Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-02-21
MOUNTED POLICE
: KEPT BUSY
Two Escaped Convicts Are
Brought Back to Peniten.
tiary by Them
REPUBLICAN CO. CONVENTION
Banker w. F. Buchanan Secures
Writ of Habeas Corpus
at Seattle.

Governor Mcdonald, who was ex-
pected home last evening, failed to
arrive, but is certain to arrive TO-
night or tomorrow noon from Carri-
zOzo, the headquarters of his ranch
interests.
Bond Received.
Alvan n. White, state superintend-
ent of public instruction, yesterday
received the bond of Salmon San
chez for $4,000, as custodian of the
school funds of Guadalupe county.
Lieutenant Resigns.
Lieutenant C. E. Hansen Of the New
Mexico National Guard yesterday for
warded his resignation from Cincin-
natl, Ohio, to A. S. Brookes, adjutant
general. Lieutenant Hansen was for
merly connected with the medical
corps at Roswell.
Insurance Matters.
Jacobo Chavez, superintendent of
insurance, left the city last night for
Roswell where he will today appear in
the district court in the prosecution OF
E. L. Wilson for soliciting business
and collecting funds for the Missouri
State Life Insurance Company of st.
Louis, Missouri, without authority.
Escaped Convict Caught.
A. A. Sena, mounted policeman at
Las Vegas, this morning returned Pc
dro Montoya, an escaped convict, to
the state penitentiary. Montoya was
captured at San Pablo, San Miguel
county. by county officers, and turned
over to the mounted policeman Mon
toya served five months of a three
year sentence, escaping over two
years ago while working with road
gang near Santa Fe.
County Republican Central Committee
The County Republican Central
Committee met last evening in the Of
flee of T. B. Catron and named Feb
ruary 30 as the date for the primaries
and March 2, as the date for the hold
ing of county convention to name
the delegates for the state conven-
ton which will be held here March
8. One delegate for each twenty
votes cast for governor at the state
election will be chosen,
Trusty Recaptured.
"Lonnie' Harris, the negro truSty,
who performed menial work at the
executive mansion, and who escaped
last Saturday, was captured yesterday
at Ration This is the second time
Harris has eluded the penitentiary
authorities. He was captured before
at Ration where he seems to have an
irresistible attraction. Mounted Po-
liceman Lambert of Cimawon will re-
turn the prisoner to the institution
this morning.
Suit Filed.
A suit to recover S1030.40 in money
and property was filed yesterday by
benjamin Tucker Baca, who was a
ward, against Rafael Romero his
guardian of Mora county. Baca al
leges that, though he has reached his
majority, he has not received the
property entrusted to Romero 4or
himself and sister, Sally l. T. Tucker
Trinidad Ortiz y Tucker and Evaristo
Llcero, the bondsmen of Romero,
are made parties to the suit.
Alleged Horse Thieves Arrested.
Mounted Policeman ]. A. Beal, of
Deming, reports the arrest of Teodoro
Montoya and Francisco Calderon at
Sherman, Grant county, on a charge
of stealing horse from Joe Olney of
Lordsburg. The horse was returned
to the owner and the men will have
a preliminary hearing soon. The cit
liens of Grant county have been
much annoyed recently by petty
thieving and the arrests are a part
OF the plan to roundup the thieves.
Civil Service Examinations.
Examinations for the position of AS
sistant Observer in the Weather Bl-
reau will be held on April 10, 1912, at
the following places in and near to
New Mexico: Roswell and Santa Fe,
N NJ Phoenix, Ariz.; Denver, Dur
ango, Grand junction and Pueblo,
Colo; Amarillo and FL Paso, Tex.
Application for information in rela,
tion to the examinations, and for al.
mission to the same should De i'd
dressed to the U. S. Civil Service
Commission, Washington, D. c.
Buchanan Out on Habeas Corpus
According to advices received by
Sheriff j. F. Ward of Tucumcari and
Attorney General Clancy, yesterday
W. F. Buchanan, the former vice-presi-
dent of the defunct International
Bank of Commerce, has sued out "A
writ of habeas corpus and is out on
bond in Seattle, Washington. A letter
received from Buchanan states that
he is at the Seward hotel in Seattle
and that he will return to Tucumcari
if the authorities SO desire. Resist
ance to the habeas corpus action is
being made by New Mexico officials.
Sheriff Ward will leave the city with
reouisition papers as soon as Govern
or Mcdonald returns to the capital
tomorrow.
Pursuing Bandits.
The two Mexican bandits who shot
and killed C. A. Freeman, manager
of the Mogollon Mercantile Company
and William Clark, clerk of the store
last Monday, are being pursued by