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A-2The Albuquerque Tribune18 Arrested in Land Revolt Held at Santa Fe...day in connection with yesterday’s assault by a group of armed men on Rio Arriba County Courthouse in Tierra AmarilJa.Cargo BlamesSanta Fe DAAmong them was Mrs. Reies Lopez Tijerina, wife of the fiery leader of a militant group of persons laying claim to old Spanish land grant tracts in northern New Mexico. She was charged with conspiracy to commit a felony. Her 6-motiIh-oJd daughter was taken to a foster home, home.Arrested en Route Five young men and three juveniles were apprehended by Siaie Police early today apparently while en route lo Canjilon. The juveniles were booked at Santa Fe Detention Home.Charged with conspiracy, unlawful assembly and possession of deadly and concealed weapons were Jose Luis Trujillo, 24; Armando War, 21; Ross Padilla, 21; Teddy Romero, 20, and Alex War, 20.Arrested Last Night Arrested last night were Cirillio Gsrcia, 55; Bal Lazar Apodaea, 72; Tobias Lcyba, 49; Victorino D. Chnvmy fid; Santiago Anaya, 53, and Cain ilo Sanchez, 51.Others listed On State Police arrest records were Victor Dominguez, Esequiel Dominquez, Leandro Martinez, Ronnie David Fernandez, Joe M. Padilla and. Michael J. Trujillo. .Chavez, Anaya and Sanchez, all listed • from Albuquerque, were charged with investigation of inciting a nol. Bond for each was sei at S5,000.Charged Willi Conspiracy Garcia- was charged with conspiracy to commit a felony. Apodaca \vas charged with kidnaping and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the armed band’s taking two hostages when they left the courthouse.Leyba allegedly owns an adobe home in file Canjikm .area where the raiders went after the courthouse raid.By KATY 4VOOLSTfN Tribune Staff Writer“Sheer stupidity by Santa Fe DisL Ally. A1 Sanchez is to blame for last night’s violence in the northern counties, Gov. David F. Cargo1 said today. IThe Republican govcrnolt;Slaff photo by A1 Cabral)SCENE OF TROUBLE: This was shooting incident yesterday after-the appearance of the Rio Arriba noon which resulted in the call-outCounty Courthouse today, with Na- o£ New Mexico National Guards-tional Guard Jeeps in evidence. The men.courthouse was the scene of a wildAnother Shower Expected TodayAnother . thundershower may pock Albuquerque with rain again today, the weatherman said, after a tenth of an inch fell yesterday. *Rain yeste2*day and Sunday brought Albuquerque's rain level up !o nearly an inch and a half during 1967. .Another inch and a fraction of rain here and the record will be even with last year's moisture at this , same time.Skies will be partly cloudy today with temperature? .up to 80 degrees today and tomorrow,' Yesterday’s high was 82 degrees. Tonight will clear and be coaler with 48 expected in the Valley and S3 at The Sunport.Brief gusty winds will blow near the thundershower area.TANKS, GUNSContinued from rsige Onetruck convoy rumbled by. Canjilon was always a quieL place — till these land-granl people turned everything upside down.•Wanted The villager did not want lo be identified by name. Some of his neighbors are among the warring land-grant alliance members soughL by die guardsmen and police officers.Canjilon, a short distance off paved U.S. 84, has a population of about 500, but that includes families in the adjacent valley area, Practically all are of Spanish descent. .Only Six Most of the people of Canjilon are against the land-grant group,” the villager continued. Only about -six Canjilon people belong Lo It. I think the big mistake was in putting a stop to theCHARGESContinued from Page Onenotwhole thing .when they., tookover Echo Amphitheater lastThe United States and Japan each -have more amateur and professional photographers than any other country in the world.The Albuquerque TribuneTKLEPHO.VE 317-3311 A BCFIPrS flOWAJlD .NEWSPAPER Full leased *1re ilt;rrice of United Prtaa IntenMtionjJ. Berippa-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Ajfiociaied Press, excJuBiT* Xfewipaper Enterprise Association Service, NEa Preuire Service, Science Service, United Press internalionti Telephoto Service. Membir Audit Bureau or CLr-caJatlon-The Associated Press la eacluslvely enUUed to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited In this paper and also the locaJI news published herein.PuWiafced e-’«ry et'eninc txrtpi Sunday at 701 Silver Ave.,.SW, Albuquerque, X. M., by the Kaw Mexico State Tribune Co., Post Office Drowtr T.Price xc a. rep? on aireeta ana new* eountcra. By carrier 30 c week slrilebt In Albuquexquc. By ma.fl, In New Meiico 515.00 per year. S1.7S per month. By 171211 outside of New Mexico 52-00 p«r ZEtocLb RtraJgbL Forei£0 Countries 55.54 per month.fell.Canjilnn, settled by the descendants of Gen. Diego lt;le Vargas, consists of ..two. service stations, a couple of small general stores, a bar, a past cilice) church, school, and scattered adobe homes- with pitched tin roofs.No PavementThere are no paved roads in the village. About the only visitors it sees are summer recreationists bound for near-by. Canjilon Lakes.Several of them, returning to Canjilon-fcnday after camping trip to the lakes, rubbed their eyes with disbelief at 1he sight of tanks and soldiers in the village.What- happened? they asked, jumping from their cars. Have we gone to war?It looked like war, today, in normally quiet Canjilon.Radium Springs Pair Charged Wirh MurderRADIUM SPRINGS, June 6 (UPI) — A Radium