Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-03-10
INDIANS GIVEN
NINE MONTHS
Took Turquoise From Tiffany
Mines Ia Miles South
of Santa Fe
U. S. JURIES ARE DISCHARGED
Indictments Brought in Against
William FINN and
Charles Bell.

That Indians have been taking tur-
quoise from the famous mines IA
miles south of Santa Fe owned by the
American Turquoise Company, OF
which the Tiffanys of New York are
the majority stockholders, substanti-
ating the statements made by ]. P.
McNulty, the manager, was proved to-
day when Judge McFie sentenced four
Indians to nine months in the peni-
tentiary for stealing turquoise.
Three of the Indians are named
Quintana and one is Trujillo, and all
were arrested on a moonlight night
some time ago by a deputy sheriff.
The arrests were the outcome of
complaints made for several years by
Mr.. McNulty who declared that In
dians were rifing the mines of tur-
quoise and doing it under the shelter
of night Many efforts are said to
have been made by the authorities to
catch the Indians but until the ar
rest of the quartet just sentenced,
they were in vain.
The Indians use turquoise for cere-
monial purposes and it has been prac-
ideally impossible to get them to un-
derstand that the turquoise mines are
no longer public property
The Indians OF both Cochiti and
Santo Domingo were cautioned by Su-
perintendent Crandall to keep away
from the Tiffany mines but their fond
ness for the semi-precious stone got
them finally into trouble.
The Tiffany mines have been closed
down for some time in order to cur
tail the production. These mines
near Santa Fe had supplied all the
American turquoise the Tiffanys use
in their famous jewelry.
Juries Discharged. !
Both the U. s. grand and petit
Juries were discharged after they
grand jury returned two indictments
One was United States VS.. William
Finn, assaulting an Indian with a
deadly weapon and the other was the
United States VS.. Charles Bell, on the
charge of bigamy. He is alleged to
nave two wives In Santa Fe. Ffnn's
Indictment grew out of the trouble
with the Indians in which Dick Weth-
erill lost his life last June in a brush
with the Navajos in San Juan county.
Four Car Breakers.
Judge McFfe sentenced four car
breakers to the penitentiary, William
Chambers and George Wilson. aged
twenty-five years, to serve one year
each and James Mcdonald and
Charles Strouber, who are seventeen
Years old, nine months each. They
broke into freight car some time
ago.
For Burglary.
Considerable interest has been man.
lfested in the sentence of three wears
IN the penitentiary meted out TO Cleo.
fes Alarid and Tomas Sena for steal
ing fruit. 1t should be stated how
ever that the fruit was stolen by
purglariously entering the cellar of
the house where the fruit was stored
1t was not picked from the trees, as
is generally the case.
DR.. J. NJ. Diaz was today granted
his citizenship papers, He is a native
Oh Mexico and came to Santa Fe in
1891.
Estalio Muniz, who has been fugf-
tive from justice the past three years,
was brought into court today by sher-
if Charles Closson. 1t is believed he
will plead guilty to the charge of
horse stealing this afternoon in which
case he will be sentenced without de-
lay by Judge John R. McFie.
Judge McFie late this afternoon
sentenced Muniz from two to three
years in the penitentiary on two
charges of horse stealing.