Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-02-05

Lost, bunch of keys at the postofice.
Liberal reward if returned to McKenzie's
store.
The county board of commissioners is
in session at the court house this after
noon, Chairman Kendall, of Cerrillos,
presiding.
These clear, crisp winter days are time
ly and healthful. All that is lacking to
satisfy the fruit growers and ranchmen
hereabouts is foot or so of snow.
The parlor musicale, which local must
clans will aid the representative of the
Clark .Whitson-Leitch Music company in
giving at the Palace hotel will, take place
on Thursday night.
The Spanish Dramatic society ably &C.
quilted itself again on Saturday night
and presented highly creditable per-
Torrance, after which the 200 people
present danced till midnight.
Do not forget to attend the public tea
at the St. Vincent sanitarium tomorrow
evening and chip in your mite for the
benefit of the srphanage. The public will
be made welcome from 1880 to 10 o'clock.
Admission rs cents.
Gen. Horace Brooks, whose death was
noticed in these columns on Saturday,
was the first man initiated as a member
of Paradise lodge No. 2, I. 0. O. F., in
Santa Fe. This occurred on June 8, 1852.
Gen. Brooks was then 81 years old.
A pastoral letter was read at the cathe-
dral and churches throughout the territory
yesterday in which parents were reminded
of their duties during Lent and urged not
to neglect to give their children proper
religious instruction.
The ten tramps who have been work
ing ten days on the streets we're. dis
charged on Saturday night. City Marshal
Antonio Alarid marched them down the
A., 7. & s. F. track and gave them two
hours in which to shake themselves out
of the city limits. They stood not upon
the order of their going.
Col. Walter G.. Marmon, commanding
the 1st infantry New Mexico militia, has
issued general orders No. l, announcing
the appointment of Edward Krumpegel,
of Santa Fe, as quartermaster sergeant of
the regiment, vice John Gray, removed
from the territory, and of H. ]. Emer-
son, of Albuquerque, as sergeant major
vice A. W. Briggs, relieved at his own re-
quest.
The Reaser store room property on
Gaspar avenue has been traded for Frank
Andrews fruit and alfalfa farm in the
Espanola valley. Will Hall will remove
to the farm shortly and assume charge,
expecting to make speciality of raising
hogs on alfalfa, while Frank Andrews
will probably open feed and commits
sion house in the Gaspar street store
room.
The Chinese population of Santa Re
had big time yesterday, in their quiet
way, in celebration of the Chinese New
Year. The Chinese celebrate New Year
for ten consecutive days and nights, and a,
the end of that time they give up from
sheer exhaustion. The Chinese New Yeal
dates from the enhancement of the en-
peror of China and bears no relation
whatever to the English idea of reckon
ing time from the birth of Christ. MOI
has Confucius, the Chinese ideal, anything
to do with this celebration.
Mrs. L. A. Steele and Misses A. NJ. Ray
mond, Elsie Fabian and Cornelia Neltnor
comprising the Chicago ladies' quartette
spent yesterday at the Palace. Misi
Neltnor, when on the stage, impersonatel
the characters that appear in the chario
race in Ben Hur. Hence the ladies wer,
specially interested in seeing the histori,
spot where Gen. Wallace wrote his famous
work.