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Show JUSTICE IS REMOVED Supreme Judge of Mew Mexico Removed From ' Bench by RooscYclL ALBUQUERQCE, N M-, Dec. 10. District Dis-trict Clerk W. E. Dame of the Second Judicial Ju-dicial district baa announced that Judge B. 8. Baker of this district and Associate Justice of the 'New Mexico Supreme court,- had received an order signed Dy the Attorney-General. Informing him oi his removal from office, by order of the President. The message was perfunctory and contained only the order of removal. Judge Baker, so his close friends say, is thunderstruck- by the order, as, while he knew that charges were pending against him in the department, he did not know them to be of a serious nature. Judge Baker declined to ' see newspaper men.announcing that he wiy leave today for Washington. - |