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formed from the fact that Seligman
Brothers loaded in one day in Kansas
City SO wagons with an average of 5000
pounds of freight each for their store in
this city, that the firm paid freight bills
to the amount of $50, 900 on one train
containing 1926, 900 worth of goods, and
sold in three weeks at their store here
goods to the amount of $125, 900 at prof
it's a~ggregating $51, 900. The slump in
prices of all classes of commodities, fol-
lowing Immediately after the surrender
of General Lee to General Grant at APP
Santa Fee fortunes and ruined many Of
them.
Hon. Bernard Seligman, who partici-
pated actively in the stirring business
scenes of Santa Fee before the war,
could write a story of the early days
that would be as interesting as Ben
Hur, is still as bright as a diamond and
moves with the elastic step of a young
man. He crossed the plains 1865 times
before the advent of the railway. the
SIlOIleSI VI lHeSc Trips w cuIlId
Fee and Kansas City being 23 days, and
on n occasion saved a stage load Of
passengers from hostile Indians by
plausibly explaining to the chief in
! Spanish that 1900 United States caval-
rymen were following in close pursuit
of the stage. During the war of 1861-65
and in February, 1852, when Governor
Connely called out the militia, Bernard
Seligman quit his business and accept
ed the position of 1st lieutenant; he was
appointed assistant quartermaster of
the militia force. He was present at the
battle of Valverde and ordered after the
battle with a column, consisting Of 235
men and commanded by Col. Pine, to
proceed to Socorro and there to prevent
Sibley's forces from advancing up the
Rio Grande. The town of Socorro was
surrounded by 1900 Texas troops. and
he and many others were taken prison
ers; he was parolled and not exchanged
until about one month before the sur
render of Lee. in April, 1866. Mr.. Selig-
man was also a commissioner to the
Vienna Exposition in 1873, and a COM
missioner to the Philadelphia EXPOSE
ton in 1876. He has served one term as
member Of the lower house of the New
Mexico legislature, was a member of the
territorial council, officiated as chair
man of the board of county commits
sioners for foul years, was the first
vice president and one of the most in
%fluential promoters of the Texas, Santa
Fe & Northern railway, and was a
member of the Democratic national
convention in Chicago that renominat-
ed Grover Cleveland for his second
term in the presidential Office. Adolph
Seligman served most satisfactorily as
postmaster of Santa Fe during the first
Cleveland administration.
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THE PALACE
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
ERECTED IN 1898.
Extract From Report Of Gov. Prince, 1890.

~ w" iVpoit VI UOSs TIiuSC, lOOOs
without disparaging the Importance
OF any OF the cherished historical locali-
ties OF the east, it may be %truthfully
said that this ancient palace surpasses
in historic interest and value any other
place or object in the United States.
1t antidates the settlement of James,
town by nine years, and that of Ply
mouth by 20. and has stood during the
292 years since its erection, not as a
cold rock or monument, with no claim
upon the interest of humanity except
the bare fact of its continued existence,
but as the living center of everything
OF historic Importance in the southwest.
Through all that long period, whether
under Spanish, Pueblo, Mexican or
American control, it has been the seat
OF power and authority. Whether the
ruler was called viceroy, captain gen.
eral, political chief, department com.
mander or governor, and whether he
presided over a kingdom, a province, a
department or a territory, this has been
his official residence.
