Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-01-21
BOARD Of
EDUCATION MEETS
Plans for Various Publica-
tons to Be Submitted by
Superintendent
ARTILLERY CORPS At ROSWELL
Work on the Road from Santa re
to Albuquerque Is
Resumed.

The Mountain King Copper Mining
Company of Alamogordo, Otero coun-
iy. today filed incorporation papers
in the office of Territorial Secretary
Nathan Jaffa. The capitalization IS
$1,000 divided into 100000 shares.
The incrooorators and directors are:
Thomas F. Wadsack of st. Louis,
10000 shares; George L. Middleton
of Alamogordo, 100000 shares;
Charles A. Mcintyre of st. Louis, l.
600 shares. H. H. Majors is designat-
ed the New Mexico agent.
Notary Public Appointed.
Acting Governor Nathan Jaffa today
appointed Samuel e. Upton, of Wat
rous, Mora county, notary pubic.
Territorial Board of Education.
Owing to the lateness of the train
from the south upon which were Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction }.
e. Clark and other members OF the
territorial board of education, no
meeting of the board will be held I'M
til tomorrow forenoon at nine o'clock.
Superintendents Conway of Ration and
Sanchez Of Wagon Mound arrived
last evening to attend the meeting.
Superintendent Clark will lay before
the board plans for a number OF pub
LEGATIONS. He has completed man.
ual in English and Spanish for school
directors dwelling upon the duties,
powers, prohibitions and penalties OF
the school laws. Similar manuals will
be issued for teachers and superln-
tendents. This is the first step to-
ward the simplification of the school
laws, which now cover 354 pages,
while the school laws of Pennsylvania
cover fewer than hundred pages.
This evening, the committee on the
Institute Manuel for 1910 will meet.
The members are G. NJ. Light OF
Santa Fe, T. w. Conway of Ration, and
J. E. Clark of Santa Fe. An educa
tional directory for New Mexico is
also in preparation.
Artillery Company.
Adiutant General R. A. Ford will be
home this evening from Albuquerque
where he was much pleased with the
showing of the new militia company
and of which 65 men will me mustered
in. He has also instructed Captain
Murray of Roswell to prepare for the
receipt of the light artillery equip
ment from Washington, so that the ar
tillery corps may be read by the Apri
inspection The company will have
1873 men.
Settled With a Wedding.
Acting Governor Jaffa was inform
ed today by telegraph that the Chen
ault affair at Tucumcari had been set
tied by Chenault agreeing to MARI.
the girl he is alleged to have wronged
Chenault was held at Juarez, Mexico
upon advices from Tucumcari ant
Santa Fe.
Progress of albuquerque Road.
Mounted Policeman Page B. Otert
has returned from Thornton where HI
restored order. Difficulty had arisel
over the recent quarantining TO
chicken pox of one of the men EN-
ployed on the good roads gang ant
several of the men walked arount
with arsenals of which Mr.. Otero re
lieved them. Mr. Otero reports tha
work on the Albuquerque road ha
been resumed and that fully thre
miles have been constructed south o
Domingo while the progress now be
ing made will bring the road into Bel
nalillo by February /.
Statehood Situation Favorable.
Governor Curry telegraphed toda
from Washington that the statehoo
situation is very favorable. Indie;
tions are that the bill will be passe
by the Senate before March L an
possibly before February 1.
Roswell Land Office Leads.
According to the annual report {
the general land Office for 1909 Ro
well has the honor of holding thir
place in all the hundred and four Ian
offices in the United States in nun
Der of entries made and volume
business done during 1909. The onl
two offices which exceeded Roswe
were Lennon, South Dakota, wit
G400 entries and Rapid City, Sout
Dakota, with 400 entries.
The record for the year is as fo
lows: Roswell: Entries and applic;
tions, 5,733, area 915,776. Amount r
ceived $276,21S.5S. Total expens
$13,571.25.
Lennon, S. D., Entries and app
cations CASA, area 6O6,463, total r
ceived $32S,OS3. Total expense SIC
970.5S.
Rapid City, S. D., Entries and appl
cations 7,7S0, area 928,194. Total r