Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-10-17
DELEGATES WERE
PAID TODAY
First Fifteen Days of Session
Have Cost Something
Like $4,000
FARMERS IRRIGATION COMPANY
Settlers at Langston and Lacy,
Roosevelt County, VIII
Cooperate.

The constitutional convention had
its first pay day today, fifteen days,
or one quarter of the allotted time
/ having elapsed The pay roll OF dele
/ gates and employees amounts to about
! $4,000 and Secretary Jaffas Office
was busy today preparing the payroll.
Adjutant General at Work.
| Adjutant General A. S. Brookes was
at his desk again today after an alb
sence of almost two weeks on account
of serious illness. He met this after
noon with the committee on military
affairs which held it's first session at
o'clock
Who Pays the Taxes?
| In Curry county it isn't the rail
roads as yet which carry most of the
burden. The assessment percentages
for 1910 are as follows, as compiled
by Travelling Auditor Charles V. SAT-
ford Agricultural lands and inn
provements 1894, city lots and i'm
Iprovements 30S2, horses and mules
6.2S, merchandise 5.51, household
goods 3.57, banks 3.37, railroads 3.32,
cattle 2.27. wagons, implements and
harness 1877, money 80, telegraph and
telephone 80, sheep and swine Al,
all other classes 3.57
Board of Education.
: The territorial board of education
: adjourned on Saturday after passing
: upon about so applications for certif-
= ication
! The board of education adopted a
resolution to excuse city and town
teachers from attendance at county
institutes providing that the city or
town superintendent gives at least
one-half of his time to supervision
and holds at least one general and
: one grade teachers meeting per
| month. The following were granted
certificates: Life-J. E Walker of
Santa Rita; Mrs. Lena Brent of Gal
lup: Lucille Holt of Deming Five
years professional-Mrs. Ida W.
! Booth of Metcalf, Arizona; Principal
w. B. Mcfarland of Silver City; Mrs.
Mary MeGinn of East Las Vegas, and
Mary E. Haskell of Wagon Mound.
, County First Grade-Fred H. Bailey,
Clovis; R. c. Bonney, Springer; May
+ Buell., MesilIa; Nancy Grassland, Ros-
well; T. ~ Russell Estancia: Lewis
R. Haight Cuervo; Mrs. Iva Hall, Eli
da; Mabel Henrichson, Malaga; Mar
} win Holland, Reserve; Grace Jeffrey,
Tucumcari Mary Kelley, Deming:
! Gertrude Kootz, Deming; Mrs Hattie
Dye. Heaton; Josephine Sandusky.
Willard Myra Seymour, Deming:
, Mrs. Edith Sparkling, Tucumcari: o.
B. Staples, Portales: Matilda Thomp-
son, Pennington; Bismarck Turner.
Knowles; Virgie Rice Worrell East
Las Vegas: Edith Martin. Gallup; c.
F. Miller, Carthage; Elizabeth Wales,
Dayton; Mae Mixwin, Ranger Lake
: County First Grade upon satisfactory
statement of institute attendance
Mrs. J. H. Mowrer, Naravisa; Ida
May Rudd, Springerville, Arizona;
, Katherine Rudd Springerville, Ari-
zona; Caroline Bell Hudson; Anna
stratton, Warrensburg, Mo; j, c.
Johnson, Monument; Ola Easley, Ken
ton, Oklahoma.
Incorporation.
Incorporation papers were filed to-
day by the Farmers Irrigation Com
pany of Langton, Roosevelt county.
The capitalization is s250000 divided
into 2O,s33 shares of s12 each. The
directors and incorporators are:
Charles N. Joyner of Lacy, president:
W. A. Sitter of Langston, vice presi-
dent; S. W. Miller of Langston, secre-
tary; l.. M. Tinker, of Lacy treasurer:
Pearl Payton of Lacy; P. J. Ketter of
Langston; J. w. Lemon of Melrose:
R. A. Tinker of Lacy; Mrs L. NJ. Tin,
. ker of Lack, each 80 shares.
Notary Public Appointed.
Governor Mills today appointed W.
r. McGill of La Lande, Roosevelt
county notary public
Delegates to ns-Mssissippi Con-
gress.
Whereas, the 21st annual session of
the Mississippi Commercial
Congress, will convene in the city of
San Antonio, Texas, November 22d,
: 1910:
Now therefore, |, William J. Mills,
. Governor of the Territory of New
, Mexico, by virtue of the authority in
, me vested do hereby appoint as dele
gates to said congress the following
) named residents of New Mexico.
: George Curry, Tularosa; l.. Brad
r ford Prince. Santa Sc; H. J. Hager-
| man, Roswell; Thomas D. Burns, Tier.
: ra Amarillo; Jose Ortiz Pine. Gal
( isteo; Joshua S. Reynolds, Albuquer-
, que: George L. Brooks, Albuquerque:
, Jesus Romero, Albuquerque; John
Becker, Belen; Perfecto Armijo, Albu-
: querque; J. HI. Crist, Monero: E. A.
Drake, Socorro; ]. s. MacTavish, Mag
dalena: A. S. Harris, Kingston: C. J.
l4oughren, Deming; Ralph C. Ely,
Deming; J w. Fleming, Silver City:
H. Fl. Belts, Silver City; ]. Rouault.
Jr., Las Cruces; Albert Fountain, Las
: Cruces; R. ]. Taupert, Las Vegas; R.
7 S. Connell, Tularosa; Manuel Aragon.
: Lincoln; A. S. Pratt, Carlsbad: Tito
: Melendez, Mora: Margarito Romero,
:. Las Vegas; Cicero Stewart, Carlsbad;
M. S. Murray, Roswell: Isaac Davis,
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