Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1894-10-05
CAPITAL NEWS.
Official Paragraphs of General Mo
ment to Many Readers.

| Mr.. j ohm W. Newell has filed declara-
tory statement with the local Office with
the view to settlement of coal lands in
Bernalillo county.
Messrs. Gross, Blackwell & Co. have
paid Government Agent Coleman 81 ,606.-
25 in satisfaction for 31,125 railroad ties
cut by them from government land most
ly in San Miguel county.
John V. Pinyan, of San Juan county;
Winsor NJ. Nelson of San Miguel, and
James NJ. Smith, of Bernalillo, have filed
homestead applications with Receiver
Delgado, of the land Office.
Capt. John Carmichael, the affable in
spector of the interior department, who
has been in Santa Fe on business for the
last ten days, leaves tomorrow for WASH
ington. He will stop en- route at one of
the Kansas land offices.
The Cochti cases have been appealed
to the supreme court ana the appeal
{; papers are being rapidly prepared for
transmission to Washington. Mr.. John
H. Knaebel, attorney for claimants, says
that he expects final decision in the
case BY January Is.
Hon. J. B. Johnson, master of chancery
| fol the Santa Fe system in Judge Cald-
Wells court at Topeka, is here to-day for
the purpose of comforting with Judge
Laughlin as to the propriety of rein
stating employees at Las Vegas and other
points who we're engaged in the recent
strike.
Judge Laughlin yesterday, in the case
of the Farmers Loan & Trust company
| vs.. the Texas, Santa Fe & Northern rail-
road, set the final hearing of the case for
November IL. This involves the sale of
the Santa Fe Southern railroad. Mr..
John Fl. Knaebel and Mr.. G. H. Glider
sleeve represented the plaintiff and de-
fendant.
The land court officials will be absent
from the city for some weeks. Mr.. Sum-
mers Burkhart leaves tonight for Albu-
querque; Mr.. Reynolds and Judge Fuller
leave tomorrow night for Mexico, and
next week Mr.. W. NJ. Upton will follow
the last two to Mexico. Mr.. Burkhart
quently during the present vacation of
the court.
Chairman l. d. Lafferty and the other
members of the U. S. pension commits
sion have concluded their labors in New
Mexico and gone east. Mr.. Lafferty will
be stationed for the winter at Guthrie.
The commission has investigated over
5000 cases in New Mexico and the extent
of crookedness discovered was the arrest
of two pension agents, of whom, Marce-
limo, of Socorro, is now serving seven
years sentence in the pententiary.
The Las Vegas Optic is behind the
times in it's complaint about San Miguel
county not receiving the registration and
poll books. As announced in the New
MEXICAN of last Wednesday these books
have all been sent out, and that, too, de-
spite the fact that the last legislative as
sembly failed to provide any appropria-
tlon for printing them. Under the cir
cumstances Secretary Miller is entitled to
a public vote of thanks for the special
pains he has taken to get the books into
the hands of the clerks in time.
The local land office gives notice that
the approved plats of the official survey
of the following townships, to-wit: Town
ships 10 n, 10 "; II MT 8 "; 13 n, IL
W; IA n, r 8 W; IA n, 81 "; 16 n, 21 W;
1S n, 13 "; 20 n, 13 "; IL n, 10 W; ~
n, II "; 13 n, 81 W; II n, r9w; Is n, r
2lw; II n, RS 13, IA, Is, l6, II, 18, 10, 20,
2Tw; 10 n, 13 W, of the New Mexico
meridian will ha Gled in that office on the
9Th day of November, 1894, and that on
and after said date they will be prepared
to receive applications for the entry of
land in said townships. These lands are
mostly in Valencia and Bernalillo county,
in the vicinity of Grants and north Of
Gallup, and there are some also in Rio
Arriba county.