Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-01-05
SANTA FE, N. M, SATURDAY, JANUARY s. 1901.
OFFICIAL MATTERS.
COAL LAND FILED ON.

Milo Hill to-day, alt the fedora. laild
office, flied upon eighty more acres Of
coal land northeast of Santa Fe, L. !. .
owns i'm that district.
EXPENSE OF LAND SELECTIONS.
A recommend haItion was sent TO con-
gress Thursday by the secretary Of .Ee
treasury for an appropriation of $1,000 to
pay expenses of selecting and segregat-
ing lands for THE territory Of New Mex
leo.
TERRITORIAL FUNDS.
Territorial Treasurer J. Fl. Vaughn
to-day received $62.63 for interest on
terrttol-al funds ON deposit in banks,
and $3.50 for a copy of the Compi,e Cd
Laws. The indications are that almost
100000 Win be received this month by
the territorial treasurer for taxts col
lected during December.
Treasurer Vaughn ALSO received $533
from H. P. Owen, clerk of the second
judicial district for fees for the quar-
ter ending December 81.
DELEGATES TO THE LIVE STOCK
ASSOCIATION MEETING.
Governor Otero yesterday afternoon
appointed the Following three delegates
at large to the National Live Stock as
sociatio meeting at Salt Lake, Utah.
ON january Is, Is. II and IS: L. e.
Twitchal, of San Miguel county. G. ".
Foraker of BernaIlillo county, AMI VIII
q Rarnas of Colfax couInjty
THE ESTANCIA LAND GRANT
John Knaebel, Esq, of Denver, will
be at Washington next week to argyle
the famous Estancia land grant ease
before the United States supreme court,
in which he lis counsel for the claim
ant of the grant, Joel Parker whitney
The grant is situated in Valencia coun
ty, covers a large area, and was reject
ed by the court of private land claims.
United States ATTORNEY NJ G. Reynolds,
of the COURT of private land claims, will
leave ST. Louis for Washington next
ment.
TO OPPOSE THE STEPHENS BILL.
Governor Otero has been urs?I hv
many prominent citizens of the terri
tory to go ito Washington at as early a
date ais possible Ito appear before the
senate and house committees on 'n:-
eign relations and territories foH the
purpose of fighting the passage of the
CulbertEnn and Stephens bills. now
pending in congress, providing for the
of an international dam ; t
FL Paso, and preventing the use Of the
waters of THE Rio Grande i'm New hexi
co by citizens living along that river.
Although very busy i'm preparing MS
message ITO the thirty fourth Legislative
assembly and other official matters,
Governor otero has about consented to
go, and expects to leavts next M ,liday
for WalshfngAon for. thafl plaposA. he
will remain two or three days in orda:
to return i'm time for the opening of the
thirty fourth Legislative assembly
A MILITARY APPOINTMENT
Governor Otero to-day appointed A.
s. Greig, of Ahamogordo, Otero county,
a colonel and aid-de-camp upon his
staff, vice H. Alexander, removed ou. |
1tf the tenIritory.
APPEALED TO THE UNITED
STATES SUPREME COURT.
In the case of the United States Vs. |
The Rio Grande Dam and 1rrigatlor |
Company, known as the Elephant Butte
dam oase, the clerk of the territorial
supreme court has forwarded the tran
script of the case to the clerk OF the
Ulndted States supreme COURT. The tran
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