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Santa Fe New Mexican, 01-19-1903 New Mexican Printing Company University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Santa Fe New Mexican, 1883-1913 New Mexico Historical Newspapers 1-19-1903 Santa Fe New Mexican, 01-19-1903 New Mexican Printing Company Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/sfnm_news Recommended Citation New Mexican Printing Company. "Santa Fe New Mexican, 01-19-1903." (1903). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/sfnm_news/1554 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the New Mexico Historical Newspapers at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Santa Fe New Mexican, 1883-1913 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SANTA FF NEW MEXICAN VOL. 39 SANTA FE, N. M., MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1903. NO. 280 ICOLD BLOODED THIRTY-FIFT- THE MESSAGE OP H MURDE i GOVERNOR OTERO LEGISLATIVE Epitacio Gallegos, County Jailer Shot and Killed ASSEMBLY To the 35th Legislative by Two Prisoners. FIRST JANUARY 19 BOTH MADE THEIR ESCAPE DAY, MONDAY, of - The- 35th Legislative Assembly of council was to hear the message. Assembly Territory One With Murder and ready 6 Charged New Mexico convened in biennial ses A committee was appointed to notify the Other With Oar Bob sion this noon at the capltol. The cau- the house, consisting of Messrs. Spiess, cus meetings of the council and the Pinard and Hughes. Upon motion of of New Mexico. bery Are Well house adjourned shortly after 11 o'clock Mr. Fall adjournment was taken until this forenoon. 2:30 p. m., to icar the governor's mes- Armed. THE COUNCIL. sage. At 12 Epitacio Gallegos, Jailer at the coun o'clock, noon, Hon, James W. THE HOUSE. ; of the At 12:30 p. m., Territorial J. of the Council and House of Representatives of the ty Jail, was shot and killed In a most Raynolds, secretary Territory Secretary Gentlemen of New Mexico, cfllloA the council to W. Raynolds called the house to order of New ... maimer last evening Thirty-fift- h of the The roll call was Aegislative Assembly Terrry about 6 o'clock, by two prisoners who order, answered by and swore in the members as follows; Mala- - , Mexico: made their escape. Gallegos had gone every member excepting Hon. First district, Colfax county, M. B. of Taos. 2d for t!u across the river to purchase a small quias Martinez The othre Stockton; district. Mora county, You are assembled for the period of sixty days purpose eleven looking glass, and while" he was KGiie, members, First district, Cristoval Sanchez; 4th district, San of the whole Sat-urni- o of legislating for the benefit of the people Territory, Victoriano Casados, thrt night man, Colfax, Mora and Union counties, Miguel county, Pedro Romero, Gregor-l- are not for ' 2d district, San Gutierrez and Antonio 6th to amend or repeal such laws as experience has shown started to lock the prisoners in their Pinnrd; Miguel Lucero; neces- cells for the He had locked nil and Guadalupe counties, Charles A. district, Santa Fe county, William k, their best interests, and to enact new laws wherever, public night. the outer doors and placed the keys Spiess and James S. Duncan; 3d dis- R. L. Baca; 6th district, Taos them. Arriba sity may seem to require i In his pocket. Jose Telles, who wu trict, Taos, Rio and San Juan county, Pedro Sanchez; 7th district, effect dis- All acts should be carefully considered with a view"",''to their held on the charge of murdering a man counties, Venceslao Jaramlllo; 4th Rio Arriba county, Antonio D .Vargas; trict, Santa Fe county, Amado Chaves; 8th, Taos, Rio Arriba and San Juan the whole and not with regard to certain localities named Pino at Kennedy, and Alber upon Territory who was with robbir.s 5th district, Bernalillo county, George counties, David Martinez, Granville elected not to legislative dis- GOVERNOR MIGUEL A. OTERO NEW MEXICO. Hampe, charged only. You are only represent your OF a box car, suddenly seized him when F. Albright, and for Bernalillo and Mc Pendleton; 9th district, Bernalillo coun- should be tricts, but also the Territory as a whole, and its interests he was off his guard, placed him in one Kinley counties, Thomas Hughes; fith ty, Nestor Montoya, Celso Sandoval, Terri- district, Valencia county, J. Francisco and for Bernalillo and coun- paramount to mere local considerations. What benefits the of the cells, took the keys from him McKinley RICARDO VARGAS SHOT. and locked him in. Chaves; 7th district, Socorro and Sier- ties, Alexander Bowie; 10th district, must benefit each county and locality, , tory at large, necessarily The two men then went stairs to ra counties, W. H. Andrews; Sth dis- Valencia