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SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1907.
NO. 241
LEWELLYNS RESIGN AS
UNITED STATES AHDRNEY
AND SURVEYOR GENERA
Captain David J. Leahy of Las Vegas,
Present Assistant U. S. Attorney Ap
pointed to Fill Position Made Vacant
by Major Llewellyn's Resignation.
II PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES CHANGE
Solicitor General Hoyt Leaves for New Mexico to Take
Charge of Federal Investigations in Alleged Land
Frauds McHarg and Holcombe Return as Witnesses
-.Other News From Washington.
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
WASHINGTON, NOV. 23. BULLE
TIN. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO
DAY ACCEPTED THE RESIGNA
TION OF MAJOR W. H. H. LLEWEL
LYN AS U. S. .DISTRICT .ATTOR
NEY OF NEW MEXICO AND FILLED
THE VACANCY BY "THE APPOINT
MENT OF CAPTAIN DAVID J.
LEAHY.
MAJOR LLEWELLYN WILL BE
ASSIGNED TO SPECIAL WORK IN
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE...
MORGAN 0. LLEWELLYN : WILL
RESIGN AS SURVEYOR GENERAL
OF NEW MEXICO ABOUT TUB
FIRST OF THE YEAR TO ENTEE
THE LAW OFFICE OF HIS FATHEE
MAJOR LLEWLLYN.
staff correspondent
confirms resignations.
special to the new mexican.
Washington; nov. 23. major
w. h. h. llewellyn" resigned
today as u. s. district attor
ney of new mexico to take a
more lucrative position as a
special agent in the depart
ment of justice. :
captain david j leahy. who
has been an assistant under
major llewellyn, has been
appointed to fill the vacan
CY. MORGAN 0. LLEWELLYN, A SON
OF MAJOR LLEWELLYN, HAS RE
SIGNED AS SURVEYOR GENERAL
OF NEW MEXICO, WHICH WILL
TAKE EFFECT ON JANUARY 1.
HIS SUCCESSOR HAS NOT YET
BEEN DECIDED UPON.
NEW MEXICANS LUNCH
WITH THE PRESIDENT.
Special to the New Mexican.
Washington, Nov. 23. The Presi
dent today entertained at luncheon at
the White House Solicitor General
Henry M. Hoyt, and Governor George
Curry, Major W. H. II. Llewellyn and
Captain David J. Leany of New Mexi
co. Solicitor' General Hoyt will leave
this evening via the Pennsylvania
railway for Santa Fe, while Gover
nor Curry, Major Llewellyn and Cap
tain Leahy will leave tomorrow even
ing for New Mexico. Special Assist
ant to the Attorney General .Ormsby
McHarg of the Department of Justice,
and E. P. Holcomb, chief clerk of
Division G, of the general land office,
will leave this evening for Santa Fe
to give evidence and Information con
cernlng the Indictments against the
Phelps-Dodge company officials' and
employes recently found in the U." S.
district court In Santa Fe for alleged
coal land frauds.
Delegate Andrews has his bill for
an enabling act for New Mexico about
ready and will introduce it during the
first two days of the coming session
of Congress. It Is expected that the
bill will be immediately referred ' to
the House committee on territories as
soon as announced.
finds that the New Mexico situation
here is most favorable, and that all
matters of controversy have been set
tied satisfactorily to the New Mexico
delegation here and to the people or
the territory. Governor Curry
held in high esteem by the President
and has his entire confidence.
As to statehood the President and
Governor Curry have had several con
ferences and there Is now a complete
understanding of the situation on the
part of the President who has de
ilared that he favors prompt state
bood for New Mexico and Arizona as
i matter of justice and right and that
he would aid New Mexico's ambition
"or immediate statehood in every prop'
jr and legitimate way, and would urge
'avorable action during the coming
session of Congress. Governor Cur
ry is very sanguine that such will be
the case and feels that he has secured
the active aid of the President.'
Delegate W. H. Andrews- Is" of " the
3ame opinion as Governor Curry ana
believes that he has secured sufil
dent pledges already In the House oi
Representatives for favorable action
on the bill and that he can Induce
Speaker Cannon to give up any op
position to the project He may now
entertain and support the measure for
m enabling act for New Mexico which
will be introduced by Delegate An
irews during the first few days of the
coming Congressional session.
