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Show NEW MEXICAN EDITOR PUNISHED BY COURT SANTA FE, N. M.. Sept. 11. E. Dana Johnson, editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican, Mex-ican, was sentenced today by Judge M. C. Mecham of the state district court to .serve thirty days in the county jail for contempt of court because of an article published in the New Mexican March 30 last. After stating; he did not believe the case subject to appeal, the court granted appeal to the state supreme court and fixed bond. Judge Edward R. Wright, former member mem-ber of .the territorial supreme court, who was of counsel for the defense, was fined $50 for contempt on the ground that portions por-tions of the answer, which the court ordered or-dered stricken out, were contumacious. |