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OFFICIAL MATTERS. POSTMASTER APPOINTED H. C. McReery has been app postmaster at Cooney, Socorro c rice Laura McKeen, resigned. TERRITORIAL FUNDS. Territorial Treasurer J. H. V received from H. O. Bursur perintendent of the penitentiary, be credited to the convicts' e fund. NOTARIES PUBLIC APPOINT Governor Otero today appoint Irew W. Weist of Cabra, San 1 county, and Morris Back of Mora county, notaries public. INDIAN SCHOOL APPOINTM J. Russell Elliott, of New Lan Kan., has been appointed ind eacher of the Little Water sch he Navajo reservation in New M $600 a year. ANOTHER DIVIDEND. The comptroller of the curreno declared a third dividend of 10 pe favor of the creditors of the National Bank of Silver City, n all 50 per cent on claims p amounting to $68,704. INDIAN SCHOOL RECOMME TIONS. Miss Estelle Reel, superintend Indian schools, in her annual rep the commissioner of Indian affair cusses conditions at a number of S which she visited during the pas most of them being in Colorado, and New Mexico. Of the sch this territory she says: "Santa Fe School-A decide provement is noticeable in the trial features of this school over of last year. The teaching of irrt is very important in this section, order to raise anything in the p in the vicinity, the land must 1 gated. "Albuquerque School-This sc in a generally satisfactory condi would like to see better facilit the teaching of blacksmithing ai work at this school. The harne shoe shops were doing satis work, and the sewing departme unusually good. I found in this ment three or four times as mar learning practical work in mendi sewing as is the case in many schools." DEAF AND MUTE CHILDR Hon. Benjamin M. Read, secre the board of trustees of the New asylum for the deaf and dumb, is ceipt of the official list of the de mute children in New Mexico of age, from 8 to 21 years. The II compiled under the direction of rector of the census at the inst the board of trustees of the asylu total number of these children b 8 and 21 years is eighty-three, of number fifty-nine are males and ty-four females. This number i three blind children, who cannot the present law, be admitted to t lum. There are several others blind and deaf. of younger age. are the only official statistics et tained on the subject, and the b trustees can now present intell the true condition of the asylu at the same time make such ju and equitable disposition of the moneys appropriated for this rious work. It is strange that wi number of deaf and mute child deaf and dumb school has nev an enrollment of over 138 childr cluding blind children and India the figures obtained from the bureau the Indian children wl deaf and mute are not included. SPANISH WAR VETERAN Many inquiries have been ma cently from New Mexico and commonwealths at the pension o to the status of claims filed for p by soldiers of the Spanish-An war. Commissioner Evans say the bureau scarcely had time to I to all the inquiries, but that the were being adjudicated as rap possible. He added that some claims had been delayed by th culty in obtaining the necessary records at the war department. had been filed 34,000 claims on a of the Spanish-American war Monday morning, October 22. have been made for evidence in 3 these claims. Medical examin have been ordered by this bur 23,224 claims. The difference b the number of claims filed and th ber of medical examinations o practically represents the num widows' and dependents' claim 927 of these claims have been