Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-08
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

A change in the d. & R. G. train sched-
ule is expected shortly.
Dance in aid of the plaza Improvement
at Firemen's hall tonight.
The forty odd shade trees placed in
Fairview cemetery this spring are grow
ing nicely.
Harvest began to-day at the water
com pany's experimental farm below the
Indian school. A new Mccormick m over
is in use.
Waste water is doing much damage to
the road between the U. S. Indian school
and town. The county authorities should
see that the irrigators display more care
for the public highways.
Invitations were issued this morning
for the Santa Fe base ball clubs dance,
on Saturday night, at Firemen's hall. The
admission is but 80 cents, and large
crowd will undoubtedly be present.
Roadmaster Gleason is working about
seventv-five men on the narrow gauge
between Espanola and Santa Fe. Twenty
car loads of ties are being placed, and
the bridge repairers will begin work next
week.
The Building and Loan association
holds it's regular monthly meeting to-
night. Some especially interesting ques-
tions of moment to stockholders in the
first series are expected to come up for
discussion.
Judge w. C. Heacock, who is practic-
ing law and working mines in the Cochiti
district, came in from Bland last evening.
He reports that the Beckman mill man
agement will pay off all Indebtedness on
Monday and that the camp generally is
fourishing.
Mr.. Miguel Romero, we'll known here
as son of Hon. Trinidad Romero, of
Wagon Mound, will lead to the altar on
the 18th inst. one of Union county's most
excellent young women, the daughter of
Mr.. Leon Penard. All happiness attend
them.
Engineer Mead, of the A., T. & s. F., has
staked out lines for the building of "Y''
in the local yards. The Santa Fe will
hereafter use its heaviest engines in
freight traffic here and the turn-table is
too light for turning them, hence the
need of this improvement.
Be sure and GO to the dance tonight at
Firemen's hall. The members of the
Woman's, Board of Trade have spared nc
pains to make the dance success SO
cially and trust to the public to do their
share. Dancing will begin promptly at
$50. Admission so cents. Ice cream
and cake will be sold during the evening
at Is cents plate. Come one, come
all.
A fearful storm ragged few miles nortf
of the city for two hours last evening
At O'Clock the electrical display wal
remarkable. The lightning was of the
sheet, chain and bar sort, the flashes ap
parently alternating in regular order ant
some remaining visible as long as three
seconds. Very little rainsfell in the city
however.
Through the efforts of his attorney, B
M. Read, one Gregorio Mestas, now Of
Colorado, formerly of Chamita, has JUS
been helped out of a bad fix. Mestas hat
cause for quitting his wife. Justice Pinto
Espinosa said he couldn't do it, and
under that famous old statute, sentenced
him to jail until such time as he woult
agree to take back Mrs. Mestas. Thi
statute having been repealed, of course
Lawyer Read had little difficulty in hav
ing his client released on a writ of habea
corpus granted by Judge Laughlin.
All manner of wild rumors we're afoa
to day as to the extent of the A. & P
train disaster. The street had it tina
fourteen passengers we're killed. Th
New MEx1oAN's telegraphic report give
the facts. Rev. Wheeler, who was killed
in the wreck, is pretty we'll known at Sal
Marcial, Cerrillos and other points along
the Santa Fe, where he was engaged il
evangelical work during the winter. Ii
April last he and his wife we're visitors il
Santa Ee.