Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-06-29
STATE FILES BANK
RUPTCY PETITION
Latest Phase Of Official
Claims Against Former
County Treasurer
TWO RUNAWAY LADS COU6HT
Mounted Police Lambert Ap.
prehends Santa Fe Boys on
Upper Pecos.

Attorney General Frank w Clancy
On behalf of the state Of New Mexico
and the county commissioners Of
Dona Ana county, today fled in the
federal court a petition to declare Os-l
car Lohman of Las Cruces, an involun-
tary bankrupt The petition sets forth
that Lohman was former county treas
urer of Dona Ana county and failed to
pay over to his successor $24 26294;
that he had two bOndsmen to the
amount OF $16,6G0. but one of these.
Martin Lohman, is dead, and the other
Frank Kropp, is in Europe, and it Isl
doubtful whether recovery can be had
from him; that the respondent had
committed three acts of bankruptcy in
giving two mortgages for $4,000 each,
to the Bowman bank at Las Cruces,
and one for $4,000 to a bank at FL
Paso, so as to make these preferred
creditors.
State Funds.
State Treasurer o. n. Marion re-
ceived $3.50 for the compilation fund
and $500 from Game Warden T. c.
de Baca.
Mounted Police Invited.
The state mounted police have been
invited to attend the barbecue at Nor
iarty on July 4, by the Moriarty Farm
ers and Businessmen's Association.
Wart to See the Prize Fight
Captain Fred Fornoff of the mount
ed police is swamped with applications
o. dead game sports who want to gain
admission to the prize fight at Las We
gas on July 4, but do not want to pay
for it. These applicants ask to be
appointed special mounted policemen
and thus gain entrance to the ring
side.
Raiding Opium Dens.
Officers of the internal rev.
enue office for New Mexico and Ari-
zona. lnoer the direction of internal
revenue collector, Manuel B. Otero,
and Internal Revenue Agent Love,
are doing good work in raiding Chi
nese opium joints at various points
in Arizona.
Mounted Police Catch TWO Runaways
Mounted Policeman Lambert of Cim-
arron, this forenoon caught two run
away Santa Fe boys upon the upper
Pecos. Juan Romero, aged Is, and
Fermino Ortiz, aged 16, jumped into
an empty tank car of the Santa Fe
train leaving Santa Fe yesterday after
noon. Their parents asked the aid of
the mounted police last evening.
Will Transport Elk.
Game Warden T. C. de Baca has re
ceived a letter from the A. T. & S. F.,
offering to carry the elk captured in
Gallinas canon, free from Las Vegas
to Santa Fe From here, they are to
be transferred to the Pecos national
forest. Mr.. de Baca has also received
from the forest service, Il list of ran
gers to be commissioned deputy game
wardens.
Other County Officials May Be Paid.
Not only county school superintend-
ents, but also county commissioners
and probate judges and perhaps coun-
ty surveyors, may draw the pay fixed
by territorial statute until a state sal
ary law is passed, according to the
opinion of number of attorneys. 1t
is only the county officers formerly
paid by fees, the assessor, county treas
urer, sheriff and county clerk, who
must go without pay until a state
salary law is placed on the statute
books.
District Attorneys Must Wait.
Hon. W. G. Sargent, State Auditor,
Santa Fe, n. NJ.
Dear Sir--I have before me your let
ter of the 26th instant in which you
ask whether the appropriation for dis
trict attorneys made in 1909 is still
available, and also whether the salary
of five hundred dollars for each dis
trict attorney provided By section of
chapter % of the laws of 1909 is still
payable.
This matter has been passed upon
by the supreme court of the state in
the recent case of State eX rel, Ward
" Romero In that case, which was
one brought by district attorney to
obtain payment of fees under the for
mer statutes, the court held that the
constitution does not intend that the
cid fee and salary law should remain
ir effect, or that a part OF it should be
effective, 'and that no salary is pro-
vided by law for the district attorney"
The court refers distinctly to the sal
airy of five hundred dollars about W.. IN
you ask, but says that the convention
could not have intended that this sal
ary should remain, which would not
even compensate a district attorney
for his travelling expenses.
There being no salary provided for
district attorneys, of course the appro-
priation for such salaries made in
1909 is no longer available.
Very respectfully,
FRANK w. CLANCY,
Attorney General.
Convicts for Road Work.
A small additional crew of convic's
from the state penitentiary were TAX
an to Albu0ueroue from Santa Fe las