Governor Curry has requested Act
Ing Governor Nathan Jaffa to call a
meeting of representative citizens and
statehood advocates for Saturday, No
vember 30, to meet in Santa Fe, for
the purpose of conferring with the
governor and to select a delegation of
citizens to go to the national capital
to- work for statehood. Governor Cur
ry believes that such a delegation
can do splendid work towards helping
the statehood cause. .
New Mexico matters at the different
departments are in very good shape
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MATTERS IN CONTROVERSY
SETTLED SATISFACTORILY.
Special to the New Mexican.
Washington, Nov. 23. Inquiries at
the Department of Justice and the De
partment of the Interior elicit Infor
mation that stories circulated In San
ta Fe by interested parties concern
ing Special Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Ormsby McHarg returning to
New Mexico with greater powers and
that Assistant - Secretary Woodruff
might be governor of New Mexico or
that Governor Curry had resigned or
would resign are fakes pure and sim
ple, and are not worthy of the least
attention.
On the contrary your correspondent
In accordance with a telegraphic
request received this forenoon by Act
ing Governor Nathan Jaffa from Gov
ernor Curry the acting governor today
issued a circular letter calling a meet
ing of representative citizens of the
territory who favor statehood to meet
in this city on Saturday, November 30
for the purpose of considering ques
tions connected with the statehood
movement for New Mexico and to se
lect a delegation of citizens to pro
ceed to Washington to work with U.
S. Senators and members of the House
of Representatives for favorable con
sideration of the bill for an enabling
act for New Mexico which will be in
troduced on Tuesday or Wednesday,
the third or fourth of December, and
simultaneously In the United States
Senate.
Acting Governor Jaffa telegraphed
the general passenger agents of the
Santa Fe, the Denver and Rio Grande
and El Paso & Southwestern railways,
requesting that reduced rates be made
for the gathering. General Manager S.
B. Grimshaw of the Santa Fe Central
Railway has already announced a rate
of one fare for the round trip.
Copies of Acting Governor Jaffa's
circular were mailed today to repre
sentative citizens in various parts of
the territory. The letter reads: i
.Territory of New Mexico, .
" Acting Governors Letter.
Office of the Executive, Santa Fe.
November 23, 1907.
To the People of New Mexico:
Information has been received today
from the National Capital to the effect
that the prospects for the admission
(Continued on Page Eight.)
TALK OF CURRDICY REFORMS
Democratic States man Be.
lieves His Plan Will Be
Successful.
CAPT. DAVID J. LEAHY.
The above picture is an excellent
likeness of Captain David J. Loahy,
whose appointment today as United
States district attorney to succeed
Major W. H. H. Llewellyn who resign
ed to take a more remunerative and
responsible position with the Depart
ment of Justice as announced In dis
patches from Washington.
Captain Leahy served in the famous
Rough Rider regiment as a second
lieutenant of Troop G, during the
Spanish-American war when he ac
quired the friendship of President
Roosevelt.' His appointment is a
well deserved recognition of his work
as assistant district attorney which
position he has filled for the past two
years and his promotion will be wel
come news to a host of friends
throughout New Mexico.
David J. Leahy is a comparatively
young man, being about thirty-eight
years of age. Within the space of a
few years by diligent effort and natur
al ability he has risen in the legal pro
fession until .he is known as one of
the ablest of the younger lawyers in
New Mexico. He Is married and re
sides at Las Vegas.
Mr. Leahy is a native of Illinois,
born in La Salle county. After at-
l-anliKr ttin Hatrlnt anhrtnla fit" hifl
birthplace he aspired to be a teacher ty,
and completed his education in the
northern Indiana Normal school at
Valparaiso, Indiana. In 1891 ue came
to New Mexico to take charge as
principal of tiie public schools at
Springer. He held this position for
three years and then went to Raton
, , While engaged in school work he
took up the study of law and was ad
mitted to practice by the territorial
supreme court on February 15, 1897. In
,?S9C he was elected superintendent of
schools of Colfax county,
At the outbreak of the Spanish-Am'
erican war in 1898 he was commission
ed as a second lieutenant In Troop G
of the First Regiment, U. S. Volunteer
Cavalry, which Is bettor known as the
Roosevelt Rough Riders. He served
through the war and was wounded in
the famous battle of San Juan Hill.
Upon being mustered out of service
he returned to Raton where he resum
ed the practice of the legal profession.
Afterwards he was appointed to the
position of clerk of the Sixth Judicial
district court by Judge Edward A.
