From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

Oct. 1, 1923: “Well, they’ve got to have a Ku Klux Klan” says a peaceable, orderly, industrious, respectable, law abiding citizen, “because the officers don’t enforce the law.”

This man, like many another, says he is dead against violence and lawlessness of any kind, and of course he is. But it doesn’t get to him that there is a serious inconsistency in having fifty men become lawless, secretly, in order to punish one man openly charged with lawbreaking. Nor do men of this kind follow the reasoning to logical conclusion — that the moment judges and juries become invisible and cannot be held visibly responsible for their acts, there is no law, but merely a repetition of the Spanish inquisition and the work of the commissars of Soviet Russia.

Oct. 1, 1948: The 25th state convention of the New Mexico Federation of Labor met today at Santa Fe with some 300 delegates from throughout New Mexico on hand for the threeday session.

Oct. 1, 1973: Archbishop James Peter Davis has directed one of his assistants to tell the group running the controversial Chicano school in Agua Fria that they have 10 days to leave.

The eviction notice is contained in a letter dated Friday and addressed to the very Rev. Ramon Aragon, vicar-general and director of Indo-Hispano Affairs for the archdiocese.

Oct. 1, 1998: FBI agents seized three gold artifacts from the Museum of New Mexico’s Palace of the Governors Wednesday.

The pieces were part of the exhibit Art of Ancient America, 1500 B.C.-1500 A.D., but they may have been looted from an ancient tomb in Peru before they were smuggled into the United States and sold, according to Palace of the Governors director Tom Chávez.