Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-25
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

The Palace hotel bar and billiard room
will be opened with big lunch tonight.
There will be a regular meeting of the
W. B. L. at their rooms on Monday at
2:3O.
l.. s. Blancett, of San Juan county, is
in the city with bunch of twenty horses
which he has on sale.
An Indian summer haze has enveloped
the mountains for three days. Old timers
never saw anything like it at this season
of the year.
Some poetic friend has written very
pretty effusion entitled ISLAM at Life"
and dedicated it to Hon. j. H. Reeder, the
jovial clerk of the U. s. court of private
land claims.
COL 7. F. Moore has turned all his
business in Cerrillos over to Hon. A. L.
Kendall, and that gentleman will also sue
coed Mr.. O'Gara as manager of the Ger
rillos Water company. Mr.. O'Gara goes
to Colorado to locate.
Prof. Creutzburg is the new leader of
the Lutheran church choir, and the peo-
pie of that church are fortunate in having
found such successor to the lamented
Daleiden. There will be services in the
church tomorrow evening.
For a stylish livery rig in which to en-
Joy Sunday drive call up the new livery
barn by using telephone No. 70.
Don Jose Antonio Padilla, of Manzano,
is an old timer from away back, and is
now stopping at the cold Fonda" He is
here on land court business; is Sc years
of age and can to-day out walk any young
man in town.
The rainfall at Santa Fe for the pres
ent year amounts to 9.97 inches. This is
a half inch in excess of the normal
supply, but the rainfall since August l.,
strange to say, is nearly half an inch be-
low the normal for this period.
The following is the program to be
rendered in the plaza tomorrow after
noon at 6:45 by the 10th infantry band:
March High School Cadets. Sousu
V Wa,ts S,1vor Sta Diamonds * Auber
Grand professional March Silver . H..
serio Comics Fnntasio R Riviana
Hymn--Army ............ .............P Peabody
Hunter Woodson, the genial represen-
tative of the New MEXICAN, came down
from Lincoln last Saturday and has been
mixing with our people here since. He
finds many warm friends of the NEW
MEXICAN, and his visit here has been, and
will be, conducive of good to the New
MEXICAN, and by its influence to the De-
mocracy in this section.-Roswell Rec
ord.
Mr.. f. R. James, of n Victoria street,
Toronto, who was visitor here this
spring, has two fine New Mexico views
in the Toronto Mail of the 18th instant.
One shows picture of San Miguel chapel
and the other is an extraordinary group
of Santa Clara Indians.
Don Justo Sandoval, prominent
citizen of Coyote and present post
master at that place, came to this city
last week as a witness in the Chama
grant case. This morning he was taken
seriously ill with paralysis and has been
removed to the hospital where DR.. Har-
roun ia takinp care of him.
The funeral of Benito Alarid took place
from the Cathedral this forenoon and
was attended by several hundred people.
Six sons and nine grandsons were in the
procession that followed the remains.
Chino Alarid, one of the accused in the
Frank Chavez assassination, was permit
ted by Sheriff Cunningham to attend the
funeral and take final look at his fathers
body.
Me ssrs. j. A. Van Arsdell, G. q. Bacon,
J. B. Sloan, W. NJ. Berger, j. s. and Juan
Sandoval returned from Las Vegas last
night, having attended the firemen's
tournament. They say Albuquerque's ex-
cellent team carried off the principal race
prizes. The tournament next year will
be held at Santa Fe, and the men,