Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-05-20
OFFICIAL MATTERS
LAND OFFICE BUSINESS.

1IAND OF bOolAN GboAo'
Homestead Entries: James A. Heath,
Ramah, 80 acres, Mckinley county; ST.
mon Padilla, Wagon Mound, 1896 acres,
Mora county.
POSTMASTER AT RosEDALE.
A. p. Smithers postoffice inspector
has installed the newly appointed post
master Oscar Wood in the Rosedale,
Socorro county, postoffice.
MEMORIAL DAY PROCLAMATION.
Governor Otero yesterday afternoon
issued the following Memorial Day
proclamation:
We are fast approaching the day
most dear to the patriotic people of
this country; the day set apart by law
and by custom to be devoted to the
memory of the illustrious soldiers and
sailors who have given up their lives IN
The cause of their country. AS we have
celebrated the day through many years
past and gone, let us again meet and
by honoring the memory of the dead
renew the patriotic fires within our
hearts, and rededicate our lives to the
cause of liberty AMI republican fnstitu-
tions, Let us give the fullest and ten
iderest recognition Of the fact that our
soldiers and sailors who in the wars
past, gave up their lives freely that we
might continue to enjoy the blessings
of a free government, gave all they had
to give; that they made the supremest
sacrifice that man can be called upon
| to make, and that upon US rests the
most solemn obligation not only to re-
member their sufferings and their sac
rifices, and pay due honor to their
memory, but also to preserve and per-
petuate pure and spotless the govern
ment for which they gave their lives:
Now, therefore, I, Miguel A. Otero,
governor Of the territory of New Mexi-
tico. do recommend that upon Friday,
the 3oth day of May, 1902, the people OF
1.-THE territory refrain from all unneces-
sary labor, and all public amusements
| and in tender memory Of our heroic
dead soldiers and sailors, recall, their
sufferings and their achievements
which have shed such luster upon the
valor fortitude and humanity Of the
American soldiers and sailors; that yor
join with the Grand Army of the Re.
Ipublic, and other patriotic societies, fr
a proper observance of the day, and
with song and speech and bright flow
lers give expression Of your reverence
and gratitude to those who gave to 70,
natures last sad sacrifice. Remembel
kindly the survivors of past wars whit
still abide with US, and hold up thu
Hands of those who are stilfbearing tn,
Ifiag aloft.
| Done at the Executive Office, this th'
10th day Of May, A. D. 1902.
i Witness my hand and the great sea
LOT the territory Of New Mexico.
| (seaD MIGUEL A. OTERO,
| Governor Of New Mexico
By the governor:
/ J. W. RAYNOLDS,
II Secretary of New Mexico.
lCOURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIM:
i The court of private land claims me
this morning in the federal building
Chief Justice j. r. Reed and Associat
Justices w. w. Murray, H. G. Slus
J and w. F. Stone on the bench.
The corrected survey Of the Antonf
Baca grant in Bernalillo county. wa
!. approved. The grant covers 47,000 acres
: The corrected survey was made b
Deputy United States Surveyor J. +
twalker.
Under mandate from the Unite
Estates supreme court. the case Of tn
San Jose del Encinal grant was dis
missed for want Of jurisdiction. Th
grant is situated in Valencia count
} and was claimed by Marguerite Bacs
Under mandate from the Unite
States supreme court. the claim 70
money damage by the owners Of tn
Juan Jose Lobato grant for land take
upon the grant under the federal Ian
laws previous to the confirmation Of tn
grant, was disallowed and the case dis
missed. The grant is situated In RI
, Arriba county.
IL Under mandate from the Unite
|. Estates supreme court, the Santa Terea
{grant in Dona Ana county. was order
Sed surveyed.