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VOL. 20
SOCORRO, NEW M EXICO. S ATU R DAY. DECEMBER 20. 4902
NO.48
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JAYÁSCHI"
TWO SALOONS.
THE OLD STAND.
Still stands as it has
stood for 20 years the
favorite resort forstrict
ly first-class liquors of
all sorts from a drink
to a gallon cask.
THE ARCADE.
This place has just been
richly furnished and is
strictly up to date in all
respects. The motto
here is "Once a customer
always a customer."
SHORT ORDER RESTAURANT.
An old Harvey House cook has been employed
and as good meals will be served as can be had in
the State of New Mexico. Single meals, or board
by the day or by the wcet. Come and bring your
frfends for a square meal.
FAHILY TRADE SOLICITED.
NEWLY Fliih'ilSe ROOMS.
Evarything brand new, clean and
comfortable. The best place in town
far lodging by the night, by the week,
or by iha tnsntb. Solid comfort while
you sleep,
ALL FIRST CLASS.
OE S S A Kl II J
WHITNEY
Shelf
COMPANY
WHOLESALE
HARDWARE Heavy
STOVES, RAKGES, TIE and GRANITE IRON
WARE. fóOVJERS and RAKES.
PULI PS, IROia PJPE and PIPE FITTINGS.
Mine asid Mill Supplies,
O PLUSmiHC, HEATING and TIHNtNG. Q
Largest Mail Order House in New Mexico.
113-115-117 South First St., Albuquerque, Naw Mexico.
Inquiries Solicited.
COONEY VS. FITCH.
THE HEW MARKET.
s. E. CÜR. plaza.
JUST OPENED,
EVERYTHING NEW,
NEAT AND CLEAN
THE MEATS WE CARRY
are tha best that can be pro
cured. They an the finest
results from carefully raised
stock well handled in butch
ering. PERFECTLY SERVED a
so that there is never any
difficulty in getting- a nice
roast or steak whenever yon
want it.
JOHN RUFF
PROPRIETOR.
Southeast Cor. Plaza.
H Sale Stable.
..ALSO..
COAL, CEMENT, LIME,
HAY, AND GRAIN.
May &, Yunker,
Successors toC. T. Brown.
Socorro Chapter No. 8, O. E. S.
At the regular meeting of So
corro Chapter No. 8, O. E. S.,
Monday evening the following
omeers were elected lor the ensu
ing year, viz: Worthy Matron,
Mrs. F. G. Bartlett; Worthy
Patron, J. P. Chase; Associate
Matron, Mrs. II. M. Dougherty:
Conductress, Mrs. C. G. Duncan;
Assistant Conductress, Mrs. C.
T. Brown; Secretary, Mrs. J. li.
Griffith; Treasurer, Mrs. Wm.
Driscoll.
Socorro's Mayor Undertakes to Vindicate
His Private and OlUclal Conduct.
Socorro, N. M., Dec. 14th, 1902.
Editor of The Chieftain:
In your issue of Nov. 1st inst.
J. G. Fitch, with goulish glee,
takes advantage of the date prior
to election to slander me. He
states that I have graded Angora
goats and did not return them
and that I had four thousand
sheep last March and did not re
turn them. This is a deliberate lie
and in this he puts himself on the
leval of a contemptible campaign
liar. Mr. Fitch reminds me of
the cure the old Negro mammy
had for insomnia, namely, to
close the eyes and imagine you
see a number of sheep jumping
over the bars in a corral and
keep counting them until you in
duce sleep. Mr. Fitch must
have tried this, and after the ef
fort should sleep well. It is not
the first time Mr. Fitch attempt
ed to interfere with me in the
discharge of my duties. When
tax collector, Mr. Fitch en
deavored to prevent me from sell
ing the Dailey property for de
linquent taxes, appearing before
the crowd of purchasers and say
ing that whoever bought the
Dailey property would buy a law
suit. He sent his clcik a second
time to warn oil purchasers and
to intimidate me, when I caught
him by the collar and said it he
or his principal ever returned
again that I would place them in
jail. I sold the property for
taxes. Mr. Fitch started suit in
court against Mrs. Dailey for
possession of this same land and
was defeated. But not content,
and in order to harass Mrs.
