Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-06-18
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

the year.
Entertaining exercises at the Presby-
terrain church tonight.
Keep the sprinkling cart going and ex-
tend its route.
A big dance party will take place at
Gonzales hall tonight.
See call for citizens mass meeting on
city affairs in another column.
What do Santa Feans propose to do |
about the observance of independence
Day?
Santa FEES fine Italian climate has re-
appeared and seems to have come for a
stay.
The Guild will meet at the home of
Mrs. X. j. Palen at 2 80 tomorrow after
noon.
WEEKLY New MEXICAN REVIEW issued
to-day. A first-class and valuable paper
to send to your friends east.
Building operations are pushing right to
the front in Santa Fe. Only shortage
in building material is yet felt.
Only two more subscribers are wanted
to take honorary memberships in the
Historical society to insure the opening of
the Cole collection OF curlos.
The Indian feasts soon to take place are
at San Juan Pueblo ON the Oath inst. at
Cochiti, July IA, and at Santo Domingo,
August 4. The Cochiti feast will be es-
pecially attractive this year.
Some little talk among some of the
Democratic bosses OF running straight
Democratic city ticket. If they think it
will win let them go ahead, but they will
be sorely disappointed and will not get
their claws into the city treasury.
Santa Feans can scarcely appreciate
1.-THE anperlorness" OF this climate until
they note dispatches from Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, New York and Maine tell
ing OF sunstrokes and the mercury at
from 95 to l07.
Two of the boys of the Santa Fe ball
team are around soliciting subscriptions
to enable the club to appear at Vegas on
the 4th Of July in fine shape. They have
met with great success thus far and it is
to be hoped that the remainder of the
citizens will respond generously when
called upon.
Under the law as it now stands, police
officers and deputy sheriffs are not al
lowed to carry pistols, except when in the
actual discharge OF dangerous duty, re-
quiring the carrying OF arms. If police
officers or deputy sheriffs violate the law
in this respect they should be indicted
and punished; the revolver must go.
The Santa Fe Water company has
brought suit against the county of Santa
Fe alleging that the county owes lot Of
money for several years past for waite,
rents. Another heritage OF the Demo
cratic county administration during the
past few years.
Twelve thousand copies Of Governor
Princes address at the Albuquerque fail
in September last have just been pub
lished by the New Mexico Bureau of I'm
migration and are being distributed very
rapidly. There is large demand fol
them, and the little pamphlet is doing
New Mexico great deal of good.
At the meeting Of Carleton post helC
last night, W. M. Berger, Harry Snyder
and William Bolander were appointed 6
committee to take the necessary steps tc
organize and equip Grand Army Drum
Corps. Santa Fe has plenty of talent
among the sons OF veterans to make one
of the best drum corps in the territory,
and no doubt an organization will be per-
fected at once.
The two new justices of the peace,
Hipolito Vigil and ]. B. Lucero made de-
mand upon the old justices, Martinez and
Ortiz, to turn over their Offices to-day,
but the latter, evidently feeling bigger
than the district and U. S. supreme courts,
declined to give up their offices. They
die hard, but they will make the trans
fer in due time, just the same. Mark the
prophesy.
Much time has been consumed in the
Ribera murder case in arguing the point
as to what constitutes dying declara
tion." Judge Seeds decided to-day that
Cosme Trujillo's death-bed statement o.
the murder could not be admitted as 6
"dying declaration" but allowed it to &c
to the jury for what it is worth as state
ment made by the murdered man in the
presence of the accused Riberas and no
then and there denied by them.
R. G. Rider, OF Chicago, is at the Elk
change, travelling in the interest OF thu
Merchants Mercantile agency, simple
|, and perfect system for the mutual protec
ton OF all business men from the result
of bad debtors. There are at presen
eighteen states organized under this sys
tenn, and it has been shown to work mos
admirably. Mr.. Rider has organized 10
cal branches in Pueblo, Trinidad, Ratol
and Las Vegas, and has secured fourteen
subscribers in Santa Fe who will NEE
and organize local branch at the Elk
change hetel, room No. ID, at 8 o'clocl
this evening.