Springs couple have been charged with first-degree murder in the sheeting deaLh Monday of Spencer Young, 60, T.as Cruces.The couple were Ed Eltun Davis, 73, and his wife Francis, 42.Young’s body was found in a. field near Radium Springs Monday. He had ‘ been shot four or five times, authorities said.farmer highway design Chief Robert DeLaRue; r.e I i r e d chief highway engineer T. B. White; commissioner John ThaxLon of Raton; state Reps. Mayo T. Boucher of Belen and Fred Foster of Grant County; highway construction chief C: W. Johnson; ex-highway employe Luther Edwards; Belen rancher G. W. Burris; and Eddie Joseph, marine owner from Farmington.AssignedJudge Reidy, assigned to the case by ihe State • Supreme Court, ruled in a three-page decision that the indictments are fatally defective hecause they failed to charge the defendants as public offenders.He also ruled that because three of the defendants — White, Johnson and Joseph — were called by the grand jury io testify .against Ihem-selves, the . indictmentsagainsL ihem were invalid.•_ The court's decision also lists these reasons lor voiding the indictment: 1) an unauthorized person, special investigator L. W. Canlelou, was present in the jury room while the witnesses were being questioned. 2) dhe statute of limitations has run out in an indictment against Burris, Boucher, DeLaRue and Edwards, and '.alleged criminal violations had not been enacted into law at the time of the alleged acts.1,000 AcresThis 15 - count indictment cuvered a quitclaim deed that turned over to Burris : 1,000 acres of previously condemned highway land.3) An indictment against Edwards charging fraud-in alleged .misappropriation of state land is void because of mutilated'* wording which cast doubl on just what t h e grand jury had in mind.;Oral ArgumentsJudge Reidy.’s decision followed oral arguments and examination of briefs from Santa Fe Dist. Afcty. Alfonso Sanchez, who prosecuted the slate's case, and defense attorneys. The decision declined to dismiss on the venue question but granted all motions to quash and pleas in abatement.The judge ruled that the petition calling the grand jury was valid and thal there.was no undue influence asserted by the D.A. in the grand jury proceedings.Claims Unfounded, Cargo Is ToldSANTA FE, June 6 ffl -Gov. David F. Cargo said today that his office has been advised by the State Department in Washington thal “there was no real basis lo land claims by Spanish Americans.'Andrew H. Brenman^an attorney in the office- of. the legal adviser of the department of state, reported nq land claims made by Reies Lopez Tijerina, whom Brenman said presented himself as proctor of the mission of Pueblo Re-publiea de San. Joaquin del Rio de Chama. .Although Tijerina was told ;he United States, does nbt recognize the Pueblo Republics, Brenman said* Tijerina did receive an appointment to discuss the treaty of Guadeloupe-Hid algo, which fixed land- boundaries after, the Mexican War.He was informed, that .the State Department did not see his problem as .an. affair involving the foreign' relationswhisked home from Michigan after a wild outbreak of Spanish-American land grant heirs in Rio Arriba County, put the blame on Sanchez and Reies Tijerina, elusive leader of the Alliance,Sanchez kept up a constant horzmgue over the radio at. those” people, telling them they were Communists, and they'd never gel out on bond. . . . That wasn’t the way to handle it, Gov. Cargo said today during a telephone iniervicw from Santa Fe.‘Stirred Up1 Sanchez, said Cargo, got on the radio and stirred thorn up instead of filing charges that c ou I d’be substantiated/'Sanchez has had since last October to file charges on these people and he never did ity the governor added.Cargo, who plans to go to Tierra Amarilla later today lo talk with the National Guard he called out, said he1Tijerina*•of the United States, Brenman said. He was referred to the lands division of the Department of Justice.”State Forests Nearly Out of Fire Danger'New Mexico's forests, dampened by scattered thundershowers during the past few days, are about ouL uC the fire danger said John Piero-vich, fire control chief for the U.S. Forest Service..He calls the danger of more forest fires, low tq moderate with -a general favorable condition/1 •never did promise any immunity.”No Violence Cargo talked with the jailed members of the militant group last weekend and told them : I won't tolerate any violence,'be said. : •I tried to avoid exactly what .happened, he said.• Cargo earlier ordered the lieutenant- governor to call out the National Guard — 500 armed men who have orders to shoot if the Alliance, members don't turn themselves in or if they resist, he added.Warrants /He plans to ask the attorney general to take over the district attorney's duties . in issuing warrants for arrest, since ‘Tm unable to get Sanchez In do It-” ' Warrants •. charging assault with deadly weapons,- /attempted-murder, inciting rint and : conspiracy ■ should be filed, .he said;. It either otjthe twe shooting victims dies, the entire crew is guilLyJ 'of. murder, since they were part of ”a conspiracy, he said.Serious Felonies Cargo will not talk with Tijerina, he said, but he’ll bo charged with serious felonies, he commented.The- only thing he has coming is arrest and prosecution by a competent attorney,1’ he said.Sanchez, quoted earlier as saying Cargo., was holding hands with the Alliance
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