Dailey, who is aged, and a widow
of a former citizen of Socorro, he
endeavored through an agent, to
get some of our leading citizens
to make a pretended purchase of
the above land, on five years
time; suit to be started against
the widow in the name of the
purchaser, he, Fitch, to do all
the law business free. The
widow would be put to the ex
pense of employing a lawyer to
defend her. To the credit of
every citizen approached, none
could be found to aid in this
malignant war upon the widow.
1 will state here that Mrs. Dailey
redeemed through me the prop
erty 1 sold and has been paying
taxes on it ever since.
Regarding the outstanding
warrants issued by Estevan Baca
and C. Cortinas when occupying
the mayor's chair, when Mr.
Fitch states that I said or knew
they were illegal when I first ran
for mayor, he states a deliberate
lie. I did not know then nor do
I know now, that they are illegal.
They were issued for services
rendered, to the city government,
and arc a valid claim unless the
city intends to repudiate its in
debtedness. Mr. Fitch is the
man who said they were illegal.
And notwithstanding that he
said so, and condemns the taking
of them for laud sales, he has
persistently been tendering the
same class of warrants for city
taxes for years, and when not ac
cepted, refused to pay any city
taxes, viz: For the years 1892
he is delinquent city taxes,
$21. SU; for 1895, $27.49; for 1896,
$22.30; for 1897, $20.80; for 1898,
$44.28. Others, under advice
from him, made the same tender
of warrants, and are delinquent
also. I need not name the indi
viduals, as any tax-payer can ex
amine the tax roll and see for
himself. Mr. Editor, is not such
consistency refreshing that those
warrants when held by Mr. Fitch
and his clients are legal enough
to pay taxes, but when held by
Abran Abeyta are too illegal to
buy land? The city is not ready
yet to repudiate its indebtedness,
and the efforts of the present
city council, who have cut down
the expenses of running the city
government and are trying to
sell its useless land to maintain
the credit of the city, increase
the tax roll, which, has fallen off
from a tax return of $9,082.00 in
1893 to the sum of $3,505.00 in
1901, is an action to be com
mended instead of meeting with
hostility in certain quarters.
Mr. Fitch has some strange
schemes to forward the interests
.of the city. For instance, the
mandamus he procured in court
to force the city council to ignore
the claims of holders of $12,000
bonds of 1897 and the holders of
some $13,000 water bonds, in
order that the entire revenues of
the city be given to a client of
his holding bonds in $17,000, to
wit: To make a levy of eight
(8) mills out of the ten (10) mill-t
allowed by law for his client and
two (2) mills general fund to
pay the ignored debt as well as
expenses of the city. This was
an insidious attempt it repudia
tion, and the city council had
but a choice of two lines of
action; either resign in a body
and let the city go to the eternal
bow-wows or fight the nefarious
scheme. They decided to light
and made an honest levy of three
mills for the general fund; three
mills for the interest fund of
1897; and four mills for the inter
est fund on water bonds. Mr.
Fitch has forced the council to
employ attorneys to tight his
scheme and save tfle honor of the
city. The true inwardness of
the job is more fully understood
when it is considered that for a
year previous to getting his man
damus, Mr. Fitcli was getting
nearly all the revenues of the
city for his bond client, namely,
more than $1,200.00.
The mayor is charged by Mr.
Fitch with all the sins of omis
sion as well as commission of the
city council, amongst them, the
order on the collector not to re
ceive city warrants for taxes. If
Mr. Fitch were consistent he
would applaud this act, as ac
cording to him, they are illegal.
Then, why receive them for
taxes? Citizens will remember
the small pox case left by the cir
cus at the depot. There was no
money in the general fund owing
to tax resisters, tax dodgers, and
tax eaters, like Mr. Fitch, b.ing
delinquent, and the mayor hail
to go around begging from the
citizens to procure funds to es
tablish a pest house, feed the pa
tient and his nurse, and when
convalescent, burn their clothing
and replace them with clean suits
before starting them out. Dr.
Blackington treating the patient
gratis and advancing them mon
ey out of his own pocket for the
road.
