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' Ptr3t Ciurl N)l3i. ;::v Tne April tirja of t'.u District C our for MoraCou ítyalj )a.ied Saturday May 2ad, aít3raweek's session. ' ' , ' The District court of Mora county which convened on April 27th, was in session one waak, and during that tim3 a consider able number of civil and criminal cases were disposed of. There weri but a few jury trials, and the petit jury was excused from further service on Friday, the Grand Jury continuing ii session until Situ rday morning. Among the cases disposed of were the following: '.'"!' Territory vs. D." T. Muse, charged with assault, the defen dent having served 100 days in jail, the grand jury returned no true bill, and Muse was discharg ed from further custody. Nicanor Cruz, indicted for as sault with a deadly weapon, upon his wife Ignatia Cruz and his mother-in-law, plead not guilty and his case was continued until the fall term of court. Francisco Est ralla, who testi fied that he was a resident of the State of Sonora, Old Mexico, and who assaulted Felix Villeral at Wagon Mound, having served 51 days in the county jail for the of fense was discharged from cus tody.: Alberto Jacobs, a resident of Wagon Mound, and who was in dited for larcényof coal from the Atchison, Topeka, . and Santa Fe Railway Company, plead guilty, and was sentenced to the terri torial penitentiary for one year and one day, by the court. Walter Poe, a young man about 21 years of age, and who stated that his home was in Raton, was indited for burglarizing the store of A. McArthur & Company at Wagon Mound, in December last. Ppe took from the store two suits of clothes, and other property of the value of one hundred dollars,' and also $13.80 in cash which he secured by breaking open the cash register. He was captured in Raton, and after a preliminary hearing was bound over to await ' the action of the grand jury. He plead guilty to the indictment and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. In the case of the Territory vs. Richard H. Carson, indicted for unlawfully flourishing a pistol in the town of Solano, after hearing the evidence, Judge Mills discharged the defendent. The evidence developing beyond a reasonable doubt that Carson while in the saloon of one Powell in Solano, pulled and flourished a beer bottle, which the citizens of the place in the dim candle light mistook for a six-shooter. Pedro A. Romero, who lives in Wagon Mound, was indicted for the murder of Fernando Gonzal es. This kllliig is alleged' to have takán place in Wagon Mound iaAujdst lOJJ. Jose Gonzales wasiadicted for the offence and tried ail ayjuitted in Las Vagas in November last: The evidence on the trial developed that Pedro A. Romero wasthehstman seen with Fordando Gkiz ilez, prior to his death! Pedro A. Romero was thepriacipal wiciess against Jose Gonzales and on the trial swore that he 's.tw Jóse Gonziles fire the . shot that kill?i Fernando Gonzales. IL? plead not guilty to the in dictment and his bail wa fixed at $ jOJl). and the ceas continued until the next term of the dis trict court. ' J a i i B. Values, plead guiltj io the assault on his wife, with pocket knife, lb was se.iteneec' to one year and a day in the terri torial jmíta í'áuy. . The following cases were dis missed by the proseauthig uttor.; noy: : Territory vs. Apolo.iio Aranda, assault. , '. , Territory vs. Sixto Pollock, larceny of cattle. Territory vs. Thomas May han, ' Territory vs. J. Amedo Ortiz, obtaining money under false, pretenses. Territory v.3 Lmdi-o Archu leta, assault. ' '" " ' . Territory vs. Leandro Archu leta, assault with pistol. ' In the case of the territory vs. Wm. B. Brunton, assault with, deadly weapon, the venue was .changed from Mora to Colfax Co. Mr. Spiess, entered his appear ances for the territory in this case, The following civil cases were stricken from the docket for lack of prosecution. . , Jose Gabino Martinez vs. Vicente Abeyto, ejectment.. Juanita Baca y Romero vs. Al fred G. Gréén, ejectment. . ' : . La Cueva Rancla. Co. vs. Juan Andres Masacarenas, fetal, in junction. . ' ' . . Paul St Vrain vs. Julius II. Daniels. Ellen Ludeman vs. Agapito Ab eyta Jr. foreclosure. Bartolo Vigil vs. Agapito Abey tr Sr., injunction. Edward I. Jones vs. Andres Lambaugh et al. , . George Chaves vs. Domingo Baca, ejectmant. : ...... L. F. King ;.vs. , Nathan Weil, dismissed by plaintiff. In the case of Paul Butler et al vs. Bernard Higgins, the hearing of this case was set for May 1 8th at Las Vegas. Report of Grand Jury. ; Territory of New Mexico, County of Mora, In the District Court, Fourth Judicial District, April Term 1908. To the