Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-01-02
OFFICIAL MATTERS.
TERRITORIAL FUNDS.

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A. M. Bergere, clerk of the first judi.
cial district, $221.5O, fees for the las
quarter of 1900.
A HOMESTEAD CONTEST.
In the federal land office to-day ths
homestead contest of w. c. Fraker vs
The contested homestead is located III
ColfaX county.
CHANGE IN DISTRICT CLERK S
OFFICE.
o. l.. Rice, until Monday assistant to
District Clerk A. M. Bergere at the
court house, has severed his connection
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oessor has not yet been appointed.
| IRRIGATION PLANS FOR INDIANS.
John b. Harper, of Durango. Cole,
superintendent of irrigation for the In
dians, is in the city ON official business.
He has completed plans and specifica-
tions for the construction of wa:cr
supply and ditch system on the JiIcarilia
reservation at Dulce, N. NJ, bids for
the construction of which are now be-
ing advertised in the New Mexican, the
bids to be opened at the Indian Off e
in Washington on January 10. MI.
Harper is competent and experienced
irrigation and civil engineer, and hts
plans are declared by experts to be vaiy y
superior
TRANSCRIPT FORWARDED.
Deputy Clerk Ireneo Chaves, of the
court of private land claims, to-day for
warded to the clerk of the United States
supreme court ait Washington the tran
script in the case of MariNno F. Sena
VS.. the United States. The case was
appealed to the supreme court by TIE
plaintiff, who claims the Jose de LeyIa
grant in this county. The transcript
filled 400 typewriter pages.
AGAINST FOOT BALL.
Superintendent Of Public Instruction
M. G. de Baca, in his annual report, will
make g, recomme endation for the prohi-
hition Of the playing Of foot ball at the
territorial institutions and the public
schools. He regards the game as more
brutal than prize fighting, and in hts
recommendation follows the example OF
several institutions of higher learning,
which lately have prohibited the play.
ing of foot ball. He has gathered stu
tistics showing that last year fifteen
boys were killed and 200 seriously In
;ured in the United States while play
ing foot ball.
NEW YEARS PARDONs.
Governor Otero on New Years eve is
sued two pardons, one of them in lieu
of the Christmas pardon which he did
absence in Washington and his practice |
of investigating thoroughly every rec
for pardon made to him.
One of the lucky convicts pardoned Is
ToribiO Gutierrez, who during his fit.
teen years in the penitentiary mas beaa
am exemplary prisoner, and about
whose guilt of the crime with which he
Is charged, murder, there are grave
doubts. He was sentenced from Taos
county. The other convict pardoned is
Antonio Lucero y Perea, sentenced for
twenty years for murder from Berna-
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prisoner, and his artistic stone masonry
work 1T the new capitol some time ago
moved the capitol rebuilding board to
,sk for his pardon out of consideration
or his valuable services at the building
If the capitol.
BONDS APPROVED.
Judge McFie to-day approved tie
}ond of Sheriff Marcelino Garcia for
$500. He also approved the bond of
Tomas Gonzales, collector of Rio Arr-
"a county, for $4,000, and Eugenio San
,hez, collector and treasurer of Taos
ounty, for $4,000.
LAND OFFICE BUSINESS.
The following business was transact
ID ait the federal land office in this city
or the week ending January 2:
Homestead Entries-December q. Ju-
ius Appel, Springer, 1868 acres, Colfax
.ountv; December 2S-Louis Ivle,
40 acres, San Juan county;
James P. Abreu, Rayado, 1895 acres,
,olfax county; Decmeber 29-Francisco
3aca, Las Colonias, 160 acres, Guada-
upe county; December 31-Jesus Hinc-
os, Pintada, 100 acres, Guadalupe coun.
Y; Donaciano Lucero, Puerto de Luna,
60 acres, Guadalupe county; Richard
}. Harmon, Wagon Mound, 100 acres,
fora county; Leandro Romero, Wagon
Mound, 100 acres, Mora county. {
Final Entries-December 27, Macario
lutierrez, Las Vegas, 100 acres, San
iiguel county; Agustin Maestas, Roc!- ,
da, 16O acres, San Miguel county; De-
ember 29-Rafael Guruie, Watronss
go acres, San Miguel county. F.
Coal Declaratory oStatelnents-De-
ember 81, Joseph Campbell, Ration,
olfax county, southwest quarter Of tho
ortheast quarter Of section "a, town.
hip 81 north, range "a east; George
vukellch, Gallup, Mckinley county,
outhwest quarter OF the southwest Is
uarter of section 26, township Is north, 6
ange 18 west; Fred Swope, Santa Fc, s
anita Fe county, lot Of the southwest t
uarter of the northeast quarter. AHA 4
he southeast quarter Of the northwest r
uarter of section 5, township 12 north, ]
ange east; Felfciano sena, Santa Fe. \
anita Fe county, south half Of the v
,utheast quarter and the south half OF O
he southwest quarter of section 2S, u
,wnship 13 north, range. 9 east; Marcus F
astillo, Santa Fe, Santa Fe county,
orthwest quarter Of the. northwes,
uarter Of section SO, and the north laif
{ the northeast quarter OF section 32
nd also the northeast quarter Of the y
quarter of section 80, town
Zip 10 north range 9 east. y
Coal Lands So1d--William e. Griffin, 81
anita Fe, Santa Fe county, 12o acres.
,uth of the northeast quarter o. the p
,uthe asst quarter Of the northwest g