Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-02-15
SCHOOLS To
HELP CENSUS
Children to Be Taught Sig
nificance of Questions on
Various Schedules
FREIGHT CAR IS ROBBED
Delegate Andrews and Mayor
Sena to the Rescue of the
Poor Wood Sellers.

The territorial superintendent of
public schools has received a letter
from the public schools, asking for
the cooperation of teachers to spread
information about the forthcoming
census, a very good idea, by the way,
and the territorial department of edu-
cation will at once make provisions
to meet the wishes of the Bureau of
the Census. Here follows the letter:
Dear Sir-Is there any way by
which you could bring the subject of
the United States census to the at
tention of country school teachers
throughout your state so that they
could instruct the children at school
relative to it's origin objects, and
methods, and scientific and practical
value; and especially, as to the ques-
tions to be asked in the coming farm
census, April 18th next?
1t is believed that, if the children's
interest could be enlisted, they would
provide a very direct and effective
means by which to arouse and inform
their parents regarding the census
and its questions; provided they were
told to discuss the matter at home.
Inclosed are copies of the popula-
ton and agricultural schedules. If
you had sufficient quantity, could
you supply one of each kind to each
Of your teachers and have him or her
prepare studies for the school chill
dren to take up among current top
les" or in connection with civics, his
tory, geography, ETC.? If so, please ad-
wise me at once. If another and bet
ter method suggests itself, be good
enough to state it. The return pen
atty envelope herein will carry your
reply without postage.
Very respectfully,
w. OSGOOD.
Expert Special Agent in charge In
formation Service.
Poor Wood Sellers.
Mayor Jose D. Sena today promptly
took up the complaints of the poor
wood sellers of Tesuque precinct lust
north of Santa Fe, who have been
stopped from cutting wood, not only
for sale but also for themselves, on
| the public lands adjoining the Pecos
forest. This worked a great hardship
On them and for some of them meant
! starvation. Mayor Sena promptly
communicated with District Forester
A. G. Ringland at albuquerque and
was promised an amelioration of the
official order. A telegram to Delegate
| to Congress w. H. Andrews brought
the following satisfactory answer:
Washington, D. c., Feb. Is.
Hon. Jose D. Sena, Santa Fe, N. NJ.
Your telegram received. Have mat
ter up with department of the interior
and the forestry bureau and they vii!
/ only allow wood for private use and
not for sale, but they are going to
throw back into the public domain a
strip about two or three miles wide
on the Santa Fe side of the Pecos
iSNS' w tiioI WILL lVilCNC lHG SlbudllUll
somewhat. l will send you map in a
day or two showing what is going to
! be thrown back and a letter from the
department of the interior to the for.
estry bureau. 1t will all work out, but
it will probably be some thirty or
sixty days.
This elimination from the forest of
the strip in question will greatly re-
lieve the situation.
! Freight Car Robbed.
| The territorial mounted police were
notified today by w. c. Schnepple of
Espanola, that Denver & Rio Gran.
de freight car with a consignment of
merchandise from Bond & Nohl Com
pany at Espanola, to Mrs. S. Conover
at Lyden, had been broken into at
Brady, Rio Arriba county, and $40
worth of merchandise stolen there
from.
| Postmaster Removed,
The postmaster general has re-
moved W. Ward, postmaster at Hea-
ton, Mckinley county, as a result of
charges preferred by the patrons of
the office Thomas Clarence Waller
was appointed to fill the vacancy.
A star mail route has been ordered
established between Haynes, Rio Ar
riba county, and Blanco, San Juan
county, on February 25. Service will
be rendered but once a week. Leon
ides |. Gallegos of Haynes was award
ed the contract at $40O year.
Meeting of Democratic Central Com
| mittee Called.
Chairman James G. Fitch of the
Democratic territorial central commit
tee has issued "a call from Socorro for
meeting of the committee to discuss
statehood and the constitutional con-
vention, at Albuquerque on February