Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-07-05

Otermin was anxious TO obtain informa-
ton concerning the intentions of the
enemy as well as about the fate of the
inhabitants OF the lower Rio Grande valley.
So he dispatched messengers to his Lieut..
Alonzo Garcia, advising him of the stu
alton and ordering him to march to Santa
Fe at once, with all the force at his dis
posal. 1t is almost surperiuous to state
that not one of the three messages OF the
governor reached his subordinate. The
insurgents intercepted every one and
promptly killed their unfortunate carriers.
In regard to the designs of the Pecos,
Tanos, and QUERIES, the governor was not
long left in doubt. A refugee came and
informed him that they were moving
upon Santa Fe in force. On the morn
ing of the 18th of August
500 OF THEN
were three miles from town, between the
Rio de Santa Fe and the Arroyo Hondo,
in boisterous progress toward the scat
tered dwellings of the Indian servants
from Mexico that lay dispersed over the
plain adjacent, the chapel of San Miguel.
That Hermitage" Gas it was then called, J
was at the same time the church of the
Indian servants. No other considerable
building occupied the left bank of the Rio
de Santa Fe, the Coolest house" had not
yet been erected.
In order to understand the events now
following, we must cast glace at the
town of Santa Fe as it appeared in the
year 1850.
On the south side of the little river, as
already stated, there was no town. A
few houses occupied by Spanish families
had been built among the little huts of
the Indian servants. The name Canal
Co." given to the quarters about San
Miguel, dated from the past century.
The chapel of San Miguel, built after
1886, doomed up over scattered fields and
dispersed buildings of small proportions.
The town proper stood
ALL ON THE NORTH SIDE.
The town was somewhat larger than
it is to-day. 1t extended further east.
Its north side was occupied by the
Royal Houses" as the palace was most
ly called. San Francisco street was the
"Calle Real" the principal street of the
place. A street intersected it at right
anbieS, passing through Ile buildings
now owned by Gov. Prince, and con.
tinued northward along the east side Of
the Palace. 1t terminated in broad
trail leading to Tezuque. The Palace had
therefore wider facade than the edifce
that bears its name to-day, and which oc'
cupies only parts of the original site. An.
other street ran from north to south
along the western side of the royal
houses, and fourth one continued west
of the main front of that building, SC
that the town lay really west Of the pres.
ent square, and was divided into three
bodies of buildings, one between San
Francisco street and the river, another
north of that street and south of the
military headquarters, and the third
Composed only of few dwellings) on
the site of headquarters and north of it
The houses were not contiguous. Gar
dens, nay small fields, surrounded with
each residence, Santa Fe formed a long
triangle tapering gradually to the west
the eastern side of which was marked by
the paroquial church and its convent.
The site OF that church, the foundations
Of which were laid in 1922, is the same
now occupied by the cathedral.
To be continued.