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Show 1880 TO 1912 509 li ata ea TA A 12,945 Females 21,471 9,994 Chaves county—no report. #28 Joseph A. Ancheta was born at Mesilla, N. M., July 21, 1865. He was © son of Doh Nepomuceno Ancheta, a refugee from Old Mexico during the revolution of 1856. He received his education at St. Michael’s College, Santa 6, and graduated in 1882. He spent four years at Notre Dame a hear South Bend, Indiana, graduating in 1886. The same year he was admitte ee ERAGE Ce DAILY Ont ee peer er hey ee ENROLLMENT ' Females TEACHERS Females COUNTY No. of Districts Agricultural College, which he filled until appointed superintendent of public instruction by: Governor Otero. He is the author of Language Lessons. He is a resident (January, 1912) of Mesilla Park, New Mexico. 427 In three years after the passage of the act of 1891, great progress had been made, as is shown by the following table of statistics for 1894: ee, rae territory in the matter of employment of English-speaking teachers in districts where, prior to the enactment of the law of 1891, only Spanish had been taught. In truth, the Spanish-speaking people have evinced an almost universal desire and purpose to have competent teachers, well-versed in the English language, employed and assigned to teach in isolated districts where, in times past, the only schools existing were those in which the Spanish language alone was used.4?7 On the night of February 5, 1891, while the legislature was in Session, a most dastardly outrage was perpetrated in the city of Santa Fé in the attempted assassination ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION of J. A. Ancheta 428 and other. members OF ANCHETA AND CATRON of the twenty-ninth legislative assembly. The following day a joint resolution authorizing the governor to offer a reward of twenty thousand dol- |