Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-04-11
OFFICIAL BUDGET.
The Territorial Insane Asylum to Be
Opened May 1.-The Auditors
Bopd-Canital News
and Notes.

Gov. Prince went to Las Vegas yester-
day to attend meeting of the insane
asylum board. This was the most i'm
portant meeting that has yet been held,
as it was determined to open the asylum
ON May1. DR.. Gordon having resigned
as medical director, it was decided to en-
ploy a visiting physician at salary Of
5000, whose duty it shall be to visit the
institution every day and give all neces-
sary attention to the patients and also to
answer all emergency calls at other
times.
1t was found by careful estimates that
the directors would have sufficient funds
to carry on the asylum till January
1895, on basis of fifty patients. These
will be apportioned among the counties
in proportion to the population, allowing
one patient to 5000 of population. As
every county will be entitled to represen-
tation this will make the numbers about
as follows:
Bernaillo Z, Chaves 1, Colfax 3, Dona
Ana 3, Eddy l, Grant 3. Lincoln 2. Mora
T. Rio Arriba 4, San Juan l, San Miguel
g. Santa Fe 5, Sierra l, Socorro 3, Taos 8,
Valencia 4; total So.
There are SAID to be fully 100 insane
persons in the territory, and thus it ap-
pears that only about one-half of these
can now be provided for free of cost to
the counties, though some arrangement
can probably been entered into whereby
county boards may contract, by paying
an agreed price, to have an additional
number of patients cared for at the insti-
tuition instead Of continuing to maintain
them in the county jails, places which in
most instances are totally unfit for the
decent care and treatment of this class OF
unfortunates.
| OFFICIAL BITS.
Ex-Gov. Ross has written Gov. Prince
accepting the position as member of the
territorial equalization board from the
| Sd district.
The governor has appointed DR.. A. A.
Bearup member of the territorial board
of dental examiners. good selection
as he is a frst-class tooth carpenter, and
practice.-Roswell Record.
Lieut.. Plummer writes modestly to 6
friend in Santa Fe that he is getting along
fairly well, but has hardly commenced
yet; that he has many pressing matters to
attend to and expects to spend the greater
portion of the next few weeks in visiting
distant points on the Navajo reservation
where there has been some trouble.
! Col. John F. Maiors, inspector Of U. S
land Offices was in town last night en-
route south from Del Norte, Colo, where
he has been investigating the shortage oil
U. S. Receiver Elmer E. johnson. This
he found to be $2023.69. johnson is still
missing. Col Majors left during the
night for Las Cruces and Roswell. New
developments in the Lesnet case take
him to the latter point.
The new bond of Territorial Auditor
Demetrio Perez has been approved in the
sum of 100000 with the following as
sureties for these respective amounts
A. Staab, $4,000; F. Donoghue, $4,000
G. W. Dudrow, $4,000; R. J. Palen, $4,000
Luciano Baca, $I,500; M. G. de Baca, ST.
500; M. Quintana, $4,000; L. P. Browne
$4,000; L. G. Fort, $4,000; M. A. Otero
$4,000; W. II. Shupp, $4,000; Felix Mar
tinez, $4,000; j. L. Lopez, $1,000; Felipe
Martinez, $4,000; Jas. Duncan, $4,000
Frank W. Clancy, $4,000; Eutimio Mon
toya, $4,000.