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Show NEW MEXICO DURING THE CIVIL WAR. 401 Kelley, who carried a heavy pick-handle, struck Lemon a fierce blow upon the head, felling him to the ground. The next instant Felicitas Arroyas y Lueras shot Kelley, inflicting a mortal wound. The fighting now became general. Nine men were killed and forty or fifty wounded in this fight. Judge Hezekiah 8. J ohnson, of the 2d district, was sent for, there being no judge in the district. He came from Alburquerque, stayed three days and returned without taking any action. No indictments were ever returned and no one was punished. In 1873 and again in 1875 Stephen B. Elkins 227 wags elected, decourse was admitted to the bar. During the later seventies he held the position of district attorney for the 2d judicial district. In politics he was a stanch republican and in 1858, while absent campaigning against the Navaj6s, was elected a member of the house of representatives of the territorial legislative assembly, taking his seat in 1860. In 1865 he was elected delegate in congress from New Mexico and served in the 39th and 40th congresses. In 1875 he was elected a member of the legislative council from Valencia county and was reélected to every succeeding legislature. He was appointed superintendent of public instruction by Governor Otero in March, 1901; re-appointed in 1903 and was filling the position at the time of his death. He was assasSinated at seven o’clock on the evening of Saturday, November 26, 1904, at Pinos Wells, New Mexico. Colonel Chaves was married in 1857 to Mary Bowie, who died in 1874, leaving two children, Lola and Francesca. The former married Mariano Armijo, descendant of a prominent family of Bernalillo county, New Mexico. The latter died in 1895. Colonel Chaves was a man of firm convictions, fearless, and a justly acknowledged leader of his party, in the councils of which he was always a potent factor. : : *27 Stephen Benton Elkins, lawyer, financier, secretary of war in the cabinet of President Harrison, and for many years a member of the United States senate from West Virginia, was born in Perry county, Ohio, September 26, 1841. His father, who had come from the Rappahannock river, in Virginia, with his parents in 1827 and settled in Perry county, Ohio, was a farmer. A few years after the birth of Stephen, his parents moved to Missouri where he received a good public School education. Later he entered the state university of Missouri, from which he was graduated in 1860. He was a very ambitious young man and applied himself to whatever he undertook with great diligence. After his graduation he took up the study of the law without a preceptor and in 1863 was admitted to the bar. He performed some military service during the war of the rebellion on the side of the Union. In the last years of the war he determined to £0 to the far west. He came to New Mexico and established himself in the Mesilla valley, locating at Mesilla, the county seat of Dofia Ana county. Real‘Zing the necessity of acquiring the Spanish language, he soon became very Proficient in that tongue. Stalwart and capable, he soon attracted important clients and with his practice his popularity grew. In 1866 he was elected a member of the house of representatives of the legislative assembly and won Such unusual distinction that in the following year he was made attorney feneral of the territory. In 1868 President Johnson appointed him United States attorney for the territory, and he was one of the few officials of that administration whom President Grant did not remove from office. In his Capacity as U. g. attorney he enforced the act of congress relative to peonage |
