Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-07-28
DUKE CITY, DOTS.
A Readable Budget of Live News from
the New MeXican's Handy
Pencil Pusher.

Correspondence New Mexican
! Albuquerque, July pa very neat,
rather stylish and decidedly pretty woman
has recently been calling at the homes of
Albuquerqueans and soliciting purchase
of chances in rattle of "a cover, half the
proceeds to go to the Children's Home.'
The tone and language are low and
cultured and it will be seen that the
phraseology is delightfully."- obscure. The
managers of the Children's Home dis
claim all knowledge of the scheme and
the probability is that the seller is an
other one of the PLAUSIBLE, pretty travel
ers such as Santa Fe saw in Miss Ethel
Twitt, who attempted to victimize the
housekeepers few months ago.
The New MEXICAN is adding to its
friends in the Duke city and its sub
scription list grows apace.
he people appreciate the news even
though it travels 165 miles before it gets
to them. The superb telegraph report
furnished by the New MEXICAN ia greatly
esteemed. The matter is not only of the
choicest but it is presented in such in
viing form that "it reads like states
paper" as an admiring reader said yes
terday. It's sturdy Democracy, the plain,
straightforward way of looking at things
and its independence of utterance are all
strong elements to win the hearts of the
rock ribbed Democracy" of the valley.
The recent action of the present Re-
publican council in leasing the property
of another Republican for city hall and
fastening an added debt upon the already
debt burdened city is meeting with loud
condemnation from men of all parties.
The building rented from Edward Medler
was in every way fit for the purpose and
reasonable in rent, and Mr.. Medler had
spent several Thousand dollars in placing
it in proper condition for Jail, council
meetings, hook and ladder house, etc
The tax payers will now have to put up
the money to duplicate these things in
the Armij 10 place. The whole thing is
job of the rankest sort and SO intense is
the feeling of dissatisfaction among the
tiremen at the forced change of quarters
that the result will probably be the dis
integration of the department and the
organization of paid corps of men.
The last meeting of the council, Mon
day night, and the first in the new cham.
ber was stormy in the extreme and the
language, before and after adjournment,
would, it is said, have done credit to a
troop of Dragons.
The fremen are shot in the collar" and
feel that they amount to nothing with
Republican council and Republican job
berry. The people who voted these gem
tlemen in will now have an opportunity
to put up $4,000 or more and Mr.. Medler
has simply been buncoed
Cincinnati papers of July 20 announce
that Lafayette Cook, secretary and treas
urer of the local branch of the Order of
Railway Conductors, has absconded with
about $4,000 Of the lodge money, deserting
his wife, and is supposed to have pretty
woman with him. He is reported as being
somewhere in New Mexico. He is de-
scribed as "about 35 years of age, ex-
tremely low in stature, fair in com plex-
ioI and sparely built" The money was
Cook, being the second treasurer to dis.
appear with all the assessments, has prac
tically cleaned out the treasury.
The Mcintosh & McGillavray wool will
leave for Boston in a day or two. There
are about 135,00O pounds, which takes 600
sacks and ten cars to carry it. Not bad
showing for ''poor old New Mexico"
Saylor Knapp, clerk in the auditors
office of the A. d p, has received merit
ed prom otion in that department.
Morell Walker Gaines passed in the
recent examination held in Denver for
Yale and will enter the freshman class of
that college in the fall. OCCASIONAL.