Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-03-24
LINCOLN COUNTY
SEAT DISPUTE
Reached Another Phase by
Judge McFie Issuing Tenn
porary Injunction
BENN|E TUCKER IS ACQUITTED
Important Water Rights Matters
Up. Before Territorial
Engineer.

Governor Mills will leave for Las
Vegas on Saturday and will return on
Monday. The following morning he
will leave for Albuquerque for the re-
ception to be rendered him by the
Commercial Club. From Albuquerque
he goes to Las Cruces where he will
be the guest of honor at reception
and banquet He will also visit Ell
Paso and expects to return to the cap
ital on April or 5.
Lincoln County Seat Controversy.
Judge John R. McFie, upon petition
of Attorney Thomas Is. Catron last
evening issued a temporary order OF
injunction against the board of coun-
ty commissioners of Lincoln county,
restraining it from proceeding with
the construction of a court house and
Jail at Carrizozo The order was
granted upon petition of the citizens
of Lincoln, the former county seat.
Incorporation.
In the office of Territorial Secretary
Nathan Jaffa Incorporation papers
were filed today by the Artesia Pente-
costal Church of the 'Nazarene of Ar
tesla, Eddy county. The incorporators
and trustees are: James S. Sharp, A.
w. Wilde, O. Vashell Susan A. King,
Addie F. Sharp, Eda T. Brown, John
Hook, Norah Hudgeane, Sarah l..
Hook, Condor 3. King, Esther J.
Hook, J. S. Raley, " C. King, John
w. Huscher.
Appointed on Board of EmbaImers.
Governor Mills today appointed
Thomas A. Johnson of East Las We
gas, member of the board of en-
balmers, vice ]. C. Macarthur.
Good Roads Commissioners.
Governor Mills yesterday afternoon
appointed Numa S. Raymond of Las
Cruces, at present with his family
in Geneva, Switzerland, and Major l..
Martini Mancini, formerly of Roswell
and now in business at London, COM
missioners to represent New Mexico
at the International Good Roads Con-
gress at Brussels, the capital of Bel
GUM. The congress convenes on May
l.
Notary Public Appointed.
Governor Mills today appointed
Robert N. Williams of Texico, Curry
county, a notary public.
Arrest by Mounted Police.
Mounted Policeman Rafael Gomez
yesterday at Coyote, Rio Arriba coun-
ty, arrested Fulgencio Morsin on the
charge of breaking into and robbing
the store of J. B. Mahboub at Coyote.
Morsin was held in $500 for the grand
jury.
District Court.
In district court yesterday after
noon, the jury returned verdict of
not guilty in the case of the territory
VS.. Benjamin Tucker indicted for lar
Akers, girl, whom it was alleged,
he compelled to steal from her par
ents for him.
This forenoon the trial of Gus. Het-
ling, well known ST. Louis baseball
player, was taken up. Hetling is
charged with assault with intent to
rape, it being alleged that the deed
was committed on a Santa Fe passen-
ger train. Quite a number of wit
nesses are here from a distance.
Water Rights Matters.
ESy,or C,,1
livan has approved the following ap
plications for water rights: Melodie
& Thomson, a partnership composed
of A. D. Thomson and Antoine J
Melocbe of Ration, Colfax county, fol
80 second feet of the Chicorico in tha
county, for the storage of 5000 acre
feet to reclaim 2,160 acres. The pro
ject is to cost $4,000. An earth dan
&c feet high and 1167 feet long at the
top is to be built in Una de Gate
creek.
The application of Forest S. Cart
wright of Albuquerque, for 12 secont
feet from an arroyo in Tijeras canol
was approved. The project is to cos
$53,672 and it is proposed to store 5,
125 acre feet with a dam so feet high
1887 feet long at the top and 1,0S0 fee
long at the bottom.
A. A. Jones and J. D. Hand of La
Vegas, have made duplicate filings o
all of their projects on the Pecos ant
tributaries SO as to comply with tn
Act of 1897, although it is believe'
that the act does not apply in thi
case.
April 8, has been set for hearin
of the application of the Sandia Lam
and Improvement Company of Albu
querque for the surplus waters Q
Tijeras canon in Sandoval county