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Show LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY ‘‘rustlers,’’? ? and through his efforts a number were killed in open conflict and many others arrested and sent to the penitentiary at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, where the prisoners from New Mexico were incarcerated. It was known among some of the leading politicians of New Mexico, personal friends of Stephen B. Elkins and other intimate politi- cal associates of James G. Blaine, early in ADMINISTRATION OF the spring of 1884, that Blaine and LoGOVERNOR EDMUND G. ROSS gan would most likely be the republican candidates for the presidency and vicepresidency that year. With Mr. Blaine as president and General Logan president of the senate, the principal republican politicians of the territory had convinced themselves that the admission of New Mexico into the Union would not be long deferred. The defeat of the republican ticket in the election came as a great shock to those who believed that New Mexico would soon be able to take her proper ee place in the sisterhood of states. The full force of the disappointment was not materially lessened by the appointments made by President Cleveland for New Mexico. Edmund G. Ross,*?® a resi- aN ~e ® Ae ~ 3 eee EP PSE ASEEPe Nae eee PARE NS StIe Tag = et 8 oat, I pee PG Se key a+ #8.oe % oo aa ee myP ay a er ned < ciation, and had much to do with driving ‘‘rustlers’’ out of the territory or sending them to the penitentiary. Colonel Fountain was a prominent figure in the military, political, and professional life of New Mexico. On October 27, 1862, he was married at La Mesilla, N. M., to Mariana Perez de Ovante, a memOf this marriage there were twelve children. ber ofa prominent Mexican family. Colonel Fountain and his youngest son, Henry, were foully assassinated by cattle rustlers, on his way from Tularosa to Tas Cruces, N. M., on April 1, 1896. His murderers are unknown, and no one has ever been punished for the infamous crime. 410 Edmund G. Ross was born in Ashland, Huron county, Ohio, December up 1826. He was a printer by trade. In 1847, following his trade he traveled through several of the western states, and, in 1848, returned to Ohio, where he Seven children were born of this marriage. was married to Fannie M. Lathrop. In 1856, in Wisconsin, he organized a party of ‘‘Free-Staters’’ to travel over land to Kansas, reaching Topeka early in August of that year. Here, with 4 brother the legislature, in January, 1867, he was elected to the convening Sears ete ee ee ae ee ee Cot e Ye HSPoe pi aePE 96S ae Roosevelt, Ist Vol. Cav., U. SS Col. Theodore 9 RE PR PR the office for the term Sh-eortlonie {(CAcLe- FE In July, 1865, following the suicide of Senator James H. Lane, Governor Craw. ford appointed him to fill the senatorial vacancy, and upon ome or ae oe Sk ee. Se, ee te Re federate army under General Sterling Price he served with his regiment, notably at the battles resulting in Price’s retreat from Missouri. In one engagement three horses were shot from under him and his shoulder straps were shot away. oF "i ee Pe Fe OP a aS SPER who had preceded him, he organized and published a paper known ae the Tribune. He took part in the ‘‘ Border Wars’’ of the period. In 1859, he was elected and served as a member in the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention which framed the constitution under which Kansas was admitted to the Union. When the Civil War broke out, he raised a company of volunteers and was chosen captain. This company was ‘‘E’’ 11th Kansas Infantry. In 1864, he was promoted to the rank of major. In the several engagements with the Con- ae OR Peas wT 496 |