From here Onate started in 1899 on
his. adventurous expedition to the east
ern plains; here, eve years later, 800
Indians came from far-off Quivira to
ask aid in their war with the Axtaos;
from here, in 1913, Vicente de Salivar
set forth to the Moqui country, only to
be turned back by rumors of The giants
to be encountered; and from here Pena-
losa and his brilliant troop started, on
the 9th of March, 1862, on their marvel
ons expedition to the Missouri; in one
of its strong rooms the commissary
general of the inquisition was i'm
prisoned a few years later by the same
Panalosa; within its walls. fortified as
for a siege, the bravest of the Spanlards
were massed in the revolution of 1880;
here, on the 10th OF August of that
year, was given the order to execute
40 Pueblo prisoners in the plaza which
faces the building; here, but a day
later, was the sad war council held
which determined on the evacuation of
the city; here was the scene of triumph
of the Pueblo chieftains as they ordered
the destruction of the Spanish archives
and the church ornaments in one grand
cont1agration; here De Vargas, on Sep
TENDER IA, 1862, after the II hours com
bat OF the preceding day. gave thanks
to the Virgin Mary, to whose aid he
attributed his triumphant capture of
the city; here, more than a century
later, on March 3, 1907, Lieutenant
Pike was brought before Governor Allen
caster as an invader of Spanish soil;
here, in 1922, the Mexican standard,
with its eagle and cactus, was raised in
token that New Mexico was no longer a
dependency of Spain; from here, on the
9th of August, 1887, Governor Perez
started to subdue the insurrection in
the North, only to return two days later
and to meet his death on the 9th, near
Aqua Fria; here, on the succeeding day,
Jose Gonzales, a Pueblo Indian of Taos,
was installed as Governor of New
Mexico, soon after to be executed by
order of Armijo; here, in the principal
reception room, on August IL, 1916,
Captain Cooke, the American envoy,
was received by Governor Armijo and
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-05
SELIGMAN BROTHERS
The Pioneer General Merchandising Es-
Enlistment of New Mexico.
ROMANCE OF WESTERN LIFE

The present mercantile house of Selig-
man Brothers was established at Santa
Fe in 1849 by S. Seligman with Hon,
Chardlse P. Cleaver, eX-delegate in con-
gress, as partner. Hon. Bernard Selig-
man, now the head of the house, arriv-
ed in Santa Fe from Germany in 1856,
and, after clerking for ~Spiegelberg
Brothers for some time and doing bust
ness on his own account for four years,
Joined his older brother, S. Seligman, in
the general merchandising firm of Sell
lyman Brothers in 1862. S. Seligman
died in 1876 and his place a taken by
Adolph Seligman in 1877. Since then
the firm has remained the same, ex-
cept that Arthur and James Seligman,
o n of the senior member, have be-
come active and useful factors in the
conduct of the business.
The house was opened in the Spiegel-
berg block; then it was moved to the
adobe building IN the corner of Sar
Francisco and Shelby streets, where it
remained from 1856 till 1890; then it was
moved back to the original stand In the
Spiegelberg building, and there it is To-
Gated today. Prior to the last mCve, a
complete line of general merchandise,
including dry goods, groceries. hard
ware and crockery, vas always in stock,
but since the firm moved into the pres
ent quarters only dry goods, carpets
and kindred lines have been carried.
For many years the house carried a
stock ranging from $3.50. 900 to 5000, 900,
and Mr.. Seligman estimates that the
sales of the firm during the past fifty
years aggregate at least $4,000, 900 Be
fore the advent of the Santa Fee railway
! system in 1880, all goods brought into
New Mexico were freighted by wag-
ons drawn by oxen, mules and horses
over the famous Santa Fe trail from
Kansas City. Santa Fe was then the
business center Of the territory. This
was the distributing point for the en-
tire region. Money was plentiful. there
were no banks, and the only depository
and exchange between the east and the
west was the quartermaster of the mil
itary department of New Mexico. There
were not ever safes in which to store
money for safe-keeping, and thousands
of dollars were carried around on the
persons of business men, locked up in
trunks under counters or buried in the
dirt floors of the adobe buildings. Gam
bling and speculation consequently ran
riot. Pool games involving 1000 on the
side were common, and poker games
with from $40, 900 to $500 600 in gold and
silver in sight were ordinary incidents
in the exciting life of those days. Goods
were freighted in ono a year and mails
were received from the east once a
month, when the Indians on the plains
permitted and other conditions were
favorable.
An idea of the business transactions
of the pioneer days of Santa Fe can be
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-05
BEATY'S STORE.
Groceries and Supplies at Wholesale and
Retail.

Mr.. Beatty is a western pioneer and a
true pathfinder. A native of Ohio, he
struck out for the golden west when
quite a young mar and resided for some
years in Washington county, Iowa.
This was in 1854. Over twenty years
ago, when the Santa Fe route begun
pushing southwest, he came on ahead
Of the rails to New Mexico, stopping
for a time at Ration and Las Vegas. He
helped build the first modern houses in
those towns, and upon reaching Santa
Fe in December, 1879, started in the
grocery business in which he has ever
since been engaged. Although reverses
came, Mr.. Beatty always met them
bravely, and today he is a large proper
ty owner, thoroughly interested in ev-
erything calculated to push Santa Fe to
the front, and his word is as good as
his bond. At the corner of Capital and
Water streets, his grocery house, bak-
ing. feed storage and lumber depart
ments occupy seven lots. He merits
and enjoys a prosperous patronage.
