THE PAST 100 YEARS

From the Santa Fe New Mexican:

June 20, 1918: Over 2,000 acres of farming land in Santa Fe has been treated with prairie dog poison within the past month. In many places the poisoning resulted in the killing of 90 to 98 percent of the animals as the first application. The entire county is being organized for systematic volunteer warfare upon the prairie dogs, gophers, ground-squirrels … an immense saving in crops has already been accomplished. June 20, 1968: TAOS — Indians of Taos Pueblo, happy about passage by the U.S. House Tuesday that would grant them 48,000 acres of federal land with their sacred Blue Lake, will hold a public celebration and dances starting at 10 a.m. Saturday. “Justice The Indians Day” since are calling the bill’s the passage celebration represents an important step in their 65-year fight to regain control of the land. The bill now goes to Senate committees. June 20, 1993: Smith’s supermarket may be bogged down in community protest and councilors’ wrangling, but the new Wal-Mart store out on Cerrillos Road is said. moving “Everything along, is a going spokeswoman as planned,” said. she Well, maybe not exactly as planned. The store was supposed to have opened later this year, but now it is scheduled to do so in early 1994, the spokeswoman said. The new store, on the site for the former Pueblo Drive-in, will be about twice the size of the current Wal-Mart store.