Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-16

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U. S. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico: Fair tonight and Sunday;
stationary temperature.
Members of the local militia c, m pany
are again reminded of the meeting to
elect new captain at o'clock tonight.
Mr.. M. A. Sisneros, of Lincoln county,
the popular interpreter in Judge Hamil-
toms court, accom- panied Sheriff 3ursum
up from Socorro last night.
The first of the Las Vegas-Santa Fe
base ball contests is in progress at the
college grounds this afternoon. The same
teams CROSS bats at 2 p. IN. tomorrow.
Ex-Congressman Henry Smith, of Mil
waukee, addressed about fifty persons at
the court house night before last on the
state of the country from a purely Popu-
list point of view.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence, of Espanola
valley, brought their 13year-old son to
the st. Vincent hospital to-day. He is
suffering from disease of the hip and is
brought here for an operation soon to
be performed by Drs. Knapp and Sloan.
Mr.. W. N. Emmert, who ia in from
Golden, says the recent strike in the L.
]. Mclaughlin claim, near the Lincoln
Lucky, has developed a lead of galena
that is fully seven feet in width and he
thinks it will prove even greater bo-
nanza than the Lincoln Lucky mine.
The following program will be rem
dered by Prof. Perez band in the plaza
at 4 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon:
March-High School Cadets ............ Sousa
Overture-B Brilliant =. .....,W. P. Chambers
March--Ihe Foresters ....... =. A. wilcox
aa anS siiver aHf Navarro
Mex Dance-Singing While Weeping =,
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Galop-Let Her Observation-Disclosures, .Minker
Prof. Elmore Chase is in town from AL
buquerque to-day. He came up to at
tend the hearing of a case in court grow
ing out of his connection with Ramona
school, but owing to the illness of Mr..
Berger, the principal witness, the case
could not be heard.
| The Sabbath school in the A. M. E.
church will be held tomorrow at 3 O'Clock,
to be followed by a short preaching ser
vice. These services will be conducted
by the Rev. R. M. Craig, of the First
Presbyterian church, and to them the
colored people in the city are cordially
invited.
At the Palace: WV. Long, Las Vegas;
W. N. Emmert and wife, Golden; H. w.
Taylor, A. Cavanaugb, f. Cavanaugh, j..
Minett, D. Minett, Carlos Sanchez, j..
Hume, D. Dean, ]. H. Hilgers, H. l..
Mabey, Las Vegas; W. Fl. Lamb, St..
Louis; Fl. 0. Bursum, Socorro: M. A. Sis
neros, Lincoln.
The recent fruitful work of the terri
torial district court has reduced the
population in the local county jail to
three Santa Fe county prisoners, two con-
voted and sentenced Rio Arriba county
murderers awaiting action on their ap-
peals to the supreme court and seven
city prisoners serving sentences for
violating city ordinances.
DR.. Knapp is here from Espanola and
contemplates making his home here.
His mother and sister have been here for
some months. DR.. Knapp to-day en-
tered upon the task of looking after DR..
Sloan's extensive practice until the lat
ter is able to be out, and, by the way, DR..
Sloan is improving rapidly and hopes to
be ready for business next week.
Phil Harroun is in from the Rio Puer-
co country on business before the land
Office. He is chief engineer for the irri-
cation and colonization company which
is putting in an extensive system of irri-
cation reservoirs on the Rio Puerco with
in the limits of the Montoya grant. E.
W. Thomas, of New York, is at the head
of the enterprise, and at present has 200
men at work on the dams. The reser-
voirs will be completed this year and by
next season it is expected to have 10000
acres under ditch.
Delegate Catron is still at work trying
to change the date of the legislative ses-
sions. Senator Hill last night wired Gov.
Thornton asking if Feb. 3 would be OBJ
jectionable for opening the session in
stead of December 81, as is now the law.
The governor promptly responded that
it would be and kilograms we're also
sent to Senators Vest, Cockrell and others
opposing any change uader the existing
circumstances.
The county Democratic committee met
at l p. m. at the Office of Chairman M.
Garcia. There were fourteen members
present. The county convention was
fixed for June 6, the primaries to take
place on Saturday next. w. E. Dame was
elected committeeman from Cerrillos to
fill vacancy and Thos. Harris was made
committeeman from Madrid precinct.
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