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MUGLER, MILLINER
Established Here Fifteen Years Ago
Complete in All Departments.


Miss Mugler arrived In Santa Fe
from Lawrence, Kas., in the summer
of 1885, accompanied by her mother
and sister, and soon after opened a
millinery store in the city. Since then
she has been continuously in business
here, and, by giving close application
to the details of her business and ex-
tending uniformly fair and courteous
treatment to all purchasers at her
counters, has built up a most satisfac-
tory trade. From the beginning she has
carried a first class stock of strictly up
to-date millinery goods. employing only
the most competent assistants, and has
long ranked as the leading milliner Of
the capital city. In addition to a COM
plete stock of millinery goods, she car
ries a large line Of notions for ladies',
shirt waists, kid gloves, mitts, hosiery,
handkerchiefs, and materials for all
kinds of fancy work. Her store Is To-
Gated on the corner Of San Francisco
and Shelby streets.
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located, with reference to climatic and
sanitary conditions and convenience to
the children sought to be educated, it
has been the constant policy of the au-
thorities of the Indian bureau to con-
tribute all the aid in their power to
make it one of the most perfect and
efficient educational machines in the
service, and congress has wisely secon-
ded these efforts with generous appro-
priations. The beneficent results of
this rational policy will be unfolded la
ter on in this sketch.
STORY OF THE MANAGEMENT.
The first superintendent of this school
was s. M. Cart, Of Ohio, who served for
the three years ensuing January l, 1890,
and is now connected with educational
work in Dayton, Ohio. T. M. Jones, of
tendent during the next five years,
when he was succeeded by A. H.. Viets,
of Texas, who discharged the duties of
the responsible post for one year and
six months. Upon the retirement of
Mr.. Viets, in February, 1900, c. ].
Crandall of Minnesota, assumed the du-
ties Of superintendent, and the rare in
%telligence, fine executive ability and
conscientious devotion to duty already
manifested by this accomplished gen.
tleman inspire confidence that his ad-
ministration will be all that sincere
friends of the institution could desire.
Mr.. Crandall entered the service as
superintendent of the United States In
dian school at his home town Of Pipe
stone, Mimi, in 1891, %resigning the office
of county superintendent of schools,
which he had filled for five years., to &C.
cept the position. AS it's first superin-
tendent, he built the Indian school at
Pipestone. In January, 1895, he was
transferred to the Indian school at
Chilocco, Okla, as principal teacher,
and was soon after promoted to the
place Of assistant superintendent. In
the autumn of 1896, he was promoted
to the position of superintendent Of the
school at Pima, Ariz., where he re-
manned for ten months, when, in 1897,
he was assigned to the duties of super
tendent of the Indian school at Lower
Brule, South Dakota, whence he came
to Santa Fe last February under an as
signment of the Indian bureau. It will
thus be perceived that, with nine years
continuous experience in the service,
Mr.. Crandall is not a novice in the
work. He is not only an experienced
and cultivated educator, but a pleasing
and polished writer, as his entertaining
contributions to the Land of Sunshine
and other publications plentifully
prove.
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have been very much increased. The
new arrangement will place about 1900
Pueblos, all living within q radius of 80
miles of Santa Fe, under the school
here. Already the eleven Pueblo day
schools of this district, including the
supervising and assistant teachers, are
on Superintendent CrandalTs pay rolls.
These schools will be maintained and
improved as feeders to the normal
school in Santa Fe and no doubt Is
entertained that they will rapidly in
crease the attendance here and render
larger appropriations necessary in fu-
ture.
PLAN OF THE SCHOOL.
1t is the policy Of the authorities of
the Indian bureau steadily to enlarge
and improve this school so that all the
Indian boys and girls in this region can
receive the necessary education and
training near home to fit them for all
the useful pursuits of civilized life
without sending them to Carlisle or 9TH
err eastern schools. Already the litera-
ry features of the school here are equal
to the best. The industrial depart
ments embrace carpenter shops, black
smith shopts, wagon making, shoemak-
ing and harness making, and it is the
design to increase the appliances and
facilities for giving practical instruc-
ton in these and other industrial pur-
suits as fast as possible. Especial at
tention is given to instruction in gar
dening and fruit culture.
