Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-10-23
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.


;sMr. Derwent II. Smith is having ma
terial hauled in to improve the head OF
Palace avenue and prevent washing from
the arroyo.
J. II. Robertson, son OF Mr.. John Rob
eltson, OF the surveyor generals Office,
has gone to San Pedro to keep books for
the firm of White, Giblin & Co.
Tom Roe, the transcontinenta bicyclist,
passed Lamy junction this forenoon.
Messrs. Simmons, Preston and Stikey
went down on their wheels to greet him.
On the Santa Fe Southern passenger
trains now leave at :25 u. N. and arrive
at s 40 p. N. daily. Only tri-weekly trains
are run north from Espanola Oh the D. &
Il. e.
J. N. philpot, OF Topeka, Kas., an
architect with good recommends, has
been in the city for ten days past, and
has decided to locate here and engage in
business.
Owen VIM. Hall and VIM. Blackham
went before the district clerk yesterday
and took preliminary steps toward be-
coming American citizens. They hail
from England.
At Capt. J. w. Summerhayes' quarters
night before last Sergt. Adolph L. Miller
company D, 10th cavalry, was joined in
wedlock with Miss LYDIA Shanner, Rev.
G. Z. Fry, of the NJ. E. church officiating.
1t is said that there are eight business
men on the plaza who have refused to
subscribe for stock in the Artesian Well
company. With so liberal and safe u
proposition before them this scarcely
seems possible.
IL. K. Behn, Geo. II. Bibb and Louis
Rumple came in from San Pedro yester-
day, bringing fresh samples OF carbonates
from the Black Hawk. a proposition to
bond the property for $40, 900 has been re-
fused by the owners.
All honor to the men who are striving
to double Santa Fe's population by devel-
oping artesian water. Ii the hold-outs
and non-progressive element are going
to throttle Santa Fe's prosperity it is time
the thing was known.
Col. G. G. Coleman will continue to
make Santa Fe his headquarters, prac-
ticing before the U. S. land offices. He
has in hand an irrigation enterprise in
the Mora valley which will demand q
large share Of his time for the next year.
The New MExIcAN's job department to-
day turned out 1000 letter heads and en-
velopes for Clarence Coleman, chief en-
gineer Santa Fe Southern railway, Santa
Fe, N. M" Another straw indicating
that Engineer Coleman has come to stay.
Up to o'clock this afternoon $4,000 OF
the necessary $4,000 to assure the artesian
well had been subscribed. Will the bust
ness men and property holders refuse to
aid in raising the balance under such
sition must be either accepted or rejected.
r. r. Elder, the, Star wind mill man,
whose mills have given such general
here, writes from Lamy that
he will return to the city in about ten
lays. He has made proposition to one
Santa Fean guaranteeing to put flow OF
100 900 gallons of water daily on a GER
tain 100 acre tract in the valley. 1t is
likely to he accepted. Elder will carry
out anything he undertakes.
District Attorney Twitchell is not q little
bit superstitious, but he believes in intui-
ion just the same. lie dreamed the
other night that the best thing he could
10 was to make liberal subscription to
The stock of the artesian we'll company.
he called on Capt. Sol. Spieg-
elberg to-day and did 10, and now he is
willing to wager a suit OF clothes with any
,roaker that artesian water will be struck
here within the 1000 foot limit.