Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-06-17
COLLECTION OF TAXES
IN SAN MIGUEL
East Las Vegas Has Paid 81 Per Cent Of
Its Taxes for 1901 and the Country
Precincts 73 Per Oent-Some Tax
es Are Uncollectable.
RATHER Low PRICES FOR WOOL
ARE BEING PAID IN THE MEADOW CITY

well. The blow didn't even phase IL
poor father.
Miss Agnes Moslin will take chare
of the Castaneda news stand ne1
el Wednesday,
e Yesterday was,Odd Fellows Decors
It ton Day, but 1t WA. not, Observed her
= j. Judell mas retulivu'fsasa. his tri
: to Santa Rosa and says that that tow
1 is not developing the boom that wa
expected of it but is rather dead. H
thinks Tucumcari Is the coming tow
t of that section.
/ The infantry company here has bee
, equipped with Springfield rifles tempo
, rarily, until the legislature makes tn
: next appropriation, when it will be Civ
Ell the new Krag-Jorgensen rifles.
Richard Dunn and daughter have re-
turned from their California trip ant
will go to Gascon, their home
Felipe Delgado and family went down
to Santa Fe yesterday to be present at
the wedding of Pablo Delgado and Miss
Josefita Read to take place there on
the 21st.
Hilario Romero has returned from
his stay at FL Porvenir much benefit
ted in health. Mr.. Romero has about
recovered from his hard sickness.
| The Sisters of Loretto gave a most
pleasant entertainment at their acade-
my last night to a large number Of
friends The program consisted of mu-
sic, singing and recitations.
Court has adjourned until next Sat
| urday when the case of j. P. Conant VS..
| Charles Clay is set. The suit is to re-
| cover money lost "bucking the tiger
Notices of delinquent taxes. with
penalty added, are being sent out by
the collector to all those Who have not
paid their taxes for 1901. The county
tax collector of San Miguel county has
collected over 81 per cent of the taxes
of East Las Vegas, and over rs of the
taxes in outside precincts for 1901. AS
there are over six months during which
taxes can be paid, it is calculated that
not less than So per cent Of taxes in the
outside precincts will be collected and,
in East Las Vegas like proportion.
All taxes cannot be collected as for in
stance those assessed against the Las
Vegas grant and other similar proper
ties which are strictly uncollectable.
The 10-months- old infant girl, Luisita,
daughter of Trancito Chavez, died yes
terday and was buried today. The ba-
by died while teething.
Jesus Esquibel of Telolote, died last
night at the age Of 20 years. He was a
sufferer with throat trouble. He was
buried today.
Six extra police will hold down the
circus hangers on tomorrow. 1t is re-
ported that there is a tough crowd fol-
lowing the show, and citizens will do
we'll to keep their back doors and win
dows locked securely.
The wool is coming in at good rate
now from the smaller growers around
the country. The price for good wool
today varies from 1-2 to 9 "a abb
surdly low compared with the prices
for last year at this time. The prices
then were about IA cents a pound.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was only Se and the minimum 50. The
humidity was 40, five points above the |
raining point, but nary rain resulted.
Campers up in the mountains are
rather careless about leaving their
fires burning after leaving, and good |
breeze soon fans them into live
blaze, often ignlting the forest there
abouts and causing damage. The fires
should always be extinguished before
leaving.
H. X. Leonard has moved his family |
to near Mora, where he has extensive
sawmill interests.
The Elks over the territory are maxi |
ing big preparations to go to Salt Lake
City. The big pow-wow takes place
there the middle of August, and the
Lake City will be turned inside out.
The lodges will have special uniforms
in the territory and will try and carry
off the prize drill. Ell Paso will have a
uniformed delegation of about 40, Albu-
querque about 20, Silver City about 10,
and Las Vegas will try and head the
list with about As. The boys are PLAN
ming for a big time among the Nor
mons.
Mrs w. v. Long has been elected as
the delegate from the Methodist Ep-
worth League here to represent it at
Ration at the convention to be held
there from Thursday to Sunday
Mrs Maud Kelley arrived here today
from near Montreal, Canada, and will
go on up to Mora to visit her brother,
Paul ST. Vrain.
There Is one less hobo in these dig
gings. One Of the Weary Willies at
tempted to get off a fast moving freight
at Galisteo last night and fell under
the cars and was instantly killed. The
station agent and section men dug a
hole by the side of the track, got a
box, and laid the remains of some moth |
er's son to rest on the plains; never to |
be heard of or thought of again.
The Santa Fe checks came in today |
and made the boys and the merchants
happy. The dollars certainly do make
the world go round.
Mrs. r. p Conner left today for her
home in Pittsburg where she will re-
main some time. Mr.. Conner, finding
relief here from asthma. will remain
here in Gods country.
Miss Nellie Randall left this after
noon for Wisconsin to visit at her for
mer home and shake hands with old
time friends.