Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-09-10
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Day board at Exchange hotel Sc per
week.
Special meeting OF Santa Fe lodge X T.. of
P. tonight.
Every one goes to Beatty's for best
Colorado potatoes at 81. 40 per cwt.
Firemen and school directors are not
exempt from Jury service under the new
law.
The grand lodge of the Knights of
Pythias of New Mexico will meet at Al
buquerque on Tuesday next
J. w. Schofeld & Co. picked up plum
to-day in the way of insurance, writing a
$40, 900 policy on the Weber block.
The friends of Charlie Palmer are push
ing him for the place Of city marshal and
ex-officio street commissioner. He has
had considerable experience in this line
in former days back in the states.
Joseph Elster, the pioneer gardener Of
Santa Fe, whose vegetables are always In
demand, has $4,000 stalks of celery grow
ing on his place this season, out of which
he counts on getting handsome reve-
nue..
Owing to the unavoidable absence of
both the president and secretary of the
Board of Trade, the regular meeting of
this organization will not take place to-
morrow, but will be held at p. m. on
Monday.
The street still has good many rumors
respecting the disposition OF Fort Marcy,
but it yet seems to be an uncertainty as to
just what will be done by the war depart
ment. Anything, however, will be pref
cradle to the present status of affairs.
Judge j. L. Hall, Virginian and a
lawyer, died at st. Vincent's hospital
some two years ago. Yesterday Under
taker Gable received from his sister in
Barber county, w. Va, fine monument
which was to-day placed over the grave
in Fairview cemetery.
Hon. 7. B. Catron, OF Santa Fe, N. M,
is in the city busily engaged in looking up
the titles to some old Spanish and Mex
lean land grants in the territory of New
Mexico. He is securing here some i'm
portant documentary evidence to present
to the court of private land claims which
will soon meet in Santa Fe.-Two Repub-
lies, City of Mexico.
Mr.. E. N. Reaser began ork to-day on
the foundation for fine brick residence
just north OF his business establishment
on Don Gaspar avenue. The building
will be one story OF extra hight, cover a
ground space of about 50x5O feet and 80
arranged as to make a most comfortable
and convenient residence. 1t will cost in
the neighborhood Of $500.
One by one the old adobe jacals are
disappearing from the capital city's bust
ness streets. Work began yesterday on
the three modern store houses which
Nasario Gonzales will erect on cen trail
San Francisco street. The new block
will greatly improve that locality and add
to the certainty of other improvements
there before many days.
Speaking of the proposed mining con.
vention at Ell Paso, Mayor Thornton says
~ am in full sympathy with the move
ment. The alien act that prevents the
investment of foreign capital in the mines
of the territories, should at once be modi-
fed in such manner that the territories
will be upon an equal footing with the
states where foreign capital is sought
for to open up their undeveloped mineral
wealth."
Everybody who visits south Santa Fe
county comes home with gratifying ex-
pressions as to the success of the mines.
Mr.. Thos. Riddle, of Alma, Colo, who
has just been to San Pedro looking over
his interests there, said last night that
there were everywhere unmistakable evil
dences of prosperity Of the most substan-
tial sort and he prophesies that the ad-
vance to be made by Santa Fe county
this fall in the industrial line will be more
marked than at any previous period.
A sample of the Photographic views of
Santa Fe's orchards and gardens which
are to be shown at the territorial fair, was
put on exhibition at lreland's drug store
this afternoon. In this work the photo
grapher, Mr.. Curran, has done himself
proud. These cards to the number of
twenty-five will be arranged and hung up
in the hotels of various western cities. 1t
is happy hit in the way of advertising
Santa Fe's fruit interests, and the Board
of Trade is to be congratulated for adopt
ing it.
Mr.. R. E. Twitchell has resi- gned his
delegateship to the Albuquerque railway
convention and Mr.. Berger has been |
added to the delegation in his stead. |
Several Of the delegates who were at first |
named find it impossible to be absent |
from the city on the 18th and vi CO. resi-
dent Wedeles, of the. Board Of Trade, has
been authorized to relieve such from the
delegation and appoint others who will