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Show 420 LEADING FACTS OF MEXICAN NEW HISTORY of county commissioners was established. On January 10, 187 6, Henry L. Waldo was appointed chief justice of the supreme court by President Grant, his associates upon the bench being Warren Bristol,2*7 of the third district, and, in the second, in the year 1876 John I. Reddick, in 1877 Samuel B. McLin, and in 1878 Samuel C. Parks. A large number of notable occurrences *4* took place during the administration of Governor Axtell. Although devoid of all railroad connection with the outside world the territory and its few industries in behalf of the defendant. When the foreman announced a disagreement, the judge discharged the jury, announced a verdict in behalf of the defendant, and told the sheriff never to allow any one of the discharged jurymen to serve again in San Miguel county. It is related that during the term of William Breeden, as attorney general, when Judge Axtell, whose habits were exemplary, had made some very caustic remarks to some of the attorneys who had been addressing him, the former rose and, looking Judge Axtell in the eye, remarked: ‘‘Don’t be too hard on the lawyers, your honor; you might be a lawyer yourself some time you know.’ r 347 Warren Bristol was born at Stafford, New York, March 19, 1823. He received his education in the schools and academies of that state and was ad- mitted to the bar in Lockport. He removed to Minnesota and located in Hennepin county, where is now built the city of Minneapolis. In 1855 he presided over the first republican state convention held in Minnesota and was 4 delegate to the Lincoln. In 1872 Baltimore he was convention appointed of 1864 associate which justice nominated of the supreme Abraham court of New Mexico by President Grant, which office he held for thirteen years, filling the position with great honor and credit. He resigned in 1885, Grover Cleveland, democrat, having been elected president. He presided at the trial of William H. Bonney, a desperado known as ‘‘Billy the Kid.’’ In 1889 he was delegate to the constitutional convention. He died at Deming, New Mexico, January 12, 1890. ase On September 14, 1875, Rev. F. J. Tolby, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, was murdered on the highway east of Elizabethtown. In 1876, a Presbyterian Mission school was established at the pueblo of Laguna by Rev. John Menaul. On April 15th of this year Louis Clark, a prominent citi- zen of Rio Arriba county, was assassinated in his residence at Plaza Alcalde. In the month of May the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad was completed to Fort Garland and to Trinidad. In October, 1876, Presbyterian Mission schools were established at Zufi. In 1877 telegraphic communication was extended to San Diego, California, and to El Paso, Mexico. The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of New Mexico was organized. On August 11 of this year 0¢ curred the death of Donaciano Vigil. He died at Santa Fé; his remains were removed to the legislative chambers where they remained in state until buried, on the 13th, with civic honors, in the Rosario cemetery. On January 11, 1878, an act incorporating the Jesuit Fathers of New Mexico, containing genera powers in the matter of the establishing of educational institutions and the right to own an indefinite amount of property, all forever exempt from taxation, was passed over the veto of Governor Axtell. mous vote of congress February 4, 1879. The act was annulled by unant On February 2, the general incorpora tion act for railroad and telegraph lines was passed. St. Michael’s college at Santa Fé was erected during this year. In the month of August the territory was visited by General William Tecumseh Sherman and a great reception, attended by the civil and military authorities, was given at Santa Fé in his honor. >: > Prominent l, Don Gaspar New Ortiz. ° Mexicans of 2 the 2. Don Francisco Lopez. 4. Don Miguel Romero 7? Nineteenth 3. Don Century Jesus G. Abreu |