Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-04-17
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Another nice rain yesterday. Our real
April weather has just begun.
Mr.. kirchner will tomorrow receive
two car loads of fine alfalfa beef, which
will be retailed at l21a cents per pound.
The past two days have witnessed beau
tiful rains throughout northern New Mex
leo. A providential affair in which the
stock men are specially favored.
Miss Sadie Potter, OF Colorado Springs,
practical photographer, has arrived and
taken position in the print department
OF Dana B. Chase's photograph gallery.
Archbishop Salpointe subscribed $50
toward the narrow gauge right of way and
the Sisters of st. Vincent's subscribed
SIS, which is most liberal contribution
for both.
One of the women from Las Cruces,
recently sentenced to six months in tie
penitentlary under the Edmunds law, is
in rather precarlous condition, and an
effort is being made to have the president
grant her pardon.
Mr.. W. ii. Goebel, of Franz hardware
store, and Miss Wilde, of Albuquerque,
were joined in wedlock at the Presbyter
ian parsonage last evening at 30. Miss
Wide is pretty and talented young
woman who will be kindly remembered
as teacher last summer at the Ramona
school.
f. Ii. Irwin, Of Louisville, Ky, who is
connected with the Kendall Mining com.
pany, a corporation that is doing extern
sive work on the kio Chama placers, is
in the city. He is figuring here on the
purchase of big pumping plant which
will be put upon the Rio Chama above
Abiquiu.
j. ii. Crist, Of Rio Arriba county, is in
town negotiating for the Santa Fe Sun,
proposing to make it Democratic jour
nal. He is said to be backed in the
scheme by Messrs. G. H. Gildersleeye,
Romulo Martinez, G. NJ. Dreamer, N. B.
Laughln, Frank Chavez, G. f. Easley
an, other local leaders of the Democ-
racy.
The national park scheme is making
splendid progress and it will be success.
The Santa Fe railroad company has
awakened to the TACT that this park, ii
set aside by the government, will prove of
immense benefit to the Las Vegas hot
springs. 1t will also largely add to the
tourist travel OF both Santa Fe and Las
Vegas.
A party of gentlemen under the guild
ance Of Mr. Waldron, timber agent for the
Maxwell land grant, arrived at Maxwell
City yesterday and took carriages for the
Red river country. The party is COM
posed as follows. B. II. Bicknell, Kear-
ney, Neb. Capt. H. Eustern and n. An
derson, Minnesota, and VIM. McCullum,
of Cincinnati, Ohio.
A dozen of the celebrated Warren fire
buckets came to hand from Portland,
Maine, to-day for the use OF the Santa Fe
fire department. They are to be filled
with chemical preparation which, when
thrown upon fire, arrests its progress
The Palace hotel and A.,
T. & S. F. depot being the largest frame
buildings in the city, will likely each be
supplied with couple of these buckets,
which will be kept conveniently at hand
to be used in case OF fire.
One year ago to-day Gov. Prince was
in front of the capitol, and |
the new Republican administration in the
territory began. Few persons have any
idea of the amount OF business that comes
into the governors office in these days.
The simple item of correspondence is sur
prislng of itself. A count was made this
and it was found by the letter
books that during the year 1926 letters
had been received and 1895 written. OF
course with the increase in population,
the business has correspondingly en-
arged, and the effort during the year to
push forward all the interests of the terri
tory has necessarily added largely to the