Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-12-13
GOOD ROAD TO
ALBUQUERQUE
Duke City Committee Meets
With Commission in
Governors Office
TUCUMCARI BURGLAR CAUGHT
Spanish Rendition of America
Sung at Normal School Dor
mitory Dedication.

A. B. McGaffey, D. X. B. Sellers and
w. H. Hahn, of Albuquerque, today at |
tended a meeting of the territorial
Good Roads Commission held in the !
office of Governor Mills at the capitol. !
Governor Mills, Land Commissioner
r. P. ErVien and Territorial Engineer
Vernon l.. Sullivan, members of the
commission, listened attentively to
the Albuquerque representatives who
had been sent by Good Roads meet
ing at the Duke City. The Albuquer-
queans succeeded in securing prom
ise that the road from Santa Fe to AL
buquerque would be completed this
winter 1t is constructed as far as
Algodones, but south from there,
about two miles of heavy sand will
have to be overcome. The Good Roads
Commission will contribute $4,000 and
the Albuquerqueans said that Berna-
lilo county and Albuquerque would
raise $4,000, it being expected that
Sandoval county in which the greater
part of the road lies, will contribute
it's share of the $4,000. The U. S.
Indian service will probably also
make another donation of $500 as it
did for that part of the road going ov-
er La Bajada hill. The road will be
part of Ell Canine Real and will con-
meet at Santa Fe with the road up
Santa Fe canyon to the Pecos and also
with the Santa Fe Trail to Las Vegas
via Canoncito and Glorieta, on both
of which the Good Roads Commission
is doing fine work at present.
Territorial Funds.
Territorial Treasurer M. A. Otero
today received the following remit
$1S,20094; w. H Merchant, Eddy
county, s4,2O4.31 Celso Lopez, Santa
Fe county, $1,72S.29; Game Warden
Thomas P. Gable, $12.50.
Burglar Arrested.
Mounted Policeman J. Alexander
Street of Tucumcari, who was recent
ly appointed, already has made good
by arresting at Pratt, Kansas, Ollie
Kearney and taking him back to Tu-
eumcari. Kearney is supposed to be
responsible for several burglaries
lately at Tucumcari, and Street re-
ports that he has recovered $500
worth of the stolen goods and init
mates that Kearney has confessed.
Watch Out for Jessie croffer.
The Mounted Police were notified
fr ho ha lookout for Tnccin
Croffer, supposed to be on the way
to New Mexico from Sacramento, Cal,
where she is wanted for stealing
$4,000 worth of jewels. Her game is
to hire out as a servant girl and
then to rob her employers. Jessie is
35 years old and is described as tall
and angular and as blushing easily.
Educational Convention.
The Department of Education is to-
day distributing programs of the con-
vention of the New Mexico Education
al Association at Las Vegas to be held
after Christmas. The program is a
crowded one and very interesting.
Notaries Public Appointed.
Governor Mills today appointed the
following notaries public: Lizzie
Chunn and Bessie Cunning of Clayton.
Union county; Charles Dennis of MINI
bres, Grant county; Robert S. Fischer
of Fort Bayard, Grant county; James
s. Fielder of Deming.
The following were appointed this
afternoons james A. Hall and Bryant
HI. Thompson of Elida, Roosevelt
county: Francisco Sandoval Of San
Miguel, San Miguel county; H. Jar
Wis Williams of Deming, Luna coun-
ty; Cora E. Moffett, of Socorro, So
zorro county; Hans Neumann of Gal
lup, Mckinley county.
Incorporation.
Incorporation papers were filed to-
day by the First Baptist church OF
Dexter, Chaves county. The incor-
porators and trustees are: W. L.
Nichols, Frank Frost, F. E. Hogan, M.
L. Kuyendall and w. J. Caffall.
Increase in Postoffice Force.
Postmaster E. G. Burke has put to
work over the Christmas holidays F.
R. Stevenson as temporary clerk and
Edward NJ Berardinelli, as temporary
carrier.
Governor Mills Returns.
Governor Mills returned last even
ing from Las Vegas, where he was
present at the dedication of the new
dormitory of the New Mexico Normal
University. Governor Mills describes
the dormitory as a fine structure
which accommodates thirty-four girl
boarders. The school now has an at
tendance of over 250 pupils. One OF
the features of the dedication was the
singing in Spanish of "My Country
'Tis of Thee" as translated and copy
righted by Eleuteria Baca
Tests of Material for Culverts.
Territorial Engineer Vernon L. Sui
Ivan has just completed number oi
tests, both in actual practice, and in
the laboratory of different material fo1
culverts and found that as to steel
corrugated iron and ingot iron, that
the last named is by far the mos
durable for the purpose. Ingot iror
culverts are at present being placed
on the Scenic Highway in the Santa
Fe canon to replace the timber bridg
es which have worn out The loss by
corrosion on the galvanized ingot iror
piece was not quite II per cent, or