Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1894-06-20
CAPITAL CHAT.
Official Gossip Touching Many Sub
jccts of Moment to the Gen.
eral Reader.

Frederick G. Lynch filed homestead
application in the U. S. land Office for
land in Colfax county, yesterday.
Complaints are heard that the mail
service between Socorro, Albuquerque,
Santa Fe and Las Vegas is very unsatisfec-
tory.
Judge j. H. Walker, register of the U.
S. land Office, who is attending court as a
witness at Flagstaff, A. T., is expected
home on Friday.
Jesus M. Bazan, of Guadalupe county /;
George Ortiz and Aleio Ortiz, of Santa
Fe county, made final proof on their
homestead entries before Receiver Del
gado Yesterday and to-day.
The land contest case of Emoterio
Leyba VS.. Eustaquio Blea has been dis
missed by the local land Office. Leyba
appeared but Blca failed to materialize
and the land was left ubject to entry by
the contestant.
The governor to-day appointed the
following fish wardens John Borrodaille,
Bernalillo county; NJ. G. Paden, White
Oaks, Lincoln county; Robt. Stepp,
Springer, Colfax county.
Herman Block, of Bernalillo, has sub
let the mail contracts between Las Vegas
and Fort Sumner to three different par
ties. From Las Vegas to Los Colon las,
to Albino Baca; from Los Colonias to
Puerto de Luna, to Serafno Romero, and
from Puerto de Luna to Fort Sumner, to
Minco Sena.
In discharging the petit jury atSpring
er, Judge Smith thanked the jurors Tor
the prompt and efficient manner in which
they had performed their duties. He
gratulations to the public that it had had
their services, and in the hope that in fu-
ture sessions of the court, both the court
and the public would be so fortunate as
to have such Jurors as it had been
blessed with during this term.
In the matter of the land contest of
S. D. Patterson VS.. Ellie A. Cantrell, of
Albuquerque, testimony was taken be-
fore Z. W. Dobson at Albuquerque in
February, but the register and receiver
of the U. S. land Office in this city de-
cided to reopen the case for the purpose
of taking the important testimony of
Special Agent G. G. Coleman, who made
a personal examination of the land. Pitt
Ross appeared for Patterson and Sum
mers Burkhart for Cantrell. The testi-
mony is now all in and the case is under
advisement.
Applications have been received at the
surveyor generals Office for the survey of
the following grants confirmed by the U.
& court of Drjvote land claims. The
Plaza Colorado and the Plaza Blanco
grants, in Rio Arriba county; the town of
Abiquiu grant; the Sevilleta grant in
Taos; the San Miguel Springs or Bar
tolome Fernandez grant, and the Juan dc
Gabaldon grant in Santa Fe county.
These applications will be promptly tor
warded to Washington for approval.
Gen. E. l.. Bartlett, in behalf of Thomas
q. Gutierres and others, of Albuquerque,
has filed protest in the surveyor gen
erals Office against the approval of the
survey of the Alameda grant in Bernalillo
county. The survey was made by Deputy
U. s. Surveyor George H. Pradt in Janu-
ary, 1894, and the protestants allege that
the southern boundary, under the decree
of the court of private land claims, is not
correctly located and enormously includes
part of the Alena Gallegos and Los
Ranches tracts at Albuquerque. Sur
veyor General Easley will promptly for
ward the protest, plat and field notes,
with report thereon, to the general land
Office, and the matter will doubtless be
referred back to the court of private land
claims for further consideration.