Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-31
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Although it came at a very annoyin
: hour, Yesterdays rain storm was gener
ally welcomed.
2 What will the county board do OF
Monday in relation to public healtl
matters? viii it do its duty?
| The Santa Fe boys can't play ball ,
little bit. A big crowd was on hand yes
terday to see them knocked out again by
Lieut. Van Vleet's Fort Marcy team.
The members of John GRAY Hose COM
pany desire to thank the ladies' who so
kindly assisted them in decorating their
cart and also other persons for courtesies
shown them yesterday.
As matters now look that railroad ex-
tension to the mines is only question of
lew months. The San Pedro people are
at work, and mean business. President
Hubbell, OF the copper company, seems to
be hopaess;W;; hyrus, Il. Nlll~artn, II.
r,ohelstein, Charles Gallagher, Wm Nc
Grail, W. d. Benton, and G. II. Wright,
miners from San Pedro, are doing the
capital city to-day. They register at the
| Exchange.
Billy Burton, Santa Fe's popular caterer,
received this morning from Corpus Cristi,
Texas, along with an unusually fine lot Of
salt water fish, two fine south sea turtles
weighing about forty pounds each. Billy
will fatten them for few days, when his
! customers will he treated to turtle soup
such as Billy alone knows how to get up
The Junior prize at the Creedmoor
shooting match was won by Master Harry
Walz with the following score: 8, 8, 8,
10, Q; total As. Arthur Esselbach and A.
Hudson, with Il total Of IS each, shoot off
for the SECOND prize. ile sweepstakes
were declared off, owing TO the bad
weather. The Governors prize still awaits
a winner.
The funeral of Mrs. Larkin &. Read
was largely attended yesterday morning
The remains were inferred in Rosario
cemetery. BY Mrs. Reads death son
10 years OF age, daughter IS months old
and 2 days old son are left mother
less The infant is doing very well.
Hon. David Martinez, of Rio Arriba
county, brother OF Mrs. Read, has taken
the little one to care for. Mr. Read is
very thankful to the people for their
kindly attentions during this trying hour.
Messrs. Geo. G.. Smith, E. II. Dunbar
and VIM. Swyers, splendid fellows from
San Pedro, paid the New MEXICAN pleas
ant call to-day. They are Santa Fe coun-
ty men from the ground up, and are each
owners of valuable property in the south
end. These gentlemen have recently
finished for the company tubular well
which is 4l6 feet deep and now shows
water within eighty-four feet of the sur
face. 1t will be pumped out and used to
increase the milling capacity Of the Santa
Fe Copper company.
Judge Axtell goes right along improving
his "loma" property and the hillside,
which only a year ago was dingy and
lifeless looking Mexican quarter, is now
the very picture of thrift and busy life. A
number of large, roomy and clean tene-
monts have been carved out Of the mass Of
adobes which formerly covered the hill,
the streets and alley-ways have been
Strengthened and cleaned out, and before
the summer ends two as nice and COM
Portable residences as one would care to
see will grace the "loma." The judge is
one of the most intelligent, useful, enter.
prising and upright citizens the capita
city contains.