Mr. Fitch shirks the charge of
refusing to pay the additional
school levy of 1901 by saying he
paid the other five. Mr. Fitch
is not so ignorant as a lawyer
that he should not know tlat
there is a late legislative act that
empowers municipal school
boards to make an additional
levy of not to exceed two and
one-half mills if they think the
interests of the school demand it.
Much of his own delinquency to
the city are taxes for the sup
port of the city schools and there
is no doubt iu my mind bnt that
his whole course as a tax-resister
and as counsel for other tax
resisters was taken with a view
to the impoverishment of the
city and forcing it into repudia
tion of its debts.
Mr. Editor, so long as the
present condition of public senti
ment prevails amongst those who
should be foremost in maintain
ing the credit of the city, there
is very little use in anybody
seeking capital to invest in eith
er securities or our lands. I
shall not in future trespass on
your space on the subject at is
sue with Mr. Fitch. I believe
he is subject to mental obliquity,
and a continuance of the dispute
might aggravate the case
M. COONEY.
Mayor of Socorro, N. M.
Federal Appropriations.
The secretary ot the treasury
asks for following appropriations
for New Mexico and Arizona for
the fiscal year ending June 30,
1903: Salaries for the governor
and other territorial officers, for
New Mexico, $20,300; contingent
expenses, $1,000; legislative ex
penses, $4,001; office of surveyor
general, $12,000; support of
Indians in Arizona and New
Mexico, $225,000; incidental ex
penses of Indian service in New
Mexico, $1,500; support of Indian
school at Santa Fe, $76,300; fund
for construction of irrigation
works under the sale of public
lands. $200,000.
Kansas High Patent Flour.
The Crown Mill Company of
Socorro will sell Kansas High
Patent Hour at $2.30 per hundred
pounds, retail. This flour is
guaranteed to be equal to or bet
ter than any other Xarsas flour
'made. Crown Miu, Co.
ELECTION CONTEST ON
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Wednesday and Thursday Aro Oc
cupied in Counting tho In
dependent Republican
Ballots,
324 INDEPENDENT BALLOTS CAST.
The Vote of San Antonio FreelnrU Jio.
7, Claimed the Attention of the
t'otirt Vt-Nterduy.
Proceedings were begun in the
Socorro county election contest
cases before Hon. Dan'l II. Mc
Millan in this city Wednesday
morning. The contest is
brought by the Republican can
didates for county offices on the
ground, chiefly, of the alleged il
legality of the Independent Ke
publican ballots. Wednesday
and Thursday were consumed in
counting these ballots and it was
found that 324 of them were in
cluded in the total number of
ballots returned by the judges of
election of the various precincts,
and canvassed by the county
commissioners. This number
does not include those cast in
San Antonio precinct, nor the
few thrown out in Kelly precinct
and in Socorro precinct No. 21.
What the exact result will be
will of course depend upon the
decision oí the court. It' ap
pears, however, that the Inde
pendent Republican votes are so
distributed that even if they are
declared illegal ami all thrown
out Leandro Baca and Benjamin
Sanchez are elected over C. F.
Blackington and M. Cooney.
Whether any other Independent
and Democratic candidates are
elected under such a count can
not now be determined.
Two sets of returns were sent
to the county commissioners
from San Antonio precinct, one
by the election officers appointed
by the board and the other by
election officers alleged to have
been elected by the voters at the
polls on election day. The at
tention of the court yesterday
was given to the efforts of the
contestants to prove that the lat
ter are the legal returns, also to
prove the illegality of the Inde
pendent ballots.
Monday is the day set for the
respondents to present their case,
but court adjourned last night
until Monday morning and the
attorneys for the contestants still
had several witnesses to examine.
The trial of the case has aroused
intense interest and the issue is
awaited with considerable anx
iety by some parties. The con
testants arc represented by At
torneys Childers and Dobson of
Albuquerque and the respond
ents by Attorneys Fitch and
Dougherty of this city. These
gentlemen are fighting every
inch of the ground gone over.
The decision of the case will
probably not be rendered until
he close ot next week.
lilac k Range Minl.ig District.
