El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-04
FRIENDS WANT
ROUAU[T NAMED
Office of Game Warden Is
of Much Interest; Fight
For Adjutant General.

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cient official He is rich and can
afford to hold the position and he is
a good roads enthusiast and has been
fair to all sections OF the state in
making road appropriations; they AL
admit this
Leslie GiIlett is said to be the man
leading in the race for French's job If
French is not reappointed- He IS for
mer chief Of the field force OF the
United States land office and was FOR
a time field agent for the Toltec OIL
company.
The Game Wardenship-
The position OF state game warden
interests FL Pasoans a great deal and
Is also attracting the attention Of the
sportsmen of the state. The sports
men are solidly behind TheO- Rouault,
IT., Of Las Cruces, better known as
Ted" He has made a splendid record
for efficiency and fairness
Tom Gable. a former saloonkeepcr
OF Dawson. is the man who is after
the job He was game warden in 1910
and 1911, during the last two years OF
the territorial regime. His boast has
always been that he did much 10
stock the streams OF New Mexico with
trout The records show that he put
S23,500 trout into the streams Of New
Mexico in 1910 at a cost TO the terri
tory OF S2520.22 and that In 1911 he
put 6S9. $50 trout into the streams OF
the territory at a cost of s2S20.20. His
license fees turned into the territorial
treasury. as reported. show a total OF
S7745 Cnet) in 1910 and SIZES (net) the
following year.
Beat Cables Record.
Trinidad c. DeBaca, who was game
warden from 1912 TO 1915. inclusive.
put more trout into the streams OF the
state each year than Gable did, at no
cost TO the state and ran the cOllec-
lions up until in 1915, he collected
total OF {14.32s.5e.
Ted ROuauIt. In the 10 months
that he has been in office As game
warden (1o17 and 1879 has col
Iected in licenses and fees for the
state. n total Of over S42,0OO. Dur
Ing this tiae he has also collected
in fines alone, a total OF $4,000 for
the state.
Last year. Mr.. RouauIt placed over
a million trout IN the streams OF New
Mexico at no cost TO the state and
this year he put in over 100000 at no
cost 10 the state. He was limited this
year because OF the failure OF the fed
eral trout hatcheries in Colorado
Elk for New Mexico.
M Rouault received a telegram
only today from the interior depart
ment at Washington stating that his
reuest for Elk for New Mexico had
been granted and that he could have
100 OF them for the state There are
probably 200 TO 225 head OF elk in the
state now. Mr.. Rouault believes with
the 100 he will get, the state will in
few years have enough elk to Pc
nit 4 brief open season on them each
year
For AdJutant General
For sdjutant general, there will be
a fight, the outcome OF which cannot
be foretold- James Bacz, the present
ad1utant general, has 4 record that
shows efficiency IN equipplng and get
ting the New Mexico national guard
into the federal service in fine shape.
and Is an applicant for reappointmeut
His chief opponent f. Lieut.. H.
II. Flamm. back from France
wearing the Croix de Guerre,
wounded and Eassed in action
while serving in the engineers. He
has been at Fort Bayard for some
time reeuperating and has been
the hero Of the week in Santa Re.
When the legislature meets. one
OF its first acts, II f. generally
understood, Will be TO pass
Joint resolution Of protest against
government ownership of public
utilities. This. II f. said. viii have
the entire Republican vote o. the
legislature.
The taxation measure will bling up
the big fight State taxes are very
inequitably distributed at present.
Those who want q state tax board
say this Is because the levies are
made by the various county commits
sioners, who can easily be controlled.
Those IN favor Of the present arrange
ment assert that county commission
ers are more able to fix values in
their counties than any board could
do.
Must Be Big Men
Even those favoring a state tax
board assert that II It is not made up
Of men OF wealth. to whom a few
thousand dollars would not be q bribe,
the state board would prove a fail
ure. yet. they reason, II wealthy men
alone composed the tax board. there
would Immediately be a protest that
the little man did not have 4 fair
show.
"A state board made up Of men
who became members merely for
the salary, said a wealthy He
publican eattIeman and sheep
owner. @SyOuld be n Joke. A cor
pOrntiOn could well afford to
spend $4,000 or even more to
keep down its assessments and the
temptation would he great 10 the
man on the board The bOard
should be made up OF men TO
whom q bribe would he no tempta-
tiOn, yet men who have the real
interests OF the state at henrt.s
Negotiable Taxation.
This same man aEeafTnd eorrra ~ fha