Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-06-27
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Another welcome shower Of rain las
night.
Republican club : meeting at the cour
house tonight,
Important meeting at the court bous'
tomorrow night.
Revenue Collector L. A. Hughes to-da,
bought one OF the handsome Hanley
FLIES, o sorrel, that is going to make {
beautiful driver when thoroughly broken
She cost an even 500 and is cheap for thu
money.
Mr.. S. n. Gage, Of FL Paso, genera
western agent for the Washington Life
Insurance company, is soiourning at the
Palace, and will be here week or two.
He has appointed J. W. Schofield general
agent for the company in New Mexico.
f. B. Seward has charge of gathering
farm and other mortgage statistics in nine
counties in New Mexico for the census
bureau. He has completed his reports
| oi all euNc MUIR anu SolidA Aouutico
and will shortly visit those to examine
the county records.
The water supply of this city must be
increased. Two more reservoirs must be
built in the canon for the purpose OF
storing and saving the surplus of water
in the spring. This is q matter of vital
importance to this city, and must be taken
hold of, and that at once
At the solicitation of number OF citi-
zens a meeting to demand of congress q
repeal OF the Powell irrigation act Of
October 2, 1888, whereby all lands in
New Mexico were withdrawn from entry,
will take place at the court house at s
O'Clock to morrow, Saturday, night. 1t is
an important matter and requires imme-
diate attention.
Tax payers OF Santa Fe, get together
and organize for your protection; for the
purpose of obtaining decent and honest
county government, and for the investi-
cation Of the enormous debt piled upon
this county by the men who have held
county offices during the past six years.
There is no time to be lost. Get together
and act and help yourselves.
Minneapolis has local improvement
society, the members OF which pay 800
year dues. The money is used to orna-
ment the city, and as bonus to such in
dustries as can be induced to locate
there. AS result Minneapolis is one Of
the most prosperous and rapidly improv-
ing cities of the old northwest. Such
society in Santa Fe with even $40 year
dues could do wonders. The thriving
cities now are those that do something to
deserve thrift.
The executive committee in charge of
the Independence day festivities to-day
appointed the following to have charge
of the ball to be given on the evening
of the 4th; Messrs. r. L. Twitchell,
Adolph J, Fischer, Jose D. Sena,
jr, J. D. Proudft, A. r. Spieg-
elberg, Perfecto Gonzales. This
ball is to be made an entertain
ment that any citizen can afford to attend.
All respectable people are invited, but no
improper characters will under any cir
cumstances be admitted,
L, Felsenthal got out writ of replevin
yesterday evening to recover lot OF old
New Mexico volunteer army records now
held by the territorial adJutant general,
Col. W. S. Fletcher. The case comes up
on Monday before Squire Martinez. 1t is
claimed that they properly belong to the
territory, while Mr.. Felsenthal says they
were acquired by him at considerable ex-
pense, and he proposes to have them.
Since the passage of recent pension laws
by congress such papers have become
valuable.
Mr.. Bascom, agent for the Pittsburg
Mining company that has bought Chama
river placers from Messrs 0. F. Perry and
John Johnson, is here to-day attending
the shipping OF large pump. His COM
pany has bought the Dudrow pump, its
capacity being 5000 gallons minute,
and the same is being loaded at the mar
row gauge depot to-day. The machinery
weighs $4,000 pounds and Steve Arnold.
of San Pedro, has the contract to trans
port it from Espanola to the placer mines,
above Abiquiu for $3.50. Mr.. Bascom's
has a valuable lot of claims on
he Chama river just above Abiquiu, and
hey expect to make a mint of money
working them.