Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-01-24
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be in operation.
The Cochiti mining contingent, now in
| the city, naturally drift into Stinson's,
| where they find gentlemanly Ed Riley,
well known in Albuquerque and Bland,
on duty.
Remember the German Lutheran
church benefit concert at the Palace hotel
January 29. Tickets for the reasonable
price of so cents are to be hal at most of
the leading stores.
j The hearing in the Atlantic d. Pacific
and Navajo Indian homestead contest
cases, before the register and receiver of
the United States land office in this city,
will be concluded this evening.
| On account of the Amaranth club lee
ture at the Presbyterian church, the ser
vices by Mr.. Monfort tonight will be
held at the Presbyterian mission. The
series of services closes with tomorrow
nights sermon.
The Las Vegas Optic has sent out
very pretty calendar to its patrons ard
friends. 1t shows the first page of the
Optic reduced and is a good advertise
ment for the paper. The New MEXICAN
was kindly remembered.
| The U. S. court of private land claims
opens session at the federal building on
Monday next. The entire court will be
present save Mr.. Justice Stone who has
gone to Spain to gather data in tho Per-
alta grant suit.
A Scotch sociable will be given at the
Presbyterian church next Monday even
ing under the auspices OF the Ladies' Aid
society Of that church. Scotch songs and
recitations will be among the features of
the entertainment and quite large sum
will be realized for the worthy OBJ jects in
view.
A large party of Raymond & Whitcomb
excursionists were in the city this morn
ing viewing the various points of inter-
est. They numbered about seventy-fve
and came, in the main, from New England
and New York. The train consisted of
five Pu|lmans and baggage car and was
in charge of Trainmaster I. G. Mulhern
in behalf of the railroad company. Mr..
George H. Cross, of Boston, had charge
for Messrs. Raymond & Whitcomb. The
party left for California at noon.
Sion. Charles NJ. Shannon, Unitad States
collector, has returned from & trip to
Denver on private business. He speaks
enthusiastically of the enterprise and
energy of the Queen City Of the Rockies,
and predicts that the city named is on
the eve of another boom. He brings the
news that Gen. Bella M. Hughes, the vet
eran lawyer of Denver and father of Traf-
fic Manager Hughes, of the Denver e. Rio
Grande system, is seriously ill with pneu-
monia. The general is 7S years old. He
and his estimable wife are own cousins of
Collector Shannons mother.
The first of the lectures under the
aus spicea of the Amaranth club will be
delivered tonight at the Presbyterian
church by Prof. A. A. Graham, for many
years secretary of the Ohio Historical
society. The sub ject of the lecture will
be spanish History in America" 1t will
treat of Spanish discoveries, conquests,
explorations, etc, in early American his
tory and will be of special interest to
our SpanishAmerican citizens as we'll as
to the public generally. The lecture will
be illustrated by stereopticon views
! throughout. Prof. Graham arrived this
morning from Albuquerque, where he
is spending the winter. He is very
| pleasant as we'll as learned gentleman.
The guests of the Palace hotel were de-
| lightfully entertained last night by Prof.
Daum, a sojourner in this city for a few
days. He is a man of considerable musl-
cal attainments and his renditions last
night we're most enchantingly executed.
! The professors selections are composed
of nothing but the classical. He puts
degree of expression and pathos in his
renditions that is calculated to charm
and electrify his audience. The hotel
guests are in hopes he will similarly
favor them very often during his stay in
town.
Gutted Ry Fire.
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