Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-03-18
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Beautiful day; about time.
st. Patrick's day passed off quietly, and
that is all right.
Regular meeting of Carleton post, G
A. R., this evening.
The mail service in and out of SAINTS
Fe is wonderfully and fearfulIy managed
Will sell entire household and kitchen
furniture. Call at house for two days
Fleming & Manchester
Lots of valuable water, enough to irri
gate a 100000 acres of land, going to
waste in the Rio Santa Fe about now.
The Water Queen at the court house
tomorrow night. Seats are selling well
and the attendance promises to be good.
Santa Fe offers about as fine location
as there is in the southwest for the es-
Enlistment of a wooden factory.
This town must incorporate and show
some modern spirit and life, if ii would
move ahead.
Attention is called to the advertisement
for supplies for the territorial penitentiary
which appears in another column.
The day mails east and south close a
l :15 p. m. instead OF at AS p. m. as
heretofore.
Walk up to the assessors Office and file
your tax return, every one of you; nc
exemption as head of family any longer
Southern mail twelve hours late; nc
connection; may come in with the s :40
train this evening.
Petitions for incorporation are being
signed well and rapidly; last evening in
two hours 1870 signatures were procured
to one of these petitions.
1t is estimated that about 1000 votes
will be cast in the territory selected fol
incorporation within the limits of Santa
Fe.
The Palace hotel has had very good
run OF business lately, which is a good
thing for that excellent hostelry and for
this town.
Frank Mendoza, stockman of La
Pintada, is in town and reports the cattle,
sheep and horses in that section to be in
very fine condition, and the stockmen to
be correspondingly happy.
Arbor Day note in Las Vegas Optic /:
There was no observance of Arbor Day
in this city. Some of the wise men
thoughtit too soon in the season. Proba-
bly, when Gabriel blows his horn and
fixes the day of judgment, some of the
wise men of the community will suggest
that it had better be deferred.
The capital custodians should prevent
people from going across the lawns and
grassy plats of the capital grounds; the
walks should be used and the lawns and
grass plats should be protected against
trespassers.
Tomorrow appears the weekly New
MEXICAN, the best, largest and most in
teresting weekly paper in New Mexico
Just the thing to send to your friends
east and give them the territorial and city
news boiled down.
Governor Prince approved the bond OF
Auditor Demetr Perez this morning, and
Hon. Trinidad Alarid is to-day turning
over the auditors office to his successor.
The sale of real estate for taxes is get
ting on slowly and is being postponed
from day to day. So far but one piece OF
real estate has been sold. Tax titles are
none too good.
An uptown office Of the Santa Fe rail-
road here is Of prime necessity both to
the road and to citizens and merchants of
Santa Fe. The business of the road and
the convenience Of it's patrons will be
greatly benefited by giving Agent Smith
sufficient help to keep an uptown Office
open for business.
The electric light power house is now
receiving the finishing touches Of the
carpenters, painters, roofers and masons.
The 5O-horse Westinghouse automatic
compound engine, No. 1874, and the boil
er are in position, and the smoke stack
is being put up to-day. 1t is neat, COM
pact and complete plant, and will be
ready to produce the soft refulgent rays
of the electric light throughout the city
about the LIST of April.