Mann whf'.L f jsltion he held until two
years ago when he was made Assist
ant U. S. district attorney of New
Mexico under Major Llewellyn.
In politics Captain Leahy Is an un
compromising Republican and is a fa
miliar figure in the councils of his par-
ATTEMPTS MURDER
WHEN DISCHARGED
Atrocious Deed of Kansas City News
paper Man Shot Down Former
Employers.
Kansas City, Nov. 23. Richard C.
Home, editorial writer on the Kansas
City Post, shot and seriously wounded
O. D. Woolward, manager of the Wil
lis Wood theater and president of me
Post Publishing Company, and slight
ly wounded E. J. Groves, managing ed
itor, in the latter's private office here
today.
The Post has been cutting down Its
editorial force and this morning
Groves notified Home of his dis
charge. When Woodward came to the
office Home, without a word shot him
in the chest and after he fell to the
floor fired two more shots into his
body. Groves was shot as he tied
from the room.
Woodward is one of the best known
theatrical men in this part of the
country.
Home was arrested and is now in
jail.
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RUSSIA CANCELS
DEBT WITH JAPAN
Gives Check for $24,302,200, Which
Sum Represents Balance Due for
Caring for Prisoners.
London, Nov. 23. Russia today wip
ed out the balance of her indebtedness
to Japan arising from the late war by
handing to the Japanese ambassador
here a check for $24,302,200. This
sum represents, the balance due for
the maintenance of Russia prisoners
of war.
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T
GIVES WARDING
Federal Officials
Must Not Urge
Third Term
Washington, Nov. 23. President
Roosevelt and William J. Bryan were
in conference half an hour In the
President's private office today.
Bryan remarked that he had a pleas
ant chat with the President but said
he was not willing to discuss the de
tails of the interview.
Discussing his plan to have the gov
ernment insure the depositors in na
tional banks against loss by reason
of the failure of such banks, he said
it was not intended to nave the gov
ernment collect a fund for this pur
pose but It would tie the duty of the
government to make au assessment
on all the banks to meet losses by rea
son of failures. This assessment, ho
said, would be of Intestimable bene
fit. He felt enthusiastic over the
prospect of the ultimate success of
this plan.
Bryan said it was evident that no
tariff revision could be Hoped for
from the coming Congress. He fav
ored the removal of tho tariff on all
trust controlled articles.
QUIT DEALING
IN CURRENCY
Brokers Will Offer
No More Fancy
Premiums
ENCOUnMING SIGN
Chicago Banks Take Steps
To Resume Business
on Cash Basis.
WATSON IDOL
OF POPULISTS
Indications Point to His Renomination
as Candidate for President on
That Ticket in 1908.
Joliet, 111., Nov. 23. The Populist
national committee will Have a confer
ence at St Louis, November 2G
which may result In the fixing of the
time and place for the convention in
1908 and tho re-nomination of Tom
Watson of Georgia as a candidate for
president. ...National Chairman Ferriss
denied today that an alliance was be
ing arranged with the Independent
League of Prohibitionists but added:
"We feel individually as friendly to
the league as wo do to Bryan or
Roosevelt. We are pleased they are
going our way and would be more
pleased if they would go further."
Ferriss said Bryan hit the key note
in the banking matter when he pro
posed that the government guarantee
tho bank deposits.
WILL CUT WAGES
OF CARPENTERS
WOULD BE DISCOURTEOUS
They Must Refrain From
any Activities in This
Regard
Washington .Nov., 23 President
Roosevelt yesterday addressed a let
ter to the members of his cabinet re
questing them to Inform the federal
employes under 'their jurisdiction to
refrain from any activity with the ob
ject In view of his renomination. Its
contents are substantially as follows:
"I am Informed that certain office
holders in your department holding
various positions throughout the coun
try, contemplate attending the Repub
lican conventions in their respective
states and urging the endorsement of
myself for the , presidential nomina
tion. I wish you would direct the fed
New York Contractors Announce a
Reduction of 50 Cents Per Day
Effective January 1.
New York Nov., 23 The master
carpenters' organization has given no
tice to the Brotherhood of Carpenters'
that their wages will be reduced on
the first day of next January, from $5
to 4.50 a day. Building operations,
It is said, have decreased fifty per
cent, owing to the tightness of the
money market. Representatives of the
carpenters union declare they will
strike rather than accept the reduction.
