Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-06
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.
Straw hats are getting ripe.

Straw hats are getting ripe.
The city council will meet tonight.
Clean cotton rags wanted at the New
MEXICAN engine room.
A rhinestone brooch was picked up
near the Exchange hotel and awaits a
claimant at the NEW MEXICAN Office.
The $50 foot tunnel at the new reser-
volr is nearly cut through. 1t is to be
lined with cement similar to the tunnel
in the canon reservoir.
The spring storms are over, and the
fruits and flowers are beyond ali danger.
Now set out your geraniums and prepare
to gather big crop Of strawberries.
The faces of W. H. Goebel, the hard
ware dealer, and j. W. Bowden, the livery
man, are wreathed in smiles. A boy and
a girl have come to gladden. their respec-
tive homes.
Those cracked and dilapidated adobe
walls back of the Exchange hotel, partic-
uarly the one fronting the street leading
south, are dangerous. They should be
removed.
The new board of education will meet
and organize at the Office of Capt. j. r.
Hudson. The old board should have met
on Saturday evening, but no quorum was
present.
Mr.. B. B. Baca yesterday presented DR..
Sloan with a very handsome iron gray
filley, "Silver STAR" which captured sew
eral prizes in the 2-year old running races
at Albuquerque last fall.
The bali game at the college grounds
yesterday afternoon between the Santa
Fe and Athletic mines was not dazzling
success, as the results-21 to IL in favor
of the Santa FEES plentifuIly testify.
Messrs. L. A. Hughes, M. G. Reynolds
7. j. Helm and j. W. Akers left for Chama
over the narrow gauge this morning.
Thence they will 60 overland to the lakes
west of TERRA Amarillo after ducks. They
expect to be gone about week.
The quarrel over harvest excursion
rates among transcontinental lines has
resulted in a $40 rate from Denver to
Missouri river points and to-day the cut
reached Santa Fe, reduction Of 1856
being made from this city to Kansas City.
The rate now is 1922.
1t will likely be Cerrillos vs.. Santa Fe
on Sunday, May -. The Santa Fes' suits
will bo here by that time and the game
will be the event of the season. The
Indian school ball team and
the Santa Fe Indians will play here next
Saturday.
Mr.. j. P. Force, who has been en-
gagged in prospecting in Rio Arriba coqn-
ty for some years, is in the city visiting
his brother. He leaves in day or two
overland for Lincoln county and will
make careful investigation of the Rio
Bonito gold district.
Compared with April, 1894, the in
crease of tonnage in and out of Santa Fe
over the A., L. & s. F. during April, 1895,
was 100000 pounds. Certainly this is
most encouraging showing, conclusively
proving that, in spite of the talk of
croakers to the contrary, business is
picking up at the capital
city.
"The free and unlimited coinage of
silver is the chief topic of discussion in
every business group at the east" says a
recent arrival from New York. ct ia
truly wonderful the great interest that is
being manifested on the subject. Coins
Financial School is being sold at the
rate Of from 10000 to $4,000 per day and
It knocks a man off the fence every time.
We are going to have free coinage"
Messrs. North and Mitchell are in from |
Jerrillos to-day. They tell the New
MEXICAN that the Elkins company have
,ar load of machinery ordered and an
,xpert coming to set the Wolf stamp
mill in motion at once. 1t will treat ore |
rom the recent strike on Cunningham |
mountain.