Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-11-23
TWO ESCAPED
C0NV|CTS CAUGHT
Permission Given to Destroy
Beavers in Rio Arriba
County
DEFECTIVE ELECTION RETURNS
Penitentiary Now Has $50 Con.
victs and Is Greatly
Overcrowded.

Overcrowded.
Territorial Game and Fish Warden
Gable has returned from trip to the
Los Pinos and San Antonito streams
in northern Rio Arriba county near
the Colorado line to investigate COM
plants that beavers were dammlng
the streams and flooding low lying
farms causing much damage. Mr.. Ga
BILE issued permits to capture the
beavers.
Territorial Funds.
Territorial Treasurer Rufus J. Pa.
len has received from Insurance Com
missioner Jacobo Chaves 1920; and
from Travelling Auditor John Joerns
$25 bank examination fees.
Notaries Public Appointed.
The following notaries public have
been appointed by Governor Mills:
Robert H. Crews, Albuquerque: Sam
D. Lowry, Portales; Chester H. Eddy
Chama and Mary S. Cole, Chico, Col
fax county.
Penitentiary Crowded.
The problem of what to do with the
convicts is. one of the problems up to
the first state legislature. At pres
ent there are $50 in the penitentiary.
These men should be employed on
permanent road work as far as pos.
sible.
Special Anniversary Programs.
For the third consecutive year, the
Territorial Department of Education
is sending out well arranged and
neatly printed book containing spe-
cial programs for public school ami
versaries and holidays, including
songs and memory gems. 1t is use
full. book and much praise is due the
compiler for his painstaking work.
Escaped Convict Recaptured.
Captain Fred Fornoff of the Terri
torial Mounted Police, who returned
last evening from Tucumcan aud Es-
tancia, today received report that
Juan Salcido, convict who had es-
capped from the road gang at Chama,
Rio Arriba county, is in Jail at Carls-
bad, with bullet hole in both hips.
He was recaptured near the Texas
line.
Desperate Recaptured.s
Mounted Policeman ]. B. Rusk has
re-arrested Tom Foley who broke out
of Jail at TERRA Amarillo, and Foley
will be brought to the penitentiary in
this city for safekeeping. Foley, is a
half breed, and when captured five
miles south of Ell Rito, Rio Arriba
county, still had one of the shackles
on one wrist, while the other one he
had taken off with the aid of an axe.
He had just sold horse and saddle
for $25, the saddle alone being worth
double that amount. It was of Gal
lup make and had orange stirrups. 1t
is believed that Foley is wanted in
Arkansas. The jailer who was on
duty when Foley escaped, has been
dismissed.
Trouble With Election Returns.
Territorial Secretary Nathan Jaffa
is receiving kilograms daily in regard
to faulty election returns. One elec'
tlOA UOdlu WllOS LAdI ~ 6OC " oA6A
the official returns and asks for the
return of the poll books. Another cleo
tion board in Otero county wires thai
1t not only forgot to sign the returns
but also enclosed them in the sealed
ballot box and sent the ballot box tt
the county seat. The board asks fol
the return of the ballot box and per
mission to open it. OF course, this
could not be granted and the ballo
box has been ordered to be sent tt
Santa Fe. However, all this will NEAR
delay and confusion in the final can
yass Of the votes.
Special Indian Surveys.
A series of special surveys Of th'
Indian. reservations all over the coun
try are being made now, and will be
reported upon to the Indian bureau OF
December l, furnishing data for the ID
cation of water power plants ant
reservoirs in times to come. The ides
is that the sites may be reserved from
entry should any reservations b.
opened to settlement later on. Tn.
data is to be in by December In or
der that the secretary may present !
to Congress, it is believed. The worl
for this section Is completed, and tn
report is being made by H. F. Robin
son, superintendent of the irrigation
department Of local Indian affairs, tc
day.
Postofffce Appointments.
Jesse A. Molohon has been al
pointed postmaster at Crystal, Sa
Juan county, and James T. Sparks hs
been appointed at Baldy in Colfa
county. The following five recent
apupointed postmasters for Ne
Mexico have been commissioned: E
mond A. Davis at Mutt; James ]
Knight at Rincon; Wallace w. Lyr
at Steeplerock, and Clinton B. Weel
at Thoreau, and Winnie Bartram
Taft.
MINING DEAL THAT
INVOLVES MILLION DOLLAR
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