county, Carl A. Dallies, Mar- what up while the converse of this proposition is not true; and may the Jailer's room and took a six- - trict, Dona Ana, Grant, Luna and tin Sanchez; 11th district, Socorro, to Otero W. A. 9th Sierra H. H. Domin- prove a benefit to certain localities may be an actual detriment Murder in a Saloon Bow at Monero shooter belonging to Gallegos, and counties, Hawkins; counties, Howard, Kin-sell'- A. Krag-Jorgens- rifle of Sheriff s. district, Dona Ana, Grant, Lincoln, go Ortega; 12th district. Dona Ana the at large; this is particularly true in reference to the Territory LODGE on Saturday Night. After waiting in the jailer's Luna, Chaves, Eddy and Otero coun and Otero counties, W. H. H. Llew of and made for LEYD A. B. location Territorial institutions, appropriations room for some time they went to the ties, Fall, stepped to the bar of ellyn; 13th district, Grant and Luna the council and took the oath of office counties, R. M. 14th their maintenance and support. Special to the New Mexican. f cell in which Casados was locked and Turner; district, and signed their names to the roll. Dona, Grant, Luna and Otero coun The condition of the bill for our admission as a State now pend- Monero, N. M., Jan. 19. Rieardo asked him If Gallegos had a revolver Took Turns in to with him or was armed with The gallery of the counnll chamber ties, A. W. Pollard. United States is far from what we Objecting Vargas was shot and instantly killed In anything. ing before the Senate of the them he was not and as well as the floor, was crowded with Representative W. A. Mclvers and a saloon row about 11 o'clock Casados told and from what it io be, and I would suggest that one Unanimous Considera- Saturday had secured arms, told spectators including a number of la the representative from Union county hoped, ought was a and seeing that they United States night. Vargas quarrelsome them if wanted to dies. Above the president's chair was were absent. of your first acts should be a joint memorial to the dangerous man when drunk, part- they simply escape, tion of Bills. being to draped a large United States flag, and The house then proceeded to organ- Senate for the of the bill now before it. ly of Indian blood, and had many ene- to get out as they had the keys all praying passage mies from similar difficulties. It Is not the doors and there was nothing to on his desk was a bouquet of carna- ization. Major W. H. H. Llewellyn, In President Mc-Kinl- Since the last Legislative Assembly adjourned, yet determined who did the shooting.' prevent It. They refused to go at that tions. After the roll call, the council a forcible and timely address, in which A BRIEF EXECUTIVE SESSION to he made a tender met his tragic death under circumstances which shocked time, and said they "would wait awhile proceeded permanent organization. reference to the late SEVEN ARE DEAD re Hon. Charles A. Spiess, with a brief Captain Maximiliano Luna, placed the whole civilized world, and the enormity of the crime appalled longer for Epitacio." They then turned to the room but eloquent tribute, placed Colonel J. Hon. Nestor Montoya of Bernalillo, In the of United and the swift which At 2 O'clock Senate Took upstairs. people the States, punishment the Gallegos did not return for at least Francisco Chaves in nomination for nomination for speaker of the house. The followed the assassin was no panacea for the crime. Besides being Further Details of the Explosion on a 'half hour after Casados was placed the presidency of the council. He was nomination was seconded in spirit- Up the Omnibus Bill and chosen was ed addresses other wise Mr. was first of all a in the cell, and the two men deliber- unanimously and escorted by members. Mr. a great and President, McKinley kindly, the Battleship Massachusetts. to was Mr. Foraker Continued ately waited for him. When he enter- the chair by Messrs. Charles A. Montoya elected by a unanimous American citizen, and while his death could be vote helpful, patriotic, Washington, January 19. Tho follow- ed the building, they gave him no Spiess and Venceslao Jaramlllo. Terri- rising followed by applause. The will chair Lu- avenged, his loss can never be repaired, while his memory live His Speech. ing cablegram was received at tho navy warning so far as Casados could tell, torial Secretary Raynolds then admin- appointed Messrs. Llewellyn, Mala-qui- as cero n, istered the oath of office to Hon. and Turner a committee to escort in the hearts of the people along with that of Lincoln. The things department from Rear Admiral Hlggin-su- and he went up the stairs to his room Martinez of Taos, who had ar- Mr.
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