Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-23
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Marshal Gold is rigidly enforcing the
dog tax law. Several untagged CANNES
were placed in the city pound this morn
ing.
Up to date the May rainfall at Santa Fe
as officially reported amounts to 1876 in
ches, nearly four times the average May
record.
The police ran in six hard-looking
tramps last night. This morning they
were marched two miles out of town and
given orders to skip which they did with
out ado.
The Western Union Office will be moved
to the Delgado building on the LIST, vacat-
ing the Griffin block corner, which has
been leased for three years by Col. Geo.
| w. Knaebel.
This evening at o'clock Ascension
day services at the German Lutheran
church will take place. Singing by the
choir. Sermon by the pastor. All Ger
mans are cordially invited. Rev. G. A.
Neeff, pastor.
In game of ball yesterday between a
team from the government Indian school
and picked nine from the city the for
mer were victorious, the score at the end
of the game being ~ to 4. The same
clubs play on the Indian school grounds
tomorrow afternoon.
Prof. Perez to-day arranged to give
another plaza concert on Sunday after
noon. Next week the W. B. T. intends
taking the matter in hand, and hopes, by
and through the cooperation of citizens,
to insure Sunday concert each week
throughout the summer.
All arrangements have been completed
for the dance to be given by the hook
and ladder company on Saturday even
ing, and large crowd is expected to at
tend. The proceeds will 20 into new
uniform fund. The members of the
company hope to appear in new uniforms
at the coming tournament In this city.
The city councils committee on streets
should confer with the property owners
interested and see what they will do
toward donating right-of-way for broad
thoroughfare to the national military
cemetery. Any one of three routes can
be adopted and property owners making
the best offer will get It. The opening
Of suoh street as is proposed would add
value'to the property fronting thereon.
Late private advices from Bland are to
the effect that work on the Beckman re-
duotion plant and the large boarding
house nd joining is being steadily pushed
ana everything will be in readiness for
the machinery as soon as it arrives from
California. Besides the big mines of the
Cochiti district that have frequently been
mentioned in the newspapers, numerous
prospects that have been hardly heard of
will be ready to begin shipping good ore
AZ soon as this mill IL running.
Jack Harris came in Yesterday from
Cow Greek, on the upper Pecos. There
were fourteen inches of snow on the
mountains when he left and it was still
showing. About the crest Of Badly noun
tain, in the Santa Fs mountains, 1t has
been sno wing for three days and esti-
mates place the snowfall there at over
two feet. On the mountains that consti-
tute the Rio Grande water shed in southern
Colorado the snow is from one foot to
eighteen inches deep. should it suddenly
turn warm thsrs'll be floods in the valley
country.
The splendid string Of Colorado racers,
Mountain Maid, Roger O., Jim Baker and
Fanny Fairplay, passed through town
yesterday on route from Albuquerque to
Durango. The local horsemen inspected
the quartet aud regretted that Santa
Feaus had not long ago taken interest