Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-12
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
A List Of the School Directors Re-
Gently Elected in Santa Fe
County.
HOW VACANCIES ARE FILLED
An Opinion by District Attorney R. @.
Gortnsr-Failure to Hold an Election
by the School Directors Is NAL
feasance in Office.

feasance IN Of1co.
Ten out of the twenty seven public
school districts in the county failed to
elect directors at the recent election. In
such cases the law authorizes the coun-
ty school superintendent to fi!l vacan-
cies by appointment. This matter Is
now receiving the attention of Supt. F.
F. Pine, but he is taking his time about
it, being desirous of consulting the peo-
pie Of the district before making the Sc
| lections. A few such vacancies, how
ever, have been filled within few
days, as in district No. 3, upper Santa
Fe river district, where the directors
failed utterly to perform their duty. one
being absent and another sick. and the
people themselves got together and ap-
pointed judges and held an election,
which did not count as compliance with
the law.
OPINION BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Before appointing the directors in
this district Mr.. Pine called upon the
district attorney for light in the prem
ises. and received the following:
Answering your inquiry of the 9th.
in which you state that in district No.
3 Of this county no election was held by
the school directors at the time provid-
ed by law, on the first Monday in June,
some Of the people living there organ
lied and appointed three judges of elec-
ton and held an election in which three
persons We're elected school directors.
you ask my official opinion in regard to
said election, so that you can deter
mine what to do in the case beg in
answer to call your attention to page
17S of the laws Of 1899, wherein it is
made malfeasance in Office for school
directors to fail to hold the election as
required by law, and it Is further made
your duty to institute prosecution
against them therefor. 1t is also by
said statute made your duty to remove
from office any school director violating
the said law. l therefore beg to advise
you that you should at once issue an
order removing the said school direct
ors from office, for this violation Of du-
ty and to file the affidavit required by
the statute. Provision being further
made by section 1888 of the Compiled
Laws Of 1897 for the filling of any va
cancies by you, 1t is evident that the
law does not countenance an election
held by any other than the school di-
rectors. The election you mention Is,
therefore, illegal, and you should re-
move the outgoing directors and ap-
point directors in their place. Very tru-
ly yours, r. C. GORTNER,
District Attorney"
THE NEW DIRECTORS.
Following is the list Of new directors
in those districts where elections were
held or where appointments have been
made:
District No 1.-Florencio Roiba!, Lu-
ciano Trujlllo. Encarnacion salazar
Trujillo.
No. 2.-Cirilo Abeytia. Isabel Ortega,
Romulo Ortega.
No. 3.-Francisco Gallegos, Encarna-
cion Martinez, David Rodriguez. APP
pointed July IL.
No. 4-Emeterio Garcia. Manuel f.
Ortiz, Valentin Montoya.
No. 5.-Emeterio Romero D., Man
uel Ortiz, Jose Ant. Romero.
No. n-Juan Sanchez, Pablo Amanda,
Pedro Martinez.
No. 15-Emeterio Rivera, Julian Or
tiz, Emilio Romero.
No 16-Manuel Roibal, Hermenijildo
Roibal, Evaristo Trujlllo.
No III. L. Lopez, w. F. Williams.
No. 1s.-G. Haeltermann, Donaciano
Madrid, Benedito Maestas.
No. 19.-Patricio Garcia, Eulogio San
doval. Pedro Martinez.
No. 2O.-Pedro j. Jaramillo, Jose ST.
mon Vigil, Victor Ortega.
No. 2l.-Modesto Martinez, Jose Mar
| tinez, Francisco Vigil.
| No. 22.-Epimenio Vigil y NJ, Llbrado
Montoya, Jose Joaquin Quintana.
| No. 25.--Juan de D. Tapia, Manuel
Baca, Teofilo Martinez. Appointed July
H.
No. 27.-Earl A. Turner T. L. Kinney.
w. L. Boardman.
No. 2S.-Jose Ant. Quintana, Aniceto
Quintana, Jose P. de las Nieces Lopez
No. 29-Martin Lujan. Albino Mon
toya, Jose E. Gomez.
No. 3O.-Fabian Lopez Rivera. Pc
dro Lopez, Jose Carpio Romero.
| The districts in which no election was
held or in which the elections were ir-
regular are Nos. 8, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, IL, 13. %,
25 and 26.
THE APPORTIONMENT.
Superintendent Pine Is to-day making
the quarterly apportionment Of school
funds to the various school districts in
the county. There is $2,31s.2s to be thus
apportioned. The number Of school
children is 1886. and 80 cents per cap
ita Is the amount thus apportioned.
Albuquerque Doings.
Albuquerque citizens contribute $l00
per month to pay band for open air
concerts.
MARITIME Garcia experienced run.
away at Albuquerque that cost him q
an axle and wheel.
A fire caused several hundred dollars
worth OF damage to the house of Samuel
Bartnett In the Highlands.
Charles Oechsle, aged 81 years, . We
teran of the civil war died last night.
He was native of Baden. After the
lwar he served as cook for bridge gangs
m tho 90 nto Eo rai1rnah