Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-28
OFFICIAL BUDGET.
INDIAN SCHOOL MATTERS.

| INDIAN SCHOOL MATTERS.
In contem plation of the change whic
IS to convert the U. S. Indian school her
into normal training school for yount
men and women, Supt. Cart has been ad
ylsed that all teachers and employees a
the institution have been relieved from
duty or transferred save only in his owl
case and that of Industrial Teacher Bis
choff. Under tho civil service regula
tlons Mrs. Culbertson goes to Phoenix
A. H.; Mr.. Howard to Fort Mohave, an6
Miss Manners to Ponca, Okla, to take
positions. Five employees only are now
on temporary duty awaiting the arrival
OF Supervisor Jones to transfer the chill
dren to other schools.
BOND FORFEITURE.
j. Edward Priest was fined $500 and
costs IN the district court at Albuquerou
last spring for assault and battery. At
its recent session the supreme court
atllrmed this judgment II. B. Ferguson
and Ernest Meyers were his bondsmen,
and this bond has been forfeited. The
clerk OF the supreme court has issued a
mandate to the clerk of the district court
at Albuquerque. and Priest will be COM
PEELED to either pay the fine or go to Jail.
NEW NAVAJO INDIAN AGENT.
The war department order detailing
Capt John Drum, 10th infantry, to act as
an Indian agent at the Navajo agency is
revoked, and Maj. Augustus H. Balm
bridge, 10th infantry, now at Fort Stan
ton, is detailed to act rs Indian agent at
that agency. Maj. cambridge will report
at once by letter to the secretary of the
interior, and proceed at once to that
agency.
OFFICIAL WAITS.
Special Agent Shelby, of Arkansas, rep
resenting the Indian bureau, is visiting
tho Albuquerque school.
Gov. Thornton is rapidly putting the
finishing touches on his annual report,
and expects to forward it to the depart
nent of the interior by Sept. l.
U. S. District Attorney Fiske will
recommend favorable action by the pres
dent on the application for pardon sent
~ the governor in the case of Candalario
Martinez.
The territorial supreme court meets on
he 18th of September in adjourned ses-
Ion for the purpose of handing down
opinions in cases already submitted and
nder adyisement.
The commission of Hon, Numn Raw.
lond as one of the regents of the agricul-
ural college expires on September next,
nd the vacancy will be filled on that dav
y Governor Thornton.
Governor Thornton expects. to 90 to
Washington in few days on official bust
ess; he may be absent three weeks, leave
absence having been granted him by
lie department of the interior. {
The Penasco people, in Lincoln county, [
re talking about going into legal pro-
'edlngs to secure decision that that ,
'ction is in Eddy county. They can !
rive to Eddy more easily than to Lin /
lin. !
Adjutant General CIV. Knaebel is ad-
sea that San Juan county residents 4
I've we'll organized cavalry troop of :.
ty men, and as soon as they perfect the
'cessary bond he will forward them
rty stands of arms and the necessary 4
Informs.
The land selected as a site for the nor r
al school, three miles out of town, on
Mora road, opposite the place of "
avid Jones, has been cleared of an en- N
mbrance resting upon it, and is now Il
ady to be passed upon by those in q
thority to do SO. The tract belongs to
H. Peterson.-Las Vegas Optic. ;,