Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-21
BIGGEST FEE
COLLECTED
Five Million Dollors Tele.
phone Company Files In
corporation Papers
BIG FLOOD DOWN PEcos
It Would Have Been Sufficient
to Fill a Good Sized
Reservoir.


section over the removal of the head
quarters of the Carson forest from
Antonito, Colorado, to Tres Piedras,
Taos county, which virtually makes
Santa Fe the buying point for the for
est which is entirely located in New
Mexico. New Mexico citizens are CIV
en- employment and supplies are
bought locally. Supervisor c. G. Hall
has three outfits of about twenty men
in the field. One is under Surveyor
G. Goddard and is surveying the boun-
dairy line between the TERRA Amarillo
grant and the Carson National Forest.
Another is under Surveyor R. E.
Marsh and is making reconnaissance
of the entire forest. A third is under
R. Van Slyck, building forest tele-
phone line to Servelleta to connect
with the forest telephone that runs to
Canjilon, and in a few days will be-
gin the construction of line to San
Antoine mountain where lookout sta
ton for forest fires will be established.
Flood on Pecos.
Territorial Engineer Charles D. Mil
Ter received a telegram today that
the Pecos river at Santa Rosa, Guada-
lupe county, sent down wall Of wa
ter 9.4 feet high.
Telephone Company Disincorporated.
Dissolution papers were filed today
by the Artesia Telephone Company OF
Artesia, Eddy county, the company
having been absorbed by the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany.
Water Suit Dismissed.
Upon motion of plaintiffs, the case
of the Town of Pennington VS.. The
Pennington City Water Company,
George W. Lefler and ]. H. McHenry,
litigation that stirred up much feel
ing in San Juan county, has been dis
missed.
Divorce Suit Filed.
In the district court for Rio Arriha
county. suit for divorce was filed to-
day by Manuela Ulibarria de Herrera
VS.. Carlos de Herrera, on the ground
of desertion and abandonment. Plain
tiff asks for custody of two minor
children.
Judgment in Bergere Case.
In the long pending suit of the terri
tory VS.. Former District Clerk A. M.
Bergere, for a settlement of accounts,
Judge M. c. Mechem has given judg-
ment for $5,592.72, in addition to
awarding $500 to Referee A. H. Brod-
head and s1OO to w. A. Bayer, as &C
countant.
Photographic Work.
photographer S. S. Carroll, after
consulting with Territorial Engineer
Charles D. Miller, left today for Ala
mogordo to do photographic work for
the territory. He was formerly with
the u. S. reclamation service and al
SO in the Indian irrigation service in
which he plated the Taos region max
ing fine job Of it.
County Institutes.
Assistant Territorial superintendent
of Education Acasio Gallegos return
ed last evening after making address
es to the teachers institutes at Taos
and Espanola. He found % enrolled
at the former and in charge of j..
H. Wagner of Las Cruces, and 40 en-.
rolled at the latter, in charge of Mrs.
Dixon. Both institutes are doing ex-
cellent work. Mr.. Gallegos reports
lots OF rain in northern New Mexico.
Large incorporation Fee
Five thousand dollars, the largest
Incorporation fee ever paid into the
territorial treasury, was collected to-
day by Territorial Secretary Nathan
Jaffa for the Incorporation of the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
! graph Company of Denver, Colorado,
which merges the Tri-State Telephone
and Telegraph Company with the Colo
RADIO Telephone Company which in
turn have absorbed most of the local
and independent companies in Colo
RADIO, New Mexico Arizona and ad-
joining states. The capitalization is
Ave million dollars and the New Mex
leo Headquarters are at Albuquerque
with A. D. Graham as the statutory
agent. The incorporators are: E. B.
Field, E. M. Burgess, Roderick Reid,
Edwin B. Field. Jr., Philip Hamlin,
and J. e. Mcdonald.
Marriage Of Turks.
The department Of state has recent
ly sent to the governor of New Mexi-
CO translation of memorandum re-
ceived by that department from the
Imperial Ottoman Embassy, in re-
gard to formalities of the law of the
Ottoman empire necessary to validate
in that empire the marriages OF Otto.
man subjects contracted In the United
States, and am directed by the gov
ernor to bring this matter to the at.
tention of persons authorized to sol
emnize marriages in New Mexico. The
only practical way to reach such per
sons is through the offices of the pre-
bate clerks, who issue marriage II
censes and who keep records Of the
marriages solemnized, and therefore
/ address this letter to you.
The memorandum states, in sub
3 stance, that Ottoman subjects who
desire to marry in America, after OBJ
tanning the required license, may ap-
ply to their spiritual or judicial off,
Ger; and In view OF the dIfacultieS
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