed
the session of the supreme court to
divide the Territory into seven judi
ecial districts and assign judges ana
Headquarters from June IL to July J.,
as Attorney General Wickersham
holds that the law creating the sew
enth judicial district does not go in
to effect until July 1.
Balinger Will Come in September.
Colonel George w. Prichard who
has returned from Washington, D. c.,
had very satisfactory conversations
both with President Taft and Secre
tary of the Interior Ballinger. Presi-
dent Taft assured him that New Mex
leo would be given statehood this
winter but expressed the hope that
New Mexico will draft good consti.
tuition. Secretary of the Interior Bal
linger said he would visit New Mexi-
co in September to prepare an ex-
haustive report for Congress upon
conditions in the Territory. He may
be accompanied by Postmaster Gener-
al Frank H. Hitchcock.
Reading Circle Selects Books.
The New Mexico Reading Circle,
which has enrolled $50 New Mexico
teachers, met in the Office of Terrific.
rial Superintendent ]. E. Clark on
Saturday afternoon and selected for
this years reading three books:
"'Civics and HEALTH" Teaching a
District School," and "The Recita.
ton" Colfax county leads in the
membership in the Circle, having 33
teachers enrolled who read the books !;
Bernalillo and Otero counties have
the least number of members. The
Circle was founded year ago and an
effort will be made this year to in.
crease it's membership greatly.
Application Under Carey Act.
The Carey Act board today received
an application for land under the Ca.
rey act from Colfax county and sew
eral of the applicants were in consul
tation today with Territorial Engineer
Sullivan and Land Commissioner R.
P. Ervien and Governor Curry who
constitute the Carey act board.
Incorporation Filings Amended.
The Johnson-Fry Furniture Com.
pany of Ration, Colfax county, today
amended it's Incorporation filings in
the Office of Territorial Secretary
Nathan Jaffa SO as to change it's name
to the w. L. Johnson Furniture Com
pany.
Governor Curry's Visit to .Socorro
County.
Says the Socorro Chieftain of Gov
ernor Currys visit the latter part OF
last week to Socorro, Magdalena and
Kelly:
"At the invitation of Captain c.
T. Brown, Governor Curry and party
of friends spent Friday visiting the
mines up in the Kelly camp. On
their arrival in Magdalena Captain
Brown and his guests were invited to
partake of the hospitality Of J. S.
Mactavish, manager and junior mem
ber Of the firm of Becker, Mactavish
and Company. Here the governor
met many Of the citizens of the thriv-
ing town Of Magdalena and vicinity.
after which the party called at sever
al other business places and were
then driven up to the fiourishing min
ing camp at Kelly. This town away
up on the mountain side had bedeck-
ed itself gaily in the national colors
for the occasion and the enthusiasm
that the people there expressed in
honor of the governor was significant
of his popularity wherever he is
known. The party was escorted
through the Waldo tunnel to view the
enormous bodies of zinc-lead sui
phides to which it was driven. The
next mine visited was the Brown
Lease from which Captain Brown is
now shipping large quantities of OK
idized lead ore to Ell Paso and of
oxidized zinc ore to lola, Kansas. The
Paschal shaft on the Tri-Bullion COM