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Show SPANISH mum of one hundred men, RULE, and 1700 TO 1822 that additional 415 families should be sent to the province from Mexico. From the very beginning De Vargas had incurred the displeasure of the cabildo of Santa Fé. As has been seen, De Vargas had enjoyed the full confidence of the viceroy, the DE VARGAS IS PLACEDIN condé de Galve, and, in the administration PRISON ATSANTA FE BY of the affairs of the province, he had seen GOVERNOR CUBERO fit, in many ways, to ignore the minor civil and military officials. His policy of restoring Indian captives to their several pueblos also gave great dissatisfaction to the settlers, who were thus deprived of their slaves. Upon the arrival of Cubero, the cabildo again took up the quarrel with De Vargas and filed formal charges against him. He was accused of the embezzlement of money which had been given him for the purpose of supporting the colonists. On account of his having ordered the execution of the Tanos captives at Santa Fé, it was declared that he had provoked the hostilities of 1694-6. The famine of 1695-6 was laid at his door, inasmuch as it was charged that by the mismanagement of the ex-governor and his failure properly to distribute the remaining portion of the food supply, the famine had been brought upon them. He was charged with having sold a portion of this food supply in the south for his own private gain. He was charged with oppression in having driven out of the country the members of families who were likely to testify against him. Don Juan Paez Hurtado, afterwards a governor of New Mexico, was declared to have been an accomplice of De Vargas.**” Governor Cubero felt very unkindly toward De Vargas, largely on account of the position taken by the latter, who gave up his office very unwillingly upon the arrival of Cubero. The cabildo of Santa Fé knew that Cubero was the foe of De Vargas. Cubero gratified his enmity and that of the officials of the cabildo by finding De He was fined four thousand pesos as Vargas guilty as charged. costs of the suit, all of his property was confiscated, and he was confined in prison for nearly three years. In fact, at the very time that he was publicly thanked by his king and offered the title of *15 Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona and New Mexico, note, p. 219, says: ‘The charges in detail are recited in the original documents, still preserved, These documents are now in the though not complete, in the Arch. Sta. Fé.’’ custody of the government at Washington. |