Honorable William J. Mills, Chief Justice of the Su preme Court of the Territory of New Mexico, and Judge of the Fourth Judicial District Court, sitting within and for Mora coun ty. Sir: We, the Grand Jury, empaneled at the present April, Term of District Court for Mora County beg leave to submit the following report: . We have been in session six days, and during that time we have examined into 25 cases, and have returned 18 true bills. Although one year has passed since a term of the District court has been held in our county, we find that during that period of Lime there has been but few fla grant violations of the law with in the limits of Mora county, and we congratulate the citizens of our county upon the peace and good order which prevails in our community. But one murder case was brought to us for con sideration and in that case we re turned a true bill. Most of 1 the cases presented to our body for investigation were for minor of fences, and in all those cases where we considered the eviden ce warranted it, we have return-' ed indictments against the part-, íes charged. ; We visited the county jail ' and find the same to be in good repair and in a sanitary condition. The jail is clean, and the prisoners therein confined had no complaint to make of their treatment nor of the food given to them. We did not make any detail ex amination of the various county officers, owing to the limit of time at our disposal, but the cur sory examination that we have, made impresses us that the of ficials of the various county offi ces are thoroughly ' competent and the offices are well kept and the duties' pertaining thereto carefully looked after. We examined the county court house and find, it to . be in very good repair, but we have observ ed that in the hall ways and on some of the wood-work and walls there are a number of pencil mirks and scratches made by carelessor mischieveous persons We think these defacements oh the walls should be repaired and here-after that the property should be more carefully looked after by the proper official. The hinges supporting the doors at the main entrance of the court house should be oiled, and this should be attended to at once, as otherwise the hinges will haev to be replaced with new ones. We would also recommend that the present wire feucein front of the court ' house be... repaired, or if the expense would not be to great we recommend that the. wire fence be removed and re placed with a substantial picket fence. A fence of the latter kind would give a much better appear ance to the county court house. We recommend that the sheriff ihstrust his deputies in the larg er towns of the county to incar-' cerate intoxicated persons who are found on the streets in that condition, as it has come to our knowledge that In some of the towns such scenes are quite fre quent of men who are intoxicated stumbling about the streets. We also recommend that he in: struct his deputies to take the utmost pains to prevent the car rying of concealed weapons by unauthorized persons, in their particular localities, as much trouble in the county during the past has originated from the two free carrying of deadly weapons, and we believe that if attention is called to persons carrying arms that they must hot do so in the tc wnsandsettledcommunities, that they will avoid much trouble to themselves and others and much expense to the county. We also 'recommend that tha sheriff call attention of his de puties that violations of the Sun day law should be enforced, we have reference more particularly to violations by saloons that keep open on the. Sabbath days. Some complaints have come to us as to violations of this law, but no 'evi dence sufficient to: warrant us in returning indictments. ., Having concluded our labors, with thanks to your Honor and other officials for courtesies ex tended to us, during our session we respectfully ask to be dis charged. .. Respectfully submitted, ' Mora N.M. ' ' May 2nd, 1908. Francisco Gonzales. Foreman. Frank Korte. : :, Secretary. Human Responsibility. No human being can come li to ür orld without Increasing or dlminis. Lug the sum total of human happinet . not only of the present, but of eve. t subsequent age of humanity. Elil. i Burritt Alas, Poor Rube! Bowmansvllle's literary society ('. elded against the farmer in a disc: sion whether the agriculturist was greater benefactor to humanity th.n the manufacturer. Philadelphia Press. , . . ' Prayer That Avalleth. I always like to begin a Journey n Sundays, because I shall have tly prayers of the church to preserve that travel by land or by water. Jonathan Swift, in "Polite Conversa tlon."