Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-07-25
BRIEF SESSION
SUPREME COURT
Insists That Attorneys Be
Present When Cases Are
Called
ARRESTS BY MOUNTED POLICE
Enterprising Pennsylvania Who
Wants to Establish School
of Oratory.

The death of Elias Garcia, at Albu-
querque, has created a vacancy On the
board of trustees of the territorial in
sane asylum at Las Vegas, which
Governor Mills intends to fill shortly
Pitiable Case of Destituton.
A woman with six blind children
arrived in Santa Fe on Saturday from
Rio Arriba county, where the authori-
ties had set her adrift. She was
without any means whatsoever and
had only a few crusts of bread. She
had been directed to the house of
Superintendent of Insurance Jacobo
Chaves, on the supposition that he
was still a trustee of the blind asy-
lum at Alamogordo, a position he re-
signed some time ago. The family
was finally taken care of by the city
authorities and Governor Mills is to-
day devising means to send the chill
dren to the territorial blind asylum
at Alamogordo.
Territorial Funds.
Territorial Treasurer M. A. Otero
today received $1,321.16 from the
treasurer of Otero county.
Notary Public.
Governor Mills today appointed
Charles Rosenthal of East Las Vegas,
a notary public.
Supreme Court.
The territorial supreme court con-
vened this forenoon with Chief JUS
tice William H. Pope presiding and
Associate Justices John r. McFfe,
Frank w. Parker, NJ c. Mechem and
E R. Wright on the bench. That the
court is not disposed to wait on the
erratic convenience of attorneys but
intends to call cases when they are
set, was manifest by the order that
cases No. 1917, Gallup Electric Light
Company, appellee, VS.. Pacific I'M
provement Company appellants, from
Mckinley county, and 1879, Levi H.
Thompson, appellee, vs.. Albuquerque
Traction Company, appellant, from
Bernalillo county, be submitted on
briefs, as the attorneys were not pres
ent when the cases were called.
Case No. 1918, Henry Lockhart, ap-
pellee, VS.. The Washington Gold and
Silver Mining Company, appellants,
from Bernalillo county, was resubmit-
ted by agreement.
Case No. 1916. United States, ap-
pellee, VS.. Santa Rita Mining Com
pany and Santa Rita Store Company
appellants, was submitted by stipula-
ton.
Case No. 1246, Aaron Gray, appellee,
VS.. New Mexico Pumice Stone Com
pany, ct al, appellants, from Valencia
county, was resubmitted on agreement
and fifteen days given to file supple
mental briefs.
Case No. 1872, Melvelle R. Summers
admix., etc., appellees, VS.. Sandoval
county, appellant, was argued and
submitted.
Faneuil B. S. Bethune of Silver City
was admitted to practice before the
court.
The court adjourned this forenoon
until tomorrow forenoon at ter
o'clock
Arrested BY Mounted Police.
Guadalupe Sais was arrested by
Mounted Policeman Rafael Gomez yes
terday at the ruins of the Ramona
Indian School just south of town fol
striking Albino Ortega with a knife
and rocks. Ortiz made the mistake
of walking unannounced upon Sal
who was sitting in the ruins of the olt
Indian school, with his sweetheart
int
melee ensued. Ortiz, who is an oil
man, was badly done up by the younl
blood who was given a hearing be
fore Justice of the Peace Santos Orti
this forenoon. Gomez also arreste'
Melquiades Quintana for striking
boy with rock
Appeals From Water Rights Decisions
Attorney A. A. Jones has appeale
to the district court for San Migue
county from the decisions of the tel
ritorial Board of Water Commission
ers in cases No. 800, in which he wa
denied the surplus waters of the Pt
cos, and No. $40, in which the La
Vegas grant board was given the SUI
plus flow of the Sapello, Gallinas an
other streams.
School of EIocution.
The office of the superintendent {
public instruction today received
letter from Pennsylvania asking whe
chances there would be to make
success of a school for oratory an
elocution in Santa Fe, in view thu
many spellbindet's and statesme
who can make orations will be d
manded during the coming statehoo
campaign.
Rio Grande Very Low.
Assistant Territorial Enginet
Charles D. Miller who on Saturda
measured the flow of the Rio Crane
at Buckman reports that the river