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Show NEW MEXICO DURING THE CIVIL, WAR 421 continued to progress. Mining was successfully carried on in several localities; stock raising, always a prime industr y of the country, fiourished and the inhabitants looked forward to an era of great prosperity owing to the rapid advance of the railroad which, in 1876, had been constructed to Trinidad, Colorad o. Governor Axtell was superseded as executive by the appointment of General Lew Wallace, appointed by Preside nt Hayes, with instructions to leave no stone unturned in ADMINISTRATION OF the restoration of peace and tranquility GOVERNOR LEW WALLACE in the territory at the earliest possible moment. He was inaugurated October 1, 1878. Within a week thereafter a proclamation from the president of the United States relative to the use of United States troops in aid of the civil authorities was published. Governor Wallace very soon espoused the cause of the McSwai n faction in the Lincoln county disturbances. His predecessor had been charged with upholding the opposition which had centered in the firm of Dolan and Riley. Chief Justice Waldo had resigned his position on the bench and had received the appointment of attorney general from Governor Axtell, succeeding William Breeden *° in that position. The chief Justiceship was filled by the appointment of Charles McCandless.**° Governor Wallace, in his efforts to restore peace and tranquility, favored the prosecution of the comman der at Fort Stanton for an unwarranted use of troops in the disturbances in Lin849 William Breeden Mexico after the Civil was born in the state of Kentucky. He came to New War and held a position with the government revenue Service; he was clerk of the Supreme court and district in 1869, when he began the practice of of thethe court of the first judicial law. In 1872 he was appointed attorney general and held the office until near the close of Governor Axtell’s administration when he resigned. He was again appointed to this position by Governor Sheldon in 1881 and held the office until it was abolished in 1889, Colonel Breeden was regarded by a great many as the shrewdest politician and most capable lawyer of his time in New Mexico. He was a delegate to the national republican conventi on which nominated R. B. Hayes for president in 1876. For many years he was the chairman of the republican organization in New Mexico. He was an excellent lawyer, an able prosecutor, and a natural leader of men. His health failed him in 1888. He is now living near Boston, Massachusetts. _ 850 Charles McCandless was appointed chief justice by Presiden t Hayes early In 1878. He presided at one term of court in Santa Fé county in that year and then returned to the east. He was a man of considerable ability. He tendered his resignation to the presiden t shortly after his return to his native State of Pennsyvania. He was a man of too fastidious tastes for conditions m New Mexico existing at that time. |