New York, Nov. 23. The demand
for a higher premium on currency by
persons who have boon hoarding has
bocome ho insistent and the opportun
ity to dispose of such purchases at a
profitablu percentage fo meagre, that
Zimmerman and Forshav. leadlm:
jrokers, who have dealt in manv mil
lions since the money stringency be
gan, announced that after the close of
business today they will neitner buy
nor st-ll coin for bills. This examr-lt?
will probably be followed by ;ill the
money brokers in tho financial dis
trict. It is estimated that sinew ih
beginning of the sboilaw thr.t the to
tal amount of currency bought and
sold has footed up to fifty millions or
dollars. The highest rate obtainabl-j
lately in large lots has been 2 1-2'ic
2 3-4 per cent.
Banks Show Improvement at Close
of Week.
The statement of the clearing house
banks for the week ending today
shows that they hold $54,103,000 less
than the requirements of the 25 per
cent reserve rule. Thl3 is a decrease
of $436,650 in the proportionate cash
reserve as compared w-ith last week.
Chicago Banks Want to Get Back to
Cash Basis.
Chicago, Nov. 23. A stop looking
towards the resumption of business on
a cash basis has been taken ty the
Chicago Clearing House Association.
Letters have been mailed to bankers
of the middle west and western sec
tions of the country asking them to
express their opinions on the general
situation. The statements of the
correspondents will be tabulated. It
Is expected the answers will begin to
come in tomorrow and that the
answers from the furthermost, points
will be received by the end of next
week.
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MURDERS WIFE
THEN SUICIDES
Terrible Deed of Wealthy New York
Manufacturer Set Tire to Home
to Cover Up Crime.
AUTO MANUFACTURER
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
Drove Speeding Machine Into Heavy
Truck Hie Guests Injured,
One Fatally.
Des- Moines, la., Nov. 23. In a col
lision of his automobile with a gas
repair wagon today O. R. Nattinger,
vice president of the Sears-Nattinger
Automobile Company, was killed and
four others, his guests, badly injured.
Frank Getchell, of the Getchell-Mar-tln
Lumber company, Is believed to be
fatally injured. Nattinger was driv
ing the machine at a high rate of
speed and did not see the wagon
which emerged from a side street.
New York, Nov. 23. A case of wife
murder and suicide was discovered
early today by firemen called to sub
due a blaze In the home, of Nicholas
Smith, a wealthy manufacturer of New
Rochello. When the firemen burst In
to the house they found Smith and his
young wife, dead, eaen with a bullet
wound In their body. Mrs. Smith had
been shot In the breast. The bullet
which killed Smith entered his head
behind the ear. Beside uis body was
a revolver. That Smith killed his
wife, fired the house to conceal his
crime and then klled himself was
proven by a note found in his room.
The note was addressed: "Dear
Minnie," (who is supposed to be a rel
ative), and told of the writer's inten
tions of firing the house and killing
his wife and himself. It Is believed
the man was crazy. The note said
he had cut off his hair because his
head ached. A servant in the house
said Mr. and Mrs. Smith quarreled
violently last night.
MAY EXTRADITE
BOMB TROWER
Would-Be Russian Assassin Arrested
In Vienna Result of Trial Means
Life or Death.
TO ENFORCE SUNDAY
CLOSINGIN CHICAGO
Temperance Workers to See That Lid
Goes On at Least One Day In the
Week In Windy City.
Chicago, Nov., 23 The most force
ful attempt to close the saloons on
eral office-holders of your department Sunday ever made in Chicago will be
who have such a thing in view that I J ,n tomorrow. All over the city the
would regard it as an act of improprle- "Pne worKws m gamer evia-
ty and discourtesy." 'tn:0 WI V1""'ns ot me iaw. ine Ba-
loon men tain or seeKing an injunction
Vienna, Nov., 23 Wanda Dobrod
zieka, the woman who threw a bomb
at General Skalon, governor general
of Warsaw, has been brought here
from Cracow, where her trial on de
mand of the Russian government for
extradition will take place. After her
crime she fled to Cracow, where her
beauty attracted many admirers, one
of whoni, an Austrian, she married. If
the court decision is against her, she
will lose both her husband and her
life.
PR08PECT0R IS
FROZEN TO DEATH.
Jicarllla, N. M., No., 23 John Dun
can, an old miner and prospector in
this section where he had resided for
over 25 years, perished in last Sun
day's blizzard on the divide between
this place and his claim. He was an
old soldier and his body was given
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against interference with their open j proper burial In the cemetery in this
Sunday privileges. camp.