Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-15
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Don6 IorReb tne puoiic recePuion au plo
library rooms tonight.
U. s. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico: Light local showers followed by
fair weather Saturday.
Mr.. Rivenburg has just harvested his
supply of ice, housing 1900 tons that
averaged eight inches in thickness.
Everybody interested in Santa Fe's
free public library should attend the re-
ception tonight from 8 to 1890 o'clock.
The Postal Telegraph company has
nearly completed putting in system of
electric call boxes for messenger service
in the capital city.
House hunters are numerous these days.
Every desirable dwelling in town is &C.
cupied and all the furnished rooms are
filing up rapidly.
A miserable quality qof illuminating
oil is being sold 10 Santa Fe at the
present time-and it costs 30 cents a gal
Ion, too, evenin ten gallon lots.
s. G. Cartwright entertained a,crowd
this morning With one of the American
Grahophone company's music machines
for which he has just taken the agency.
A big storm is raging throughout Colo
RADIO and Kansas to day. Commercial
business over the wires is worked around
by Ell Paso and the southern route. The
NEW MExIoAN's ptess report was also de-
layed from this cause.
Supt. Theodore Joseph, Of the National
cemetery, received letter to-day from
Jose g. Gutierrez, the old soldier, stating
that he reached the Soldiers home, Leaven-
worth, on the 18th inst, and is we'll pleased
with his location there.
The Terpsichorean club has arranged
to give grand masquerade ball at Fire
me MS hall on Thursday evening, January
81. The reception committee is COM
posed as follows: W. L. Van Arsdell, A. j.
Hudson, Geo. B. Kirby, James Williams
and @. E. Pierce.
gentlemen who returned from Bland
yesterday says; keep an eye on Bland
and the Coohiti district in general. De-
velopments are promised shortly and
will be of such substantial nature as to
fully justify all the assertions of prosper
ity and improvements now being made.
Several of the principal mines have been
bonded and leased recently and will be
worked. The mill to be erected by Den
yer capital is what the camp has been
needing for three years and will be the
Archlmedan lever to overturn the obsta.
Giles that have retarded it."-A lbuquerque
Democrat.
Mr.. E. W. Spencer, assignee of the
Peoples bank, of Denver, Is in the city
| He ia hero on business conn ected with the
Lincoln Lucky Mining company, against
which this bank has a claim amounting
to about 100000. This property has long
been idle as the result of litigation. Mr.
Spencer says his people and the COM
pany have repeatedly tried to get some
compromise settlement out of the Other
side, consisting of Catron, M. W. Mills, j
d. O'Brien and others but have always
met with ebuff. He thinks now it will
be at least five years before the litiga
tion is closed up.
Besides being at the head of the passen'
ger affairs of the road, George 7. Nichol
son will profit to the amount of $500
per year by his change from general pas
senger agent of the A., 7. Il s. F., to general
passenger agent of the St. Louis q San
Francisco railway. When President Rob
inson, of the Frisco line, rendered Mr.
Nicholson the position, ii was accompan
led by the statement that he would re-
ceive in compensation salary of $4,000
per year. With all circumstances consid
cred Mr.. Nicholson's new position is q
substantial promotion.
"Considering the number of invalids
suffering with consumption, asthma and
other ailments who come to New Mexico
for their health, many Of whom are toe
far gone*o recover" said a prominent
physician, "our mortality rate is very low
There are more people afflicted with pull.
monary troubles now coming to New
Mexico than are going to California, and
the number will continually increase as
sanitariums for their accommodation and