Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-10-13
BLAcKOOM WANTS
A SCHOOL
Only Exclusive Negro Settle
ment in Territory of
New Mexico
SIX THOUSAND FOR MILEAGE
Appropriation in Enabling Act
viii Not Pay all
Expenses.

The territorial board of education
met this afternoon and discussed
recommendations for constitutional
provisions. Tomorrow it will meet
with the committee on education and
will also take up applications for
about seventy-five certificates.
Territorial Funds.
Territorial Treasurer M. A. Otero
today received the following funds:
From Territorial Auditor W. G. Sar-
gent, $4,000, dining car licenses of the
Ell Paso and Southwestern railway;
James A. Baird, Otero county, .s294.91; ;
James Sutherland, Chaves county, ST.
1880; Gregory Page, Mckinley coun-
ty, $2435; from Game Warden Thorn
as P. Gable, $27.50; interest on terri
torial deposits, $1,152.01.
Who Pays the Taxes?
In Dona Ana county, according to
Travelling Auditor Charles v. Stafford,
the railroad assessment is 1890 per
cent of the whole. The other per-
centages are: Agricultural lands 81,
city lots and improvements 106, graz
ing lands AZ, merchandise 34, cattle
1.9, horses 1.6, wagons, implements
and harness IA, household goods l.,
mineral lands 8 and all other cases
is.
School Census.
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton James E. Clark reports that the
school census for 1910 gives Berna-
lilo county 1921 persons of school
age, 3,716 being boys and 1905 girls.
Exclusive Negro Settlement.
Superintendent of Public lnstruc-
ton James E. Clark today had let
ter from Blackdom, twenty miles
south of Roswell and near Dexter,
Chaves county, asking for advice as to
school curriculum. The letter states
that Blackdom is the only exclusive
negro settlement in New Mexico, that
the colored people have taken up 1O,-
900 acres in homesteads and will in
stall a pumping plant. The community
has built commodius school house
and now asks for assistance in arrang-
ing for the curriculum and a teacher
Six Thousand for Mileage.
The mileage to be paid the dele
gates to the constitutional convention
totals $6,095, or one-sixteenth of the
entire appropriation of 100000 and
$1,000 more than had been estimated.
It is as yet impossible to tell what
the election cost but the figures may
run up to 100000.
Getting Pointers.
The office of the territorial super
intendent of public instruction in re-
ply to queries is receiving from city
and town school superintendent
many valuable suggestions as to the
curriculum and other features OF
school management.
Civil Service Examinations.
Inc OulI6u SldIto ClFll oCi fiSO Soih
mission announces that on February
4, 1911, a first grade or clerical ex'
animation will be held at Santa Fe
N. M, and at various other places
throughout the twelfth civil service
district for the purpose of creating
lists of eligibles from which all vacan
cies in clerical and similar positions
in the twelfth civil service district, in
the following branches of the service
and offices, will be filled:
Customs service; internal revenue
service (clerk, deputy collector, and
storekeeper gauger); subtreasury
service; mint and assay service; Gus
todian service of public buildings; i'm
migration service; steamboat inspee
ton service, marine hospital service
Indian service; lighthouse service;
navy yard service; pension agency;
bureau of animal industry offices;
weather bureau Offices; engineer de
partment at large, ordnance depart
ment at large; quartermaster's depart
ment at large.
Applications and further informa
ton may be obtained from the local
secretary, board of civil service ex
aminers at Santa Fe, N. NJ, or from
the secretary of the twelfth civil serv
ice district, San Francisco, California