Arizona republican., 1906-10-26
THE NEW MEXICAN SCHOOL
 SYSTEM.

The Republican has had occasion
 within the last six months to allude to l the New Mexican school system in
 which Arizona voters are naturally
 interested just now. The Albuquerque | Journal in the course of a series of
 articles called "Sidelights on the His l tory of the Gang" throws some side l lights on educational affairs Of Ser | naliIlo county. the principal county of 1 the territory.
 1 There is a republican factional fight | on in that county between the Journal
 and the Albuquerque Citizen both
 joint statehood papers.
 i w shall present some of the Jour
 naTs "sidelights." By Frank" or
 ''Francisco'' and Slavic" to whom
 reference is made are meant Fran
 cisco S. Hubben the republican boss
 and Eslavio Vigil a saloon keeper, long time, county school superintend- l ent, the individual who heard from Senator Beveridge with genuine grief that Christopher Columbus was dead and who in his capacity of school superintendent told President David
 Starr Jordan of Stanford university
 that if he would leave his name and
 address with him he would apprise
 him of the first vacancy in a country
 school district of Bernalino county. By Evening Instrument the Jour
 nal means the Albuquerque Evening
 Citizen. The following are culled from
 the "Sidelights'' column:
 August 22.-Suggestion made that PROFESSOR SLAVIC be put in
 glass case and appear as chief educa- ! tfonaI exhibit at the territorial fair. Decided. however. that Slavic cannot spare time from his school visits in 45 districts not to exceed three days to each district not to exceed S5 per. August 23.-EVENING INSTRU- MENT advocates checking swarm of immigrants until we educate what we have" Taxpayer grows thoughtful and figures out how long it would take
 Frank and Slavic to visit say 5000 immigrant school children in 45 dis tricts Finally decides if the immi- grants wait to be educated by the In- strument and Slavic immigration will be permanently stopped.
 October 1.-District Attorney CLAN | CY applies to HubbelI county cOmmis- sioners to be permitted to bring suit
 in name of county against Frank and | Slavic for s27OO stolen from the cOun- ] ty for alleged school visits. Dead 1 silence on part of county commission
 CTS.
 l October 7.-District attorney also springs the little anecdote of the coun- | ty superintendent and the SCHOOL l DESKS. Francisco it appears separat- l ed the county from s327 for school ] desks" These school desks, to date. never discovered in the county school rooms where the pupils are still pa | tiently sitting on inverted nail kegs. | Superintendent explains that he bought | the desks in bulk to get advantage of
 wholesale rates. Appears that buying desks without action of district direc- | tors is unauthorized by law Taxpayer | reflects that Francisco simply wanted to have a few desks laid by for rainy day This is the rainy day.
 October 7.-District attorney also l makes public the interesting tale of how Slavic and Nestor EXAMINED | THE TEACHERS. For 21 days 21 l teachers were examined, one per day
 at S1O per day or $21O. As far as can be learned none of these examina-
 tion papers were ever filed with the ! territorial board as required by law. | Common Geezer reflects with some | discomfort that S1O a day per teacher
 for exam at hands of Nestor and 'Sla- vio is a little steep.
 October 7.-District attorney springs