The several mining districts in
the Black Range in Sierra county
will become very prosperous and
lively as soon as a railroad is
built from Magdalena to the
Black Range to haul the rich ores
known to exist there to smelters
and mills. The Black Range
Railroad Company to run from
Magdalena on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to
Chloride, was incorporated about
one and a half years ago and sur
veys were made of the line. Then
the matter dropped ana nas been
in a somnolent state ever since.
The projectors of the Black
Range Railroad Company should
make a fresh effort to obtain
capital for the construction of
the line. This seems to be an
auspicious time for such a move.
Santa Fe New Mexican.
Company IPs Christmas Ball.
Company II will give a ball
Christmas night to raise funds to
furnish the new armory. No
personal invitations will be issued.
All should turn out and do'what
they can to help tiie boys build
up a bright military company in
Socorro. No pains well be spared
to make this one of the best balls
of the year. Captain Matthews
will drill the cadet company as
one of the features of the even-
. ing's entertainment.
I Tickets, $1.00; ladies free.
I Subscribe for Thk Chieftain.
A Summary of Important Frents Con
densed from the Press Dispatches.
The coal famine still continues
in the east.
Parties have asked for a fran
chise to build a street railway in
Roswell.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the New
York millionaire, is at the point
of death.
5,000 additional acres are to be
put under irrigation by the Pecos
Irrigation Company.
Another railroad company has
been incorporated to build a road
from Alamogordo to Deming by
way of Las Cruces.
The secretary of the treasury
has recommended that a three
story government buildinir to
cost about $200,000 be erected at
Albuquerque.
This morning's dispatches an
nounce that Great Britain, Ger
many, and Italy have accepted
the principle of arbitration with
Venezuela as suggested by the
United States.
A game of football for the
championship of New Mexico
will be played in Santa Fe on
Christmas day between the teams
of the Albuquerque Indian school
and the Santa Fe Indian school.
Discussion of the statehood
measure in the senate has been
postponed until January 5. Sup
porters are still hopeful of its final
passage, but Delegate Rodey
urges that letters and telegrams
be sent to senators asking their
support for the statehood move
ment. It has just been discovered that
a law passed in 1850 fixed the
northern boundary line of New
Mexico at the 38th parallel in
stead of the 37th as now repre
sented on maps. This may re
sult in New Mexico's acquiring
from Colorado a strip of land 60
miles wide and 400 miles long.
Testimony was adduced before
the coal strike commission Tues
day showing that little girls
worked in the coal mines all
night. The legislature of Penn
sylvania will probably be called
upon to pass a law to prevent
the continuance of this practice.
The commission adjourns today
to meet after the holidays.
Great Britain, Germany, and
Italy undertook a few days ago
to force collection from Venezuela
of certain obligations due citizens
of those countries. For a time
war was imminent. In fact Ger
man and British vessels seized
and sunk two or three Venezuelan
craft. All parties to the dis
pute have now submitted their
differences to United States Min
ister Bowen, however, and it is
believed that there will be a
peaceable settlement.
Socorro Chapter No. 8, R. A. 51.
At the regular meeting of So
corro Chapter No. 8, R. A. M.,
Tuesday night officers for the
ensuing year were elected as fol
lows: Jas. G. Fitch, Excellent
High Priest; C. T. Brown, King;
F. G. Bartlett, Scribe; A. E.
Howell, Treasurer; C. G. Duncan,
Secretary.
Christmas Exercises.
There will be a Christmas tree
for the children of the Episcopal
Sunday school at Epiphany
church Christmas evening. The
childern of the Presbyterian Sun
day school will have their tree
and appropriate exercises on the
evening of Tuesday, December
23, at 7 o'clock.
Additional Holiday Rates.
In addition to the dates au
thorized for the Christmas holi
days, tickets will be sold to Las
Vegas only on December 21 and
22 for the meetings of the New
Mexico Academy of Science, Edu
cational Council, and 'Educational
Association.
New Cases Filed.
New cases have been filed in
the office of the district clerk this
week as follows:
Juana Gurale de Montoya s.
Luis Montoya, divorce.
John M. Bryson vs. Estey Miu-
ing and Milling Co., account.
'' ' " III V , I
For Rent. A three room b; ;c'
house. Price reasonable. J
quire of C. F. McCabe,

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