Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-12-15

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eer of Chicago capitalists to examine
into and report upon the Tijeras Water
company's schemes to protIde water for
the mesa lands and also the city.
SILVER CITY sIFTINGa.
The Episcopal Sunday school will cele-
brate Christmas eve by cantata TO be
given at Morrill, hail.
j. j. Sheridan, the express messenger,
has accepted the position of office deputy
under Sherlff-elect Laird.
last week there were some pretty cold
days which served as q reminder that win
ter comes even in New Mexico.
Receiver Smith, of the First National
bank, has gone east to spend the holi-
days. OF the fifty cases brought by the
receiver at the last term of court here
there were about forty judgments OBJ
tanned. 1t is expected that it will take
some time yet to wind up the affairs Of
the banks.
County School Superintendent G. W.
Milesr reports: There are thirty-nine
school districts in Graift county, thirty
three of which have had at least three
months school during the last year
There are 2,759 children of school age in
the county, gain over last year Of 225
The nIollment has been larger than the
previous year, and the average daily at
tendance better. The amount of money
received from all sources Including the
special bond levy of Deming district No
II, $ll,250) S47,58l.5 so; amount received
previous year, S20,3l275; gain over pre-
vious year, S27,268.75. Expenditures
have been heavier this year to cor
respond to the increase in receipts, but
the schools are in better condition
BAN JUAN NOTES.
BY letter received from Denver last
Friday, intelligence was conveyed of the
death of DR.. W. Ii. Bickel, of Pennington,
in that city on the previous Tuesday. He
was taking the Koch treatment for con
sumption. The remains were brought
home for burial this week and inferred at
Pennington.
Mr.. B. A. Gambill of the well boring
outfit of Sheek & Gambil., now at work
in the McDermott glade, was visitor at
Aztec Tuesday evening and Wednesday
morning. He reports the well they are
sinking over there as going down salts
factorily. 1t is now at depth of $40
feet The contract calls for 500 feet.
In enumerating San Juan countys un-
PARALLEL resources don't forget her
splendid coking coal. The coal now in
use in The Index office, from the Miller
mine, on the La Plata, when allowed to
coke, becomes as fine an article of that
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they have bed of it more than twenty
feet thick and thousands of acres in
area.
"The Navajo Council is the name of a
moot legislative body now being organ
lied at Aztec for work this winter. The
probability of statehood, with its neces-
sary concomitants of constitution max
ing, legislation, etc, suggests the idea
that legislative talent will shortly y" in
den and, and for preliminary training,
amusement and other improvements as
we'll, the council is organizing.
A Pennsylvania. man writing to the
Index for information about San Juan
county states that he had lis attention
turned in this direction by reading a lit
tie item in a copy of the Santa Fe New
MEXICAN he had seen, noting that the
Index is putting up new building at
Aztec. He naturally drew an inference
that newspaper evincing SO much pros
perity must be published in thriving
county. His inference was correct.
FOLSOM FACTS.
Charles Springer shipped 24i cows to
Fort Morgan, Colo, last Monday.
W. r. Newkirk killed another large
wild cat Thursday. This one he found
while out hunting horses.
John Morrow is conducting a successful
term of school in Folsom this winter, and
has nearly sixty scholars enrolled with an
average daily attendance of over fifty.
This is the largest enrolment that has
been secured by any teacher at this place,
The thermometer at this place regis
tered one and ode-ialf degrees below zero
both Wednesday and Thursday nj hts.
This is the lowest it has reached this
winter. one inch snow fell Tuesday
which was accompanied by heavy wind