Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-11-17
QUIET DAY At
THE CAPITOL
Superintendent Clark at Ell
Rito to Inspect Normal
School
OTERO COUNTY STREAMS
Divorce Suit Filed in District
Court---Preparing Grounds
For Lawn.

In the district court for Santa Fe
county, a divorce suit was filed today
by Porfirio Barela VS. Bersabe G. de
BareIa. The couple was married in
1901 at Cabezon and the plaintiff
charges abandonment in and deser-
ton in 1905.
Stream Measurements in Otero
County.
c. D. Miller. assistant in the of
fee of Territorial Engineer Vernon L..
Sullivan, left yesterday afternoon for
Otero county to measure streams in
the Sacramento basin.
Inspecting Spanish-American Normal
School.
Superintendent of Public instruction
]. Z. Clark left this forenoon for Es-
pamela en- school matters and from
there will go to Ell Rito, Rio Arriba
county, to inspect the Spanish-A Ameri-
can Normal School.
Executive Mansion Grounds.
All the old adobe structures on the
grounds of the executive mansion have
been leveled to the ground and the
terrace along the river is taking
shape. Today dirt was hauled from
the Old Palace and spread over the
grounds to form surface for sodding.
Cleaning Capitol.
The cleaning force which has been
renovating the interior Of the capitol
in annual house cleaning, today reach.
ed the office of the chief executive
who is away for a week.
| School Fund Apportionment.
Superintendent of Public Instruc
ton j. E. Clark today sent to county
! school superintendent the following
circular
| In making the recent apportion
ment among the various counties
, failed to call attention to the fact thai
one-fourth of the amount apportionet
to each county is available for the
payment of debts contracted by
boards of directors previous to Sep
! tember 1st, 1909 If you will read the
| Bateman act, section 299. and follow
ing of the Compiled Laws of 1897
| you will note that a very important
provision is found there prohibiting
{ boards of directors from entering int(
/ contract for the expenditure of more
money than will come to the credit o
) the several districts during the Bate
hooiDnino Gpntpn1hnr 1E
and ending August 31st. Since one
fourth of the land lease money whicl
was recently apportioned was place.
in the hands of the territorial treas
school income fund on or before Seq
tember 1st, 1909, it will be legal fo
you to approve warrants in paymen
of Indebtedness contracted previou
to that date, provided the total o
such warrants for each district shal
not exceed one-fourth of the amour
apportioned to each district of tn
money received from the apportiOr
ment of this office within the last fey
days.
SCme county superlntendents haV
called attention to the fact that tn
, money has not yet been delivered t
the county treasurer. l will say tha
it is the custom of the territorial al
ditor to await the receipt of a requ
sition from the county treasurers COY
ering the sum apportioned.
Transferred to Colorado District.
w. D. Hayes, of the forest service
who had been in charge Of the Gall
mas planting station and who is no
on a six months leave OF absence, ha
received notice of transfer 10 tn
Colorado district and has been assign
ed to Monument, near Colorad
Springs, as headquarters, where tn
: forest service has established nu
sery.