In 1897 a class of five boys and two
girls graduated from the normal de-
partment, five boys graduated in 1899,
and three boys and n girl will grad
uate in June Of this year.
INSTRUCTION IN MUSIC.
The institution BOASTS of a we'll or
ganized brass band of Is pieces, under
leadership of P. l.. Lookaround, and an
excellent orchestra of IL pieces, includ-
ing string and reed instruments and a
cornet. All the members of these mu-
steal organizations are Indians. In
struction is also given on the piano and
in vocal music.
FIRE PROTECTION.
Ample protection against fire Is af-
forded by a we'll organized hose COM
pany of Indian boys, with a regular
chief and assistant chief, and an equip
ment Of 500 feet Of the best ~purcnasa-
BILE hose. The pressure afforded by the
Santa Fe water works is sufficient to
49,
on the grounds. This Is particularly
important until such a time as the dan
gerous stoves and coal oil lamps now in
use are abandoned and the buildings
are all heated by steam and lighted
by electricity.
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| away, and the water works, three miles
up Santa Fe canon, are IN the telephone
circuit. In connection with initiating
and constructing the local telephone
system, Manager Sparks Is entitled to
credit for bringing the Postal Tele-
graph Company's lines into the city.
Including his recent work as manager
of the local water and electric light
plants, he has been instrumental in put
ting up more miles of wire in Santa Fe
than any other one man.
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TELEPHONE SYSTEM.
An Exchange That Is Strictly Up-to-Date
In All.,Particulars.

An Exchange NAT is otIlCtly OP-to-Dats
In All..Particulars.
The Santa Fe Electric Telephone Co.
chief stakeholder, and general man.
ager, was organized in 1894, and the ex
change that has since been conducted
under this management has been al
most ideal. Mr.. Sparks enjoys the dis
tinction of having initiated and INSTALL
ed at Santa Fe the first telephone ex-
change in the United States entirely in
dependent Of the Bell Telephone Com
pany. When the Bell fundamental pat
ents expired in February, 1894, the San
ia Fe company had it's switch board in
place and connected Herewith by wires
strung on substantial poles and ready
for immediate service, merely awaiting
the arrival of the 65 phones then re-
quired. This plant was purchased Of
the Western Telephone Construction
Company, of Chicago, which was or
ganized before the Bell patents ex-
pired and proved Its strength by sue
cessfully combating the Bell company
in several legal battles, and telephone
No. 1 of the Chicago company Is now in
use in Santa Fe. So the Santa Fe ex-
change has been in the independent
movement from the start. When 1t was
established, similar exchanges in the
country, because Of the high royalties
exacted by the Bell Company, were
charging $50 per year for the use of
telephones at private residences and $50
per year for similar service at business
houses. The Santa Fe Company Is now
charging IS per quarter for the use of
phones at private residences and hopes
soon to be able still to reduce
rates. The local exchange has recent
ly been overhauled and remodeled and
brought up to date as fast as the Bell
patents expired. 1t Is now as near per-
feet as any system in any town of SIM
liar size in the United States. Sixty
Of wire and 1o5 phones are in
use. All the public buildings and busi-
ness centers Of the capital city, includ-
ing the penitentiary and United States
Indian school, two and three miles
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20 different tribes, embracing represen-
tatives from nearly all the states and
territories west of the Mississippi river
where there are Indians. After the
Pueblos, Papago, Pima, Apache and
Navajo Indians predominate. They are
all comfortably and neatly clad, scru-
pulously clean, we'll nourished, and
seem contented and happy. Good be-
havior is the rule. The percentage of
sickness is small. The boys are organ
lied as a military battalion under mil
itary regulations. The battalion is di-
vided into four companies, each of
which has it's full complement OF Off
GERS designated by cadet chevrons. The
discipline is largely military. Grave Of
fenses are dealt with by court martial,
but these are comparatively rare.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
The institution is situated on a level,
fertile and beautiful tract of land, a
fraction over 106 acres in extent, about
three miles southwest of the soldiers
monument in the Santa Fe plaza. Five
acres of campus and five acres of gar-
dens are under irrigation from the
mains of the Santa Fe Water & Light
Company. The campus furnishes am
pie play grounds and room for military
evolutions, while the gardens at once
afford instructive object lessons to the
boys in a useful industry and supply
the tables with many choice fruits and
vegetables. The products of these gar
lens have been awarded rs or 30 first
prizes by the New Mexico Horticultural
association. The investment in build
ings is about $50, 900, while an equip
ment worth about $40, 900, including
supplies, utensils and furniture, is car
ried, making the total investment fully
800, 900.
