Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-05-08
CONFERENCE ON
WATER RIGHTS
Attorneys From San Juan
County Hold Long Confab
With Engineer Miller
Mr. CLARK VISITS SCHOOLS
And Finds Santa Fe Has Reason
to Feel Pleased With
Them.

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Them.
Governor Mills has appointed James
F. r. Brown, of albuquerque, Berna-
lilo county; Bias Sanchez of Wagon
Mound, Mora county: Albert F. Men
ger, OF Alamogordo, Otero county, and
Oscar T.. Toombs of Clayton, Union
county, notaries public
Postoffice Discontinued.
Washington, May S.-The postofices
at Pena, Taos county, and Pioneer
Chaves county, have been discontin
ued.
Voluntary Dissolution.
Papers were filed in the territorial
secretary's Office consenting to volun-
tary dissolution of the partnership of
Morrow and Tannehill, of Roswell.
Chaves county.
Another Postal Savings Bank.
New Mexico is to have third postal
savings bank. The new bank is to
be at Tucumcari. Silver City opened
such bank on May 1 and Ration sew
eral months ago.
For the Treasurer.
Territorial Treasurer M. A. Otero
has received the following sums for
the treasury: Alexander Sandoval, OF
sandoval county, $7O5.55; B. c. Her
nandez, treasurer of Rio Arriba coun-
ty, $779.76; C. A. Browning, treasurer
of Curry county, s625.S7 and from
Game and Fish Warden, Thomas P.
Gable, $16.25.
School of Mines.
The board of trustees of the School
OF Mines at Socorro has elected the
following faculty for the ensuing
year: President, E. A. Drake; profes.
sor of geology and mineralogy, Fred.
erick P Paul; professor of mathemat-
les, L. c. Walker; professor OF civil
engineering, B. K. Coghlan; professor
of chemistry, George |. Kenmerer;
registrar, Miss Anne w. Fitch.
Inspected Schools.
Superintendent J. E. Clark Of the
department of public instruction, in
spected the local schools Friday and
says he saw some very good grade
work. He examined from the second
grade up and also visited the high
school. Mr.. Clark says that Santa Fe
has reason to be proud of it's schools.
Mr.. Clark leaves this week with Coun-
ty School Superintendent John V.
Conway, to visit the county schools.
Luna County Census.
The 1910 census figures fo rLuna
county. by minor divisions, are as
follows:
Luna county, 1913.
Deming, 1854.
Precinct No. 1, Dcming, 1851.
No. 2, Mimbres. 173.
No. 3, Cooks, 152.
No. 4, Cambray, 231.
No. 5, Columbus, 26S.
No. 6 Hermanas, 81.
No. Z, Mutt, SO.
No. s, Hondals, 1872.
Discussing irrigation.
The diversion of the waters of the
San Juan river was the subject of a
conference this morning between Ter
ritorial Engineer G. D. Miller and
prominent attorneys from San Juan
county. Among those who came here
to discuss the water projects were w.
Goff Black Of Aztec; A. M. Edwards
of Pennington; l.. B. Furman of
Pennington and E. c. Allen of Den
yer.
Jay Turley who has appealed from
the engineers decision was repre-
sented by Attorney F. C. Wilson Of
this CITY,
Reform School.
The trustees of the New Mexico Re-
form School at Springer. met last |
week, and investigated various
charges among them charges made
by inmates and by Assistant Superin-
tendent Sampsell. who recently retir-
ed. The superintendent informed the |
Board that number of inmates had |
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on some grievances Accordingly, !
over 20 of the inmates appeared and !
presented either some grievance or ,
made some inquiry relative to their |
confinement. Many Of them said that
tney had no grievance in the way of |
mistreatment, others claiming severe
punishment for bad conduct which |
had been inflicted by Assistant Super !
intendent Sampsell; most of the !
grievances being rather trivial, and |
most all said they had made up their |
minds, when released, to quit commit |
ing crimes and be better boys. A |
number of them said they were learn
ing at school, and learning to farm |
and do other work. One boy from AL |
buquerque, eleven years old, who had I
word that his mother was sick. the |
Board decided to parol. The charges !
preferred by Mr.. Sampsell against Mr.. /
Kirkpatrick, were taken up and item
for. item analyzed as best could be !
done, the conclusion being reached |
unanimously that the charges were
very general and not sustained by
the evidence at hand, and the charges
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