Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-02-06
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.
Delightful weather.
Winters aim ost gone.

Delightful weather.
Winters almost gone.
The New Mexico board of pharmacy
will meet in Santa Fe on next Monday.
Farmer Wilcox is constructing a mil
lien-gallon reservoir on his Tesuque val
ley fruit farm.
Regular meeting of Carleton post, G. A.
R., at 7:3O sharp. Visiting comrades cor
daily invited.
Orders have been received to push to
completion Santa FEES second big water
storage reservoir.
The horticulturists will meet tonight
in the house of representatives. The
public generally is invited.
Telephone No. 10 was to-day placed in
the new city hall and telephone No. 81 in
the McFadyean home fer invalids.
George Benedict, of San Miguel county,
made homestead entry OF 100 acres at
the United States land Office yesterday.
Miss Felipita Delgado has assumed the
duties of clerk in the office of Receiver
Delgado, of the United States land Office,
vice Mrs. A. B. Renehan, resigned.
A daughter has come to gladden. the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Ilfeld at AL
buquerque. Santa Feans join the New
MEXICAN in Offering congratulations.
1t is reported that Dick Burgen, for
merly employed on the Lamy branch of
the A., T. & s. F., recently fell dead of
heart disease in the Cherokee country.
Representative William Locke, who is,
by the way, the greatest fruit grower in
New Mexico, will make practical talk
to the Territorial Horticultural society
tonight on fruit culture.
An envelope containing valuable papers
supposed to belong to R. H. Close, of
Close q Ritter, Cripple Greek, awaits the
payment of certain charges at the New
MEXICAN office.
The announcement is requested that
special Spanish service will be held to-
morrow night by Rev. W. Williams, the
resident Presbyterian missionary, at the
house of Victor Duran, next to DR.. Har-
roun's residence. The ordinance of bap-
tism is to be administered.
The Ladies' Aid society, of the Presby
terian church, give an oyster supper to-
morrow night in the Delgado building,
next to the present hall of the house of
representatives. An elaborate menu will
be presented and hard-times prices will
prevail.
In the U. s. court of private land claims
to-day opinions we're announced dis
missing the petitions of the Bone and
San Acacio grants. The Felipe Tafeya,
Ignacio Chavez and San Mateo Spring
grants were confirmed, but in each case
for areas smaller than set up in the
petitions.
Wild animals are becoming quite So
ciable in the vicinity of Santa Fe. A
couple of hunters last week encountered
genuine lobo wolf about five miles from
town on the narrow gauge road, and
drove it away only after one or two shots,
one of which took effect; and a coyote
got away with sixteen hens from the yard
of Mrs. Hopper's boarding house on Pal
ace avenue one night last week.
The idea of connecting the city fire
O.
hall with the telephone system is a most
excellent one, for in case of fire those cit
liens having telephones can thus prompt
ly communicate with the fire department..
It is apparent that the telephone system
is becoming more and more recognized
as business and social institution of
great value.
Mr.. H. J. Loomis, one of the members
of the board of regents of the territorial
normal school at Silver City, has present.
Fed the New MEXICAN with Photographic
view, Sx1O inches, of that institution. II
shows handsome building in front of
which the pupils are grouped. There is
| no gainsaying the fact that this educa-
tional institute has met with phenomenal
success. II now has applications for the
admission of more than double the pupils
it is able to accommodate.