The main building Is a two story
brick structure built in the form of a
Greek cross. 1t is 100 feet long and 40
feet wide with a two story wing on
each side $50 feet by % feet. One of
these wings is used as a dormitory for
boys and the other for girls. The cen
trail section is used for offices, dining
room and kitchens, with apartments on
the second floor for the superintendent. [
The school building and assembly
hall is two stories high and constructed
of brick in the form of a T. The main
part is so by 40 feet, with a wing on
each side 80 by 80 feet. The employees
building is brick, two stories, 80 feet
long and 40 feet wide, with wings % by
AZ feet on each side. The hospital Is
brick, two stories, 48 by SO feet. The
laundry building, also used as an engine
house, is constructed Of brick, part of
it one and part two stories high, and Is
120 by 80 feet. A two story brick an
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Beunys Errand,

Tn going owe to Lucky Perkins
right after breakfast, announced Benny
Bloobumper.
Why are you going there asked Mrs.
Bloobumper.
dreamed last night that l saw her
walking with a boy l didn't know, and
he made faces at me. I'm going to find
out from Lucy who it was, so that I car
punch him.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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sent back with a message OF defiance:
and here five days later, General Kear.
ney formally took possession of the
city, and slept, after his long and
weary march, on the carpeted earthen
floor of the palace.
From every point of view it is the
most important historical building in
the country, and its ultimate use should
be as the home of the wonderfully varied
collections of antiquities which New
Mexico will furnish.
Coming down to more modern times.
1t may be added that here General Lew
Wallace wrote "Ben Hur," while gov
ernor in 1879 and 1880.
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ST.. GATHERINGS.
Founded and Built BY Mother Katherine
Drexell and Blessed Archbishop Lamy.

Drexell and Blessed Archbishop Lamy.
Indian boys and girls was founded by
Mother Katherine Drexell, Of the order
Of the Blessed Sacrament, in 1887, and
this noble woman provided the neces-
sary funds to build and furnish the in
stitution. Among the last public acts in
the life of Archbishop Lamy was to
bless this school. 1t was completed in
1889, and was first conducted as a
school for boys by the Benedictine
monks. Then Father Antonio Jouven-
ceau, with a corps of secular teachers,
had charge of the work for three or
four years. On September /, 1894, the
Sisters Of the Blessed Sacrament. with
Sister Evangelist as mother superior,
assumed the management, and since
then the school has been in a most
flourishing and satisfactory condition.
The present attendance numbers IS
boys and IS girls. The school buildings
occupy an eligible and commanding site
in the northwestern part of the city.
The grounds embrace about 80 acres,
and, since they have been connected
with the mains of the city water sys-
tenn, have been beautifed by the plant
ing of many fruit trees, Towering
plants and gardens. There are seven
buildings. The substantial main build
ing is three stories high, and Is about
7b feet long and rs feet wide with wings
on each side 35x75 feet. It Is admirably
planned and adapted to the work Of the
school. Among the other buildings
may be mentioned the two story struc-
ture expressly for girls, the large
bakery, shops for boys. and a house for
The accommodation of old Indians who
,ome to the institution for the purpose
/ visiting their children. The-dorrni-
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WaRDs OF UNCLE san
An Industrial School For In.
dams that Is a Model In
Every Respect.
STORY OF THE maNaGEmENT
First Normal School for Indians Estab-
blithed In the United States-Indus-
trial Features-Attendance 600
Health and Contentment.

One of the most notable educational
institutions in the country is the Unit
Gated at Santa Fe. 1t was opened in
October, 1890, with accommodations for
$50 pupils, and was created a normal
school in January, 1894, being the first
lished in the United States. In this res
pect it outranks Carlisle or any other
Indian school in the land, except that
at Haskell, Kas., which has recently
been advanced to the normal grade.
Recognizing from the beginning thai
the Santa Fe school was almost ideally